AltGrendel - Slashdot User

Comment Good one. (Score 2) 140

by AltGrendel on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @12:20PM (#42441975) Attached to: How Google Glass Is Evolving As It Heads For Release To Developers

My favorite question / answer pair: "IEEE Spectrum: What kind of business model is associated with Google Glass? Babak Parviz: This is still being worked on, but we are quite interested in providing the hardware."

Probably my favorite non-answer answer of 2012.

Comment Re: Hmm... (Score 1) 200

by AltGrendel on Monday December 24, 2012 @01:31PM (#42382323) Attached to: NASA Plans To "Lasso" Asteroid and Turn It Into Space Station

Yes, it did. The 9th Doctor saved us, didn't you know that?

Submission + - WWII code 'may never be cracked' (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by

AltGrendel

on Friday November 23, 2012 @09:21AM

AltGrendel writes: "The BBC reports that experts at intelligence agency GCHQ have asked for help in de-coding a message found attached to a pigeon leg, thought to date back to WWII. The dead bird was found in a chimney in Surrey a few weeks ago. But without more information, the code may never be cracked, according to the BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera"

Comment Re:I wonder .. (Score 0) 84

by AltGrendel on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @12:03PM (#40906217) Attached to: The Underground Economy of Social Networks

you're presuming that people will actually use Google+.

Comment Huh. (Score 3, Insightful) 193

by AltGrendel on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @08:22AM (#40684533) Attached to: NSA Mimics Google, Angers Senate

Why should we get something for free when we can pay for it? Wait a minute....

Comment food! (Score 3, Funny) 155

by AltGrendel on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:44AM (#40412311) Attached to: Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts

I hate it when I can't food. We all need to food sometime.

Comment Re:New technology, old mindsets (Score 4, Interesting) 559

by AltGrendel on Saturday February 11, 2012 @09:31AM (#39004199) Attached to: Global Christianity and the Rise of the Cellphone

True but at least it gives them the drive to solve a knotty problem.

Comment Huh. (Score 1) 535

by AltGrendel on Monday June 06, 2011 @11:59AM (#36351220) Attached to: Bitcoin Used For the Narcotics Trade

And here I thought it'd be porn, not drugs that would get bitcoin going.

Comment Re:Just don't need one. (Score 1) 618

by AltGrendel on Friday February 11, 2011 @10:07AM (#35173370) Attached to: Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now

Exactly. If the data plans didn't cost and arm and a leg, and you KNOW they'll never lower the pricing, I'd consider it.

Comment Autism? (Score 3, Interesting) 123

by AltGrendel on Friday November 12, 2010 @12:48PM (#34207836) Attached to: Dissecting the Neural Circuitry of Fear

I wonder if they'll try the same techniques to study Autism?

Comment Re:While I agree it's not as good as... (Score 1) 609

by AltGrendel on Thursday November 11, 2010 @09:53AM (#34195574) Attached to: Did the Windows Phone 7 Bomb In the US?

I'm sorry, but that has got to be one of the sillier things I've read here on /. There's nothing special about this other than the fact that it's a Microsoft product. In the current smart phone market, more is expected of a product than that.

Comment Re:Target for Alzheimers? (Score 2, Informative) 107

by AltGrendel on Thursday September 23, 2010 @11:44AM (#33676216) Attached to: Scientists Find New Target For Alzhiemer's

You mean this Ted Stephens? The one that died in the plane crash?

Comment True, true. For now. (Score 1) 292

by AltGrendel on Thursday September 02, 2010 @08:05AM (#33447820) Attached to: IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever

But it will be obsolete by the end of the month.

Comment Just remember. (Score 4, Informative) 170

by AltGrendel on Friday February 05, 2010 @11:32AM (#31034840) Attached to: Graphene Transistors 10x Faster Than Silicon

The first patent for transistors was filed in 1925.
Look where they are now.

Comment Great! Nature at it's best. (Score 3, Interesting) 179

by AltGrendel on Friday January 22, 2010 @03:23PM (#30862416) Attached to: Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech

Maybe now they'll find an efficient solution to the Salesman problem.

Slashdot Top Deals