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Comment From the Article (Score 3, Informative) 119

by PiAndWhippedCream on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:55PM (#33582674) Attached to: Cell Phones Powered By Conversations

The sound waves produced a mild electrical current of about 50 millivolts. The average cell phone requires a few volts to operate, several times the power this technology can currently produce.

Wrong, so very wrong. Millivolts is not a unit of current, and volts is no unit of power. Nor is power current. I've seen journalists not understanding electrical units before, but never have I seen something quite so wrong as this.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 480

by PiAndWhippedCream on Thursday September 02, 2010 @12:53AM (#33445842) Attached to: I can see X LEDs as I fall asleep. X = __

Still, there is nowhere near one LED per pixel. However with my new co-venture with Negroponte, we can make that a reality, join OLPP today.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 480

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @05:01PM (#33441276) Attached to: I can see X LEDs as I fall asleep. X = __

Are you absolutely certain you have an LED screen, most are CRT or LCD, if you got a LED screen, you would remember it.

Comment It's a Trap (Score 1) 262

by PiAndWhippedCream on Thursday August 26, 2010 @06:35PM (#33387130) Attached to: MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264

`Paid' and `Free' subject to future profitable redefinition.

Comment Re:Google (Score 1) 327

by PiAndWhippedCream on Thursday August 19, 2010 @10:47PM (#33310020) Attached to: German Photog Wants to Shoot Buildings Excluded From Street View

If the man wants to tilt at windmills, I say let him.

Comment Re:Fine (Score 1) 204

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:50PM (#33224406) Attached to: Website Lets You Bet On Your Grades

I bet $1 Billion you didn't RTFA.

This is idle, GP didn't read the summary, probably didn't read the title. I know I didn't.

Comment Vampire Plug (Score 1, Interesting) 118

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @10:29PM (#33224278) Attached to: Scientists Develop Brain-Microchip Bridge

What I really want is a vampire plug that sits on my optic nerve(s) and captures everything I see and records it to a hard drive. I would like it to automatically tag timestamps with my thoughts at the time, but that can wait for version 2.0.

Comment I Have No Car (Score 1) 789

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:37AM (#33214664) Attached to: I Wish My Car Had A...

I have no car you insensitive clod.

Comment I have no car. (Score 1) 1141

by PiAndWhippedCream on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @11:11PM (#33133788) Attached to: My Automobile Gets __ MPG

You insensitive clod! My bike gets well over 9000 MPG though.

Comment Re:And this is news? (Score 1) 270

by PiAndWhippedCream on Tuesday July 27, 2010 @04:55PM (#33050620) Attached to: Java IO Faster Than NIO

I use rmmod psmouse . (a line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) It works fine on my Dell D630, it might work for you.

Comment Re:About Software (Score 1) 126

by PiAndWhippedCream on Sunday July 18, 2010 @01:47AM (#32941150) Attached to: Windows Vulnerable To 'Token Kidnapping' Attacks

Yes, "hello, world" should start with a capital letter and end with a punctuation mark. The comma is also unnecessary.

Comment Man in the Middle (Score 5, Funny) 234

by PiAndWhippedCream on Saturday July 10, 2010 @02:44AM (#32858474) Attached to: When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies

1. Find two telemarketers who call you at (roughly) the same time.

2. Put them on the phone with each other.

3. ???

4. Hilarity ensues.

Comment Three Words: (Score 1) 285

by PiAndWhippedCream on Friday July 02, 2010 @05:10PM (#32779732) Attached to: Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy

Not Bloody Likely. Motivated students, and trust me they ARE motivated, are far more effective than the MAFIAA leaning on the government leaning on schools.

MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want 453

Posted by timothy on Friday July 02, 2010 @07:07AM from the dis-orientation dept.

jangel writes "While its strategy for mobile devices might be a mess, Microsoft has announced something we'll all benefit from. The company's patented design for battery contacts will allow users of portable devices — digital cameras, flashlights, remote controls, toys, you name it — to insert their batteries in any direction. Compatible with AA and AAA cells, among others, the 'InstaLoad' technology does not require special electronics or circuitry, the company claims."

Comment Good Riddance (Score 5, Funny) 460

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday June 14, 2010 @02:18AM (#32561620) Attached to: NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon

Unless we can set up a colony there, it just isn't worth it.

The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.

YEAHHHHHHHH!

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