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Comment Re:FB2K FTW (Score 0) 400

80GB is not a large collection, that's just a few discographies and perhaps a flac album or two.

Why assume flac? Maybe it's just 2 uncompressed bluray concert videos and a 128kbit MP3 rip of an Alvin and the Chipmunks CD.

Douchebag.

Comment Re:I do this (Score 1) 365

It doesn't matter if you have a problem with it. The law where I live states if you are stopped at a light you are still driving and subject to any distraction laws.

FTFY

I still think the funniest thing is in at least one jurisdiction I drive in, I'm literally not allowed to touch a mobile phone while in the drivers seat, excepting to hand it to a passenger unless parked off the roadway. Yet, it's perfectly legal to use the "hands free" function on my car stereo, which involves pressing:
Home
Phone
Contacts
Initial Letter of Contact
Scroll to name
Press Name
Press Number
Confirm I want to call that person

It would actually be far safer to use the phone to do the dialing, less steps, more familiar....

Submission + - Chrome Solves the Curse of the Banshee Tab 1

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: Imagine this. You're sitting in the library using your laptop while your favorite professor—the one whose admiration you most desire—is leading a small, silent reading group in a corner of the room. Suddenly from your computer comes a blaring, a whining, a siren, a yowl. You have opened a YouTube page in the background, and now, in some hidden tab, it plays, brays, blats, and bellows an ungodly cacophony across the solemn stacks. Your blood pressure spikes, your face turns red, and your fingers become clumsy as you scramble to find and kill the tab that betrayed you. Where is it? What is it? Where is that ungodly sound coming from? Now Robinson Meyer writes in the Atlantic that Google has found a solution. The next version of the company’s browser, Google Chrome, will tell you which tab is the source of the din. If a tab plays music or a video, a small icon of a speaker will appear in the tab itself. So instead of hunting through tabs, with click after agonized click, when a tab contains an element that is making noise, the browser will pop up an indicator showing where that noise is coming from. Thank you Google.

Submission + - Power harvesting device covert lost energy into electricity (latesttoptechnews.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have designed a power-harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of modern solar panels.
The device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging a cell phone battery or other small electronic device, according to a report appearing in the journal Applied Physics Letters in December 2013. (It is now available online.)

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