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Frog on crutches from 1977. BUY IT! Or, "Streaming Included with Prime."

Well, it's a wagon, but what's a minor difference between friends? Think of it as crutches on wheels.

Hard to hack the results in Michigan when its pen and paper.

No it's extremely easy.

Sounds like working in the repair room at a national computer store chain (that is now out of business).

"Fix those 15 computers, while answering the phone every five minutes for people checking if their computer is done yet, let every customer on the sales floor stop you to ask what's on sale while you are trying to get a part for one of those 15 computers, and keep full notes on each work order's progress using the online forms written in ASCII ten years earlier."

Surprisingly, I increased my work output several percent just by buying my own tape gun. No more having to find where the overnight stock crew left them, to be able to tape the work orders to the finished computers.

are you serious - they only show the SET value and not the ACTUAL current value? no option to set the default large text for the one you want? not a split display, even?

They show both, the current and the set temperature, but the set temperature is in large in the center of the screen, and the current temperature is tiny. You have to actually get close to the thermostat to read it as opposed to glance at it from the other side of the room. Its an epic fail.

Here is a pic. In that picture, the current room temperature is 78, and it is set to cool down to 75.

There is no way to change this.

What you dopes don't realize is that this law does the exact opposite of what you want. This law means that trans men, like Buck Angel for example, will be forced to use the women's room.

Congrats, fucktards. You passed a law requiring men to use the bathroom in order to keep trans women out of them. The only thing you've accomplished is being a bigot.

My joke could had been fun if I had made it correctly, one article had a lot of cables but I didn't knew whatever all was standard USB ports or not so I googled it and just took one but that one didn't even have the type C port so .. that was pretty stupid. 03:35 local time so I blame that. Also there was the SuperSpeed cables as-well.

So you've got A, B in normal and mini and micro versions:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
And then you've got SuperSpeed A, B and micro-B:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.usb.org/press/cespr...
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And USB type C:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-...

For at-least 10 different connectors for USB cables =P

As someone who carried a WinMO phone for almost half a decade, I say you are full of it. Amazon makes slim batteries that when attached, simply feel like you have a backpack battery. I use it ALL the time. I carried backup batteries for over 1200 days straight, now i just leave a few usb backup batteries in key locations.

I have a version of this http://ecx.images-amazon.com/i... for my Moto G, custom made by Motorola and the two work together perfectly. I can still use the phone no problem without it being a hassle or wires everywhere. You simply hold it in your hand normally, its jsut slightly thicker. My option also also omits the shutdown/startup cycle completely.

You have no idea the options that are available now, open your eyes. There are reasons for wanting a removable battery, you havent put forward any.

The removable battery thing stopped being an issue when stupid cheap battery banks became available. I have one custom built by Motorola for the Moto G/X line. Its effectively the same thing as having a removable battery other than being able to remove all power easily. I carried removable batteries for almost a decade, now i just keep the motorola battery handy. Did i mention i paid $10 for it....

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> YOU REPAIRED COWS!!!

The cow troll is actually getting kinda funny.

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We have been able to annotate media for ages.

Uh oh. It's a repost, but a good one, please forgive me:

"Granulated Sugar", "Naturally Fat-Free"
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"Granulated Sugar", "Naturally Fat-Free": http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81FrZPL-AlL._SY679_.jpg

Seriously, I wouldn't bother. It makes no sense.

The Chromebooks available are dirt cheap, good-looking, light-weight, run for 8 hours and longer and have their OS tailored to light-weight power-saving CPUs and built around the computers it runs on - sorta like Apple. Chromebooks basically are the poor mans mac-book air. And if ChromeOS fits your bill and you have no problem with your OS basically being a remote extension of the todays online service known as Google you should go right ahead and one of those available. That current one from HP looks pretty neat, for instance.

As for the dabbling, I'd go exactly the other way around: Get a ready-made buy-unpack-works Chromebook and install Crouton on it for Linux freedom pleasure. Don't be silly and try to build your own. It will be shitty, lots of work, short on battery life, weigh a ton, look like crap and be expensive in comparsion.

Mind you, I did just get two refurbished ThinkPads for Linux progging and fiddling, but those are definitely not meant for lugging around. They each weigh well over 2kg and run 4 hours on a full-charge at most and are power-hogs in compasion. Good for proggin C/C++, running LAMP at full throttle (ones got 18GB, a Quad-Core Intel iSomething in it with a 256GB SSD) or playing Fallout 3 on Wine with the GFX all maxed out.
I do *not* use them for everyday utility computing though. One actually serves as ... a server (duh) at work.

