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Comment Hoarding (Score 1) 309

by _GNU_ (#39977309) Attached to: What do you usually do with old hardware?

In what used to be a walk-in wardrobe when I had a girlfriend living here:
Mac SE (occationally brought out for Tetris, ShufflePuck Café, etc), Mac II, 2xMacIIsi, Mac LCII Mac LCIII, some 68k PowerBooks, PowerMac 6100/60, PowerMac 7200/90, iMac G3/400, b&w G3/400, PowerBook G3/350 iBook G4/1.2, PowerBook G4/1.6...

Sun SparcStation LX with enormous CRT

Couple of random pentium3 laptops, half scavanged hulls of old workstations...

Apple LaserWriter II NT

And of course my C64 with floppy drive, Atari 600XL, MSX and NES..

All in piles..

I need a smaller apartment so I can't keep all of this... or get a new girlfriend ;)

Comment 300M (Score 1) 166

by _GNU_ (#37188968) Attached to: Verizon Makes It Easy To Go Over Your Data Cap

um... the more expensive $20/mo option is ***300M*** ? what the heck are you doing over in that development country you call the states? ;)

I have no problem hitting 300M/day just using the mobile web browser when I'm away from home.... a few gigs on a slow/rainy day.

Not to mention tethering.
Science

Submission + - Why Don't Some People Have Fingerprints? (sciencemag.org)

Submitted by sciencehabit
sciencehabit writes: A small number of people in the world don't have fingerprints. The condition is known as adermatoglyphia, and one scientist has dubbed it the "immigration delay disease" because sufferers have such a hard time entering foreign countries. In addition to smooth fingertips, they also produce less hand sweat than the average person. Now researchers have identified the genetic mutation behind the condition.
China

Submission + - Rare Earth Deposit Discovered in US (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by s31523
s31523 writes: With China having 97% of the market share of rare earth elements, many countries are nervous about being able to get supplies of key elements needed for high tech gear. Quantum Rare Earths Developments Corp. has reported they have discovered a potential huge source of rare earth elements, right in the middle of the U.S. While the USGS reports that the U.S. has an estimated 13 million metric tonnes available for mining (about 1/3 of China's reserves), finding another regular source is crucial to global stability. The potential yield of the deposit, found in Nebraska, could be the world's largest source for Niobium and other rare earth elements. Could this be the next gold rush?

Comment Lasers (Score 1) 174

by _GNU_ (#34507480) Attached to: Equipping a Small Hackerspace?

You could never go wrong with lasers.

Mount mirrors and lenses on a small, sturdy table and have a few beams of 1mW laser bounce around in smoke from a small smoke machine and you'll impress the boss enough to keep your lair. (and job) ;)

Comment My internet bill in Sweden (Score 1, Informative) 89

by _GNU_ (#33482790) Attached to: UN Tech Group Finds Most Expensive Broadband

Including a small extra fee for access the municipal fiber network, for 1 month of 100/100Mbit with no caps or meters what so ever, I pay roughly 1.5 hours of my wage after taxes.. and I'm just above average for "low income".. I pay almost twice that for unmetered mobile 3G traffic on my phone though.. tethered to the laptop the gigs tend to run away so unmetered is the only way. ;)

As far as I've seen from the latest Akamai state of the internet reports, Scandinavia is losing ground to South Korea and some other quickly rising countries... We'll see.. ;)
Education

3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

Posted by samzenpus from the step-away-from-the-candy dept.
theodp writes "A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."
Google

Experts Closing In On Google Attack Coders 141

Posted by samzenpus from the sniff-them-out dept.
ancientribe writes "The targeted attacks out of China that hit Google, Adobe, and other US organizations are still ongoing and have affected many more companies than the original 20 to 30 reported. Security experts now say they are getting closer to identifying the author or authors of the malware used to breach Google and other organizations."

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