elerran - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Do you really need a R&D lab for this ?!? (Score 5, Funny) 175

by elerran on Monday April 04, 2016 @06:55AM (#51836771) Attached to: Electric Fork Simulates a Salty Flavor By Shocking Your Tongue

when I was a kid I wore braces. I also tested batteries with my tongue. One day I decided to connect a 9V battery (the one with the poles side by side) with my braces, to see what will happen. One pole on the upper side, the other on the bottom. There was a big shock, my field of vision became bright white for a split second, and I never tested batteries with any part of my face ever again.

Comment space elevator failure (Score 1) 98

by elerran on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @05:38AM (#46765273) Attached to: Google Looked Into Space Elevator, Hoverboards, and Teleportation

After reading the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, I think when talking about the space elevator, we should always consider what happens if (when?) it fails. Space fountains seem much more appealing.

Comment Re:Viable Replacement? (Score 5, Informative) 242

by elerran on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:32AM (#46684183) Attached to: Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS

Been very happy with https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffreedns.afraid.org%2F ever since dyndns deleted my free domain because I didn't login to their website once a month.

Comment De-escalation (Score 1) 242

by elerran on Thursday February 28, 2013 @11:25AM (#43034643) Attached to: China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks

From world war to cold war to cyber war. Can't say I don't like the trend...

Comment Re:Years of appeals (Score 1) 330

by elerran on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:01AM (#29185273) Attached to: Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision

We'll be using quantum computers before the appeals run out.

Will they run linux?

French Three-Strikes Law Ruled Unconstitutional 195

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @02:04PM from the note-that's-the-french-constitution dept.

An anonymous reader was one of several to write with this news: "The French 'Conseil Constitutionnel' just ruled that the recently voted 'Hadopi' law, which enforces a 'three strikes and you're out' system, is actually unconstitutional [article in French; here's an English-language article at Ars]. They mainly make two points: 1) They argue that removing Internet access is equivalent to hindering a person's freedom of speech, and as such can only be decided by appointed judges. This removes all punitive power from the administrative body supposed to enforce the three-strikes rule; all it can do now is warn you that 'they're watching you.' 2) When illegal filesharing is detected, users have to prove their innocence. This is obviously contrary to the constitutional principle of presumption of innocence."

Comment Re:Did the author not watch the movie? (Score 1) 436

by elerran on Monday January 19, 2009 @06:14PM (#26521187) Attached to: The Science and Physics of Back To the Future

That would only make sense if Einstein kept moving with the same speed for the same amount of time with the time we was "time-traveling". This wouldn't be time traveling. just traveling separately. Also, without gravity, Einstein would just fly out to space

Twenty Years of Dijkstra's Cruelty 727

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:46AM from the pleasant-legacy dept.

WatersOfOblivion writes "Twenty years ago today, Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest computer scientist to never own a computer, hand wrote and distributed 'On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science' (PDF), discussing the then-current state of Computer Science education. Twenty years later, does what he said still hold true? I know it is not the case where I went to school, but have most schools corrected course and are now being necessarily cruel to their Computer Science students?" Bonus: Dijkstra's handwriting.

Comment Re:Very insightful point made in article (Score 1) 939

by elerran on Friday August 29, 2008 @11:27AM (#24795379) Attached to: Comcast To Cap Data Transfers At 250 GB In October

Wow. I live in Greece, and the belief here is that we are very backwards in terms of broadband. Affordable ADSL has been around for about 3 years, but now most people can get a 24mbit connection by a variety of providers, for around 20-22 euros. I suppose this is something around $30, so I guess it's pretty close to your example. I'd thought that, given that broadband was adopted in the US a LOT earlier than Greece, prices over there would be much cheaper.

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