My everyday computing, mail and leisure surfing I do on a 10" Yoga 2 Android tablet. Even lighter than a Chromebook and runs 18 hours under full load. ... Have you thought about something like that? That might actually be an alternative. Although ChromeOS does seem to be a better fit for your useage.

Yeah, that's never been abused before...

I am okay with that as long as hispanic, black and asian owned business can also have "no Caucasians" signs with equal protection and enforcement of such.
If I were in Indiana after this was signed, I would be tempted to put up signs that say "Christians will not be served, unless they are being served to Lions".

Proposed: Any store can refuse service to anyone. "No shirt, no shoes, no service". And to make this effective, the store must post its refusal criteria on the door, or within (x) feet of the door, in letters at least 3 inches tall, clearly legible before a customer enters the store, in order to avoid any misunderstandings.

Yeah, that's never been abused before...

Darwin's Theorem

A typical usb/ide adapter will not be able to connect to the laptop [drive].

Not true. Most of the adapters I've seen have both sized pins: like this. Look at the IDE side of the cable. It has the 3.5" HDD connector on one edge and the 2.5" HDD connector on the other. The SATA connector is on the flat side (not visible in that picture.) I've never seen an IDE drive that wouldn't work with this.

I've used one just like this to get data from many old drives, including laptop drives and never had it fail (except when there were severe problems with the drive itself.)

The adapter will come in handy again. Taking the drive out is the way to go. Networking or serial link will not allow you to see the raw drive. Clone the whole drive raw then put the original in a safe place until you're sure all the data you need is there.

I had to look this up, imaging a phone on a rifle rail would look pretty funny (and obtrusive), and I was not disappointed...

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simple life should be abundant in the universe.

Thankfully, only in reruns.

Disclaimer: IANAL.

Looks like /code may have stripped some of your HTML. Allow me to help:

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From all the noise here, it seemed pretty clear that ONLY the NSA did this kind of stuff and not any other government in the world. Isn't that why we're all supposed to toe the "NSA is evil" line?

The government is like a child.

I tell my 6yr old that throwing sticks at people is wrong.
He says "Look! Philip, Lacey and Clancy are throwing sticks!"
I tell him "I'm not their parent. I can't tell them what to do. I can only teach you what's right or wrong. It's not acceptable for my child to throw sticks. I'll talk to the other parents about their kids."

I'm an US citizen. I can't vote the UK's government out of office. I'm in charge of my own government and it's NOT acceptable for them to do this.

This story is about other countries. It's good to let the other parents know what their governments are up to so they can discipline them.

It's not that hard of a concept. Perhaps you should read this?
It helped my kid.

Slide-to-unlock has been used for literally, not figuratively, thousands of years. To think this could be patentable is preposterous. Can anyone explain why dead bolts are not sufficient prior art? How about the sliding locks on drill bit cases?

The problem with patents is the failure of courts to uphold the obviousness standard. If you asked a retarded seamonkey in what way could a touch-screen device prevent unwanted input during periods of non-use, the retarded seamonkey would say "uh, hmmm, well, how about by putting the device into a locked-down state that can only be dismissed by sliding your finger around in a predeterminded pattern unlikely to match random input?" That would cover this stupid slide-to-unlock idea, the idea of entering a predefined secret code, and other similar gestures.

For goodness sake, can't device companies come up with any clever ideas that are not obvious? The fraction of patents that I hear about that I think are truly clever is something like two percent. I blame the courts for this problem. Congress gave the courts perfectly reasonable standards, and the courts have steadfastly refused to make reasonable judgements.

Designed in California built in China.

Keyboard by Apple without numeric keys.

Designed in California built in China.

Keyboard by Apple without numeric keys.

A touch screen you have to look at is a massive downgrade and far more dangerous.

The point of this is that you don't need to look at it.

How do you adjust the temperature without looking at the screen to see where it is now, and where you want it to go? How do you change the air direction from front defroster to foot vents without looking at the screen?

For something with immediate feedback like radio volume, this would work well, but maybe other things require some feedback -- a physical knob can give you immediate feedback through its position. In my car, I know that when the temperature control knob is straight up and down that it's in the middle setting, and I turn it 90 degrees left or right to make it wamer or cooler.

However, in the other car, for some reason the designers chose to use a physical knob with a lighted dot to show where the knob is pointed, so you still have to look at it to see what setting it's on.

I would love to eat that crankshaft for breakfast.

What's the big deal, Amazon delivers, you don't need to mount an expedition to Saturn.

Oculus Rift - special Doom 3 edition, $12.49

I had previously dabbled in logo, basic, Applesoft basic, et cetera.

