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  1. Bont Skates on Australia May Introduce Site Blocking To Prevent Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    So, I guess Bont Skates won't be having a web site anymore then.

  2. Re:And walking around with it ... on Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear!

  3. Re:Many potential impacts of climate change on The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Correction: You win World War II by having the biggest economy. We don't get to refight WWII. The flaws in your thinking is called refighting the last war, and you can fill bookcases with what's been written about that.

  4. The Researcher has the Lagos card so the Dispatcher moved them to the research center in Atlanta. Obviously the Scientist will be there next turn for the hand off. Do not play One Quiet Night now, we want to save that for when we need it.

  5. Re:National Weather Service? on Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies · · Score: 1

    Professor Van Allen taught us to get the Skyranger in the air before making the interception for a shoot down, that way we get to the crash site before the aliens can destroy the Elerium. We get plenty of El-115. :)

  6. Re:Don't be evil (some of the time) on Google Argues Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No, you retain your copyrights. However, you grant them an irrevocable license to use any content on any Google Account in any way they choose. It's in the terms of service, and why I don't have any Google Account.

  7. Re: what? on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    So, you're saying we can expect performance on the level of the Parachute Regiment in Arnhem when their radios wouldn't work.

  8. Re:A lot of money? on UT Professor Resigns Over Fracking Conflict of Interest · · Score: 1

    He's a former USGS Director, not the current one.

  9. Re:Best of Luck on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Well, Ernest Shackleton got enough funding using that model, and also plenty of volunteers..

  10. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    I agree completely. OP says they have a cellphone camera, and want something better, but not hobby or pro. "Family, friends, projects, that actually look good." This screams point and shoot. One could make an argument for the "interchangeable lens cameras" or whatever they call the range between the p&s cameras and DSLRs this month, but I'd go with the point & shoot. Based on my research (do your own, visit your library and check Consumer Reports and some photography magazines) Canon and Nikon do cost more, but you're paying for quality. To me it's worth it; YMMV.

    There's a lot of good, accurate information posted here about DSLRs, but they aren't what the OP wants. If the OP already understands setting IOS or using auto-ISO, then sure, go for DSLR. If not, get a point and shoot.

    I bought a Canon Powershot A590 a couple of years ago, and it was great (and still is) until I started shooting roller derby, a sport that is high speed and often played under low light in facilities that were not meant to be sports arenas, so it wasn't up to the task, so I bought a DSLR. I've racked up 26,000 photos this year on my Canon 60D, but this is not the camera for Soulskill.

    What the OP wants is a point and shoot with some amount of zoom and some advanced shooting modes (Program, Time/Shutter, Aperture, Manual) so they can learn about them if the standard modes don't meet their needs. Get one that's small enough that you'll actually carry it (mine fits in my jacket pocket), and one that's comfortable in your hand (yes, go to stores and handle them). Get maybe 10-12 megapixels; don't pay for higher (unless that's all that's on the current market). Pay some attention to the memory system -- does it use SD/SX cards, flash cards, or Sony power sticks? You won't be happy with some weird proprietary memory media. I'd suggest starting to look at the Canon A590 (or whatever the current equivalent is) and adjust based on desires and constraints.

    Also, download the photos off of your camera. If it takes too long with the supplied cable, you can get a card reader (mine was $12) to convert it into a USB drive and download ~10 times faster. But get the photos off your camera so you don't lose them, and you can actually look at them, learn from them, enjoy them, and take more. If you want to improve your photos, take lots of them, and get a book such as Digital Photography for Dummies (or reasonable facsimile thereof).

  11. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    The original poster doesn't want to shoot RAW; he just wants to take easy photos of family and stuff. He doesn't even want to get to the hobbyist level. I agree that SLRs are better, I've extremely happy with mine, but they aren't what Soulskill wants.

  12. Re:Print? on Polaroid: This Time It's Digital · · Score: 1

    Slacker. I bought my DSLR at the end of January 2011, and have over 25,000 shots on it. If you've got the equipment, how can you not use it? For counting prints do I include all the roller derby posters, programs, blogs, and newspaper articles that have used my shots?

  13. Re:Sand or salt? on Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt · · Score: 1

    Sand particles are sized between .0625 mm and 2 mm.

  14. Re:Sad writing (and summary) on Ikaros Spacecraft Successfully Propelled In Space · · Score: 1

    I take it you missed the Heinlein stories as well?

  15. Re:If not us, who? on Aral Sea May Recover; Dead Sea Needs a Lifeline · · Score: 1

    How many people can this body of extremely salty water be supporting?

  16. Re:Roswell on Iron Alloy Could Create Earthquake-Proof Buildings · · Score: 1

    Why are you building Alien Alloys? If you catch the base-building fleet on the ground, you'll have more of the stuff than you can store. If you do that a couple of times, you'll be thinking about selling the stuff. You'll also have plenty of Elerium-115, unless you blow the battleship engine rooms the wrong way.

  17. Re:Prediction on US Government Begins Largest IT Consolidation in History · · Score: 1

    Egads, my work is slow enough already because I have to store my work halfway across the state. I don't need to spend three weeks fighting to get my computer back to working so it can be even slower accessing files halfway across the country.

  18. Re:NASA needs more budget. on Cool NASA Tech That Will Never See Space · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that NASA is required to make technological developments available to industry already, unless they're restricted for national security reasons.

  19. Re:A very high technology idea on Solutions For More Community At Work? · · Score: 1

    I had great success by purchasing a copy of Fluxx for said break room. We play at lunch. Sometimes lunch runs long, but the boss hasn't complained because the improvement in morale and team building has been so significant.

  20. Robot made of cardboard? on Robo-Chefs and Fashion-Bots On Show In Tokyo · · Score: 1

    What, they've got Largo's Ph34rBot on display?

  21. Re:Connections on Lawmakers Caught Again By File-Sharing Software · · Score: 1

    The politician attends meetings and makes decisions; the junior staffer types up the meeting notes and the proposed plans. Junior staff is doing the computer work, and has the misconfigured P2P software.

  22. Re:Ooozing sympathy ... on Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I beg to differ on the current. If you look at the buildup of the water on the door and window supports, it looks like there's at least half a foot of pileup due to water velocity. There are some pulsating waves so you know it's not just head difference between inside and outside. That water appears to be moving a couple of feet per second, especially after the breakthroughs. It's not a seeping flood, they're getting real velocity.

    I don't think I've ever heard of flood water velocity as a measure of distance from channel before, though.

  23. Re:There are ~1,308,361 American dead... on Don't Panic, It's Towel Day! · · Score: 1

    How about if we just all lived on the Prime Meridian?

  24. Re:engines such as Google do not index them... on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1
  25. Re:engines such as Google do not index them... on College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni · · Score: 1

    I believe that Lexus-Nexus can handle that for you. You'll have to contact them for their price structure.