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U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines 165

Posted by samzenpus from the me-and-more-me dept.
Lucas123 writes Walmart-owned ASDA supermarkets in the U.K. are beta testing 3D full-body scanning booths that allow patrons to buy 6-in to 9-in high "selfie" figurines. Artec Group, a maker of 3D scanners and software, said its Shapify Booth, which can scan your entire body in 12 seconds and use the resulting file to create a full-color 3D printed model, is making its U.S. debut this week. The 3D Shapify booths are equipped with four wide view, high-resolution scanners, which rotate around the person to scan every angle. Artec claims the high-powered scan and precision printing is able to capture even the smallest details, down to the wrinkles on clothes. The scanning process generates 700 captured surfaces, which are automatically stitched together to produce an electronic file ready for 3D printing. Artec offers to print the figurines for booth operators (retailers) for $50 for a 6-in model, $70 for a 7.5-in model, and $100 for a 9-in figurine.
Encryption

Russia Posts $110,000 Bounty For Cracking Tor's Privacy 98

Posted by Soulskill from the what-happens-in-siberia-stays-in-siberia dept.
hypnosec writes: The government of Russia has announced a ~$110,000 bounty to anyone who develops technology to identify users of Tor, an anonymising network capable of encrypting user data and hiding the identity of its users. The public description (in Russian) of the project has been removed now and it only reads "cipher 'TOR' (Navy)." The ministry said it is looking for experts and researchers to "study the possibility of obtaining technical information about users and users' equipment on the Tor anonymous network."
Censorship

French Court Orders Google To Block Pictures of Ex-F1 Chief Mosley 180

Posted by timothy from the just-a-little-nazi-themed-orgy-your-honor dept.
Virtucon writes "This one goes to the old adage 'closing the stable door after the horse bolted.' A French court on Wednesday ruled that Google must remove from its search results photos of a former Formula One racing chief, Max Mosley, participating in an Nazi-themed orgy. Google could be fined up to 1,000 Euros/day for not complying. What's strange here is that Mosley A) Sued in a French Court B) Didn't go after anybody else other than Google and C) has definitely strange tastes in extracurricular activities. In this day and age it's laughable to think that once your private photos/videos hit the Internet that you have any expectation of reining them in or filtering the embarrassing parts out. Google isn't the only game in town so to speak in terms of Internet search. I wonder if his lawyers checked out Yahoo or WebCrawler?"

Comment 1) Test out 2) WTF? (Score -1) 337

by Zlurg (#41446169) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing?
First off, test out. Challenge the course. Take it pass/fail and never show up / double-book. What is your TIME worth, sir? Every tangible argument I can make involves this simple fact: if you can pass the course, use your pencil as little as possible. But my second point is not so kind: what the FUCK kind of institution won't take your matriculation in lieu of some stupid Gen-Ed course? GTFO, and spend your money more wisely at ITT or AI or Univ/Phoenix. If you're after a CS degree, an Associates is not going to win you anything but a 13th Grade diploma. If you're after an Associates, then I think you're on the wrong path, and I honestly suggest you instead get a trade certification in the field of your choosing, rather than subject yourself to unyielding lecture and unrequited lust (lots of teenagers in college these days). Seriously, look it up.
ISS

Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt 290

Posted by samzenpus from the stripped-threads dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Reuters reports that astronauts at the International Space Station ran into problems after removing the station's 100-kg power-switching unit, one of four used in a system that distributes electrical power generated by the station's solar array wings, and were stymied after repeated attempts to attach the new device failed when a bolt jammed, preventing astronauts from hooking it up into the station's power grid. Japanese Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide got the bolt to turn nine times but engineers need 15 turns to secure the power-switching unit. 'We're kind of at a loss of what else we can try,' said astronaut Jack Fischer at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston after more than an hour of trouble-shooting. 'If you guys have any thoughts or ideas or brilliant schemes on what we can do, let us know.' Hoshide suggested using a tool that provides more force on bolts, but NASA engineers are reluctant to try anything that could make the situation worse and as the spacewalk slipped past seven hours, flight controllers told the astronauts to tether the unit in place, clean up their tools and head back into the station's airlock. NASA officials says the failure to secure the new unit won't disrupt station operations but it will force engineers to carefully distribute electrical power from three operating units to various station systems and says another attempt to install the power distributor could come as early as next week if engineers can figure out what to do with the stubborn bolt. 'We're going to figure it out another day,' says Fischer."
Privacy

Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave? 547

Posted by timothy from the lysol-in-all-the-vents dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I'm leaving my current job for a new one. I've been at this job for 10+ years so I'm sure there is tons of personal stuff stored on my machine. Since I can't take it with me does any one have a suggestions of tools or practices to clean off all of that data. I've already got my personal documents and files. I'm most worried about CC, debit card numbers and web site passwords I've used in browsers. Does clearing the cache, cookies, temp files do a good enough job? BTW it's a Windows 7 system if that makes a difference."
Medicine

World's First Quadruple Limb Transplant Fails 124

Posted by samzenpus from the not-this-time dept.
New submitter smoothjazz writes "The world's first quadruple limb transplant failed, according to Hacettepe University. Doctors had to remove the arms and legs that had been transplanted last Friday onto Sevket Çavdar, 27, because of tissue incompatibility. From the article: 'Doctors had first removed one leg from the patient after his heart and vascular system failed to sustain the limb and then the other leg and two arms. "The science council (of the hospital) decided to remove the organs one by one due to additional metabolic complications in the following process," the hospital said in a statement. "Our patient is now in the intensive care unit. The critical process is still continuing," it added.'"