Heard we were being deployed to Wake Island for a downed aircraft recovery (interesting term when the aircraft is in 17,000+ feet of water...)

So, I bought a little book titled "Learn C in 3 days" - http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61OPqyHTH%2BL.jpg
Then I bought a copy of Turbo C++.

Installed it on the log room computer when the Chiefs weren't looking and coded away the long trip to Wake Island from Hawaii at 8-12 knots (and the way back.)

I'd always been good with computers before, but after this I was totally hooked on coding.

Digging holes in the ground and just adding water to produce steam is not a bad idea. Doing so where you have no control where the water goes is a disaster waiting to happen. When you add extra pressures and stresses on rock within the ground, you weaken the techtonic plates, and run the risk of an earthquake. If you directional drill into the ground, much like a potato masher, then you control with precision where the water goes, how much water goes in, how much comes out, and if you are running the steam directly past a turbine, you don't run the risk of sending dissolved minerals past the blades of that turbine. Further, you don't weaken the techtonic plates, you strengthen them (because of the steel pipe structure), and since the ground there will be cooler, the plate will also be more dense, and therefore stronger still.

Yeah, I remember as a kind one thing I wanted for Christmas and never got was a $100 Lego castle. This was in the late 80 early 90s. This also serves to note that even back then, Lego wasn't just a box of generic bricks. They had soldiers, weapons, horses, specialty mountains and trees.

I remember lego space started out pretty generic, but over time the pieces got more and more specialized to the theme. Eventually you got these flying saucers with big alien logos on the pieces that you couldn't use for much else. The only difference between now and then is you have Galactic Republic logo instead. This may be "selling out", but I don't see how it would have much of an impact on a child's creativity, as I got along just fine with the old imaginary brand sets.

This.

List of Supported Models
I still have an old Toshiba Gigabeat, that has easily over 9 hours of life when just playing music. It also has a cable ( in-line headphone jack ) remote that supports volume, mute, next/prev track, pause, and play. Image of headphone remote. Also, the gigabeat dock has it's own USB host, power, and other things. The dock would be the only thing you need to certify, as it's the only thing mounted. The gigabeats you'd just bring with you and clip in each flight.

Rockbox has open support for handling those remote buttons anyway you like.

Not only was there a cell phone market, there was a cell phone market with large touchscreens, big icons and shapes very familiar to any iPhone user. LG's Prada phone is a great example of the design that Apple RIPPED OFF to create the iPhone.

I have used a tiny mouse for years. My current one is a Logitech M185 which is huge in comparison to my previous ones. It is 117g, but for me a 1.1kg notebook is at the upper limit of weight (my lightest was about 700g) so it is still one tenth the weight of my computer.

To be honest, it is not so much the weight of the mouse that interests me, but just being able to fit it in my backpack. A standard size mouse seems a lot larger when crammed it into a fairly full bag than it does sitting on a desk.

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Nope. I own one (!), pre-injuction one (no N and no silly looking "ears") and it DOES have pale logo on the front page (actually looks exactly like that one on wiki) The post injuction one (10.1N) looks like this: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81jNE0RlIuL._AA1500_.jpg

Hum, what about some context ?

Old "New English Teas" tin
New "New English Teas" tin

(Thanks to johnsnails (1715452) for the Google search pointing me to these images)

Obviously New English Teas didn't want to pay the original author while maintaining the branding. You seem to think that it is ok ?

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http://www.vinaglobo.de/shop/show_product.php?products_id=780&language=en&SESS=18a623b7248011172901eb8b834ec8c4

I suspect it might not be healthy to subsist on these alone, though...

So, not Acer: http://blog.dialaphone.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/acer-tablet1.jpg
or Motorola: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2011/4/27/1303887422785/Motorola-Xoom-tablet-005.jpg
or the HP Touchpad: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41I6VtL6D%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
or the Advent Vega: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_Vega
or the Sony Tablet S: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Sony_Tablet_S.jpg/300px-Sony_Tablet_S.jpg
or the Viewsonic G: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/ViewSonic_G_Tablet.JPG/220px-ViewSonic_G_Tablet.JPG

no, none of these look remotely like an iPad. Except the Xoom, cause Apple have tried to sue Motorola for them. The rest haven't been sued because they're not black, with rounded edges and a single button with a rectangular screen.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41f4b8rM4KL._SS400_.jpg Nuff said.

Anyone who doesnt want to bounce on a glorified space-hopper all day is no friend of mine.

Oh right; that would explain this cover, then.

Seriously though, how often do you actually type on the kindle keyboard though? You mostly use the nav and page buttons.

