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  1. 3D printed industrial robot arm on Brookstone Rover 2.0 SpyTank Teardown · · Score: 2

    I have yet to see a single 3D printed industrial robot arm anywhere. Actually it doesn't have to be printed, it just needs to meet user-picked mechanical requirements. You can calibrate software to compensate for your own inept assembly, which to me implies that simple hardware + advanced software = magic.

    My use would be attaching a router to it and letting it carve stuff out of for example wood. E.g. this chainsaw-bot, but less terrifying.

  2. Re:Here's an ISP that seems to know what an IP is on Canadian ISP Fights Back Against Copyright Trolls · · Score: 2

    Yes. The solution would be much better addressed by a micro-payment for new accounts rendered in computational protein folding.

  3. Re:Here's an ISP that seems to know what an IP is on Canadian ISP Fights Back Against Copyright Trolls · · Score: 1

    Moreover, bit rot caused by heat and intergalactic cosmic radiation have been shown to mis-route internet communication. Domain names are slightly more resistant to this effect which can only be mitigated by world-wide adoption of ECC RAM, since affected they appear to be misspelled. However when am IP addresses is affected there is no outward tell.

    You can reliably say that the force of the inherit cosmos ensures plausible deniability in the digital age, and that by extension anonymity is a force of nature.

  4. Re:A lot of this BS is just Daniel Berg's fiction on The Paradox of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    ...no one knew who Assange was when D started working with him.

    That's not true.

    In September, 1991, when Assange was twenty, he hacked into the master terminal that Nortel, the Canadian telecom company, maintained in Melbourne, and began to poke around.

    - http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian?currentPage=all

    They just didn't have a name for 'that guy'.

  5. Re:Meanwhile Gnash on Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks · · Score: 2

    Says "...currently our video library can only be watched from within the United States." Can't be bothered to find a local TOR exit...

  6. Re:Meanwhile Gnash on Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks · · Score: 1

    I don't have an authoritative answer, but Chromium keeps telling me Adobe Flash is out of date with its bright yellow Load Anyway dialogue. I see that bar on a lot of sites which should not have any reason to use SWF, even though adblock removes the worst offenders.

  7. Meanwhile Gnash on Adobe Hopes Pop-up Warnings Will Stop Office-Borne Flash Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meanwhile Gnash supports Youtube just fine, which remains Flash's sole legitimate use.

    It even supports audio out of the box.

  8. Re:Read more facts here on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 1

    I frequently visit pages that just hang due to the js. You can write bad code in any language.

    Unless I have a specific need I don't leave the framework. I actually prefer to bolt on yet another framework just so that I can get a single function from it instead of re-inventing my own, usually crappy and undocumented, wheel.

    This story has however taught me new tricks, even if it also taught me that timothy is an ignorant bloody troll. Apparently MVC and node.js have some silver bullet-like characteristics and I'm looking forward to working with them. Meanwhile most other languages have nothing like that. Perl has CPAN and Python has something incomplete that wants to be CPAN. C remains the language of choice if you are A. John Carmack or B. Linus Torvalds. If neither of these are your name then your C-fu should and will be questioned.

    I'm very interested in real time digital signal processing, but unless you have a FPGA board with a million dollars worth of IP cores then single-threading on ASIC is what you got. I don't however think I'd try to do DSP using js, but I definitely want to own my core when processing and not give it up until I'm at stage where I can do so. For rtDSP owning your core is essential.

    Those websites that freeze up, they don't play nice, and they don't get many return visitors either. The UI is different, you guessed right. You seldom need tight loops in the UI, and usually when you have written bad code that mangles the UI in the browser at least the user can reload the page and not click stuff in that particular order again.

    I see the web as the new terminal, but even more beautiful. All the heavy lifting should IMO be done with the client-server model. Say for example your browser is the client and your GPU, with its many low-powered cores, is the server.

    Someone mentioned that you can't view all js in the Chrome Inspector. What you can however do is rewrite your js so that you can see it. In Python that is verboten and the anathema of the philosophy. In C you need to know in advance what bugs you'll get so that you can add debugging...

  9. Re:Read more facts here on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why is this funny? Assembler was the first programming language I really understood because it's so simple to see what's going on in it. What I struggled with was object orientation because I thought objects were redundant with classes. It seemed philosophical compared to how concrete a stack and an arithmetic unit is. I knew what the circuits of the latter looked like and even knew about electrons and holes.

    Unless you've been living under a rock the past decade you know the Internet runs on Javascript because it is non-blocking. I don't expect most of the Slashdot crowd to know what that means anymore, nor why halting is a problem. I'll appeal to authority instead and tell you that it is what Google uses and Google cares about the responsiveness of the UI. Slashdot's favorite mobile phone, the N9, uses QML and Javascript for the UI and wow have you been happy with it until now!

