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Comment It's a disease (Score 1) 578

by semiazas on Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:26PM (#37786822) Attached to: TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway

Only a matter of time before mandatory radiation exposure and/or hand rape. What's the next step? Body cavity searches? TSA needs to change or go away. It's absolutely unconscionable that TSA can impose ANY method of search, regardless of how obtrusive, in the name of security. Adding insult to injury, anyone who complains is immediately flagged as a terrorist sympathizer, dragged off and given the third degree with a bonus of no refund on missed flights.

Submission + - Man captures entire univers in on image (skysurvey.org)

Submitted by katarn on Monday May 09, 2011 @10:48AM

katarn writes: Nick Risinger traveled the world, using a robotic camera mount and six air cooled cameras each fitted with their own lenses and filters, to capture the entire universe in one image; the largest full true-color sky survey. The project took a year of time and logged 60,000 miles. The final image is made up of 37,000 individual photos, has a resolution of 5000 megapixels, and took months to piece together. Risinger states: "Travel was necessary as capturing the full sphere of the night sky brought with it certain limitations. What might be seen in the northern hemisphere isn't always visible from the south and, likewise with the seasons, what may be overhead in the summer is below the horizon in the winter. Complicated by weather and moon cycles, this made for some narrow windows of opportunity which we chased through the remote areas of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon."

Stanford Team Developing Super 3D Camera 105

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @11:15PM from the worth-a-thousand-words-cubed dept.

Tookis writes "Most of us are happy to take 2D happy snaps with single lens digital cameras. Imagine if you had a digital camera that could more accurately perceive the distance of all objects in its field of vision than your own eyes and brain. That's exactly what a team of researchers from Stanford University are working on — and it could even be affordable for ordinary consumers."

Silent Microchip 'Fan' Has No Moving Parts 136

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @08:20PM from the cool-off dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Researchers in the US have developed a microchip fan with no moving parts that operates silently and generates enough wind to cool a laptop computer. The solid-state fan, developed with support from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), is touted as the most powerful and energy efficient fan of its size. The device produces three times the flow rate of a typical small mechanical fan and is one-fourth the size. The technology has the power to cool a 25W chip with a device smaller than one cubic-cm and can someday be integrated into silicon to make self-cooling chips, according to the researchers."

Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor 380

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @07:17PM from the not-that-cold-anymore dept.

StarEmperor writes "A team of Canadian and German scientists have fabricated a room-temperature superconductor, using a highly compressed silicon-hydrogen compound. According to the article,"The researchers claim that the new material could sidestep the cooling requirement, thereby enabling superconducting wires that work at room temperature.""

Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places 501

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @05:43PM from the just-a-bit-more-testing dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "A day after it was released for public download, Windows Vista SP1 is drawing barbs from some computer users who say the software wrecked their systems. 'I downloaded it via Windows Update, and got a bluescreen on the third part of the update,' wrote 'Iggy33' in a comment posted Wednesday on Microsoft's Vista team blog. Iggy33 was just one of dozens of posters complaining about Vista Service Pack 1's effect on their PCs. Other troubles reported by Vista SP1 users ranged from a simple inability to download the software from Microsoft's Windows Update site to sudden spikes in memory usage. To top it all off, the service pack will not install on computers that use peripheral device drivers that Microsoft has deemed incompatible."

Apple Mulls Flat-Rate "Unlimited Music" Option 355

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @04:21PM from the sounds-delicious dept.

Mike writes "Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about an 'all you can eat' model for buying music that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices. Finally, it looks like the industry (or at least Apple) is 'getting it'. The real question is not whether the big music companies will go for it, but rather, who will be the first one to get smart and agree to offer it?"

Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year 213

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @03:46PM from the bit-of-dirty-pool dept.

MozeeToby writes "The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on a criminal investigation currently being performed in Franklin County Ohio. It seems several voting machines listed a candidate as withdrawn from the race when in fact he wasn't. By the time the investigations tracked down which machines had been affected, the candidate's name was back on the ballot. Normally, we could dismiss this as confusion or a mistake on the part of the voter(s) who noticed it. In this case, the person who first noticed the discrepancy was Ohio Secretary of state Jennifer Brunner. Further compounding matters, the Franklin County Board of Elections had disabled virtually all logging on the machines to speed setup of the ballot. Naturally, the county board remains skeptical of these accusations."

JP Morgan's Insider Trading How-To On Wikileaks 246

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @10:38PM from the ten-bee-five-dash-one dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In an internal JP Morgan document published recently, Wikileaks exposes JPM's efforts to circumvent insider trading regulations, enabling their wealthy clients to profit even when others are losing. The document reads like a how-to and explains how to take advantage of SEC Rule 10b5-1, which has long been considered ripe for abuse. Now this abuse is publicly documented and will be hard to ignore."

Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive 161

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @05:44PM from the board-games dept.

mutube writes "Open Source advocate Bruce Perens began petitioning for support in election to the OSI Executive Board. Because it's a self-electing board, demonstrable community support is needed to attain a seat. Perens is standing on a platform of reducing over-representation of vendors in OSI leadership in favor of developers. In his petition notice, Perens suggests that recent Open Source involvement by Microsoft could lead to their being offered a place on the board. With his background fighting SCO and the Novell-Microsoft patent agreements, Perens would be a good counter-balance."

Sequoia Threatens Over Voting Machine Evaluation 221

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @03:31PM from the don't-look-in-there dept.

enodo writes "Voting machine manufacturer Sequoia has sent well-known Princeton professor Ed Felten and his colleague Andrew Appel a letter threatening to sue if New Jersey sends them a machine to evaluate. It's not clear from the letter Sequoia sent whether they intend to sue the professors or the state — presumably that ambiguity was deliberate on Sequoia's part. Put another clipping in your scrapbook of cases of companies invoking 'intellectual property rights' for bogus reasons." Sequoia seems to be claiming that no one can make a "report" regarding their "software" without their permission.

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