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Comment Receptacle Height (Score 0) 422

by G1369311007 (#41514687) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building?
My opinion, space drops every 6 feet and higher than the equipment. We have 800lbs containers that are about five feet high each. We spaced all of the electrical and IT above that so we can place them anywhere in the room and it won't impact us. It makes sense for our workstation type furniture for it to be above. It has made reaching the drop much easier. When we end up connecting in the middle of dead space on a wall, we just use some basic panduit to make it look pretty.

Comment Apple = Communism (Score 0) 273

by G1369311007 (#25252897) Attached to: iPhone Antitrust and Computer Fraud Claims Upheld
I'm a Linux/Windows user so take it as you will, but FFS, lets not get into religion here. I don't have an iPod. I've never owned one and have no requirement for one. However, my friends swear by them. One person in particular has gone through at least 5 of them in two years. Each one had a manufacturing defect. Now if Microsoft had released something like that (360 red ring of death) everyone would be pissed, as they were. But we haven't heard the same backlash against Apple. I for one would be relieved to have Apple taken down a legal peg or two. I don't think they have the same "do no evil" mantra as our new Big Brother, Google. Rant over.
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Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief 251

Posted by samzenpus from the cyber-bloodhound dept.
After his computer was stolen, Jose Caceres used a remote access program to log on every day and watch it being used. The laptop was stolen on Sept. 4, when he left it on top of his car while carrying other things into his home. "It was kind of frustrating because he was mostly using it to watch porn," Caceres said. "I couldn't get any information about him." Last week the thief messed up and registered on a web site with his name and address. Jose alerted the police, who arrested a suspect a few hours later. The moral of the story: never go to a porn site where you have to register.
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Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items 219

Posted by samzenpus from the amelia-earhart-club dept.
An Anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting 'A weathered sweat shirt, cash and a pilot license with Fossett's name were found Tuesday near Mammoth Lakes, police Chief Randy Schienle said.' The license did not have a photo. '"We're not certain that it belongs to Steve Fossett, but it certainly has his name on the ID," Schienle said.'"
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Submission + - Moebius strip riddle solved at last (abc.net.au) 2

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BigLug writes: "In a study to appear in Nature Materials, two experts in non-linear dynamics, Gert van der Heijden and Eugene Starostin of University College London, resolve the Moebius Strip algebraically.

From the ABC (Australia):



What determines the strip's shape is its differing areas of "energy density," they say.

"Energy density" means the stored, elastic energy that is contained in the strip as a result of the folding. Places where the strip is most bent have the highest energy density; conversely, places that are flat and unstressed by a fold have the least energy density.
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Submission + - Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying

Submitted by Ynefel
Ynefel writes: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2148802,00.as p "A proposed amendment to the current copy protection license governing DVDs would completely ban all DVD backups, and prevent DVD playback without the DVD disk being present inside the drive. The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) this past March. The proposed amendment is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, according to Malcolm. " etc, etc, etc

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