cowabummer - Slashdot User

Comment I read otherwise (Score 1) 318

by cowabummer on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @12:12PM (#49822825) Attached to: Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising

But their spokesperson specifically said otherwise on Twitter just yesterday - "We have zero intention of putting ads on our platform; no change at all in policy." https://twitter.com/emilysteel...

Comment A recycled nuclear weapon (now a bottle opener) (Score 1) 278

by cowabummer on Monday May 18, 2015 @02:39PM (#49720439) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Keychain?

My friend's company recycles disarmed nuclear weapons systems into an alloy, from which they make bottle openers from. http://www.fromwartopeace.com/...

Comment can confirm (Score 1) 1

by cowabummer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:40PM (#48663561) Attached to: The Death of Voice Mail

yes, can confirm. i never leave or check voicemail. yet another technology to bit the dust in recent years i suppose.

Comment Re:There is so much more behind this - 99% Invisib (Score 1) 36

by cowabummer on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:38PM (#48663537) Attached to: How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag

I just listened to this episode also! It does a great job outlining the entire history of this character and how the #mainstreammedia has hammered it into the ground

Submission + - NASA emails a Socket Wrench to the ISS

Submitted by HughPickens.com on Saturday December 20, 2014 @03:07PM

HughPickens.com writes: Sarah LeTrent reports at CNN that NASA just emailed the design of a socket wrench to astronauts so that they could print it out in the orbit. The ratcheting socket wrench was the first "uplink tool" printed in space, according to Grant Lowery, marketing and communications manager for Made In Space, which built the printer in partnership with NASA. The tool was designed on the ground, emailed to the space station and then manufactured where it took four hours to print out the finished product. The space agency hopes to one day use the technology to make parts for broken equipment in space and long-term missions would benefit greatly from onboard manufacturing capabilities. "I remember when the tip broke off a tool during a mission," recalls NASA astronaut TJ Creamer, who flew aboard the space station during Expedition 22/23 from December 2009 to June 2010. "I had to wait for the next shuttle to come up to bring me a new one. Now, rather than wait for a resupply ship to bring me a new tool, in the future, I could just print it."

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