Recent content by michaelzehr

They've been doing that in Boston (with normal, not LED lights) for decades. Old Hancock tower has coded weather info: Steady blue, clear view. Flashing blue, clouds due. Steady read, rain ahead. Flashing red, snow instead. (or in summer, Red Sox game is cancelled) As for the other ideas, the...

I'm more concerned about why the governments are wanting to see it (rather than ordering that it be destroyed immediately). Google doesn't care what you do online as long as they can market ads to you... governments, on the other hand, sometimes do care what you do online.

Dreadfully sorry old chap, but this simply won't do. Neither Sir Roger nor myself would ever be seen giving a power point presentation with our sleeves flopping around in the wind.

segio526Looks like they're missing a great opportunity. Imagine a Yankee Stadium App. Batter's up, and boom, on your tablet you're seeing all their stats ... After bad plays or bad calls the app would pick from a list of heckling shouts and display one. By coordinating several iPads in the...

Following up what others are saying, I'm not at all clear the benefit of putting them over the road outweighs the cost of the arch. If the idea is to make use of public right of way, put them on the side of the road, on lower/cheaper poles. That's an awful lot of concrete with the only benefit...

If it can wake up my son and get him dressed while I hit "snooze" I'll buy it! But this is pretty cool. Might be nice to have a text to voice to read off the appointments too. "You have a call with MegaCorp at 9am and you're reviewing the ROI figures with John at 2pm. Don't forget tonight is...

I don't see this as a viable plan, at least not for me. Every now and then I stumble into a show in the middle and want to go back, or I want to rewatch something. (I watched "life" again for the reason, and to try to follow the clues in the long-term plot better.) I prefer watching a set of...

Many states have a law that if you find something with a value over some limit (like $100), you need to report it to the police. "Finders keepers" only applies after a period of time for the owner to report it lost to the police. Even if California doesn't have a law like that, there's likely...

Smaller and with higher resolution than the FlyCamOne, a camera used by model airplane and rocket hobbyists, and also advertised as a kite cam. I don't see the weight listed (which is crucial for rocket applications). One plus the flycamone has is the ability to set it to continuous record...

Changing the router's SSID works for some people but not all... but it's better than telling users to rewrite the wi-fi stack so it works. Maybe I'm being optimistic, but I'm assuming they're going to be doing that, but are offering a workaround for some people in the meantime. To put this in...

When I read the headline I thought maybe they were going to use them on their space probes, so the probes would keep going faster and faster as they head out to the planets! But seriously, isn't it more likely they need a 3rd party, very careful code review? It seems like interference would...

Another word: alternative. Sorry, pet peeve of mine. Alternate means to switch back and forth; alternative is a different choice or option.

It's easy for something to be the "fastest growing" according to tracking data -- simply start tracking something that didn't used to be tracked! As for how dangerous it is, every time a study is done on the number of registered sexual predators on a given site, network, etc., the prevalence is...

Hope no one patents the idea of getting a business partner to file retaliatory lawsuits...

I've always lived by the rule that I shouldn't be surprised if everything I do online ends up on the front page of the newspaper the next day. (Although with newspaper readership what it is these days, that's keeping things pretty private!) As for looking at all of a user's cookies, the...