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Comment Re:Socialist pig! (Score 3, Funny) 725

by slash.dt on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @08:13PM (#38509302) Attached to: Christmas Always On Sunday? Researchers Propose New Calendar

Never gonna happen. There are too many politically conservative idiots, like my mom, who believe attempts at converting to metric represent a "socialist" conspiracy, and almost literally scream at any attempt to remove Imperial units in favor of metric. Socialist? The fucking metric system? Seriously?

How about approaching it by telling those same people that using Imperial units is propagating the British rule over America and until it is dropped, the US will never be truely free?

Submission + - Microsoft To Kill Windows Phone 7 Unlocking

Submitted by Chris on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:09PM

Chris writes: In the first update to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is planning to block ChevronWP7, which allowed users to unlock any retail Windows Phone 7 device for application side-loading without having to pay $99 per year for a WP7 marketplace account. The update, which is slated for release this month, will also introduce copy and paste functionality, among other improvements. ChevronWP7 was discontinued less than a week after its release about two months ago. ChevronWP7's three developers, Long Zheng, Rafael Rivera, and Chris Walsh were approached by Brandon Watson, Director of Developer Experience for Windows Phone 7, and decided to kill their app.

Submission + - North Korean domain names return to the Internet (goodgearguide.com.au)

Submitted by

angry tapir

on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:02PM

angry tapir writes: "North Korean domain names have returned to the Internet over the last few days as the country continues to build its presence online. Websites, previously available only via IP addresses, are now accessible through dot-kp addresses and it appears more might be on the way."

Comment color (Score 5, Funny) 171

by slash.dt on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @12:15AM (#34762218) Attached to: Reverse Engineering <em>Doctor Who</em> Into Color

The BBC shot many of these series in color

Since this is the BBC, they shot *none* of them in color but many of them in *colour*....

Submission + - Printing Space Stations - In Space (space.com)

Submitted by backganon on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @06:52PM

backganon writes: Space.com is reporting about a start-up company promising hardware and software for printing space stations in orbit.

Comment Re:complete with tracking and statistics (Score 1) 244

by slash.dt on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:00PM (#33754076) Attached to: Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public

Won't affect me - I never click on any shortened link. If I can't see if it goes to the site that I am intending to go to, I won't click it. Unfortunately lots of people do click on these links and then wonder why they get virus and malware. If google can make the links safer that would be good but I still plan to avoid them.

Comment Re:Chatter is a Salesforce product...shrug (Score 1) 82

by slash.dt on Sunday September 12, 2010 @07:31PM (#33556602) Attached to: Salesforce Uses Chatter To Monitor Employees

We use salesforce all day long and yet none of us at work use "chatter". It's almost as if it's a clunky, superfluous facebook-alike shoehorned into what's otherwise a good CRM system.

Does anyone here on /. actually use chatter?

First thing I did when it was enabled on my account was to find the settings to turn it off - have no desire to use it.

Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life 207

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @01:32PM from the yes-you-read-that-right dept.

Have you ever been so drunk that you passed out and your dog ate your toe? I haven't either, but luckily for Michigander Jerry Douthett, he has. It turns out Jerry has type 2 diabetes and a wound on his toe had becoming dangerously infected. After a night of drinking Jerry passed out in his chair and the family dog Kiko decided to do a little doggy doctoring. From the article: "'The toe was gone,' said Douthett. 'He ate it. I mean, he must have eaten it, because we couldn't find it anywhere else in the house. I look down, there's blood all over, and my toe is gone.' [Douthett's wife] Rosee, 40, rushed her husband to the hospital where she's a gerontology nurse — Spectrum Health's Blodgett Campus. Kiko had gnawed to a point below the nail-line. When tests revealed an infection to the bone, doctors amputated what was left of the toe."

How High-Tech Gadget Trends Differ By US Region 51

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @04:50PM from the you-say-potato dept.

Ant writes in with news of a study revealing differences in gadget preferences by US region. The survey is not rigorous, based as it was on 7,500 online questionnaires submitted to Retrevo, a website for tech shoppers. The company plans to run the survey annually. "...in the smartphone category, the state of Maryland came out on top with 48 percent more households owning at least one such handset than elsewhere in the country. ... In iPad use, the state of New York took top honors. According to the survey, 52 percent more households have at least one iPad in the Empire State. ... Massachusetts beat out the rest of the nation in e-reader adoption..."