Comment Isn't is MINUS 48? (-48V DC) (Score -1) 462

by Zlurg (#38222744) Attached to: Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power?
I'd love to participate in this debate, but I first want to make sure that whatever "48" you guys are talking about is on the right side of the little dot called "zero" in my math homework book.

Seriously: isn't is -48V DC? As in, "Negative 48 Volts, DC?"

If there's another DC in the 48 Volt range, your correction will enlighten me. No BS.

Comment Re:ECC? ZFS? (Score -1) 182

by Zlurg (#37784574) Attached to: Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared
NAS existed long before ZFS. That notwithstanding, I don't see ZFS on the EMC site anywhere. Come to think of it, not on NetApp either, and NA has some of ZFS' highpoint features like deduplication and storage pools. To be candid, I don't see anything in the IT industry that supports one vowel of your post. You're implying that every data loss was due to the lack of ZFS and every data save was on a ZFS system, and that's just crazy talk. You might as well have said, "Without yellow and a copy of The Necronomicon, Phyllis Diller cannot be guaranteed." Really? Because--and don't take this any way but the wrong way--you're a moron.
Data Storage

Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared 182

Posted by samzenpus from the line-them-up dept.
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Desmond Fuller provides an in-depth comparison of five entry-level NAS storage servers, including cabinets from Iomega, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, and Thecus. 'With so many use cases and potential buyers, the vendors too often try to be everything to everyone. The result is a class of products that suffers from an identity crisis — so-called business storage solutions that are overloaded with consumer features and missing the ease and simplicity that business users require,' Fuller writes. 'Filled with 10TB or 12TB of raw storage, my test systems ranged in price from $1,699 to $3,799. Despite that gap, they all had a great deal in common, from core storage services to performance. However, I found the richest sets of business features — straightforward setup, easy remote access, plentiful backup options — at the higher end of the scale.'"
Power

Ask Jonathan Koomey About 'Koomey's Law' 52

Posted by timothy from the best-guy-to-ask-probably dept.
A few weeks back, we posted a story here that described Koomey's Law, which (in the spirit of Moore's Law) identifies a long-standing trend in computer technology. While Moore's prediction centers on the transistor density of microprocessors, Jonathan Koomey focuses instead on computing efficiency — in a nutshell, computing power per watt, rather than only per square nanometer. In particular, he asserts that the energy efficiency of computing doubles every 1.5 years. (He points out that calling this a "law" isn't his idea, or his doing — but it's sure a catchy turn of phrase.) Koomey has agreed to respond to your questions about his research and conclusions in the world of computing efficiency. Please observe the Slashdot interview guidelines: ask as many questions as you want, but please keep them to one per comment.

Comment How does "FMC" mean that? (Score -1) 232

by Zlurg (#37282936) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV?
Who says "FMC" means that? What kills me is that every single response in this thread assumes that's the definition. "Oh, well, it's US Military jargon." Are you serious? FMC could mean ANYmuffingTHING. Here: a Perl script's top-20 results, and only ONE is the actual acronym:

Forgot My Condom

Future Machine Cannibal

Flying Mechanical Contraption

Flying Crepe Monster

For Masturbation Constantly

Fantastic Munitions Cover

Filipina Mudflap Coochie

Forgotten Money Contraption

For Molesting Children

Filled My Colon

Full-Mormon Catastrophe

Finger Moist Clitorii

Forged Misunderstood Conundrum

Fuck Miss Cleveland

Forced Mighty Crap

Ford's Mileage Car

Fixed Migration Constipation

False Messiah Christ

Fabricated Material Compartment

Fake Military Component

Jeebus, peeplez, get it together! Stop letting the poster in front of you drive your opinion. THINK FOR YOURSELF!
Books

The End of Paper Books 669

Posted by samzenpus from the last-folded-page dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Books are on their way to extinction, writes Kevin Kelly, adding that we are in a special moment when paper books are plentiful and cheap that will not last beyond the end of this century. 'It seems hard to believe now, but within a few generations, seeing an actual paper book will be as rare for most people as seeing an actual lion.' But a prudent society keeps at least one specimen of all it makes, so Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, has decided that we should keep a copy of every book that Google and Amazon scan so that somewhere in the world there was at least one physical copy to represent the millions of digital copies. That way, if anyone ever wondered if the digital book's text had become corrupted or altered, they could refer back to the physical book that was archived somewhere safe. The books are being stored in cardboard boxes, stacked five high on a pallet wrapped in plastic, stored 40,000 strong in a shipping container, inside a metal warehouse on a dead-end industrial street near the railroad tracks in Richmond California. In this nondescript and 'nothing valuable here' building, Kahle hopes to house 10 million books — about the contents of a world-class university library. 'It still amazes me that after 20 years the only publicly available back up of the internet is the privately funded Internet Archive. The only broad archive of television and radio broadcasts is the same organization,' writes Kelly. 'They are now backing up the backups of books. Someday we'll realize the precocious wisdom of it all and Brewster Kahle will be seen as a hero.'"

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