The ODP writes In 80 years, Bill Gates and his girlfriend, then went on dates virtual watching the same movie simultaneously in different cities and talk on their cell phones. On Tuesday, Gates and 15 co-inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 8,012,023 for ‘Virtual Entertainment’, as Microsoft explains: The subject innovation provides systems and methods that provide immersive entertainment, and create a sensation of a user (s) which is similar to have guests (which are in remote locations) to be presented as a virtual guest to the user during the execution of an event (eg a live sporting event, audience games, TV shows, games and others).

And what Audre Lorde said that stupid is no new ideas!

By starting on Slashdot, Seez writing with a piece of Rick Falkvinge a recent diplomatic cable release. From the article: Among the treasures of cables Wikileaks recently published, we find one whose importance has circumvented the Swedish media. In short, every proposed law, all orders and all government reports hostile to the net, the youth and civil liberties here in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the U.S. government and industry interests. This is from a founder of the Pirate Party and so perhaps a bit exaggerated, but is certainly evidence in the cable that the U.S. has had some influence Swedish copyright. The U.S. government seems particularly upset that the Swedish public does not seem to think anything wrong with copying of protected works, and (not unexpectedly) was quite concerned that members of the Pirate Party might actually be elected.

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Hit the main page for the first time, Black Sabbath, wrote While communism was declared dead and buried (with some exceptions stubborn), the diagnosis of Karl Marx evils of capitalism seem quite tap money . Harvard Business Review blogger Umair Haque lists that Marx may be right. It’s a pretty good read once you get past three of the author paragraph disclaimer that it is not a communist. The new MIT has also conducted a short interview to discuss economic trends in August, morning.

We’re sure some of you that recently revamped Mac mini desktop on your server, but now you can give the appearance of a server room adult. Thank you to Sonnet , you’ll soon be able to rack mount your Thunderbolt Sportin ‘PC in a delicate shell 1U. The company announced that, from the expected arrival of the system in November, it will be decked out with a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot, and 75W power a thunderbolt garland of port. This apple-speed port adapter will use the Thunderbolt massive display mode same server or metadata controller. To use scenarios again, hit the full PR here or browse the product page via the link cover.

CWmike writing Rice University scientists said Tuesday they have successfully demonstrated full duplex wireless technology that would allow a doubling of traffic on the network without the need for more cell towers. Ahutosh Professor Sabharwal told the innovative technology requires a minimal amount of new equipment for both mobile devices and networks. However, it requires new standards, which means it might not be available for several years as carriers move to networks 5G, has he said. By allowing a cell phone or other wireless device to transmit data and receive data over the same frequency, unlike today’s technology, the new standard could double the capacity of a network. Rice has created a research platform wireless open access (WARP) with open source software that provides a space for research with other organizations to innovate freely and discuss innovations in full-duplex.

For anyone who is connected time city bus surfing, you know there are many heckuva power in these cases and starts screaming. So it goes without saying that there would be a way to capture the kinetic energy and mix immediately to the car itself. Well, that’s exactly what the consortium aims to Flybus with a prototype that uses a flywheel Ricardo Kinergy to store energy created from braking, and redistribute it via a continuously variable transmission. The hybrid configuration is supposedly much cheaper to produce than existing, more expensive EV rigs, and would also go a long way towards reducing fuel costs for commercial vehicles. Reducing eager for a peek at the design of the group can get a look to see when it is shown off this month in the event of low carbon vehicles in the UK. For all others, there are the source links below.

Charliemopps sends this excerpt from an AP report: New Mexico, home to several of the first scientists of the nation’s nuclear and military institutions, plans to take part in an unprecedented scientific project – a model 20-square – mile of a small American town. A technology company in Washington, DC, announced plans Tuesday to build the city of the state’s most recent ghost of any test innovations for renewable energy systems, intelligent traffic, the next generation of wireless networks and smart grid cyber security systems. While no one will live there, the city will answer modeled after a typical American town of 35,000 inhabitants, with roads, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.

An anonymous reader writes: The free game with each graphics card has finally turned against the face for AMD and Codemasters. Due to a lack of. Htaccess, 1.7 million of keys for a free copy of DiRT 3 on Steam have been released. Not a word from AMD or Codemasters, but I’m sure that Valve will block all codes on Steam at One question that remains:. if you used one of the codes, will ban your Steam account, it could be a very unfortunate few players later today if that happens? . The exact number of keys is at stake – reports range from 250,000 to 3,000,000 – but AMD has confirmed that a leak occur.