thedarb - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Messin' with the wrong crowd (Score 1) 1435

by thedarb on Thursday January 03, 2013 @12:37AM (#42457931) Attached to: Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards

Like... +1...

Comment Re:Employees, Friends and Family (Score 2) 1435

by thedarb on Thursday January 03, 2013 @12:36AM (#42457923) Attached to: Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards

The author of the article actually removed himself from the list. So yes.

Comment Try fmylife (Score 1) 338

by thedarb on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @08:11PM (#42456295) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Undoing an Internet Smear Campaign?

This really should have been posted on FML, not Slashdot.

Comment Barney had this first... (Score 1) 152

by thedarb on Friday October 26, 2012 @02:03PM (#41780721) Attached to: LG's 84-inch 3840 x 2160 Television Doesn't Come Cheap: $17,000

Lilly: It burns my eyes.
Barney: Yeah. That never goes away.

Submission + - Apple Maps Accidentally Reveals Secret Military Base In Taiwan (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by

redletterdave

on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @11:49AM

redletterdave writes: "After one Taiwanese newspaper snapped and printed a satellite photo of a top-secret military base from the new Maps application running on an iPhone 5, the defense ministry of Taiwan on Tuesday publicly requested Apple blur the sensitive images of the country’s classified military installations. The top-secret radar base, located in the northern county of Hsinchu, contains a highly-advanced ultra-high-frequency long-range radar that military officials say can detect missiles launched as far away as the city of Xinjiang, which is located in northwest China. The radar system was obtained via US-based defense group Raytheon in 2003, and is still being constructed with hopes to be completed by the end of this year. “Regarding images taken by commercial satellites, legally we can do nothing about it,” said David Lo, the spokesman of Taiwan's defense ministry, in a statement to reporters. “But we’ll ask Apple to lower the resolution of satellite images of some confidential military establishments the way we’ve asked Google in the past.”"

Comment Nope. Not from that app store. (Score 3, Interesting) 107

by thedarb on Tuesday August 21, 2012 @07:05PM (#41075219) Attached to: And Now, the Cartoon News

I'd prefer to read it on my Linux PC, Windows PC, Android phone, and even yes... my Mac laptop. But never if it comes through their app store and it's apps.

Comment Programmable license plates. Finally! (Score 1) 134

by thedarb on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @12:50PM (#40234197) Attached to: Buttons That Morph Out of Your Touchscreen

Maybe now we can have realistic looking morphing license plates.

Let those red light cameras, meter maids, and automated license plate readers be damned.

Comment Sony Fails... (Score 1) 290

by thedarb on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @12:20PM (#39645289) Attached to: Sony Projects Record Losses of $6.4 Billion

...because caucasions are too damn tall.

Comment What's it going to take? (Score 1) 308

by thedarb on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @11:36AM (#37844804) Attached to: BT Ordered To Block Usenet Binaries Index

I have nothing constructive I can say that won't get me locked up for life.

Comment Re:Hey what's the harm? (Score 1) 427

by thedarb on Monday July 04, 2011 @03:48PM (#36655084) Attached to: Calling BS On Unpaid Internships

Yes! I was thinking when I read the OP was, "Oh shut the f*ck up and bring me my coffee!"

Comment Re:hostnames vs tlds (Score 1) 300

by thedarb on Friday June 17, 2011 @05:23PM (#36480072) Attached to: ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains

Doh, had the same idea... just posted and now I see yours. Sorry.

Comment This could be FUN! (Score 5, Funny) 300

by thedarb on Friday June 17, 2011 @05:22PM (#36480056) Attached to: ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains

Dear ICANN,

I'd like to register my company domains, we are Local Domain, Inc. Our leading product is our LocalHost operating system. Please register to us:

localdomain
localhost.localdomain

Thank you,
Root User of Local Domain

Comment And no... (Score 0) 205

by thedarb on Thursday May 19, 2011 @07:46PM (#36186354) Attached to: Confirmed: Microsoft Says It Will Open Source VB 6

Scripting in VB still doesn't make you a programmer. :P

Comment Cable TV is out dated. (Score 1) 697

by thedarb on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:01PM (#35902278) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment?

Between Hulu, Netflix, and specific news/sports/comedy sites, I get just about everything I want without the cable TV bill. Anything else I can download from [not sayin]. I'm on a business level account with Comcast, so I never hit any bandwidth caps, and I download and stream a ton. Use a particular VOIP provider for phone, too. So all I need is my Internet. Depending on if the kid has the TV in use or not, I can watch content with my HD Live, Xbox, or go to my room and watch everything on my big monitor on the PC. With this setup, I regularly watch: House Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother Smallville Craig Ferguson Bleach (Subbed) The Daily Show Plus all those old shows I go back and re-watch. and more... Oh yeah, and movies, too!

Comment Re:Nether kinda (Score 3, Funny) 697

by thedarb on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:54PM (#35902202) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment?

My girlfriend lives in Canada, so I set her up with a Tomato-USB based router, got her a cheap OpenVPN service from the United States, and now her entire NAT is all sharing a US based IP. Works like a charm. Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central, Pandora, etc etc all work great for all the devices in the apartment, even the iPhone and Android. I highly recommend this setup... Plus, the router has USB, so it serves as a cheap NAS and wireless print server, too.

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