Pouic - Slashdot User

Comment Everybody is concerned by CO2 emissions (Score 1) 382

by Pouic on Friday August 28, 2015 @01:58PM (#50411071) Attached to: NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise

but what about water emissions generated when burning fossil fuels? Which volume of water is injected per year into the atmosphere (initially as water vapour) when burning gazoline, diesel, gas similar? And what is the impact on sea level, meteorological events...?

Comment Re:New domain (Score 1) 188

by Pouic on Sunday August 03, 2014 @09:53AM (#47593295) Attached to: The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi

Whois on http://kodi.tv/:

# 2014-08-03 15:37:45 CEST domain: kodi.tv reg_created: 2014-05-29 19:59:29 expires: 2015-05-29 19:59:29 created: 2014-05-29 21:59:29 changed: 2014-08-02 18:00:42 transfer-prohibited: yes ns0: a.dns.gandi.net ns1: b.dns.gandi.net ns2: c.dns.gandi.net owner-c: nic-hdl: CF3454-GANDI owner-name: XBMC Foundation organisation: XBMC Foundation person: Team XBMC address: '340 S LEMON AVE #7222' zipcode: 91789 city: WALNUT state: California country: United States of America lastupdated: 2014-05-31 12:39:05

Comment New domain (Score 1) 188

by Pouic on Sunday August 03, 2014 @12:38AM (#47591959) Attached to: The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi

Will be kodi.tv it seems.

Comment Knowledge is power (Score 1) 293

by Pouic on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @01:02AM (#41460209) Attached to: Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable'

France has bacon!

Comment Comet on the same day? (Score 1) 229

by Pouic on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @03:10PM (#39356323) Attached to: Huge Triangle-shaped Spot Over the Sun

Could it be related to this event: http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/14mar12/deathplunge.gif ?

Comment Electromagnetic waves (Score 1) 412

by Pouic on Monday October 24, 2011 @02:41PM (#37821534) Attached to: Ask The Bad Astronomer

do have a transmission medium (aether, ether, ), just like sound waves do propagate in air, don't they? D. Brisset was onto something big in 1911 (ToE inside, in French).

Comment E-Ink car plate (Score 1) 161

by Pouic on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:53PM (#37704884) Attached to: Looking For E-Ink Applications Beyond Ebook Readers

with random plate number generator. Of course, with a button near the driver for quickly displaying back the legit plate number in case of emergency. E-ink seems to be sensitive to static electricity / external parasitic voltage fields though.

Comment Worms will be happy (Score 1) 461

by Pouic on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @09:00AM (#36810290) Attached to: Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year

they will have plenty of food!

Comment I was born in a TV-less house... (Score 3, Insightful) 385

by Pouic on Friday December 03, 2010 @04:25PM (#34436552) Attached to: How much TV do you watch in a week, on average?

...and am raising my kid in a TV-less home also. I recommend this: it is amazing how much free time it provides in comparison with most friends/colleagues around! Throw your TV, reclaim your brain.

Comment hook up Xmarks with apache+webdav (Score 5, Informative) 225

by Pouic on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:28PM (#33724936) Attached to: Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats

If you happen to have your own apache server handy, just setup up a personal server with Xmarks, it works beautifully (over https as well). I'm using this combination for quite some time now, with great satisfaction and independence. As stated above, I also don't want to store my private stuff on third party storage.

Comment "smart" powermeters (Score 1) 172

by Pouic on Saturday September 25, 2010 @02:23PM (#33697812) Attached to: Real-Time Power Monitoring Options?

In France most recent powermeters have an output called "teleinfo" which we can have activated, basically a kind of serial link (output only), repeatedly giving lost of parameters like instant watts, actual indexes in watt.hours and more. This kind of meter can be found second hand on ebay I think, and it is just a matter of demodulating the (well documented) 'teleinfo' output. What I did with this output, is to log the status every minute into a postgresql database (since 07/2008 now) and then it is easy to graph the data. You can see how often and how long the fridge is working etc... As an example of the result: http://2oo4.free.fr/teleinfo.jpg (in French, but you can figure out with the units). Be sure to match the characteristics of your power network (we have 230 volts/50Hz here) Kind Regards, Benoît.

Comment e-ink license plates (Score 1) 351

by Pouic on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @11:18AM (#31923638) Attached to: New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space

would be nice!

Submission + - Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested 1

Submitted by mindbrane on Saturday October 10, 2009 @07:37PM

mindbrane writes: A scientist working as a subcontractor on a peripheral LHC project has been arrested as a terrorist. The CBC is running a story outlining the arrest of a man on Thursday in south-east France for suspected al-Qaeda links. "CERN officials said the man, whose name has not been revealed, was working under contract with an outside institute and said he had no contact with anything that could have been used for terrorism. He had been at CERN since 2003, officials said."

"The news that someone with terrorist connections might have worked at the facility is likely to cause concern because of both the high profile of the giant physics experiment and also the technology in use, which has made some members of the public nervous."

"Before it started in September 2008, the particle collider drew protests from Europeans worried it would trigger a disaster, with some scenarios suggesting the accelerator would create a black hole that would swallow the Earth. Physicists and CERN officials dismissed the concerns, with the LHC project leader saying in 2008, "Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on.""

Other than sabotage of the LHC and the creation of a world destroying black hole, the arrest begs the question what possible collateral damage could a terrorist achieve?

Comment Do they mean.. (Score 2, Insightful) 275

by Pouic on Friday September 04, 2009 @09:10AM (#29310045) Attached to: MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole

...human ears?

Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology 187

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @02:41PM from the i-see-live-data dept.

TEDChris writes "Here's an intriguing attempt at a versatile new tech device that tries to augment the wearer's five senses. It comes out of Patty Maes's group at the MIT Media Lab. By combining a computerized personal projector with a camera and linking both to the Net, a host of surprising new applications becomes possible. This 8-minute demo created a lot of buzz at TED last month and was posted online today. Would love to know what the Slashdot community makes of it."

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