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  1. Cross compile nano/vim/emacs.

    Open a terminal.

  2. Then you haven't researched smart thermostats enough.

    Radio Thermostat Company of America has an API (you can run you thermostat with bash scripts and curl if you want).

    For others like my Carrier/Bryant there's a Perl project that MITM it so it can't talk to the outside. (Which doesn't require an subscription fee)

  3. Plex started off as OSXBMC a fork of the XBMC when the XBMC devs were focused heavily on Windows/Linux.

  4. Re:Realistic on Fitbit Is Buying Smartwatch Maker Pebble For Around $40 Million, Says Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Fitness bands and smartwatch sales are tanking. It looks like it's just a fad.

    Or the technology isn't there yet.

    Remember the 'fad' of the Palm Pilot and Apple Newton? The technology wasn't there yet and now smartphones.

  5. Re: Finally, the gloves will come off! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    And here I had thought all of this species of human had died off.

  6. Re: Finally, the gloves will come off! on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As is their right as a private corporation.

    Petition Trump to setup tweet.gov. The "1st Amendment Platform for the US Government".

    Look I get you kids like Twitter and Facebook but STOP USING THEM if you don't like them. Jesus. I wouldn't think twice about dropping a BBS account or IRC pseudonym. If you really want to spew what ever comes to your head you can use hashtags and join a #TrumpForLife IRC channel and mash the keyboard.

    Twitter's now a platform for middle aged women to tweet The View and feel like someone is listening to their opinion. Hence all the Tide, Sharpie, et al accounts. Anything that doesn't fit that isn't profitable.

  7. Re:A deeply fragmented society, driven by emotions on Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I've modded "Troll" several of your posts, early today...

    Horse shit you did. /. should know how to read binary better than you currently do.

    Since I don't feel like retyping the whole post. https://slashdot.org/comments....

  8. Re:A deeply fragmented society, driven by emotions on Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the part I don't get.

    I don't actively seek to hang out around assholes. (What ever your definition may be).

    I don't show up at KKK rallies OR Feminist Open Mic Night. I already have enough on my plate between family, a job running and a household that I barely have enough time to see people I want to see.

    So why would I venture in and try and change anything online? I'll occasionally lurk and browse to keep tabs on what everyone is up to but I don't show up on Stormfront pushing for Equality or show up on Feminism pushing Stormfront.

    Stop hanging out with assholes online or off.

  9. Canada is not exactly an ideal spot to locate

    They should have setup in the UK and let the government help peer everything.

  10. Re:De Beers Marketing on Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried sudo?

  11. Re:What does he think this is, Apple?!?!?!?!? on Amazon Worker Jumps Off Company Building After Email Note (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you compared the statistics of suicide for FoxConn vs China as a whole you actually had a reduced chance working for FoxConn.

    That doesn't help sell a narrative, but that's how statistics work.

  12. De Beers Marketing on Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries (newatlas.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't get a radioactive man made diamond. Buy one of our questionably sourced ones.

    We'll even train you how to spot the difference.

    [My Mohs scale doesn't care. Minecraft has made me want a diamond everything hand tool.]

  13. Re:Version 2.0 on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    They're using the default standard of "return home when communications is lost" to cause it to return home when communications is lost.

    Yes. And that "Default" is a software change away. You could even say "Disabling the land or return to owner can be changed in drone software to make this device useless".

    Most drones don't do what the operator wants when the operator control link is disabled.

    I never said that. I said they are banking on how the drone is designed to operate. (Disabled link = Go home).

  14. Blocking these frequencies cuts off communication between the drone and pilot (or GPS) and forces it to land safely or return to its operator -

    ISIS Drone 2.0 now contains differential antennas and will, when losing all communication, follow the source of the jamming signal.

    Are they seriously just banking on how some drones operate for this product to work? Disabling the "Land or return to owner" is a software change away.

  15. Re:At least Trump may actually do some good on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    killing the EPA,

    I too look forward to burning rivers.

  16. Using it to import even older Legacy stuff. Turns out people put a lot of video on VHS. A Firewire VHS deck is still the most dependable option. Every USB RCA 'digitizer' I've found is made by companies long out of business, has lackluster Windows support to begin with and flat out refuses to work with Linux.

    dvgrab works on Linux but you can't view the tape as it comes in. And as I said kdenlive dropped all firewire support with their latest version and the bug is labeled as "won't fix". So please oracle on the internet, tell me a better, faster and easier way to do the above because the workflow I gave is the best I've found. And easy enough that I can pass off to a 10 year old to do.

    Unless you're volunteering to digitize all this stuff, at which point just give me a shipping address and I'll give you an FTP server to dump it on. It's only a few hundred hours.

  17. will become obsolete worldwide on the same date.

    I have a 2006 MacMini. With iMovie '06 it's still the best front end to a Firewire camcorder I've found. The latest kdenlive dropped Firewire import.

    For basic video editing it still works rather well. Transcoding is slow so I export everything in .dv and convert it on a faster machine.

    Doesn't seem very obsolete to me.

  18. Re: Why? on Microsoft Exec Urges Linux Developers To Try Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then please, for the love of god, bring back a Desktop GUI to the Desktop OS.

    I'd actually prefer it to look like Windows NT/2000/"Classic". That has been, and forever will be, my preferred "working GUI". Right now my Cinnamon setup more or less looks just like it. It's how I make MATE and XFCE look as well.

    Stop trying to make me and my brain work like a tablet interface. (That goes for you too Ubuntu Unity)

  19. Has the lord and savior told you on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    about Black Belt training?

  20. Bots for the, bots for me. on Julian Assange Could Be Time's 'Person Of The Year', And Is Also Still Not Dead (time.com) · · Score: 1

    So trump making it the list is a genuine act of voting but Putin making the list is 'state agents'?

  21. Check that definition.

  22. Re:Go to the transition website on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Direct Link: https://apply.ptt.gov/yourstor...

    I've submitted about H1B's, getting fiber, etc.

    Despite the Green Party's money grab, he's going to happen, I might as well make the best of it.

  23. I had to 'translate' some of this article for my wife (MD) since it was in IEEE rather than the medical journals she's used to.

    The interesting approach is using the cells' EM properties rather than it's chemical ones. FDA approval aside given a specific set of instructions this should be trivial for any college student to re-create. Places on earth where it's difficult to get 'fresh' Chemo drugs to or don't have the infastructure to support radiation or other conventional treatements. TENS units have been around for a while and aren't that big.

    Now we just need to find the harmonic frequency of all the other types of cancer.

  24. I'm not unconvivced some are just Markov chain bots.

  25. Clinton forgot about 2 swing states: WI and MI and being forgotten most democrats just stayed home.

    Trump didn't win either of those states as much as the voters clinton thought she could count on just stayed home. Sanders won both those states in the primary despite what the polls said then. Perhaps the DNC should invest in better polling in the rust belt.