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  1. Re:Sorting by bin? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    You could use Paper Tiger. It is an online indexing system. You would simply tag the paper's index with whatever projects or categories it belongs to, and then file the paper.

  2. Re:Sheetsort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    Ah! Kind of like Chinese tablecloth garbage collection, but in reverse.

  3. Re:Bubble sort on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    I scan all of my receipts, bills, product manuals, boxes, etc. into my PC and recycle the physical waste. This way I can quickly and easily sort and search. It also makes it simple to make backups or place copies online that I can access at any time from anywhere.

    Interesting. So, do you OCR the scan? Or do you tag the resulting scan somehow? How do you store them? PDFs? Maybe Microsoft OneNote?

  4. Re:Directly contacting gov agencies. Good idea? on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 1
    Patent law states that *USING* a patented device without permission is a violation.

    Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent. [Title 35 Part III Chapter 28 Section 271(a)]

    ...whoever without authority ... uses ... any patented invention ... infringes the patent. [above, filtered]

  5. Re:By first throwing out. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sort? · · Score: 1

    A rough sort to throw out irrelevant debris reduces the whole task by 90%. It's a lot like code review: once you've thrown out all the useless legacy crap, mercilessly, what's left is a lot more useful and easier to understand.

    A rough sort to throw out irrelevant debris reduces the whole task by 90%. It's a lot like code review: once you've thrown out all the useless legacy crap, mercilessly, what's left is a lot easier to rewrite from scratch.
    FTFY

  6. Re:I can't say I really understood on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 2

    Is this seriously a thing? I just don't understand why anyone would do this.

    Of course it is. For example, you are hankerin' for some Indian food, and you know there's a place over on Maple street, but you don't know the name. So you pull up google maps and zoom in on Maple. There it is - Bombay Palace. You click on the little knife and fork icon to bring up the data, et voila: the phone number. How else would you look something up when you know where it is, but not what it's called?

  7. Re:Directly contacting gov agencies. Good idea? on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would not ever voluntarily go talk to a cop or walk into a cop station, these days. you put yourself at risk every time you encounter one of those guys.

    You've got serious problems there if a law abiding citizen cannot talk to the cops.

  8. Re:No solution... on Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, you seem to be under the impression that there exist in the U.S. "non-criminals" from the perspective of L.E. agencies.

    Of course they exist. They're everyone above you in the chain of command.

  9. Re:Coprolites? on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    What I don't get is why someone would shit in a barrel and then bury it.

    Who says they did it in that order? I've seen half buried barrels used as toilets in some of the campgrounds I've visited.

  10. Re:Coprolites? on Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    700 years does seem like an awfully short time for fossilization to have taken place.

  11. Re:However.. on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 1

    I believe that all happened in response to this accident. In the next couple of flights they did have a slight scare with some protruding material from between the tiles and undertook a much publicized space walk to look at and remove the material.

    No. This was during the first shuttle flight (coincidentally, the Columbia) when they first opened the payload bay doors they found that there were tiles missing off of one of the OMS engine nacelles.

  12. Re: Obsolete on ICANN Considers Using '127.0.53.53' To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions · · Score: 1

    Ethernet, 802, and MAC are three different but related things. IEEE 802 is a family of networking protocols dealing with the data link and physical layers of the ISO standard. Ethernet is a subset of that family, specifically the 802.3 subset. Other subsets include 802.4 (Token ring), 802.11 (Wireless LAN, eg. WiFi), 802.15 (Wireless PAN, eg Bluetooth), and a slew of others. MAC (Media access control) is a sublayer of the data link layer, dealing with converting the bit stream provided by the physical layer into usable data. It deals with addressing and media arbitration. Within Ethernet, it handles collision detection. Within Token ring, it manages the token. Within wireless, MAC handles TDMA, FDMA, CSMD etc.

  13. How do you put up a parking page that listens on loopback?

    Bots.

  14. Re:However.. on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 2

    Mission director: "And if we see damage what then?"

    Engineering team: "Um."

    When the first shuttle was launched, there was a big uproar about the fragility of the tiles, so much so that they declassified a high power space surveillance telescope in Hawaii to show the public photos of the shuttle's underbelly. I seem to recall that the shuttle crew had a repair device, which looked like a fat caulking gun with an upholstery brush attached to it, which would dispense an ablative gel into the hole left by a missing tile. I can't find any pictures of it though.

  15. Re:However.. on The Rescue Plan That Could Have Saved Space Shuttle Columbia · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Fire or no fire, Apollo 1 would never have made it to the moon. The mission was a Low Earth Orbit test flight to evaluate launch operations, ground tracking and similar support systems, as well as evaluating the Saturn launch vehicle and command module.

  16. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    I didn't cheat. Downloading is legal in these parts. We pay a levy on media for compensation purposes.

  17. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Nice try. The answer is that the producers took a gamble that they could sell enough copies of the work to recoup the production costs and earn some profit. If they can't do that, well, that's their problem. Essentially, they took the loss up front. It's no different than if they produced a flop.

    On the other hand, if I can get a product from Supplier 1 for $5, or from Supplier 2 for $50, wouldn't economic theory dictate that I get it from Supplier 1?

  18. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 0

    ... on-line copyright infringement... isn't considered a criminal activity in the way that for example theft or fraud would be.

    Why should it be? With theft or fraud there is a tangible loss. If I copy something, there is no loss.

  19. Re:The court is right on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Try offering money to assisinate the president. When the secret service comes busting down your door, don't forget to tell them how your offer is speech and protected by the first amendment.

    That argument might make sense if you were being arrested for speaking. However the charges would be for things like conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, treason, etc.

    When that doesn't work, try it on the judge.

    Oh, and attempted bribery.

  20. Re:Dear Slashdot... on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    I'm supposed to teach others, but I'm too lazy to do my own research. Can you help me?

    Why certainly. What you do is write a paragraph explaining what you need, and then post it to Ask Slashdot.

  21. Re:I think I've seen this plan on Japanese Firm Proposes Microwave-Linked Solar Plant On the Moon · · Score: 1

    The "trick" to the moon install that makes it better is that using moon materials (and automated manufacture), it takes much less cost to get 11,000 km^2 of panels on the moon than 3500 km^2 in earth orbit...

    Oh I hardly think so. An inflatable mylar reflector array of that size could be launched with a fraction of the launches it would take to get automated factories set up on the moon. Plus it's technology we already have and understand.

  22. Re:How do we disable the beta so we can read the s on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? The summary has links in Beta.

  23. Re:My interest on Radar Expert Explains How To Cheaply Add Radar To Your Own Hardware Projects · · Score: 2

    Dunno about where you live, but around here, police use LIDAR ...

    THAT's why I covered my ride in black velvet.

  24. Re:Forstering habitat. on Seafloor Carpet Mimics Muddy Seabed To Harness Wave Power · · Score: 1

    Cork would be a bad option as it would always want to float to the top.

  25. Re:Forstering habitat. on Seafloor Carpet Mimics Muddy Seabed To Harness Wave Power · · Score: 2

    I would think carpeting the bottom of the ocean would be a disaster for marine life.

    So... you think that hardwood flooring might be a better option? Or perhaps a nice ceramic tile, maybe in a nice faux-granite?