Comment purchase time (Score 4, Funny) 405
Time for an extra set of plates...
Comment oatmeal (Score 4, Insightful) 321
xkcd is great but I gotta throw in for The Oatmeal.
Comment Re:Death throes of climate alarmism (Score 1) 156
I'll just leave this here http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/climate-of-doubt/
Submission + - Makerbot Cracks Down On 3D-Printable Gun Parts (forbes.com) 1
Sparrowvsrevolution writes: In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, the 3D-printing firm Makerbot has deleted a collection of blueprints for gun components from Thingiverse, its popular user-generated content website that hosts 3D-printable files. Though Thingiverse has long banned designs for weapons and their components in its terms of service, it rarely enforced the rule until the last few days, when the company’s lawyer sent notices to users that their software models for gun parts were being purged from the site.
Gun control advocates were especially concerned about the appearance of lower receivers for semi-automatic weapons that have appeared on Thingiverse. The lower receiver is the the “body” of a gun, and its most regulated component. So 3D-printing that piece at home and attaching other parts ordered by mail might allow a lethal weapon to be obtained without any legal barriers or identification.
Makerbot’s move to delete those files may have been inspired in part by a group calling itself Defense Distributed, which announced its intention to create an entirely 3D-printable gun in August and planned to potentially upload it to Thingiverse. Defense Distributed says it's not deterred by Makerbot's move and will host the plans on its own site.
Gun control advocates were especially concerned about the appearance of lower receivers for semi-automatic weapons that have appeared on Thingiverse. The lower receiver is the the “body” of a gun, and its most regulated component. So 3D-printing that piece at home and attaching other parts ordered by mail might allow a lethal weapon to be obtained without any legal barriers or identification.
Makerbot’s move to delete those files may have been inspired in part by a group calling itself Defense Distributed, which announced its intention to create an entirely 3D-printable gun in August and planned to potentially upload it to Thingiverse. Defense Distributed says it's not deterred by Makerbot's move and will host the plans on its own site.
Comment Re:Harmony at last.. (Score 1) 160
Comment Re:Government control (Score 2, Insightful) 529
Please don't feed the troll. Anyone using the phrase "you people" should be automatically put on some kind of slashdot-posting probation.
doh!
doh!
Comment Re:I agree (Score 1) 295
agreed, this movie was pretty terrible, though that long take toward the end was pretty cool. It wasn't worth sitting through the rest of it, though.
Comment Re:Yeah! (Score 1) 123
Well the how of the burning is significant. Think of the smoke produced burning oil in a Diesel engine des vs lighting a pan of it on fire in your garage. The combustion could be just slightly bad instead of extra bad.
Otherwise, agreed. Better to turn it into smoke and CO2 than kill the sea critters.
Comment Re:What the article doesn't mention.... (Score 1) 192
Have prices gone up? I bought a 1KWh pack last year for less than $900 shipped. Granted it wasn't a high-performance 10C pack, but it would probably work fine for something like this.
Comment Re:Yes! (Score 1) 478
VW is one of the few makes for which you can get your own fully functional scanner (not just OBDII) for a relatively reasonable price: VAG-COM (I didn't come up with the name). It lets you interact with pretty much everything in the car with their hardware dongle and software and a laptop. It's still a little bit steep for what's essentially a serial-to-USB converter, but I suppose you're mostly paying for their reverse-engineering time.
Comment Re:Dimmer Savior! (Score 1) 569
I tried some Feit Electric brand ones in my can fixtures attached to an electronic Lutron dimmer with no luck. The dimmer must have some kind of check for load or something because it would just blink its indicator. That bums me out because my wife insists on having a dimmer (exactly that dimmer) in that room which means we're stuck with 360W of halogens for now.
Comment Re:Iperf (Score 1) 524
agreed, iperf is the best way to test link speeds, not hacking up some RAM drive test. One nice thing about the ram drive thing is you can test other parts of the stack, though.
Comment Re:No hulu for boxee means... (Score 2, Funny) 375
We don't pee in your toilet... so... um.... don't swim in our pool. no wait
Comment Re:Netcraft Confirms it: Ask Slashdot is Dying (Score 1) 479
sorry... very obscure. The reference was def 1 from here. Having to explain it makes it not funny, but if it wasn't funny to begin with then nothing is lost.
Comment Re:Netcraft Confirms it: Ask Slashdot is Dying (Score 1) 479
I swear, Slashdot conversations get more and more solipsistic every day.
dude, don't be so alacrity
