Comment So... (Score 1) 406
They're using Comcast then?
Comment Re:Why not? (Score 1) 622
Nail on the head.
As soon as you leave the confines of your home, your expectation of privacy drops to virtually zero.
Now if you're a cop and most of your job happens to be performed in public and in plain view, then you're fair game.
As soon as you leave the confines of your home, your expectation of privacy drops to virtually zero.
Now if you're a cop and most of your job happens to be performed in public and in plain view, then you're fair game.
Study Finds World Warmth Edging to Ancient Levels 534
Krishna Dagli writes to mention a decades-long study by NASA scientists. According to the research, global temperatures are reaching highs not seen in thousands of years. From the article: "One of the findings from this collaboration is that the Western Equatorial Pacific and Indian Oceans are now as warm as, or warmer than, at any prior time in the Holocene. The Holocene is the relatively warm period that has existed for almost 12,000 years, since the end of the last major ice age. The Western Pacific and Indian Oceans are important because, as these researchers show, temperature change there is indicative of global temperature change. Therefore, by inference, the world as a whole is now as warm as, or warmer than, at any time in the Holocene. According to Lea, 'The Western Pacific is important for another reason, too: it is a major source of heat for the world's oceans and for the global atmosphere.'"
Intel Announces Lasers On a Chip 244
wonkavader writes, "The New York Times reports that 'Researchers plan to announce on Monday that they have created a silicon-based chip that can produce laser beams. The advance will make it possible to use laser light rather than wires to send data between chips, removing the most significant bottleneck in computer design.' The work is from Intel and the University of California, Santa Barbara. This suggests breakthroughs in both computing performance and networking." From the article: "The breakthrough was achieved by bonding a layer of light-emitting indium phosphide onto the surface of a standard silicon chip etched with special channels that act as light-wave guides. The resulting sandwich has the potential to create on a computer chip hundreds and possibly thousands of tiny, bright lasers that can be switched on and off billions of times a second." Further details in the Intel press release.
Comment Re:High Alert (Score 1) 510
No, no, no. It's obviously, "some kind of a prevert?" Dr Strangelove established that like 40 years ago.
Google Accused of Bio-piracy 248
Simon Phillips writes "ZDNet is reporting
that Google has been accused of being the 'biggest
threat to genetic privacy' this year for its plan to create a searchable database of genetic information. From the article: 'Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain
Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.'"
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The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.
