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  1. Re:Users will be "Printer Trash" on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 1

    Printer trash. I like that. I might label my things with the phrase when I print them.

    And I do live in a manufactured home lot right now... because the cost is a third of the apartment I was renting, and twice the size with a fantastic yard. Two of my neighbors work for Microsoft, and another works for Boeing engineering. I honestly feel sorry for people with expensive stuff, but no money.

    Good luck with your capital assets. Let me know if you need a loan.

  2. don't destroy them on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Grab a toothbrush, get some red and blue paint. and SPECKLE the damn things. scrape what hits the display with a razor. or would that cost more than the 30k loss?

  3. He posts every day on google plus on Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page · · Score: 1
  4. nylon fumes on Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe With a Printer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't want to print this at home though... needs a specialty place... with a fume hood.

  5. better than facebook on How a Lone Grad Student Scooped the FTC On Privacy Issue · · Score: 1

    Google's worst is better than Facebook's best. Hell, Facebook has gotten caught hiring PR agents to smear google in the past. Who's to say they aren't doing that now with this?

  6. Fighting over the truth is the best way to find it on Wikipedia As a "War Zone," Rather Than a Collaboration · · Score: 1

    If there are heated wars over a topic, with factions constantly making changes... well damn, that tells you a lot right there. So long as the changes are documented and the history available... that's a very good thing. I learn more in the comments of places like slashdot, reddit and google+ than I do in the original post or argument. often quite a bit more.

    Same applies to wikipedia. If mr Alpha says one thing and Mr. Beta says another thing... and you see a whole string of alpha and beta modifications... well then. I guess you've got to use a little deductive reasoning and personal judgement...

    All I know for sure... is if I query "what is...." and I look at the list of results.. my favorite first choice is wikipedia.

    Just like every time you see an article knocking google... you have to check and see if facebook paid for it, seeing as how they got caught doing it....

    Any article knocking Wikipedia, a reader has to consider whether its a real complaint or yet another top down knowledge distributor annoyed at bottom up methods ruining their business model.

  7. Power storage, and power transfer. on Ask Slashdot: How Would Room-Temp Superconductors Affect Us? · · Score: 1

    storage: if there is no loss, can you make a ring of superconductor material, and start feeding dc power into that ring letting it spin around and around the hoop... feeding it more and more... then letting it sit till you need it, at which point you tap in and pull it out... theoretically this ring could hold a HELL of a lot of electricity.

    transfer... most of the power from an electrical generation station, nuclear, hydro, coal, whatever... is lost in the wires getting it to where its needed... if the wiring had no loss, our current infrastructure would have at least twice the power available to do work.

  8. Haven't been on slashdot much lately on Users Spend More Time On Myspace Than Google+ · · Score: 2

    Most of the stories here I've already read on google+ or Reddit

    And the conversations tend to have more signal than noise.

    I wonder, did facebook hire a PR agency to smear google again?

  9. AR MMORG on Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse · · Score: 1

    Heh how long before people start playing these games actively... say with a motion joystick like a wii remote, and a pair of AR glasses, so they are now wandering around fighting orcs on quests in real time.

    Wonder how long it would be before someone gets in trouble, probably by not paying attention, or possibly by realistically brandishing something resembling a weapon in a public place?

  10. Someone should blog about this on The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC · · Score: 1

    This could be newsworthy.

  11. explain to me on Spammers Establish Fake URL-Shortening Services · · Score: 2

    why are we not prosecuting the advertisers themselves for fraud? who the hell gives these people money to make this multi-headed, nested box, country jumping, spam monster?

    Doesn't it boil down to one end getting spam, and the other end getting money? If there is a way for money to transfer to that end, then there should be a way for people to find that end, and then charge them five times whatever money they made in fines.

    Stop hitting HOW they spam, and start hurting WHY.

  12. I Use Miro on Major Release of Miro Aims to Compete With iTunes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had it on my computer for a couple years now. It had codecs for a bunch of videos I had on my system from a LONG time ago. I like it. I noticed a new update popped up when I watched a video on it yesterday. I always have a couple redundant systems on my computer so if one of my old files doesn't work I can test it on something else. Miro is as good as anything else for watching movies on, and having options besides the big dominating one is always a good thing.
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  13. Easy to trick on US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors · · Score: 1

    Using the same formatting a human can get his message across anyways. To try to fix this would be like "trying to close the stable door after the critters have vamoosed". or "tossing the kid out with the tubwater". now those examples probably won't trigger the keyword search form barn door and horses. or baby and bathwater. Now apply that to something more nasty, like "that fella needs a be introduced to a bucket of hot road tar and what you pluck from a chicken"

  14. This is science fiction, let's BE futuristic on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    Its time for the shows we love to start giving the finger to distribution channels on tv, and post their shows once a week to a website directly, with either a monthly charge, all you can watch... or a premium charge to watch it the week it is first posted, less charge for the first month... and free of charge after that. Throw a bunch of content around the shows to enhance things maybe... but we want the shows. We don't need SYFY. at all.

