Parallax Blue - Slashdot User

Comment Hackers will just circumvent detection as usual (Score 1) 302

by Parallax Blue on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @10:16PM (#35217212) Attached to: Microsoft's New Plan For Keeping the Internet Safe

Maybe I'm missing something here, but wouldn't hackers just allow for these scans in the trojans they write? Pretty sure it would be easy enough for them to conceal their creations from the system scan required to pass the so-called health certificate. And then you're back to square one. So if I understand what he's suggesting properly, the whole issue of privacy is moot. The method used to check simply won't work in the first place.

Comment [low resolution] (Score 1) 712

by Parallax Blue on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @02:12PM (#34244976) Attached to: US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans

And that makes a difference how? It's still a blatant invasion of personal privacy, low res or not.

Comment In support of Hawking: UFOs spotted over AZ, FL (Score 1) 579

by Parallax Blue on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @11:51AM (#23159272) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Thinks Aliens Likely

Unexplained UFOs spotted over Phoenix, AZ and St. Augustine, FL! What better way to illustrate the truth of Hawking's statements.

I, for one, welcome our new, yet still anonymous alien overlords.. (oblig)

Submission + - Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health

Submitted by

Parallax Blue

on Saturday May 26, 2007 @11:48PM

Parallax Blue writes: "The Independent is reporting new findings that indicate a common additive called sodium benzoate, found in soft drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max (among others,) has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA in a cell's mitochondria. From the article: 'The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it — as happens in a number of diseased states — then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA — Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of ageing.' European Union MPs are now calling for an urgent investigation in the wake of these alarming new findings."

NASA's Instrument For Detecting Life On Mars 88

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 11, 2007 @10:03PM from the knock-knock dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "With the financial help of NASA, American and European researchers have developed a new sensor to check for life on Mars. It should also be able to determine if traces of life's molecular building blocks have been produced by anything that was once alive. The device has been tested in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It should be part of the science payload for the ExoMars rover planned for launch in 2013."

Journal Journal: Why are 1, 2, 3, etc written in the way we write them?

Journal by ksamanta on Sunday March 11, 2007 @09:38PM

Blogger Sam talks about the origin about the origin of symbols for Roman and Arabic numerals: example why one is written as 1, and so on....

Submission + - PC Gaming's Future Evolution

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Thursday March 08, 2007 @11:29PM

Dr. Eggman writes: 1up.com is reporting on the GDC panel "PC Gaming in an Age of Connected Consoles", and their views on the PC. Unlike the usual doom and gloom about the "death" of PC games, this panel's has suggested that the death is of PC games as we know it; in that PC games will evolve. They believe PC gaming's future lies in it's strenghs like persistent-world environments, not just as MMOs but anything that has elements of a persistent nature such as Battlefield 2142. They go on to describe the PC's greatest edge over consoles: user created content and the supportive game communities built around it. The article also cited the panel's views on the weaknesses inherent in consoles' closed networks and content control.

Anti-Matter's Potential in Treating Cancer 216

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 08, 2007 @10:37PM from the healthy-physics dept.

eldavojohn writes "The BBC is taking a look at how atomic physicists are developing cancer treatments. A step past radiotherapy, the CERN institute is publishing interesting results: 'Cancer cells were successfully targeted with anti-matter subatomic particles, causing intense biological damage leading to cell death.' The press release from last year is finally sparking interest in the medical community."

The Beer Tossing Fridge 223

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 08, 2007 @06:56PM from the second-only-to-the-wheel dept.

cmacdona101 writes "CNN is reporting on a recent Duke grad that's engineered a remote controlled Fridge that tosses him a beer at the touch of a button. The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to his couch. The video shows the fridge using a "beer magazine clip" and a remote firing system that let you determine angles and ballistics to get the beer to your friends anywhere in the room."

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