Toshiba Intros Trilingual Translation App For Cellphones 44

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @08:04PM from the like-a-liberal-arts-major-only-better dept.

MojoKid writes "Shortly after hearing of a simple, two-way Spanish-to-English translator for the iPhone, Toshiba has announced that it has developed a new language translation system that requires no server-side interaction. The app is designed to be operated independently on a smartphone, which will eliminate costly data roaming fees that are generally incurred using systems that require an internet connection to retrieve translations. The system is trilingual in nature and enables users to translate freely among Japanese, Chinese, and English."

Comment Re:Idiocy (Score 1) 676

by slash.dt on Friday May 29, 2009 @08:46AM (#28137373) Attached to: Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US

The Japanese?

A lot of Koreans, Chinese and Brazilians have Japanese passports. Even a few 'westerners' do too.

Comment Re:Our body has a monitoring system built in (Score 2, Interesting) 330

by slash.dt on Monday March 23, 2009 @03:47AM (#27295363) Attached to: Body 2.0 — Continuous Monitoring of the Human Body

You would be amazed how well many diabetics can tell their sugar level at any given moment. It doesn't take more than a month of measuring to learn that.

And you would also be amazed at how often people whose life depends on knowing their glucose levels get it wrong. I'm pretty good at estimating mine on the low (immediate danger) side, but not so good as estimating when my blood glucose is high (long term danger)side.

I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention continous blood glucose monitors which are already readily available - ok, you only implant them for 3-7 days at a time but that will get better. So instead of all the vapourware being mentioned in the article they could have talked about a product which is already here.

Comment Re:Home made thing. (Score 1) 240

by slash.dt on Sunday August 24, 2008 @09:54AM (#24725879) Attached to: A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents?

If you're not very adventurous: Any computer. Any video conferencing software (such as Skype). VPN software (such as OpenVPN). VNC software (such as RealVNC). The best is if you get a computer where the screen and computer are in the same enclosure. You don't even hook up a keyboard or a rat. If something happens, you lgo on their desktop thru the VPN and VNC and click on Skype again or whatever.

This is pretty close to what we do. We have a mac mini hooked up to my inlaw's TV with a webcam on top. Skype and VNCServer is running on the mac (skype since we have a PC at our end). Whenever we want to talk we can VNC to the mac and start the conversation. My wife does it all the time and also uses it to show the inlaws photos from webalbums.

We also have a skype phone setup for those times that you just want to talk and can't be bother with the video link.

MIT Student Plans to Take on RIAA 169

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 23, 2008 @06:04PM from the go-fightin'-nerds dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "MIT's online newspaper, The Tech, reports that a student named as a John Doe by the RIAA is planning to fight back against their questionable legal tactics. The anonymous student told The Tech that he is 'the victim of a fishing expedition by the RIAA,' and is 'disappointed that MIT isn't going to step up ... Other schools like Boston University and the University of Oregon have resisted RIAA subpoenas of student records more actively than MIT has, he said'. Maybe his attorneys will be able to get some assistance from some of the Harvard Law School students in Professor Nesson's 'Evidence' class, who have been assigned — as part of their coursework — the drafting of a motion to quash an RIAA subpoena."

Submission + - Australian Govt wants mandatory net censorship (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by ghostcorps on Monday December 31, 2007 @05:53AM

ghostcorps writes: Say hello to our shiny new Government. The more things change the more they stay the same."

"To be censored by the Australian Government is "pornography and inappropriate material." X rated pornography is illegal online in Australia, as are casino style internet gambling, certain forms of "hate" speech and R rated computer games.

As recently as the week prior to the election, Labor Party candidates were telling those concerned about the proposed law that the censorship wouldn't be compulsory, and that the "clean feed" would be opt-in, not opt-out. Today's announcement by Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy states that the censorship regime will be mandatory, although people will be able to opt-out of it. The problem of course then becomes if you opt-out questions will be asked as to why you want out, which in itself may lead to Government monitoring.

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