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  1. Re:OT: where do I turn in geek badge? on A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's "Slashdot" represented in 7-bit ASCII, LSB on top and MSB on the bottom of each character.

  2. Re:Machine tools on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you make a gun with a lathe, grinder, and milling machine, the gun will actually work.

  3. Re:Do the same with a handful of transistors on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 1

    Agreed. This same thing can be accomplished with $2 worth of op amps and passives, with no software to be buggy.

    When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  4. 0.1C accuracy on BrewPi: Raspberry Pi and Arduino Powered Fermentation Chamber · · Score: 1

    Accuracy has nothing to do with which processor you choose or which architecture runs your control software.

    It has everything to do with the design of your plant and the tuning of your PID loops.

    You could control a well-designed brew plant to 0.1C accuracy using a bunch of op-amps if you wanted to. A brew plant function just isn't going to be so fast that you need any kind of horsepower or complexity to run it.

  5. Yeah, I'll Keep Wearing One, Thanks on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    You don't wear a helmet for all of those accidents that don't happen. You wear one for that accident that does.

    Having been in a pretty horrific accident where my helmet saved my life, I'll just keep right on wearing it, thanks.

    Helmets are not required for adults in the US, but most states require them for children under a certain age. I see very few, if any, adults riding without one anymore, but when I do it's usually an older person from "back in the day" when helmets were uncool.

    There was a time back in the 50's, I think, when car companies were all up in arms about what to do with seatbelts. They wanted to add the "feature," but their marketing people were terrified that having safety features in a car would make the car seem unsafe and discourage people buying them. We look back on that today and laugh at how stupid they were to think that, just like at some point we will look back at this thread in the Internet archives and laugh hysterically at the stupidity.

  6. Re:One thing is missing: on Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal · · Score: 1

    "They declined because he filed in Florida, not DC."

    Is he trying the case pro se? Because, I can't imagine a member of the Bar making such a basic fuckup.

  7. Electrical Issues on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    Be careful to have separate service transformers for your offices/IT rooms and large machines.

    We had constant issues with some new high-current welders causing voltage droop in the server room, which made the UPSes all go crazy.

    So, we had our utility install separate pad transformers for the machinery and the offices.

    Also, do a very good job with creating a good MRG (Master Reference Ground). That much machinery taking large amounts of current will make this a necessity. We have ground stakes through the slab 12 feet into the ground at each of our large metalforming and welding machines.

    Make sure you think of future expansion, too.

  8. It's All Politics on Obama Blocks Chinese Wind Farms In Oregon Over National Security · · Score: 0

    Getting "tough on China" is a popular meme among the huddled masses.

    This is all about saying some things that have wide appeal to voters, and taking some minor, token actions to create the illusion of "walking the walk."

    Think about it. It appeals to the voters who have this false notion that Romney is an out-sorcerer of jobs to China, and it also appeals to those who have lost their jobs and believe it is because of China.

    It all translates to votes.

  9. Where's Steve? on Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Steve Jobs never would have apologized. While he was certainly one to recognize errors and correct them expeditiously, he'd never own up to it in public. His sometimes boisterous show of unwillingness to compromise is partly what has created Apple's entire image as a "no compromise" company.

    Tim Cook is certainly a different guy, with a different approach. I feel he has somehow cheapened the iGadgets with this move - first by releasing a product that never should have made it through validation, and second by apologizing for it in public.

  10. Re:or... on AMD Partners With BlueStacks To Bring Android Apps To PCs · · Score: 1

    Yep, it runs great in ESXi and in VBox. No need to pay anybody...

  11. No Shit, Sherlock on Even Windows 8 Users Prefer Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Filed under "thank you, captain Obvious."

  12. Re:Memory is Cheap on Design Principles Behind Firefox OS Explained · · Score: 1

    Obviously, humor is not your strong suit.

  13. Memory is Cheap on Design Principles Behind Firefox OS Explained · · Score: -1, Troll

    16GB of memory is $79 at newegg.

    Why are we still complaining about how much memory ANYTHING takes up anymore?

    Signed,

    Your friendly neighborhood software development manager.

  14. Re:ARRRRRRRRGHGHGHGHGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! on Design Principles Behind Firefox OS Explained · · Score: 0

    You're holding it wrong. If you hold it right, that won't happen.

  15. Re:That's how you deal with Big Business on Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube · · Score: 0

    Arrest the responsible people? Did Google produce the video? Did the specific Brazilian Google President produce the video personally himself and post it on his own Youtube account?

    No.

    The responsible people are those who produced and uploaded the video. Not Youtube.

  16. Re:World bank disagrees on Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube · · Score: 1

    GNP is not a measure of business climate or government hostility towards economic progress. It could be that they are still progressing for now despite the Brazilian government's best efforts to punish success. It was only recently that the leftists took over. It will be some time before the change in policy shows up in economic numbers.

  17. And of course The People can do nothing... on Creeping Government Surveillance Now Without Warrants · · Score: 2

    ... now that they've allowed the State to take their only means of changing their tyrannical government.

    I still can't figure out why Aussies were falling all over themselves to give up their guns, knowing what the reasons were for them being taken.

  18. Has the FBI picked you up yet? on Data Breach Reveals 100k IEEE.org Members' Plaintext Passwords · · Score: 1

    After all, you must be a terrorist hacker. I'd keep an eye over my shoulder if I were you.

  19. Re:have you looked around that class? on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 1

    I would think collage work would only require some construction paper, glue sticks, scissors, and imagination?

  20. Re:A saying only used by asshole players on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    Don't hate politicians. Hate inside-the-beltway Washington politics.

    Only a career politician would say that.

  21. Re:Riots broke out in shopping malls across the US on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Don't forget $RAPPER's new sneaker line.

  22. Labor Disputes in China? on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they usually end with a bullet going through the disputer's brain.

    Now shut up and get back to work. Clean up the blood and guts on your own time.

  23. My prediction of the oucome on Swiss Railway: Apple's Using Its Clock Design Without Permission · · Score: 0

    Apple will counter-sue, claiming that Apple is equivalent to God, and owns all ideas regardless of who here on Earth may have also thought of them, and the court will find in Apple's favor, and ask the Railway Service how they could possibly have been so dumb.

  24. Re:Such hatred! on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    Not agreeing with someone's course of action is not equal to "hate."

    We throw around the word "hate" way too much. It's not "hate."

  25. Or, another way to look at it... on Has Plant Life Reached Its Limits? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... no matter how much plant matter humans harvest for various reasons, the Earth is able to replenish it to its maximum level.