TheNextCorner - Slashdot User

Submission + - Save the Web from software patents (fsf.org)

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on Monday October 01, 2012 @07:34PM

TheNextCorner writes: "PersonalWeb's software patent suit against Github and others threatens the freedom of the Web. In order to make sure that the Web can remain a free and accessible space for everyone, we need to rid ourselves of all the patents that threaten its viability. We need to end software patents."

Submission + - Could a Hurricane 5 take down East Coast data centers (slashdot.org)

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on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @10:46AM

TheNextCorner writes: "With more data moving into the Cloud, there is an increasing danger of data loss when one of these cloud computing data centers fails. Hurricanes pose a real thread for data centers located in North Virginia and Carolina, where Google, Apple & Facebook have opened large data centers. Could a Hurricane 5 become a problem for these cloud data centers and take down the Internet?"

Submission + - Apollo Moon flags still standing, images show (bbc.co.uk)

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on Monday July 30, 2012 @11:14AM

TheNextCorner writes: "Images taken by a Nasa spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing.

Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites.

Scientists had previously examined photos of the Apollo landing sites for the flags, and had seen what looked like shadows cast by them on the lunar surface.

Now, researchers have studied photos of the landing sites taken at different points during the day (and under different illuminations) and have observed shadows circling the points where the flags are thought to be."

Submission + - Why you shouldn't write off Google+ just yet (washingtonpost.com)

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on Friday July 20, 2012 @06:02PM

TheNextCorner writes: "Cmdr Taco write for The Washington Post on "Why you shouldn't write off Google+ just yet.

"Google+ is technically better than its rivals in a number of key ways. The user interface is comfortable and friendly. It’s easy to maintain circles of contacts, and to segregate what you share with each group. Discussions of small-to-medium sizes are manageable and readable — even in real time. Facebook wins when it comes to the open graph and app ecosystem, but a lot of people don’t care about that stuff.""

Submission + - Rob CmdrTaco Malda AMA on Reddit (reddit.com)

Submitted by TheNextCorner on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @02:38PM

TheNextCorner writes: In 1997 I started Slashdot.org. For several years, we pioneered news aggregation and on-line communities while exploring our niche of the 'net under the slogan, "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters." Our work was later expanded upon at countless other more successful sites including Reddit and the Huffington Post.
I left Slashdot last year, took a long time off, and then started work at the Washington Post Co's WaPo Labs their digital media R&D skunkworks group. I work as their Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large, contributing what I can to a variety of projects ranging from their Social Reader, to some projects under development. From here I am able to continue to explore my interests in news, journalism, technology, and communities.
Today you can find me on twitter as @cmdrtaco and on Google+ as +Rob Malda where I continue to curate the same sort 'Stuff that Matters' that I was sharing long before Slashdot existed, but without any pressure.
I'll hopefully be answering from 2pm-5pm ET.ho

Submission + - How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry (readwriteweb.com)

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on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @02:24AM

TheNextCorner writes: "Open source software has been a key player in all kinds of disruptive technologies — from the Web to big data. Now the nascent and growing open source hardware movement is helping to power its own disruptive revolution.

The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things — the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardware in enabling 3D printing to realize its promise."

Submission + - Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix ready for download (raspberrypi.org)

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on Thursday March 08, 2012 @07:41PM

TheNextCorner writes: "The Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is ready for download! The recommended distro to run on the Raspberry Pi is a Remix of the Fedora open source software mirror.

Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix

The Remix is a distribution comprised of software packages from the Fedora ARM project, plus a small number of additional packages that are modified from the Fedora versions or which cannot be included in Fedora due to licensing issues – in particular, the libraries for accessing the VideoCore GPU on the Raspberry Pi."

Submission + - $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless (wordpress.com)

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on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @08:11PM

TheNextCorner writes: "This video is here to demonstrate that the TSA’s insistence that the nude body scanner program is effective and necessary is nothing but a fraud, just like their claims that the program is safe (radiation what?) and non-invasive (nude pictures who?). The scanners are now effectively worthless, as anyone can beat them with virtually no effort."

Submission + - Fedora remix: Raspberry Pi Video (raspberrypi.org)

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on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:06PM

TheNextCorner writes: "What software runs on the Raspberry Pi $25 laptop? This video shows some of the preparation of the software package run from a SD card using the Fedora open source OS Fedora"

Submission + - NASA: SpaceX 2nd demonstration flight on 2-7-2012 (nasa.gov)

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on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:12PM

TheNextCorner writes: "Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012.
Pending completion of final safety reviews, testing and verification, NASA also has agreed to allow SpaceX to send its Dragon spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) in a single flight."

Submission + - 3D video of Asteroid Vesta (nasa.gov)

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on Thursday December 01, 2011 @11:21PM

TheNextCorner writes: "Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3-D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images of its bumpy, cratered surface and making other scientific measurements."

Submission + - Lightning-made Waves in Earth's Atmosphere Leak In (nasa.gov)

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on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @02:01PM

TheNextCorner writes: "At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surface and a boundary about 60 miles up. Some of the waves – if they have just the right wavelength – combine, increasing in strength, to create a repeating atmospheric heartbeat known as Schumann resonance....

NASA's Vector Electric Field Instrument (VEFI) aboard the U.S. Air Force's Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite has detected Schumann resonance from space. This comes as a surprise, since current models of Schumann resonance predict these waves should be caged at lower altitude, between the ground and a layer of Earth's atmosphere called the ionosphere."

Submission + - 11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do (space.com)

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on Sunday November 20, 2011 @02:14PM

TheNextCorner writes: "NASA is getting set to launch its next Mars rover this week. The car-size Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, slated to blast off Saturday (Nov. 26) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rover will employ 10 different science instruments to help it answer this question once it touches down on the Red Planet in August 2012."

Submission + - SOPA sponsors break their own law (torrentfreak.com) 1

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on Friday November 18, 2011 @05:03PM

TheNextCorner writes: "Remember how the Stop Online Piracy Act would make streaming of copyrighted material a felony?
Many of these lawmakers actually stream copyrighted videos on their websites."

Submission + - Sand Dunes on Mars in Motion (nasa.gov)

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on Thursday November 17, 2011 @10:16PM

TheNextCorner writes: "NASA Orbiter Catches Mars Sand Dunes In Motion
"Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards. These observations reveal the planet's sandy surface is more dynamic than previously thought. ""

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