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  • May 19, 2016 @ 12:48pm

    Why include a wifi dongle?

    The Raspberry Pi 3's biggest advantage o er the 2 is its on board WiFi and Bluetooth.

  • Jan 11, 2013 @ 04:50am

    Re: 3 Strikes

    I know this has not been tested in court, but I consider a single case of copyfraud to be sufficient to revoke ALL of a company's property claims. I act accordingly.

    Civil disobedience is the key.

    Now, to find a big-IP company's office in the Dallas area, so I can move in.

  • Oct 15, 2012 @ 07:54pm

    The program worked as intended...

    This program was never about getting terrorists.

    99% of "terrorist plots" are hatched by the US Government. (Remember all those FBI-created phony bombs? Do you really think they never plant a real one?)

    This program is about turning us against each other. It's about turning us into snitches who rat out our neighbors, friends, and family members.

    This program has turned millions of Americans (the new Germans) into good little NAZIs that rat out their Jewish neighbors to the Gestapo.

  • Nov 02, 2011 @ 01:10pm

    IBM falsely accused me of Piracy

    I'll never forget one time when I was a student at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA.) I did an on-campus interview with IBM. This was sometime in the late 1990's. The female conducting the interview asked me if I paid for my operating system, and I told them no, that a buddy burned a copy of Slackware 3.4 for me. (It's weird that I still remember the version number, but I can describe the black skirt and top the chick conducting the interview was wearing - this is seared into my memory.) I offered to boot my IBM ThinkPad 500 and demonstrate it, especially some of my hand-written networking drivers...but I was cut off. She started screaming at me that I was a pirate because I didn't pay money for my operating system. I was literally (physically) thrown out. One of my text books was destroyed, but the ThinkPad 500 survived. It was a tough little sucker. I am boycotting IBM to this day. IBM's use of Linux in their web platform is unacceptable, given their previous stance on Linux.

    A random note about the laptop...it was a 486SLC2-50, with 4MB of RAM that I upgraded to 12MB, and a 2.5" IDE hard disk...maybe a 70MB, 120MB, or 170MB...I forget. That little thing's screen was dim under fluorescent lights, but it let me hack code for years. It managed battery ejection through software, so it could hang up an a white screen and refuse to let me eject the battery. I'd have to let it run for a day or so until it ran down totally, then recharge it to eject the battery. If I started recharging it too soon, it would still be hung and would not eject the battery.

  • Oct 25, 2011 @ 09:18am

    Let's do the math...

    So, there were 10,000 people at one event on one day.

    That even was held for 6 years.

    That's the equivalent of one person spending 60,000 days (over 164 years) somewhere.

    And one person died.

    It seems like raves are the safest place to be.

    Now, the one teenager who died had drugs in her system. I'm sure that no teenager has ever taken drugs except at a rave, right?

    I'm tempted to say: If our politicians were numerically literate, we would not have to put up with this.
    But, the truth is that they know exactly what the numbers are. They are not mistaken. They are not stupid. They are evil.

  • Oct 20, 2011 @ 01:14am

    PayPal's Business Model

    PayPal's business model is allowing small people to get a little bit of success, then stealing their money. I've lost hundreds to PayPal's theft. When will we shut these criminals down?

    --Prof Allen

  • Aug 08, 2011 @ 01:54pm

    Re: Re: Ice, well erm.. melts?

    Eplosives are commonly liquids or gels. (I have a hunch that) freezing them would screw up their explosive properties, even after they thawed.

    Therefore, frozen gel packs are allowed. Thawed gel packs are not.

    Yes, it's absurd.

  • Aug 08, 2011 @ 01:47pm

    Re: Re: Who is the bigger threat here?

    > IANAL, but wouldn't confiscating insulin from
    > someone who needs it medically be a criminal
    > offense? Knowingly taking it would (I assume)
    > mean that you knowingly put someone at risk
    > of dieing or at the least cause a serious
    > medical issue.

    As a Type 1 Diabetic, I consider it attempted murder.

    --Prof Andy

  • Aug 08, 2011 @ 01:44pm

    Re:

    > Flying is a privilege not a right.
    > take a train/drive or
    > call ahead and research the screening procedures.

    All the means of travel you suggested are "privileges." You can be searched getting on a train. Your car can be searched while you are driving.

    As for calling ahead, that will result in someone who doesn't care lying to you.

    --Prof Andy