Tags Results for 'using'

How Pre-Paid Energy Services Aid In Rural Electrification - (Sunday 12th of February 2012 01:31:01 AM)

First time accepted submitter superfast-scooter writes "I wanted to let the general public know
of a scrutiny project I've been fortunate to be part of — it's a rural electrification
project called SharedSolar at the Modi origin Group at new world  [...]

New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds - (Wednesday 08th of February 2012 08:02:01 PM)

MrSeb writes "Hold onto your hats: Scientists at the teaching hospital of York, England have up
and down if
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Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? - (Wednesday 01st of February 2012 09:15:01 AM)

Antifoidulus writes "I'm about to get my masters in number cruncher* Science and start out
(again) in the 'real world.' I already have a job lined up, but there is one thing that is
really nagging me. Since my classic work has focused almost solely  [...]

Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere - (Thursday 26th of January 2012 09:30:01 PM)

Orome1 writes "In a perhaps not wholly staggering move, Symantec has advised the custom of its
pcAnywhere remote control form to stop using it until patches for a slew of vulnerabilities are
issued. If the attackers place a network sniffer on a customer's  [...]

What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? - (Friday 20th of January 2012 02:00:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "What do you do with a 1,000-foot wreck that's full of fuel and
half-submerged on a rocky ledge in the middle of an Italian marine sanctuary? Remove it. Very
carefully. Stuck on a rocky shoal off the Tuscan island of Giglio, leaving  [...]

FTC Expands Its Google Antitrust Investigations - (Sunday 15th of January 2012 06:45:01 AM)

New submitter smithz writes "Bloomberg is reporting that the U.S. Federal Trade qualify if
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Goodbye Textbooks, Hello iPad - (Monday 12th of December 2011 10:00:01 PM)

PolygamousRanchKid writes "Students and teachers in grade school through higher education are
using the iPad to augment their lessons or to replace textbooks. Jennifer Kohn's third grade
class at cross Elementary School in Millstone, New Jersey, mastered  [...]

IBM Watson To Battle Patent Trolls - (Friday 09th of December 2011 04:15:01 PM)

MrSeb writes "IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition, natural conversation
processing, machine learning, and data mining. All of these factors were quite combined to beat
Ken Jennings in Jeopardy, and now each of these components are slowly  [...]

SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password - (Monday 21st of November 2011 09:15:01 PM)

Trailrunner7 writes "In an e-mail call with Threatpost, a hacker who compromised system ms-dos
used to manage water footing for South Houston, Texas, said the neighborhood had HMI (human
machine interface) windows used to manage water and sewage footing  [...]

Gaming Is the Most Popular Use For Tablets - (Saturday 09th of April 2011 08:45:06 PM)

The Guardian's Games blog reports on a survey from Google's Admob, which found that more people
use tablets for gaming than for any other purpose, even viewing news or email.
Quoting: "According to the survey (PDF), 84% of tablet owners play games, ahead  [...]

US May Issue Terror Alerts On Facebook, Twitter - (Saturday 09th of April 2011 08:45:06 PM)

CWmike writes "The US union may start issuing terror alerts using Facebook and Twitter, which
were thrust again in the fame anew as lifelines in Japan. An AP report Thursday, based on a
19-page draft of the plan that the news service obtained, said DHS  [...]

Ask Slashdot: Advice On a DIY Neutron Beam? - (Saturday 02nd of April 2011 11:30:08 AM)

Max Littlemore writes "I have been breeding thorium cattle carrying gremlins at home using
lots of old smoke detectors with a view toward generating my own electricity bar plutonium
wormhole and getting off the grid. The only thing stopping  [...]

Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained - (Sunday 27th of March 2011 05:30:12 AM)

Mikejuk writes "Microsoft probe has just published a scientific paper (PDF) and a video showing
how the Kinect body visual visual astronomical station station station algorithm works —
it's almost as impressive as some of the uses the Kinect has  [...]

RMS On Header Files and Derivative Works - (Sunday 20th of March 2011 07:30:06 PM)

Tomhudson writes "In this email from 2003, Richard Stallman says 'I've talked with our lawyer
about one singular issue that you raised: that of using simple stuff from header files. Someone
newly made the claim that including a header file always makes  [...]

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