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  1. Flash Slave on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    get a flash slave, which is used to trigger big studio flash using a flash on the camera, basically it's a relay that will complete the circuit when it detects flash being fired, you could wire this to the interior light to produce bright lights when somebody tries to take a photo with a flash, which should overexposes Unfortunately, it doesn't help if the person taking a picture doesn't use flash, and good cameras can compensate or adjust overexposure Expensive systems on yacht uses infra-red camera to look for camera's ccd and fire lasers at the camera You could try to blast the whole area with IR with spinning IR laser like a discoball

  2. Re:this thing need a fairing on Australian Police Deploy 3D Crime Scene Scanner · · Score: 1

    or a dildo, imagine this, at a crime scene, the police pulls out this rubber dick thing and starts whacking the air

  3. Re:this thing need a fairing on Australian Police Deploy 3D Crime Scene Scanner · · Score: 1

    I'm trying to make a joke, putting wrinkly rubber on it would make it look like a dick

  4. this thing need a fairing on Australian Police Deploy 3D Crime Scene Scanner · · Score: 2

    in order to sell to organizations, the thing need to look more professional instead of cobbled together from random parts first, this thing need a rubberized fairing that can flex with the spring, and painted to suit intended users, yellow brown is good, black is better and then add options for helmet mount, you can put this on hardhats in construction site or police's helmet, or if the hardware can be rotated, the spring can probably be mounted on a belt

  5. Re:a thing of beauty? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 1

    But the thing is a Feadship, Feadship is a bunch of shipbuilders Royal de Vries is a member of Feadship

  6. Symbian is still alive but for how long? on Former Nokia Exec: Windows Phone Strategy Doomed · · Score: 2

    The latest Sybian Anna phone's pretty decent and finally caught up in features and usability with Android or iOS, I was looking for a new phone a couple of weeks ago and I was really tempted to try one... but looking at Nokia's appstore, it's pretty empty... coupled with less than enthusiastic salespeople that say the return rate for these Nokia models are quite high, I got myself a low-end Samsung with Android for half the price instead, This being my first touch phone, my previous one was the qwerty Nokia N72, a phone built so good back then I predicted it'd be the last Nokia I'll ever own, and it was. Nokia still differentiate between their middle or high-end phones on OS, with lower end being S40, while the Koreans like Samsung and LG, and even Sony are starting to have cheap Android phones now, for a price of a 'feature phone' you could have the latest and greatest apps like the flagship phone too... People are saying that Nokia still dominates the low-end market, I see it as not for long as smartphones become cheaper and move downmarket.

  7. image recognition and auto-replace on TSA Body Scanners To Show Less Revealing Images · · Score: 1

    So, if I have a contraband that I wanted to smuggle onboard, I'd only have to make it appear to be naughty bits of the human anatomy and the machine will auto-replace it with generic crotch images? hooray to gun-shaped penis, or is it penis-shaped gun?

  8. who still writes assembly? on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    Remember when you have to code your own apps or type one out? or even punch cards or switches The dumbing down of user interface's natural progression is the lockeddown user-centric apps of iOS Just as loading programs from floppy or cd-roms seems quaint now, finding, downloading and running apps from outsidethe walled garden will soon be too. Sure you might be ableto do more by writng/loading your own apps,the convenience will win out Hopefully there'll still be linux for tinkerers

  9. the issue is not locking down on Apple Announces iLife '11, FaceTime Mac, Lion, Mac App Store, MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    even if Apple never locks down the mac, the mere presence of the App store will force developers to get on the store, after all how can you compete with that much exposure and convenience? Joining the app store is survival, then it's more power to Apple, which is not a good thing.

  10. Book Cover on The Misleading World of Atari 2600 Box Art · · Score: 1

    This is any different from book cover how?

  11. Books Vs CDs on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    Most of the songs in my iPods are ripped from CDs I bought, it took significant time to rip my whole collection of CDs, but it is doable, the same can't be said for scanning my books collection already purchased, some I could easily find a torrent, but many aren't available on any store. With right now, there's just not that many source for e-books, legal and otherwise.

