Comment Re: Where is "foreign", exactly? (Score 1) 134
Since when is Europe a country?
And since when is England no longer part of Europe? Did you finally set sail to ⦠australia or where???
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Submission + - Creative Commons to pass one billion licensed works (opensource.com)
Jason Hibbets writes: Sharing is winning. In 2015, Creative Commons is expected to pass one billion licensed works under the commons. Millions of creators around the world use CC licenses to give others permission to use their work in ways that they wouldn’t otherwise be allowed to. Those millions of users are the proof that Creative Commons works. But measuring the size of the commons has always been a challenge. Until now...
Submission + - Another community gets split by systemd: Devuan is "forking" Debian (devuan.org)
jaromil writes: The so called "Veteran Unix Admin" collective announces that the "fork" of Debian will proceed as a result of the recent systemd debacle. The reasons put forward are not just technical, included is a letter of endorsement by Debian Developer Roger Leigh mentioning that "people rely on Debian for their jobs and businesses, their research and their hobbies. It's not a playground for such radical experimentation."
The fork is called "Devuan", pronounced "DevOne". A website is up on https://devuan.org/ with more information.
The fork is called "Devuan", pronounced "DevOne". A website is up on https://devuan.org/ with more information.
Submission + - Researchers Discover an 'Off Switch' For Pain in the Brain (ibtimes.co.uk) 1
concertina226 writes: Scientists working together from several international universities have discovered that it is possible to block a pathway in the brain of animals suffering from neuropathic pain, which could have a huge impact on improving pain relief in humans.
So far, the most successful ways to treat chronic pain from a pharmacological point of view are to create drugs that that interact or interfere with various channels in the brain to decrease pain, including adrenergic, opioid and calcium receptors.
However, there is another way – a chemical stimulator called adenosine that binds to brain receptors to trigger a biological response.
Adenosine has shown potential for killing pain in humans, but so far, no one has managed to harness this pain pathway successfully without causing a myriad of side effects.
Led by Dr Daniela Salvemini of SLU, the researchers discovered that by activating the A3 adenosine receptor in the rodents' brains and spinal cords, the receptor was able to prevent or reverse pain from nerve damage (the cause of chronic pain).
So far, the most successful ways to treat chronic pain from a pharmacological point of view are to create drugs that that interact or interfere with various channels in the brain to decrease pain, including adrenergic, opioid and calcium receptors.
However, there is another way – a chemical stimulator called adenosine that binds to brain receptors to trigger a biological response.
Adenosine has shown potential for killing pain in humans, but so far, no one has managed to harness this pain pathway successfully without causing a myriad of side effects.
Led by Dr Daniela Salvemini of SLU, the researchers discovered that by activating the A3 adenosine receptor in the rodents' brains and spinal cords, the receptor was able to prevent or reverse pain from nerve damage (the cause of chronic pain).
Submission + - Renewables are now Scotland's biggest energy source 2
AmiMoJo writes: Government figures revealed that Scotland is now generating more power from "clean" technologies than nuclear, coal and gas. The combination of wind, solar and hydroelectric, along with less-publicised sources such as landfill gas and biomass, produced 10.3TWh in the first half of 2014. Over the same period, Scotland generated 7.8TWh from nuclear, 5.6TWh from coal and 1.4TWh from gas, according to figures supplied by National Grid. Renewable sources tend to fluctuate throughout the year, especially in Scotland where the weather is notoriously volatile, but in six-month chunks the country has consistently increased its renewable output.
Submission + - Scientists develop paint to help cool the planet (stanford.edu)
AaronW writes: Engineers at Stanford University have developed an ultrathin, multilayered, nanophotonic material that not only reflects heat away from buildings but also directs internal heat away from the building using a system called "photonic radiative cooling." The coating is capable of reflecting away 97% of incoming sunlight and when combined with the photonic radiative cooling system it becomes cooler than the surrounding air by around 9F (5C). The material is designed to radiate heat into space at a precise frequency that allows it to pass through the atmosphere without warming it.
The material is designed to be cost effective for large-scale deployments.
The material is designed to be cost effective for large-scale deployments.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best drone for $100-$150
andyring writes: With Christmas fast approaching, and me being notoriously hard to buy for, I thought a camera drone would be great to suggest for Christmas. But the options are dizzying, and it's nearly impossible to find something and know it'll be decent. What are /.ers suggestions/recommendations/experiences with a basic camera drone in the $100-150 range? Looks like all of them do video but I'm more interested in high-res stills although that may be a moot point. Your ideas?
Comment It's more a modified representative democracy. (Score 1) 242
The software used by the pirate party is representative in so far as you can delegate your vote - on specific matters - to someone you judge to be more knowledgable than you, on that topic. He will represent you.
Two obvious differences from the rythmic-vote kind of democracy are a) you can remove you vote from your representative at any time and b) you entitle them to represent you on specific matters only.
Mind you, I've not yet used the software, but that's how someone deeply involved with the pirate party has explained it to me.
Since it seems that you can keep your vote to yourself, and in that case it indeed functions as a direct democracy... I guess that's what is "liquid" about it: http://liquidfeedback.org/mission/
Comment fast (Score 1) 279
All I want ist to be able to enter whatever information/command in the fastest way possible, and obviously to get them fast (large high res display)
Hardware keyboard is still the fastest for many things in my experience. That holds for smartphones as well as for tablets and desktop ui: my N900 is faster than an Optimus Speed for the keyboard alone, the ipad starts to get really useful with an add-on keyboard and a keyboard-oriented tiling window manager makes for fast work on the desktop, as Keyboard-Mouse switch takes allmost half a second and requires to at least glance at the input devices, that's horribly slow. That's obviously less true if the majority of my work is drawing something, but watch the freemind success: largely supported by the great keyboard support for creating mindmaps.
Same thing for audio apps: I need external controllers, an interesting trade-off, physical midi-controllers are much faster to operate than touch screen ones, but the touch-screen ones may be just that much better aligned to the task that they become faster when looking at the whole process.
Submission + - What happens to your files when a cloud service sh (extremetech.com) 2
MrSeb writes: "Megaupload's shutdown poses an interesting question: What happens to all the files that were stored on the servers? XDA-Developers, for example, has more than 200,000 links to Megaupload — and this morning, they're all broken, with very little hope of them returning. What happens if a similar service, like Dropbox, gets shut down — either through bankruptcy, or federal take-down? Will you be given a chance to download your files, or helped to migrate them to another similar service? What about data stored on enterprise services like Azure or AWS — are they more safe?"
Submission + - DOJ Investigates Google, Apple, and others in Info (techcrunch.com)
CSHARP123 writes: The Department of Justice launched an investigation into the "No Poaching" agreement between Apple and Google in 2010, but details of the case were only made public for the first time yesterday. TechCrunch was the first to sift through the documents, and has uncovered some ostensibly incriminating evidence against not only Google and Apple, but Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit, as well. According to the filings from the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, these companies did indeed enter "no poach" agreements with each other, and agreed to refrain soliciting employees. The documents also indicate that they collectively sought to limit their employees' power to negotiate for higher salaries.
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