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Submission + - Physicists Discover How to Teleport Energy (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it’s possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole.

Comment Re:You had nothing to hide, right? (Score 1) 821

by starbugs (#30993450) Attached to: "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester

Until some goon started to look at your balls when you board a plane

Many of these people don't have a problem with cameras as they go to the beach in a speedo.
They should just wear a tight speedo while boarding a plane if they are worried about definition.

But I wonder how much the people of London are worried about actual privacy/tracking vs. seeing your weenie on a tiny screenie. The UK has one camera for every 14 people.
PHP

Submission + - Facebook rewrites PHP runtime (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by VonGuard
VonGuard writes: Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I've written up everything I know about this story on the SD Times Blog.

Comment Re:Wait hold on mugger... (Score 1) 457

by starbugs (#30967148) Attached to: Gun With Wireless Arming Signal Goes On Sale Soon

Now in a self admitted state of grogginess you are expected to be able to operate a firearm with decent accuracy and efficiency that you are able to disable a fully alert assailant before they are able to react.

Maybe somepeople wake up groggy, lazily aiming for the alarm clock when it rings, then stumbling to the kitchen, turning on the coffee machine whilst your eyes are still glazed over... going on your Daily routine.

Would you be accurate with a firearm?
Maybe not.

But imagine that you have an important business meeting at 7:00 and your job depends on it. You wake up and are shocked as you see it's 6:45 and you know it takes you 10 minutes to get to work. Your heart beats at 150 bps, your adrenaline rises, you get dressed faster than ever before. You're decisive, do only what's necessary, and you have a far higher state of awareness than the day before.

Would you be accurate with a firearm?
That depends, some people are never accurate.
Myself?
Absolutely.

What kind of fantasy world do you live in?

Why do you think that the state of mind/accuracy that you have(or think most people have), applies to everyone?

With a regular firearm, in your scenario you are already screwed. An assailant will have attacked and disabled you long before you are able to grasp the firearm, let alone use it.

Again, you are making assumptions that while they may be applicable to some, will not be applicable to everyone.

Lets ignore the fact that at your state of grogginess in near darkness you aren't capable of telling the difference between an assailant and your own wife.

The assailant would be the one on the floor.
My wife would be the one holding the gun.
Apple

Submission + - Tinkering, R.I.P.? 1

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Having cut his programming teeth on an Apple ][e as a ten-year-old, Mark Pilgrim laments that Apple now seems to be doing everything in their power to stop his kids from finding the sense of wonder he did: 'Apple has declared war on the tinkerers of the world. With every software update, the previous generation of 'jailbreaks' stop working, and people have to find new ways to break into their own computers. There won’t ever be a MacsBug for the iPad. There won’t be a ResEdit, or a Copy ][+ sector editor, or an iPad Peeks & Pokes Chart. And that's a real loss. Maybe not to you, but to somebody who doesn’t even know it yet.' Time for Woz to have a sit-down with Jobs?

Comment Re:Is there any use for this in the western world? (Score 1) 123

by starbugs (#30955938) Attached to: New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper

You started with a question and finished with the answer. Pressure sensitivity is handy for lots of things, some of which have not even been invented.

My question is whether this will find any widespread use here. The post focuses on writing in Asia. The article mentions pressure, but is it sensitive enough for a strand of hair(from a brush)?

I'm not in Asia and digital art is something that is cool, but a 'niche market' that I doubt this technology is aimed at. So will we see any devices deploying this tech here?

My saying that something would be cool to do is not an answer to my question of what we will see here.

Comment Is there any use for this in the western world? (Score 1) 123

by starbugs (#30955590) Attached to: New Touchscreen Technology Like Writing On Paper

What would we use it for, here?

Cursive writing programs are being eliminated from elementary school.
The quality of printing is also going downhill.
Everything here is being replaced by a keyboard (real and virtual).

Is this a technology that will see a major uptake only in a limited part of the world, amongst those who have trouble writing Pinyin(or similar)?

(But it would be great to have this sensitive enough to use a real brush to paint in digital ink.)

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