    People complain about how it's easy it is to screw things up in Javascript. It's pretty easy to write a recursive loop in C and mess up the exit too. Javascript has frameworks, and if you use the Chrome Inspector you can actually see the variables update at a high FPS and then drop to a crawl when the tab loses focus. You don't need to compile anything. With just CSS and jQuery you can start doing useful things in your daily environment.

    IMO an example of a truly monstrous language is Java. It just seems idiotic that that by writing the same thing in three slightly different ways you'll somehow come up with more robust code. It's like a language that was never meant for humans to write, but for some reason we were supposed to read it. Yet it's ECMAscript that's considered harmful??

  10. Re:Good thinking! on Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    Then again, the market cap of people with 3D printers is a different story.

    Just imagine what you could do with a patterned back shell and a very accurate accelerometer!

  11. Re:Me too (with fix notes) on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    I've taken to filing bugs with every vendor when I encounter a forced color scheme that dishonors system settings.

    Mind sharing that template? :)

    In return, I give you this:
    https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-colors/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon

  12. Suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    I have thinking about how to solve the issue programmatically. That is, once and for all. There are a few rules which could be forced upon the window server. Compiz for example has some potential in this direction, so it could be refined.

    - When luminance per area exceed a user-set property, invert luminance but keep chroma. Perhaps something ImageMagick or similar could do with ease.

    - Be aware of common image formats and be reasonably sure that everything else is typeface. With emerging VR we might have to invent lots of new definitions.

    - When it is a typeface, treat it like the user wants text to be treated, perhaps relying on CSS templates and window/tab titles or domain names. AFAIK there is no URL for viewports, so there will be a issue of persistence.

    Who the hell decided the web wanted to be white anyway? A white web is bad for mobile.

  13. Re:Chicken or Egg? on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    ... keep the gun secured in a safe storage depository (for example, a safe or similar secure container with a lock that can be opened only with a key or combination, or other locking mechanism) or render it incapable of being fired by putting a safety lock on the gun.

    Yeah... about that. Meet Deviant Ollam.
    vIJFQO4DIxw

  14. Re:Clip on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    Speaking of points, doesn't there exist an example where a home-defender unloaded an entire mag, regardless of size?

  15. Re:Reminescent design on Stanford Team Developing Spiked Robots To Explore Phobos · · Score: 1

    Sorry, replying to my own post, but I decided to take a screenshot from the source I mentioned:

    http://i.imgur.com/myOi3.jpg

  16. Reminescent design on Stanford Team Developing Spiked Robots To Explore Phobos · · Score: 1

    The design looks a lot like something out of the account of a credible individual in the UK who has suffered from an Alien Abduction experience. He describes spheres with much fewer feet than the NASA version, and how they pivoted and rolled to make a path of animal-like foot prints.

    Source; the following remarkable series:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke's_Mysterious_World#U.F.O.s_-_4_November_1980

  17. Re:Critical Security Steps on How Do YOU Establish a Secure Computing Environment? · · Score: 1

    You are China.

  18. Re:So...much ado about not much on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 2

    A thorium reactor should generate a lot of radium, which can be detected, and easily kill anyone who isn't familiar with ventilation.

  19. run an exit node. on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 1

    Obviously both at the same time is better. =)

    See you on the barricades!

  20. Re:Boatware on Dell's Ubuntu Ultrabook Now On Sale; Costs $50 More Than Windows Version · · Score: 1

    ...Crap. I was going to say it's because you get my technical support, but you're probably right.

  21. Re:Don't run an exit node. on Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A mesh network isn't far away. Wireless APs are becoming redundant in homes so with a bit of community spirit and recycling you can establish a darknet like that. That community spirit is most easily found in hackerspaces and the Pirate Party, and since the latter type has the ability to support the former type you can get the message into people's homes without coming off as a lunatic fringe.

    A lot of people don't understand why you want to build this and assume it's for child porn. I have learned that the appropriate response to crap isn't logic nor debate since it is just lazy rhetoric, but instead instant anger or suggesting 'that's what you'd use it for, isn't it'. Then assuming an air of accepting their apology you can move on with the issue. - As a partisan you should never for any reason permit discussion of child porn in what is a discussion about freedom online. Even throwing a tantrum is much more constructive.

    So quit whining and start advocating!

  22. Re:Better Be Some Goddamn Extraordinary Evidence on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    I think the central tenet here is deterrent at any cost. Nuclear warheads orbiting the moon must have been a plan for survival. To what extent it was premeditated I would like to know. Did von Braun design the Saturn V to carry nukes? Why wouldn't he?

  23. Re:1280*800 7" on Kickstarted Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipping In March/April · · Score: 1

    Your brain will combine it to 2x 640. If you train your eyes to see side-by-side stereoscopy you can see that the effect is one tall but high-DPI image, without having to wait for the Rift.

  24. Re:Good. Start testing the correct thing. on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 1

    Taking a blood sample is an invasive procedure and needs to be carried out by competent medical personnel. Its a very large escalation from asking someone walk down the white line and stand on one leg.

  25. Re:Outsourcing on Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output · · Score: 1

    I never do have mod points when I need them. *sigh*