Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration; 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets

The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes   |  In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism     Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration  The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes  'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets  In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism   Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice  Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick  Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To 'Get a Better Deal' Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2  Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia  Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks  Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Earns One Million Dollars In Less Than a Day  OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers  SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule  Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014  Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler     Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration  From the ok-you-need-not-register-your-zombies department Responding to an editorial endorsing a national vaccine registry in Canada (though the same kind of registry could be and has been proposed in the U.S. with the same logic), an anonymous reader writes "Vaccine Registration makes me think of Mutant...   The Energy Saved By Ditching DVDs Could Power 200,000 Homes  From the only-109-more-isolated-numbers-until-the-singularity department Daniel_Stuckey (2647775) writes "The environmental benefits of streaming a movie (or downloading it) rather than purchasing a DVD are staggering, according to a new U.S. government study by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....   'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets  From the ok-use-the-wormhole-to-get-the-printer department Jason Koebler (3528235) writes "Adam Steltzner, the lead engineer on the NASA JPL's Curiosity rover mission, believes that to send humans to distant planets, we may need to do one of two things: look for ways to game space-time—traveling...   In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism   From the smart-enough-for-exile department mspohr (589790) points out NBC News's interview with Edward Snowden, the first time Snowden has talked with an American television reporter. It's a wide-ranging conversation, in which Snowden emphasizes his ongoing belief that he did the right...   Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice  From the no-wake-zone department sciencehabit (1205606) writes "It's a nagging thorn in the side of climatologists: Even though the world is warming, the average area of the sea ice around Antarctica is increasing. Climate models haven't explained this seeming contradiction to...   Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick  From the says-the-gartner-analyst department Lucas123 (935744) writes "Currently, the hottest trend from TV manufacturers is to offer curved panels, but analysts say it's nothing more than a ploy to pander to consumers who want the latest, coolest-looking tech in their home. In the end, the...   Amazon Confirms Hachette Spat Is To 'Get a Better Deal'  From the no-book-for-you department tlhIngan (30335) writes "Last week we heard that Amazon was withdrawing Hachette books from its virtual shelves including allowing preorders of the new JK Rowling book. Amazon has responded to these allegations, and confirms that yes, they are...   Next IE Version Will Feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2  From the loyal-opposition department An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft [Wednesday] announced it is developing at least four new features for the next release of Internet Explorer (IE): Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2. The company says this is...   Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia  From the yeah-right-grandma department concertina226 (2447056) writes "Scientists from the University of Eastern Finland have found that people who have high levels of cynical distrust are three times as likely to suffer from dementia in later life, than those who have more faith in...   Report: Verizon Claimed Public Utility Status To Get Government Perks  From the best-of-both-worlds department An anonymous reader writes "Research for the Public Utility Law Project (PULP) has been released which details 'how Verizon deliberately moves back and forth between regulatory regimes, classifying its infrastructure either like a heavily...   Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Earns One Million Dollars In Less Than a Day  From the bucks-for-books department An anonymous reader writes "LeVar Burton and the rest of the Reading Rainbow crew opened a Kickstarter campaign to bring back Reading Rainbow yesterday, with the ambitious goal of collecting a million dollars for their cause. They are now at...   OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers  From the can-we-send-them-snacks? department Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "Scarcely a month after announcing the formation of a group designed to help fund open source projects, the Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two...   SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule  From the calling-shotgun department camperdave (969942) writes "SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil the Dragon V2 at a media event from Hawthorne, California, tonight at 7 pm. Pacific. The 'Dragon V2' is an upgraded, man rated version of the unmanned spaceship that has made...   Valve's Steam Machines Delayed, Won't Be Coming In 2014  From the some-day-soon department sfcrazy (1542989) writes "Valve has announced that its Steam Machines won't be available in the market anytime in 2014. The company delayed the release due to ongoing work on the Steam Controller. Valve's Eric Hope explains on Steam Forums why the...   Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler  From the well-if-it-works-for-apache-linux department First time accepted submitter wheelbarrio (1784594) writes with this news from the Economist: "Inspired by the natural resistance offered to pathogens by genetically diverse host populations, Dr Michael Franz at UCI suggests that common software...       Follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+

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