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  1. I shall call himmmm. on NASA's ARM Will Take a Boulder From an Asteroid and Put It In Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    Mini-moon. *pinky*

  2. Re:Made by humans for humans. on Put Your Code in the SWAMP: DHS Sponsors Online Open Source Code Testing · · Score: 1

    <tt>The SWAMP is currently just one site, but their eventual goal is that you can install and run it on your own internally, or however you see fit.</tt>

  3. Made by humans for humans. on Put Your Code in the SWAMP: DHS Sponsors Online Open Source Code Testing · · Score: 2

    <tt>I worked on this project. You should glance at who is involved before donning the tinfoil hats. https://continuousassurance.org/about-us/the-team/<br><br>It's an education grant with several phd's who study various CS security subjects (fuzzing, dynamic, static analysis). Built by a bunch of nice nerds employed by the Morgridge Institute http://discovery.wisc.edu/home/morgridge/morgridge.cmsx which is part of University of Wisconsin Madison.<br><br>QA/Testing is the black sheep of the coding universe, and trying to get those tools running can be a pain sometimes. Anything that makes it easier (Swamp, Travis, etc) makes our universe a better place.</tt>

  4. Re:Just another way to get genital cancer on Nano-Scale Terahertz Antenna May Make Tricorders Real · · Score: 1

    "I love the idea of a tricorder, but please, invent something that is PASSIVE."

    ---

    #include <stdio>
    #include "acpi/dilithium.h"
    #include "sf/medical/diseases.h"
    #include "sf/shared/science/scanner.h"

    int main(void) {
      scan_for("Cancer");
      printf("You have cancer!");
    }

  5. Re:Eyewriter? on Teenager Builds $300 Open Source Eye-Tracking System · · Score: 2

    The Eye Writer guys were at the Open Hardware Summit, their work allowed the graffiti artist Tempt to continue to create after he lost use of his arms and legs to Lou Gehrig’s disease.

    Their methods used webcams for eye tracking, while the articles method uses electrical signals from eye muscles http://www.ees.intelsath.com/EES-EOG.pdf

    The more the merrier!

  6. Will you shut up and listen to me! on Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems · · Score: 1

    Shut down all the garbage smashers on the detention level!

  7. Or.. on Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee · · Score: 1

    All the record labels could sell music on-line for a reasonable price?

    For all of the technologies they have shut down, they certainly could have assimilated a few.

    Still to this day, nothing beat places like mp3downloads.ru (I think that was its name, circa 2001). Pick your songs, download at whatever quality/format you wanted, priced accordingly.

    People will legitimately buy something if given a fair and reasonable option.

  8. Re:Do we need this? on Debian Is the Most Important Linux · · Score: 1

    Most of my disks are 3.5" :-)

    Mine is 8" when floppy =)

  9. Re:Not relevant because of grooveshark on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    Grooveshark and Last.fm have a large area of non overlap.

    * Last.fm provides a great social aspect to your favorite music, as well as to the band/song bio pages.
    * Last.fm's tag/artist/genre stations are great for honing in on what you want to listen to.
    * Last.fm has great coverage of indie artists (Especially 8-bit chiptunes)
    * Last.fm lets artist songs to be aired in full during streaming, but only sampled for 30 second previews (if they want to sell them for instance)

    Grooveshark and Pandora are great for things more mainstream. Soundcloud and Last.fm are hands down the best, for the rest.

  10. Maps and Routing on 'Death By GPS' Increasing In America's Wilderness · · Score: 1

    It's been stated already, GPS is just where you are. Its road metadata and routing that gets you. I'd like to point out the wiki style road map system Open Street Maps http://www.openstreetmap.org/ Easy to upload your own tracks and create roads out of them. The OSM wiki has lots of information on apps that utilize the data, I even used it on an old Nokia Series60 phone. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin is how to use the data over the default maps on Garmin.

  11. Valve's "Steam" game download service does this. on Sony Wants To Put Your Game Saves In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Valve does this with their Steam client for games like Half-life that support play on Mac and PC. It's quite useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)#Steam_Cloud Ignoring the 'Cloud' buzzword, this and Firefox-Sync are very useful, especially for dual booting win/linux or mac/win machines.

  12. Re:It not turnkey, it's a lifestyle choice on Makerbot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Review · · Score: 1

    .. In between, my daughter has been printing doll house furniture.

    I think this is one of its (and these online 3d printers that keep popping up) excel at, custom one-off small scale items. I know some grownups who are addicted to their doll house furniture. The would flip if you showed them Google sketchup's furniture shape library and said 'print out whatever you want'!

  13. Re:IBM is both right and wrong on Graphene Won't Replace Silicon In CPUs, Says IBM · · Score: 1

    "Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!"

  14. Re:Not so fast there son on World's First Full HDR Video System Unveiled · · Score: 3, Informative

    Speaking of 3D rendering, most of them output HDR which would be awesome to see without being tone mapped!. (LuxRender has built-in Reinhard tone mapping) And since we are on the topic of HDR.. this is what it is NOT http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinhard/tm_comp/flickr_hdr/The%20Problem.html (Reinhard discusses the blown out tone mapping heavily prominent on flickr)

  15. Re:Next Generation on NASA's Next-Generation Airplane Concepts · · Score: 1

    I love how they used the whole Saucer separation thing like twice in the first season.. and then never again until Generations. (Although there may have been some separated when the hundreds of thousands of Enterprises all came into the same time/space)

  16. Or on NASA's Next-Generation Airplane Concepts · · Score: 1

    We could focus on rail infrastructure and reducing ticketing costs there. You could easily cope with demand and capacity efficiently by adding/removing engines and cars as needed.

  17. Re:Here comes 5G on ITU Softens On the Definition of 4G Mobile · · Score: 1

    This is like the US vs Japanese, Final Fantasy games numbering scheme all over again.

  18. Re:What am I supposed to do now? on Yahoo! To Close Delicious · · Score: 1

    Or you can just go command-line with: curl --user user:pass -o delicious_bookmarks.xml -O 'https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all'

    This only works for accounts not linked up with Yahoo. Those require OAUTH unfortunately.