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Comment Re:Warfare? (Score 1) 111

by Petskull (#34061578) Attached to: Separating Cyber-Warfare Fact From Fantasy
While I agree with most of your post, keep in mind Richard A. Clarke was the National Coordinator for Security and the chief counter-terrorism adviser on the National Security Council for something like 30 years. He may know a little bit about what he's talking about.

By the way, he wrote a really good book called Against All Enemies, a good look at his perspective during the rise of al Qaeda. A thoroughly interesting read.

Comment Re:wonder how they were fueled (Score 1) 157

by Petskull (#34061520) Attached to: Vans Drive Themselves Across the World
"Accidents were few but far from nonexistent, though I suspect the greater stress was from the fact that these vans had to charge 8 hours for every 3 hours of driving."
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/10/28/driverless-vehicles-complete-trek-from-italy-to-china/

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/27/driverless.car/index.html
"We weren't worried about not making it," though, Broggi said. "This big trip was an intermediary step in a longer process. We have something new planned for 2012."

Uh oh..
HP

Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings 101

Posted by timothy from the community-standards dept.
1sockchuck writes "Cloud computing is causing servers to get naked. HP today announced a 'skinless' server optimized for customers packing thousands of servers into cloud or HPC environments. This follow the lead of SGI/Rackable, which ditched the cover when it introduced bare bones servers for its CloudRack (previously discussed here). HP says the skinless design makes servers far lighter, which is apparently an issue when shipping them by the rackload."

Comment He's quoting Feynman- (Score 2, Interesting) 201

by Petskull (#25531773) Attached to: Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
He's quoting Feynman:

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers." -- Richard Feynman

Also: Economical Number
A number n is called an economical number if the number of digits in the prime factorization of n (including powers) uses fewer digits than the number of digits in n. The first few economical numbers are 125, 128, 243, 256, 343, 512, 625, 729, ... (Sloane's A046759). Pinch shows that, under a plausible hypothesis related to the twin prime conjecture, there are arbitrarily long sequences of consecutive economical numbers, and exhibits such a sequence of length nine starting at 1034429177995381247.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EconomicalNumber.html
Displays

HoloVizio 3D, Holodeck 1.0 to Some, Makes Its Debut 127

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the getting-there dept.
TaeKwonDood writes to tell us that another step towards Star Trek's Holodeck technology has been taken with the advent of HoloVizio 3D. Allowing users to see and manipulate objects in 3D without the assistance of goggles, this distributed system shows a lot of promise. "The HoloVizio is a 3-D screen that will allow designers to visualize true 3-D models of cars, engines or components. Better yet, gesture recognition means that observers can manipulate the models by waving their hands in front of the screen. The function offers enormous scope for collaboration across the globe."
The Media

Gamespot's Editorial Problems in Perspective 79

Posted by Zonk from the good-guys-finish-last dept.
Sam Kennedy is a guy you can respect. As the Editor of the 1up site, he's overseen some great features and some unbelievable breaking news; he also has a great point of view on the games industry. So his massive blog entry posted today talking about Gamespot's sad state of affairs post-Gerstmann-gate is something you should take seriously. Sam runs down the sordid affair itself, the changes to C|Net and Gamespot management that led to unreal expectations at Eidos, and what this could mean for the future of game reviews. "Shortly after Gerstmann was fired, I got a call from a friend at one of the major nationwide news networks asking me what I knew about what happened, as he was considering trying to pitch a story to his editor. You want to know what it was? 'Game Reviews: can they be trusted?' Basically, 'You're a parent and you're going to buy a videogame for your kids this holiday season, but can you trust those reviews you're reading on the web?' That's why this story matters so much. Gerstmann-gate ... made him want to give the industry a nice kick in the pants. I applaud his motives, but again, it's a shame to have this sort of doubt hanging over us all."
Software

Submission + - Is open source recession proof? (zdnet.com)

Submitted by DaMan
DaMan writes: An interesting question posed over on ZDNet — Is open source recession proof?

"So, how might a recession affect open source software? Well, first off, I think that any business model that relies on volunteers could certainly see interest decline if times get tough. There are a lot of businesses that rely on people working for them for free because they get a pay check somewhere else, and I think that a recession would make people question working getting any dollars in return."
Space

Submission + - Hubble finds double Einstein ring (presscue.com)

Submitted by Einstein Duble
Einstein Duble writes: A very rare phenomenon found with the Hubble Space Telescope may offer insights into dark matter, dark energy, the nature of distant galaxies, and even the curvature of the Universe, according to an international team of astronomers who are reporting at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas. The team led by Raphael Gavazzi and Tommaso Treu of the University of California, Santa Barbara, found the double Einstein ring as part of the ongoing Sloan Lens Advanced Camera for Surveys (SLACS) program.

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