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  1. Re:Projector on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    you can paint a 15x6 foot section of wall in two-coat projector grey (that's F5 neutral for you colorists) for LESS than two hundred Dollars, and it lasts forever.

  2. Re:You have no understanding of light on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    no projector wall is 50% grey. That is in fact pretty dark. A projector wall made using professional grade paint will be at the most an F5 SVG neutral. In other words, almost but not quite Safe16 SVG Hex3 FF white.

  3. Re:Projector on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    if your projection wall is white, you're doing it wrong.

    A projection wall needs to be neutral matt grey. Preferably using a projection paint such as DIY Theatre's kit which does 90 square feet in F5 SVG grey (you can do a Matchpot matt emulsion mix if you're really careful with it, but you have to get enough paint for the project in one batch - you'll never get an exact match across two batches, and you need a roller with a fine enough stipple to eliminate dryshine). If you're not using the entire wall, you'll need to box the projection area with black velvet screen edging or ash moulding to further enhance contrast. Blackout curtains always help.

  4. Re:Just don't connect to a network on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    This. MY property, I decide when and how I use it.

    What this is, is a hook for subscription spam and (in the UK) the TV Licence Tax. It doesn't matter if you use a TV panel as a computer monitor, the point is that it contains a receiver, as such the assumption will be made on the balance of probabilities that because you are ABLE to receive a broadcast signal you USE that ability. The fact that you DON'T is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. You're on record as having purchased TV receiving equipment, as far as the LAW is concerned you are liable for the TV tax.

    (I do not buy TV receiving equipment of any description from any establishment that "requires" me to give over my address details. It's none of their fucking business).

  5. Re:America's Dark Nuclear History on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 0

    so why are the radiation levels at Hiroshima and Nagasaki equal to the world average terrestrial background? Those two places we KNOW from file footage and multiple eyewitness accounts to have been subjected to nuclear ground detonations which threw up stupendous amounts of fallout. Hiroshima now has a resident population of nearly 2 million.

  6. Re:America's Dark Nuclear History on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 0

    riddle me this: why was all the debris buried along with a pile of unexploded ordnance before civilian authorities could even start investigating it?

    I'm not claiming conclusions here, I'm just saying that there are unanswered questions that raise the finger of suspicion that HAVE NOT BEEN DEBUNKED WITH EVIDENCE.

  7. Re:In the "Internet of Things" world on US Gas Pump Hacked With 'Anonymous' Tagline · · Score: 1

    didn't say it had those... but that's nothing a folded slip of paper under the case won't fix ;)

  8. Re:Yawn on Unearthing Fraud In Medical Trials · · Score: 4, Insightful

    there is no accountability because Government is nothing more than puppetry for industry.

    You get what you pay for.

  9. Re:America's Dark Nuclear History on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 1

    Concord is 6 miles to the South of Port Chicago.

  10. Re:In the "Internet of Things" world on US Gas Pump Hacked With 'Anonymous' Tagline · · Score: 1

    here it is: http://www.leguidedesmontres.c...

    It is a beautiful piece of kit. Stupendously accurate, reassuringly ticktickticktick in a quiet room (I say it's too noisy if I can't hear my watch!), and since I was given it I've never had to pick up my calculator. Or my Tomtom. I can use just what you see there to pinpoint my location down to 17 yards within less time than it takes my Tomtom to lock in.

  11. Re:In the "Internet of Things" world on US Gas Pump Hacked With 'Anonymous' Tagline · · Score: 1

    it does math, it has a stopwatch, and there is even built in ability to navigate anywhere on the planet without the need to download maps.

  12. Re:America's Dark Nuclear History on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 1

    Port Chicago is in California, nowhere near the Great Lakes. You'll find it, in fact, 35 miles East of San Francisco. Also, a nuclear pile is not confined as describing a power or breeder reactor, it's any device or reactor containing nuclear or fissile material. That could be a casket containing fuel rods and molten salt or it could be a boxcar containing a beryllium sphere or it could be a suitcase containing a battlefield warhead. Hell, it could describe a pallet of smoke alarms.

