markcic - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Fujitsu ScanSnap or similar (Score 1) 311

by markcic on Saturday February 11, 2012 @10:02PM (#39008843) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home?

iPhones and cell phones in general do not cost less than this.

Cell phone are subsidized by the carriers in order for you to buy service. In the razor and blade analogy cell phones are the razor and the service is the blade. The cell carriers lose money on the phones to make money on the the service.

Comment Re:Nothing here (Score 1) 182

by markcic on Monday November 21, 2011 @03:39PM (#38127614) Attached to: Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink

I the 3 years I have owned mine it has been through an X-ray machine roughly 300 times. It still works.

Feed Decay May Make Saturn Moon's Heat (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday March 12, 2007 @10:12PM

A new scientific model suggests ancient radioactive decay played a key role in shaping the geyser-spewing region of Enceladus, one of Saturn's many moons. By the Associated Press.

Democrats Take House, Senate Undecided 1090

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 08, 2006 @09:37AM from the well-not-officially-anyway dept.

Every news publication on earth is saying mostly the same thing. The Democrats have taken the house picking up a sizable number of seats. But the Senate remains a tossup with a few undecided seats holding the balance. Concerns of voter fraud have been heard from around the nation as well.

Comment Whole disk (Score 1) 117

by markcic on Monday June 12, 2006 @10:38PM (#15521329) Attached to: Fast File Encryption for Windows?

The real solution is don't encrypt individual file. Encrypt the whole disk including free space. Takes awhile to initially encrypt but not a big performance hit on use.

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