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Comment Outcome = nothing good (Score 2) 649

by toby1 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @07:04PM (#38754958) Attached to: Anonymous Takes Down DOJ, RIAA, MPA and Universal Music

It's not really an effective "retaliation" - a site taken down by physical raids and arrests is not just offline, it's gone and all the content is gone. These (probably) DOS attacks just cause downtime and nothing is really lost except face.. So now what? DoJ etc log some service calls with providers, reset a few things and it's back like nothing happened where MegaUpload is offline until some new person decides to setup shop. Result = nothing good, BAU, *sad face*

Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code 83

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 20, 2010 @03:52PM from the nice-of-them dept.

dsavi writes "Ptex, Walt Disney Animation Studio's cutting-edge 3D texture mapping library which was first used on nearly every surface in the 2008 animated feature Bolt, was released under the BSD license on Friday. Quoting the announcement on monophyl.com: 'We expect to follow Ptex with other open source projects that we hope the community will find beneficial. We will soon be launching a new Walt Disney Animation Studios Technology page under disneyanimation.com. It will include links to our open source projects as will as a library of recent publications.' This looks good for open source 3D graphics."

Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans 177

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @10:33AM from the hey-at-least-they-report-it dept.

TheRaven64 writes "The BBC's plans to introduce DRM for over-the-air digital broadcasts were today dealt a setback when the regulator, Ofcom, asked them the same question that has been asked of many DRM systems: 'How does this benefit the consumer?' The letter to the BBC is quoted in the article as saying that 'Ofcom received a large number of responses to this consultation, in particular from consumers and consumer groups, who raised a number of potentially significant consumer "fair use" and competition issues that were not addressed in our original consultation.' This does not end the chance of the BBC being allowed to introduce DRM in the future, but it at least delays their opportunity to do so."

Comment So much music! (Score 1) 294

by toby1 on Sunday November 01, 2009 @05:35AM (#29940423) Attached to: The Golden Age of Infinite Music

i love my music and have far more available to me now than at any time growing up and it takes a toll just keeping it all in my head! I once would seek out and purchase an album and then listen to it over and over for weeks before I was able to get something new. now i get new tunes daily and it is a different experience - which i think is great. electronic acoustic and amplified all available practically on demand :) how much information can any of us take in and absorb before the internet eats our brains

Submission + - Military drone could fuel self with corpses (foxnews.com)

Submitted by

spacefiddle

on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:50PM

spacefiddle writes: "I don't even know what to make of this. The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — yes, some nut named it EATR — is apparently designed to "extract energy from biomass in the environment" where it operates. The blue-sky write-up envisions cutting these things loose in the field for "years" as they seek organic matter. Developed by Robotic Technology Inc., their own page on the EATR(tm and patent pending) calls it "foraging." I really hope this submission is accepted just 'cause i can't wait to see the tags on this one..."

Comment Soul Brother in the White House (Score 1) 684

by toby1 on Thursday February 07, 2008 @05:11PM (#22340142) Attached to: Who is Your Super Tuesday Pick?

I am stunned to see the support for Barack in this straw poll. Obviusly the /. poll doesn't count for squat, not least because many of us loyal readers don't live in the states so cannot vote, but to see such a landslide for the man is truly refreshing. Based on the news reports we get here in Aus you would think that The Soul Brother and the Hag Clinton are running very tight, but to see such a swing towards Barack is great.
Black Man for the White House - George Clinton has been pimping that idea for nigh on 30 years now, it;s about time it came to fruition. Obama in 08!

IBM Recycles Waste CPU Wafers Into Solar Panels 122

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @10:03PM from the trash-to-power-revisited dept.

Luyseyal writes "IBM has developed a process for scrubbing waste silicon wafers clean, allowing the otherwise highly secret waste to be sold. The silicon quality usually necessary for solar production is very high and the cost of solar panels reflects it. Recycling this waste should help bring down the cost in the long run and add a new profit vector for chip manufacturers. The article notes that IBM has such a high profile in the chip business that this recycling tech should spread rapidly."

Submission + - Google begins 'Gmail 2.0' rollout

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @06:25PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Google on Tuesday confirmed it is giving Gmail a new look. Two prominent blogs that cover Google — Google Blogscoped and Google Operating System — have posted screenshots of a new Gmail interface that has been made available to a limited number of users. They're calling it "Gmail 2.0," even if Google isn't.

Google confirmed the update is underway at its new San Francisco office, just prior to a briefing on an unrelated upcoming Google announcement. A Google spokesperson said that the new look has been made available to about one percent of all Gmail users and is being rolled out the rest on an ongoing basis.

Submission + - First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @06:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready to a while, but safety concerns kept 'em off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already.

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