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  1. Re:N2A on Barnes & Noble Adds Google Play Store To the Nook · · Score: 1

    You mean those guys that package up the works of others with absolutely no attribution, specifically a complete lack of GPL compliance? Charming.

    Why not get a better supported, free CM10.1 from here.

  2. Re: Too little too late. on Barnes & Noble Adds Google Play Store To the Nook · · Score: 2

    That's a load of crap. They share the antenna with an antenna switch on the module. The reason it sucks is likely due to lack of calibration being done for the BT side of the controller.

  3. Re:Question on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    "empty" means that the SoC's bootrom can't find a valid 2nd stage loader. For Sitara that's either a bootloader header near the beginning of flash or a file named "MLO" on the first FAT partition that has a valid header.

  4. Re:Question on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    The BeagleBone's SoC can boot from microSD as well as from USB device and serial. The chip gets configured by straps as to what devices to boot and in which order to try booting them, much like a PC BIOS. It's nigh-unbrickable.

  5. Re:rs-232 on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 2

    To be fair most people that need that serial port either are interfacing with 3.3V logic or have a pile of 3.3V->USB serial converters in their junk box. At least the BeagleBone follows the FTDI convention so that many of the off-the-shelf converters will Just Work, unlike the competition.

  6. Re:Already read about this on arstechnica.com on BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 · · Score: 1

    I had jello today.

  7. Re:Get out while you still can on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    The later models had drains for funneling your coffee spit-takes out the bottom instead of in the mechanism or electronics. And of course they can also double as an impromptu assault weapon.

  8. Re:Get out while you still can on IBM In Talks To Sell x86 Server Business To Lenovo · · Score: 1

    IBM hasn't built a good keyboard since 1991 when they spun off Lexmark.

  9. Then your company is guilty of letting this engineer work in a bubble. He wasn't being held accountable for his process and designs (which while maybe robust they don't sound marketable). How did he get that far without a design review?

  10. Re:Can I run this from a Raspberry Pi? on 3D Printer Controlled With a Touch-Screen Linux Tablet · · Score: 1

    Yes you can. Now pay up.

  11. Re:INFOCOM LEVEL 3! on Possible Cyber Attack Against South Korean Banks and TV Stations · · Score: 1

    Level 1 is when they put on the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

  12. Re:Okay hang on, on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives · · Score: 2

    Say you had a VW Microbus, and the insides of the windows are permanently fogged with antifreeze from a leaky heater core. You lend your friend Eddie the Microbus for a few days, but before he picks it up you write "frist psot" on the front passenger window. After a day of driving it, Eddie loans it to his pal Joe to move a couch, but before he gives it up he writes "hot grits" on the back window. Joe adds "STFU noob" to the windshield, but before he has a chance to move the couch, his grandma needs to borrow the Microbus to get to a bingo tournament. This goes on and on for years. Eventually you get your car back, with every window covered in messages.

    Now imagine there are hundreds of thousands of VW Microbuses in your pants. This is what's happening in Cuba.

  13. Re:And after the pigeons get loose and take over.. on Berkeley Scientists Plan To 'Jurassic Park' Some Extinct Pigeons Back To Life · · Score: 1

    The solution is obviously to "Jurassic Park" Robert Frost.

  14. Re:It's a photogrammetry camera + computer in one? on Point and Shoot 3D Modeling (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I met one of their devs at their table on Monday, and that's pretty much their pitch. The idea is that you can take scans and proof them in one go with a handheld gadget. If you've used 123D Catch, you know that you'll need to take a hundred or more shots of a single object to get a good scan. With this camera you can see if you've missed an occluded region or didn't catch a certain angle.

    They scanned me at the booth, and given the 20 seconds or so it took to pan around me the model came out looking great. Unfortunately I forgot to ask for a copy of the model...

  15. Re:Treo- on Don't Write Them Off: A Palm Retrospective · · Score: 1

    It got to the point where I drilled a hole in the back cover of my 650 so I could push the stylus through to the reset button without taking off the cover.

  16. Re:GRiDPad glossed over on Don't Write Them Off: A Palm Retrospective · · Score: 1

    The 1910 was pretty nice in its own right. For the time it was fairly small and light and had decent battery life, though no PDA. I had one I got surplus about 15 years ago, and used it with a text viewer and a TSR I wrote to map the hard function keys to arrow and PGUP/PGDN to make it into a primitive ereader.

  17. Re:Sort of pointless on Android In Space: STRaND-1 Satellite To Activate Nexus One · · Score: 1
  18. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 4, Funny

    or insist that your burbclave invest in a Rat Thing.

  19. Re:That is what they're for... on The Patents That Threaten 3-D Printing · · Score: 1

    Lost wax casting involves support structures that melt, evaporate, or burn at a lower temperature than the surrounding mold. This patent covers supports that can be removed by submerging in a solvent.

  20. Re:BSD kernel running in your BROWSER!? on The State of BSD At the Start of 2013 · · Score: 2

    There is no animated GIF to convey how blown my mind is.

  21. Re:The iWatch on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    Sewage systems are often part of the ecology of civilizations, so yes.

  22. Re:Uverse Scam on Multi-State AT&T U-Verse Outage Enters Third Day · · Score: 1

    Their TV-over-DSL has worked great for us for the last five years. It's their ToS that sucks.

  23. Re:An Even Better Idea on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    What a great idea for a compaqt computer!

  24. Re:Onion called, wants their story back on Microsoft R&D Burgled: Only Apple Products Stolen · · Score: 1

    For a few years now you've been able to buy a razor with five blades and two lotion strips. I'm not sure if one of them lathers, but the handle does vibrate to add an element of danger.

  25. Re:The hypocrisy just keeps getting worse. on TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners · · Score: 2

    Chance of measurable increased exposure to ionizing cosmic rays once the plane is at altitude: 100%