http://slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-10T02:50:20+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/-FFXTaBCgkw/Germanium-Diodes-Mean-Progress-Toward-Silicon-Chip-Lasers David Orenstein writes "Teams at Stanford and MIT have each reported getting strong light signals from germanium-based diodes on silicon at room temperature. Engineers have long sought to do this because, with further refinement into lasers, such diodes would allow for optical interconnects on chips. Optical interconnects could operate much faster and with less power than electrical (metal) ones that are becoming bottlenecks on current chips."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0039218/Germanium-Diodes-Mean-Progress-Toward-Silicon-Chip-Lasers?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/10/0039218"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0039218/Germanium-Diodes-Mean-Progress-Toward-Silicon-Chip-Lasers?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t1hgSitCZtXjABfjQjv73NOx61Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t1hgSitCZtXjABfjQjv73NOx61Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t1hgSitCZtXjABfjQjv73NOx61Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/t1hgSitCZtXjABfjQjv73NOx61Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/-FFXTaBCgkw" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-10T02:30:00+00:00 technology everyone-make-lasery-noises-now tech 2 2,2,0,0,0,0,0 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/0039218/Germanium-Diodes-Mean-Progress-Toward-Silicon-Chip-Lasers?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qyG3BgxbAyE/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy itwbennett writes "A large number of Chinese parents are finding their teenagers to be exhibiting such psychological symptoms as depression, antisocial behavior, and slipping grades. The cause: Internet addiction. World of Warcraft and Counter-Strike rank beside Chinese role-playing games as those that hook the most patients, says Tao Ran, the founder of a youth rehabilitation center on a Beijing army base. Online chat programs more often hook girls, who make up a handful of Tao's current 70 patients. The teens are subjected to a 'strict regimen of military drills, martial arts training, lectures and sessions with psychiatrists.' And, most importantly: no Internet."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2312202/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/2312202"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2312202/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7gq1V1ezQ9h7hWE8bdDHa2IOiM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7gq1V1ezQ9h7hWE8bdDHa2IOiM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7gq1V1ezQ9h7hWE8bdDHa2IOiM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/q7gq1V1ezQ9h7hWE8bdDHa2IOiM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/qyG3BgxbAyE" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T23:23:00+00:00 internet wait-until-this-hits-your-block-committee yro 111 111,109,83,67,27,11,7 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2312202/Chinese-Web-Addicts-Get-Boot-Camp-Therapy?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/UDQy6psDmNk/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9 oberondarksoul writes "Every now and then, you hear about a new port of Mozilla to one of the lesser-used platforms. Recently, a new version of Mozilla has been released for Mac OS 9 &mdash; an operating system no longer sold or supported, and with no new hardware available to buy. Dubbed Classilla, it aims to provide 'a modern web browser running again on classic Macs, and the currently-released build seems to work well on my old PowerBook 1400 &mdash; despite being a little memory-hungry."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/220216/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/220216"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/220216/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ORuGqn8lYtcRht93SqVUiGNLTjA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ORuGqn8lYtcRht93SqVUiGNLTjA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ORuGqn8lYtcRht93SqVUiGNLTjA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ORuGqn8lYtcRht93SqVUiGNLTjA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/UDQy6psDmNk" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T22:31:00+00:00 macos9 old-ways-are-best tech 77 77,72,60,47,18,10,5 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/220216/Classilla-a-New-Port-of-Mozilla-To-Mac-OS-9?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lsWdptApjLs/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development dp619 writes "Mono, a framework based on Microsoft technology, has become more popular for Linux desktop applications than Java, but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting. The story also touches on the failure of Linux distros to keep pace with Eclipse."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/2131245"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/em4FVhnPoN0sIY600SiZdIUvvCQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/em4FVhnPoN0sIY600SiZdIUvvCQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/em4FVhnPoN0sIY600SiZdIUvvCQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/em4FVhnPoN0sIY600SiZdIUvvCQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/lsWdptApjLs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T21:42:00+00:00 programming statistical-manipulation-more-popular-than-ever tech 250 250,237,178,139,48,14,10 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9hD8Zh8cQYs/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root nerdyH writes "An architect of the Moblin Project has announced that Moblin 2.0 for netbooks and nettops is the first Linux distribution to run the X server as the logged-in user, rather than SUID'd to root. The fix to this decades-old security liability comes thanks to 'NRX' (No-root X) technology reportedly developed by Intel, Red Hat, and others in the X community, and the Moblin-sponsored 'Secure X' project. Besides making Linux netbooks a lot more snoop-proof, it seems like this could lead to an X-hosting renaissance of sorts, since you wouldn't be risking the whole system just to open up a specific user's account to remote X servers."