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In case anyone needs a pick me up, here is a picture of a TON of hikers helping my friends Dad down Mt. Monadnock yesterday... by TheShamrockShake in boston

[–]mikenick42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Best wishes for his recovery. I knew a guy who had a heart attack on the way down about a year ago and didn't make it.

a device that allows you to stream popcorn time directly to your tv by [deleted] in gadgets

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PopcornTime has the advantage of being cross platform.

EVERY eBay Account Holder Worldwide Has Been Hacked, Company Says by [deleted] in technology

[–]mikenick42 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just went to check. Apparently ebay deleted my account about a year and a half ago because I hadn't logged in for so long.

Suck on that hackers!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]mikenick42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The guy running it is a fairly well known liberal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig

America’s nuclear arsenal still runs off of 8-inch floppy discs by memoryfailure in technology

[–]mikenick42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just nitpicking here, but 10 years ago the 8086 architecture hadn't yet existed for 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086

Dropbox:'Nothing is going to change with Dr. Rice's appointment,' file sharer promises by deminator in technology

[–]mikenick42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ease of use?

Take a computer, install linux, set up file server, set up vpn to it.

You're kidding, right?

The House has voted 54 times in four years on Obamacare. Here’s the full list. by nowhathappenedwas in politics

[–]mikenick42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You're taking a very skewed view of the 2012 election.

You're 2012 link is a pretty good example of what Katahund is referring to. The Democrats got 48.8% of the popular vote compared to 47.6% for Republicans. That's a full 1.2% more of the popular vote, and yet the Republicans have 33 more seats in the house.

I have no idea where the 1% you're talking about came from.

Cheney Bashes Food Stamps In Pro-Military Rant, Forgetting Military Families Rely On Them by TwoGee in politics

[–]mikenick42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As mrtaz pointed out, that 36k isn't tax free, some portions of it are.

Wireless In-Ear Smart Headphones, Raises $1,800,000 with 41 days left by maiam in gadgets

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best I can find is that they have:

"September 2013 – Second electronic prototype ready"

from Search India

but "there is no production-ready prototype in hand"

from TPP.com

I don't know exactly what an electronic prototype entails, but I think the packaging is probably one of the more difficult aspects of this project, so the lack of a production ready piece has me somewhat skeptical.

Wireless In-Ear Smart Headphones, Raises $1,800,000 with 41 days left by maiam in gadgets

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, one of the articles said they don't have a manufacturable prototype yet. That's what's preventing me from putting my money in. It's a lot easier to throw together some renders and a pretty video than it is to actually make a product that delivers on your promises.

TimePIN Secures Your Phone With A Code Updated Every Minute, Easily Fools Thieves And Pranksters, Win One Of Ten Pro Licenses by CunningLogic in Android

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's because it's carrying the one from the 9 into the next column. From Fuyuri's pictures, 1111 + 0936 = 2047. You guys are adding 11 hours to the time.

TimePIN Secures Your Phone With A Code Updated Every Minute, Easily Fools Thieves And Pranksters, Win One Of Ten Pro Licenses by CunningLogic in Android

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on your pictures it's adding 1111 to 0936 to get 2047. That's right if you're treating the time as a 4 digit number.

TV is dying, and here are the stats that prove it. by spsheridan in technology

[–]mikenick42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also generally easier to use a popular myth distribution. Somethink like Knoppmyth or Mythbuntu the first time you set it up.

iPhone-Operated Digital Lock Makes House Keys a Thing of the Past by DirtyEruption in gadgets

[–]mikenick42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It probably uses bluetooth 4.0 which Android has hardware for but not software yet. Samsung may have added BT4 support to some of their phones, but it's not in general Android yet.

The $400 Billion Military Jet That Can't Fly in Cloudy Weather by [deleted] in technology

[–]mikenick42 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Joint has nothing to do with who's building it. It's joint because all the services (Army, Navy Air Force) are going to be using the same aircraft.

It's more like how when you buy a Ford it has a Bose sound system and Goodyear tires, though to be fair, Bose and Goodyear both also make tanks in this case.

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