  12. I print on Cursive Writing Is a Fading Skill — Does It Matter? · · Score: 1

    I can write cursive, but when I need to take notes or jot something down, I print, and that's barely readable

  13. Re:I'm sorry, but you are wrong. on Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One · · Score: 1

    I think the key word here is prejudice, even I too get a lot of prejudiced treatment for just being not white although I live in my own country White tourists would say "Oh you spoke good English!" and I have to hold back not to retort with something condescending. Most of it is in good -intention, but yeah, it gets tiring I don't know what would be worse, people getting PC'ed up and can't speak their mind or people being ignorant

  14. Reverse Precedents on How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out · · Score: 1

    What's stopping EFF or other entities like this 'country lawyer' to find somebody infringing on someone who's willing to participate and try taking this case to court and see how much damages the court awards. or even better, set up the exact circumstance as per the case, but use different music, ie performed by artists who support the cause. Are there any law stopping people defendant/plaintiff conspiring to go to court to make precedents?

  15. Re:Apple cannot block and it's not illegal on Palm Pre "iTunes Hack" Detailed By DVD Jon · · Score: 1

    That would cost too much in processor time just to encode/DRM the file that's going to the iPod, but it's possible in the future since you're not supposed to be able to copy things of iPod anyway. But still, there's nothing stopping people from dragging the non-DRMed files to something that's connected as USB masss storage

  16. Time Wasted on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Time read should be called Uptime

  17. Re:Were nerds here... use the f'ing metric system on The 100 Degree Data Center · · Score: 1

    try calculating the energy needed to boil water using farenheit

  18. àOENewton's on Reaction Engines To Fly Reusable Spaceplane · · Score: 1

    AM I the only one who reads the headline as 'Reactionless Engine' otherwise reaction engines sounds like another name or description of rockets to me, not a name of an unheard of company

  19. Re:I'm slightly astonished on Players Furious Over Buggy GTA IV PC Release · · Score: 1

    Ithe PS3 has no problem with GTA 4 and didn't require a year to port to.

    Porting from which platform exactly? GTA4 was first released on PS3 and Xbox360 simultaneously.

  20. Re:NO IT'S NOT!!!! Damn... on IBM's But-I-Only-Got-The-Soup Patent · · Score: 1

    If you are a man, this is why most of us here don't have wives or girlfriends, but if you're a women, forget what I just said

  21. dead man's switch on Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? · · Score: 1

    I would do a setup where if I hadn't logon in every month or so, sends out an email to all my contacts and give whoever had local access all my passwords

  22. Re:Across State lines? on Best Way To Get Back a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    Or just upload kiddie porn/terrorist training manuals...

  23. This sucks on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    First, the time zone thing, I waited all day yesterday, and earlier today when the ftp went up, I had an opportunity to download, but I didn't, they had a little readme asking people not to as it would overload their server, so I waited for the proper time, and it's slashdotted, this is great, just show how organized the project is. I really enjoyed using Firefox whenever I'm in windows, but on OSX, I hardly ever uses it, and last week, I got Opera 9.5 and I haven't looked back since, I'd still friends and family to install Firefox on windows, but due to this enourmous cockups on this day, the experience has left a bitter taste in my mouth.

  24. My mom... on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    When I was about three, my mother told me to jump of the top flight of the stairs, saying that she'll catch me...

    and of course she didn't

    What wasn't part of the plan was that my forehead hit a sharp edge of the railings, I still have a small scar on my eyebrows to this day.

    My glass is usually half empty but it's not that I think of the scar everytime I'm faced with something suspicious

  25. Re:first nerd in space? on Microsoft's Charles Simonyi to be 1st Nerd in Space · · Score: 1
    Jocks with slide rules. It happens.
    I for one welcome our slide rules bearing jocks overlords.... This is just like highschool