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  1. Re:This actually looks pretty amazing on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 1

    It doesn't get past noscript. Did it have a paid whitelist in AdBlock+?

    I have amazing tools that are GNU and free without the clowdy clown of sad clowdness.

    Has anyone started an fork of AdBlock? I have a name AllAdBlock.

  2. Re:bird shot on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    Bird shot is for birds. I'm amused it took that drone down.

    http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot3.htm

  3. I'd prefer a news report rather than an editorial on Foxconn Hires Top Spinners To Defend Its Image · · Score: 1

    I can get the level of bias and innuendo in that editorial easily enough from the MSM with the same thin layer of 'news story'.

    Why is it so many alleged news sources feel the need to try and bend their readers to their view? The MSM is dying from this disease as there are now better and more plentiful sources.

  4. Re:Something wrong here... on Hard Drive Shortage Relief Coming In Q1 2012 · · Score: 1

    I did #2 I bought a handful of terabyte Hitachi drives...on sale at some less than agile big box retailer. I repeated that a couple times till the hammer fell.

    I like the drives, they are quieter than seagate.

  5. Re:Trauma on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 2

    I actually meant immortal on our side of the 4th wall. If they ever kill him in a story there will be a lingering doubt that he will stay dead. If the IP holders were to in some way convince people they kill him off in a story the IP holders won't be able to wallow in the Indiana Jones Money Tub anymore. ;)

  6. Re:Trauma on Submitting "Nuking the Fridge" To Scientific Peer Review · · Score: 2

    Indiana Jones is immortal

    Harrison Ford is just OLD

    Dammit, I was hoping to see a few dozen more movies by him.

  7. Re:Great on FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine · · Score: 1

    "Each AeroShot will give you 4-6 puffs. You can choose to use it all at once or take a puff and save the rest for later."

    I take it the professor who is marketing it thought of the downside and is confident of safety.

    http://www.aeroshots.com/faq/

    I don't think you are correct about B vitamins and I believe everyone should test your assertion throughly.

  8. Re:ask a mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    I traded a POS GM Turismo in for a fabulous used Toyota Corrola. The dealer's tow truck came to pick it up and the Turismo broke in the middle half on him. The driver was a tad pissed. The card did not actually end up in two pieces but it was not for the driver trying. He used the wench and a wrecking bar to get the thing on to the bed then spent about 20 minutes chaining it all down. ;)

    I'm still driving the Toyota after 8 years and it was 8 years old when I got it. It just turned over on $200,000 miles. It's been repaired after 4 accidents and also has had about 3k in repairs. I'm dreading looking for a new one and will most likely base a buying decision on Consumer Reports and how needy they were a while back.

  9. Re:Adobe complaining about bloat? on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 1

    Agreed FK the cloud meme, I store my crap on my own servers with my own security. If I need a lot of stuff served to the public I'll hire a service to do that. If I need computing time I'll buy it from some source that doesn't have a psychotic pricing model that's difficult to calculate fees charged or for what I think Amazon wanted build my own damn cluster.

  10. Re:Qt and open source on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is your Nokia stock options doing drone? Not like it was in 2000 when your company was highing fly yes? It's not MS that dragged you down, you'd have done that fine all on your own it's your software and your support for your hardware that killed you. I dumped Nokia over not fixing a problem with swelling leaky batteries. I'll not go back for the way Nokia treated US employees during your grand MS roll out.

     

  11. Re:I wonder if that changes the general advice... on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Yes and VLC is very windows centric.

    A lot of my complaints should have been directed at the long term problem of drag and drop and cut and paste across several Linux distributions. I've not tested them all so YMMV. Fedora 14, Ubuntu before gnume3 and the current Mint Live CD fail at cut and paste, drag and drop is incomplete.

    I should have specified my experience is the 64bit version of VLC for Fedora core 14. I now recall dimly that 32bit did better except for the same crashes due to corrupt videos and UI issues.

    I shall give the new version VLC a try.

