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  1. Re:God forbid on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    I would give my left one to have your problem, I've been trying to get a kaizan this in place for even 1 iteration, and I can't get any traction. One man's curse is anothers dream. Making it a requirement seems a little harsh, but having the luxury of fixing that annoying thing is priceless

  2. Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 4, Funny
  3. Re:Even More bullshit on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    we really should be doing more XPrizes, 10 million to whomever can get 50c/watt panels

    10 million to whomever can get a 1MW/Hour storage battery

  4. Gameshow Controller on Milestone: The Millionth UK-Made Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    My pi is wired up as a Gameshow controller. I bought two 4 inch buttons from Adafruit, they're wired up as a 2 player controller, with sound and light.

    Survey Says?
    Buzz
    Player 1 your answer?

    it was a huge hit for a large crowd

  5. Mod parent up. on How Early Should Kids Learn To Code? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what I did in my kids 1st grade class, the whole class had a hoot trying to program their Teacher how to write on the digital whiteboard.

  6. Re:Cell phones on Londoners Tracked By Advertising Firm's Trash Cans · · Score: 1

    A few years back, people were tracking the radio stations of cars on the freeway. You need a local oscillator to feed into the Phased Lock Loop to isolate your station of choice, they were listening for that local oscillator.

  7. Re:Geotagging non-gun owners on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of tagging every gun free zone as being armed, so the criminals that reference this app will think twice before committing a crime there.

  8. Flying Pig on Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir · · Score: 1

    He couldn't have gone one step better and used a Suckling Pig, like the ones you Dissect in Biology class.

    Flying Cat MEH
    Flying Pig EPIC

  9. Re:No, we are not on FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    In my rural area I have access to 13 million acres of mostly wild fedral forest and many thousands of private forest (large corporation) within an hours drive, there are some ~10s of thousands of people in the greater (tri - village) area and a good number of these people choose to live in an extreme or often times 'off grid' or at least power only (no TV, well water, some have phone, no garbage, no city services like plowing). we are in a medium growth forest mountainous area so there is NO line of sight for well over half of that population, there is really no hope of getting them all high speed internet access, but I'm not sure that they would even want it.

  10. Re:Problem isn't the units on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    The Guage system is completely intuitive (disclaimer, I shoot black powder smoothbore shotguns) 20 perfect*(pretty good) spheres of lead weighing 1 pound is a 20 guage shotgun. 12 perfect spheres of lead weighing 1 pound is a 12 guage shotgun.

    They had acurate balance scales, but not acurate rulers. How would you solve this problem with no digital micrometer in sight.

  11. You're giving us Gun-clinging Athiests a bad name on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Gun clinging Atheists are getting a bad rap here, we need discrimination also.

  12. Re:Best argument for using spaces on Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting · · Score: 1

    This only works for fixed width fonts.. otherwise

    OOOO\tiiii doesnt line up with
    iiii\tOOOO

  13. Re:grad vs masters vs phd the myth. on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    Great where can I send my resume?

  14. Re:A matter of opinion on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    I bake bread as a hobby, I'd love to be able to program my high end steam oven to

    baugette mode recipe
    preheat - bake with convection fan on and 100% duty cycle steam at 500 degrees.
    insert bread,
    2nd step - stop convection fan, wait 5 minutes, reduce steam cycle to 50%, reduce oven temp to 400

    etc etc, it would be different for chibatta, or brioche.

  15. Re:I'm all for it on UK Plans To Link Criminal Records To ID Cards · · Score: 1

    That was a subtle Godwin, Kudos on the eloquent reminder of what we're in store for.

  16. Re:My App Master Plan - SPOILER!! on Augmenting Reality With Your Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    ..."cakes with files baked in them" in the fashion of Monkey Island's cake that Guybrush gets from Otis...

    SPOILER!! Thanks for ruining that for the rest of us

  17. Re:Once again ... on NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis · · Score: 1

    it's supposed to create jobs.

    How'd that work out for you

  18. Re:Problem with that - Teacher's Editions on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    One of my professors, gave both the question and the answer. You were graded on how you got from one to the other.

  19. Re:That's it... we're dead on Microchip Mimics a Brain With 200,000 Neurons · · Score: 1

    if you've only ever had store bought beef, you have almost certainly never eaten bull. female calves are pushed back into the breeding population, males are castrated, sent to a feed lot, shot with hormones and antibiotics and then ground into hamburger. (I butcher my own beef from my inlaws farm)

  20. I always thought of Creationism as the Raving Righ on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up, this is the most insightful post I've seen on slashdot in months. Thanks for the new Sig.

  21. Re:Bring out the T I N F O I L ! on Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist · · Score: 1

    Think of a Tyvec painters suit, but made out of tinfoil, with see through mesh screen.. Caveat. Mesh will only work for specific wavelengths. A modern laser microphone is impervious to your tinfoil sillyness

  22. Re:Bring out the T I N F O I L ! on Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist · · Score: 2, Informative

    A Faraday cage, must totally enclose the device, i.e. no magnetic flux lines can leave the cage, and terminate outside the cage.
    so unless you have a tiny phone I doubt a wallet was designed to totally contain an object the size of a phone

  23. There Fixed that for you on Mapping the Moon Before Galileo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not to mention the fact that he was attacked and imprisoned by the church for simply stating the TRUTH. He was not only a great scientist, he was also a great role model for every other scientist who has had to fight off the wackjob creationists and the environmentalist moonbats.

  24. Symbol on HP Creates First Hybrid Memristor Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I want to know is what is the recognized symbol for this new element? I see the one on Wikipedia, but is this the international standard, sanctioned by the IEEE?

  25. Prius == Pious on How To Help Our Public Schools With Technology? · · Score: 1

    I believe its actually "Pious"

    the Idol of the church of green, there's no need to pluralize an Idol