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Comment Re:News for Nerds? (Score 1) 186

Reminds me of the initial coverage of Sullenberger's landing on the Hudson... from the Bloomberg traffic report:

East side highway is moving well in both directions. The BQE is moving normally for this time of day, only minor delays exiting over the George Washington. We have a gaper delay on the west side midtown on the Henry Hudson as people seem to be slowing down to look at a plane that has landed on the river. Over in New Jersey there's a backup from the Lincoln Tunnel exit into Secaucus....

(Back to the Studio) Thank you. We'll try to get more information on that plane in the Hudson River.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: GPU of choice for OpenCL on Linux?

Submitted by Bram Stolk
Bram Stolk writes: So, I am running GNU/Linux on a modern Haswell CPU, with an old Radeon HD5xxx from 2009. I'm pretty happy with the open source Gallium driver for 3D acceleration.

But now I want to do some GPGPU development using OpenCL on this box, and the old GPU will no longer cut it. What do my fellow technophiles from slashdot recommend as a replacement GPU? Go nVidia, go AMD, or just use the integrated Intel GPU instead? Bonus points for open sourced solutions. Performance not really important, but OpenCL driver maturity is.

Submission + - Eric Schmidt says the Internet will Disappear 2

Submitted by Esra Erimez
Esra Erimez writes: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it. Schmidt says, “There will be so many IP addressesso many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it. “It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.”

Comment An example. (Score 1) 179

by lilgerry (#48820343) Attached to: Marriot Back-Pedals On Wireless Blocking

First of all, 100% agree that there should never ever be any blocking of a WiFi signal.

What should Marriott do if they find that there is a WiFi broadcasting as "Marriott Guest" inside their building that is not one of their connections (i.e. imitating the service they provide to their guests but presumably set up that way to facilitate some nefarious purpose?)
- Are they permitted to take action?
- If not, who can?
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Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US 139

Posted by kdawson from the boom-boom dept.
TheOtherChimeraTwin notes that the shuttle Discovery will land at Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning at 8:48 EDT. The craft will make a rare "descending node" overflight of the continental US en route to landing in Florida. Here are maps of the shuttle's path if is lands on orbit 222 as planned, or on the next orbit. Spaceweather.com says: "...it takes the shuttle about 35 minutes to traverse the path shown... Observers in the northwestern USA will see the shuttle shortly after 5 am PDT blazing like a meteoric fireball through the dawn sky. As Discovery makes its way east, it will enter daylight and fade into the bright blue background. If you can't see the shuttle, however, you might be able to hear it. The shuttle produces a sonic double-boom that reaches the ground about a minute and a half after passing overhead."

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