Comment Ooookay.... (Score 1) 261
Well, it's no "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" but I guess it's the thought that counts. Happy April Fool's Day to you, too!
Comment Whenever it happens... (Score 1) 585
...my plan will be the same if there is any warning: lawn chair, rooftop, pitcher of margaritas.
Submission + - Microsoft counts down to XP death (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Microsoft have just released an end-of-support countdown gadget that ticks off the days until XP is no longer supported — but it only runs under Vista or Windows 7!
It focuses the mind on the fact that XP is being forcibly retired. It is a wake-up call to think hard about the unpleasant situation and consider the alternatives.So as you watch the count down to XP's death tick by think about the problems created by using software that actually belongs to someone else...
It focuses the mind on the fact that XP is being forcibly retired. It is a wake-up call to think hard about the unpleasant situation and consider the alternatives.So as you watch the count down to XP's death tick by think about the problems created by using software that actually belongs to someone else...
New Medical Camera the Size of a Grain of Salt 132
kkleiner writes "The German Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration recently reported the development of a camera with a lens attached that is 1 x 1 x 1.5 millimeters in size, which is roughly as big as a grain of salt. At about a cubic millimeter in size, this camera is right at the size limit that the human eye can see unaided. The camera not only produces decent images but is also very cheap to manufacture — so cheap, in fact, that it is considered disposable."
The End of Content Ownership 247
adeelarshad82 writes "In recent weeks companies like Amazon, Sony, Google, Verizon, 24symbols and others have started to roll out 'cloud-based' content streaming and on-demand services (or plans) for movies, music and even books. Video on demand is nothing new, nor is streaming. The difference now, though, is that companies like Amazon want you to stream your own content. This article sheds some light on how the cloud, along with subscription and on-demand services, will transform our perception of content access and ownership."
NYPD Anti-Terrorism Cameras Used For Much More 400
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the NY Times:
"The Police Department's growing web of license-plate-reading cameras has been transforming investigative work. Though the imaging technology was conceived primarily as a counterterrorism tool, the cameras' presence — all those sets of watchful eyes that never seem to blink — has aided in all sorts of traditional criminal investigations. ... 'We knew going into it that they would have other obvious benefits,' Mr. Browne said about the use of the readers in the initiative. 'Obviously, conventional crime is far more common than terrorism, so it is not surprising that they would have benefits, more frequently, in conventional crime fighting than in terrorism.'"
Submission + - No U.S. Government Shutdown This Week (washingtonpost.com)
Roblimo writes: If you were hoping for a government shutdown, it looks like you are going to be disappointed. In a last-hour cliffhanger, Democrats and Republicans managed to agree with each other enough to keep the government funded for the rest of the current fiscal year. Since the budget bill that finally passed was a compromise, no one is happy with it. So it goes. That's how things work in a representative government.
Submission + - ALS sufferer used legs to contribute last patch (gnome.org) 1
krkhan writes: "This is a little old but seeing as it didn't make it to /. at the time I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9 year old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."
Feed Film Reveals Moore's Tactics (wired.com)
Comment Re:How to clean up flying wasabi (Score 1) 164
So if we're fed ersatz-wasabi on the ground, what was really in that
fateful tube of NASA wasabi is most likely not known outside NASA's
human experimentation department.
After reading the news article, I'm still not clear as to whether this was a special NASA tube o' wasabi, or else one of the "wasabi toothpaste tubes" you can buy at almost any Asian grocery:
http://www.sbfoods.co.jp/eng/herb.html
