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Comment Rename Smart Phones (Score 1) 386

by SomPost on Saturday June 17, 2017 @05:59AM (#54638359) Attached to: Should "smartphones" be renamed? If so, they should be called:

I'd call them "darwinators". Because people would constantly look at their phones even when crossing streets, in one town in Germany they put pedestrian crossing lights at the curb in order to save their miserable lives.

Submission + - Researchers Create 4nm Transistor with 7 Atoms (dailytech.com)

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EmagGeek

on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @09:33AM

EmagGeek writes: "University researchers have created a transistor by replacing just seven atoms of silicon with phosphorous. The seven-atom transistor has very hopeful implications for the future of quantum cryptography, nuclear and weather modeling, and other applications.

"The significance of this achievement is that we are not just moving atoms around or looking at them through a microscope," says Professor Michelle Simmons, a co-author of a paper on the subject that is being published by Nature Nanotechnology. The paper is entitled "Spectroscopy of Few-Electron Single-Crystal Silicon Quantum Dots".

"We are manipulating individual atoms and placing them with atomic precision, in order to make a working electronic device," elaborated Simmons. "We have replaced just seven individual silicon atoms with phosphorus atoms. That is amazing exactness"."

Submission + - Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair (inhabitat.com)

Submitted by Elliot Chang on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @09:28AM

Elliot Chang writes: Flexible gadgets are undeniably sexy – but Japanese electronics giant Sony wasn’t content stopping there. For their newest display, they decided to also throw in ultra-thinness (just 80m or a bit thinner than a human hair) and the energy-saving power of OLEDs into the mix. The new prototype is so bendy that it can be wrapped around a pencil while still STREAMING VIDEO! From electronic newspapers to LED garments, just think about the applications such a display could be used for!

Submission + - FSF Asks Apple to Comply With the GPL (fsf.org)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @06:56AM

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "The Free Software Foundation has discovered that an application currently distributed in Apple's App Store is a port of GNU Go. This makes it a GPL violation, because Apple controls distribution of all such programs through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is incompatible with section 6 of the GPLv2. It's an unusual enforcement action, though, because they don't want Apple to just make the app disappear, they want Apple to grant its users the full freedoms offered by the GPL. Accordingly, they haven't sued or sent any legal threats and are instead in talks with Apple about how they can offer their users the GPLed software legally, which is difficult because it's not possible to grant users all the freedoms they're entitled to and still comply with Apple's restrictive licensing terms."

Comment Prime directive (Score 3, Interesting) 524

by SomPost on Sunday August 10, 2008 @04:34AM (#24543797) Attached to: Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan

After I had read the original article I wondered what impulse would be the stronger among the slashdot crowd: the Google-is-god/f***-the-world or the respect-other-cultures impulse. There appears to be ample evidence of both here.
So I wonder if the Google-can-do-no-harm crowd can recall their Star Trek franchise, and if they are prepared to consider whether the Prime Directive of any decent group (society, country, company) should be: "don't interfere".
That includes, as far as I remember, to repect the whishes of a society to be left alone, in general and in Street View.

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