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  1. If somebody is going to cannibalize you on Nook Failure, Lack of Foot Traffic Could Spell Doom For Barnes & Noble · · Score: 1

    let it be yourself. -- Steve Jobs.

    B&N apparently assumed that Profit! would automatically appear. Jobs didn't.

  2. the Sovereign People's Democratic Republic of Tenn on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1

    motto: "with drones we love"

    state flower: Zeiss Ikon 85mm f2.1

    state bird: "yeah, well THIS says you're number ONE!"

    state pen: border to border

  3. still using pre-computers over there on NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers · · Score: 1

    slashdotted. either that, or the flash drive with the files is on a plane to the jungle

  4. this means Bitcoin is an illiquid investment on Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Halts USD Withdrawals · · Score: 1

    aka shunned by markets.

    if it was labelled a CDO and Mt. Gox was named instead Bear, Stearns, and Co., perhaps those who followed the international credit crisis in 2008 would understand the relationship to established markets better.

    there's a reason I call it BiteCon. it's like a Left Pocket Bank.

  5. they're right on Latest Target In War On Drugs: Google Autocomplete · · Score: 1

    you search "politics" for instance and a million ads for antidepressants come up.

    perfect matches.

  6. how about DC backlight? on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    square wave energy clogs radio bandwidth. plasma TV is just awful at putting background noise out there, and the undercabinet light power packs are also pure evil.

  7. BiteCon on Five predictions for (Bit)coin · · Score: 1

    you think regulated Wall Street and currency exchange is crooked, we are starting to see the slicks manipulate what I prefer to call BiteCon. because they will turn it into a con, and you will get the bite.

  8. Polaroid syndrome on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 1

    the last plant in Holland continued to make instant film until the last chemicals ran out. the employees then bought it and re-invested the process with new chemistry.

  9. and polyester on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 1

    in either event, if they went hog wild with silicone antistick compound, it dissolves the resin base of the tape mix, and all the intelligence comes off in clumps and gobs when you run it. archivists looking at most of the "high performance" tapes tend to bake 'em a couple hours at 140-160 degrees in an oven to cook out the silicone before they make the transfer playback to new media.

    the slime will deteriorate the oxide layer long before an evenly-wound tape pack of either base decomposes under good storage.

    old 3M 111 tape and its peers has turned out to be the archival medium. not the fancy stuff. look out for Kodak acetate audiotape, though, that stuff shatters at the first loop-and-snap like the old paper tape did.

  10. it ain't that hard on Kodak Ends Production of Acetate Base For Photographic Film · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've done C41 in a bathroom in an average low-rent apartment,no problem. I've set up several tank-based gallon labs for E4 and E6. the only element that is really critical is the color developer, and after that the first developer. everything else can run just fine at room temp, rated temp of 85-105 Fahrenheit, or anything in between.

    a temperature/pressure regulated water flow is a must in a larger scale operation. since you can't get one any more from Calumet, get a closeout bath/shower no-scald control. with a good thermometer in the bath, get it to temp and start processing.

    on the gallon lines, I used a laundry washtub, PVC pipe for the reels, and an immersion heater on a stick to help pre-heat the bath. at that point, start the water, and go for it.

    it is nowhere as hard as you say, unless you are machine processing, and then the temp control will be part of the machine. you can still push-process up to 3 F-stops by fiddling the processor speed.

    Kodachrome was a whole 'nother critter, and that's why it's no longer around.

  11. restricted, top secret, need to know, codeword on iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 1

    otherwise known as a brain fart, secured from shame. in my business, it is reported on the logs as "Special (Freaking) Magic."

  12. heh, "greedy business interests" on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 1

    as if there were any other kind

  13. we are not using distance at all on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 4, Interesting

    for 50 years, the federal government has taxed nuclear fuel to build a permanent waste depository. where is it?

    weasels.

  14. why don't we identify all these characters? on What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data · · Score: 1

    the real question, if you are going to have wild-ass money to surf down the halls of Congress on in the first place, is why we don't have something as reliable as DNA tagging to allow following the cash?

    oh, wait... ahh, now I get it. how silly of me. so, where's my check for shutting up?

  15. nobody builds waste sites. on 900 Ton Containment Vessel Bottom Head Installed At Vogtle 3 · · Score: 1

    they just put little crumbs of fuel rods in your power bill each month. if you have been saving them unpaid, you can probably shake each envelope out into a cereal bowl, and have a really awesome science project that kills all your competition.

  16. oh, noes, they've enjoined stagecoach wheels! on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 1

    what next, is some lawsuit going to stop manufacture of Carborundum radio detectors? axe heads? our society is in danger if we can't crank out obsolete crap!

  17. both money and control, The Oracle Way on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    perhaps you haven't heard. Oracle grinds the last drop out of the turnip and takes the shoes for resale on the way out of the conference room. there is a reason that Larry Ellison can spend 3 months a year racing sailboats and flaunt FAA noise rules flying back home after quiet hours night after night. it's called money, honey, and they excel in it.

    considering it takes Oracle longer to patch an exploit in Java than it does for Apple to patch an exploit, if indeed they acknowledge one, perhaps it would not be a bad thing to let ol Larry take 120 percent of nothing, and standardize on another universal API across the web.

  18. one solution: piles of old crud on Ask Slashdot: Supporting "Antique" Software? · · Score: 1

    the way they supported old lines at (major environmental controls company you've all heard of) was to keep all the old 286 machines and line printers in a back room the size of an 80s living room, and repair, repair, repair. label printing for boxes on the production line was old Printronics machines, which was the big headache.

  19. so send all the patients and virus there on Never Mind the Epidemic, Who Gets Patent Rights For the Cure? · · Score: 1

    all problems solved ;)

    seriously... maybe... perhaps all these medical/life sciences patents and issues should be placed in public domain? like you boot up Unix and get (c) by 20 different companies? Universal MegaMedCorp LLC PTY M-O-U-S-E gets its name on every vial regardless who made it. good for mankind, good for morale.

  20. how's that rust working out for you? on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    last time NYC wore out a bunch of tic-tic-tic-ka-WHANG! lever machines, they bought all of Fargo's. in the 80s. I suspect a plain ol' warehouse in Brooklyn has allowed those things to get a tad rusty inside by now. they'll end up voting on scraps of paper bags and dipping fingers in purple ink on the way out.

  21. and then a wooly mammoth mosquito came along on Scientists Recover Wooly Mammoth Blood · · Score: 1

    and now they're just cloning 2300 pound mosquitoes with ten-foot tusks. terrific. first solid food for our Minnesota mosquitoes.

  22. so far, the only solution seems to be Microsoft on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 2

    everybody else wrings their hands, or chases after users with no evidence but plenty of pistols blazing, but Microsoft actually is making some progress in taking down botnets. perhaps MS could sell their services to the MafIAA and shine a light into the darknet. it would probably cost them $1500 a song, but...

  23. uh, Facebook, you've been unliked. on Facebook Cancels UK Launch of HTC First · · Score: 1

    don't cry, just give it up and concentrate on your other friends.

  24. "Ron Paul Guilty." I can live with that. on WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking · · Score: 1

    because it makes him feel like a real man, that's why.

  25. nothing acceptable without "sellout" on Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters · · Score: 2, Funny

    also, no "free as in beer" and no "quality goes in before the name goes on." the news knocked me right off my unicorn, and I am so embarassed...