bhodge writes “Aside from the obvious ‘it stops working’ answer, how does flash media — such as USB, SD, and CF — fail? Unlike with traditional hard drive, where anyone who’s worked with computers for a while knows what a drive failure looks like, I don’t know anyone who has experienced such a failure with [...]
Beyond the buzz about TV Everywhere or any of the options being tossed around for making programming available across platforms, lies a simple economic reality: in order to make any of it work, advertisers will have to pay for a viewer’s attention regardless of the platform. That would mean a dramatic shift from a world [...]
megamerican alerted us to a leaked document (PDF) from a Virginia Fusion Center titled “2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment.” The document is marked as “Law Enforcement Sensitive,” not to be shown to public. Citizens for Legitimate Government has a write-up. Slashdot gets a mention on page 45 — not as a terrorist organization itself, but [...]
Hugh Pickens writes “Launched on October 25, 2006, NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are about to enter the L4 and L5 Lagrangian points, special points in our orbit around which spacecraft and other objects can loiter because the gravitational pull of earth and the sun balances the forces from the object’s orbital [...]
Logrusweaver writes “It looks like Red Dwarf is finally returning! Red Dwarf: Back to Earth is airing in 3 parts in the UK starting this Friday. It seems to be a 3-parter followed by a ‘Making Of’ special. Not trying to give away any more of the plot than the title does, but it does [...]
Earlier this week Forrester released a report titled “Open Source Software Goes Mainstream.” While the title may not be breaking news to readers of Open Sources, the data backing up the report is well worth the read. The report is based on responses from over 1,100 software development decision makers in North American and European [...]
A while back, Google made headlines with some cost-cutting efforts — first eliminating 100 recruiter jobs earlier this year and then cutting contractors and employee perks. While some might think these are signs of desperation, it’s actually just the opposite. Google brought in an exper
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destinyland writes “A Japanese company is preparing limited mass production of a cybernetic bodysuit which dramatically increases user strength up to ten times. The “Hybrid Assistive Limb” suit synchronizes movements of a mechanical exoskeleton to biological nerve signals detected by biopads on the body. (Originally envisioned for people with disabilities, the suit also has industrial [...]
The final tally is in—CBSSports.com’s internal numbers show that 7.52 million unique visitors used the NCAA March Madness on Demand video player during the 2009 men’s basketball tournament, up 58 percent over the 4.76 million counted last year. Last year’s total was eclipsed at the end of the first four days, when CBSports.com claims it [...]
Police in Norfolk, England already have tracking units, The Automatic Vehicle Location System, installed in their cars that allow a control room to track their exact locations. Later this year a similar system will be attached to individual police radios to allow controllers to monitor the position of every frontline officer. Combined with equipment that [...]
