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  1. Re:Double standards on Apple Store Artist Raided By Secret Service · · Score: 2

    He asked the door mat (security guard) for permission to use computers belonging to the Apple stores. Since he did not have permission of the computer owner he triggered this law.

    Since an Apple store is not a public place and he did not have the stores permission, the people he photographed who did not give their permission now have a civil right to sue him pursuant to the law.

    If he's affiliated with any college/school/museum or business they both may be guilty of conspiracy to commit a violation of the law if they facilitated his act in any way.

    The government need your stupidity and your money and they will get it.

  2. Re:Wasted opportunity for Sony on Sony Announces End For MiniDisc Walkman · · Score: 1

    All that Sony has left is the glory of the past. They're still culturally traumatized by the Betamax ruling and losing to VHS. They tried to bribe their other crippled child bluray to dominance but have failed again. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  3. Re:seems simple on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    One app on the android store could not quickly get the functionality right across disparate Android phones from the sheer number of variations in platforms. They removed many of the features of the app on several phones. I requested a refund when they'd made the game dumbed down and stupid and attacked users criticizing this. I can see why apps are slow to market on Android.

    Recently the Android market has become a sewer of malware. It's bad enough that I don't have control of an apps access. I have to take it or leave it. With the ineffective control of developers on that market and without fine grained control of what an app does they can starve.

    I have the Android SDK up and running, Fedora 14 is now configured for my phone. I'm trying to learn how to write programs for it. I can and have downloaded some source code that is simple enough I can grasp that it's not going to do damage. I may not be livin' large on apps, if I wanted that I'd get an iSore.

  4. Re:50 mile range may not be the end of the world on Toyota Scion IQ Electric Car To Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Leaf http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/energy/26067/

    Mitsubishi http://green.autoblog.com/2011/04/22/edta-2011-85-miles-is-the-best-case-scenario-for-mitsubishi-i/

    If I want a urban rickshaw I'll buy a scooter with storage. If I want a car I'll buy something with 300+ miles range.

  5. Re:Really, Flash Destroyer the best example? on Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding · · Score: 1

    Show us the one you built, the gerbers, the schematic, the source code and the VHDL code. Show us that it works.

  6. Re:The most useful one on Calling Out GE's Misleading Data Visualizations · · Score: 0

    Anyone who takes such things seriously examining the raw data is a fool. Without the raw data it's as accurate as climate change priests excretions.

    Yet the article whines about white space and shape and even color. The last bit about wikipee, creative commons, and the like appear to have been hacked on last as an after thought.

  7. Re:This is seriously a world first?!!?? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    You may not be a code muncher or a silicon shitter but you are cool anyway. ;)

    I've used processing but just a few minutes fiddling and aackeys does what processing would take longer to write. I have several other uses for that helpful hint.

    Thanks for the info.

  8. Re:This is seriously a world first?!!?? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    Why not use an Arduino and a USB shield or one of the myriad USB I/O devices?

    Well there is that robust , near indestructible quality of consumer grade products to consider and the lower price.

    >_

  9. Re:wowsers on New FBI Operations Manual Increases Surveillance · · Score: 1

    10E10^100 interesting words and or phrases.
    DEA meatsack
    Project gamma tango
    NEA
    PETA
    DES
    NSa project talent tangerine
    Rotten Amygdaloid
    Oscar Mergatroid
    Beat Under Control
    Joylon West is a nazi
    No elephants died in the making of the CIA
    EAT MORE MEAT
    MKumbrella
    Fist of God
    Technoeroticgodhood
    Meme
    Elvis is a patriot
    Dood 41

  10. Ima make you dig for it in fishy water on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    Have you been on the sea at sea state 5?!? It will fucking launch the damn things even if everything is perfectly done by the boat crew with perfect chains, tie downs, clamps, etc the container may have a defect or if it's perfect having multiple Gs on a container weight 50k makes things give up.

    There's a whole world of marine disasters
    http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/m_acc.htm

    Ima make you dig for 'em, there's more by any country with commercial shipping.

    They seem to play bash'em ship a lot.

  11. Re:Dreamweaver on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1

    Yes but the craftsman is stuck with what his tools can make. The person in his garage who makes his own tools can and has gone farther and done more or have been far more brilliant with less.

  12. Re:Quick Answer on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    Ok, I've never managed to keep one I've carried working more than a few months. I should design a case out of billet aluminum and cast it in with alumina filled epoxy. ;)

    Maybe three or four even.