  12. Re:What could go wrong? on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I read cypherpunks and I still feel I'm a noob at crypto. Smart cards do the encryption/decryption in such a way as to not reveal the key even to snoopers.

    I want to secure my home/laptop system so that I can use a smartcard to log on with a pin pad built into the card or one I carry. I think this is something I can set up.

    I'd like to be able to use a computer that may have compromised hardware to be able to connect to a PC I control and do my transactions using that. Again I'd like to use the smart card to handle the security. I accept that compromised hardware could prevent this but if it was just snooping I would not care. I could most likely do this if I could boot to a USB stick and use the smartcard but would like to find out if I could do it on a system I did not have admin rights and could not boot on a USB stick. I would of course need to be able to use the USB ports. If there is a method to hide keystrokes and mouse use that would be a bonus.

    I'd like to use the smartcard be the tool that either stores or unlocks passwords for websites requiring passwords. A quick check says that is possible. I'm not suggesting all websites have my public key for authentication since if it's compromised it's the same as having one password for all of them.

    I'm slowly reading up on that subject. I cannot find a card with a pin pad to unlock it but I'm ok with a just a card that needs or is setup to require a pin. I cannot find a usb reader with pin pad that's small. I will get a larger one if the price is right.

  13. Re:Nostalgia ... on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    I remember writing code for a 1541 floppy that had to fit in a sector if I recall correctly. I never figured out how to daisy chain that as some did and I never went farther with programming.

    I'd have no issue with dense code in that context if the libraries would be available with any standard browser install. I would take exception with how javascript pulls in code over the network. Most languages are not very good if you can't use an external library at compile or run time but requiring any library to be installed just to run that code is a cheat.

    More restrictive rules. It has to run in 140 bytes only. So this is what I've got. ;) I can't code for life, love, nor money now so this is borrowed.

    <script type="text/javascript">
    document.write("Hello Slashdot")
    document.write("TACOS RULE")
    document.write("+1 Informative")
    </script>

  14. Re:Spoier Re:Read the source code - lov on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    Now why did that get past the lameness filter? Is there some AI running in the background or is there uncooked meatware reading every post?

    Oh my gods is that why the posts are so crazy? There's a million Indians approving all posts? Or is it a time clone of Cmdr Taco???

    How hideous.

  15. Spoier Re:Read the source code - lov on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 1

    DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                                            Version 2, December 2004

      Copyright (C) 2011 YOUR_NAME_HERE

      Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
      copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
      as the name is changed.

                            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
          TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

        0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.

  16. Re:What could go wrong? on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1

    It would be easier to have the DNC tag and levy a $10,000 fine for each violation. If you want the government to leave a puddle like an excited poodle on it's way to it's now overflowing food dish in it's mad dash to help you. Craft the law so you get $1000 and they get $9000 PER violation.

    I'd like lower taxes and bankrupt assholes.

  17. Re:I wonder if that changes the general advice... on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    No that was spot on accurate. A lot of features don't work or won't work right. They parent is probably talking about windows. I've never seen cut and paste or drag and drop work on Linux across a dozen distros.
    VLC can hard crash X at times but then so do some other programs.

    I like VLC but I have to accept it will not work or work poorly at times. Since they IMAO screwed the UI by defeaturing it I'll see if it's a wretched as it looks when I can get it.

  18. Re:What could go wrong? on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 2

    I put mine in a text file and encrypt them with a PGP key that is not on my PC. That is my backup. I trust firefox well enough to let it store them but I don't trust them not to screw up and destroy them.

  19. Re:A truly stupid comparison on Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most · · Score: 1

    This is self-refreshing DRAM so as long as it has power it's good.
    http://www.cellularram.com/faq/index.html

    It would not be that expensive to have one 128MB one for long term storage. Micron has one that's very low power though there may be others out there.

    I'm not a fan of flash.

  20. Re:If you go outside, there will be a record of it on Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies · · Score: 1

    Several states have sealed driving records to the point it's near impossible to get a name and address from a license plate. Other records will eventually be sealed in such a way as to protect the name and address of people for such life changes as birth, divorce, accident etal.