Not all that often, but I do use it for wifi passcodes, searching for books/text. I'd hate to input either of those with a five-way controller, especially when the onscreen keyboard for the 5-way controller kindle isn't qwerty! I rather like having the keyboard there, and it doesn't exactly take up much room.

What I find more concerning is that the new kindle touch has apparently removed the page turn buttons on the sides. Those side buttons are the easiest way to turn pages, whether or not you've got a touch screen, and are one of the things I really love about reading on my kindle. It becomes a lot harder to flip back a page with only a touchscreen (which happens a lot when most people read). Amazon also seems to have gone for a shiny rather than matte finish on the surface of the device, which may not be the best idea for a device designed to be read in sunlight ...

I dunno, but from a first glance at the images on the website those new e-ink kindles *look* cheap. The old kindle 3G looked a lot more classy, somehow.

So what exactly in your eyes makes an Apple tablet different from the Samsung tablet?

Form factor, back, branding, Honeycomb. There are only so many ways to make a tablet though, they are suing Motorola as well after all. It seems that one needs to not be minimalistic to avoid Apple. We'll see how Asus and Acer will play out, will their less rounded corners and bands of different material be enough if Apple prevails against Samsung? The most serious problem I see is that the iPad just has very few distinctive features. The home button and the Apple logo are the really memorable parts.

• Glass front? Gorilla glass makes this a practical feature to protect against scratches, not a design feature.
• Rounded corners? Easier to hold on the corners, doesn't catch as much in bags -- practical, not just design.
• Rounded back? Again, easier to slide into a bag/sleeve, not just design

There really isn't that much to the iPad, the community design is even worse. It has nothing distinctive about it. If this a unique tablet design, than this is this is Apple's community design, this is an actual iPad and this is an Galaxy Tab. Yes, they look the same at a glance, but that's industrial design for you. There can be reasons that don't involve any stupidity. Germany is a civil law country, so he might have no choice than to follow the law even if it's abused. Though if you want me to speculate, I suspect that Samsung's lawyers missed the mark and/or didn't consult with the designers and engineers and/or had little time to prep and will do better in the appeal. It seems to me (again, speculation) that Apple convinced the judge that it was an entirely new class of product, so instead of the design being evolutionary it was completely unique and unprecedented in any way, combined with the former -- Samsung's lawyers went to 2001, the movie, of all places to show preceding, even though there are clear precursors in actual product, both hand held's and tablets.

You have the right to a free press.

Where did it say you have the right to aid and abet crime to develop your stories?

You didn't. So you can be held in contempt, i.e., jailed while you refuse to reveal your accomplices/sources, for years, if the police think you got the story from a criminal.

In lieu of a shield law we have a mish-mash of case law that may or may not be rational across jurisdictions and may or may not cover a general set of cases that have not yet occurred.

Some people think this is a hole in the right to a free press, and are trying to plug it.

But not too much, because clearly there are criminals, like Assange, who will masquerade as "journalists" to commit their crimes. They should also look at not allowing protection for actual aiding and abetting, so we don't end up with a class of journalists who commit crimes in order to get stories on them (you hear me, Spider-Man!?).

People love "reasons" that are really justifications, like calling someone a pedophile or a racist. It doesn't matter if it's true. The herd's so afraid of being associated with child porn or racism that they freak out and ostracize the person. That way, you don't have to censor them or jail them. You can just socially isolate them, which in turn bankrupts them as their business or job prospects collapse. It's 100% effective.

You think Virgin Killers is bad? Try that Blind Faith album they don't stock in stores anymore even though it has Eric Clapton on it:

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I can finally bathe myself in chocolate sauce, whip cream, nuts and ride my bike around town screaming who has a banana!

Someone beat you to it.

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That's nothing.

Lots of places still use old brother fax / copy / print machines which utilize "ribbons" instead of ink or toner. This is what they look like

PC-301

It's basically a big carbon transfer sheet. You find these old machines in doctors offices. law offices. etc. Where the owner is too lazy to upgrade their hardware.

They throw out the used ribbon. Guess what? Its literally hundreds of feet of perfect, inverted copies of faxed information. Forms with medical information. SSN numbers. Private legal information. ETC.

All it requires is someone to be lazy enough to throw it away, and someone else bored enough to go dumpster dive.

*Twitch* *Twitch*

I have to do it. My parents own a kitchen store.

THAT'S NOT A MEAT CLEAVER!

It's most likely an 8" chef's knife. However, a meat cleaver would be better since the front and back edges are closer to parallel, where as the chef's knife is tapered to a point. The parallel edges would give a more precise cut when hammering on the back edge.

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*sigh*