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/2050226"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zupCW79CSmXXGWpiznyP1TrvEVM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zupCW79CSmXXGWpiznyP1TrvEVM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zupCW79CSmXXGWpiznyP1TrvEVM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zupCW79CSmXXGWpiznyP1TrvEVM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/9hD8Zh8cQYs" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T20:54:00+00:00 xwindows such-a-little-thing-makes-such-a-big-difference tech 118 118,115,95,79,29,14,9 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2050226/Moblin-Will-Run-X-Server-As-Logged-In-User-Not-Root?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Mkct2s_-myc/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications BobB-nw writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, scheduled to distribute $4.7 billion in broadband deployment grants over the next 15 months, will count on volunteers to review grant applications. The NTIA, in a document released this week, asks for people to apply to become volunteer reviewers of the broadband grants. The NTIA's broadband grant program is part of $7.2 billion that the US Congress approved for broadband in a huge economic stimulus package approved earlier this year. ... It's 'a little scary' that volunteers will have the power to accept and reject broadband applications, said Craig Settles, an analyst and president of consulting firm Successful.com. Volunteers may have limited expertise, or they may have biases that aren't evident to the NTIA, he said."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1952252"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZJ1ADS69N7TUrrcRI7rZAOsY1sM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZJ1ADS69N7TUrrcRI7rZAOsY1sM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZJ1ADS69N7TUrrcRI7rZAOsY1sM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZJ1ADS69N7TUrrcRI7rZAOsY1sM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/Mkct2s_-myc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T20:07:00+00:00 networking low-expertise-worries-me-less-than-poor-incentives tech 90 90,89,78,62,22,9,5 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1952252/US-Seeks-Volunteers-To-Review-Broadband-Grant-Applications?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xctKabgVoXI/Stacking-of-New-Space-Vehicle-Begins-At-KSC Matt_dk writes "For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle will begin stacking on a mobile launch platform (MLP) at Kennedy Space Center. The Ares I-X aft skirt, which was mated to a solid fuel segment in the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility at KSC, rolled over to the 528-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building today, where it will be lifted and placed on the MLP in High Bay 3. On that platform, workers will secure the aft booster and continue adding segments of the first stage rocket, the upper stage simulators, the crew module mockup and the launch abort system simulator, taking the vehicle to a height of 327 feet."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1820249/Stacking-of-New-Space-Vehicle-Begins-At-KSC?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1820249"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1820249/Stacking-of-New-Space-Vehicle-Begins-At-KSC?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vPAj8vmRHerDUnizKDzmx9VmvC4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vPAj8vmRHerDUnizKDzmx9VmvC4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vPAj8vmRHerDUnizKDzmx9VmvC4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vPAj8vmRHerDUnizKDzmx9VmvC4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/xctKabgVoXI" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T19:23:00+00:00 nasa note-that's-an-artist's-impression science 84 84,81,71,64,22,13,5 http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1820249/Stacking-of-New-Space-Vehicle-Begins-At-KSC?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/M6S6PrB8PFc/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has finally launched its DNS Redirector service in trial markets (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state), and has submitted a working draft of the technology to the IETF for review. Comcast customers can opt-out from the service by providing their account username and cable modem MAC address. Customers in trial areas using 'old' Comcast DNS servers, or non-Comcast DNS servers, should not be affected by this. This deployment comes after many previous ISPs, like DSLExtreme, were forced to pull the plug on such efforts as a result of customer disapproval/retaliation. Some may remember when VeriSign tried this back in 2003, where it also failed."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1811249/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1811249"></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1811249/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0e-suji3KfJedDmulYyKcckEC0I/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0e-suji3KfJedDmulYyKcckEC0I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0e-suji3KfJedDmulYyKcckEC0I/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0e-suji3KfJedDmulYyKcckEC0I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/M6S6PrB8PFc" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T18:40:00+00:00 internet looks-like-you-want-xxy-porn yro 309 309,301,237,193,61,44,33 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1811249/Comcast-DNS-Redirection-Launched-In-Trial-Markets?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3SRdWFVga8I/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail Michael_Curator writes "Executives at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.