Slashdot Mirror


User: KiwiCanuck

KiwiCanuck's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
266
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 266

  1. Re:What bugs me on In Defense of Jailbreaking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They can write whatever they want in the document. However, anything written in the EULA that is contradictory to the Law is not enforceable, and thus can be ignored by the user. Getting the company to acknowledge this is another matter.

  2. Hello? on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 1

    Someone pirates a game and then registers with their legitimate nfo. lol! Is this a late April fools joke?

  3. In a completely unrelated story on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    CEO G@Ry FuNg has introduces a new torrent site: www.is0hunt.com

  4. Part of the problem is funding on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You find some correlation with Climate Change, you get more funding to investigate. If you disprove something, you're done.

  5. Not a 4th Dimension on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is a 4th dimension. It's more like a second/parallel space. I want to say sub-set or second vector space, but that doesn't sound right either. Each space has 3D (4D if you count time). Are there any Mathematicians in this group that knows the correct terminology?

  6. Democracy is ending on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    As The banks are convincing people to subjugate themselves.

  7. Internal Conversation on Oracle/Sun Enforces Pay-For-Security-Updates Plan · · Score: 1

    Sale rep to programmer: "Put more bugs in the software, I'm making a killing here!"

  8. Plastic Surgery on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 1

    Seriously?! Don't they know that a nose job is the second most popular plastic surgery?

  9. Funny on Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 · · Score: 1

    the french version is fairly well written. Much better than the english

  10. Conference Notes: on Nokia Targets Mobile Kinetic Energy Charging · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was at a conference in Europe a few years ago and they had an afternoon section devoted to power scavenging. Most devices produced nanowatts of power. The problem is extracting the power from random motion. A fixed length cantilever (the simplest design) will only produce meaningful power when at resonance. Complex arrays can extract more power, but the cost-benefit ratio rises quickly. The only device that broke the milliwatt was NASA's micro (milli?) jet turbine (it might have broke the Watt barrier as well, I can't remember exactly). However, the turbine was made out of a stack of twenty 3-inch wafers. At $10 per wafer (very cheap wafer), you're starting cost is $200. So it is very costly to build, but could be extremely useful in many applications.

  11. OT'ish: I can't believe they didn't have on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    propane ones as backups! The whole green thing is a farce. The hydrogen fuel for the buses is shipped from Quebec. Shipping H2 via petroleum fuel is blatantly stupid.

  12. Re:Remember when 3D used to mean... on Sony Announces First 3D Blu-ray Disc Players · · Score: 1

    The story has been replaced with special effect. If you want a story you are going to have to buy the new 4D TVs next year. Plot twist 5D TVs will follow in 2012.

  13. Re:It's time on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    You have 30 days to report your subversive comment. Afterwards, I'm telling! ~:-) Welcome to 1984. Oh carp! Now I have to register too!

  14. Skynet is born! on Armed Robot Drones To Join UK Police Force · · Score: 1

    Neutered, but born.

  15. #6 Cooking on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    Works very well. You don't need to know how to make a large variety of dishes. Just learn to make a few VERY well. Also, around date 5-7, buy a reasonable bottle of champagne and make chocolate covered strawberries. That seems to work very well for me. Women appreciate effort.

  16. Ya right! on Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon · · Score: 1

    Show me an 18 SiC wafer, and I'll show you my retirement plan!

  17. Next up on Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems · · Score: 1

    Insurance companies start doing "research".

  18. Awesome! on Bill Gates Knows What You Did Last Summer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Thanks Big Brother! (1984)

  19. How does talking on a cell phone cause an accident on Phone and Text Bans On Drivers Shown Ineffective · · Score: 1

    The people I see talking & driving are all going 15 mph!

  20. Simple solution on Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering · · Score: 1

    stop buying their products. If no one buys it, then it'll flop. Then insist on the forums you would have bought it if you could copy/paste. Every time you spend a dollar you are voting for a company's success. So stop voting for them!

  21. 3 systems that should never be electronic on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    brakes, steering & throttle control. These are the 3 active collision systems.

  22. No one gets left behind on Students Failing Because of Poor Grammar · · Score: 1

    But everyone else gets held up.

  23. Well duh! on Old Stems Cells Young Again — Via Vampirism · · Score: 1

    Didn't they see the Dark Angel episode where Logan got a blood transfusion from Max, and was the able to walk a couple of eps later. Clearly researcher don't watch enough scifi. ~:-)

  24. So what? on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    I can create a computer model that says 2+2==5. It doesn't mean that it's true. A computer is a tool for doing complex mathematics (and using Facebook). Does the computer do the research, collect data and publish the journal paper? No. It makes those things easier. It's the human mind that does the hard work.

  25. Tough call on Heat Engines Shrunk By Seven Orders of Magnitude · · Score: 2, Interesting

    if this is useful. I've seen micro rotary and piston engine. They suffer from two problems. One is heat loss due to high surface area to volume ratio (heat leaks away before work can be extracted), and the other is charge (fuel/air) leakage. This appears to solve the leakage problem buy not using combustion. Good job!