Comment Re:Tinfoil hat on (Score 1) 517
I have many machines and windows doesn't slow down on me. I have seen it happen to others though.
Comment Re:North Korea needs an extinction event (Score 1) 162
even if true and acurate, the people you order the tablets are in Shenzhen, china.
Comment Re:North Korea needs an extinction event (Score 1) 162
no you need to go to Shenzhen order 10,000 tablets and then load the videos on TF/SD cards and then your scheme might work. assuming they can figure out how to press the start button on the tablets. hmm maybe directions too, yeah wont work without directions
Comment Re:Never ? (Score 1) 152
http://www.technologyreview.com/article/401750/electroactive-polymers/
robot muscles are real. this makes human shape robots one step closer.
Journal Journal: How to counteract rm -rf / in a few easy steps.
first off be prepared, have killall rm in innocent looking names on the systems you protect. one for every letter of the alphabet if you can take the time to do that, but failing that having wget will allow you to download killall to any directory your on, assuming you have a network machine with the capabilities of sharing killall, or a comparable program.
Comment Re:And this is why (Score 1) 167
wait i'm wrong look at north korea. they tried the same thing already.
Comment Re:And this is why (Score 1) 167
well if people in SUVs crash into enough coal trains, enough pipelines are bored, all the natural gas wells set aflame, the power will go out and they will never regain control over the computers again.
Comment Re:Detecting Drones (Score 1) 227
a quick google found this vendor http://www.ex-sight.com/cms2/drone-detection
Comment Re:Detecting Drones (Score 1) 227
easy, lasers.
laser detection grids are cheap, real, and practical.
they are long range, the only downside is you need a camera to detect if it's a bird or a drone.
Comment Re:Oh the puns write themselves (Score 1) 128
how can you tell your wood based processor is over heating?
By sending it Fahrenheit 451 if it bursts into flame then you know it's too hot.
Journal Journal: I have a confession to make...
I am a widely unreported minority called a 'xenosexual' i am very attracted to foreign women. xeno means alien and of course many xenosexuals want to have sex with aliens from another planet. of course i'm not exclusively xenosexual but i'm not pansexual either (loving all types) as boys/men are ugly to me. the internet for all it's glory has so far hidden the xenosexual to obscure groups even more obscure than 4chan. even though japanese anime has had demon sex and alien sex it is still an
Comment Re:Why not just kill them all? (Score 1) 150
bats feed on mosquitoes bats live in caves where they poop bat poop makes classic black powder. what will we kill the zombies with when we need to make our own gunpowder and bullets (assuming that the factories that produce smokeless powder are not resurrected and the chemicals for smokeless powder are not available)
Comment Re:Lg 'slider' phones here.. (Score 1) 313
that link includes smartphone sliders. http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-VN271-extravert is the verizon popular 'feature' phone
Comment Lg 'slider' phones here.. (Score 1) 313
the highly rated models i think are good enough. qwerty slider keyboards i prefer to 'swype'
Comment Re:Thanks to reader sleepypsycho for the poll idea (Score 1) 169
IIRC there was a raw feed dump where everything going into the database was shown live -- i don't recall the url for it, but now they have the firehose... too lazy to check the source for how they do it, and google was no help finding it.
