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Comment Re:DNS is the problem (Score 1) 207

by rs79 (#29735061) Attached to: Entire<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.SE TLD Drops Off the Internet

DHT. Thanks for asking. Efforts are already underway, quietly, so ICANN doesn't notice and cannot co-opt it. Oh, and name and address shortages? Thing of the past.

The end of an era where artificial scarcity to promote a monopoly to make the insiders very wealthy is nearly at an end. http://forum.icann.org/lists/bc-gnso/msg00134.html

I'm shocked nobody is asking "what have all those poeple done for 10 years and many many millions of dollars".

Comment Re:Intel Atom (Score 1) 219

by slummy (#29180709) Attached to: Nokia Unveils Its First Netbook
Yeah it does take a lot of power when it's running... but here's the trick.

You can hit a keyboard shortcut in Windows Vista / 7 that will put your netbook in discreet mode. It doesn't use as much power when it's operating in this fashion.

So you turn off your GPU acceleration when you're not watching HD video or running a game.

Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? 494

Posted by Soulskill from the my-spellchecker-sure-thinks-so dept.
NSN A392-99-964-5927 writes "My handwriting abilities have deteriorated over the years. Putting a real pen to paper, I get frustrated over how to spell correctly, as I am so accustomed to using a keyboard and knowing where the letters are. Having spoken to a few friends, I've found that this has become apparent to them, too. I've noticed that my grammar is also affected; maybe this is because I spent too much time on IRC and lowered my standards. Hand-written words are now becoming obsolete. There is often no need to think about writing anymore, or about how something is spelled. Are other Slashdotters having the same problem? (I'm used to Telex machines, which should give you an indication of how old I am.)"
Privacy

Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations 665

Posted by Soulskill from the what's-in-your-e-wallet dept.
Barence writes "With help from readers of PC Pro, Sky News in the UK launched an undercover investigation into rogue PC repair shops. As a result, Sky's cameras caught technicians scouring through private photos, stealing passwords and over-charging for basic repairs. It was a simple enough job: 'To create the fault, we simply loosened one of the memory chips so Windows wouldn't load. To get things working again, one needs only push the chip back into the slot and reboot the machine. Any half-way competent engineers should fix it in minutes.' But these technicians had other ideas, stealing photos and documents, as well as login details for email and bank accounts."
Internet Explorer

YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 481

Posted by kdawson from the ding-dong dept.
Oracle Goddess sends word that YouTube is presenting IE6 users with a banner exhorting them to upgrade to a modern browser, and TechCrunch is reporting that YouTube will be phasing out support for IE6 soon. This Twitter search reflects the jubilation breaking out all over the Net at the imminent demise of this most despised and non-standards-compliant browser. The market share for IE6 is now well down in the single digits.
Biotech

Sequencing a Human Genome In a Week 101

Posted by kdawson from the data-data-everywhere dept.
blackbearnh writes "The Human Genome Project took 13 years to sequence a single human's genetic information in full. At Washington University's Genome Center, they can now do one in a week. But when you're generating that much data, just keeping track of it can become a major challenge. David Dooling is in charge of managing the massive output of the Center's herd of gene sequencing machines, and making it available to researchers inside the Center and around the world. He'll be talking about his work at OSCON, and gave O'Reilly Radar a sense of where the state of the art in genome sequencing is heading. 'Now we can run these instruments. We can generate a lot of data. We can align it to the human reference. We can detect the variance. We can determine which variance exists in one genome versus another genome. Those variances that are cancerous, specific to the cancer genome, we can annotate those and say these are in genes. ... Now the difficulty is following up on all of those and figuring out what they mean for the cancer. ... We know that they exist in the cancer genome, but which ones are drivers and which ones are passengers? ... [F]inding which ones are actually causative is becoming more and more the challenge now.'"
Privacy

Gaze-Tracking Software Protects Computer Privacy 134

Posted by kdawson from the shoulder-surfer-wipeout dept.
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Two years ago computer security expert Bill Anderson read about scientific research on how the human eye moves as it reads and processes text and images. 'This obscure characteristic... suddenly struck me as (a solution to) a security problem,' says Anderson. With the help of a couple of software developers, Anderson developed a software program called Chameleon that tracks a viewer's gaze patterns and only allows an authorized user to read text on the screen, while everyone else sees gibberish. Chameleon uses gaze-tracking software and camera equipment to track an authorized reader's eyes to show only that one person the correct text. After a 15-second calibration period in which the software learns the viewer's gaze patterns, anyone looking over that user's shoulder sees dummy text that randomly and constantly changes. To tap the broader consumer market, Anderson built a more consumer-friendly version called PrivateEye, which can work with a simple Webcam to blur a user's monitor when he or she turns away. It also detects other faces in the background, and a small video screen pops up to alert the user that someone is looking at the screen. 'There have been inventions in the space of gaze-tracking. There have been inventions in the space of security,' says Anderson. 'But nobody has put the two ideas together, as far as we know.'"
Medicine

Laser Treatment Could Save the Sight of Millions 95

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the i-can-see-clearly-now dept.
BotScout writes "British experts claim that a new laser treatment could save the sight of millions of people. The process is said to stop the onset of age-related macular degeneration, one of the most common forms of blindness, which leaves victims unable to read, drive or live independently. The technique rejuvenates the Bruch's membrane — a thin layer that lies behind the retina. The process takes just ten to 15 minutes and could be done by any ophthalmologist. While it does not cure sight loss, its inventor, Professor John Marshall, says it could prevent a generation from having to put up with declining vision in old age."

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