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Submission + - David Braben Kickstarts an Elite reboot (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @07:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: The BBC report that David Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite, the classic space trading game that he co-wrote in the 1980s. It has already received £122,000 in less than a day. Can it reach its goal of £1,250,000?

Submission + - Magic: the Gathering is Turing complete (toothycat.net)

Submitted by TsukiKage on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @07:06PM

TsukiKage writes: A 50-card M:tG combo for four players is demonstrated that is used to construct a simple Turing machine, performing arbitrary computations just by following the rules of Magic and card text thereafter.

Comment Re:What's the scariest part of this? (Score 1) 799

by TsukiKage on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @06:37PM (#32176024) Attached to: Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke

The US was looking at doing this sort of thing too, to be fair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare

Submission + - First black hole for light created on Earth (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 15, 2009 @07:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: An electromagnetic "black hole" that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time.

The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.

A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards.

Comment Archiving is the way (Score 1) 569

by TsukiKage on Thursday September 10, 2009 @06:04PM (#29383563) Attached to: Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems?

FAT here; when I care about permissions, I make tarballs - which incidentally also make resolving the UID problem much easier.

Submission + - Couple who catch cop speeding could face charges.

Submitted by

a_nonamiss

on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:10PM

a_nonamiss writes: "A Georgia couple, apparently tired of people speeding past their house, installed a camera and radar gun on their property. After it was installed, they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit. They brought this to the attention of the local police department, and are now being forced to appear in front of a judge to answer to charges of stalking.

from the article:

The Sipples allegedly caught Kennesaw police officer Richard Perrone speeding up to 17 mph over the speed limit. Perrone alerted Bartow authorities, who in turn visited the Sipples' home to tell them Perrone intended to press charges against them for stalking.
I have the utmost respect for most law enforcement. They have a difficult, dangerous and mostly thankless job to do, but shouldn't they be held accountable for casually breaking the very same laws they are supposed to be enforcing? Additionally, shouldn't we, as citizens, have the right to be able to bring this to someone's attention without having to face laughably bogus charges for our efforts?"

Submission + - Hitachi develops sand sized RFID chips

Submitted by

Mazadillon

on Monday February 19, 2007 @02:02PM

Mazadillon writes: "Hitachi has developed an RFID chip 64 times smaller than current devices. The devices, which have enough memory to hold a 38 digit identification number, are a minute 0.05mm x 0.05mm in size. Possible uses include counterfeit protection for money and tickets."

Comment Re:Isn't art highbrow? (Score 1) 424

by TsukiKage on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @04:00AM (#15872042) Attached to: Why Are There No Highbrow Video Games?

What he's looking for is the genre of romance games, which I'm honestly pretty thankful don't really exist. Actually, they do. Allegedly.

Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg 473

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 20, 2006 @01:22PM from the this-is-never-pretty dept.

I find site rivalries boring, but growing concerns over Digg "censorship" have been submitted steadily for the last few months. Today two such stories were submitted so numerous that I had little choice but to post. The first claims that Digg is the editor's playground- it explains how a few users control Digg, and that it's not really the 'Democracy' that they claim it to be. Personally I think this is all totally within the rights of their editors to choose content however they like. But it's less pleasant when combined with accounts getting banned for posting content critical of digg, and watching other content getting removed for being critical of sponsors (also, here is Kevin Rose's reply).

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