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  1. Re:community 'crime' watch organizations on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The ones I've seen in my town are on the Repo tow trucks. When they don't have a hot lead they just cruse parking lots waiting for a hit.

  2. What I did on the C64 was to connect a user port pin to a 3.59575 "Color Burst" xtal signal. Then the ~1MHz C64 would try to read that and build up a binary number of what ever scale I needed. It worked actually quite well.

  3. Re:The man is a marketing genius on Tesla To Voluntarily Recall Every Model S Because One Seat Belt Came Apart (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey! My '98 V70 is the most comfortable car I've ever owned. It does not drive like a tank, more like a well worn-in Lay-Z-Boy.

    Not saying that the sample lot was all that high-end, well there was the '96 Mazda Millennia, that was a nice car too.

    I happen to like the way the V70 looks. This may explain why my wife picks my clothes when we go out, and makes me take the 2001 Volvo S60.

  4. Re:Boulder/Denver, CO; Lincoln, NE & Bozeman, on Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? · · Score: 1

    I have to support a small office of two dozen aerospace engineers in Belgrade, MT and travel there a few times a year. I was quite surprised to find a very decent selection of places to go in downtown Bozeman. Good food and drink, friendly people too. A bit right leaning for me but growing up in Yakima I know how to deal with that. It was that one trip when it was -20 degrees that would keep me from moving there. But if you like the outdoors and four real seasons a year, it's a place to put on the list.

  5. Re:I'm confused on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The "mission accomplished" was in reference to defeating Sadam's regime.

    Who do you think Daaesh/ISIL is? Remember how we walked into Baghdad and the Republican Army was no where to be seen? They just waited us out.

  6. Re:And this is news? on Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. What does Ms Hudson's sexuality have to do with how Anslinger was bought off by the DuPonts to start an underground race war? You've lost me.

  7. Re:And this is news? on Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players (sciencedirect.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It tells us that you are way too hung up on shit that doesn't concern you.

  8. Re:Big Trouble on Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I was moving from Yakima (Eastern Washington) to Seattle that morning and wondered why the sky was so black to the south going over the pass. Didn't know until I got unpacked and Walter Cronkite was telling me that the town I grew up in and left that morning was now covered in several inches of volcanic ash. http://media.kimatv.com/images...

  9. Re:Big Trouble on Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1
  10. There isn't any video content I can't live without.

    Really? Doctor Who?

  11. Re:"Tech, STEM" a redundancy ? on More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    But S.E.M.E.N. is useless without females.

  12. Re:Don't Panic! on Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum · · Score: 1
  13. Re:(intentionally blank) on Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining · · Score: 1

    THIS! I've had one of these for years. First year did about 20-50 prints a day, last three years I've done maybe 10 pages a month. This is unit is always ready when needed. So much so that when I had to chose a printer to send in a Pelican case overseas with our on-site (AOG) engineers, this was my choice. The HP P1102w is the best "personal" printer I've ever seen.

  14. Re:As much as conveniently fits on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    I went with 32GB because that's what was in the junk drawer at work. Nice little i7 HP 800 SFF office desk top box, Put in a 480GB SSD and found a great deal on a 5TB drive.

    To cap it off, installed ESXi 6.0 and have a hella nice little home lab, domain controler, FreeBSDs, file server, pfSense, FreePBX, OwnCloud, and my IBM Domino & Sametime server (that's another show.)

    This desktop is also an HP with 32MB RAM & 480 SSD and two Quatro 600 graphic cards (one for each monitor.) It suits my humble needs.

    The company got bought and the new parent is a Dell house so we have to "upgrade" to become standard. I can't wait until next year when all the HP Z820s Xeon workstations become available.

  15. Re:What's the problem? on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 1

    Simply configure your spam email/site to point to individual IPs and port combos for every email you send..

    Ah, finally a good reason for web sites to move to IPv6!

  16. Re: Me neither on The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years · · Score: 1

    Oh, that is me. I just can't send a bottle to the AC because he's an AC.

    I forgot about my induction to the hall of fame.

  17. Re:Me neither on The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years · · Score: 1

    If you go that far I'll invite you in for a drink or you can select your own radio to claim.

  18. Re: Me neither on The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years · · Score: 1

    A/Cs don't count, can't verify you.

  19. Me neither on The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years · · Score: 2

    You won't find mine either. I've been on the net since before www, but you won't find a picture of me. Go ahead, please, try. You have my email address and from that you can get my last name and address. First person to send me a link to an image of my face I'll send you a bottle of nice Irish or an old Motorola HT, your choice.

  20. Re:It's news to me on At Black Hat: Square Reader To Credit Card Skimmer In 10 Minutes · · Score: 1

    You can read a mag card without electronics even. Just sprinkle some very fine powdered iron filings on it and you'll see the bars. Very old trick.

  21. Yep on Gun-Firing Drone Raises Some Eyebrows · · Score: 0

    This is why we can't have nice things.

  22. Hold it! Ham radios AND sex in the same car? I call bullshit!

    Also, "..the number of cities with proper elevated monorail systems that don't impact the streets or create shadowy hangouts for the unsavory is very small. Where small equals zero. Seattle monorail is a private ride for Seattle Center.

    See monorails.org

    73 om de w7com

  23. Re:Wrong skin color on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I just saw Neal Stephenson tout his new book at a church up on pill-hill.

    Myself? I moved north to Tulalip and work tech in Everett for an aerospace firm. More people coming up here too. The whole I-5 corridor is getting slammed: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/planni...

  24. Re: If you sedate everyone and put them in a coffi on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    It also would be hard to get out of the plane in an emergency if you're knocked out.

  25. Re:Three thoughts... on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 1

    The overheads are not too small, people are trying to put too much in them. By FAA regs, you can get everyone off a plane in 90 seconds if they don't take their stuff out of the overhead (and use all the exits.) If I fly, I just check everything and only take a Kindle on board. So much easier that way.