Comment Re:put better radios in (Score 1) 93
That wouldn't work as well as you think it would. SDRs (like the RTLSDR) have some serious drawbacks, many of them antenna related.
Comment Re:So stupid (Score 1) 113
The weather RIGHT NOW isn't super hard to figure out. What the weather will be in 10 hours is SUPER useful to know.
I'm going on a trip this weekend. We are driving for two hours in one direction. I want to know before we leave if it will be snowing at any point along my route. If it is, then I will likely cancel the trip because it won't be so safe to travel any more. I might try to move my trip to earlier in the day to compensate, but I need to know before I leave. It isn't snowing NOW, but it would be super nice to know if it's going to start and what it's doing 50 miles north of here.
Comment Re:If you use words... (Score 1) 157
Synergize Strategic Right-Sized Customer-Focused Tactical Imperative Allocations.
That sentence is a really complicated way of saying "We aren't doing that thing, we are doing this thing instead, and I am hand-picking the team that is doing it, and there is a good chance the people I hand-pick are the people who aren't going to get fired."
Comment Does such a rule really matter? (Score 1) 126
All this means is that every content provider is going to have a "click agree or no content for you, even if you are paying for the service" screen before you can touch anything on the site.
Amazon Reviewers Take on the Classics 272
Not everyone is a fan of great literature. In particular, reviewers on Amazon can be quite critical of some of the best loved classics. Jeanette DeMain takes a look at some of the most hated famous books according to some short tempered reviewers. One of my favorites is the review of Charlotte's Web which reads in part, "Absolutely pointless book to read. I felt no feelings towards any of the characters. I really didn't care that Wilbur won first prize. And how in the world does a pig and a spider become friends? It's beyond me. The back of a cereal box has more excitement than this book. I was forced to read it at least five times and have found it grueling. Even as a child I found the plot very far-fetched. It is because of this horrid book that I eat sausage every morning and tell my dad to kill every spider I see ..."
Western-Style Voting 'A Loser' 614
sethawoolley writes "In light of the upcoming elections in the US, author William Poundstone was interviewed about voting systems by Mother Jones. In it he advocates the benefits of Range Voting as a solution to Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Approval, Borda, Instant Runoff, and Condorcet Voting, which are often solutions advocated by the Greens and Libertarians (in the US), are discussed, as well, in light of Warren Smith's recent empirical research using Bayesian Regret. My local party (of which I'm the Parliamentarian) uses Single Transferable voting, but we're considering using Range Voting in the future. One thing is for certain: any system is better than the West's out-dated plurality voting system."
Feed Netflix hire reveals "Internet TV" division: downloads coming to living room (engadget.com)
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Media PCs, Portable Video
We're still not so sure how this newfangled "internets" thing is going to work out, but Netflix seems enamored with the technology, and has set up a whole Internet TV division to push movies and TV shows over that series of tubes. Today Netflix appointed ReplayTV founder Anthony Wood to the VP position of the group, whose "invented the DVR, founded Roku" and "good written and verbal communication" resume items make him a natural choice for freeing those media downloads from PC shackles to make the trek into the living room and onto your television. "The company has taken the first step -- and an innovative one -- in offering online video to its members," said Mr. Wood, "and I'm here to work with a range of partners to get that video to the television, where consumers watch most of their movies." We knew Netflix had a good bit of this stuff in the works, but it's nice to see 'em come clean and take a proactive stance on this, especially since this war for PC-to-living room supremacy is sure to be a bloody one.[Via Zatz Not Funny]
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Feed Scientists Induce Cell Death In Leukemia (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists report on preclinical research suggesting the potential of a new combination treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Apple, Opera, and Mozilla Push For HTML5 384
foo fighter writes "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been slumbering the past several years: HTML was last updated in 1999, XHTML was last updated in 2002, and no one is taking seriously their largely incompatible work on 'next-generation' XHTML or 'modularized' XHTML. Both HTML and XHTML are in sorry need of removing deprecated items while being updated to reflect the current practices of web and browser developers and remaining compatible with legacy Recommendations. The much more open and transparent WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group), formed in 2004 to address this problem, and has been hard at work on developing a draft spec for HTML5 to update and replace legacy versions of both HTML and XHTML. The quality of this work has reached the point that Apple, Opera, and Mozilla have requested the adoption of HTML5 as the new 'W3C Recommendation' for Web development."
Submission + - Police objecting to tickets from red-light cameras
caffiend666 writes: "According to this Dallas Morning New article, any "...Dallas police officer in a marked squad car who is captured on the city's cameras running a red light will have to pay the $75 fine if the incident doesn't comply with state law... Many police officers are angry about the proposed policy. The prevailing belief among officers has been that they can run red lights as they see fit." How is this a case for or against governments relying on un-biased automated systems? Or, should anyone be able to control who is recorded on camera and who is held accountable?"
Feed Chandra Sees Remarkable Eclipse Of Black Hole (sciencedaily.com)
A remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole and the hot gas disk around it has been observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This eclipse has allowed two key predictions about the effects of supermassive black holes to be tested.
Feed E-mail monitoring may violate European laws (com.com)
Human rights legislation cited in ruling won by college employee whose phone, online communications were monitored.
Comment Re:So it goes (Score 1) 380
This comment is strangely reminiscent of the fark thread.
Anyways... while his death is saddening, his works will with any luck be around for some time.
Slaughterhouse Five is probably one of the most interesting books I've read. If you enjoy his work you may want to look into Harlan Ellison.
Anyways... while his death is saddening, his works will with any luck be around for some time.
Slaughterhouse Five is probably one of the most interesting books I've read. If you enjoy his work you may want to look into Harlan Ellison.