  13. Re:In the "Internet of Things" world on US Gas Pump Hacked With 'Anonymous' Tagline · · Score: 1

    dude, CDB150?? My watch is powered by a spring! The most advanced bit on it is the slide rule bezel. Which for some reason pushes its insurable value to ridiculous.

  14. Re:America's Dark Nuclear History on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Three words: Port Chicago Fire.

    I'm not at all convinced, from reading eyewitness reports, that that wasn't a nuclear pile going supercritical.

  15. Re:gloop on Cosmic Rays To Reveal the Melted Nuclear Fuel In Fukushima's Reactors · · Score: 3, Funny

    nope. Absolutely the worst, most vile, toxic and unpleasant half.

    The rest is made up of unicorn farts, smurf cum and angel titty.

  16. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    should be WARRANT < JUST CAUSE

    please Dice make up your mind which fucking elements you're going to parse as markup and which you're not, hm?

  17. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 2

    WARRANTJUST CAUSE.

    Yes, the law IS clear. Once arrested anything you hold in your possession that holds data is potientially evidence. Refusal to disclose decryption keys or electronic locks is PRECEDENTED as a sign of guilt. THAT is why a refusal to disclose can and does result in a committal for contempt.

  18. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 0

    SCOTUS rulings apply in very specific circumstances. A cop can't search your phone on a random stop (because he can't show cause), he would have cause to search your phone on a moving violation (because he stopped you to hand you a citation) - also held by SCOTUS.

    It's the difference between you shooting an intruder in the face vs shooting him in the back of the head. One might be seen by a sympathetic jury as self defence, the other is clearly murder.

  19. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    he already had just cause to stop you, you're already fucked. Why prolong the agony?

  20. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    but he's not compelling you to hand over for a data search, nor is he compelling you to unlock it. You've voluntarily not only unlocked the phone for him, you've handed it him. Now he has your data in unlocked condition and because you've already been pulled over for whatever moving violation, cause to search through the data just as if he were asking to see inside your glovebox to make sure you're not carrying anything illegal - actually, even easier than that for him.

  21. Re:Done right, this could be quite secure. on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    I've dealt with cops, I think I got a handle on how they're trained to think.

  22. Re:sad but true on Facebook Adds Legacy Contact Feature In Case You Die Before It Does · · Score: 1

    no kidding, those shitty Motorola (XT?)s couldn't penetrate a quarter mile of trees, my guys had Kenwood business radios (thanks largely to me) through deployment training on Dartmoor. Those things were fantastic, not to mention a quarter the size (still got a pair). Even better, if they'd've been out back then, would have been the Yaesu VX-5. Straight through 0-1GHz, digital squelch and voice scrambling, tethered packet data capability, water and dust sealed, MOD specification chassis. I have one of those too now, it's my goto for anything MF//V/U/HF related. OK so it's six times the cost of the Moto 2200 but hey, ya gets what ya pay for.

  23. Re:This has been going on for a while on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 2

    whyt not? He's on a salary, he gets PAID to sit on the roadside, you don't. The only person it's costing is YOU.

    Besides, the second you start tapping your watch, he's gonna be asking why you're in such a hurry, then make you wait some more. Piss him off and you're heading for an overnight in the local jail pending charges of possession of kiddie rape videos. They're gonna love you, fish.

  24. Re:Inherent 4th amendment problem... on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 0

    good luck arguing that with the vampire carrying the gun.

    (yes, I called him a vampire. Same rule applies: once a vampire is invited in he has free run of your property and everything (and everybody) within).

  25. Re:Done right, this could be quite secure. on Iowa Wants To Let You Carry Your Driver's License On Your Phone · · Score: 1

    all well and good but what's to stop the cop from rifling through the texts on the device you just voluntarily handed to him in an unlocked condition?

    That's right, NOTHING. At that point, no form of estoppel would be legal, in fact telling a cop he can look at your digital licence but not your text messages would give him cause for suspicion. Welcome to an overnight pending charges of possession of kiddie porn.