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Comment Re: Get ready newbs. (Score 1) 102

by high_bandwidth_user on Friday March 30, 2018 @09:58AM (#56352789) Attached to: FCC Authorizes SpaceX's Ambitious Satellite Internet Plans

The ground stations will use phased-array antennas to track the satellite(s) as they pass overhead.

Presumably the system will be smart enough to load balance users across the satellites visible to them to keep the load on any particular satellite as low as possible, though this only speculation.

Apache Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee 136

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 09, 2010 @03:40PM from the I'll-resign-my-commission dept.

iammichael writes "The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee due to a long dispute over the licensing restrictions placed on the TCK (test kit validating third-party Java implementations are compatible with the specification)."

Hi-Tech Nativity Security 110

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @07:47PM from the a-higher-satellite-power dept.

To combat vandalism and theft of their holiday displays, many churches and cities are turning to a technological answer. After one of their cows was stolen, St. Marks Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn, Ill. installed GPS devices in the figurines of its nativity scene. This year the village of Wellington, Fla. added security cameras to protect their display. From the article: "BrickHouse Security in New York City offered churches and synagogues free GPS and cameras to protect their displays this season. Seventy have signed up so far. About 24 of them are also installing security cameras. In Merrick, N.Y., the Chabad Center for Jewish Life is putting GPS in its 8-foot menorah on display in a park."

8-Year-Old Receives Patent 142

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:54AM from the young-inventor-society dept.

Knile writes "While not the youngest patent recipient ever (that would be a four year old in Texas), Bryce Gunderman has received a patent at age 8 for a space-saver that combines an outlet cover plate with a shelf. From the article: '"I thought how I was going to make a lot of money," Bryce said about what raced through his brain when he received the patent.'"

Combining Two Kinects To Make Better 3D Video 106

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @07:35AM from the this-is-what-happens-when-yo dept.

suraj.sun sends this quote from Engadget about improving the Kinect 3D video recordings we discussed recently: "[Oliver Kreylos is] blowing minds and demonstrating that two Kinects can be paired and their output meshed — one basically filling in the gaps of the other. He found that the two do create some interference, the dotted IR pattern of one causing some holes and blotches in the other, but when the two are combined they basically help each other out and the results are quite impressive."

Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:03PM from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

Net Users In Belarus May Soon Have To Register 89

Posted by timothy on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:59AM from the not-just-register-their-displeasure dept.

Cwix writes "A new law proposed in Belarus would require all net users and online publications to register with the state: 'Belarus' authoritarian leader is promising to toughen regulation of the Internet and its users in an apparent effort to exert control over the last fully free medium in the former Soviet state. He told journalists that a new Internet bill, proposed Tuesday, would require the registration and identification of all online publications and of each Web user, including visitors to Internet cafes. Web service providers would have to report this information to police, courts, and special services.'"

Comment A PVR makes the Olympics watchable (Score 1) 628

by high_bandwidth_user on Monday February 11, 2002 @07:13PM (#2990652) Attached to: Olympics?

In past years (Sydney 2000 especially), the NBC coverage was almost unwatchable to me because of all the incessant ad breaks (especially because of the way they ruined the mood the even had created). This year, I'm watching everything through my DirecTivo, delayed about an hour at the beginning so I can skip all the ads. Its amazing how much more interesting the Olympics are this time! If you think the Olympics aren't worth watching, try a PVR -- you'll like it a lot more than you do now. (Of course, the pristine, ghost- and static-free image I get of my local NBC affiliate off of DirecTV helps a lot, too. No compression artifacts yet! :)

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