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History of the LED — the Movie 106

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 23, 2008 @05:33PM from the some-dude's-bright-idea dept.

ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine has a fantastic 'Connections'-style video called THE LED — The short documentary has the history of the LED to modern day applications. Starting with the work of Russian Oleg Vladimirovich Losev, which was largely ignored in the 1920s, to making your own 'Cat's Whisker' — a primitive LED made from a metal-semiconductor point-contact junction forming a Schottky barrier diode. The first practical visible-spectrum LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr., while working at General Electric Company."

Boing Boing Founder Warns of "Internet AIDS" 154

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday November 19, 2007 @06:42PM from the orwell-was-an-optimist dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cory Doctorow, founder of Boing Boing, says he doesn't have a problem in principle with the automated network defense systems that guard the Internet against malware, spamigation bots, and other network nasties. However, in his article 'The Future of Internet Immune Systems,' he bemoans the problems caused by 'Internet autoimmune disorder' — where the network defenses designed to block network attacks are automated and instantaneous, but the systems in place to reverse erroneous lockdowns are manual and unresponsive."

Comment To paraphrase the entire internet (Score -1) 66

by revolvement on Monday November 12, 2007 @03:16PM (#21326585) Attached to: Ratchet and Clank - Tools of Destruction Review

"lol ps3 sux nintendo 4 lyfe" With that out of the way, would it be unreasonable to ask why it took this long for the PS3 to have a "hit" like this? They had such a strong showing pre-release. Did the games just not live up to the hype?(I do not have a PS3 nor have I played one, so I wouldn't know how the games actually are.)

Comment O/P (Score 1) 177

by modifried on Monday January 01, 2007 @07:19PM (#17426112) Attached to: Mars Rovers' Software Upgraded

"In addition to their continuing scientific observations, they are now testing four new skills included in revised flight software uploaded to their onboard computers."

Anyone else read this and think of an RPG? I was half expecting to find the comments filled with demands of nerfing and buffing the new skills.

Going Pink For October 352

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 01, 2006 @06:27PM from the in-all-seriousness dept.

Matthew Oliphant is inviting anyone and everyone to turn their Web sites pink during October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Nearly 150 sites have done so as of this writing. And by the way, guys can get breast cancer too.

Comment Re:Coincidence? (Score 1) 200

by shfted! on Tuesday October 05, 2004 @12:38PM (#10440926) Attached to: Cray XD1 Now Available

We even have a way to power it now. Coincidence? I think not!

Journal Journal: Sigh

Journal by shfted! on Thursday March 11, 2004 @01:40AM

In a recent discussion, I have been accused of being a troll. I wish that slashdot would display my 250+ comments before the single issue that got me labeled as a troll (and also sent my karma from excellent to neutral -- I guess I didn't have that much to burn). Troll is not something I intended, or wanted to be. It may be time to close this account and move onwards.

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