marvinglenn - Slashdot User

Comment a double screwing, I can't have it anyway (Score 1) 355

by marvinglenn on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:35PM (#26755653) Attached to: ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay

It looks like I'm one of the people getting a double screwing from this. I can get the content (because I'm on Verizon, and they have a 'powered by Verizon' badge on the site, so obviously Verizon is paying for this content in some way), but I can't get the content because their player plugin is only for Windoze and Mac. And I don't want the content.

Comment Re:Say what? (Score 2, Funny) 452

by marvinglenn on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:15AM (#26494613) Attached to: Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows

Your data is more secure if you keep the computer powered off, in the first place.

Comment Ronja (Score 1) 264

by marvinglenn on Saturday January 17, 2009 @03:11AM (#26494601) Attached to: Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves

Welcome to 10 years ago: http://ronja.twibright.com/

Comment Re:left-view reporting does not imply unbalanced (Score 1) 377

by marvinglenn on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @05:44AM (#26221229) Attached to: Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash

Reporters, in general, are in a much better position to connect the dots than is the general public.

Too bad there are so few REAL reporters. I get my news by combining feeds from different commentators.

Submission + - Crime caused by publicized data about convicts? (latimes.com) 1

Submitted by

nem75

on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:22AM

nem75 writes: "What has been highly discussed when the Megan's Law database of sex offenders was introduced seems to have come true in Lakeport, CA. The L.A. times reports about Michael A. Dodele, a convicted rapist, found murdered in a Lakeport trailer park. He moved there after having been released from prison just 35 days before. A 29-year-old construction worker has been arrested who explains that he attacked the suspect to protect his son from child molestation, after he found out on the internet about Dodele being a sex offender convicted of crimes involving minors. Only thing is, the public entry for Dodele in the database was wrong — though he was found guilty of committing crimes against adult women, he was in fact no child molester. Dodele's entry in Megan's Law DB has been removed recently."

Submission + - Creative art from Computer hardware parts [PICS] (funnytogo.com)

Submitted by

milos31

on Monday December 03, 2007 @06:08AM

milos31 writes: "An interesting set of images with various models made from computer hardware parts"

Submission + - Offline Google Map Generator (google.com)

Submitted by

deander2

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @11:58PM

deander2 writes: "Project ogmaps downloads and builds an offline version of the normal Google Maps UI we know and love. It uses the same HTML+Javascript interface but pulls the image files from your local hard drive instead of their servers. Give it a location (or set of locations) before you leave, and enjoy on the road without having to hunt down an open access point. :)"

Submission + - So what is the 'Evil Color'?

Submitted by marvinglenn on Monday August 06, 2007 @04:45PM

marvinglenn writes: LEDs are being everywhere, and nearly for everything, now. Apparently, if you get the right wavelength LEDs, you can make people vomit. If this pans out, it's a nice non-lethal weapon. The US Department of Homeland Security has awarded a contract for a company developing just that. All I want to know is: what's the wavelength of this 'evil color' (from TFA)?

Submission + - Hollywood Contradictions on File Sharing

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09, 2007 @01:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Which of these two articles should I believe? The first article, which was posted on April 2, 2007 on Investor's Business Daily is titled Hollywood Reeling From Illegal Movie, TV Downloads. The commentary from Investor's Business Daily writer Brian Deagon recants the MPAA's spin that "in 2005 alone it lost $2.3 billion to Internet copyright breaches in the U.S and $7 billion worldwide, including box-office receipts and video sales". The second article was published in USA Today on April 1, 2007. The title of that article is 2007 Box Office is Smoking. The USA Today article tells how the film industry is set to break all box office records this year. So, is Hollywood reeling or isn't it?

Submission + - Global Warming, Not All That Bad?

Submitted by

Moses48

on Monday April 09, 2007 @11:48AM

Moses48 writes: "An interesting article from a Meteorologist about global warming. Is it really such a bad thing? Take note of the credentials of the author. "A warmer climate could prove to be more beneficial than the one we have now. Much of the alarm over climate change is based on ignorance of what is normal for weather and climate.""

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