Comment Missing Option (Score 1) 443
Drive itself.
Comment Podcasts? (Score 1) 302
Wouldn't bittorrent work well for podcasts? Seems like the perfect case but I've never heard of it being done.
Comment Re:What kind of moronic "defense" lawyer... (Score 5, Informative) 170
You haven't really been following this story, have you?
The defense attorneys aren't military and some of them are quite outspoken against their client's treatment.
Not only the defense lawyers... http://harpers.org/blog/2008/02/the-great-guantanamo-puppet-theater/
"Davis submitted his resignation on October 4, 2007..."
"Colonel Davis is not just any JAG officer. He was an up-and-comer widely viewed in his peer group as someone in line for a star, and ultimately perhaps, to be the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General. He is also no whining civil libertarian, but rather a no-nonsense conservative, whose prior scraps with civilians in the Pentagon came over the restraints they put on his ability to charge forward and prosecute cases."
Comment GITMO is an embarrassment and a tragedy (Score 1) 170
Scott Horton has been writing about this. http://harpers.org/blog/2013/04/a-final-act-for-the-guantanamo-theater-of-the-absurd/
Does the CIA call for secrecy to protect our freedom or to cover its incompetence?
Comment Patient Needs Conflict with Manufacturer's Profits (Score 1) 262
The only reason this isn't happening is that the manufacturers want more money. The patients are basically asking for the data so that they can go wherever with it, do whatever with it, and that looks like dollar signs flying out the window to the manufacturers. What the patients might achieve with the data is irrelevant.
Comment Trello (Score 1) 364
https://trello.com/
Its interface is great for tracking all manner of tasks. Totally customizable. Works on Android phones, probably iPhones too, or any modern browser so you can manage your notes from whatever connected device is convenient. Free.
Comment Let the mouse die! (Score 2) 182
Bring on the advanced haptic interface now!
Submission + - Research to "reveal the unseen world of cookies" (guardian.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian newspaper have teamed up with Mozilla to research the monitoring of online behaviour through cookies and other web trackers. After downloading the Collusion add-on for Firefox, you can generate a visual representation of all the cookies that have been downloaded which are linked to the sites you have visited. This shows quite an interesting picture. The Guardian then want the data from Collusion to be uploaded to their site after which they say "we can build up a picture of this unseen world. When we've found the biggest players, we'll start tracking them back – finding out what data are they monitoring, and why."
Comment Fauja Singh, 100 year old marathon runner (Score 1) 904
Comment Re:My Feelings (Score 4, Funny) 189
I'm simultaneously for and against this.
Schrödinger? Is that you?
Comment Re:Tell that to Frank Zappa (Score 1) 286
And to be fair, Zappa was exposed to a lot of dubious chemicals as a child. Maybe the exposure to one or more of those can cause people to become iconic band-leaders.
Comment Tell that to Frank Zappa (Score 1) 286
Who died of prostate cancer and considered coffee and cigarettes to be "food."
Comment Re:Might as well be open (Score 1) 964
And if all the routers were open, who would that hurt? Not the children. It would be AT&T and Comcast, Sony and the rest. That's why the intimidation is so important to them. They know we don't actually need their overpriced, crappy services.
Comment Idoru will really flip him out (Score 1) 779
Somebody send the pope a copy of William Gibson's book, Idoru, where the main character wants to marry a computer character. That'll really get him going.
Comment Re:alphababy (Score 1) 417
Seconded! Alpha baby is very neat if you own a Mac.
http://alphababy.sourceforge.net/
You're on your own with protecting the computer from the toddler, however. Little fingers can pry up keys easily. You will definitely need to supervise.
