mamono - Slashdot User

Comment A la carte pricing debate (Score 1) 379

by mamono on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @03:59PM (#26284129) Attached to: Time Warner Recommends Internet For Some Shows

Maybe this will bring up the good old a la carte debate again. I, personally, resent having to pay $50+ a month when my entire family watches about 10 cable channels total. I looked into 4DTV a couple years ago but it didn't seem viable (limited DVR capabilities, lack of HD, still have to point to multiple satellites, etc.)

Do other Slashdotters have an a la carte TV solution that doesn't entail torrents, watching on the web/computer or illegal downloads?

Comment They should use accelerometers instead of GPS (Score 1) 713

by mamono on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @06:15PM (#26272839) Attached to: Oregon Governor Proposes Vehicle Mileage Tax

I don't think GPS is the way to go. If they were to use accelerometers it would provide the same information with the following advantages:

Lower cost
Would not be dependant on a GPS signal
Greatly minimizes the privacy issue

As an Oregon resident, privacy is the biggest concern for me. Also, how long until they decide to start using this to trap speeders? With accelerometers it virtually eliminates the privacy issue because they would never know where you are, just how fast you were going.

Submission + - Site uses swimsuit models to support F/OSS and CC (free-press-release.com)

Submitted by

mamono

on Monday December 22, 2008 @02:38AM

mamono writes: "What's better than women in swimsuits? Women in swimsuits supporting open-source software with photos released under a Creative Commons license. PixelPeel.com is donating 10% of proceeds to open-source software and releasing all photos under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. The operator's goal is to purchase property for a green, self-sustainable lifestyle. The site is described as the opposite of the Million Dollar Home Page where, rather than purchasing pixels to be put on a large image, you purchase blocks of pixels of a black image to uncover the swimsuit model underneath. Buyers are allowed to place ads on the page(s) of the model they "sponsor."

The press release can be found here."

Comment Grammar police: mass nouns vs count nouns (Score 1) 656

by mamono on Thursday December 18, 2008 @04:33PM (#26164647) Attached to: Study Says Cosmic Rays Do Not Explain Global Warming

Sorry, but this bugged me. Less is a mass noun, the tag should read "onefewerexcuse" or, even more appropriately, "oneexcusefewer." Now back to your regularly scheduled postings

Submission + - NTFS data recovery software for Linux?

Submitted by mamono on Thursday January 03, 2008 @11:42AM

mamono writes: I've recently (about two weeks ago) dumped Windows for Kubuntu. So far I've been able to find apps for everything I used to do in Windows but recently I've found a need for hard drive recovery. In the past I've used R-Tools, GetDataBack, BadCopy Pro and OnTrack. Most recently I needed to undelete files which ntfstools worked fine for. I'm now thinking ahead for when I may need to recover data from dying hard drives. My favorites have always been GetDataBack and OnTrack for dead drives and BadCopy Pro for flash media and CD/DVDs. Is there any Linux equivalents to these programs?

Submission + - GPS III to No Longer Have Selective Availability (defenselink.mil) 2

Submitted by Cobalt Jacket on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @11:34AM

Cobalt Jacket writes: The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that Selective Availability (SA) would "no longer be present in the next generation of GPS satellites." (referring to GPS III) Existing satellites have had the feature disabled by President Clinton since 2000, but SA can be activated at any time. SA was one of the principle stated reasons for the European Union and European Space Agency's backing of the Galileo program. This will not affect the GPS IIF spacecraft which will be launched over the next few years, though it is unlikely that SA will ever be utilized on those satellites.

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