Submission + - Kingston Announces World's First 1TB Thumb Drive (techgage.com) 2

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Deathspawner

on Monday January 07, 2013 @11:13AM

Deathspawner writes: "If there's one thing that each CES can bring, it's a handful or products that manage to drop jaws everywhere. Kingston's latest flash drive series, DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0, manages to be one of those. It's aimed at folks who actually need mass storage on the go at speeds that mechanical hard drives cannot offer. Available soon will be a 512GB model, followed by the 1TB later this quarter. The drive features read speeds of 240MB/s and write speeds of 160MB/s — not quite desktop SSD speeds, but much faster than a mechanical hard drive, and with vastly reduced latencies due to it being flash storage. Not surprisingly, pricing has not yet been discussed."

Submission + - A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It (techcrunch.com)

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Kethinov

on Thursday November 15, 2012 @05:51AM

Kethinov writes: "My Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, a prominent opponent of the infamous Stop Online Piracy Act, has introduced two bills to the U.S. House of Representatives designed to protect the free and open internet, expand the protections of the Fourth Amendment to digital communications, and protect against the introduction of any further SOPA-like bills. Since these are issues Slashdotters care deeply about, I wanted to open up the bills for discussion on Slashdot. Is my Congresswoman doing a good job? Is there room for improvement in the language of the bills? If you're as excited by her work as I am, please reach out to your representatives as well and as them to work with Rep. Lofgren. It will take a big coalition to beat the pro-RIAA/MPAA establishment politics on internet regulation."

Comment How to avoid criminals taking advantage of this? (Score 1) 238

by kotaro24 on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @09:32AM (#40673543) Attached to: MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash

If the computer takes control of the vehicle during emergencies, robbers can drive in front of the vehicle, slam on the brakes, and wait for the car to come to a full stop. There are times (like when another driver points a pistol at me (happened to me once on the California 101 back in the day)) when unsafe driving is an appropriate response to conditions.

Comment Continuing Education (Score 2) 239

by kotaro24 on Friday June 29, 2012 @02:05PM (#40497675) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Defines Good Developer Culture?

The most important part of developer culture I look for is an emphasis on training. I'm flexible as to culture, development methodologies, etc., but without education, my resume could get stale enough to trap me in a job I no longer want.

The continuing education doesn't have to be expensive ('college courses'). One-day seminars, internet training, or even presentations on a topic by other developers in the company, can help keep the skillset up-to-date .

Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor 213

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 10, 2010 @07:59PM from the will-stick-with-the-regular-kind-for-now dept.

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."

Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 04, 2010 @02:55PM from the big-ocean-long-pig dept.

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."

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