User: EkriirkE

Cars with frikin' lasers

On: Pioneer Preps Laser Heads-Up Display For Cars

Do not look forward with remaining eye.

Re:Prior art

On: Facebook Patents Location Social Networking

I came in here to post this :o
I thought it was older than that, like c2004

Passwordless?

On: Map Based Passwords

I imagine the back-end simply being the coordinates with a margin of error.
Still a password: "You could have a 10-digit latitude, and a 10-digit longitude, then you'd have a 20-digit password." - TFA

Re:Only a concept, will not be made

On: Mozilla Labs Presents Seabird Concept Phone

I tried to see what the phone looked like, but there was too much sunburst and lens flare to see the renders :(

Re:One of the ISPs is having fun

On: In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day

Use a handwriting and/or "ransom note" font on recycled unbleached paper

Not that great...

On: First Human-Powered Ornithopter

This is merely a glider, nothing more. The up-flap cancels out the down-flap as the wings appear to move vertically. All winged animals I'm aware of either twist their wings at angles or fold them, especially on the up-flap, so that most of the powered force is directed to pushing air under the wings on the down flap and the wing simply cuts through the air on the up flap.

Re:I doubt it.

On: 2011, Year of the Tablet?

Anything that didn't require much typing.

Re:Year of the X

On: 2011, Year of the Tablet?

2012 is already the year of the Apocalypse. Therefore, 2013 will not be a year of anything.

Re:I doubt it.

On: 2011, Year of the Tablet?

I've owned only tablet (convertible) pcs for about 6 years now, in tablet mode the only good uses I use that for are

• web browsing
• video
• reading
• drawing
• many games*
• presentations/demos
• the swiveled screen in laptop mode was handy for sharing my non-projected screen

*I had a toshiba tecra m4 that had a nifty little arrow-key joystick button on the corner which was awesome for RPGs using the pen for mouse. right now i use a smaller fujitsu lifebook which lacks these - when it dies i will look for another one with the thumbstick on the screen bezel

Great

On: Cell Phones Powered By Conversations

SORRY I'M YELLING, MY BATTERY IS LOW!!!

(off-topic lowercase to side-step /. yelling filters here)

Re:Settlers get rich.

On: Copying Trumps Creating For FarmVille Creator Zynga

You Have Died of Dysentery.

Re:It's not a game changer

On: Why Twitter's T.co Is a Game Changer

In my referral log I see many facebook links which, when I check them out, are the "You are about to leave the walled garden on facebook.com" page. I am unable to see where the actual link was posted within the realm of facebook.

Re:Scary analogy

On: No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice

It makes a bloody mess? I don't know about that...

Re:I may have read that one wrong

On: Burning Man Goes Open Source For Cell Phones

"Design" like his design influence in the Mac hardware? "...look at the memory chips. That's ugly. The lines are too close together"

Kitty!

On: Touchless Gesture User Interfaces

This video is like watching a cat in slow motion.

Re:New market for GPS Jammers?

On: GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal

In the US devices that disrupt signals are illegal, therefore you don't want to be caught with this, this, or any one of these.

Re:Listening to music

On: The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple

Wrong thread, disregard!

Listening to music

On: Sorting Algorithms — Boring Until You Add Sound

I was listening to some dance/trance music. I though I had a problem with my speakers playing the video because I didn't notice any new sounds :o

Listening to music

On: The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple

I was listening to some dance/trance music. I though I had a problem with my speakers playing the video because I didn't notice any new sounds :o

Almost got it working w/ RPM (64bit)

On: Gmail Video Chat Now Available On Linux

using the alien utility
alien -r google-talkplugin_current_amd64.deb
creates google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm

rpm -i google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64.rpm
a few dependency issues :
    libcrypto.so.0.9.8 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64
    libcrypto.so.0.9.8(OPENSSL_0.9.8) is needed by google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64
    libssl.so.0.9.8 is needed by google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64
    libssl.so.0.9.8(OPENSSL_0.9.8) is needed by google-talkplugin-1.4.1.0-2.x86_64

I know these are installed, both 64 and 686 versions, so i throw a --nodeps in and manually softlink the files in my lib/lib64 to the current versions
Fired up FF and I see no new extensions. Hmm
I checked the plugins folders and see the google talks files got linked to the 32bit path not the 64bit libs path
    ls -l /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
    libnpgoogletalk64.so -> /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgoogletalk64.so
    libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so -> /opt/google/talkplugin/libnpgtpo3dautoplugin.so
So I link these in my 64 plugin path (/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/). Fired up FF again and now I have new plugins! no errors about depends in the terminal...
Alas, gmail does not recognize they are there :(

Re:Disguise?

On: Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico

Maybe true for a retina scan, but this uses the iris from what I skimmed. Even still, surely some kind of diffraction coating (laser engraving) could disrupt a retina scan w/o impairing your vision too much.

Disguise?

On: Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico

It should be pretty easy to create contact lenses (even non-rx) to thwart this? Maybe even when you register wear the lenses to have false data on their systems

Re:Tom Hank's Big

On: Apple Wants Patent On Video Game-Based iBooks

This is the first thing I thought of, too.

Re:Wouldn't it be against the rules anyways?

On: US Military 'Banned' From Viewing Wikileaks

Except in this case the toy is still irresistibly glimmering in reach and view of the baby, but you are yelling at/threatening the baby not to touch it.

Re:Two spaces, bitches.

On: Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2?

This is why when I parse text into HTML I do a replace of space-space with  -space.

I was always taught indent the paragraphs (4 spaces, or 8 if tabbing on a computer), two spaces between sentences, one blank line between paragraphs.