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One Quarter of Germans Happy To Have Chip Implants 170

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @07:19PM from the identified-coward dept.

justice4all writes "If it means shorter lines at the supermarket, a quarter of Germans would be happy to have a chip implanted under their skin. The head of Germany's main IT trade body told the audience at the opening ceremony of the CeBIT technology exhibition that one in four of his countrymen are happy to have a microchip inserted for ID purposes."

Comment Re:Good -- maybe they will start to improve (Score 1) 144

by aca_broj_1 on Friday January 29, 2010 @03:26PM (#30953550) Attached to: AT&T Admits New York City iPhone Service Sucks

Not quite true for CDMA. Code division multiplexing allows as many people to transmit simultaneously as there are codes to provide separation. The number of codes is limited as the longer the code length -- in time -- the lower the transmission speed, and the higher the code rate -- bits per second -- the more frequency bandwidth is used.

One Variety of Sea Slugs Cuts Out the Energy Middleman 232

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:04PM from the would-never-leave-the-house dept.

dragonturtle69 writes with this story, short on details but interesting: "These sea slugs, Elysia chlorotica, have evolved the ability to gain energy via photosynthesis. Forget about genetic modifications for sports enhancements. I want to be able to never need to eat again — or do I?"

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Comment Re:Oh FFS (Score 1) 341

by aca_broj_1 on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @05:59PM (#29890029) Attached to: Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic

With hookers, and beer.... on second though, never mind the new Internet!

Comment Re:Bad deal for AT&T (Score 2, Funny) 220

by aca_broj_1 on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @12:36PM (#29671323) Attached to: AT&T To Allow VoIP On iPhone

ghostbusters?

Comment Re:Analog nightlight? (Score 5, Funny) 293

by aca_broj_1 on Thursday June 11, 2009 @05:13PM (#28300385) Attached to: US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins

Your point would probably carry a lot more weight if you had a different username.

Comment Re:And? (Score 1) 601

by aca_broj_1 on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @02:12PM (#26135039) Attached to: Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President

Damn it, you bastard! Now that I've laughed like an idiot and spit my coffee all over the keyboard it's obvious I'm not working.

Submission + - Fed Panel: Privacy laws at fault at Virginia Tech (nytimes.com)

Submitted by

RickRussellTX

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @11:06PM

RickRussellTX writes: "A panel of Bush administration officials, including several bureau chiefs, concludes that confusing privacy laws contributed to the Virgina Tech shootings. The report claims that confusion over student privacy and medical privacy laws "has limited the ability of these officials to prevent the kind of violence that occurred at Virginia Tech.""

Submission + - Which all-in-one inkjet printer is cheapest to use

Submitted by

Ray

on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @10:46PM

Ray writes: "A year or so ago I got my dad a new computer system that included a Canon PX-160 printer/scanner/copier to replace his aging Lexmark with similar capabilities. On my next visit I asked him how the new printer was working and he said the ink was killing him. The cartridges are expensive, they don't have much ink in them and there are no third party or refilled carts for it or apparently any other Canon. It looks like HP and Lexmark are the most likely to have (relatively) inexpensive supplies but what has your experience been with inkjet all-in-ones as far as TCO goes?"

Submission + - Why DRM Will Never Work (zdnet.com)

Submitted by

eldavojohn

on Wednesday June 06, 2007 @10:43PM

eldavojohn writes: "A Google employee goes on a hilarious rant against DRM comparing it with underwear gnomes & Star Trek while ending with: "Believing in a DRM business model is like joining Star Fleet security, putting on your red shirt, and volunteering to beam down to the new unexplored planet with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Someone will be coming back from that mission, it's just not likely to be the security guard. Always a true engineer, Scotty had the good sense to stay safely on board the ship.""

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