The mobile site behaves a little odd in one browser or another. Open /. in Naked Browser (the only sane browser on Android), click a story. Now hit the back button. (Not the one on the top. The device back button.) Site is now broken. Also, I'd GLADLY pay subscription fees if you kept content to the upper echelon of intellect. The dumb stories might attract more eyeballs, but you lose the brighter minds that make this site what it was. /. isn't about the stories. It's about the conversation. PS, I don't mind off topic stories (read: not *exactly* tech), long as they're about smart shit. PPS On that note, Markdown is a handy markup language for comments. I know it's not assembly or fortran, but it's good stuff, especially for mobile readers... PPPS Please don't suck. You got this! I believe in you!

Pretty sure the NYSE and airlines don't use AWS for any of their critical infrastructure.

It's certainly some point near the South Pole, since the North Pole hasn't got any earth. I'm not good enough with math to figure it out, but it's some point greater than one mile North of the South Pole such that when you do the one mile walk West, you cross all the longitudes and end up where you started. Then when you walk North again, you're back where you were in the beginning. Why is this more correct than starting at the North Pole? The same reason why Musk thought it better to rely on thrusters broom-balancing a landing rather than a simple parachute: he likes to do things the hard way!

Sounds like you want an iPhone. It does everything you asked for, with the exception of no highpass filtering (it's a limitation of current cell protocol--use Skype if you want greater resolution) and the phone book is sorta built in, but it only functions as a lookup when you receive a call from an unknown number. I use Android, though, so I can't tell you the current state of the iPhone's antenna, but I understand reception is just fine these days.

*hands gameboy* "Here. Either you get at least 20,000 points on Tetris or you're going to jail, pal."

Rated "5, Informative" was enough for me.

What is more clear about, "To page this person, press five now. At the tone, please record your message. When you are finished, you may hang up, or press one for more options. 'Hi, I'm unable to answer the phone right now, but if you leave a message after the beep, I'll call you as soon as I can.'" than "Hi, I'm unable to answer the phone..."?

Are there millions of people paging other people? (On their cellphones that have caller ID and TELL YOU THAT YOU HAVE MISSED CALLS.) And how many people press 1 for more options? Would you say there are more, or less, that press '1', than press the secret key (usually '#') to skip the operator messages?

The messages, while not swindling, are an annoyance to anybody that has operated a phone in the last 20 years.

I say get rid of them. For my sanity, at least.

Fun thing to do with this: convert a raw audio waveform to PNG with his tool, then convert it to JPG (with some modest compression), then back to waveform.

Obviously, it's not going to sound wonderful, anymore, but it's a fun experiment in lossy compression in the audio domain. (Albeit a wholly inefficient and crappy one, but fun!)

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This is different than demos/shareware how?

There was some hullabaloo back when Nintendo first announced the Wii's capabilities because Microsoft had been working on a "magic wand" since somewhere around 1997, I believe. I'm totally unable to find any references, but there WAS a project page hosted by Microsoft which featured (besides an ugly color scheme) photos and text talking about the project/experiment.

Anyone else know what I'm talking about?

I don't know what the fuck you just said, but it sounds good to me.

Rather, I mean NO, it's NOT wrong, and it's already being done with services like LoJack.

Yes, it's called LoJack.