Comment Re: RasPi had so much potential (Score 1) 129
This is a known problem/solution. Adafruit sells a good converter.
Comment Re: Um (Score 3, Informative) 202
South Jersey is a different planet from North Jersey.
Comment Re:RICHARD DAWKINS ENDORSES PEDOPHILIA (Score 1) 268
Fuck off, you pathetic SJW turd...
Comment Re:It never ceases to amaze me (Score 1) 157
Yes you can, since Fortran 2003.
Comment Re: "warfighter"? (Score 2) 176
Not Grar! enough.
Same reason all the Pentagon flunkies are riding the Metro in camo.
Comment Re:San Jose, CA (Score 1) 236
The one in Baltimore just installed its digital projector about a month ago. Coincidentally, I saw a (digital) documentary there about the history of drive-ins that claims there's a bit of a resurgence lately. It's called Going Attractions.
Comment Re: Lemme get this straight (Score 4, Interesting) 186
You want to change the prison system? Introduce some rich people to it.
Comment Timing (Score 4, Informative) 127
If MIT is at all serious about implementing any reforms to stop this kind of tragedy from happening again, it must stop objecting to the release of information about the case.
Which they will probably do, now that they got "ahead of the story."
Comment Started it for the wrong reason, on a mainframe! (Score 1) 623
I was 17, just got into an Engineering college in India. Never saw a computer up close till then. We had to take either Thermodynamics or Computers in first semester (and the other in the second semester). Thank God I didn't take Computers in first semester, or else I may have hated it.
So, during winter time, I went to the computer center (nice, air conditioned place). Outside weather is horrible, and the computer center let us take printouts - that could be used for note books (I was/am a cheap ba*tard). So, it started with writing small math codes (my first program was something like "sin(x**3) = 1; print x", and a guy next to me nicely said, "well, you can write anything you want, but it won't work!". My second program was a =1; b = 3; print a+b!) I've spend hours together to solve problems that would take minutes to do if one read up related stuff in a book! No games, not much fun, just trying to make a piece of mathematical code working -- worked harder, not smarter! Only reason I can think of is that the climate control of the computer center.
Loved the computers ever since -- been close to 25 years! Was in a different field for majority of the time. Eventually moved over recently to applied computing.
The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks 94
Today The New Yorker unveiled a project called Strongbox, which aims to let sources share tips and leaks with the news organization in a secure manner. It makes use of the TOR network and encrypts file uploads with PGP. Once the files are uploaded, they're transferred via thumb-drive to a laptop that isn't connected to the internet, which is erased every time it is powered on and booted with a live CD. The publication won't record any details about your visit, so even a government request to look at their records will fail to find any useful information. "There’s a growing technology gap: phone records, e-mail, computer forensics, and outright hacking are valuable weapons for anyone looking to identify a journalist’s source. With some exceptions, the press has done little to keep pace: our information-security efforts tend to gravitate toward the parts of our infrastructure that accept credit cards." Strongbox is actually just The New Yorker's version of a secure information-sharing platform called DeadDrop, built by Aaron Swartz shortly before his death. DeadDrop is free software.
Comment Re:it all goes south from here... (Score 1) 482
Come on now, you're just projecting!
Comment Re:The opposite might also be true (Score 2) 482
Scheduled maintenance.
Comment Re:The opposite might also be true (Score -1, Flamebait) 482
Oops. That should be 'sea levels', 'boardwalk' and 'black rubber dildo'. My bad.
Comment Re:Spinny-Chair (Score 1) 482
How about Natalie Portman in a vat of hot grits spinning on an office chair? When she farts and creates a gaseous void near her well-formed posterior, what happens to the rotation rate of the chair?
Comment Re:In Other News! (Score 0) 482
Wow, insightful post! You should email them right away, EmagGeek, since I'm sure they've completely overlooked this and other effects that random Slashdot douches such as yourself might think up on the spur of the moment!
