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Submission + - Vulcan to Join Our Solar System (Maybe) (news.com.au) 1

jollyrgr3 writes: If William Shatner gets his wish one of Pluto's two new moons will be named Vulcan. News.com.au reports that James T. Kirk (aka) William Shatner picked the names Vulcan and Cerberus. The names still have to be approved by the International Astronomical Union as they have the final say. Full link here:
http://www.news.com.au/world/capt-kirk-aka-william-shatner-names-plutos-two-new-moons/story-fndir2ev-1226585541984

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Submission + - Google Chrome Getting Audio Indicators To Show You Noisy Tabs

An anonymous reader writes: Google is working on identifying Chrome tabs that are currently playing audio (or recording it). The feature is expected to show an audio animation if a tab is broadcasting or recording sound. François Beaufort first spotted the new feature, a part of which is already available in the latest Chromium build. For those who don't know, Chromium is the open source web browser project that shares much of the same code and features as Google Chrome, and new features are often added there first.

Comment A Couple Degrees Warmer - Electronics Like Cold (Score 1) 56

You can go a couple degrees warmer than in the "old days" (ten years ago). Things like bearings in fans and drives will fail. Capacitors will fail. Data centers produce LOTS of heat. I don't believe that the coin counters figured in the staff to replace the failed parts or the extra staff and time needed when manual procedures are used due to a downed system.

Comment Data Logger Cam (Score 1) 340

The October 2012 edition of Nuts and Volts magazine has just such a project. If you are lucky it is at your news stand now. You can use the "deer cam" as others have suggested. You could also use a Canon Power Shot digital camera in a water tight box with the "updated" firmware. Go to: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK and see what they have to offer. This software DOES NOT harm your camera or modify it. The "hack" is removed when you remove the SD card. You can get used Power Shot cameras on eBay for sub $50. You then place this in a wooden "bat box" or similar item with a small window. You want it to be water proof and obscure. Big battery pack (possibly solar charged) may be useful.

Comment I Tested a Similar Product (Score 1) 140

I am an IT guy and tested a similar product. They claimed we could "eliminate changing passwords" by using their "how it is typed" software. They set us up a test page, signed in many times a day until I had "trained" it to my way of typing my password (something like 100 times). I then sent my account information to my coworkers and invited them to attempt to login to my account. Within ten minutes of sending the challenge Email I had a screen shot of my compromised account. Needless to say the sales guy didn't make a sale.
Moon

Decades-Old Soviet Reflector Spotted On the Moon 147

cremeglace writes "No one had seen a laser reflector that Soviet scientists had left on the moon almost 40 years ago, despite years of searching. Turns out searchers had been looking kilometers in the wrong direction. On 22 April, a team of physicists finally saw an incredibly faint flash from the reflector, which was ferried across the lunar surface by the Lunokhod 1 rover. The find comes thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which last month imaged a large area where the rover was reported to have been left. Then the researchers, led by Tom Murphy of the University of California, San Diego, could search one football-field-size area at a time until they got a reflection."

Comment Re:What about Linux? (Score 1) 373

It will be embedded into the hardware, just like the Intel processor serial number. Remember that? Or the yellow dots that are printed on every color printer to identify the printer by serial number, date and time of printout etc. Try scanning currency with a scanner, just see what happens. Intel Serial Number http://www.geek.com/glossary/P/psn-processor-serial-number/ Yellow Dots http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html Scanning Currency http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/01/61877

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