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  1. "The first technology revolution caused World War I," he said, "The second technology revolution caused World War II."

    Can someone clarify this statement to me? Did people start fighting because they had cars, or what?

  2. Wikipedia is mobile friendly on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 1

    According to google's own tests, Wikipedia is indeed mobile friendly:
    https://www.google.com/webmast...

  3. owncloud on Google Drive Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Or you could run http://owncloud.org/ on the server of your choosing and keep all your data to yourself.

    The features are a mixed bag, but they're growing strong in all directions. http://owncube.com/ is a hosted option for it.

  4. Re:Arch + Various on Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? · · Score: 1

    udisks and udev work together to let you mount devices, and udiskie uses both and does it automatically. So things show up in /mount/usb-name-here instead of sitting in /dev/bla waiting for you to mount it somewhere.

    Some related information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Automount#UDisks

  5. Arch + Various on Ask Slashdot: Assembling a Linux Desktop Environment From Parts? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just started building my own a few months ago and I'm pretty happy with the following:

    Arch linux - has my favourite package manager (pacman + yaourt)
    Xmonad window manager - tiling wm that doesn't get in the way, with some minor configurations
    Stalonetray - has a clock (trayclock), sound (pnmixer), battery indicator (qbat), dropbox, etc.
    ranger - vi-like file browser which is simple to use, runs in a terminal (urxvt), and I keep a regular filebrowser (nautilus) around just in case something needs me to drag-and-drop something.

    non-visual things:
    udiskie - automount usb drives and things

    It's a very simple setup, though there are more things than what is mentioned here, and I love it. :)

    A list of programs which I am currently using and why is here: https://github.com/MattWoelk/configuration-files/blob/master/home/matt/programs.txt Enjoy!

  6. Tradeoff on Are Folding Containers the Future of Shipping? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks like a cool concept, though it looks like it takes much more human contact than regular shipping containers do (when being folded). This could be a problem, as a lot of the bigger shipping yards are automated and/or move containers around using large machines.

    We'll have to see if the increase in human contact is worth the space saved when shipping empty containers around.

  7. Meta on Crowdsourcing the Censors: A Contest · · Score: 3, Funny

    So he's crowd-sourcing the crowd-sourcing solution. One more level and we'll make a black hole!

  8. "first-ever" on Time Warner Cable Cuts iPad Live TV Access 50% · · Score: 2

    "the first-ever live TV broadcasts available for streaming on a portable media device"

    Japan has had this technology for quite some time:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture#Features

  9. Re:In other words on Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity · · Score: 1

    this is like "collector items", not currency. A very scare "resource", if you can call it that.

    Having a finite amount of currency is important, because it means that money will not be able to be printed! Therefore, nobody can mess around with how much things are worth, and where money exists (like a government). Just as there is a finite amount of gold in the world, there will be a finite amount of bitcoins. You can divide them ever-smaller though, which will give us a nice steady inflation. The current software divides them into cents, but we can go as far as we need in the future.

    the purpose of currency is not to hoard it - it is to spend it for goods/services.

    This currency is not being made to be hoarded (and not being hoarded when it is being made), which is proven by the fact that people are selling goods and services (and others buying them) for bitcoins.

    FIAT currency tends to be *backed* by something, like an economy, like USA or European Union or even China. What is this backed by?

    Bitcoins are being backed by the price of the electricity that it takes to generate bitcoins. Soon, (maybe even right now, I'm not too sure) the price of generating a bitcoin in electricity will the same as the value of a coin. So unless computers get a very sudden leap in efficiency, the system will work just fine.

    Anyway, another fad "currency". Might as well collect "ISK in eveonline" or "gold nuggets in WoW" - same thing.

    Parity with USD is not a fad, it shows that popularity is growing. This parity is a result of market demand, not from someone randomly saying that it is worth that much. I encourage everyone to do their own research about the nature of bitcoins, and of currency in general.

  10. Quantity? on Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But how much skin would it take? Transfusions are usually a couple litres, right? That's a lot of skin.

  11. Re:Huh? on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Also, what form of energy would be used to put all of this water vapor into the atmosphere? Coal? Diesel? This sounds like a cyclic problem to me.

  12. Dissapointed with Dell on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Choosing Dell was probably the only thing you should have done differently. I haven't heard much praise about them.

  13. Re:Brainless on Hacks Allowing Disabled Gamers To Play Guitar Hero · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.guitarrising.com/index.html Here's a version that lets you use a real guitar.

  14. Re:Uncongested Relief! on McColo Briefly Returns, Hands Off Botnet Control · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else think that this story could make an excellent antagonist-as-the-main-character film?

  15. Re:Really nice Silverlight sample site on Microsoft Woos Developers Under the Silverlight · · Score: 1

    I went to that site and checked out the functionality. It turns out that that meant watching a couple of videos and then having it crash my Firefox... So far I haven't seen much good in Silverlight.

  16. It's already an issue... on FBI To Spend $1B Expanding Fingerprint Database · · Score: 2, Funny

    They've already started getting fingerprints on people that aren't just criminals. I was at sea world a year ago and they were doing hand scans of parents and their children before they got to go in. Since I was a Canadian citizen, I was exempt from being in their mass database, but it was still shocking.

  17. controller motion control on PS3 Launch Details Announced · · Score: 1

    ya know when little kids play video games and they move the controller all around thinking that it'll affect their character's motion? or when people go bowling and they lean their entire body over after they throw the ball in hopes that their unrelated motion will curve the ball to where they want it? that's pretty much exactly how it's going to look playing a PS3 *applause*