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  1. Re:Wiimote Whiteboard on Ask Slashdot: Whiteboard Substitutes For Distributed Teams? · · Score: 1

    Actually, looks like Mitsubishi has already made a $500 projector with light pen functionality built-in. http://www.mitsubishi-presenta...

  2. Wiimote Whiteboard on Ask Slashdot: Whiteboard Substitutes For Distributed Teams? · · Score: 1

    These guys made their own, with a projector, a screen, an infrared pen, a Wiimote, and the Wiimote Whiteboard program. Pretty cool results. Seems like a great market opportunity for someone to package it up in a self-contained plug-and-play unit (although you have the "big videoconference touchscreens" as an upper limit on your price point): http://www.instructables.com/i... http://www.instructables.com/i...

  3. fairly predicatable on Researchers Develop Surveillance System That Can Watch & Predict · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With most surveillance footage it's pretty easy to spot what's going to happen next: the customer will pay for their items, receive change, and walk out of the store. Unless you're watching it on the internet. Then, a car will drive into the storefront or a botched hold-up will occur.

  4. Re:Do Something You're Not Good At on Ask Slashdot: Rectifying Nerd Arrogance? · · Score: 1

    Very well said. Nothing cures arrogance like being a beginner (which we all are at something).

  5. Re:Encoding data in a light source? on Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but old ones flicker all on their own in a whole variety of migraine- and seizure-inducing ways. Typically the "ballast" is blamed, but now I know to blame the CIA :-)

  6. Re:more than 70 controlled blasts on Massive Construction Effort Begins For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 1

    It's simple: you just remove all the parts of the mountain that _aren't_ a telescope, and you're left with a telescope!

  7. Re:Big Red Will Still Get Their 2 bucks on Verizon Backtracks On $2 Convenience Fee · · Score: 1

    My partner got caught by one of these bill collector scumbags. They just troll through credit histories and call folks with delinquent balances and browbeat them into giving them a debit card or checking account number to "settle" it. Any amount of verification will show that they have nothing to do with the debts they're trying to collect (which we, thankfully, did). Very frightening experience.

  8. Re:Can Anyone figure out what he's arguing here? on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 1

    Oh, so it's just the slippery slope fallacy: "seizure of internet domains now = legislators will do anything for political leverage at the expense of US customers and suppliers" Yes, SOPA is misguided. It does not mean the US Congress has a death wish for our country, but rather they are bumbling, and largely paid-for, fools.

  9. Extra-judicial enforcement on Law Professors On SOPA and PIPA: Don't Break the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real problem, as I see it, is the "accusation = guilt" and extra-judicial enforcement methods of these laws. It just floors me that our congressmen, sworn to uphold the constitution, thinks that laws where all you have to do is file some paperwork and "poof" the website gets blocked without having to present compelling-enough evidence to a judge under penalty of perjury (and with oppposing counsel's arguments) for him or her to issue an injunction to block the DNS entry. It shows they have absolutely no respect for the Constitution or even knows what "rule of law" means.

  10. Re:Bring on the doctor blame.... on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    And this is the brainwashing the AMA has done to us in the last century.

  11. Re:Effectiveness on Ask Slashdot: Most Efficient, Worthwhile Charity? · · Score: 1

    Sure, but "deservingness" is rather subjective. Which is why it's good to get a diversity of opinions, so you can find the organization that _you_ find the most deserving.

  12. Slanted Summary on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't normally find such slant in Slashdot summaries (except when it's pro-open-source, obviously, which is part of the reason I come here). Using the word "illegal" and "criminal" repeatedly to describe one side of a labor dispute is just beyond the journalistic pale. I know this is "citizen journalism", but it doesn't have to read like some anti-union blog.

  13. Re:Short answer: no on Are 'Nudging Technologies' Ethical? · · Score: 1

    On their own roads? ;-) They never mention who builds the roads...

  14. Re:Incompatable with a free market on Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    And this is provably safe, because nobody's boiler in the basement _ever_ blows up today ;-)

  15. Re:wait on Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    No private insurer will insure a nuclear power plant, due to the extremely large (albeit with rather small risk) amount of damage that they can do (and insurance companies are designed to measure risk (not as-calculated, but as-observed) and turn it into profit). Insurance is necessary to avoid externalizing the risk of a nuclear power plant in a "true" free market system. Therefore, there's no such thing as a "free market nuclear power plant". They're _all_ backed, implicitly or explicitly, by governmental insurance.

  16. Next up: hantavirus solves Rubik's Cube on Problem-Solving Bacteria Crack Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Next up: modified hantavirus that can solve the Rubik's Cube in less than 21 moves.

  17. hot water solar on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's not electrical, but solar hot water heating (with a storage tank that feeds into your main water heater) is certainly something that you can use your "hobbyist" skills to save money, that you can put together with a couple hundred dollars and some plumbing skills and basic wiring (pump & temperature switch). It can save you a bunch of money, whether or not you use electric or gas to heat your water currently.