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Comment: Re:Slashdot being a prime example of bad (Score 0) 382

by technosaurus (#45772549) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck?
And Radio Shack recommends a separate site for rendering on the remaining Tandy 1000s in operation....(j/k) right whatever,  OK Apple you can sell a bunch of pretty machines but can't make them play nicely with regular resources.... mmmKay

Lesson:
Don't use a bunch of hacky hacks to make sites work better on devices that you know.  Use real world data of width, height and resolution to make it behave on all devices.
Why do web devs have such a problem with things like dpi and icon sizes?  Its not that hard, but does require some trickery since DPI is not an ECMA standard.
Till there _is_ a standard way of getting DPI, Apple needs a button (it has to be a button or something even simpler, because it is for an Apple user) to emulate a standard DPI.

Comment: Which one charges you to use external services? (Score 1) 174

by technosaurus (#45700091) Attached to: Playstation 4 Vs Xbox One: Which Shares Better?
I'm sorry but I will not buy another MS box that wants to charge me for access to services they don't even provide like watching Netflix or Hulu.  I've paid enough MS taxes over the years as one time expenses, buying a computer, android phone, etc... With the PS removal of "Other OS" and the Wii forcefully removing dvd playback at a hardware level, I hope the steam box drives them both under.  Till then steam gets preferred status followed by wii and games that play on an un-updated PS3 followed by games (for my kids) that are only available for kinect.

Comment: Don't use public waterways to build your moat. (Score 1) 291

by technosaurus (#45661883) Attached to: Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T
I am guessing they received a public easement to put up the poles.  Imminent domain could just as easily force them to be returned at cost.  If the had paid landowners for the rights, it would at least be more difficult.
I hope AT&T's moated fortress becomes their Alcatraz.

Comment: already done (Score 1) 54

by technosaurus (#45538163) Attached to: Google Launches Voice Search Hotword Extension For Chrome
#!/bin/sh
# Brad Conroy's public domain speech processing tool (lite version)
computer(){
    case $1 in
        open)shift; which $1 && $@ || text2speech "I can't find that program.";;
        disregard)exit;;
        *)text2speech "I can't handle the $@ command yet.";;
    esac
}

pocketsphinx_continuous $SOMERANDOMOPTIONS |while read ROW COMMAND ARGS; do
case "$ROW$COMMAND" in
    [0-9]*:computer)$COMMAND $ARGS;;
    [0-9]*:dictate)[ "$DICTATE" ] && DICTATE="" || DICTATE=true ;;
    [0-9]*:*)[ "$DICTATE" ] && echo $COMMAND $ARGS >>$HOME/dictations
esac
done

+ - UK spies continue "quantum insert" attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In the academic literature, these are called "man-in-the-middle" attacks and have been known to the commercial and academic security communities. More specifically, they are examples of "man-on-the-side" attacks.

They are hard for any organization other than the NSA to reliably execute, because they require the attacker to have a privileged position on the Internet backbone and exploit a "race condition" between the NSA server and the legitimate website. This top-secret NSA diagram, made public last month, shows a Quantum server impersonating Google in this type of attack."
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+ - LeVar Burton on Google Glass

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "While he acknoiwledged thart technology needs to keep going forward, LeVar Burton didn't seem comfortable with the idea of using Google Glass. '"It disturbed me. I was skeptical... [and] I'm a person that's very open to technology." That's the reaction LeVar Burton, the man best known from Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation, first had when encountering Google Glass backstage at Engadget Expand. Burton, a self-described edutainment pioneer, acknowledges the disruptive power new technologies can have on media and culture — after all, he did help transform television into a worthy educational tool/babysitter with his PBS program. But even with that storied success, and his company's current inroads into digital with an iPad Reading Rainbow application, Burton still had a "knee-jerk" response when confronted with Glass. Although his celebrity status and the resulting paranoia could have something to do with it.'"

Comment: They could use ammonia... (Score 1) 108

by technosaurus (#45329021) Attached to: Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon

They could use a contained ammonia system to both cool and power the place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator/ The refrigerator in my RV can use 3 different heat sources to cool the contents (AC,DC and propane)

Combine it with a multistage turbine generator with a separate natural gas powered stage and you have a working regenerative power system.

For that matter, you don't even _really_ need to use the ammonia, you could just pipe the natural gas directly across the cooling surfaces after it expands (and thus cools) from the gas line... but they aren't already designed for such things, and what works with what you have in place is often more economical.

+ - Open-source advocates to government: Let us help you fix healthcare.gov-> 1

Submitted by sunzoomspark
sunzoomspark writes "As computer experts hired by the U.S. government scramble to fix the much-maligned healthcare.gov website, a corps of independent kibitzers is chiming in from around the world, publicizing coding flaws that they’ve discovered and offering suggestions for fixing them.

Much of the constructive criticism is coming from members of the “open source” community, a passionate but loose-knit group that advocates openness and collaboration as a means of writing better computer software. Their desire to help solve the federal government’s website woes in part stems from an early decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to make the healthcare.gov code available for examination – a promise that was never fully fulfilled."
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