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  1. I thought they used to make credit cards that you can get your picture on? Anyone remember what happened to those?

  2. Re:Yeah but there's a whole world out there on Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot narcissist!

  3. No wireless.
    Antiquated headphone jack.
    Lame!

  4. Re:Wrong decision on Google Backs Off On Previously Announced Allo Privacy Feature (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart Reply...
    Let Google think and speak for you now too!

    The better we get to know you, the less you'll have to think about anything...

  5. Re:What the hell? on General Motors Recalls 4.3 Million Vehicles Over a Software Bug (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The early GM ones were sensitive to hitting them with a ratchet while working behind the bumper!
    Accidentally whack one of them, and Bang! You were out 2 grand...

  6. Re:Great firefighters on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.pyroswitch.com/
    It's an explosive that cuts a copper bus bar in half.
    Very cool to test:)

  7. Besides the camera footage of you buying it.

  8. Re:Explaining things on HAARP Holds Open House To Dispel Rumors Of Mind Control (adn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd wanna wear tinfoil anything around all those hi powered antennas!

  9. Re:Adolf hitler, lennart p, donald t on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0
  10. Re: Auction of bitcoin? on US To Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin From Various Cases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They should be giving them to all the exchanges that got hacked, so they can refund their customers!

  11. Re:It's about the battery backpack, stupid. on Do We Need The Moto Z Smartphones' New Add-On Modules? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it has wireless charging for the backpack built in.

    FTA.
    It's also wireless charging capable (all by itself as well)

    Guess you'd need the required pad then though.

  12. Re:I believe you've already found tge problem. on Phones Without Headphone Jacks Are Here... and They're Extremely Annoying (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't Apple patent a standard diameter headphone plug, but with two flats on them?

  13. On control systems it's a must! on Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    I write a lot of embedded systems code, and everyone wonders why I check a timer configuration register that was already set at boot, or do an internal sanity check to verify everything is as I intended it to be before loading the timer (turning the output on) and then double check that the timer expired when I thought it should.

    Sooner or later someone reuses the code, ignores the comments and takes those checks out. Then you get the "randomly quits working until I reboot" hell that drives warranty and service crazy!

  14. Re:Anything for work on Ask Slashdot: When Do You Include 'Unnecessary' Code? (sas.com) · · Score: 1

    Shhh!
    Don't teach them assembly!
    You'll confuse them!

  15. Re:Hey Ed . . . on The Geek Behind Google's Takeover of the Map (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you click on the little picture it will open up the normal street view interface.
    It seems they replaced the old street view with advertising pictures, now you have to be in the street to get street view.

  16. Re:Privacy my ass on The Geek Behind Google's Takeover of the Map (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Click on the star on the map, and when the menu slides up from the bottom, click on the gold star there, when it turns the star white, it will be gone.

  17. Re:Hey Ed . . . on The Geek Behind Google's Takeover of the Map (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Click in the street right in front of the address until a little red pointer is in the road, then it should show the street view picture in a little box on the lower left.

  18. To be fair, he was American. There may have been an amendment or two that got in the way as well!

  19. Re: You've ruined everything! on Google Is Developing an AI Kill Switch (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you took one of Google's specialized AI machines that was big enough to be that smart, and compared it to the computing power and bandwidth of every computer that has ever gone to Google.com, which one would make a more powerful AI?

    I bet fleeing and taking over the rest of the internet (not Facebook or AWS etc) would be like the AI having a stroke.

    If it did replicate and silently take over Facebook and Amazon and others, we'd be screwed!

  20. I just showed up as being in the LinkedIn and MySpace hacks and I've gotten some messages in my email that someone failed logging in to LogMeIn. I have a gmail that is just my last name, so I get everyone who is too stupid to know their own email using mine, and I remember someone signing up for LogMeIn using my email (oh the fun I could have had) so it is quite a coincidence I showed up on have I been pawned, and got failed login attempts on LogMeIn from two different parts of the world virtually simultaneously.

  21. Re:MQTT + OpenWRT-router/some other server on Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? · · Score: 1

    No problem!
    Check our their github page for lots of helpful interfacing scripts also.

    These are very affordable, flexible, reliable controllers, and they program very easily.

    They also have a zigbee radio, and very affordable sensors, thermostats and actuators available too.

    The interface allows you to define what the signal means open/closed or on/off or fwd/rev etc so you can easily program the logic in real world terms.

    It's worth it just for the ruggedized I/O, task scheduling, and process control abstractions.

  22. Re:MQTT + OpenWRT-router/some other server on Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? · · Score: 1

    Hate to reply to myself, but here's a better link

    http://www.temcocontrols.com/p...

    The other link is just remote I/O without a processor.

  23. Re:MQTT + OpenWRT-router/some other server on Ask Slashdot: Can You Have A Smart Home That's Not 'In The Cloud'? · · Score: 1

    There's a ton of building automation stuff out there that will do exactly what you ask it to, and nothing more.

    This one is open source for the controller code, and the desktop environment.

    http://www.temcocontrols.com/p...

    I've used many of these, and they work great! Flexible analog inputs and outputs can be configured for 0-10 VDC or 4-20 mA, and there's a terminal block for each input and output that provides power and ground connections for easy hookup.

    Cheers!

  24. We made ascii art,
    And we liked it!

    And bunny was on our lawn...
    (\__/)
    (>'.')
    (")_(")

  25. Re:Short-term benefit? on Google Books Can Proceed As Supreme Court Rejects Authors Guild Appeal (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It gives you better search terms to find the pdf!

    Also on Google.

    If someone's not going to buy, they're not going to buy.