Comment: Recycle! (Score 1) 309
Parts of your current car could have been a 386 at one point....
Comment: Re:Average European-25% Average American (Score 1) 309
Nice post.....
Hey, why don't you link to where you got those figures from????? (Enquirer??? or maybe Weekly World News??)
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010
Issued September 2011 Current Population Reports
By Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. Smith
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf
Median Income in Dollars: 2010
White - 51,846
White Non Hispanic - 54,620
Black - 32,068
Asian - 64,308
Hispanic - 37,759
There is still a bit of a difference here, but not 80K - I'm throwing the bull shit flag.....
Hey, why don't you link to where you got those figures from????? (Enquirer??? or maybe Weekly World News??)
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010
Issued September 2011 Current Population Reports
By Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. Smith
http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf
Median Income in Dollars: 2010
White - 51,846
White Non Hispanic - 54,620
Black - 32,068
Asian - 64,308
Hispanic - 37,759
There is still a bit of a difference here, but not 80K - I'm throwing the bull shit flag.....
Comment: Re:Special 2-D glasses needed (Score 1) 495
It's a good idea. But 2-D glasses may or may not work for some people. I guess I'm in the above 12%. I can not go to an IMAX theater or see a 3-D movie. Makes me sick and makes my head hurt. But, I also wear prescription glasses and can not see far away with out them (i.e. my monitor). So even if 2-D glasses did work, I would not be able to actually see the movie itself.
I'm not sure what the big deal is anyway... I seen and loved the Avatar movie, but when they jumped off that cliff, I about jumped out of my seat. I had to close my eyes because I started getting vertigo pretty bad. If I was watching that in 3-D, not sure what would have happened. In other words it had more than enough "visually stunning" shots in there for me.
Is a movie in 3-D that much better? I have heard that some people like it and some could care less. Am I really missing anything?
Duke
Wi-Fi Allergy a PR Stunt 174
Posted
by
ScuttleMonkey
from the hope-he-made-his-buck dept.
from the hope-he-made-his-buck dept.
ADiamond writes "There is no Wi-Fi allergy. The English DJ claiming a Wi-Fi sensitivity, chronicled earlier, was a PR stunt to promote his new album. It would appear that the stunt was highly successful, appearing in multiple high-profile media outlets like The Sun, The Telegraph, and Fox News. The article at Ars goes on to discuss the evidence, or lack-thereof, of electromagnetic spectrum sensitivity."
School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones 785
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by
ScuttleMonkey
from the only-one-man-would-dare-give-me-the-raspberry dept.
from the only-one-man-would-dare-give-me-the-raspberry dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The St. Ansgar, Iowa school system is considering buying cell-phone jamming equipment for up to $5000 if it is deemed legal. The use of the equipment would be suspended in the case of an emergency, but one has to wonder if they would be quick enough to shut it down should an emergency arise. 'A Federal Communications Commission notice issued in 2005 says the sale and use of transmitters that jam cellular or personal communications services is unlawful.'"
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions 646
Posted
by
kdawson
from the incident-that-will-not-stay-down-the-memory-hole dept.
from the incident-that-will-not-stay-down-the-memory-hole dept.
Stupified writes "High school student Justin Gawronski is suing Amazon for deleting his Kindle copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four (complaint, PDF), because doing so destroyed the annotations he'd created to the text for class. The complaint states: 'The notes are still accessible on the Kindle 2 device in a file separate from the deleted book, but are of no value. For example, a note such as "remember this paragraph for your thesis" is useless if it does not actually reference a specific paragraph.' The suit, which is seeking class action status, asks that Amazon be legally blocked from improperly accessing users' Kindles in the future and punitive damages for those affected by the deletion. Nothing in Amazon's EULA or US copyright law gives them permission to delete books off your Kindle, so this sounds like a plausible suit."
Comment: Re:Darn this newfangled technology! (Score 1) 412
That is funny. BUT ITS NOT TRUE!!!! The DoD has a network damn it... It's just that no one has anything that is certified to connect to it, that's all...
Duke
Duke
Comment: Re:Hide them all (Score 2, Informative) 323
Rodrigovr is actually right, to a point. You do want to hide everything that you can. I have been racking eq and doing wiring work for 20+ years... Use cable ties, not velcro, or wraps or anything like that, just plain old cable ties. I know, if you have to replace something or move something you have to cut all those ties... YEP thats right. Big deal. Just tie it all up again and do a better job each time you have to do it. You want to keep power separate from everything else.
And thats a great idea to be able to turn off stuff you don't use all the time with diff power strips, I do that myself.
You may want to use a mounting head cable tie and screw stuff you your actual desk. This is the kind of tie http://www.cabletiesplus.com/Products/5-Mounted-Head-Cable-Ties-(40-lb)-(Natural)__CP-5-40MH-N.aspx and you can use very small screws.
BUT if you don't want harm your desk at all. Just leave it hang and lay on the floor and make it look at nice as you can. Don't use tape, or sticky strips, or sticky cable mounts, because NONE OF THEM WORK. About two days after you anchor something it will come off, trust me... Basic rule of thumb for cable work, if it seems like its going to be way too much work and a big pain in the ass, then your doing it right and it will look great in the end. And just remember I have done this with 20+ devices in a 72u rack (over 6 feet of eq...) and you could NOT see any power cable when I was done and all the network, KVM etc... were ladder wrapped and the rest of the ties were about 1ft apart... Took 2 days to do one rack, but it looked great when it was finished.
Duke
And thats a great idea to be able to turn off stuff you don't use all the time with diff power strips, I do that myself.
You may want to use a mounting head cable tie and screw stuff you your actual desk. This is the kind of tie http://www.cabletiesplus.com/Products/5-Mounted-Head-Cable-Ties-(40-lb)-(Natural)__CP-5-40MH-N.aspx and you can use very small screws.
BUT if you don't want harm your desk at all. Just leave it hang and lay on the floor and make it look at nice as you can. Don't use tape, or sticky strips, or sticky cable mounts, because NONE OF THEM WORK. About two days after you anchor something it will come off, trust me... Basic rule of thumb for cable work, if it seems like its going to be way too much work and a big pain in the ass, then your doing it right and it will look great in the end. And just remember I have done this with 20+ devices in a 72u rack (over 6 feet of eq...) and you could NOT see any power cable when I was done and all the network, KVM etc... were ladder wrapped and the rest of the ties were about 1ft apart... Took 2 days to do one rack, but it looked great when it was finished.
Duke
Comment: Great Movie!! (Score 1) 592
New TV series spin off anyone???? Or at least 4 or 5 more movies outta this. I have been a Trek fan for a long time. Yea they messed around with some, but this was a great movie.
And it is cool to see some alt reality stuff sometimes. Come on we are Sci-Fi people right? I would have liked to seen a cameo of the real James T in there during the mind meld with future/older Spock and past/young James T, but can't have everything.
But, again I say a really great movie that I will be seeing again.
Duke
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? 409
Posted
by
kdawson
from the banking-on-future-research dept.
from the banking-on-future-research dept.
Maestro writes "There must be many parents (and soon-to-be parents) here at Slashdot. What are your thoughts on umbilical cord blood banking? This seems like a major question for our newborn; the question is almost as stressful for us as naming the baby. Given Obama's stance on stem cells, the topic is timely. My understanding is that while the current uses for cord blood are limited, the sky's the limit for the future of stem cell therapies. But with the initial cost over $1000, and ongoing yearly fees, is it worth it?"