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Minggu, 31 Agustus 2014
Sandi Akun Google berubah
Hidden Obstacles For Google's Self-Driving Cars; Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating
 BoxWorks14: the content, collaboration and cloud conference from Box. Hear from Box CEO Aaron Levie, authors Jim Collins and Andrew McAfee, Jeffrey Katzenberg and CIOs from Cisco, GE, HP, Safeway, Uber, the Dept of Defense, Cedars-Sinai and more. Register today and save $200 off on-site ticket prices. Learn More! Find out the five key success factors for accomplishing your business objectives with big data, including tips for building a big data infrastructure that operates efficiently and securely, and delivers powerful performance, scalability, and manageability. Learn More! From the not-looking-forward-to-denial-of-driving-attacks department Paul Fernhout writes: Lee Gomes at MIT's Technology Review wrote an article on the current limits of Google self-driving car technology: "Would you buy a self-driving car that couldn't drive itself in 99 percent of the country? Or that knew nearly...  From the but-more-dorito-related-injuries department An anonymous reader writes: Narcotic painkillers aren't one of the biggest killers in the U.S., but overdoses do claim over 15,000 lives per year and send hundreds of thousands to the emergency room. Because of this, it's interesting that a new... From the pvc-and-tape-would-cost-less department MojoKid writes Dell's enthusiast Alienware brand has always stood out for its unique, other-worldly looks (sometimes good, sometimes, not so good) and there's such a thing as taking things to the next level, this might be it. However, there's more... From the there's-an-app-for-picking-apps-that-pick-apps department An anonymous reader writes: The phone app ecosystem has matured nicely over the past several years. There are apps for just about everything I need to do on my phone. But I've noticed that once an app fills a particular need, I don't tend to look... From the red-rover-red-rover-send-updates-right-over department An anonymous reader writes: NASA's Opportunity rover has been rolling around the surface of Mars for over 10 years. It's still performing scientific observations, but the mission team has been dealing with a problem: the rover keeps rebooting.... From the knows-how-to-program-her-VCR department theodp writes: Bloomberg is reporting that Google X's Megan Smith is the top candidate for U.S. Chief Technology Officer. With a BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and experience ranging from General Magic to Google, Smith would arguably be... From the you-can-trust-us department An anonymous reader writes: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department is not required to hand over a week's worth of license plate reader data to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the... From the not-that-kind-of-monkey-trial department Scientific American reports, based on a study published today in Nature, that ZMapp, the drug that has been used to treat seven patients during the current Ebola epidemic in West Africa, can completely protect monkeys against the virus,... From the tagging-wars-ensue department darthcamaro (735685) writes "Forget about HTML5, that's already passe — Google is already moving on to HTML5.1 support for the upcoming Chrome 38 release. Currently only a beta, one of the biggest things that web developers will notice is... From the it-was-the-butler-with-the-candlestick-in-the-library department Taco Cowboy sends this report from Vox: One of the big mysteries in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is where the virus came from in the first place — and whether it's changed in any significant ways. ... In a new paper in Science... From the do-what-thou-will department DeviceGuru (1136715) writes "In a bid to harness the energy and enthusiasm swirling around today's open, hackable single board computers, Imagination Technologies, licensor of the MIPS ISA, has unveiled the Creator C120 development board, the... From the all-about-the-benjamins department An anonymous reader writes: We often decry the state of funding to NASA. Its limited scope has kept us from returning to the moon for over four decades, maintained only a minimal presence in low-Earth orbit, and failed to develop a capable... From the one-two-three-four department An anonymous reader writes: New research shows that wireless routers are still quite vulnerable to attack if they don't use a good implementation of Wi-Fi Protected Setup. Bad implementations do a poor job of randomizing the key used to... From the could-substitute-cherry-bombs-in-the-basement department Nerval's Lobster writes Labor Day is nigh, and with it the official end of summer. It's time to pack away the umbrellas and beach towels, and perhaps spend a few minutes flipping through photos of all the fun times you had over the past couple... From the that's-a-legacy department New submitter brokenin2 writes Hal Finney, the number two programmer for PGP and the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction, has passed away. From the article on Coindesk: "Shortly after collaborating with Nakamoto on early bitcoin code in...  |
