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  1. Buzzword generator on Chinese Firm Launches Cloud-Based Mobile OS · · Score: 1

    I have also been working on a buzzworkd generator. I included words: Cloud-based, linux kernel, android, Mobile, platform, global marked. the OPs also included the words: virtual machine, apps, chinese, smartphone. What a powerful buzzword generator!

    I am also impressed by the bold juxtaposition of buzzwords in one sentence: Android compatible Cloud-based linux kernel.

    I hope nobody here on /. will destroy this beauty with any attempts at understanding what it is, or what it possibly can mean.

  2. Massively defective infrastructure on World's Largest Visualization Analytics Display · · Score: 1

    Californias power infrastructure is massively defective, and outages are similar to third world countries. You can not "test" in quality. Money would be better spent building solid reliable infrastructure replacing the existing. Electric power fails more than once a year, and gas lines explode in residential areas. It should be the norm to *never* have electric outages.

  3. Dolphons speak 3D sonar. on Translator Puts Us Closer To Dolphin Communication · · Score: 4, Interesting

    dolphins use sonar to geolocate and find food. The sonar pattern used also depends on whether they are navigating, searching for prey or attacking. When a dolphin "tells" where to go to find fish, it will play back a stylised summary of the sonar imagery from navigating past the steep cliff, to "seeing" the school of 1kg macrel, to the successful attack.

    This 3D communication is efficient and fast, and connects directly to the visual part of the brain. Powerful and emotional imagery can be communicated well.

    Humans 1D voice communication compared is inefficient, indirect and lack precision and descriptive elements.

    "Riding a bow wave" is a 1D sequence of sound that has very little info or precision compared to the sonar echo of actually riding the wave.

    Humans should probably try to speak sonar, rather than try to dumb down a dolphin to speak human

  4. isn't this just a mulitgate finFet on Intel Designs Faster, 3D Transistor · · Score: 1

    isn't this just a mulitgate finFet. That structure has been around for a long time.

  5. In Facebook, the BIG logoff, makes you invisible on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 2

    This will not protect your privacy against government intelligence, but at least against most else. Do the BIG logoff from facebook by disabling you account instead of just logging off. Data is kept, and you can enable the account just by logging back in. A few seconds extra to log out, and your information is not shared.

  6. Really no need for complex speaker design for DIY on Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T. · · Score: 1

    Having built my own speaker system, I came to realize that the problem with speaker design is to get good sound into a small and shippable product. If you can use your entire house, and many elements, it is trivial to get good sound. For example, many elements covering a wall, each with little effect, is a great subwoofer. After that measure current vs. voltage over the elements to determine element dynamics (Similar to algorithm that controls brushless motors), and feed that back as a correction to the amplifier. Result: perfect reproduction from signal to sound. Adding some sound dampening furniture, carpets, and pictures (print some move posters on canvas with insulation behind) and you are in sound heaven.

  7. Seems like you have been duped on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "...expanding faster than their IT department can supply new hardware" is corporate terms for "..because we are almost broke"

    My recommendation, just stay away.

  8. 200 h.p engine drives a pump against 7000 psi on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    There are still imperial leftovers in Europe. Lumber is called 2x4 and 2x6 even though 48mmx97mm and 48mmx146mm is stamped on the wood. Also, plumbing fasteners are called 1/2" or 3/4" with M12 stamped on, and they fit US threads. Houses are built with 600mm stud spacing (2') and most building materials are divisible by 300mm or ~1', like plywood (1200x2400mm)

    Anyway, Some mechanics were trying to figure this out a 200 h.p engine drives a hydraulic pump against 7000psi, and to get the flow in gallons/minute.
    This is easy with metric values 150kW against 50MPa. What is the flow? Answer:150kW/50MPa=3 liters per second.
    I got some anti-metric guys convinced.

    Somebody up for the imperial calculation to check my math?

  9. What is a record store, dad? on Today Is Record Store Day 2011 · · Score: 1

    What is a record store, dad?

  10. Bandwidth is basically an unlimited resource on 1Gbps Fiber Optic Network For Rural Britain · · Score: 1

    ISPs need to differentiate their products so they can get more money from those willing to pay. (like a separate line boarding a plane for business). Unlike water and gold, bandwidth is basically an unlimited resource up to a few GBs-1.
    A 10GB fiber is cheap, and a fast router is cheap, but your access is throttled down so they can pretend it is a limited resource, and charge you.

    Actually, an optical backbone cable has 768 fiber carrying maybe 128 colors of light at 10GBs-1 each color, so 1 cable would give every house in the entire San Jose Bay Area 1 GBs-1. A single carrier router could terminate this cable, and local 10GBs-1 routers are cheap.
    Voila, 1GBs-1 for everyone!

  11. He has no info on the Fukushima, just guesses on Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would someone with no insight into the current status at Fukushima throw wild guesses around. This sounds more like an religious agenda then science.

    He teaches chemistry at UC Santa Barbara.

  12. Maybe most music has been shared already on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    With 300GB torrents named ALL MUSIC EVER, I think everyone already has acquired everything they ever wanted, and only need to add the sporadic new tune.

  13. Aurdino is for "Artists" and "newcomers" on Book Review: Arduino: a Quick-Start Guide · · Score: 1

    The free tools that come with TI launchpad and most other tools are superior to Arduino in every way. If you can write basic C code it is is a no-brainer. From wikipedias entry on Aurdino "It is designed to introduce programming to artists and other newcomers unfamiliar with software development". If you are not an "artist" or a "newcomer" to programming, just drop this.

