yenrabbit - Slashdot User

Comment Thats me! (Score 1) 630

by yenrabbit on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:29PM (#42370499) Attached to: Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest

I'm 17, there are pictures of guns in my notebooks, and i have a bunch of explosive chemicals at my house. I AM NOT A PSYCHOPATH! Game maker: yes (guns = concept art), like playing with rockets/gunpowder: yes, but not a killer. All i can say is thank goodness i live far away from America...

Comment XKCD (Score 1) 475

by yenrabbit on Thursday November 08, 2012 @02:21AM (#41915977) Attached to: On Daylight Savings Time:

1) Read poll - there's an xkcd thats perfect for this! 2) Search for comic, no results - well maybe it wasn't actually that great... 3) Read through 1000 titles and still can't find it - that comic wasn't at all relevant, screw it

Submission + - Microsoft Is Right About Touchscreen Computers

Submitted by theodp on Thursday November 01, 2012 @04:57AM

theodp writes: A year ago, Mashable's Lance Ulanoff might have bought Apple CEO Tim Cook's argument that the touchscreen was meant to be horizontal, not vertical. But that was then; this is now. And now, Ulanoff says he's left wondering why every single computer doesn’t include a touchscreen.. So, what changed? 'Spend enough time with the Windows RT-running Surface or any of the myriad Windows 8 computers arriving over the next few weeks,' says Ulanoff, 'and you’ll realize that the end of dead-screen computers is upon us...I know this is hard to believe, but it was completely natural for me to switch back and forth between the keyboard, mouse and touching the screen with my fingers.' CNET's Brooke Crothers also argues that Microsoft is right about touch-screen laptops. 'I couldn't really imagine buying a Windows 8 laptop without touch,' Crothers writes. 'I mean, this capability should have been added a long time ago to the average laptop. Of course, the traditional trackpad and/or mouse will be there for productivity tasks, but the option to use the screen is a bonus that anyone would want to have.'

Submission + - Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06, 2012 @01:05PM

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today announced it will soon start prompting Firefox users to upgrade select old plugins. This will only affect Windows users, and three plugins: Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight. Mozilla says Firefox users will “soon see a notification urging them to update” when they visit a web page that uses the plugins.

Submission + - NASA Prepares for Space Surgery and Zero Gravity Blood

Submitted by

Hugh Pickens writes

on Saturday October 06, 2012 @11:29AM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Draining an infected abscess is a straightforward procedure on Earth but on a spaceship travelling to the moon or Mars, it could kill everyone on board. Now Rebecca Rosen writes that if humans are to one day go to Mars, one logistical hurdle that will need to be overcome is what to do if one of the crew members has a medical emergency and needs surgery. "Based on statistical probability, there is a high likelihood of trauma or a medical emergency on a deep space mission," says Carnegie Mellon professor James Antaki. It's not just a matter of whether you'll have the expertise on board to carry out such a task: Surgery in zero gravity presents its own set of potentially deadly complications because in zero gravity, blood and bodily fluids will not just stay put, in the body where they belong but could contaminate the entire cabin, threatening everybody on board. This week, NASA is testing a device known as the Aqueous Immersion Surgical System (AISS) that could possibly make space surgery possible. Designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Louisville, AISS is a domed box that can fit over a wound. When filled with a sterile saline solution, a water-tight seal is created that prevents fluids from escaping. It can also be used to collect blood for possible reuse. "You won't have a blood bank in space," says James Burgess who came up with the concept for AISS, "so if there is bleeding you want to save as much blood as you can.""

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Does Open-Source "Donationware" work?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 06, 2012 @07:43AM

An anonymous reader writes: We've been developing an algorithm for 3 years that could be useful to a lot of different people working in a variety of fields. Our attempts to commercialize it, however haven't been successful. No corporate entity that we have contacted to date has agreed to invest in it, or to participate in commercializing it. We are sitting on something really useful, but industry doesn't seem to understand its usage potential fully. Now we are thinking "How about if we Open Source the algorithm?". We would put our source code online for anybody to use, and place a "Please Donate Money if this is useful to you" link on the website. Has anybody does this in the past? Do people donate to you if you give them something useful for free? Or are most people natural-born "Free Riders", who use your software with gusto, but clam up when it comes to donating some Dollars in return for that? We have spent over 140,000 Dollars developing this algorithm, so if no money comes our way, we'd have to pick up the financial tab for that. Any help or advice on this from Slashdotters would be most welcome!

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