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  1. Re:Custom lego parts! on Consumers Not Impressed With 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    No. The construction of the "final thing it is supposed to be" may only last a fw minutes or hours. The FUN is using those parts to make what you want, play with those constructions, and then taking them apart to build something new. I would love to be able to print missing, interesting, or custom LEGO parts.

  2. Re:And it'll be... on Your Next Car's Electronics Will Likely Be Connected By Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Not a chance! With the advent of car to car networking and internet accessibility every component in your car will have its own internet facing IPV6 address!
    Imagine the possibilities: You could open your trunk from anywhere in the world, you could preheat the car before your flight even lands, you could update your license plate in real time!

  3. Re:I thought this had been settled long ago. on Do We Really Have a Shortage of STEM Workers? · · Score: 1

    Unless those managers notice and take the heat for the extra cost of overtime, the reduction of quality due to overworked employees, or the missed deadlines they will assume that there was an EXTRA person the entire time and will congratulate themselves for saving money by not hiring an unnecessary employee.

    In effect, working at 110% to cover the position hurts your chances of ever filling the position with a qualified employee.

  4. Re:Probably not worth a dollar... on Target Hackers Have More Data Than They Can Sell · · Score: 1

    I have a debit card from TCF bank and they sent out notices that their VISA debit cards were covered by the same VISA zero-liability-policy as their credit cards. Regardless, I didn't purchase anything at Target.

  5. Re:Wait until all Janitorial is "contracted out". on Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? · · Score: 1

    If it take that one step further and apply it to outsourcing to other countries...

  6. Re:Still too small of a 'pipe' on NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is even worse than that. The closest distance from Earth to Mars equates to about 3 minutes at light speed, the average is 14.1 minutes, and the longest is 15.22 minutes. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Distance+between+earth+and+mars

  7. Re:Goes back centuries ... on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    If the primary goal is to steal trade secrets why bother with any of that? You can purchase the use of a 50GB VPS for $6 a month and store any encrypted data you want on it which can be accessed anywhere in the world with Internet access.

  8. Re:No shit on Another Study Confirms Hands-Free Texting While Driving Is Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Perhaps if people started installing dash-cams like the Russians.

  9. Re:No shit on Another Study Confirms Hands-Free Texting While Driving Is Unsafe · · Score: 1

    If you catch someone texting while driving and can provide evidence to the authorities, YOU get most of the money from the fine issued.

  10. Re:Will it be a repeat? on Will PCIe Flash Become Common In Laptops, Desktops? · · Score: 3, Funny

    USB 1.1 wasn't bad compared to floppy disk capacity and read/write speeds.

  11. Free Single Player? on EA Offering Free Game to Users After SimCity Launch Problems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A free single-player version of the new SimCity game would be nice.

  12. Re:Arduino, AVR, RPi, Beaglebone on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 1

    Actually I take that back. I just looked at the PICKIT 2 page and they are supported now. They weren't when the chip came out and I had to purchase a PICKIT 3 to program the things.

  13. Re:Arduino, AVR, RPi, Beaglebone on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I am working with some of the latest PIC's like the 16F1507 which isn't supported with the PICKIT 2.

  14. Re:Arduino, AVR, RPi, Beaglebone on Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I agree with parent: I have not seen any good tools to work with Microchip PICs under Linux.
    That said, I do enjoy working with PIC micro-controllers under Windows.

  15. Re:Agreed on A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 · · Score: 1

    It would be feasible if the tablet was thick enough to house full sized USB and HDMI ports as the OP wants.

  16. Re:Impossible on Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation · · Score: 1

    Chrome could hash the extensions files upon proper installation and have an encrypted list of all valid extension hashes. That way an elevated process could move the files to the right folder locations but Chrome can choose not to evoke them if they aren't on the list.

  17. Re:LCD vs. E-Ink/E-Paper on Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? · · Score: 1

    It might help to switch the colors to white text on black background and then lower the back-light brightness to 1/4.
    With those settings I can sit and read for hours without eye strain.

  18. Terms of Service Violation on Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case · · Score: 1

    Does the fact that the judge ordered for this disclosure require Facebook not to close the account when the account holder violates their terms of service?
    If Facebook does close the account does the account holder have any recourse to get the account reinstated? Does the judge?

  19. Re:lamest name ever on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works · · Score: 1

    2^8 = 256. 0-254.

  20. Re:Debugging prototypes? on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 1

    How can you use VHDL to model a microcontroller such as an Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, TI MSP430, Freescale S12, etc.?

    Even if you can model the rest of a mixed analog and digital circuit the microcontroller becomes a black box that you have to assume works correctly with all the other components.

  21. Re:Debugging prototypes? on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 1

    The hard part is if you use something like a microcontroller. The code being run can be very difficult or impossible to simulate properly if you are doing anything non-trivial with I/O. Yes, you can test each section of hardware separately but in the end you still need to ensure it functions together as a whole.

  22. Re:Huge increase in total travel time on Tesla Reveals Charging Station Sites In 3 US States · · Score: 1

    They do enforce the limits. The issue is that a thousand cars going 75-85 mph will pass the unlucky motorist and police car before the officer is back in position to tag another driver. Police cars looking to tag speeding motorists is also one of the leading causes of traffic jams. Drivers see a cop manning his radar gun during high traffic and the next thing you know there is a traffic jam from people slamming on their brakes to shed 5-15 mph.

  23. Re:I'll believe it when I see... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    With a cosmic event horizon limiting the edge of the visible universe would it be possible to warp space to a position that is causally disconnected from us due to the speed of light? I am not sure how practical that would be but it would prevent casualty violations.

  24. Re:Not to Developers (and your chart is flawed) on Fragmentation Comes To iOS · · Score: 1

    The iPod Touch is an iOS device. http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/ios/

  25. Re:Ouch on Activision Blizzard Secretly Watermarking World of Warcraft Users · · Score: 1

    Similarly, NI LabVIEW has the ability to embed program code in PNG screenshots. http://www.ni.com/white-paper/9330/en