    Even for a beginner, I would not steer them down the Aurdino path. It is kind of a short dead end. Better try out the TI launchpad with their ID. It will set you back $3.40, and give you a large library, and get you going with C or C++.

  14. This is probably a horseshoe orbit pair on Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit · · Score: 2

    Two planets orbiting the same star is arguably only possible with horseshoe orbits. If two objects are of similar size so on cannot say one orbits the other, it is described a a double body rather than primary and satellite.

    A Lagrangian moon will likely develop into a horseshoe orbit over time.

  15. Other news:Students use MATH to count balloons on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks · · Score: 1

    In other news:
    Kids use math to count balloons in classroom. They counted 12 balloons on the teachers desk, and 7 in the ceiling. The counting was done by enumerating each balloon mathematically 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=12, and 1+1+1+1+1+1+1=7.
    Now the mathematical art of ADDITION was used to find the total balloons in the classroom. 12+7=19
    Impressive students.

  16. Loose potrait mode for good, and go with landscape on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: -1

    the A4 is oriented in portrait mode only to fit the roll of a manual typewriter. Landscape is more natural for our eyes. That why there are no movies in narrowscreen.

    Just loose the potrait mode, and go with all widescreen, like powerpoint etc.

  17. .Have the cake and eat it too. on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    Should car insurance work the way this idiot wants, you drive with no insurance, and if you have an accident, you just pay $75, and the insurance company pay you for a new car.

  18. and who said that 10Mpix is more than enough? on Masterpieces Online — High Culture At High Resolution · · Score: 1

    and who said that 10Mpix is more than enough?

  19. total energy in the beam equals 173 kilograms TNT on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The total energy in the beam is 724 MJ (173 kilograms of TNT) (energy stored in magnets are 10x this) That is a bomb big enough to take out a school.

    It would be hard to get your hand into vacuum, but imagine a space suit arm attached to a sandblast cabinet.

    The beams energy would hit your hand in a spot d1mm. It would most certainly deposit all its energy there until that part of your hand became a vacuum. Probably similar to a laser knife. In addition, your flesh that obstructed the beam would give off a lot of radiation as it burned away. Imagine Hiroshima 1km away x10^8 on that part of your body.

    Every proton would not hit something in your hand on first encounter, but if it missed, it would just loop around, and hit on a later time. The result would be the same. In a short time, your hand and your space glove would have a hole through it. More likely a straight cut from where you put it in. Anything nearby would be exposed to a good dose of radiation as these collisions would be quite "dirty".

  20. Submit DMCA reports on management of suddenlink on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Submit DMCA reports on the board and management of suddenlink. They all most likely have full speed connections. Maybe you think they are misusing your IP.

    The policy allows no review of the DMCA, so it would be interesting to see how that develops.

    Company name:
    Cequel Communications Holdings I, LLC
    and from their web page:
    Mr. Jerald L. Kent Chairman
    Mary Meduski EVP - Chief Financial Officer Age: 51 314-315-9603
    Mr. Thomas P. McMillin Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Age: 48
    Ralph Kelly SVP - Treasurer 314-315-9403
    Mr. James Fox Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President Age: 40
    Mike Pflantz VP - Corporate Finance 314-315-9341
    Mr. Terry M. Cordova Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President Age: 49

  21. IBM's Almaden Research Center now sells lumber on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 2

    TFA referes to "capability recently demonstrated for iron atoms by IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif"

    I remember that place. It used to be one of the biggest research parks in the are. Then an few years ago it became Hitachi, say "Inspire the Next", research after Hitachi bought that division of IBM many years ago. I think they shut it down a few years ago, because it all became tall weeds, and now a brand new Lowe's store emerged in its place.

    BTW, someone should collect slogans of Japanese companies: "Inspire the Next", WTF does that mean?

  22. Overclocked, Intel and AMD have similar price on AMD One-Ups Intel With Cheap Desktop Chips · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have built systems for quite a few years, and it seems like you can overclock the hell out of intel chips using just good air coolers while AMD pretty much are running at peak speed. Both regarding heat and not crashing.

    Built a dual core core 2 Duo 1.83GHz. It is running stable at 3.5GHz.
    Intels 32nm i5-650 3.2GHz easily overclocks to 4.7GHz (not sure if stable yet)

    If you compare Intel with AMD after you take this headroom into account, intel is on par with if not more cost effective than AMD.

  23. ...and good for consumers who will benefit on New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    I thought "free" was pretty good until I listened to these fine senators and their helpful business friends. Now I understand that there is a slippery slope from skipping through that commercial to piracy, and to terrorism.

  24. NIST has not defined "cloud in a box" on Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box · · Score: 3, Informative

    NIST has not defined "cloud in a box" as a deployment model. The document you copy from It is more of a journalistic storytelling than a standard. NIST defines units of measure and probably verify encryption methods that is part of the internet, but they are no authority on "cloud computing" anymore than WSJ. IEEE has an annual conference on cloud computing, and NIST has not shown up in discussions not as a presenter on any other level than secure transport verification.

  25. "private cloud" box is kind of an oxymoron on Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a "private cloud" in a box is kind of an oxymoron. Not that I am a particular fan of marketspeak like "cloud computing". But the idea at least is that you can access computer resources without really knowing where they are, and scale your needs many orders of magnitude without worrying about floor space, air conditioners and lightbulbs.