CyberGrandad - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I don't get the big deal (Score 2) 65

by CyberGrandad on Monday April 08, 2013 @02:20PM (#43393699) Attached to: Irish Artist Turns Google Maps Screen Grabs Into Pricey Art

Not quite. Taking one Google Maps screenshot on most monitors could get you an image on the order of 1000 pixels wide. Photographers generally print their works at 300 ppi. So a single screenshot mirrored around would get you something roughly 6 to 7 inches squared. The gallery photo shows a print at least 5 feet tall. So it would take multiple screenshots pasted together. Maybe not thousands ... but more than one.

Comment Re:CD/DVD-ROM Drive (Score 1) 715

by CyberGrandad on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @02:32PM (#33590768) Attached to: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was The...

The part of the CD drive that writes CDs was my last hardware failure. The device is still in the case as it reads just fine. There is a DVD writer in another slot so no real need to replace the bad unit.

Comment Re:Hamster ?!? (Score 1) 715

by CyberGrandad on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @02:28PM (#33590718) Attached to: The Last Component To Fail In My Computer Was The...

My mother-in-law (now age 80) has signed her emails "The Keeper of the Hamster" ever since she first got a PC.

Google Kills Wave Development 327

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @05:48PM from the harshing-on-mellow dept.

We've mentioned several times over the past two years Wave, Google's ambitiously multi-channel, perhaps plain overwhelming entry in the social media wars. Now, reader mordejai writes "Google stated in its official blog that they will not continue developing Wave as a standalone product. It's sad, because it had a lot of potential to improve communications, but Google never promoted it well, denying it a chance to replace email and other collaboration tools for many uses."

Submission + - Anatomy Of An Attempted Malware Scam (mediapost.com)

Submitted by Dynamoo on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:34AM

Dynamoo writes: Malicious advertisments ("malvertisements") are getting more and more common as the Bad Guys try to use reputable ad networks to spread malware. Julia Casale-Amorim of Casale Media details the lengths that some fake companies will go to to convince ad networks to take the bait.

Comment Re:Thank goodness there's no damage (Score 2, Informative) 154

by CyberGrandad on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @11:19AM (#33138250) Attached to: Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth

2. There will be really impressive light displays (which I hope someone will post on YouTube

No video (so far) but there are photos at spaceweather.com.

Submission + - Feds storing checkpoint body scan images (cnet.com) 2

Submitted by AHuxley on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @08:41AM

AHuxley writes: The US Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."
It turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images.
The U.S. Marshals Service admitted that it had saved ~35,314 images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
The images where stored on a Brijot Gen2 machine. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to grant an immediate injunction to stop the TSA's body scanning program.

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