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  1. Not sure it will ever work well with just vision, how will it cope if you fling it over the pool on a day with moving clouds in the reflection? Fling it over an escalator and it may not come back.

  2. I using Aldec Riviera simulator on A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface (deepchip.com) · · Score: 1

    The script commands are eerily similar to Modelsim (now owned by Mentor Graphics)

  3. Re:even better on Feds: Brink's Employee Makes Off With $196,000 In Quarters (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    To be truly nerdy he would have to turn up at court to pay the fine with a forklift and a shrink-wrapped 60x60x60 stack of quarters on a palette.

  4. Re:4V Core Voltage on Skylake Breaks 7GHz In Intel Overclocking World Record (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Very brightly

  5. Thelma and Louise proof? on Volvo Promises 'Death-Proof' Cars By 2020 (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    Like to see that scenario.

  6. Re:This has been around a while on Kite Power: The Latest In Green Technology (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    > demonstrating the awesome stupidity of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge designers.

    FTFY

    (Actually that may be a bit harsh, ignorance may be a better word)

  7. Re:Efficiency depends on what you're effishing for on Nanotech Could Make Incandescent Light Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I assume you're more geeky than your wife, in which case do her a favour and buy a cheap heater and thermostat. Or install a electrically heated towel radiator (on a thermostat). Or one of those IR lamps used for keeping chicks alive in hen houses.

  8. Re:Its always someone else's problem on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry to be picky but do you mean the water frequently has high acidity? Or PH levels too far below 7?

  9. Re:How does space elevator save energy? on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need energy in the elevator. Simply have two elevators and a pulley wheel at the top. Lifting something then is just a matter of capturing some space junk or asteroid of suitable mass and lowering it in the other elevator.

  10. Engineers are not scientists, Scientific methods are handy in finding out what is wrong but the goal of most engineers is to get the thing working and go to the pub. If I could sacrifice a goat and get this FPGA working I would.

    Belief in God or disbelief is hardly relevant to engineering.

  11. Have you tried NegativeScreen on Ask Slashdot: What's Out There For Poor Vision? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://arcanesanctum.net/negat...
    It works with windows 7 and above and it requires Aero to provide the filtering.

    I get headaches from blinding white backgrounds and after spending way too much time trying various solutions like CSS and Windows accessibility themes which don't work I found NegativeScreen.

    It works by putting a filter over the whole screen and allowing you to apply a matrix transform on the pixel values. Out of the box it will reverse the colours so every window gets a black background but there are other transforms supplied (submarine mode is cool). And you can edit the config file to create your own, here's mine which adds a blue tint to the otherwise harsh black:

    Blue Blacks=win+alt+F12
    { -1, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
    { 0, -1, 0, 0, 0 }
    { 0, 0, -0.85, 0, 0 }
    { 0, 0, 0, 1, 0 }
    { 1, 1, 1, 0, 1 }

    ObLinux: xcalib -i

  12. Re:It's not so easy on Ex-Lottery Worker Convicted of Programming System To Win $14M · · Score: 2

    Yes it is, just contact the mafia and expect to settle for a 10% cut.

  13. works wonders with managers.

  14. Re:take care of yourself and you will look good on Scientists Show Human Aging Rates Vary Widely · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll just stick with the painting in my attic thanks.

  15. Re:Is it 2013 again? on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, it's 1985 again. Or even earlier. 1985 was when I found out an escape sequence that would reboot the HP100 portable computer my boss used to access the message system on the HP 3000 minicomputer. Cue me sending an email with it in the subject. The reboot took so long the messaging system logged you off and handily when you log in it prints the subjects of your unread emails and around you go again.

    This kind of stuff never gets old.

  16. Re:Good Passwords on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Why bring my mother into this?
    Sincerely,
    Mr Fear.

  17. Re:Moral on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 2

    Apparently, there is a thriving black market in Starbucks gift cards. I guess you type the number into your app and use it to get coffee without having to actually travel to meet the guy selling the gift card. Starbucks must be honouring these or there would be no market.

    There isn't one person who really likes coffee, just lots of people who like it enough to take part in morally dubious and possibly criminal activities. A bit like the pirated DVD trade but with zero overheads and less evidence after the crime.

  18. Re:Moral on Hackers Using Starbucks Gift Cards To Access Credit Cards · · Score: 5, Informative

    RTF linked article. Bad people guess your Starbucks login and transfer your funds to another Starbucks gift card which is the auctioned off on some anonymous dodgy version of Ebay.

  19. Re:So how does this work? on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 1

    If an attacker has your password file you should not be worried about saving the original passwords. Either your machine is stolen or your password database has been copied.

  20. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Good luck trying to remove Peppa Pig

  21. Re:Helps chess as a sport on Chess Grandmaster Used iPhone To Cheat During Tournament · · Score: 1

    Faraday cages are not made of steel you insensitive clod.

  22. I worked there for 8 weeks on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    I felt tiny and I'm 6'2" (1.8m). I also felt claustrophobic as even in the countryside you could only see as far as the nearest hedge, it really is very flat. I guess without hills every inch counts to making your field of vision larger (find more mates) and to being found by potential mates.

  23. Good luck with your neck on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Humans can look left and right either by eye movement or neck rotation. Both are very easy on the muscles. Looking up and down is much harder and will give you RSI eventually. Get used to having two windows (or three) next to each other and your productivity will improve. Even my child plays Minecraft on the left half while picking up tips on youtube in the right half.

  24. Why not 1:1?? on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    I had to work with some monitors used in air traffic control once. They were 2048x2048. Way too tall for me, I could only use them for short periods for normal work without getting neck-ache from looking up and down all the time. Air traffic controllers have them at a fairly horizontal angle (like a table top) so don't have quite as much nodding to do. Had an eight foot wide 5120x2560 as well that was lovely as long as you didn't mind having to sit five feet from it and having everyone in a 50 foot range reading your emails.

  25. It's curtains for privacy on Extracting Audio From Visual Information · · Score: 1

    The minimalist architects are in league with the spooks!