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Sabtu, 30 Agustus 2014
Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia; Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague
| Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? | US Government Fights To Not Explain No-Fly List Selection Process BoxWorks14: the content, collaboration and cloud conference from Box. Hear from Box CEO Aaron Levie, authors Jim Collins and Andrew McAfee, Jeffrey Katzenberg and CIOs from Cisco, GE, HP, Safeway, Uber, the Dept of Defense, Cedars-Sinai and more. Register today and save $200 off on-site ticket prices. Learn More! Find out the five key success factors for accomplishing your business objectives with big data, including tips for building a big data infrastructure that operates efficiently and securely, and delivers powerful performance, scalability, and manageability. Learn More! From the busy-doing-real-stuff department Andreas Kolbe writes Wikipedia is well known to have a very large gender imbalance, with survey-based estimates of women contributors ranging from 8.5% to around 16%. This is a more extreme gender imbalance than even that of Reddit, the most... From the don't-touch-that-dial department An anonymous reader writes: It's the year 2014, and I still have a floppy drive installed on my computer. I don't know why; I don't own any floppy disks, and I haven't used one in probably a decade. But every time I put together a PC, it feels... From the theocrat's-cookbook department Foreign Policy has an in-depth look at the contents of a laptop reportedly seized this year in Syria from a stronghold of the organization now known as the Islamic State, and described as belonging to a Tunisian national ("Muhammed S."). The... From the you-can-trust-us department An anonymous reader writes: On August 6, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered the federal government to "explain why the government places U.S. citizens who haven't been convicted of any violent crimes on its no-fly database."... From the put-that-anywhere department schwit1 writes An investigation into the recent failed Soyuz launch of the EU's Galileo satellites has found that the Russian Fregat upper stage fired correctly, but its software was programmed for the wrong orbit. From the article: "The failure... From the onward-and-upward department crookedvulture writes: Intel has updated its high-end desktop platform with a new CPU-and-chipset combo. The Haswell-E processor has up to eight cores, 20MB of cache, and 40 lanes of PCI Express 3.0. It also sports a quad-channel memory... From the second-time-is-usually-a-charm department snydeq writes Microsoft has re-released its botched MS14-045/KB 2982791 'Blue Screen 0x50' patch, only to introduce more problems, InfoWorld's Woody Leonhard reports. "Even by Microsoft standards, this month's botched Black Tuesday Windows 7/8/8.1... From the time-to-sue department angry tapir writes The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a government funded watchdog organization, is taking Valve to court. The court action relates to Valve's Steam distribution service. According to ACCC allegations, Valve misled... From the meth-naps-still-frowned-upon department An anonymous reader writes: Caffeine is a staple of most workplaces — it's rare to find an office without a coffee pot or a fridge full of soda. It's necessary (or at least feels like it's necessary) because many workers have a hard time... From the does-not-play-nice-with-others department Nate the greatest writes: Amazon is in a bitter contract fight with Hachette in the U.S. and Bonnier in Germany, and now it seems the retail giant is also in conflict with publishers in Japan. Amazon has launched a new rating system in Japan which... From the can't-even-trust-the-huge-soulless-corporations-anymore department Rick Zeman writes: The Center for Public Integrity has a comprehensive article showing how Big Telecom (aka, AT&T, Comcast, Charter, Time Warner) use lobbyists, paid-for politicians, and lawsuits (both actual and the threat thereof) in their... From the go-big-or-go-home department Jason Koebler writes: Peter Richie spent eight months planning and building a megacity in vanilla SimCity 4, and the end result is mind-boggling: 107.7 million people living in one massive, sprawling region (video). "Traffic is a nightmare, both... From the launch-invasion-fleet department The Bad Astronomer writes: Astronomers have found a 5.4 Earth-mass planet orbiting the star Gliese 15A, a red dwarf in a binary system just 11.7 light years away (PDF). Other exoplanets candidates have been found that are closer, but they are as... From the pin-the-key-on-the-fox department Trailrunner7 writes: Mozilla is planning to add support for public-key pinning in its Firefox browser in an upcoming version. In version 32, which would be the next stable version of the browser, Firefox will have key pins for a long list of... From the ok-I-want-one department Zothecula writes No one with red blood in their veins buys a sports car and hands the keys to a chauffeur, so one of the barriers to truly personal submarining has long been the need for a trained pilot, not to mention the massive logistics... |
