Gushi - Slashdot User

Android app allows Free VOIP using Google Voice-> 0

Submitted by Gushi on Monday June 13 2011, @09:29PM

Gushi writes "Groove IP, in conjunction with Google Voice, lets you make unlimited calls using your phone's data connection without using up any of your minutes! This might be the start of ubiquitous free VOIP for cellphones with data plans!"
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Comment: Mission Impossible III (Score 1) 1200

by Gushi on Friday March 11 2011, @08:55PM (#35459494) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies?

When they used an "electron microscope" to look at a "petri dish" and watch a virus grow "in real time" I was doubled over in the theater in pain trying not to cry out too loud at the absurd stupidity of that scene! I cried!!!

Comment: Re:i'm interested in an android app for ssh tunnel (Score 2) 359

by Gushi on Thursday January 06 2011, @12:09PM (#34777294) Attached to: Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited

ConnectBot can open a port that your application can tunnel through. What I really want is a way to tunnel the browser and maybe even email on my android for when I am using a public insecure wifi point, but I haven't run across anything even remotely close....

http://www.toremote.com/ssh -Destructions for connect bot port forwarding

Comment: Missing something (Score 1) 309

by Gushi on Friday October 15 2010, @07:41PM (#33914218) Attached to: Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network?

Fascinating attempt at a story... If it contained anything substantial like a fact, I might actually believe it!

Of course, citing a single source from T-Mobile, which is obviously very unbiased, really lends a lot of credibility to the "story"!

Washing Away Postdecisional Dissonance-> 0

Submitted by Gushi on Thursday May 13 2010, @01:36PM

Gushi writes "After choosing between two alternatives, people perceive the chosen alternative as more attractive and the rejected alternative as less attractive. This postdecisional dissonance effect was eliminated by cleaning one’s hands. Going beyond prior purification effects in the moral domain, physical cleansing seems to more generally remove past concerns, resulting in a metaphorical "clean slate" effect.

I wonder if Steve Jobs washes his hands every time he talks about Flash?"
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Apple monitors fixed with strip of paper 0

Submitted by tgibbs on Thursday May 13 2010, @11:52AM

tgibbs writes "Many owners of the Apple 23" Cinema HD monitor (aluminum) are experiencing a failure in which the monitor refuses come up again after being turned off, instead remaining dark with its power light flashing the "short-long-short" code for "bad power supply." Owners found that replacing the 90W power supply did not help, but that the problem could be fixed by replacing the stock 90W power brick with the larger 150W power brick from Apple's 30" monitor, available online for about $140--pricey, but cheaper than a monitor repair. The real breakthrough came when jakobeon discovered that the problem could be fixed by simply using a little strip of paper to block one pin of the cable from the monitor that plugs into the power brick, presumably disabling the monitor's startup check of the power supply. Numerous users on are now reporting success with the "little strip of paper" cure."

Cheap cancer drug finally tested in humans-> 1

Submitted by John Bayko on Thursday May 13 2010, @11:02AM

John Bayko writes "Mentioned on Slashdot a couple of years ago, the drug dichloroacetate (DCA) has finally finished its first clinical trial against brain tumours in humans. Drug companies weren't willing to test a drug they could not patent, so money was raised in the community through donations, auctions, and finally government support, but the study was still limited to five patients, showing extremely positive results in four of them. It also raises the question of where all the money donated to Canadian and other cancer societies, and especially the billions spent buying merchandise with little pink ribbons on it goes, if not to actual cancer research like this."
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Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 13 2010, @10:45AM

An anonymous reader writes "More than ever, consumer electronics — particularly laptops, smartphones and Apple's new iPad — are shining bright light into our eyes until just moments before we doze off. Now there's growing concern that these glowing gadgets may actually fool our brains into thinking it's daytime. Exposure can disturb sleep patterns and exacerbate insomnia, some sleep researchers said in interviews."
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Comment: Pharmaready DMS (Score 1) 130

by Gushi on Saturday March 20 2010, @10:52AM (#31549516) Attached to: Business-Suitable Document Authentication System?

PharmaReady has a DMS system that should be able to do what you ask provided you have the webserver available outside your intranet. Instead of passing documents via email, authorized users would upload them themselves and then pass a link. The system is designed with FDA regulations in mind and keeps an audit trail of all activities and has well defined users and user permissions.

Comment: Not just programmers (Score 0, Offtopic) 633

by Gushi on Saturday January 23 2010, @02:30PM (#30871110) Attached to: Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives

This is the same situation as in the American Biotech industry. Most companies are small with high burn rates and the whole industry is built around squeezing every bit of time and energy out of employees and then discarding them. Its easy to just say, "Get another job" but its not always that easy. Some of us have friends and family that we actually like to see and living the gypsy lifestyle moving from one job location to another doesn't make that easy on friends, family or children. Furthermore, some of us got where we are by being specialized, and once discarded its not easy or quick to find the next...