    Eventually those drones will come under such restrictions. I will support prohibitions against non government use of those and strong prohibitions against use of those without a warrant.

  21. Re:While it's moving? on Ford and Bug Labs Shipping OpenXC Beta Kits · · Score: 1

    Don't sCare thE horSes or their riders! ;)

    Yea that filter works so well.

  22. Re:While it's moving? on Ford and Bug Labs Shipping OpenXC Beta Kits · · Score: 1

    If I inadvertently kill anyone I'd prefer to have to WATCH it, I owe them that much and I would deserve the immediate terror and the lasting emotional pain.

    I do not like the every changing blinking lights while driving whether inside the car or outside. I accept traffic lights. I will take analog displays even if driven digitally. I want a clock. I want simple buttons to select at most 10 channels on my radio. I'll accept the bizarre voice of any GPS rather than a screen I have to look at. I despise getting a phone call in the car but I have an app that won't even ring the phone unless it's someone I have to answer or they have a code. If it's so damned important that someone has to text me and get past filters then my phone can read it to me. I can then stop and respond or just say " text fuck off" to send the "you're a douche nozzle" text.

    Also kill animated billboards dead, they should be held civilly liable for any accident where the drivers could even glimpse a pixel of the billboard. The same for the dancing morons at the side of the road, if they're working for a company the company takes the liability. Free speech is for people.

  23. Re:Link to WSJ and not FCC? on FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls · · Score: 1

    He gets a kickback for that.

  24. Re:You'd think, but... on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 2

    The primary manufacturer of that drug was horrible and the FDA shut them down. Since then both government and industry are ramping up to make the drug available in time to prevent it from running out.

    There are a lot of "the free market is evil" postings by bloggers on this issue who use the pain of others to attack both industry and government when both are working it out. I do not see the ones lambasting them doing much of anything but attempting to whip up a frenzy and feed on the rage and fear. I didn't bother to examine their agenda.

    http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/02/15/146960417/latest-drug-shortage-threatens-children-with-leukemia?live=1

    "If you want to read something to give you nightmares, you can look at the FDA 483 inspection form," Fox says. "You can read about mold on the walls and rust from machinery falling into the vials. It really provides a very grim picture of a crumbling factory."

  25. Re:"Smart" TVs? on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 1

    British montage
    I have no fixed British paper currently I use this to find them. I look for ones with high online presence who are not pernicious asses about subscribing and who keep the tabliod pablum low. I choose one and read it for a week if I can stand it then pick another. Newspapers that are not professional are ignored. I don't provide a list as others may like ones I would not. I also pick single British news articles off google news if it looks like it wasn't written by a rabid wombat.
    ahref=http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htmrel=url2html-7729http://www.wrx.zen.co.uk/britnews.htm>

    The Times of India in English.
    Good articles and better written than most US news sources. Their RSS feeds are fine and there are enough choices to be daunting at first.
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

    Middle east
    The Israeli newspaper Haaretz in English.
    http://www.haaretz.com/
    and Al Jazeera in English
    http://www.aljazeera.com/
    Picking the peanuts out is trying. Read these together and make comparisons between them and other sources.

    Pravda in English.
    I've read enough stories they've written that provide a lot more information than other news sources that has shown to be accurate. I'm more impressed with them than propaganda would lead me to believe. They cannot be as free about in country reporting but international reporting can be very good. You have to read them with an eye to government propaganda but where they can they do fine original work.
    http://english.pravda.ru/

    Japan
    I don't have one.

    Some of the rest.
    Finding a newspaper that is not censored or self-censoring to protect itself in some areas is difficult. A lot of newspapers have no choice. If I see an article I find interesting that occurred in a country known for censorship I also check surround countries news sources and others in country. I don't rigorously do this as I can only dedicate a fixed amount of time to being a news junkie.

    If anyone has a pointer to a small, well written, non-tabloid, smart Australian online news source post it. I'm not seeing much I care about as most of it is cut and paste from others or is tabloid pablum.