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  1. Re: Get an iPad on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    I can plug my iPhone into the desktop and suck down my whole camera roll (pictures taken) into Lightroom in one operation. Just as easily, I can upload edited SLR shots into my iPad to run a slideshow on the device or mirrored over to the bigscreen. I like living in the futureÂ

  2. Re: Get an iPad on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 2

    I have glaucoma plus macular degeneration. Just use the iOS7 setting for higher contrast, and you're in business.

  3. We chrono-Americans love Apple on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 2

    Their gear may be pricey, but it Just Works, and everything integrates. But I know how you young whippersnappers love fiddling with the latest Ubuntu release until it almost works, so have fun.

  4. Re:Maximum market cap of $1300??? on This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about the glaring typo myself - and yet the figure is repeated in the article.

  5. Re:Nonsense! on Gut Microbes Linked to Autism-Like Symptoms in Mice · · Score: 1

    If autism turns out to have a microbial cause, the actual treatment might be a vaccine. If this happens, would anti-tech hippie heads explode?

  6. Re:Fukushima NO-HYPE information sources on The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up · · Score: 1

    The problem is not in Japan, which is a place where science and engineering are respected and which will, after appropriate safety checks and emergency procedure redesign, restart most of its reactors. It's Western media, riddled as it is by ex-hippies who were fricasseed in Seventies anti-technology culture, that keeps crying Wolf about the imminent death of the Pacific.

  7. Re:I live on the Pacific on The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up · · Score: 2

    I love sushi, but what I fear about it is the possibility of parasites. I would be a lot happier if sushi were routinely irradiated.

  8. Re:make my day... on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    ...Which would be fine if some of that R&D and infrastructure spending were trickling into faster Internet service. Try actually using your tablet as a thin client to one of those powerful cloud servers, and you still die waiting for screen refreshes.

  9. And don't forget the computer end of the cable on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Making it reversible too would save millions of collective hours of fumbling. At the very least, standardize the plug just above the connector in such a way that the orientation is easily determinable by feel, rather than by use of a flashlight, magnifier and dust in one's contact lenses.

  10. Re: To hire specific people on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 0

    You didn't get the job because of your crappy English.

  11. Re:Fight Terrorism! on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: 1

    What the terrorists really hate is that we are fracking ourselves away from being dependent on their oil. No more cushy income for the latest weapons.

  12. Re:Anecdote, data, and all that, but... on 62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks · · Score: 1

    Although I'm vision-impaired, I find treading Kindle format on iPads and iPhones to be easier on my eyes because of the consistent, always-optimum illumination. The two drawbacks of some e-books for me are: high prices and lack of suitability for reference works.

  13. Re:Lie a little on Ask Slashdot: Are We Older Experts Being Retired Too Early? · · Score: 1

    The working-from-home fad faded because employers believe they can't adequately account for employee time that way, and can't maintain 'corporate culture.' Whether or not this is true doesn't matter; it's another trend you have to adapt to. Let spoiled, demanding young people limit their own careers by insisting on perks that didn't last. You became an experienced person in the first place by being adaptable.

  14. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    No, they would just plant real drugs in your hidden compartment so they could go for more lucrative charges.

  15. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    In Phoenix there is an ordinance against driving around a circular street more than three times in a two-hour period. It was passed less than twenty years ago to curb teenage "cruising" at two specific shopping malls. A hundred years from now, will anyone remember the reason for this ordinance?

  16. Heads we win, tails you lose on Science Museum Declines To Show Climate Change Film · · Score: 0

    There is no right-wing conspiracy against anthropogenic global warming because none is necessary, since this is the issue that will sink the left.They have invested so much in the most apocalyptic outcome on this issue that if AGW turns out to be exaggerated, they lose all credibility and nobody will ever listen to them again. If AGW really is happening, and to an extent that would require us to stop emitting carbon in one generation, the only way to do so is to go nuclear, massively. Yucca Mountain opens immediately, and a waste recycling complex will have to be built around it. The most cherished chunk of leftish theology vanishes into the political ooze.

  17. Re:He didn't understand how the Internet works on Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog · · Score: 1

    Better than DRM: export "web resolution" JPG for online viewing. Everyone can see your pictures, but if they want publication quality, they have to come to you.

  18. What is this magick you speak of? on Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays · · Score: 1

    This couldn't happen in America because we don't have your fancy-dancy electronic bus annunciators. We believe that standing on a street corner in the rain builds character. Apparently, it also opens up new venues for hacking.

  19. Re:Fax machine on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    Whenever I hear that slight pause, or clicks on the line, I hang up right away.

  20. Ditch your landline if possible on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    . I still have mine only because it's needed to connect a water alarm system, and although I'm not the target of any particular scammer, I get robocalls all day long on it. The "Do Not Call" law we passed so proudly just a few years ago has totally broken down under the robocall onslaught.

  21. Re:Further proof that anti-GMO is all about the mo on Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition · · Score: 1

    You know, "naturalness," like smallpox, yersinia, polio and Ebola.

  22. A simpler solution using the same smartphone on Hammerhead System Offers a Better Way To Navigate While Cycling · · Score: 1

    Why not just run your mapping/nav app reading the course to a Bluetooth earpiece? With all of the hardware attached to you, not the bike, there is less that can be stolen.

  23. The power of graphene on World's Smallest FM Radio Transmitter Created With Graphene · · Score: 1

    So this is what brings us those tiny PBS relay stations we briefly encounter in a cross-country drive?

  24. Re:2x Lithium battery and cars still don't work on U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium · · Score: 1

    The nuke is surrounded by hundreds of square miles of cotton fields. That's where the dried-up sewage goes.

  25. Re:Nuclear disaster and... on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 1

    The offshore wind turbines won't be destroyed by even a Tohoku-sized tsunami, because tsunami are insignificant out at sea. Rather, they will be destroyed by any of the typhoons that blow through the area every summer.