Comment Re:Offended (Score 1) 78
While I suspect that was a joke, in theory Kinect would actually be a better platform upon which to build an ASL-to-English translator, if not for the fact that the skeletal data it provides does not include fingers.
Comment Re:No, please, stay on my lawn... (Score 2, Insightful) 383
Indeed it is.
Comment Re:Dear God, why? (Score 1) 533
Wonder if someone with a lower digit will post....
Yes.
Software Update Makes iTunes Accessible To Blind Users 148
rickthewizkid writes "Recent updates to the iTunes software allow blind users to access the program without assistance. From the article: 'The new software — which transforms the written information on an iTunes-linked computer screen into speech or Braille — stemmed from an agreement between Apple, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company, the National Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.'" It's not just the actual iTunes app, though; the article notes that this update makes iTunes U useable as well.
Australia Mulling a Nationwide Vehicle-Tracking System 176
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that as political support for Australia's version of the national ID card is waning, the powers that be have found a far more effective way to catalog the populace. CrimTrac, an Australian government agency responsible for designing technical solutions to aid policing, is due to hand in a $2.2 million scoping study for the introduction of a nationwide automatic number plate recognition system (ANPR). It seems that as well as ANPR, the system will also collect images of drivers and passengers with high enough resolution for identification purposes. All ANPR data collected would be made available to participating agencies in real time, and retained for five years for future investigations."
Submission + - Taxing Virtual Gaming Assets
rijit writes: "Daniel Terdiman over at Cnet News.com reports the IRS will likely start taxing in game assets. Quote: "That's because game publishers may well in the not too distant future have to send the forms — which individuals receive when earning nonemployee income from companies or institutions — to virtual world players engaging in transactions for valuable items like Ultima Online castles, EverQuest weapons or Second Life currency, even when those players don't convert the assets into cash." Read the
Full article at: Cnet News.com:IRS taxation of online game virtual assets inevitable"
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