BillHop - Slashdot User

Comment Re:So which application? (Score 1) 282

by BillHop on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @09:22AM (#41222583) Attached to: Anonymous Leaks 1M Apple Device UDIDs

Perhaps that Furious Birds clone that promises a hand grenade for each level mastered?

Comment Newscast? (Score 1) 289

by BillHop on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:01PM (#38387404) Attached to: US Bans Loud Commercials

Using the Newscast as the standard is fine in peacetime. Advertisers are gonna love war-time volume skewing though.
I guess we should just be happy they didn't choose Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" show as the standard.

Comment Re:effectiveness in 2011 (Score 1) 271

by BillHop on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:45AM (#37843330) Attached to: Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System

My Series III TiVo (I'd assume the Premiere, too) regularly aborts playback and jumps to live programming whenever this area gets a EBS (e.g. Tornado Warning) message from Time-Warner cable. The first interruption was freaky (and irritating), but now I really rather appreciate it, since I rarely ever watch live programming.

Submission + - Sony Announces Android-based Tablets

Submitted by

trawg

on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @01:47AM

trawg writes: "Sony have officially announced a new line of "Sony tablets". There are two models, both offering 3G/4G and WiFi running Android 3.0 — one is a typical tablet with a 9.4 inch screen and the other is an "unprecedented dual screen" type. Digital content is a big focus: music, books and first generation PlayStation titles will all be available (subject to the usual region restrictions for content)."

Submission + - QWERTYUIOP (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by

SEWilco

on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @12:18AM

SEWilco writes: " The last typewriter factory has shut its doors. "

Comment Uninstall ? (Score 1) 285

by BillHop on Friday March 04, 2011 @05:15PM (#35384656) Attached to: Even Microsoft Wants IE6 Dead

Obviously, Microsoft issuing an update that would allow uninstalling IE6 from every platform where it lurks is unthinkable.

Comment More research (Score 1) 360

by BillHop on Monday February 14, 2011 @07:59AM (#35198278) Attached to: Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization

First and foremost, we need more practice -- uhh, research.
Add "Have you ever been a calendar model" to the astronaut screening form.

Comment Re:Already been done . . . (Score 1) 107

by BillHop on Thursday June 25, 2009 @08:33AM (#28465537) Attached to: A Wiki For Cable and Connector Pin-Outs

Is is too much to say I'm on pins and needles waiting to see which site wins?

Submission + - Get ready for the high-tech beach (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:16PM

coondoggie writes: "Ocean City, New Jersey is a nice, family-oriented beach that will apparently soon be the high-tech model for seashore lovers and now perhaps geeks everywhere. The city has on its plate a $3 million myriad public services and Internet access using radio-frequency identification chips (RFID) and Wi-Fi wireless technology. A wireless network will let Ocean City expand economic development and control the cost of local services. Wireless allows the City to save on cell phone usage, T-1 lines, and it adds efficiency. The city is looking to replace its ubiquitous but mostly annoying beach tags — which indicate you paid to get on the beach $5 per day, $10 for a week, or $20 for the whole summer — with wristbands that contain an RFID chip. Yet another cool feature of the high-tech beach will be the ability to track beachgoers — an application that is being touted by parents. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17841"

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