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An interesting argument. This is slightly off topic, but in Virginia Radar Detectors are illegal. Yet their sole job is to pick up on openly broadcasts signals sent from radar guns. The radar gun is sending out a broadcast radio wave into the open air... and yet, when a radar detector picks that signal up and reacts to it, that is considered a crime.

To me it's the equivalent of this tee-shirt. The shirt picks up a signal.. doesn't read it per se, just picks up on its existence... much like a radar detector mounted in a car.

But for the long traveling home, I use the predecessor of this smartphone, the Nokia E61i, to try some coding stuff out.

You can install Python on the Symbian Platform, and with a additional syntax highlighted editor - of course also programmed in python for symbian - it is much smaller than have always a laptop.

Also I have installed a Putty, and a IRC client for it, so when I recognize I am at home in a few minutes, I upload it to my home computer and then write further :)

Such things are already possible, if you want, and will get easier and more convinient when Linux arrives of the mobile phones.

If the only problem is the keyboard on this smartphones, why not using this holographic keyboard stuff already available?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/

You find them also much cheaper if you look a little bit. But the "Star Trek" - feeling you got when you use them, makes such a thing worth. Also the people in the bus who thinks you are a time traveller :)

If its too expensive, they are also physical, foldable bluetooth keyboards with the end-size of a cigarette box.

Not entirely IT related, but I like both the Hubble Deep Field and the EM Spectrum posters.

Both are testaments to the achievements of science, and look really neat.

There's also the Universal Heritage and Solar System Chart, although neither look as arty.

Not entirely IT related, but I like both the Hubble Deep Field and the EM Spectrum posters.

Both are testaments to the achievements of science, and look really neat.

There's also the Universal Heritage and Solar System Chart, although neither look as arty.

Not entirely IT related, but I like both the Hubble Deep Field and the EM Spectrum posters.

Both are testaments to the achievements of science, and look really neat.

There's also the Universal Heritage and Solar System Chart, although neither look as arty.

Not entirely IT related, but I like both the Hubble Deep Field and the EM Spectrum posters.

Both are testaments to the achievements of science, and look really neat.

There's also the Universal Heritage and Solar System Chart, although neither look as arty.

ThinkGeek have a range of posters by Despair Inc.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/exclusives/8aec/

Although Dilbert is always good.

He must be a real programmer

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/923a/
or one of these
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/77aa/

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/923a/
or one of these
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/77aa/

Increasing the intensity burns them out faster. And there are LED replacements for standard light bulbs.

Then you'll hate these

$69 for a keyboard isn't particularly expensive. True, keyboards around that price usually have whiz-bang features, but not always.

G11 Gaming Keyboard - $69 (And while I like the feel of it for gaming, it sucks to do real work on!)

Das Keyboard II - $79.99

For an outfit as small as Unicomp seems to be, a somewhat minor markup over what it'd cost from somebody else is pretty reasonable.

since when I put it in my pants, it tends ruin your pace

I don't think I want to know what kind of game you have that requires you to put the wiimote in your pants. Heck, this one is bad enough :p

And just why should a wiimote in your pants ruin my pace, anyway? I don't even know you...

Nokia shipped E90 , actual Symbian S60 running Laptop phone (I can easily say).

http://europe.nokia.com/e90

BTW, a device upgrade doesn't mean they don't give a heck to older product. Especially Symbian devices keep on getting supported/ software updated. Even my 9300 works very fine except the fact that it runs a rare Symbian version (S80) so third party is a bit problematic.

As a side note, every Symbian device made recently (not sure about year) supports Bluetooth keyboards. There are some very nice bluetooth keyboards which are very small. E.g. Logitech stuff. Another option is to use the sci-fi http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ laser keyboard.

Also if iPhone user friends talk too much, you just use the keyboard asking them how many jailbreak hacks they need for it. Good iPhone muter as bonus ;)

Because Steve Jobs wanted so. It is the iPhone for you.

As an Apple user, I am totally clueless why people actually even care about iPhone if they want a real smart phone.

I am sure someone can horribly hack the iPhone and switch on whatever they disabled on software but why bother?

It also means they can't get the laser keyboard thing http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/

Wasn't this an april fools joke on think geek?
Pii Pii Bros

..so we're reduced to this, now? *puts bag over head in shame* No wonder the aliens won't openly visit us!

Think Geek had something similar (but much more sanitary) for April Fools Day this year: http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html?cpg=70T I think I would perfer their version.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html

Take your "team" to the "superbowl"?

Though the article is similar to the ThinkGeek parody found here http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/superpiipii.html

There's a happy medium to be found in computer peripherals.

I use the Das Keyboard II. (I used to use an IBM Model M I got from an old PS/1, but I missed the Windows key.) $80 isn't cheap, but it's a dream to type on, and built like a tank. All the keys make happy click-click-click! noises, too. (But then again, I am a computer science major. I spend a lot of time on this thing.)

I've also been really happy with the Logitech G5 mouse. The weights are mostly gimmicky, but were handy for the one I got for my parent's computer - my mother-dearest can pop them out and use a lighter mouse. (She now refuses to work on any other computer, because the mouse is different.) It's really comfortable and tracks well, but it only has one side button, which bugs me somewhat.

(No, I don't work for either company. But, if you are a Logitech employee and would like to send me a check, I have a PayPal account!)

people show up dressed as IT staff

Dunno about Tesla, but ThinkGeek already has this for sale.

I can't re-silkscreen the key caps though
 
You bought the wrong keyboard then. Get yourself one fo these and never worry about it anymore. QWERTY, Dvorak, Gamer, who knows? Poke at a couple of keys and find out what's mapped where!

Did you just say "massive tracts of land?

..until some joker brought one of these to work http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8f84/

But really! It's been done!
Wireless Extension Cords

I've had wireless wireless extension cords for YEARS. I can't believe you guys think this is new, here's the site i got mine from. BTW they work great! Wireless extension cords

A simpler solution would be hardware keylogger, like this.

What protection does that afford against a physical keylogger?

Not all keyloggers are software.

As a software developer and Linux geek, I can say that probably everyone on Slashdot can identify in some way or another.

Specifically, reminds me of this shirt -- of course, I fix their computer anyway, but I'm always tempted...

Oh hell no. Before you leave you make that guy's life hell.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/ is a good start, get 3 of them and get them in his office and car. always remove his favorite section out of his newspaper before he get's it. actually cut stuff out and carefully refold it. Get random with the strange and highly annoying things you do so you dont get caught. Be paranoid as you do things as he will try to figure it out.

get a small learning ir remote and keep turning off the projector on his presentations, this one drives them INSANE.

Get a recorder and record his more stupid remarks and then turn them into mp3's and then email them all over the company, your customers are a good choice for this as well. use a throw away email account outside the company and time it right... be quiet about it and act "shocked" when everyone else does.

If you do it right, nobody will know it's you and it will drive the moron completely insane. It will make the 2 months you are there until you find a new job more enjoyable.

Subversive, that is the key.

OT: but here ya go http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/a0f3/

or do we have Caffeinated gum yet?

or do we have Caffeinated gum yet?

or do we have Caffeinated gum yet?

or do we have Caffeinated gum yet?

Think Geek has one of the items mentioned available for sale in the US.
Limited quantities but listed here

I have one of these, but haven't used it yet. Perhaps tomorrow...</shameless_ostc_plug>

For $9.99 I'd just get the one from here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

You can buy exactly this at ThinkGeek, and they're not that expensive either:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

Not light-sensetive, but still useful:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

But you could get one!