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  1. The Orville Redenbacher Test on What's Killing Your Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Some urban legend is circulating that this will work for radiation, but it will definitely work for WiFi interference: Set a bag of microwave popcorn out on the counter. If it starts popping, you've probably got WiFi interference problems.

  2. "Betters?" on Doctors To Patients: First, Do No Yelp Harm · · Score: 1

    What are you, a butler on some English grand estate? A doctor or bike shop owner isn't your "better", hopefully you regard them as some kind of fellow professional. If you enter into a business relationship with some kind of class warfare in mind, you're going to get treated like dirt.

  3. If it's anything like the iPhone ... on Apple Patents Keyboard That Knows What You'll Type · · Score: 1

    This'll feet your be somehow use fill. It actuarily pickaxe the current word mast of the tines.

  4. Tongue stylus on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    The teledildonic French kiss adapter, discussed yesterday, might be useful in addition. Do people with these disabilities have more precise control over their tongue or their heads? It's probably a matter of personal preference. There are also those who communicate by puffing into a device, either in morse or some other code.

  5. Salt panic redux on China Detects 10 Cases of Radiation Contamination, 2 In Hospital · · Score: 1

    The government and press is so unreliable that the population is subject to panics:

    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/18/world/la-fg-china-iodine-salt-20110318

    I call "same kind of thing."

  6. Re:The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useles on Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP!!!!

  7. Re:FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP on Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films · · Score: 1

    The 2D glasses sound like something I might actually use. I mean, the theory is sound.

    The fish lips flavored iPhone bumber is definitely useless. I prefer a padded case.

  8. Radio clocks not that accurate anyway on Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan · · Score: 1

    You can get down into the hundreds of nanoseconds accuracy with GPS. Radio clocks aren't that good, WWVB is only accurate to a millisecond or so in good propagation conditions. Shortwave is even less predictable. Still, good enough for "household" use.

    I live in California, and my WWVB signal is marginal, so my radio clocks only sync up onc a week or so. Still, they are accurate to within a fraction of a second. I can get still better with NTP.

     

  9. "active shooter" on Univ. of Illinois Goes War-of-the-Worlds On Students · · Score: 2

    "Active shooter" is police jargon for a Columbine-type situation.

    The opposite isn't "passive shooter", but the term signifies (at least in some jurisdictions) a situation in which immediate action needs to be taken, rather than, say, waiting to call out the SWAT team.

  10. personalization on Univ. of Illinois Goes War-of-the-Worlds On Students · · Score: 1

    No, the real version will say "shooter at BUILDING NAME/INTERSECTION, looking for INSERT NAME HERE".

  11. I'd rather have my own nuke on Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Really, I'd rather have a well-designed nuclear reactor under my house than a rapidly spinning contraption with 50 kW of stored kinetic energy.

    Unless I could train my cats to spin it up somehow.

  12. So I use trackmyflight.something - on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    - what *is* the ICAO airport code for the USS Barry?

  13. Re:Meh on Nexus S Beats iPhone 4 In 'Real World' Web Browsing Tests · · Score: 2

    Oops meant 1110. That's more serious. Considering it takes me an average of 7865.349 msec to plug in my charger, still a fair trade..

  14. Re:Meh on Nexus S Beats iPhone 4 In 'Real World' Web Browsing Tests · · Score: 1

    Hm, trade off 110 msec of my life wasted each time I restart an app vs. 3 days standby time with Wifi and Bluetooth on. Touch choice.

  15. Huh? (Re:Need to drop the 13" Pro) on MacBook Pro Specs Leaked, iPad Event March 2 · · Score: 1

    Huh? Base 13-in MBP is only $200 more, comes with 4G instead of 2G and SD reader, slightly smaller and weighs a few g less.

    If you bring MB up to 4G, only $100 difference.

  16. You can semi-block experts-exchage on Google Goes After Content Farms · · Score: 1

    Back when there were "remove this result" X's in search results about experts-exchange, I checked them and now on my dashboard (https://www.google.com/dashboard/?pli=1), there are Search Wiki notes showing "removed results" for the site.

    I think these results are specific to my account, but by whatever mechanism, I don't get as much crap form experts-exchange in my search results as I used to.

  17. Re:Documentation died with Sun on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 1

    They have changed every link on the site. You will need to authenticate, but most of the pages that were not total cruft are still there. Don't expect to find any 4.1.3 documentation. nd I am not sure Googlewill be able to spider the new site.

  18. Re:I would say sun is done on Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing? · · Score: 1

    I concur, it took us over two months to get parts for some 6440 and 6240 blades that are only about two years old, but now EOLed. A 6240 died in production a few weeks ago, it took them several days to get a replacement.

    And the online store is down this week, and no one knows when it will be back up. They are changing all the part numbers, as far as I can tell. FFS!!

    Software seems to be in a little bit better shape, if you know the right people to call. But I expect they will shed the hardware business at some point.

  19. Re:Several? on Scientist Says NASA Must Study Space Sex · · Score: 1

    This could only go two ways:

    1) Occasional replenishment of the Martian explorer supply, which would probably result in a slower drift toward a new species.

    2) Martian hillbillies.

  20. No interference on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 2

    And, being a ham operator, I would have noticed by now if the Smart Meter that was installed at my house was causing any interference, and it's not.

    Now, the bills every month for 8888 kWh are starting to look a little suspicious....

  21. Re:Grow Ops in Marin? on California County Bans SmartMeter Installations · · Score: 1

    Someone correct me if I am wrong, but the PG&E meter readers that show up in my neighborhood in the E Bay do not look like they have cushy union jobs. They drive their own cars, and do not have uniforms besides an safety vest. To me these are clues that they are "contracted out".

    The real reason PG&E wants real time metering is so they can charge more at the peaks and less at the off peaks. These paranoid tinfoil hat loons are just keeping off-peak electricity (like you would use to charge your electric car) expensive for everyone, and keeping peak-hour air conditioning electricity cheap for their constituency.

  22. Re:Exploring Venus on French Use Space Tech To Find Parking Spots · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding a parking space cool enough to not melt your fancy NASA-designed spinner rims.

  23. "Who are these people"? on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    "As you may know, I am one of the most important executives here at Yoyodyne, because I have a new MACBOOK AIR, so if you don't kiss my ass and install Flash for me on my MACBOOK AIR I will have your ass fired in 15 minutes, do you understand?"

    That's who these people are.

  24. Re:Already thought of on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    Do not worry, I have for sale inflatable satellite to see inflatable battalions!

    Theen we keel Moose, keel Squirrel!

  25. Not Cylons, Nigerians on Analyzing CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    I dealt with spam sent via phished passwords in a previous job. No one could relay through our site, and our IDS blocked large mail bombs via authenticated SMTP and IMAP, so the spammers always got in by logging in via the HTTP interface and apparently cutting and pasting spam messages one recipient at a time.

    About 3/4 of the spammy logins were from Nigeria and Togo and the rest were from various places like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and various UAE states. It's the ultimate work from home job!