e-Flex - Slashdot User

Comment Original HD footage (Score 1) 117

by e-Flex on Sunday November 29, 2009 @11:45AM (#30261662) Attached to: STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights

Why on earth does this look like it has gone through a VHS conversion?

And also many here does not seem to know that all NASAs imagery is free and available on the net: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html

Comment This is exciting (old news) (Score 1) 609

by e-Flex on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:47PM (#29827607) Attached to: Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars

I've been thinking a lot about this since I got inspired by SAAB
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/motoring/motoring-will-the-joystick-take-the-joy-out-of-driving-roger-bell-surveys-an-initiative-designed-to-take-motoring-into-the-21st-century-1482588.html

in 1993.

1993.

Comment Re:Cheap energy is social justice (Score 1) 404

by e-Flex on Monday October 19, 2009 @07:22AM (#29792045) Attached to: A Step Closer To Cheap Nuclear Fusion

I thought the problem today was the distribution of food, not the amount produced.

Comment Re:Private Car Cameras (Score 1) 480

by e-Flex on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:12PM (#29406749) Attached to: Trust an Insurance Company's "Drive-Cam?"

You would like the way we handle it in Sweden.

Comment Re:DRM doesn't solve anything (Score 1) 375

by e-Flex on Friday May 29, 2009 @06:40PM (#28144945) Attached to: Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

Where are you? Can I marry you?

Comment Re:and the pirates win again (Score 1) 375

by e-Flex on Friday May 29, 2009 @06:36PM (#28144909) Attached to: Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

A truly free (market) system, with peoples intervention (we tend, as a general, to be greedy), will move towards a monopoly, through a oligopoly. The bigger corporation will buy the smaller ones creating something looking like Oligarchy.

Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement 375

Posted by timothy on Friday May 29, 2009 @08:06AM from the next-week-how-gravity-lures-skiers-to-mountains dept.

Hucko writes "Ars Technica has a story about a study by Cambridge law professor Patricia Akester that suggests (declares?) that DRM and its ilk does persuade citizens to infringe copyright and circumvent authors' protections. The name of the study is 'Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment.'" The study itself is available for download (PDF); there's also a distillation here.

Comment Re:I was scanned in LAX (Score 1) 620

by e-Flex on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @05:37PM (#28031803) Attached to: Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn"

Wow, I didn't know dogs could smell knives!

Comment Re:Time has come to end the insanity (Score 1) 164

by e-Flex on Thursday May 14, 2009 @08:22PM (#27959785) Attached to: Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air

Not totally relevant but I agree.

Comment Re:Less than a billionth of a gram per cubic meter (Score 1) 164

by e-Flex on Thursday May 14, 2009 @08:18PM (#27959731) Attached to: Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air

Doesn't the human spinal cord contain GHB too?

Comment Re:how about criminals? (Score 1) 461

by e-Flex on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @06:27PM (#27680273) Attached to: A Cyber-Attack On an American City

Bones, get out of here.

Comment Re:Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install (Score 1) 420

by e-Flex on Thursday April 09, 2009 @04:13PM (#27523659) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install

By your language, I guess that was written on a Windows machine :)

Comment Flickr has something going on to (Score 1) 130

by e-Flex on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @06:44AM (#27399863) Attached to: Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution

And they are quite good at handling images I think; http://www.flickr.com/commons

Comment Re:Worse yet. (Score 3, Insightful) 610

by e-Flex on Friday March 20, 2009 @10:34AM (#27268103) Attached to: If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons

Can I have some of what your smoking?

Comment I have plenty (Score 1) 111

by e-Flex on Thursday March 19, 2009 @01:00PM (#27257911) Attached to: Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies

I have plenty of touch when I view movies.

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