Re:Convex Mirror... works and costs 99 cents
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Radar For Safer Driving
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any auto parts store, hell even walmart or target, will sell little convex mirrors with adhesive on the back to stick on your mirrors. I have one and it works great, no blind spot... Once you get used to it you don't even have to turn your head to change lanes. Radar my ass....
this is neat, someone is probably patenting it right now and will start expecting royalties from everyone using it... who of course will be hard to find.
Roast your own, you'll never drink anything else.
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Which Instant Coffee?
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Home coffee roasting is the greatest thing ever... once you taste fresh roasted coffee you'll never drink anything else. Now, if you're dead set on "instant" coffee you're hopeless:) That's not coffee, sorry. Get a coffee roaster, and buy GOOD green (unroasted)beans (St. Helena is *the* best ever, but it's hard to find and pricey). www.sweetmarias.com is the best place to look for green beans and roasting equipment. You'll save money and have the best coffee ever. No, I do not work for any coffee place, let alone sweet marias. I'm just a coffee junky.
Roast your coffee LIGHT. Dark roasts do NOT have "more" caffeine. Quit the opposite. The lighter the roast, the more caffeine... but the catch is only good coffee beans will taste good at a light roast. Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain, St. Helena, and a few others are great at light roasts. There is really no other way to go.
An administrative office in the US gov't decided to use a different font. Not only is this not news, but for them to frame it as "US Bans old font" is downright misleading and dispicable. Pretty much every office I've ever worked for has had a standard font. The Dept. of State decided to change fonts--and to a much more eye-pleasing one, I might add. Nobody is going to jail for using Courier Font in the USA. Not even a fine. This is basically just a "TPS Report" saying how they're gonna do the cover sheets from now on... new font. No big fucking deal. The USA has not banned any fonts. If you work for the Dept of State, start using Times new Roman. Shoulda been using it years ago anyway. Of course, if the title of the story had been "State Department Chooses New Font" the editors would have laughed the reporter out of the office... so it had to be more dramatic. "US bans..."... yeh we've banned lots of stupid things that shouldn't be banned, but fonts are not yet one of them.
I don't see how my comment is flamebait. Don't think for a minute I'm happy that MS has the monopoly it does. I think it is worth pointing out WHY Windows Media Player doesn't nag for you to buy it... you already have... and chances are you had no choice in the matter.
If microsoft didn't have a monopoly to spread their media player, trust me it would nag you for credit card numbers just as much as all the other crap does. If you're using Windows Media Player, you've either pirated it or you've already given Microsoft your credit card number when you purchased windows (most likely a computer pre-installed with windows).
any image, not just a digital one, can be changed, modified, or completely faked. Yes, digital technology makes it easier, but this is not a new phenomenon. Juries know (and should be told) that any image introduced into evidence might not be real and could have easily been altered by the other side. Depending on who took the image and the chain of possession, weighed against how believable the picture actually is, will determine how much weight the jury gives to a given photograph.
These digital picture verifiers are nice but not the end of the question. A validation from one of these machines is just some more evidence that the picture is real. It's not conclusive and shouldn't be taken as so. In fact, the evidence of validation from one of these machines might not even be allowed into court if they're extremely unreliable. Daubert to the rescue.
"wow look at mah cursor! it's got a tail! come over here condi... check this out, lookey, when I move my mouse 'round, there's a lil' tail it's like a real mousey!"
Apple Music is suing Apple Computer last time i heard (wasn't there a/. story on it a while back?). They say apple computer is violating the terms of the 'no music biz' agreement with the iPod store, etc. So the fact that Apple Music songs are shown on the iPod (along with an N Sync song! hahahahaha what a jab!) is a direct jab at Apple Music.
I think this irrational fear of everything genetically-enhanced is due to movies where radioactive mutant spiders bite people who then become "spider-men" and other such nonsense. Sure, those movies can be entertaining, but when hollywood pseudo-science becomes a basis for public policy discourse we've taken a step backwards. Rather, a giant leap backwards for mankind. Dumb people watch too many movies and have no concept of what is realistic and what is fantasy. The same people who want to ban glo-fish are the same ones who want to ban Harry Potter. Democracy doesn't work when the least educated are the most politically active. Oh well.
even with the spiffy mars watches. You'd think a rotating schedule of shifts would enable them to work around the clock in different teams, 24 hours a day here on earth, without having time/schedule problems due to where the sun is on mars.
First off, I never said I didn't see it, I said I didn't see what was so cool, neat, and special about it. I saw it yesterday, like I said... prior to it being slashdotted.
