User: inkhorn

Cobol just needs updating, like ruby on rails....

On: COBOL Will Outlive Us All

http://www.coboloncogs.org/

decrypt the calls?

On: Prison Cell Phone Smuggling Out of Control

Now that GSM encryption is publicly breakable, could the calls from IMEI's not registered as belonging to the prison staff be automatically decrypted and recorded?
If they can't entirely prevent the problem of smuggling, at least this would help shed light on what was being discussed, and to whom. Perhaps useful at any parole board hearings?

Looks realistic inside

On: Russian Simulated Mars Mission Close To 'Landing'

if long distance space travel means incarceration in a wooden submarine.

Sounds like a page out of Snowcrash

On: Pacific Trash Vortex To Become Habitable Island?

Just like the floating junk armada in Neal Stephensons Snowcrash novel isn't it?
Absolute best fiction book I've ever read.

Airbags

On: iPad Steering Wheel Mount

So what happens to your iPad if the airbag in the steering wheel deploys ?

I imagine after it's fired into your face, you'd probably be entitled to a well deserved Darwin Award?

Available to US developers only

On: Google Launches a Data Prediction API

Google require you to have a current Storage-For-Developers account, which is only available for US parties currently.

So there'll be a few new jobs created for ..

On: Innocent Until Predicted Guilty

Precrime officers then, where do I sign up?

List of the 14 companies :

On: SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations

Best Buy
Samsung Electronics America
Westinghouse Digital Electronics
JVC Americas Corporation
Western Digital Technologies
Robert Bosch
Phoebe Micro
Humax USA
Comtrend Corporation
Dobbs-Stanford Corporation
Versa Technology
Zyxel Communications
Astak
GCI Technologies Corporation

Re:Have a great trip!

On: Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?

I second the Science Museum recommendation - an amazing place to visit and it's free! The Planetarium is also worth a few hours.

Err, you haven't been in a while have you. It closed in 2006.
You'll be after the Peter Harrison Planetarium in Greenwich if it's astronomy you're into.

If you can't remember how to spell,...

On: Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell?

and if you're used to Telex machines, perhaps you're actually just suffering from dementia ?

MAJC missing?

On: A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops

And what sort of thorough article would this be in missing out Sun Microsystems' MAJC chip from the 1990s ?

Promised to accelerate JAVA instructions, the chip was a multithreading multicore design (can you say Niagara?) but Sun couldn't get it to market fast enough and advances in general purpose CPUs left it for dead.

Sadly MAJC only made it into two models of Suns own-brand graphics cards before it was dropped, though it's design principles live on in Niagara and Rock.

Re:Research on Growing Teeth

On: Growing Teeth with Stem Cell Technology

If there are only two dentists, and we assume neither travel out of town to get there teeth seen to, and that neither are able to work on their own teeth.

I would have to go for the one with bad teeth, as he's obviously done some good work on the other guy.

The reverse also stands true, unless the guy with bad teeth has a phobia of dentists, as he would surely have had bad treatment from the bad dentist with the good teeth.

Or did I miss something ?

Re:not new.

On: New Gamepad Designed To Build Muscles?

True, but if you read the description of the kiloWatt on their website, you'll notice :

" kiloWatt is an intensely immersive game controller that transforms video game play into muscle burning sport."

I think I'll stick with DDR until they sort that problem out....