Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Sunday 5 April 2015


 
 
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Slashdot Videos: Now with More Slashdot!
The Slashdot video section is newly improved to include all the usual Slashdot options to comment, share, etc. No more walled garden! But you still get the same interesting interviews, product close-ups, discussions on hotly debated topics and more. Take a look. 
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From the applied-civics department
schwit1 writes with this snippet from Ars Technica: In the wake of the Thursday arrest of two women accused of attempting to build a bomb, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) wrote on her website that the 1971 book on bomb making, which may have aided...
 
From the I'll-take-it department
catchblue22 writes According to an article in MIT Technology Review, a new peer reviewed study suggests that battery-powered vehicles are close to being cost-effective for most people: "Electric cars may seem like a niche product that only wealthy...
 
From the roland-hedley-on-the-case-again department
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC reports that more and more companies are cracking down on the practice of hiding harmless snippets of code in their products. Known as "Easter eggs," they can be anything from the names of the developers, to...
 
From the when-metal-breathes department
An anonymous reader writes: Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety and speed and aims, among other things, to offer memory safety without garbage collection and threads without data races. Over on the Rust blog, the Rust Core...
 
From the I'll-cui-bono-you department
Ars Technica reports that another state has buckled to the auto dealership lobby, though with an interesting twist: West Virginia became at least the fifth state to ban the direct-sales approach practiced by Tesla Motors following Friday's...
 
From the they'll-know-it-when-they-see-it department
An anonymous reader writes with this news from the UK: The Conservatives say they will force hardcore pornography websites to put in place age-restriction controls or face being shut down if they win the election. The culture secretary, Sajid...
 
From the 14,609-days-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody department
HughPickens.com writes Alyssa Newcomb reports at ABC News that the software company started by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 is 40 and fabulous and highlights products and moments that helped define Microsoft's first four decades...
 
From the jury-of-your-peers department
theodp writes: Stanford students may pay $44,184 in tuition, but that may not even entitle them to individually graded homework. The Stanford Daily reports that this quarter, Stanford's Computer Science Department will implement 'pair programming'...
 
From the prefer-the-tesla-model-w department
MojoKid writes Wondering if Apple Watch is going to be worth the money? Well, that depends on several factors, including price, features, and how eager you are to jump into the smartwatch category at this point. To help tackle the latter two,...
 
From the live-quicker-prosper-more department
An anonymous reader writes A new article out details how Valve bootstrapped their VULKAN back-end with the Source 2 Engine over a period of just four months thanks to relying on an open-source driver. With designing for the open-source Intel...
 
From the 10-bucks-says-they-might-be department
saccade.com writes Coding Horror's Jeff Atwood is questioning if the current practice of paying researchers bounties for the software vulnerabilities they find is really improving over-all security. He notes how the Heartbleed bug serves as a...
 
From the pirate-tv-from-your-house department
New submitter Deltree Zero writes: I have an indie TV-style education/entertainment show which focuses on medicinal cannabis growing and use in Maine, product reviews, guests, etc. I have been creating the show at home using a very passable...
 
From the pants-on-fire department
sciencehabit writes: Researchers report the creation of an ultrathin, fabric circuit that keeps high conductivity even while bending and stretching as much as yoga pants. The fiber's core mimics spandex, consisting of an elastic synthetic...
 
From the camel-caps-galore department
The Verge reports that phone maker OnePlus has introduced its own OS, an Android fork called OxygenOS. OxygenOS was developed in-house by OnePlus, though at this point it is merely a modest refresh of Android 5.0 Lollipop. In a blog post, the...