Being a nerd/geek has never been about being attracted to what is cheap or more cost effective. In fact, I would say quite the opposite. The rate at which the prices of X are dropping has never been a reason why X is cool to geeks.
When this was posted on Fark yesterday, several people sent me the link... and I couldn't figure out why. I kept reading the page, thinking I was skipping over something that stated something newsworthy or truly interesting about the "Vospad"... like how this is the inside of George W's Texas ranch or how some new, amazing type of LED is at work here... but nothing was to be found. A house lit by LEDs... looks cheap and tacky to me. So, I asked the people who sent me the link why they sent it to me.... same answer "cuz it's cool." No, sorry, it's really not.
Re:stand somewhere in a casino w/o being on camera
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RFID Casino Chips
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like i said, "in a casino's floor...." I specifically said casino floor because if i said "in a casino" wise, but accurate, asses would point out that you can (hopefully, at least expectedly) be in your hotel room and a restroom without being on camera.
stand somewhere in a casino w/o being on camera
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RFID Casino Chips
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if you can find a single place to stand in a casino's floor without being captured on at least one security camera (realistically it'll be more than one) i'll give ya a free pull on the slot of your choice. Privacy inside a casino, aside from the hotel rooms, is a non-issue. You voluntarily enter a casino knowing you're going to be watched via camera and floor personnel. Granted, we're talking privacy from the casino itself, and not from the government. When you go into a casino to play games, you are surrendering a certain amount of privacy because of the nature of the place (hundreds of people walking around with money, and lots of it, out in the open). To their credit, a casino floor is one of the safest places you can be in respect to violent crime.
The more I think about it, the only use for RFID chips to which i do not object to are in casino chips.
Nope; copyright is entirely civil law, not criminal (unless the DMCA figures into this somehow).
Sorry, that's incorrect. There are criminal penalties (in addition to the civil ones) in the US copyright law (see 107 USC 506). Ever read an "FBI Warning" at the begging of a video/dvd? There are civil and possibly criminal penalities for piracy. and the DMCA adds to that... in fact the DMCA isn't even copyright law per se, it's a suppliment to it.
Slashdot Mirror
any auto parts store, hell even walmart or target, will sell little convex mirrors with adhesive on the back to stick on your mirrors. I have one and it works great, no blind spot... Once you get used to it you don't even have to turn your head to change lanes. Radar my ass....
this is neat, someone is probably patenting it right now and will start expecting royalties from everyone using it... who of course will be hard to find.
Home coffee roasting is the greatest thing ever... once you taste fresh roasted coffee you'll never drink anything else. Now, if you're dead set on "instant" coffee you're hopeless :) That's not coffee, sorry. Get a coffee roaster, and buy GOOD green (unroasted)beans (St. Helena is *the* best ever, but it's hard to find and pricey). www.sweetmarias.com is the best place to look for green beans and roasting equipment. You'll save money and have the best coffee ever. No, I do not work for any coffee place, let alone sweet marias. I'm just a coffee junky.
Roast your coffee LIGHT. Dark roasts do NOT have "more" caffeine. Quit the opposite. The lighter the roast, the more caffeine... but the catch is only good coffee beans will taste good at a light roast. Kona, Jamaica Blue Mountain, St. Helena, and a few others are great at light roasts. There is really no other way to go.
An administrative office in the US gov't decided to use a different font. Not only is this not news, but for them to frame it as "US Bans old font" is downright misleading and dispicable. Pretty much every office I've ever worked for has had a standard font. The Dept. of State decided to change fonts--and to a much more eye-pleasing one, I might add. Nobody is going to jail for using Courier Font in the USA. Not even a fine. This is basically just a "TPS Report" saying how they're gonna do the cover sheets from now on... new font. No big fucking deal. The USA has not banned any fonts. If you work for the Dept of State, start using Times new Roman. Shoulda been using it years ago anyway. Of course, if the title of the story had been "State Department Chooses New Font" the editors would have laughed the reporter out of the office... so it had to be more dramatic. "US bans..." ... yeh we've banned lots of stupid things that shouldn't be banned, but fonts are not yet one of them.
I don't see how my comment is flamebait. Don't think for a minute I'm happy that MS has the monopoly it does. I think it is worth pointing out WHY Windows Media Player doesn't nag for you to buy it... you already have... and chances are you had no choice in the matter.
If microsoft didn't have a monopoly to spread their media player, trust me it would nag you for credit card numbers just as much as all the other crap does. If you're using Windows Media Player, you've either pirated it or you've already given Microsoft your credit card number when you purchased windows (most likely a computer pre-installed with windows).
exactly. The more abnormal a private fact appears to be, the less one would like that fact to be made public. Duh.
yes, I was. And for what it's worth, a "war" is two armies fighting each other. There is no such thing as a war against a noun.