-owned papers (including current Tory spokesman Andy Coulson) allowed reporters to hack into phone conversations of celebrities and then paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover it up. How did famously technologically-challenged reporters manage the feat without BT catching on? Voicemail." The New York Times says a preliminary investigation's been ordered, but the BBC's coverage indicates that a large-scale inquiry is unlikely.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1740253/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1740253"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1740253/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zl1GxUYWPU8WfgLnmKbYQxbRT5s/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zl1GxUYWPU8WfgLnmKbYQxbRT5s/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zl1GxUYWPU8WfgLnmKbYQxbRT5s/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zl1GxUYWPU8WfgLnmKbYQxbRT5s/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3SRdWFVga8I" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T17:58:00+00:00 media have-a-whole-room-in-the-at&amp;t-building-too news 150 150,148,134,105,37,24,11 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1740253/Murdoch-Paper-Reporters-Eavesdropped-On-Celebrities-Voicemail?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/zqYoMQMa_Po/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign barbarai notes a report by ABC News's Rick Klein: "For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. "Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. according to the ABC news blog."<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1711238"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn0Dbc0t-V9ycRK8WSUHUusJdfU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn0Dbc0t-V9ycRK8WSUHUusJdfU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn0Dbc0t-V9ycRK8WSUHUusJdfU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mn0Dbc0t-V9ycRK8WSUHUusJdfU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/zqYoMQMa_Po" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2009-07-09T17:15:00+00:00 government rube-goldberg-economic-logic news 338 338,335,283,218,59,41,24 http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1711238/Recoverygov-To-Get-18-Million-Redesign?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/a1t2wc7CXJU/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article about how obscenity laws and the first amendment relate to modern games: "This question is a tough one, for the very good reason that no video game developer or publisher has ever been prosecuted for obscenity related to video games. As we have seen, if the medium of video games are held to the same standard as literature and film then, presumably, they can also be held to be obscene. One of the reasons for the lack of obscenity prosecution against video game developers and publishers is that the courts have limited obscenity to sexual content only. In fact, the courts have gone so far as to specifically reject calls to alter the definition of 'obscenity' to include violent content in video games. The other major reason is the vast majority of video games sold in the United States have only small amounts of sexual content thanks to the Electronic Software Rating Board."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/164259/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/164259"></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/164259/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pqmeseVQqS825sxfqfV7Cin4S3Q/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pqmeseVQqS825sxfqfV7Cin4S3Q/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pqmeseVQqS825sxfqfV7Cin4S3Q/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pqmeseVQqS825sxfqfV7Cin4S3Q/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/a1t2wc7CXJU" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2009-07-09T16:23:00+00:00 censorship making-people-explode-is-fine-but-no-gettin'-loved-up games 204 204,201,165,127,42,25,19 http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/164259/Video-Games-the-First-Amendment-and-Obscenity?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3S4uE1LFuEM/Software-Converts-2D-Images-To-3D eldavojohn writes "Dr. David McKinnon from Queensland University of Technology, has recently launched a site that turns your sets of 2D images into 3D bump maps by way of 8 years of his research. The catch is that you need to have between five and fifteen photos of your object and they must overlap at least 80 to 90 percent. So with a video of an object, one might be able to extract every nth frame and use this site to generate a 3D model. Doctor McKinnon said, 'The full version of this software would be great for realistic learning simulators and training software, where you want everything to look like the real thing. This technology could also be great for museums wishing to turn their display objects into 3D images that can be viewed online. We are even looking into making 3D models of cows to save farmers spending thousands of dollars transporting their cattle vast distances to auction sites, allowing for an eBay style auction website for cattle. Films, animations and computer games could also benefit, since 3D film making is taking over from the traditional 2D method of filmmaking. Another application is allowing people to create 3D models of their own face to use on their avatar in computer games or 3D social networking sites such as Second Life or Sony's Home.' Physorg has more details."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1512259/Software-Converts-2D-Images-To-3D?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1512259"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1512259/Software-Converts-2D-Images-To-3D?