orkysoft - Slashdot User

Comment Re:nothing is such a wacky idea (Score 1) 379

by orkysoft on Friday January 11, 2013 @10:25PM (#42564841) Attached to: Crowd Funding For Crank Physics

I'm gonna patent the S-crank.

Comment Re:It has been scientifically tested. (Score 1) 379

by orkysoft on Friday January 11, 2013 @10:22PM (#42564827) Attached to: Crowd Funding For Crank Physics

It doesn't mean it has been succesfully tested.

Comment Re:Low chair (Score 1) 262

by orkysoft on Saturday August 11, 2012 @07:51PM (#40961081) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Position To Work For Long Hours?

I agree that the keypad on 15" laptops is absolutely retarded. Fortunately, the smaller laptops don't have it, and 14" isn't that much smaller than 15".

Comment Implied consent (Score 1) 86

by orkysoft on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @10:43AM (#40143189) Attached to: 64 Complaints Received On UK Cookie Law

So, if your browser is configured to keep cookies, does that imply consent to place cookies?

If you configure your browser to disallow cookies from certain sites, you're denying consent, and it doesn't even require the sites to be changed at all.

So, why does this law exist again? It looks -1, Redundant to me.

Comment Re:You have a child every 3 months? (Score 1) 321

by orkysoft on Saturday March 31, 2012 @10:46AM (#39534403) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where?

Unless he has 3 wives.

Comment Re:Public (Score 1) 321

by orkysoft on Friday March 30, 2012 @03:33PM (#39527893) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Store Umbilical Cord Blood — and If So, Where?

Why not burn it and say you tossed it in a cheap walk in freezer?

Submission + - City of Boston pays $170,000 to settle landmark case involving man arrested for (aclum.org) 1

Submitted by

Ian Lamont

on Tuesday March 27, 2012 @04:16PM

Ian Lamont writes: "The City of Boston has reached a $170,000 settlement with Simon Glik who was arrested by Boston Police in 2007 after using his mobile phone to record police arresting another man on Boston Common. Police claimed that Glik had violated state wiretapping laws, but later dropped the charges and admitted the officers were wrong to arrest him. Glik had brought a lawsuit against the city (aided by the ACLU) because he claimed his civil rights were violated. According to today's ACLU statement:
As part of the settlement, Glik agreed to withdraw his appeal to the Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel. He had complained about the Internal Affairs Division's investigation of his complaint and the way they treated him. IAD officers made fun of Glik for filing the complaint, telling him his only remedy was filing a civil lawsuit. After the City spent years in court defending the officers' arrest of Glik as constitutional and reasonable, IAD reversed course after the First Circuit ruling and disciplined two of the officers for using "unreasonable judgment" in arresting Glik.
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Comment Re:How far do we go to fight terrorism? (Score 2) 189

by orkysoft on Sunday February 19, 2012 @11:41AM (#39092985) Attached to: UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext

Does anyone remember the time when the IRA used to regularly perform bombing attacks in Britain? The government didn't react this way back then. They could have gone all DDR, but they didn't. So why now?

Comment Re:A classic example... (Score 5, Insightful) 419

by orkysoft on Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:49PM (#38511300) Attached to: PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade

Yes, but the real question is, did they sack those responsible for hiring this guy?

Comment Re:You still can't have your pudding... (Score 1) 215

by orkysoft on Saturday December 24, 2011 @06:16PM (#38485272) Attached to: Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding

Except here it's done by a machine! Progress!

Comment Re:You still can't have your pudding... (Score 5, Funny) 215

by orkysoft on Saturday December 24, 2011 @11:07AM (#38482228) Attached to: Face-Scanning Vending Machine Denies Children Access To Pudding

That is pretty childish behaviour.

Comment Re:Nothing to see here (Score 1) 5

by orkysoft on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @03:07PM (#38439086) Attached to: how to pirate slashdot

Slashdot doesn't seem to mind about Slashdot.jp: Slashbox preview for Slashdot.jp, but I don't know about solidot.org. If you scroll down, they link back to Slashdot.org, but also to a site about an "anticancer herb", which sounds shifty. Also, one of the article submitters, whose names links to Solidot.org, and so is probably a site editor, is called Blackhat :-P

Comment Nothing to see here (Score 1) 5

by orkysoft on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:39AM (#38434200) Attached to: how to pirate slashdot

They're just Slashdot-like websites that use the same code and theme. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery and such...

http://slashdot.jp/

Comment Re:Doesn't Matter if you have a FB account (Score 1) 216

by orkysoft on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @06:57PM (#38154070) Attached to: 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook

Yeah, well, what if you don't have an email address?

New Algorithm Could Substantially Speed Up MRI Scans 115

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @06:01PM from the algorithms-what-can't-they-do dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a paper to be published in the journal Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, researchers detail an algorithm they have developed to dramatically speed up the process of producing MRI scans. The algorithm uses information gained from the first contrast scan to help it produce the subsequent images. In this way, the scanner does not have to start from scratch each time it produces a different image from the raw data, but already has a basic outline to work from, considerably shortening the time it takes to acquire each later scan."

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