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Comment Made in USA - fails even for grill cleaning brush (Score 2) 233

by koaschten on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:39AM (#65541788) Attached to: How Much Would You Pay For an American-Made Laptop? Palmer Luckey Wants To Know

... and the atempt was only to make it from 4 or 5 parts. Finally it even failed "not sourced from china" when some chainmail part they couldn't get in the usa in sufficient amount the sourced from India alternative was actually dropshipped wares from China. See SmarterEveryDay's video #308 on youtube.

Comment Re:Wireless charging? (Score 1) 314

by koaschten on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:26AM (#62936905) Attached to: Apple Will Be Forced To Use New Charger After EU Votes for USB-C

The point is, we are talking about the CHARGER - the thing between cable and wall socket - the thing Apple is NOT packing with it's phones anymore NOT the connector on the phone.

Comment The correct thing to do... (Score 1) 269

by koaschten on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:18AM (#59377874) Attached to: 70% of Americans Dislike Daylight Saving Time

... is to remove the exception of "summer time". Standard Time all year around. And while we are at it, give us IT people UTC all year long, makes log analysing over time-zone borders so much easier.

Comment Journalism... (Score 1) 98

by koaschten on Thursday July 19, 2018 @08:40AM (#56973250) Attached to: Saudi Arabia Bans 47 Games In Response To Two Child Suicides

... should work at their best to inform the reader, then WHY are they linking to the arabian version of the Age Classification instead of the english? en: http://www.gcam.gov.sa/en/Abou... vs ar: http://www.gcam.gov.sa/ar/Abou... Also what would Deadpool think about being on the list of banned games...

Comment RaspberryPi USB suxx (Score 2) 273

by koaschten on Monday March 25, 2013 @06:50PM (#43276849) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone?

It regularly manages to crash the USB stack if you put load on the USB stack, so considering that the LAN on the RaspberryPi B is connected to said USB...

Germany Takes Legal Steps Against Facebook 138

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 08, 2010 @05:37AM from the verboten-knowledge dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "Not only are Germany and Facebook not friends, they might end up opponents in a courtroom. Germany has begun legal action over privacy. A German data protection official accuses Facebook of illegally saving personal data of people who don't use the site and haven't given permission to access their private information. Germany, which has also launched an investigation into Google over its Street View mapping program, has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world."

Blizzard To Require Real First and Last Names For Official Forums 833

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @03:02PM from the guess-that's-one-way-to-get-rid-of-trolls dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, Blizzard Entertainment implemented a Real ID feature for some of its current games and all of its future Battle.net-based games. Today, Blizzard announced that it intends to require usage of the real names of Battle.net posters for its StarCraft II forums before release, and for its World of Warcraft forums shortly before the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. From the announcement: 'The first and most significant change is that in the near future, anyone posting or replying to a post on official Blizzard forums will be doing so using their Real ID — that is, their real-life first and last name — with the option to also display the name of their primary in-game character alongside it. These changes will go into effect on all StarCraft II forums with the launch of the new community site prior to the July 27 release of the game, with the World of Warcraft site and forums following suit near the launch of Cataclysm. Certain classic forums, including the classic Battle.net forums, will remain unchanged.'"

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