djhaskin987 - Slashdot User

Comment Sonic Screwdrivers! (Score 1) 120

by djhaskin987 on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @04:05PM (#50258533) Attached to: Sounds Can Knock Drones Out of the Sky

Huh, they really do have a use

Comment Good (Score 1) 205

by djhaskin987 on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:20AM (#50248951) Attached to: India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites

Pornography only serves to frustrate more, and victimizes women.

Comment The Fifth Element comes to mind (Score 1) 188

by djhaskin987 on Friday July 11, 2014 @04:53PM (#47434215) Attached to: DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets

It's not a machine gun that shots at people behind you, but still.

Submission + - IRS misplaces it's own officials' emails (house.gov)

Submitted by djhaskin987 on Saturday June 21, 2014 @01:02PM

djhaskin987 writes: So who audits the IRS for information security? "Rep. Jim Renacci (OH-16) today released the below statement following the Ways & Means Committee hearing with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen on the IRSâ(TM) claim that it has lost an unknown number of Lois Lernerâ(TM)s emails as well as the emails of six other IRS officials".

Comment Is this for real? (Score 1) 346

by djhaskin987 on Monday June 09, 2014 @09:13AM (#47194355) Attached to: Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow?

I just can't believe a Russian military officer would just come out and say that they're milking Snowden. I don't doubt they are; just that Russia would want to brag about it.

Comment I wonder (Score 1) 72

by djhaskin987 on Friday June 06, 2014 @09:43AM (#47178869) Attached to: Snowden Rallies Privacy Advocates In New York City

I'm all for regulation of mass surveillance. After the Snowden incident I started using a password manager and made sure my pgp key was up to snuff. But I wonder how many other more important secrets he had to tell the Russians to get amnesty, how many ships sank because of his lose lips.

Comment Maybe the Gov't Will Finally Abolish It (Score 1) 240

by djhaskin987 on Sunday March 30, 2014 @09:16PM (#46617849) Attached to: Daylight Saving Time Linked To Heart Attacks

Finally! Something concrete to take to congress.

Comment If you don't like it, (Score 1) 284

by djhaskin987 on Friday March 28, 2014 @12:48PM (#46603999) Attached to: U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech'

use some other service. Freedom of speech means that they can provide whatever results they want, but so can Google.

Comment The lengths we go to (Score 2) 70

by djhaskin987 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @10:42PM (#46599509) Attached to: MIT Researchers Bring JavaScript To Google Glass

just to play super mario.

Submission + - 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman

Submitted by djhaskin987 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:51PM

djhaskin987 writes: The first successful implantation of a 3-D printed skull has taken place in the Netherlands, according to NBC news:
Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human’s skull with a 3-D printed plastic one — and likely saved a woman's life in the process. The 23-hour surgery took place three months ago at University Medical Center Utrecht. The hospital announced details of the groundbreaking operation this week and said the patient, a 22-year-old woman, is doing just fine.

Comment Well, that took a while (Score 1, Interesting) 184

by djhaskin987 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @06:26PM (#46597417) Attached to: Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

It's because Steve Ballmer refused to acknowledge iOS's existence. Now that a new guy is in charge, things are happening again.

Comment How long does he expect to do this? (Score 1) 275

by djhaskin987 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:33PM (#46594793) Attached to: Operation Wants To Mine 10% of All New Bitcoins

The difficulty goes up exponentially with pool size. How long does this guy plan to keep buying up the world's computing resources? Cause he'll have to pretty quick to keep his 10% goal.

Comment Re:Someone will make money (Score 1) 198

by djhaskin987 on Thursday March 27, 2014 @02:17PM (#46594685) Attached to: Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears

Likely. Either they already owned a company, and got the government to use it; or, learning that the government will use it, they bought into the company.

Submission + - Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, And PowerPoint

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:55PM

An anonymous reader writes: At an event in San Francisco today, Microsoft Office General Manager Julia White unveiled Office for iPad, featuring Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new suite, which supports viewing but not editing for free, will go live in Apple's App Store at 11:00AM PDT (2:00PM EST). Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPad feature a ribbon interface just like the one featured in Office for Windows and OS X. The trio of apps are much more powerful on the tablet than the smartphone, but naturally aren't comparable to the desktop versions.

Submission + - Microsoft Office Finally Comes to the iPad

Submitted by SmartAboutThings on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:32PM

SmartAboutThings writes: Just like expected, at its first press briefing, Satya Nadella and his team has finally unveiled the much awaited and perhaps overdue Microsoft Office suite of products for the iPad . It’s not a standalone product and yes, of course, it does require subcription. Microsoft has released Office Mobile for iPhone users back in June, last year, and now Redmond has just unveiled the Microsoft Office suite for the world’s most popular tablet – the iPad. This morning, in San Francisco, at an event focused on discussing the intersection of cloud and mobile, the Microsoft Office suite for iPad has been released and it is free to download, but requires a subscription if you want to edit files, naturally. Just as expected, it comes with the traditional trio of apps: Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

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