  15. Encourage this, and prosper from it on Open-Source Bach; Copyright-Free Goldbergs · · Score: 1

    Once this goes into the public domain.... Once the music is available... Use it.

    Make videos with it as the background, put it in your products, play it at your corporate events, use the hell out of it. FREE is FREE. Of course you can profit from it... as long as you add value to it. The only thing you can't do with it, is prevent other people from doing the same damn thing.

    I don't understand the confusion here. Why aren't businesses doing this all the time, so they don't have to pay anyone for the rights to something that was written before my grandfathers father was born. Every new movie with a classical soundtrack should be doing this as a matter of course.

  16. I want to run a tech shop! on Should Public Libraries Become Hacker Spaces? · · Score: 1

    I'd LOVE to run a tech shop, or something very like it North of Seattle. http://lastonk.blogspot.com/2011/02/tech-shop.html Unless someone drops a few bags of money in my lap though... it will be at least five more years before I can afford to open one. In the meantime, I'm learning business management, and reading everything I can on the subject, and pinching pennies preparing for when I can do this.

  17. Re:Eben Moglen on Egyptian 'Net Killed By Intimidation, Not a Switch · · Score: 1

    well, if the government intent was to keep the protesters from communicating with each other and self organizing... and had goons storm the local ISP's and order them to shut down.... Ten minutes later, the protesters need to post "Head to the bridge!"

    I can see something like this meaning enough people would have gotten the message to beat the goons to the bridge.

  18. Freedom Box on BitTorrent Ponders Releasing World ISP P2P Speed Report · · Score: 1

    Eben Moglen http://lastonk.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-box.html is trying to make a box that makes it damn hard to track people using this sort of stuff. I'm not tech savvy enough to know if these things would help in this situation, but I strongly suspect it would.

      If nothing else... you could use them to create ad hoc darknets capable of distributing p-p without ever going through an ISP at all... I'm thinking this is the right kind of forum to find people with the skills to help Eben out.

  19. Eben Moglen on Egyptian 'Net Killed By Intimidation, Not a Switch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is trying to make software preventing this kind of thing from happening again. http://lastonk.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-box.html by using wall wart servers and routers.

    If there was a software app that allowed handheld devises with wifi to create ad hoc networks... the people in Egypt may not have even noticed when the ISP's were shut down... they would have been able to continue talking to each other via short link wireless networks.

  20. Re:"Running a server" in violation of AUP on Freedom Box Foundation Wants Plug Servers For All · · Score: 1

    Why do I get the feeling that Prof. Moglen has read Doctorow's "Little Brother" ?

    I'm pretty sure Doctorow has read Eben Moglen. The man is a founder of the EFF.

  21. This is more important than just the prize on US Spurs Plethora of Problem Solving Prizes · · Score: 1

    Each contest is DEFINING problems, publishing their awareness of the issue, and looking for solutions. A few years of this, regardless of what the problem or prize is, will result in evolutionary improvements.

    Any organization that does this in good faith is worthy of my time and effort to help.

    (Unless they don't take this mandate seriously, and only post trivial problems and contests)

  22. turn the tables on Un-killable 'Evercookie' Killed ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    can you modify this evercookie to do something interesting to the database that's accessing it? after all its on YOUR computer, and you don't want it. you tried to delete it, but it came back. seems to be fair game to make it do what YOU want.

  23. neat on Levitating Graphene Is Fastest-Spinning Object · · Score: 4, Interesting

    can you give it enough mass to make it into a decent flywheel?

  24. Re:Public School shop classes. on Grad Student Invents Cheap Laser Cutter · · Score: 1

    Along with high school shop classes, I want one of THESE in every town.

    http://techshop.ws/

    If there was one close enough (North of Seattle) I'd be there daily.

  25. here's a possibility I've often thought about on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1

    Hook this sensor up to a round lens and capture full 360 degree video all the time, and use software to un-distort the image so you have a fixed tiny camera, that you can pan and zoom all the way around with.