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  1. Re:Funding schmunding on Google Funds Raspberry Pi And CS Teachers For UK Schools · · Score: 1

    Hmm, yes.

    http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1366/raspi.jpg

    I managed to get an order in on launch day, but not for one of the first 200 units, the 1st batch which I got about 3 weeks ago.

  2. The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops. on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The studios send reel-to-reel films to the troops"

    As if this were not proof enough that the studios and the MPAA are out of touch with reality.

  3. Re:hehe on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you aren't going to get the battery out in a hurry.

    Actually that switch pisses me off. always moving on its own when it is in my pocket. I wish there was a software option to disable it.

  4. Re:hehe on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Yeah, try and do that with an iPhone!

  5. Re:Assumptions on Why the Raspberry Pi Won't Ship In Kit Form · · Score: 1

    You are being enslaved by your own government - forget about anyone else.

  6. Re:Assumptions on Why the Raspberry Pi Won't Ship In Kit Form · · Score: 1

    Well, you seem to be going back to that at the moment.

  7. Re:Deleting evidence on Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    To be fair, all the articles i've read on this issue are pieces of shit - all containing some facts and some half-truths with a dose of speculation.
     

  8. Deleting evidence on Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would have thought that all the evidence would need to be preserved. Surely if any data is deleted that would compromise the case?

  9. Re:Uhm... on Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale · · Score: 1

    http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

    This should block those iframes.

  10. Gamemaker on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Teaching High School Kids How To Make Games? · · Score: 2

    http://www.yoyogames.com/make

    There is a free version - and paid for. You can code via their visual tool - or on the command line. My 11 year old son makes fine games using this!

  11. Re:main problem is backhaul on BT Fiber Infrastructure Plans 'Fatal' To Competition · · Score: 1

    I'm on Virgin and have had the same IP address for years. It's not guaranteed to be static - but it is static enough that I don't bother with any dynamic DNS services.

  12. Offsite backups on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that removable backup media has not caught up with the speed of change in hard disk sizes. In the olden days we used to backup with a couple of QIC-60's and we were happy. Later it was DAT backups, What inexpensive tape backup technologies are available today? It would seem that the best alternative is to use a drive itself as a backup medium and take it off-site.

  13. Re:A bit thin-skinned... on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 2

    The majority (99%) of the worlds hydrogen is made from hydrocarbons believe it or not (natural gas). Hardly a solution! Yes you can make it from water - but it is not efficient - and you would be better off using that electricity to charge a battery vehicle.

  14. Re:No one cares about your server on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    If this were the case, Apple would be out of business.

  15. Re:No one cares about your server on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Well said - seriously - i'm so over hacking up my own hardware - I just want to buy something, plug it in, and it works. Maybe if I were a teenager with lots of time on my hands, and no money - OK, i'll spend a few days hacking up a NAS - but i'm not. I have a job, make good money, and have a life. I'm willing to pay for convenience.

  16. ShareMeNot on Facebook Sued For Violating Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

    Excellent firefox plugin to solve just this "problem".

    "ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions, ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web experience."

  17. Share Me Not on Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out · · Score: 1

    http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/

    "ShareMeNot is a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them. Unlike traditional solutions, ShareMeNot does this without completely removing the buttons from the web experience."

  18. Re:Everyone has skeletons. on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    And this is where Wikileaks comes into play - leak away your employers dirty secrets!

  19. Re:They already did! on SCO Puts Unix Assets On the Block · · Score: 2, Informative

    SCO Unix is not Xenix. SCO UNIX was based on System V R3 - Xenix was based on - Xenix :-)

    Xenix came from Microsoft. It originally ran on the 8086, then the 80286, then a 32-bit version was released.

    SCO UNIX only ran on a 32-bit processor (386 and above).

    Xenix was a pretty nice OS - available WAY before any other UNIX like OS ran on commodity hardware. You could easly run 16 serial terminals on a 286. Running 4 terminals on an 8086 was also no problem at all.

    Of course, this was all when SCO was "The Santa Cruz Operation" - the original SCO - not the new "SCO Group" which it ended up being called after being bought by Caldera.

  20. Roll out the MultiTouch Ouija Board on 3M Says Its Multi-Touch System Means Almost No Lag · · Score: 1

    It is bound to happen.

  21. Definition of art on Roger Ebert Backs Down On Video Games As Art · · Score: 1, Funny

    What is the definition of art? I once heard it described as:

    Art is anything you are willing to exhibit

    If I want to exhibit a turd on a stick - well that's art. You might not like it, but that does not change the facts.

  22. Re:Rebuy! on Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see if the 3DS is backwards compatible with the DS Lite. Nintendo typically always support the previous generation of consoles.

    It would also be interesting to see if playing an older DS game will be interpolated into some sort of pseudo-3D on the 3DS - perhaps with some downloadable modules specific to each game. Not to change the gameplay, but perhaps to just give it a new look and feel.

  23. Serial port. on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hmm, well 'Xenix' is actually an old SCO product which SCO originally bought off Microsoft, but it was then licensed to several other vendors - but as has been said here, your best bet is the serial port. Either use UUCP, or if you have a compiler on the host - compile up a simple xmodem/ymodem/zmodem binary and transfer like that. Worst case scenario, tar up all the data, compress it (it would have old style unix compress -.Z), uuencode it (if you don't have uuencode, you can download it -it's just a shell script I recall), split it up into chunks, then just cat each individual chunk onto another host and reverse the process to decode it all back into a tar file. You might want to checksum each bit too (sum should be on old Xenix systems).

    I think removing the disk and mounting it on another host should be your absolute last resort.

  24. This is so open to abuse on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Imagine some malware which randomly downloads a dozen copyright mp3's - instantly making millions of unsuspecting users instant criminals - potentially with a 3-strikes liability. Insane.

  25. Re:Horrible idea... on Verizon CTO Argues For Metered Pricing · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You can't compare bandwidth which is 100% recycled electrons to electricity or gas which is a finite resource subject to the pricing of the open market.

    Electricity doesn't have anything remotely like Moore's Law - whereas bandwidth availability will most probably continue to expand in line with moore's law.

    The statement by the Verizon CTO is just him thinking of ways to squeeze more money out of his customers.