nik0lla - Slashdot User

Comment Excited for the future (Score 1) 1

by nik0lla on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:10AM (#39108941) Attached to: Scientists Made Single Atom Transistor

Creating transistors at the atom level is HUGE! (pun not intended =P) I can't wait to see all the newest tech developments that spur from this : D The chances are much higher that one day I can get a computer embedded right in my head =P

Comment Poor drone (Score 1) 1127

by nik0lla on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:02AM (#39108899) Attached to: Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group

Was he scared? Will he dream?

Submission + - Mathematical parrot reveals his genius with posthumous paper (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @06:44AM

ananyo writes: Even in death, the world’s most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot trained to count objects – have just been published. They show that Alex could accurately add together Arabic numerals to a sum of eight and three sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates (abstract http://www.springerlink.com/content/q08n44457x236ln6/).

Submission + - Copy protection advice for ~$10k software 5

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @02:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hi /., I'm a long time reader and would like some advice.

I'm part owner of a relatively small video editing software company. We're not yet profitable, and our stuff turned up on thePirateBay recently. Some of our potential paying customers are using it without paying, and some non-potential customers are using it without paying. Our copy protection isn't that tough to crack, and I'd rather see the developers working on the product than the DRM (I'm convinced any sufficiently desirable digital widget will get copied without authorization).

Would it be insane to release a 'not for commercial use' copy that does some spying and reporting on you, along with a spy-free version for ~$10,000? I feel like that would reduce the incentive to crack the paid version, and legit businesses (In the US anyway but we're trying to sell everywhere) would generally pay and maybe we could identify some of the people using it to make money without paying us (and then sue the one with the biggest pockets). What would you do? I respect the collective wisdom of ./; thanks for your time!

Submission + - Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group (thetandd.com)

Submitted by Required Snark on Monday February 20, 2012 @06:25PM

Required Snark writes: A remote control drone operated by an animal rights group was shot down in South Carolina by a group of thwarted hunters.
Steve Hindi, the group president said "his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when law enforcement officers and an attorney claiming to represent the privately-owned plantation near Ehrhardt tried to stop the aircraft from flying." After the shoot was halted, the drone was launched anyway, and at this point it was shot down. "Seconds after it hit the air, numerous shots rang out," Hindi said in the release. "As an act of revenge for us shutting down the pigeon slaughter, they had shot down our copter." "It is important to note how dangerous this was, as they were shooting toward and into a well-travelled highway," Hindi stated in the release.

Submission + - The Pirate Bay: Banned in the UK? (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by

redletterdave

on Monday February 20, 2012 @05:29PM

redletterdave writes: "Swedish filesharing website The Pirate Bay may soon be blocked in the UK after a London judge ruled that the site breaches copyright laws on a large scale, and that both the platform and its users illegally share copyrighted material like movies and music. In addition to finding legal fault with The Pirate Bay and its users, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) also wants all British Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to The Pirate Bay in the UK."

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