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Comment Re:I nominate Jim McLane to go.. (Score 1) 724

by RockedMan40 (#22662902) Attached to: Will Mars be a One-way Trip?
Actually - add one more name to the /. list of those that would volunteer.

I don't care the fame part, because I would never be around to know it.
I don't care about the one-way ticket thing - hell *LIFE* is a one-way ticket!

So - If I get to pick my likely demise - growing old slobbering on myself and wearing diapers in a nursing home, OR:

A chance to go on a trip farther than anyone else ever has, see things that no one else has with their own eyes.

We all die eventually - the only difference is how we choose to face that fact.
Choice is pretty easy for me.
Editorial

Journal Journal: Digital Watermarks for Audio files

Journal by RockedMan40

Digital Watermarking Alliance proposes why 'watermarking' should be used instead of DRM. Along with claims it can survive conversions and copying.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/01/digital-waterma.html

Credit - Eliot Van Buskirk
The Internet

Startup Building Floating Data Centers 256

Posted by CmdrTaco from the we're-leaking-bits-into-the-sea dept.
1sockchuck writes "A Bay Area startup is planning to build data centers on cargo container ships, which would be docked at piers in major Internet markets. The company, known as IDS (International Data Security) says it plans to use biodiesel to power its generators and use heat from equipment to manage temperature on board the ships, reducing their reliance on grid power. IDS is telling prospects that it hopes to eventually have more than 20 floating data centers docked at ports around the U.S."
Cellphones

Mobile Phone Projectors "Will Launch This Year" 168

Posted by kdawson from the is-that-a-laser-in-your-pocket dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Mobile phones with built-in mini projectors will launch later this year, according to 3M, which gave PC Pro a hands-on demonstration of the technology at CES 2008. The projector has a brightness of around 8-10 lumens, and is capable of displaying an image of up to 50 in., although 3M's spokesperson Greg Roberts told us that, with perfect lighting conditions, it's possible to squeeze a 60-in. screen out of the projector."
Input Devices

Python + Motion detection = Fweemote 30

Posted by timothy from the help-tom-cruise-find-future-crime dept.
jedie writes "After reading about different Wiimote hacks on Slashdot I decided to make a video with some demos of my motion-detection library. You can watch the video here. There's a link to the sourcecode (GPL) as well, but the demo is win32 only. It's basically a webcam and some software in python to track LEDs (preferrably IRs). In the demo video, you see the software (albeit badly because of the webcam's IR filter being removed) tracking two differently colored LEDs, so multiplayer is possible. The software can track multiple points easily, and when combined with IR-LEDs, it's easy to simulate one Wiimote (i.e. calculating the distance and angle between two IR-LEDs to determine where the remote is relative to the webcam). I want the code to get some publicity, because I don't have time to work on it (dissertation, blabla) but I don't want the code (however messy it is) to go to waste."
Google

Submission + - Microsoft Complains About Google's Monopoly Abuse (eweek.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "Frustrated at the FTC's blessing of the Google/Doubleclick merger, Microsoft is complaining to the EU. Its latest filings detail how the merger would give Google a stranglehold on the advertising industry. While these complaints aren't new, the diagram [PDF] Microsoft created gives you an interesting look at the sort of competition Microsoft fears from Google."

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