Hasn't everyone always been glad they don't live in utah?
sorry, we're at war with drugs and terrorism and a few other nouns. freedom and liberty doesn't matter when you are at "war"....
exactly. there is currently no law barring digital pictures (or digital anything) from being introduced into evidence in a courtroom.
any image, not just a digital one, can be changed, modified, or completely faked. Yes, digital technology makes it easier, but this is not a new phenomenon. Juries know (and should be told) that any image introduced into evidence might not be real and could have easily been altered by the other side. Depending on who took the image and the chain of possession, weighed against how believable the picture actually is, will determine how much weight the jury gives to a given photograph.
These digital picture verifiers are nice but not the end of the question. A validation from one of these machines is just some more evidence that the picture is real. It's not conclusive and shouldn't be taken as so. In fact, the evidence of validation from one of these machines might not even be allowed into court if they're extremely unreliable. Daubert to the rescue.
Heh, I like to think my sig enhances all my posts... but yeah, this one especially :)
"wow look at mah cursor! it's got a tail! come over here condi... check this out, lookey, when I move my mouse 'round, there's a lil' tail it's like a real mousey!"
recognition and payment are two totally different things. attribution rights and "pay me or you can't see it" rights are vastly different concepts.
Fuck all your haikus
I can't stand reading them all
Don't you know they blow?
Apple Music is suing Apple Computer last time i heard (wasn't there a /. story on it a while back?). They say apple computer is violating the terms of the 'no music biz' agreement with the iPod store, etc. So the fact that Apple Music songs are shown on the iPod (along with an N Sync song! hahahahaha what a jab!) is a direct jab at Apple Music.
I think this irrational fear of everything genetically-enhanced is due to movies where radioactive mutant spiders bite people who then become "spider-men" and other such nonsense. Sure, those movies can be entertaining, but when hollywood pseudo-science becomes a basis for public policy discourse we've taken a step backwards. Rather, a giant leap backwards for mankind. Dumb people watch too many movies and have no concept of what is realistic and what is fantasy. The same people who want to ban glo-fish are the same ones who want to ban Harry Potter. Democracy doesn't work when the least educated are the most politically active. Oh well.
reading this patent... this is the clearest example i've ever seen of patent fraud.
even with the spiffy mars watches. You'd think a rotating schedule of shifts would enable them to work around the clock in different teams, 24 hours a day here on earth, without having time/schedule problems due to where the sun is on mars.
First off, I never said I didn't see it, I said I didn't see what was so cool, neat, and special about it. I saw it yesterday, like I said... prior to it being slashdotted.
Being a nerd/geek has never been about being attracted to what is cheap or more cost effective. In fact, I would say quite the opposite. The rate at which the prices of X are dropping has never been a reason why X is cool to geeks.
When this was posted on Fark yesterday, several people sent me the link... and I couldn't figure out why. I kept reading the page, thinking I was skipping over something that stated something newsworthy or truly interesting about the "Vospad" ... like how this is the inside of George W's Texas ranch or how some new, amazing type of LED is at work here... but nothing was to be found. A house lit by LEDs... looks cheap and tacky to me. So, I asked the people who sent me the link why they sent it to me.... same answer "cuz it's cool." No, sorry, it's really not.
like i said, "in a casino's floor...." I specifically said casino floor because if i said "in a casino" wise, but accurate, asses would point out that you can (hopefully, at least expectedly) be in your hotel room and a restroom without being on camera.
if you can find a single place to stand in a casino's floor without being captured on at least one security camera (realistically it'll be more than one) i'll give ya a free pull on the slot of your choice. Privacy inside a casino, aside from the hotel rooms, is a non-issue. You voluntarily enter a casino knowing you're going to be watched via camera and floor personnel. Granted, we're talking privacy from the casino itself, and not from the government. When you go into a casino to play games, you are surrendering a certain amount of privacy because of the nature of the place (hundreds of people walking around with money, and lots of it, out in the open). To their credit, a casino floor is one of the safest places you can be in respect to violent crime.
The more I think about it, the only use for RFID chips to which i do not object to are in casino chips.
Nope; copyright is entirely civil law, not criminal (unless the DMCA figures into this somehow).
Sorry, that's incorrect. There are criminal penalties (in addition to the civil ones) in the US copyright law (see 107 USC 506). Ever read an "FBI Warning" at the begging of a video/dvd? There are civil and possibly criminal penalities for piracy. and the DMCA adds to that... in fact the DMCA isn't even copyright law per se, it's a suppliment to it.