User: rossdee

Thats up to FaceBook

On: DoJ: Law Enforcement Can Impersonate People On Facebook

Seems like a clear case of violation of FaceBooks TOS
FB should just delete their accounts

Re:LED lighting

On: 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED

"CREE is selling 60w bulbs for $9"

Wow, a 60w LED bulb - how many lumens does that put out?

LED lighting

On: 2014 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To the Inventors of the Blue LED

The bulbs need to come down in price a bit yet

Re:You mean our nightmare could become a reality

On: A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month

"Funnily enough I think flying cars could be a better target for automation than those disastrous ground-based driverless cars."

Well for one thing there are very few pedestrians and stray dogs wandering across the aerial 'streets'

in related news

On: HP Is Planning To Split Into Two Separate Businesses, Sources Say

I got an email ad from HP saying it was my 'last chance'' to get a Win 7 PC

I'll just

On: Test Version Windows 10 Includes Keylogger

I'll just stick witht Win 7 thankyou

Re:Why not LA?

On: GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus

LA as in Los Angeles, or as in Louisiana

Now we need

On: Engineers Build Ultrasmall Organic Laser

ultrasmall sharks

Re:So did they find Atlantis?

On: Satellites Reveal Hidden Features At the Bottom of Earth's Seas

"I think you missed the final episode."

Thats because they (the SyFy channel) cancelled the show

Re:Dive! Dive! Dive!

On: Satellites Reveal Hidden Features At the Bottom of Earth's Seas

" How deep is a league?"

6 tackles

Obviously

On: Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos

Google is supposed to reject all search strings that include the word 'nude'

Contacts

On: After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts

I wear glasses, not contacts.

Walruss

On: 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska

So wow are the Carpenters doing?

Re:But WWF still advocates for huning polar bears.

On: 35,000 Walrus Come Ashore In Alaska

The McMahon family are crazy and their employees are overdosed on steroids

Restrictions

On: Mobile Phone Use Soon To Be Allowed On European Flights

Maybe they (the airlines) will only allow 'silent use'. No voice calls, volume down or headset only etc

Or even separate areas for 'talking' and 'non-talking'
(and a small surcharge on your ticket to specify which)
???
Profit

C=128

On: Why the Z-80's Data Pins Are Scrambled

There was a Z-80 in the C=128 , but it wasn't used.
There was virtually no CPM software adapted to the C=128

Typically 128s mostly were used in C=64 mode

To be really efficient

On: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

Get a LED headlamp and only light up the area of the room that you are looking at.
You'll only need 3 or 4 watts that way.

I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last

On: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last as long as they are sposed to.
Of course they still save money in power costs

Sort of off topic

On: Amazon Forced To Reboot EC2 To Patch Bug In Xen

I saw in the Mpls Star Tribune the other day that Amazon are going to start charging (MN residents) sales tax as from 1st October.

I don't know if this will apply to digital content as well but if it does then I will have to cut back on buying books, magazines, and music from them as well.

The only stuff we will be able to buy is clothes...

Re:We care why?

On: Water Discovered In Exoplanet Atmosphere

And its not likely to be habitable by life as we know it, Jim since its a gas giant with mostly hydrogen atmosphere.

But

On: Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed

Octopusses aren't that fast. Its squids that can move fast

big phone

On: Phablet Reviews: Before and After the iPhone 6

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Its just small enough to fit in my pocket, but big enough screen to use as an ebook reader.
It also has a microsd slot that will take a 64 gig card - big enough for my music collection.
(I am probably not going to be buying much more music after Oct 1 since Amazon are going to start charging MN residents sales tax)

Re:satellites?

On: SkyOrbiter UAVs Could Fly For Years and Provide Global Internet Access

"Satellites have much longer ping times"

Satellites at geostationary orbit have long ping times, but you can have satellites at lower orbits like a few hundred miles. It only adds a few ms to the ping time.

Re:Nobody's neutral because it''s important

On: Nobody's Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate

And of course there are far more people that don't live in the USA that don't have those 'rights'

Largest Climate march in history

On: Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out For People's Climate March In New York City

I guess people couldn't afford to march during past droughts