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Jumat, 29 Agustus 2014
'Tropes vs. Women' Creator Driven From Home By Trolls; No, a Stolen iPod Didn't Brick Prosthetic Hand
| Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine | Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' BoxWorks14: the content, collaboration and cloud conference from Box. Hear from Box CEO Aaron Levie, authors Jim Collins and Andrew McAfee, Jeffrey Katzenberg and CIOs from Cisco, GE, HP, Safeway, Uber, the Dept of Defense, Cedars-Sinai and more. Register today and save $200 off on-site ticket prices. Learn More! Find out the five key success factors for accomplishing your business objectives with big data, including tips for building a big data infrastructure that operates efficiently and securely, and delivers powerful performance, scalability, and manageability. Learn More! From the bad-childhoods-never-end department Sonny Yatsen writes: Anita Sarkeesian, the creator of Tropes vs. Women — a video series exploring negative tropes and misogynistic depictions of women in video games — reports that she has been driven from her home after a series of... From the or-maybe-it's-a-1000-person-picnic department SpzToid (869795) writes Those plucky "Ukrainian separatist's" ambition to join Russia have now been given Russian military support, as the Russian Army with long columns of armor have invaded Ukraine and have opened up a second warring front, in a... From the you-have-died-of-dysentery department SternisheFan writes: I am not a "gamer," per se. I grew up on "old school" arcade/Atari-type games. My question is: What are the very best games to own? Let's assume platform is irrelevant — any console, any computer, any operating system,... From the hi-cousin-barry department merbs (2708203) writes Across drought-stricken California, farmers are desperate for water. Now, many of them are calling dowsers. These "water witches," draped in dubious pseudoscience or self-assembled mythologies—or both—typically... From the what's-old-is-new department MojoKid writes If you're a classic gamer, you've probably had the unhappy experience of firing up a beloved older title you haven't played in a decade or two, squinting at the screen, and thinking: "Wow. I didn't realize it looked this bad." The... From the now-how-much-would-you-pay? department An anonymous reader writes Mozilla has rolled out directory tiles, the company's advertising experiment for its browser's new tab page, to the Firefox Nightly channel. We installed the latest browser build to give the sponsored ads a test drive.... From the one-end-of-the-moose-has-more-gravity department An anonymous reader writes "A recent survey of scientific education and attitudes showed the Canadian population to have the highest level of scientific literacy in the world, as well as the fewest reservations about the direction of scientific... From the I-see-you department An anonymous reader writes with this Ars piece about the executive order that is the legal basis for the U.S. government's mass spying on citizens. One thing sits at the heart of what many consider a surveillance state within the US today. The... From the just-a-couple-of-letters department fsterman writes The power advantages brought by the RISC instruction sets used in Power and ARM chips is often pitted against the X86's efficiencies of scale. It's difficult to assess how much the difference between instruction sets matter... From the fingers-to-the-bone-but-very-slowly department An anonymous reader writes NPR has created an interesting visualization of workday data from the American Time Survey. It shows what the typical working times are for each profession. You can see some interesting trends, like which professions... From the oh-long-johnson department An anonymous reader writes with news that the NSF has just awarded a group of researchers a grant to study the life cycle of memes. "Indiana University is receiving nearly $1 million in federal grant money to investigate the genesis, spread, and... From the bad-actors department redletterdave writes: Microsoft announced on its Windows blog Wednesday that it's removed more than 1,500 apps from its Windows Store in a bid to clean up the store and restore trust with Windows 8 and Windows Phone users. Microsoft's new... From the too-bad-to-be-true department New submitter willoremus writes A wounded Army vet had his $75k prosthetic hand bricked when someone stole his iPod Touch? Yeah, not so much. I'm a tech reporter for Slate.com, and a Slashdot post earlier this week prompted me to look into this... From the still-hard-to-pronounce department An anonymous reader writes The PHP team has announced the release of PHP 5.6.0. New features include constant scalar expressions, exponentiation using the ** operator, function and constant importing with the use keyword, support for file uploads... From the could-have-been-motivated-by-love department Bruce66423 writes with news of an electronic attack believed to affect at least five U.S. banking institutions this month, including JP Morgan, now being investigated by the FBI. According to the Independent, The attack on JP Morgan reportedly... |
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