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Comment Re:Yet Another Terrible Flamebait Slashdot Summary (Score 3, Insightful) 757

by imnotanumber (#38147128) Attached to: 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA

You have to love the hypocrisy. Everyone on slashdot LOATHES corporations, presuming that anyone trying to turn a profit in groups of more than 3 people must be horrible monsters and parasites. But legal meth labs? It's GAME ON... because it only makes sense. It blows my mind.

You must live in a very black and white world!

If you have:

- Activity A that is evil.

- Activity B that is a LOT more evil.

- Defending that activity B should be changed to Activity A is extremely reasonable. Where is the hypocrisy?
Patents

Submission + - Petition to White House to End Software Patents (whitehouse.gov) 6

Submitted by Alchemist253
Alchemist253 writes: The White House recently launched the "We the People" initiative, an official mechanism for submitting online petitions to the Executive branch of the U.S. government. One of the first petitions, and one which has rapidly gained momentum, demands that the Patent Office cease issuing software patents and rescind those already issued. While the text of the petition could stand improvement, and while this matter is no doubt fraught with legal complexities, Slashdotters may nonetheless wish to sign the petition. If it gets at least 5000 signatures then the White House promises a formal response — and the more, the better.
Java

Submission + - XPacific Ocean Data Free to Scientists, Students (java.net)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Anyone can get free access to ocean data (salinity, water temperatures, wave conditions, the weather, fluorescence and dissolved oxygen) as four marine robots cross the Pacific from California to Japan & Australia.
Cellphones

Submission + - Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices (inhabitots.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A daycare center in Sweden is testing a new system for that will prevent missing children by placing GPS tracking devices on kids while they are outside of the confines of the nursery walls. The transmitters will report to a synced mobile phone, alarming teachers if a child moves out of a certain distance. The tracking devices clip easily to reflective vests that the children of the Malmoe daycare wear when outside of the school.

Comment Re:Keynesian? (Score 1) 601

by imnotanumber (#37353610) Attached to: Krugman On Bitcoin and the Gold Standard

If you fire 10 people, 9 may sit on the couch eating cheetos and collecting unemployment benefits for the next 2 years[1]. But 1 will start his (or her) own business and increase economic activity.

Then he (or she) will go bankrupt because the possible costumers are unemployed and can't pay for the goods. (unless it is another cheetos brand)

Comment Re:Nothing to surprising (Score 0) 1271

by imnotanumber (#37327272) Attached to: Marx May Have Had a Point
This is the sad reality that the people who espouse theoretical free market either never think about or attempt to reject out of hand. But it is exactly what prevents the theoretical model of free market from ever being attempted. As soon as you have two people starting it, the greed and corruption starts.

Comment Re:Because what is the alternative? (Score 1) 468

by imnotanumber (#35841864) Attached to: 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study

And now that Pulse Audio does work, Ubuntu is ahead of the rest.

Does it make sense to anyone that Ubuntu has adopted a network transparent audio server but is planning on dropping the network aware graphical server?

Because it makes sense. It is a bandwidth problem. Over a network you can easily stream audio without any problem because 2x44.4Hz@16bits = 1.4208 MBits/s. That's less than 2% of a 100Mbit network. Now for the graphics things change, why do you think that the graphic cards are on a a 16x PCI-Express slots (8GBits/s), and still must use a lot of internal RAM to cache textures? Over a network the kind of performance you get for the graphics makes you cringe.
Robotics

Submission + - Roboweek Day Three - Self Replicating Printers (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: RoboTechEd’s third #robotofnote for Roboweek isn’t a stereotypical robot. It doesn't walk, talk, or really have much user feedback. But what it lacks it makes up with it's ability to create. Makerbot is a stationary robot that is completely open platform, and arduino controlled — pretty sweet if you need a 3D printer (you guessed it, Makerbot is a 3D printer). A Makerbot kit costs a small price of $1,300 but is way cheaper than a commercial 3D printer. And the best part is that once you have one, the Makerbot can self replicate!

Also available online is a huge amount of CAD files that are known to work on the Makerbot, from coffee mugs, to nuts and bolts. The Makerbot is able to make these things by melting plastic into the desired shape — anything up to 4”x4”x6”. To find out more on the Makerbot, click HERE and make sure to check out the video below to see it in action. And if anyone makes or buys one of these let me know, selling copies of the original may be somewhat fruitful (no...for real, a self replicating 3D printer is pretty sweet)!

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