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Comment Re:Emulate the Raspberry Pi? (Score 1, Insightful) 157

by deniable on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:12AM (#51750641) Attached to: One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers

From the summary - "will be handed, for free, a BBC micro:bit computer " and "The computer will hope to emulate the Raspberry Pi". Does that help?

Comment Emulate the Raspberry Pi? (Score 1) 157

by deniable on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:30AM (#51750555) Attached to: One Million School Children To Get Free BBC Micro:bit Computers

This seems a bit anemic in comparison. It looks like it uses another computer or a mobile for user I/O.

Comment Re: That's AMAZING, I have the same combination on (Score 1) 255

by deniable on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:32AM (#51750243) Attached to: FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone

Yeah, but ROT-13 sucks for I18N and true geniuses use double ROT-13.

Comment Re:Z File System? (Score 1) 219

by deniable on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:52PM (#51749023) Attached to: Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings

Feel free to google for NFS some time. :(

Comment Re:Yes (Nonsense!) (Score 1) 566

by deniable on Monday March 21, 2016 @12:02AM (#51741053) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector?

Cat 3 offered same speed with retooling costs. Cat 5 allowed 100 Mbps so was a clear winner.

Comment Inspired? (Score 1) 219

by deniable on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:55PM (#51741023) Attached to: Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings

"ubuntuBSD is inspired by the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project"

Is that in the same way as Ubuntu is inspired by the Debian project?

Comment Re:Troll them! (Score 1) 172

by deniable on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:22AM (#51485383) Attached to: My policy toward telemarketers:

Consider it your good deed for the day. They're not bugging someone else.

Comment Re:Pick up, hear silence, hang up (Score 1) 172

by deniable on Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:20AM (#51485381) Attached to: My policy toward telemarketers:

I stay silent. A real person will speak. A robo-caller will dump the call and hopefully mark it as a dead line. It works for most of the calls we get where they don't connect the meat until they know they've got a live prospect.

Comment Re:A slashdot favorite! (Score 1) 349

by deniable on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:53PM (#51253487) Attached to: CBS, Others Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Soft Kitty" In Big Bang Theory

~snark is just a bunch of Bash configs.

Comment Re:How about teaching some of the Republicans (Score 1) 117

by deniable on Thursday December 17, 2015 @01:14AM (#51135109) Attached to: Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School

Let her start on an HP calculator.

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 2) 139

by deniable on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @09:50AM (#48704091) Attached to: Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy

It's likely because the Radar is active and requires the police to transmit thus reaching into the dwelling. Passive like thermal just requires them to sit outside and watch. Some lawyer is making money out of this.

Comment Re:I hate it (Score 1) 420

by deniable on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:19AM (#48702731) Attached to: The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace

Have you tried headphones? They work.

Comment Re:Well duh (Score 3, Informative) 420

by deniable on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:17AM (#48702721) Attached to: The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace

Good open-plan uses more space than closed. You need to put space between the pods for noise reduction and traffic flow as there's no pre-defined 'corridors'. You also have to add space for break-out areas and extra meeting-rooms. You won't win on real-estate.

Comment Re:Does a Cop or Computer Issue a Ticket? (Score 1) 335

by deniable on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @03:09AM (#48702689) Attached to: Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras

They use mobile cameras here, moved a couple of times a day. At one point they had to put a cop with the camera so charges would hold up. They changed the laws and an approved tech can sit with the camera now.

Comment Re:May want a disclaimer here... (Score 5, Funny) 304

by deniable on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @09:11PM (#48701007) Attached to: Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It

Violins is OK but sax is evil.

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