Comment: SG-1 (Score 4, Insightful) 182
SG-1 Will take care of it no doubt.
Comment: Best example of Vaporware I've heard in a while (Score 2, Funny) 130
"We don't have the exact details of the WiFox scheme/protocol, but apparently it increased the throughput of a 45-device WiFi network by 700%, and reduced latency by 30-40%."
And what makes this different than Quality of Service (QOS)?
Comment: Re:It's over, domain was given to the CM team (Score 1) 143
I'm sorry, his 'apology' is anything but and it offers no explanation to his actions or his emails including this one: “Hi, so you think by removing all my access across the infrastructure was going to be a great idea? We had a chat yesterday, you’ve decided to end this bitter. How about I just change the DNS entries right now. CM will practically go down.” What context could that have been taken out of that doesn't implicate this guy as a horrible, immature person? Either CM is making that quote up or he got the negative attention he deserves and is trying to save face.
Comment: Re:Name and shame again and again. (Score 2) 143
His Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrADeveci
He's claiming misunderstanding. Anyone buy it? Anyone?
Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris 40
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from the also-electrocutes-neighborhood-vandals dept.
from the also-electrocutes-neighborhood-vandals dept.
antdude writes "Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for the display and the stem serving as a game controller."
Comment: i have a similar program (Score 2) 55
I do the same kind of thing through my navy job... http://www.sciencebrothers.org/
Whacky Scientists though, not super heroes. I feel its kind of cheap to present STEM in a "fiction" way. Conflict of messages maybe?
Is It Time For Hacker Scouts? 186
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Soulskill
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from the earn-a-lightsaber-badge dept.
ptorrone writes "MAKE Magazine asks: is it 'Time For Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts 2.0?' What might the future of education be like if it were based on online & earned skill badges, and what could the future of traditional organizations for kids, like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, be like in a very modern, tech-savvy world? Social networks and the maker movement are the perfect intersection of where the kids of today are, but we don't see 'leaderboards' for skills yet; we only see them for video games. Is it time for Hacker Scouts?"
Comment: What is it with Microsoft and Leap Year? (Score 3, Informative) 247
Anyone remember trying to turn on their Zune 3.5 years ago? That didn't work so well either.
Comment: Re:circuit boards (Score 5, Interesting) 399
Damn you internets. I'm already doing this and the parent's idea right now for my wedding invitations. It fits, I did propose to my fiancee on a circuit board.
Adafruit's Open-source Wearable Platform, Flora 62
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timothy
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from the replace-all-your-clothes dept.
ptorrone writes "Limor 'Ladyada' Fried's NYC based Open-source electronics studio, Adafruit, today announced their new open wearable platform called the FLORA (blog post & video). The FLORA is Arduino compatible as well as supporting a variety of sensors and add-on devices including: Bluetooth, GPS, 3-axis accelerometer, compass module, flex sensor, piezo, IR LED, push button, embroidered + capacitive keypad, OLED and more. The first round of hardware is in the hands of testers to create wearable projects."
+ - The real reason Firefox lost to Chrome: Firefox 4->
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edxwelch writes "In November last year Chrome overtook Firefox in market share for the first time. What people don’t realise is that the release of Firefox 4 caused a large part of the decline.
Firefox 4 was a major new release and came with a brand new Javascript engine and HTML5 parser. Unfortunately, these new features came with major memory leaks and performance bugs. The result was that if you used Firefox 4 for an extended period of time the browser would eventually become unresponsive, making it virtually unusable."
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Firefox 4 was a major new release and came with a brand new Javascript engine and HTML5 parser. Unfortunately, these new features came with major memory leaks and performance bugs. The result was that if you used Firefox 4 for an extended period of time the browser would eventually become unresponsive, making it virtually unusable."
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+ - iPhone owners get "Samsunged" in new ad [video]->
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zacharye
zacharye writes "Following Samsung’s recent run of television advertisements depicting iPhone users as mindless hipster sheep, the company’s ad firm is back with another spot that again takes aim at Apple fans. The new ad shows iPhone 4 owners camped outside an Apple Store waiting for the latest iPhone model to finally go on sale..."
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+ - Dennis Ritchie, creator of C, passes away at 70->
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Hobart
Hobart writes "Rob Pike has posted an announcement via Google+ that Dennis Ritchie has passed away."
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Comment: UPS.com too (Score 1) 192
People are complain on twitter about him taking down UPS.com too. I only get a DNS error from them.
This has to be a DNS hack.
Comment: Does it (Score 1, Offtopic) 133
Does it steal your identity too?