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XXYe3yB4pSal6iSTBGVovc4vJ2M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XXYe3yB4pSal6iSTBGVovc4vJ2M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XXYe3yB4pSal6iSTBGVovc4vJ2M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/XXYe3yB4pSal6iSTBGVovc4vJ2M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/3S4uE1LFuEM" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-07-09T15:42:00+00:00 graphics still-waiting-for-the-avi-to-3ds-converter tech 133 133,126,99,70,19,9,4 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1512259/Software-Converts-2D-Images-To-3D?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ioK8rd5m15A/Vint-Cerf-Imagines-the-Nets-Future-At-NASA destinyland writes "Vint Cerf performed an hour-long Q&amp;A at NASA for their 'Singularity University' (which is partially funded by Google ). A question about Twitter led Cerf to imagine even more useful micro-applications using the wireless internet and cell phones, including real-time health data and checking your location against a map of known biohazards and disease outbreaks. 'These systems have applications which I think we will discover over time,' Cerf says, adding 'For me, the exciting thing to just anticipate, are the new ideas for using these instruments.' Also speaking were Ray Kurzweil and nanotechnology expert Ray Merkle. (Read an interview with SU co-founder Peter Diamandis in the new issue of H+ magazine)."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1451223/Vint-Cerf-Imagines-the-Nets-Future-At-NASA?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1451223"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1451223/Vint-Cerf-Imagines-the-Nets-Future-At-NASA?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IZpAmIUhLOAEbliDOnBvdIUaNWQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IZpAmIUhLOAEbliDOnBvdIUaNWQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IZpAmIUhLOAEbliDOnBvdIUaNWQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/IZpAmIUhLOAEbliDOnBvdIUaNWQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ioK8rd5m15A" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-07-09T15:00:00+00:00 internet smaller-faster-better tech 66 66,63,56,43,18,7,3 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1451223/Vint-Cerf-Imagines-the-Nets-Future-At-NASA?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/344iKjnCTSI/Standalone-GPS-Receivers-Going-the-Way-of-the-Dodo Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that more than 40 percent of all smartphone owners and 80 percent of iPhone users use their mobile devices to get turn-by-turn directions driving down sales of traditional standalone GPS units from companies like TomTom, Garmin and Magellan. During the first quarter, TomTom said it shipped 29 percent fewer GPS units compared with the period in 2008 while Garmin's unit sales fell 13 percent from the previous year. While smartphones are susceptible to interruptions from incoming phone calls and using the mapping features for a long time can chew through battery power, the list of the smartphone's shortcomings is dwindling as some of the latest navigation applications offer voice navigation and take advantage of the phone's always-connected state to offer real-time traffic updates, directions to contacts in the phone's address book and more. 'I've not stopped using a GPS because I never bought one in the first place &mdash; they are expensive and inconvenient,' says Steve Weller. 'Now with the iPhone, I will actually use GPS &mdash; and the 10 other functions it replaces.' The traditional GPS device companies are trying to adapt, seeking to expand their reach into the smartphone market. TomTom recently announced that it would introduce a portable navigation application for the iPhone that would feature turn-by-turn directions and audio prompts. 'The simplicity of having one device and not needing to pull the Garmin out of my glove compartment is enough,' says Andrew DiMarcangelo. 'I want to get into my car and do as few things as possible.'"<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1339225/Standalone-GPS-Receivers-Going-the-Way-of-the-Dodo?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1339225"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1339225/Standalone-GPS-Receivers-Going-the-Way-of-the-Dodo?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z0RElZWB6x7j7vfO13lwS8C47nk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z0RElZWB6x7j7vfO13lwS8C47nk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z0RElZWB6x7j7vfO13lwS8C47nk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/z0RElZWB6x7j7vfO13lwS8C47nk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/344iKjnCTSI" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-07-09T14:18:00+00:00 cellphones why-did-you-program-me-to-feel-pain mobile 384 384,383,338,271,64,34,17 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1339225/Standalone-GPS-Receivers-Going-the-Way-of-the-Dodo?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oIezvihXiaU/How-Microsoft-Has-Changed-Without-Bill-Gates mightysquirrel writes "It's been a year since Bill Gates left Microsoft in his official capacity. At the time many speculated his departure would spark a significant shift in Redmond. But how much has really changed during Microsoft's first year without Gates?"<p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1311205/How-Microsoft-Has-Changed-Without-Bill-Gates?from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/09/1311205"></a></p><p><a href="http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1311205/How-Microsoft-Has-Changed-Without-Bill-Gates?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Li1XnoCOsyq-uh2JZl9CJQM95ik/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Li1XnoCOsyq-uh2JZl9CJQM95ik/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Li1XnoCOsyq-uh2JZl9CJQM95ik/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Li1XnoCOsyq-uh2JZl9CJQM95ik/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/oIezvihXiaU" height="1" width="1"/> CmdrTaco 2009-07-09T13:38:00+00:00 microsoft borg-icon-still-stands mainpage 431 431,421,343,260,72,36,27 http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/1311205/How-Microsoft-Has-Changed-Without-Bill-Gates?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://slashdot.org/search.pl