RayTomes - Slashdot User

Comment Make sensible ads (Score 1) 686

by RayTomes on Sunday November 25, 2012 @03:37AM (#42085597) Attached to: Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground?

If advertisers got rid of marketers who try to sell to people what they do not want, and made what people wanted, then people ewuld seek out their ads. The customer is always right and will win in the end.

Submission + - Large Scale 24/7 Solar Power Plant to be Built (cleantechnica.com)

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RayTomes

on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @06:00AM

RayTomes writes: "The Obama administration provided a loan guarantee of $737 million to SolarReserve on Thursday to construct the first large-scale solar power plant that stores energy and provides electricity 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The solar power project will be constructed in Nevada.

Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/12tl3)"

Submission + - Testing Geiger Counters 1

Submitted by thesandbender on Saturday May 21, 2011 @01:13AM

thesandbender writes: My girlfriend's family lives in Japan and is very interested in obtaining geiger counters for testing food and other materials. Geiger counters are now impossible to get in Japan and are on long back order from most providers in the U.S. which makes me suspicious of anything we can get our hands on. My question is, what's the best way to test/verify a geiger counter. I know I can point it at a smoke detector and it should go off but I'm not sure what I should see on the gauge. We'd even take it to any reasonable local facilities for testing (NYC area). Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Submission + - Computer Records Hold Key in IMF Rape Case

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @07:44PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "ABA Journal reports that the chief of the International Monetary Fund may claim consent as a defense to accusations that he sexually assaulted a maid at the Sofitel Hotel in New York as defense lawyer Benjamin Brafman told the judge he believed the “forensic evidence” was “not consistent with forcible encounter.” Police have said the maid knocked on Strauss-Kahn’s door and called out, used her master keycard to open the door, and left her work cart in the doorway, a typical safety practice in hotels. According to the police account, Strauss-Kahn emerged naked, tried to attack the maid, and then shut the hotel door when she tried to escape. The NY Times explains how the key card evidence may play out: “If the defense for Mr. Strauss-Kahn maintains that the encounter was consensual, its version will have to accommodate the unambiguous computer record of her leaving the door propped open," the story says. "It will also have to explain how and when she decided that sex with Mr. Strauss-Kahn was a better use of her time than changing the linens.”"

Fingerprint Scanner That Works From 6 Feet 83

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @10:07AM from the welcome-to-the-future dept.

Bruce Schneier found a somewhat older story that I haven't seen before about a device that is smaller than a tissue box, but uses two 1.3 megapixel cameras and a polarized light source to scan a fingerprint from two meters away.

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