gotroot801 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Good luck with that. (Score 1) 558

by gotroot801 on Monday October 27, 2014 @09:58AM (#48239985) Attached to: Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet

I wish Google Wallet were that simple. My usual Rite Aid experience has been:

- Pull phone out of pocket.
- Unlock phone.
- Tap phone to NFC reader.
- Unlock Google Wallet.
- Due to poor cell signal in store, app takes a long time to connect.
- Transaction doesn't go through.
- Put phone back in pocket.
- Pull wallet out of pocket.
- Pay with a credit card anyway.

And that was before this week.

China Launches First Willing Manned Mission Into Space 46

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 02, 2008 @02:18PM from the willing-participant dept.

Their program now includes helmets and food.

Comment Re:For the readers from Europe ... (Score 1) 1657

by gotroot801 on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @12:35PM (#23749761) Attached to: 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush

Two Presidents have ever been impeached. Andrew Johnson (succeeded Lincoln after his assassination) and Bill Clinton. Johnson resigned before his Senate trial

No, Johnson was acquitted by one vote. It's in the very article you linked to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment#History_of_federal_impeachment_proceedings

U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders 658

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @12:21PM from the got-a-few-things-to-get-off-of-his-chest dept.

sleeplesseye writes "In a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, Paul McGuinness, longtime manager of the band U2, has called on Internet service providers to immediately introduce mandatory French-style service disconnections to end music downloading, and has urged governments to force ISPs to adopt such policies. McGuinness criticized Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want business model, saying that 'the majority of downloads were through illegal P2P download services like BitTorrent and LimeWire'. He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it', and of being 'makers of burglary kits' who have made 'a thieves' charter' to steal money from the music industry. The full text of his speech has been posted on U2's website."

Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet 516

Posted by Zonk on Monday January 07, 2008 @01:04AM from the they're-doing-science-and-they're-still-alive dept.

Lucas123 writes "HD DVD proponent Toshiba remains defiant that its format will not succumb to the mounting tsunami of support for Blu-ray Discs. Akio Ozaka, head of Toshiba America Consumer Products, said at CES today that he was surprised by Warner's decision." It should also be noted that the HD DVD group has cancelled many of their meetings at CES.

Comment What happened with CD Baby and Snocap (Score 4, Interesting) 93

by linuxbaby on Saturday December 15, 2007 @01:10PM (#21709300) Attached to: Is Shawn Fanning's Snocap melting?

When not on Slashdot, I'm the owner of CD Baby, which was the largest provider of music to Snocap.

Snocap had everything going for them, and could have probably succeeded, but their execution was so bad that it was unbearable.

Check out my What happened with CD Baby and Snocap article, and especially the comments below it, with all these musicians so frustrated that Snocap won't reply to anybody's emails.

The most brilliant idea, with bad execution, is worth nothing.

Congress Creates Copyright Cops 533

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 07, 2007 @08:44AM from the story-you-are-about-to-see-is-a-fib-but-its-short dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Not satisfied with pitiful potential penalties of $150,000 for infringing upon a $0.99 song, Congress is proposing new copyright cops in the "'PRO IP' Act of 2007, specifically the creation of the Office of the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative (USIPER). They also feel that the authorities need the authority to seize any computers used for infringement and to send copyright cops abroad to help other countries enforce US laws. MPAA boss Dan Glickman praised the bill saying that, 'films left costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers and others $18 billion a year,' though Ars points out that it allegedly costs the studios only $6 billion."

Patent Filed for Underwater GPS 236

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 12, 2007 @03:49PM from the under-achievements dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "GPS doesn't work underwater, as the signal cannot reach the satellite from a submersible, but researchers have now patented an add-on to the system that could provide GPS navigation for submarines. A base station is tethered to the sea bed at a known depth and GPS location. A submersible anywhere in the area sends out a sonar pulse to which the base station replies with a signal, giving a GPS position and depth as well as the bearing angle from which the submersible's request arrived. The submersible then uses its own depth, which is easily measured, plus the round trip pulse time and the bearing angle sent by the base, to calculate its own position."

Animation Tool Puts You in the Game 110

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 12, 2007 @03:08PM from the what-fun-is-that dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "A new technique could take a simple body scan and allow a user to upload it and use it as an avatar or game character. Previously an animator would have to create a skeleton inside the model and describe movement capabilities manually. In tests, an inexperienced user could produce the animations in less than 15 minutes."

How Exclusive Will Exclusive Games Be? 58

Posted by Zonk on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:42PM from the not-very dept.

Gamasutra's regular 'Analyze This' column (which gets answers to topical questions from industry analysts) today ponders the exclusivity of next-gen games. With the costs of developing a AAA title ever on the rise, the article seeks out the answer to whether truly exclusive titles (games that are only released on one platform) are a thing of the past. "I feel title exclusivity for [third-party] developers is less important then title differentiation. All three consoles have strengths, and I would advise [developers] to clearly develop with the console in mind, and I would stress differentiation within their titles. This clearly poses a problem for smaller, more financially strapped developers who don't have the budget to develop what is in essence three separate games. - Ben Bajarin, Creative Strategies"

VeriChip Implants 222 People With RFID 306

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @11:43AM from the i-trust-my-ass-chip-to-linux dept.

cnet-declan writes "Anyone remember VeriChip, a company that came up with the idea of implanting chips in humans for tracking them? They've been behind ideas like RFID tagging immigrant and guest workers at the border, and they've persuaded a former Bush Health Secretary to get himself chipped. In this CNET News.com article, we offer an update on how successful the idea has been. It turns out that, according to IPO documents, 222 people have been implanted, with sales revenue of $100,000."

Yahoo Music Chief Comes Out Against DRM 304

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @11:00AM from the getting-on-the-bandwagon dept.

waired writes "It seem that a trend has begun in the music industry after Steve Jobs essay. Now a senior Yahoo chief has spoken out in favor of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' call for major labels to abandon digital rights technology (DRM). It points out that consumers are getting confused and that the Microsoft DRM "doesn't work half the time"."

Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation 223

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @10:19AM from the de-index-belgium-in-retaliation dept.

schmiddy writes "A court in Brussels, Belgium, has just found Google guilty of violating copyright law with its Google News aggregator. According to the ruling, Google News' links and brief summaries of news sources violates copyright law. Google will be forced to pay $32,600 for each day it displayed the links of the plaintiffs. Although Google plans to appeal, this ruling could have chilling effects on fair use rights on the web in the rest of Europe as well if other countries follow suit."

Is Wikipedia Failing? 478

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @09:43AM from the everybody-successful-is-failing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A growing number of people are concerned about where Wikipedia is heading. Some have left Wikipedia for Citizendium, while others are trying to change the culture of Wikipedia from within. A recent essay called Wikipedia is failing points out many of the problems which must be solved with Wikipedia for it to succeed in its aim of becoming a reputable, reliable reference work. How would you go about solving these problems?"

70% of Sites Hackable? $1,000 Says "No Way" 146

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @09:03AM from the money-where-mouth-is dept.

netbuzz writes "Security vendor Acunetix is flogging a survey that claims 7 out 10 Web sites it checked have vulnerabilities posing a medium- to high-level risk of a breach of personal data. Network World's go-to security guy, Joel Snyder, says that percentage is 'sensationalist nonsense' — and he's willing to back that judgment with $1,000 of his own money. In fact Snyder will pay up if Acunetix can get personal data out of 3 of 10 sites chosen at random from their survey list."

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