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Comment Summary is a BBC rip-off (Score 1) 323

by Gimble on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @03:40PM (#48144005) Attached to: How English Beat German As the Language of Science

The summary is a blatant rip-off of the BBC article found here.

Comment MMS-e displays (Score 1) 142

by Gimble on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:17PM (#40103261) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Hobbyist-Ready LCD Touch Panel For Embedded Projects?

HERE.

Lots of reasonably priced displays, some with touch and on-bard "intelligent" controllers.

Comment Re:Latitudes (Score 1) 300

by Gimble on Saturday May 19, 2012 @01:23PM (#40052591) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Laptop With a Keypad That Doesn't Suck

+1 for the E6520. I have one with an SSD and it flies, the screen is great and it has a full size keyboard with the numeric keypad,not that I use it

Submission + - USA Govement seeks extradiotn of UK student for fi

Submitted by Gimble on Friday January 13, 2012 @09:23AM

Gimble writes: The BBC reports that UK Richard O'Dwyer will learn of his fate today after the US Government requested his extradition to face charges of running a file sharing site.

O'Dwyer operated the site "TV-Shack" which didn't offer any files itself, but posted links to streams and files hosted elsewhere for 3 years from 2007 until 2010. O'Dwyer was first arrested in June last year by British police acting on information from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The domestic investigation was subsequently dropped, but Mr O’Dwyer was re-arrested in May on an extradition warrant to face charges in America.

Comment Re:Honestly? (Score 3, Informative) 1880

by Gimble on Friday November 11, 2011 @08:24AM (#38022238) Attached to: What's Keeping You On Windows?

Eh, Wireshark has been cross platform from day 1.

Comment Re:Standard values not applicable here. (Score 1) 369

by Gimble on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @10:16AM (#27675009) Attached to: Developing Battery Replacement Infrastructure For Electric Cars

Or the battery could have condition monitoring built-in.

I don't see how an exchangeable battery could be safe without it.

Comment Re:And file sharers may be violating copyright law (Score 1) 339

by Gimble on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @04:45AM (#26130559) Attached to: RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California

And where do you get this info from?

In the UK prices of USB keys have been in freefall. I see no sign of any music tax.

Submission + - Bittorrent to cause Internet meltdown (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Gimble on Monday December 01, 2008 @08:11AM

Gimble writes: Richard Bennett (blog here), has an article at the Register claiming that a recent uTorrent decision to use UDP for file transfers to avoid ISP "traffic management" restrictions will cause a meltdown of the internet reducing everybody's bandwidth to a quarter of their current value.

Other folks have also expressed concern that this may not be the best thing for the internet.

Comment Re:IDE Integration (Score 1) 667

by Gimble on Thursday October 23, 2008 @01:44AM (#25479069) Attached to: Practical Reasons To Choose Git Or Subversion?

Absolute tosh. I have no idea what GUI you use, but I've never seen such an issue with TortoiseSVN or the command line tools, and we regularly commit hundreds of files at a time.

I suspect that something is up with your svn server. We use svnserve and have never had issues like that.

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