wthompson - Slashdot User

Comment Still Concerned (Score 1) 3

by wthompson on Saturday November 13, 2010 @02:03PM (#34216366) Attached to: Is the Laser Used in the Microsoft Kinect Safe?

I am not attempting to bash Microsoft. The technology used in the Kinect was not even developed by them. It was developed by PrimeSense. http://www.primesense.com/

I was really hoping to get some domain experts to weigh in here. Or, at least, some laser enthusiasts with real world experience.

Also, I just came across this WIRED article http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/laser-pointer-hazard/ which contains this quote from NIST physicist Charles Clark, "with infrared [lasers], you won’t blink. The first indication that you have that infrared is coming in is that you’d start to lose your vision.”

Just because I'm paranoid, that doesn't mean that they're not pointing IR lasers at me.

Federal Judge Bars Instant Publishing of Analysts' Stock Tips 133

Posted by timothy on Friday March 19, 2010 @07:24PM from the you-can't-say-that-just-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Big Banking firms Barclay's Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch successfully obtained an injunction against theflyonthewall.com, Inc., preventing them from immediately publishing the firms' stock upgrades and downgrades. This case could have far-reaching consequences concerning internet communication and publication of news." Here's some interesting analysis from Paul Levy, via Dave Farber's Interesting People list.

YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It 419

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 19, 2010 @06:34PM from the those-darn-archives dept.

pcause writes "Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear that Google knew the site contained pirated content and bought it and continued the pirating."

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