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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!

Comment Troubling This Is. (Score 1) 3

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday June 14, 2010 @12:30AM (#32561194) Attached to: Afghanistan, The Mine.

I sense a trap. Economies that play ``leap frog'' typically do very badly in the long term. See Russia. The parallels are uncanny.

Comment Re:The remediation advice is wrong (Score 1) 174

by PiAndWhippedCream on Sunday June 13, 2010 @01:51AM (#32554968) Attached to: Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive

LiveCD.

Comment Vegetarian, but... (Score 0) 763

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @11:37PM (#32357616) Attached to: A delicious steak should be ...

I am a vegetarian, but I still know that a good steak is medium rare, it should give as much as the spot on your nose between the bone and the tip. Cook it any longer and you have a fine hockey puck.

Comment Re:The freedom part sounded like: (Score 0) 244

by PiAndWhippedCream on Sunday March 14, 2010 @03:08PM (#31473804) Attached to: Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical

What an odd poem...

... the only winning move is not to play.

Comment Re:Gmail also occasionally goes down (Score 0) 439

by PiAndWhippedCream on Saturday February 13, 2010 @09:36AM (#31126452) Attached to: Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition

I can count the number of times my college's mail system has expirenced downtime since I've been here (full disclosure: Sophmore) on one hand. Every time it has happened, I got an email telling me about it at least 24 hours in advance.

That is far better than gmail's track record.

Comment Gmail also occasionally goes down (Score 0) 439

by PiAndWhippedCream on Saturday February 13, 2010 @08:59AM (#31126226) Attached to: Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition

It only happens sometimes, but it could bring a university to a grinding halt. And give a LOT of people a very bad 2.5 hours.

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