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Comment Re:I've been trying feedly (Score 1) 335

by St. Arbirix (#43974941) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader?
Because there is no website. See here.

When I first started using Feedly it was just a shiny veneer over Google Reader and it kind of still is. Notice that without the extension there's no login on their site. They've assumed your feed information from Google Reader into their extension, but they haven't yet produced a version that they can host. They probably didn't have hardware that could handle their user base offline before Google announced Reader is shutting down. The way the extension currently works, you could probably host feedly.com from a laptop.

Comment simple really (Score 0, Offtopic) 504

by St. Arbirix (#26436331) Attached to: Internet Communications While At Sea?

As someone who provides satellite internet access to all manner of land- and sea-faring vessels I can offer special insight into how easy it is to rectify your problem.

All you have to do is quickly finish off that degree. But be quick because the US Navy's Officer Candidate School takes 12 weeks and you need to get in and out of that before that new semester starts. While that's going on you need to win over as many people on Congress as you can. Your best bet is to start an internet campaign before joining. Then when you get out you can have Congress rush through your appointment to admiral. Two-star at least.

It's that simple.

Once you've gotten through all that you're pretty much guaranteed a decent internet connection throughout your travels. Unless someone like me accidentally pulls a patch cable or something (which was an unfortunate accident and given the involved general's reaction not one I'm likely to repeat).

Comment Re:doesn't work? (Score 1) 502

by St. Arbirix (#23609931) Attached to: Microsoft Urges Windows Users To Shun Safari
Pages that automatically wait several seconds before starting a download work, which seems to be what Microsoft is talking about. On IE at work you'll get a popup asking if you actually want to download. In Safari it just downloads. Sourceforge.net uses this sort of mechanism.

On OSX you get a warning when you run a downloaded application for the first time. Firefox apparently knows how to activate that feature in Windows, but I'm guessing Safari doesn't.

Open-Government Technique Used on Iraqi Documents 243

Posted by Zonk from the you're-not-busy-this-week dept.
stalebread writes "MSNBC has an article looking at an internet-based 'many hands make light work' approach to data sifting. From the article: 'The federal government is making public a huge trove of documents seized during the invasion of Iraq, posting them on the Internet in a step that is at once a nod to the Web's power and an admission that U.S. intelligence resources are overloaded. Web surfers have begun posting translations and comments, digging through the documents with gusto.'"

Comment Re:Two hits in the efficiency chain? (Score 1) 246

by buford_tannen (#13759840) Attached to: Splashpower Boasts Wireless Power
By Lenz's Law, the only way that you can get a magnetic field from electric current is to have a current input varying in the time domain (AC).

It's the other way around. The only way you can get electric current from a magnetic field is to have the field input varying in the time domain.

Otherwise how would my MRI magnets produce a magnetic field? (DC current is "stored" on the superconducting coil inside them)
OS X

Journal Journal: I probably should have mentioned this before...

Journal by St. Arbirix

I became a Mac user about four months ago.

$700 on eBay got me a 15-inch widescreen 400Mhz G4 PowerBook with an 80GB harddrive. I've since swapped out the include 256MB RAM for 512MB from my 2GHz P4 laptop.
User Journal

Journal Journal: GMontag, you silly child.

Journal by St. Arbirix

What happens when a friend turns pitiful? I added GMontag as a friend a while back because he said a lot of stuff I generally agreed with and browsing through his posts didn't show any stupidity.

Today he made me his foe. To be fair, I posted this in response to one of his rather uneducated journal entries.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Subtlety

Journal by St. Arbirix

I posted this comment in the latest women in gaming articles. So far it's gone unmodded and uncommented, likely unnoticed.

I was being a sneaky bastard when I wrote it. Let me repost it here with proper emphasis on certain words and phrases. I've stated these points before in women in gaming articles so by the time this one rolled around I was bored of the topic. I had to have fun with it.
User Journal

Journal Journal: bombing run 1

Journal by St. Arbirix

I just spent the afternoon reading through the comments on the London bombing watching N3WBI3 and stinerman bat around some real fuckles. They managed to cover every point I could think of.
Slashdot.org

Journal Journal: slashbuggery

Journal by St. Arbirix

I tried to respond to the article about Rio fighting back against apple. I got this message:

You can't see this story because it's scheduled in the future, where only subscribers can see it.

Weird, but I'm pretty sure I *always* see the articles at subscriber times. Bully for me then.
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Journal Journal: jwz is mad.

Journal by St. Arbirix

I found this LiveJournal entry by Jamie Zawinski (wrote xscreensaver, helped start Mozilla, and now owns DNA Lounge) declaring his hatred for Linux and love for OSX.

I found the footnote particularly hilarious. I'm hoping a Slashdot journal isn't quite what he meant.

Dear Slashdot: please don't post about this. Screw you guys. --JWZ

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