Comment Why (Score 0) 128
Why is it even 1 hour? Why not lock the USB port whenever the phone is locked?
Comment Not much... (Score 0) 190
It wouldn't take long before "alternative" versions of browsers and window managers were created that ignored these DRM requirements. Once the data is on a machine, there is no sure way to keep it secure. The longer such measures were in place, the more popular these alternative tools would become. It is impossible to put the genie back in the bottle...
Comment The legal system will be bypassed... (Score 0) 51
The end result of this will be that security vulnerabilities will be released anonymously.
Comment Confirmed (Score 0) 107
Never trusted Blackberry... now we have proof.
Comment Re:Yay for government!!! (Score 1) 139
The solution is to mandate that the IMEI cannot be changed.. i.e. it is burned into a write once part of the phone. Currently manufacturers are resisting this idea.
Then, all that needs to be done is to have international co-operation on sharing the IMEI blacklist, like is currently done all across western Europe. This is why currently phones need to be sold in eastern European countries like Poland or Hungary... but if the authorities really wanted to solve this problem they could easily get all operators worldwide to share the blacklist...
As others have said, I believe that there is much more to this than theft prevention... more of the government pushing through things they want "for our own good"...
Comment Adult mammalian neurogenesis observed in the 40s? (Score 1) 59
My very elderly Canadian neighbour, at one time associated with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and retired from teaching at an American medical school more than 15 years ago, told me that a scientist at her university came up with photo micrographic evidence of of adult mammalian neurogenesis in the late 1940s. This caused some eye rolling and denial of tenure for heresy, and the fellow eventually disappeared. It had to wait 'til the sixties to be rediscovered by Altman.
Big Asteroid (With Its Own Moon) To Have Closest Approach With Earth Today 87
An anonymous reader writes "Asteroid 1998 QE2 has an estimated diameter of 2.7 km. This asteroid will have a close approach with Earth at about 15.2 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.0392 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 2059 UT on 2013 May 31 and it will reach the peak magnitude ~10.8 on May 31 around 2300 UT."
Radar images of the asteroid taken Wednesday show that 1998 QE2 has its own tiny moon, about 600 meters wide. Phil Plait explained how the images were taken, and what further information we gleaned from them. 'The very presence of the moon is a good thing. By measuring how long it takes to go around the primary, the mass of the primary can be found using math known for centuries (the more massive the big asteroid, the faster the moon will go around it at a given distance). We also know the size of the primary, so that means we can find its density, and therefore what it’s made of (probably mostly rock).'
Comment The Big Fix (Score 1) 170
Many of the researchers making such claims have been funded by BP.
There is evidence that the well has still not stopped leaking completely.
The fishing and seafood business in the Gulf is devastated and may never recover.
http://technorati.com/entertainment/film/article/the-big-fix-film-gulf-oil/
Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor 213
separsons writes "Scientists at the University of South Carolina recently transformed ordinary T-shirts into bulletproof armor. By splicing cotton with boron, the third hardest material on the planet, scientists created a shirt that was super elastic but also strong enough to deflect bullets. Xiaodong Li, lead researcher on the project, says the same tech may eventually be used to create lightweight, fuel-efficient cars and aircrafts."
Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 465
Yep. I'm in cape town south africa and I'm from Montreal, Canada. That is 7,041,440 times my height of 181 cm. (city center to city centre. They seem to use european spellings here).
Submission + - Military enlists open source community (networkworld.com)
jmwci1 writes: "The U.S. Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to software development — an about-face for such a historically top-down organization.
In recent weeks, the military has launched a collaborative platform called Forge.mil for its developers to share software, systems components and network services. The agency also signed an agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to allow 50 internally developed workforce management applications to be licensed to other government agencies, universities and companies."
In recent weeks, the military has launched a collaborative platform called Forge.mil for its developers to share software, systems components and network services. The agency also signed an agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to allow 50 internally developed workforce management applications to be licensed to other government agencies, universities and companies."
Comment Re:How you get hooked (Score 1) 700
I couldn't tell by your tone of voice that it was sarcasm. I actually reads straight.
Comment Re:How you get hooked (Score 1) 700
The 4 one minute sprints twice a week is not, that I know, of a recommended form of exercise. The researchers were interested in the minimum amount of exercise out of scientific curiosity.
As you can imagine they experimented with other schedules less than and greater than 4 min x 2 time per week. Blood sugar was under excellent control with the minimum stated.
Strength, flexibility, co-ordination, fat loss, etc. are other considerations: but they did demonstrate their hypothesis that you need to deplete energy from your muscles to make room to sop up glucose in the blood.
p.s., you can imagine the horror we will soon face on late night TV as an infomercial selling a cheap exercise bike promises you CONTROL DIABETES AND LOSE WEIGHT WITH 8 MINUTES EXERCISE A WEEK. NO MONEY DOWN, PAY IN 8 EASY INSTALLMENTS, IF YOU ORDER NOW YOU GET A FREE ABERCISER. ORDER NOW OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY
Submission + - Powerful Sonar Causes Deafness in Dolphins 1
Hugh Pickens writes: "Mass strandings could be caused because dolphins are rendered temporarily deaf by military sonar, experiments have shown. Tests on a captive dolphin have demonstrated that hearing can be lost for up to 40 minutes on exposure to sonar and may explain several strandings of dolphins and whales in the past decade. Most strandings are still thought to be natural events, but the tests strengthen fears that exercises by naval vessels equipped with sonar are responsible for at least some of them. For example, in the Bahamas in March 2000, 16 Cuvier's beaked whales and Blainville's beaked whales and a spotted dolphin beached during a US navy exercise in which sonar was used intensively for 16 hours (pdf). "The big question is what causes them to strand," says Dr. Aran Mooney, of the University of Hawaii. "What we are looking at are animals whose primary sense is hearing, like ours is seeing. Their ears are the most sensitive organ they have." In the experiment scientists fitted a harmless suction cup to the dolphin's head, with a sensor attached that monitored the animal's brainwaves and when the pings reached 203 decibels and were repeated, the neurological data showed the mammal had become deaf, for its brain no longer responded to sound. "We definitely showed that there are physiological and some behavioral effects [from repeated, loud sonar], but to extrapolate that into the wild, we don't really know," said Mooney."
Submission + - Chimpanzees exchange meat for sex (bbc.co.uk)
the_therapist writes: "A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, studied chimps in the Tai Forest reserve in Ivory Coast and discovered that chimpanzees enter into "deals" whereby they exchange meat for sex.
Among the findings are that "male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts". They also found this to be "a long-term exchange, so males continue to share their catch with females when they are not fertile, copulating with them when they are"."
Among the findings are that "male chimps that are willing to share the proceeds of their hunting expeditions mate twice as often as their more selfish counterparts". They also found this to be "a long-term exchange, so males continue to share their catch with females when they are not fertile, copulating with them when they are"."
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