swanzilla - Slashdot User

Comment IOIO? (Score 4, Interesting) 228

by swanzilla on Monday January 28, 2013 @09:17PM (#42721931) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Electronics Prototyping Platform?

If you like Java, I'd suggest the IOIO and an Android device. You inherit the device's guts (gps, cellular antenna, speakers, wifi, gyro, color display) and can go nuts. The biggest difficulty for me was getting the ADK up and running w/ Eclipse on my Debian laptop. They are cheap too...take a look at Sparkfun and Adafruit.

Comment Re:Is Scientology Really Different? (Score 2) 353

by swanzilla on Monday January 28, 2013 @05:02PM (#42719601) Attached to: Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

- Adolf Hitler (citation needed)
- Pol Pot (citation needed)
- Vlad the Impaler (citation needed)
- Joseph Stalin (citation needed)

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 5, Funny) 286

by swanzilla on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @01:07PM (#42658303) Attached to: Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets

"news for morons who couldn't find their ass if it wasn't attached"

Fear not...there exists a clamp hack for that.

Comment Re:Brilliant idea (Score 5, Funny) 480

by swanzilla on Friday January 18, 2013 @04:06PM (#42628535) Attached to: Google Declares War On the Password

They must be in cahoots with my luggage manufacturer.

Comment Plan B (Score 3, Funny) 102

by swanzilla on Friday January 18, 2013 @12:45PM (#42626301) Attached to: No Spitfires In Burma After All

Check Myanmar.

Comment Re:LED Screens (Score 3, Funny) 195

by swanzilla on Thursday January 17, 2013 @01:49PM (#42618257) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity?

Surely Amazon employ UI designers?

They do, and don't call Amazon Shirley.

Comment Re:Sounds about right (Score 5, Funny) 217

by swanzilla on Thursday December 27, 2012 @06:04PM (#42406781) Attached to: 'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind

+1 Fascinating

Comment Re:Wanted: More pictures in the article... (Score 4, Funny) 43

by swanzilla on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:12PM (#42194813) Attached to: James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Dive

The microbial carpet wouldn't sign a photo waiver release form.

Comment Re:An App For Every Website (Score 2) 180

by swanzilla on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @05:57PM (#41912379) Attached to: The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It

I can't wait until somebody posts a Computer World DesktopApp on Slashdot, which turns out to be 17 DesktopApps.

Comment Re:Unless you have rabbits. (Score 5, Funny) 242

by swanzilla on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @04:31PM (#41898711) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management?

You really don't want to be electrocuting rabbits. They are best stewed or braised.

Comment Re:recovering an RFC 1149 "lost packet"??? (Score 4, Funny) 287

by swanzilla on Friday November 02, 2012 @02:28PM (#41855951) Attached to: WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney

Very small helicopter.

Comment Re:Um... (Score 1) 590

by swanzilla on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:37PM (#41823869) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner?

Hydrogen is too scary for passenger blimps. People wouldn't like them even if they had ejectors and parachutes.

Speak for yourself...

Comment Re:No big deal. It was a cat1 storm (Score 1) 186

by swanzilla on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @05:31PM (#41823773) Attached to: New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages

One dead; one missing. Never forget.

Comment Re:No big deal. It was a cat1 storm (Score 1) 186

by swanzilla on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @03:21PM (#41821355) Attached to: New York Data Centers Battle Floods, Utility Outages

HMS Bounty. Never forget.

Comment Re:It's a fake. (Score 2) 438

by swanzilla on Monday October 29, 2012 @12:42AM (#41801393) Attached to: Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed

Meh. I'm waiting for an egocentric trillionaire to build a 27" iMac Beowulf wheelhouse cluster.

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