punic64 - Slashdot User

Comment Re: so what is porn? (Score 1) 310

by punic64 on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:36PM (#44032859) Attached to: ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014

Sorry, not clear in my post, I rent a room in a house and the landlord pays for the internet access. Will have to explain to them to opt out so that 'we' can make a stand against censorship, if you know what I mean.

Comment Re: so what is porn? (Score 1) 310

by punic64 on Monday June 17, 2013 @03:25AM (#44026815) Attached to: ISPs To Censor Porn By Default In the UK By 2014

will be fun for us in rented accomadation using wireless, having to ask our landlords to opt out. fun times indeed.

Comment Re:passes an even tougher test than acid3 (Score 1) 278

by punic64 on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @01:44PM (#28198451) Attached to: First Beta of Opera 10 Released

Oh, hi. Sorry I didn't recognize your screen name.

I think I found the preference setting that screws everything up. Go to the top of this page (or any story thread page) and click the pen&paper icon in the top right corner. In the 'Viewing' tab there's a setting for 'Enable Dynamic Discussions'. If that's off, you get white on white. If it's on, things look fine. At least for me.

Hi, Followed your suggestions and now it displays the headers correctly, no more white on white. Thanks

Some of the Weirder Ideas From CHI 2009 43

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @10:30AM from the electrooculography-for-100-points-alex dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a roundup of some of the weirder ideas on show at last week's Computer-Human Interaction conference in Boston. They include a trackball that heats up as you roll over different parts of an image, a pair of goggles that track eye movements using electrooculography, and a miniature robot with a cellphone for its head."

Researcher Resurrects the First Computer 149

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 10, 2009 @10:56AM from the how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-randomly-select-the-ways dept.

aleph60 writes "A German researcher is about to resurrect the first fully electronic general-purpose stored-program computer, the Manchester Mark 1 (1948). The functional replica will run the source code of an original program from 1952 by Christopher Strachey, whose sole purpose was generating love letters; it is historically interesting as one of the first examples of a text-generating program. The installation will be shown at an art exhibition in Germany at the end of April." Here is researcher David Link's Manchester Mark I emulator home, which generates a new love poem on each page load. When the Mark I had been used to search for new Mersenne primes in 1949, a press account coined the phrase "electronic brain" to characterize it.

Comment U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever (Score 1) 244

by punic64 on Sunday February 17, 2008 @06:07AM (#22451976) Attached to: U of MI Produces Strongest Laser Ever

For Gawd sake, don't tell the sharks.

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