  13. Re:Why would I what a reprogrammable flashlight? on Man Creates Open Source Flashlight · · Score: 1

    Have it chirp and flash if it gets too far away from your phone. Have your phone chirp as well when it's too far away.

    Then you'd lose both of them. ;)

  14. Re:Quick Answer on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    What is the longest you've had a thumb drive last?

  15. Re:Not to worry... on Schema.org — Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Agree On Markup Vocabulary · · Score: -1, Troll

    eet is teh false langwage of teh false gohd! eet ees ebil! ebil Onle teh scroscanct and whycensed ghod appruved by the preests of teh all wholly mycroft shal be acknowledged!

    Ok it was in all caps now it's not, happy you shit eating grammar gnazis?

  16. Paid IT on Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? · · Score: 1

    If you're not getting paid to be the IT guy you're a chump.

  17. Re:Should just drop support for IE entirely on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    They can copy code like no one else?

  18. Re:microwave on What's Killing Your Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Do you mean your microwave oven? Contact the manufacturer and make them send someone out to run a microwave leakage test. The service center is required to have a properly calibrated one. The test may not be free but they should not charge more than a service call but see if the manufacturer will cover this test.

    Switching power supplies used in these microwaves can cause trouble regardless of the FCC warning on them. You can get noise from the supply and noise on the power line even though it's not otherwise failing.

    An older version of Tripp Lite's surge suppressor could filter this crap off the power line. It sold for around $70 in the '90s. Without the testing I could do back then I won't recommend them now.

    From Crisco
    http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps9391/ps9393/ps9394/prod_white_paper0900aecd807395a9_ns736_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html
    "Jupiter Research reports 67 percent of all residential Wi-Fi problems are linked to interfering devices, such as cordless phones, baby monitors, and microwave ovens."

  19. "Sneaky Weasel" on Linus Renames 2.6.40 Kernel To Linux 3.0, Announces Release Candidate · · Score: 0

    diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
    index 529d93f..afb8e0d 100644 (file)
    --- a/Makefile
    +++ b/Makefile
    @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
    -VERSION = 2
    -PATCHLEVEL = 6
    -SUBLEVEL = 39
    -EXTRAVERSION =
    -NAME = Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs
    +VERSION = 3
    +PATCHLEVEL = 0
    +SUBLEVEL = 0
    +EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
    +NAME = Sneaky Weasel

  20. Re:Not really a jetpack on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 1

    Baby steps.

    They miniaturized jet engines enough to do this and it seems pretty damn good now. Maybe if you can get an engineering degree in fluid dynamics and one in materials science you can develop a continuous detonation wave engine that would be smaller.

  21. One drawback if you turn your skin to brains. on Human Skin Cells Converted Directly To Neurons · · Score: 1

    Zombies

  22. Re:You mean that cell phone store? on RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots · · Score: 1

    Spot on.

    In the 70s they were it when it came to the DIY, they were dying in the 80s and dead in the 90s.

    In the 70s my small rural town had a Radio Shack, it was a part of an retail store that sold TVs I assume it to have been a franchise. They had everything. If the Radio Shack side didn't have it the other side did.

    The owner would hold presentations at the local middle and high school demonstrating neat gadgets.

    I could not afford any of the cool stuff but he'd let me sit for hours using their demo TRS-80 if no one was in the store.

    By the time I could afford to buy from them they were done. They pissed away their DIY and became a crap box selling rebranded junk.

  23. Re:Hey, I have one of those too! on Robots Retrieve Your Books At U. Chicago's $81 Million Library · · Score: 1

    NONFREE
    NONFREEDOM
    DOH!

  24. Re:I guess now's as good a time as any on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 1

    It's the only religious figure I can truly believe in. :-D

    Blog http://christopher.stasheff.com/blog/blog_default.htm

  25. Re:It's all about sales on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    This is similar to firearms accessories all having razor sharp 90 degree or tighter edges and lots of fancy sharp edged CNC work on the outside.

    When the user complains of getting cuts, shredded clothing and other issues they're pointed to a gunsmith to 'dehorn' the cluster fuck for $$$.

    It's the users fault, they won't buy the safer soft edged parts so manufacturers won't make them. There's enough dumbasses out there that they can fuel this for centuries. ;)

    So you all should be making yourself laptop smiths and creating an elegant and practical fix for this and charge the clueless for the privilege of your vast knowledge, experience, craftsmanship and ability to smile when they squirm at the bill.

    Nothing teaches better than pain and there is nothing more painful that wallet pain.