l3prador - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 664

by l3prador on Monday December 22, 2008 @01:47PM (#26202839) Attached to: Will People Really Boycott Apple Over DRM?

Exactly. Not spending money is sometimes effective in getting companies to change their actions, but spending money on things they do correctly is orders of magnitude more effective. iTunes Plus is great. Not only is there no DRM, but it's encoded at a much higher bitrate as well.

Submission + - New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Nokia Aeon.

Submitted by

Azazelo

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @02:20PM

Azazelo writes: "New Full Touch Screen Concept Phone Nokia Aeon. Not only are the looks mind blowing but what about the touch screen that covers the full surface of the Nokia mobile phone (yes we did say the WHOLE surface). Tele Communication has got that one step better."

Submission + - NYC 911 to accept cellphone pictures

Submitted by

SpaceAdmiral

on Saturday January 20, 2007 @12:26PM

SpaceAdmiral writes: "New York City is developing a plan to allow images to be sent to 911 emergency operators from cellphones. This will likely give emergency operators better information to pass along to responders. According to John A. Feinblatt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's criminal justice coordinator, "The more information that the police have and the more quickly that they get it, the more likely that they are going to fight a crime.""

Submission + - Your web browser, now a graphing calculator

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20, 2007 @05:27AM

An anonymous reader writes: Taking advantage of the vector graphics features offered by the latest browsers, a recently created website called FooPlot turns your web browser into a function plotter (in 2-D and 3-D), offering a few basic graphing calculator features with a promise for further developments and integration with popular online spreadsheet applications. Gaining popularity in an educational context both in high schools and universities, this is another great example of the potential of the Internet to become the application platform of the future.

As an added extra, FooPlot also permits functions to be tacked onto the URL: http://fooplot.com/x^2+2x+1.

Feed Cell Phone in Pocket Burns Man (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @07:12PM

A freak accident turns a California man's mobile device into an instrument of destruction, leaving him with serious injuries. In Gadget Lab.

Submission + - Largest Twin Prime Yet Discovered

Submitted by

Chris Chiasson

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @07:03PM

Chris Chiasson writes: "The Twin Internet Prime Search and PrimeGrid have recently discovered the largest known twin prime. A twin prime is a pair of prime numbers separated by the integer two. The pair discovered on the 15th was 2003663613*2^195000±1."

Submission + - Google's FUSE Port Brings NTFS Support to OS X

Submitted by

sciurus0

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @06:49PM

sciurus0 writes: "In his session at Macworld on OS X filesytems, Google's Amit Singh announced that he has ported Linux's FUSE module to OS X. The port is called MacFUSE and is available in source form and as a precompiled kernel extension with associated tools. Many FUSE filesystems such as sshfs and ntfs-3g are reported to work."

Submission + - What tax software do you use?

Submitted by r_jensen11 on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @05:50PM

r_jensen11 writes: I know this topic has been asked at least once before, but seeing as how 6 years have passed, I figured the question is due again. It's about that time of the year again when we find out how much we owe Uncle Sam (Or as in my case, how much Uncle Sam owes me.) Software has changed drastically in the past 6 years since the previous query I found on Slashdot, as well as many tax rules. Does anyone here use tax software other than TurboTax and TaxCut? I know that there are also online forms I can fill out, but which ones are accessable to people that use OS's other than Windows and OSX? I'd preferably use a program that I can use off-line and store my information locally instead of using eforms, but if I have to resort to eforms, which ones should I investigate and which ones should I stay far away from?

Submission + - IRS 2006 Telephone Tax Refund

Submitted by

kdean06

on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @04:28PM

kdean06 writes: "It came to my attention today that just about every American who files taxes this year will be eligible for a refund of improperly collected long distance taxes on VOIP, Wireless and landline phone service. Any taxes on long distance service, or service that does not distinguish between local and long-distance (like most mobile service), are eligible for these refunds, thanks to recent court decisions. More can be found on the IRS's page on the topic, found at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=161506,0 0.html"

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