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    Electrical Socket That Forcibly Ejects Inactive Plugs

    I was thinking the exact same thing: Local circuit breaker that pops the offending line out? Perhaps an interesting idea.
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    UK City Forcing Taxi Drivers To Record All Passengers

    I respectfully submit that I have many many friends who have firearms and have not used them on people once. Paper, hard drives, metal plates, critters, and game animals, perhaps, but not shooting people.
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    Creative X-FI HD USB Sound Card Review @ [H]

    Headroom offers a few pieces that do similar things. This is probably the most affordable and flexible: http://www.headphone.com/headphone-amps/amplifiers/headroom-total-bithead.php
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    Download of the Day: Mouse Without Borders

    I'm not certain how this would work seamlessly with Synergy. Effectively what you have is two halves of your laptop monitor surrounding your desktop monitor. I think it could be done, but it wouldn't be a "swipe the mouse across all three monitors" thing. I suspect this Microsoft product will...
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    Download of the Day: Mouse Without Borders

    I'll be the first to admit that configuring Synergy can be difficult. Once you get past the learning curve (The primary one being that you have to set up definitions for both exiting AND entering the server screen), it's a great tool that does something that this new tool can't: Linux and Mac...
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    Download of the Day: Mouse Without Borders

    While this does bring the cool part of cut/paste across the desktops, I've been doing this for years with Synergy. http://synergy-foss.org/
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    Corsair Vengeance™ 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 Memory Kit Drawing

    I'd have a reason to upgrade to 64B Windows 7. :D
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    Corsair Gaming Audio Series™ SP2500 High-power 2.1 PC Speaker System Drawing

    A new set of speakers would be very nice. :D
  9. J

    Stupid Craigslist Criminal of the Day

    Why does it seem that an abnormal number of these kinds of stories come from FL? Full disclosure, I am currently living in FL.
  10. J

    USB Plug For Idiots

    How about a double sided USB fob, where you have $BIGNUM of storage on each side. Think 2 128GB USB sticks in the form factor of one.
  11. J

    Why Do Girl Gamers Get So Little Respect?

    The gaming industry bitches about not being taken seriously, then you have Duke. If you want to really being taken seriously, have more female characters like Alyx from HL2 or (reportedly) Jade from Beyond Good and Evil.
  12. J

    Corsair HS1 Gaming Headset Give-Away - 5 Sets!!!

    Because my office shares a wall with my toddler's room, and the lack of spatial awareness is a problem when playing Half Life 2 or TF2.
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    Researcher Releases Web-based Android Attack

    Perhaps this will give Sony/Ericsson the impetus to update their Xperia X10 to something besides 2.1. Oh wait, it took them an absurdly long time to do THAT... It was running 1.6 up until recently.
  14. J

    TWO MONTHS of Christmas from Galaxy!

    More competition in the video card market is welcome, particularly since the closing of BFG.
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    Google Maps Image of the Day

    My understanding is that the mars rover cameras take photos in 3 or 4 snaps, recording red, green, and blue on separate frames, which get combined when they make it back here. I wonder if the satellite that took these photos may use a similar process?
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    Live from Sony's Google TV Event

    http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/ Looks like it's taking side gigs on top of all the touring currently. :D
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    $2,750 Headphones

    If only everything was so hackable. I was born too late to get into the HeathKit thing. The internet seems to be bringing the hobby back, tho.
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    $2,750 Headphones

    This is true, and part of that is that we all have different levels of hearing damage and none of our ears are tuned the same. If there was a "this will work 100% of the time for everyone" frequency tuning, there wouldn't be nearly so many choices on the market. Sennheiser hits it the closest...
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    $2,750 Headphones

    Won't be from me, but hey, I'm all for provoking a spectacle so that I can sell popcorn to the onlookers.
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    $2,750 Headphones

    You may want to look at the Grado RS1i/RS2i as well then. GREAT cans (from reviews) that are gorgeous. http://www.headphone.com/headphones/grado-rs-1i.php
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    $2,750 Headphones

    Also, bang for the buck (assuming home listening), Sennheiser HD600 kicks almost every other sets of cans around the block. Expensive, but right at the bottom of the diminishing returns. I like the idea of electrostats, but at the end of the day, I can't justify the cost.
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    $2,750 Headphones

    Aaahh... didn't realize that they'd renamed them. They're FAR out of my budget so I don't really keep up. I need to keep the drool off of my shirts.
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    $2,750 Headphones

    No, probably not. Ultrasone has been doing audiophile cans for a few years now.
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    $2,750 Headphones

    I think Sennheiser actually takes the prize for "Most hugely expensive set of cans" with their now discontinued Orpheus model. They went for something like $15k. Supposed to be great, tho.
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    Must See Video of the Day

    "Not to specs" doesn't matter when you're out in the middle of nowhere and/or in a hot zone. ;) Cannibalize enough parts to limp it somewhere else.
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    World’s Largest Augmented Reality Marker

    Since we're talking about augmented reality, I found this to be hilarious: http://en.tackfilm2.se/ Find the funniest pic of a friend and go to town.
  27. J

    Halo 2600

    http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/228/Halo-The-Future-of-Gaming
  28. J

    Friend Request From Grandma?

    I think we've found it. :D
  29. J

    Did Warner Bros. Pirate Antipiracy Technology?

    The only way this could be more funny is to use a scene from a WB movie, as opposed to a Paramount franchise. :)
  30. J

    Microsoft's DigiGirlz Program: A Decade of Inspiration

    If you think they wouldn't be like Jobs and Apple given the opportunity, I have a bridge that you may be interested in...
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    Creative World of Warcraft Wireless Headset Review @ [H]

    Now *that's* a statement that has some meaning to me. I know the Sennheiser HD 555's aren't anywhere near the former flagship HD 580s and HD 600s, but they're a good set of cans. For headphone specific reviews, I generally head to HeadRoom. They build Headphone amps, and test a BUNCH of...
  32. J

    E. Rex Is a 3-Wheeled Electric Hooligan

    But you can't deny that there can be some high quality hoon-age in something like this... E or T versions. :D
  33. J

    Sony to Pull Out of Floppy Disc Market

    Not all of us can flash BIOS from windows. ;) Just sayin'. There's some non-trivial applications for floppies. When I can do BIOS flashes in Linux, I'll give up my last box of floppies.
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    Fastest Book Scanner Ever

    Uh, Google's already at least partially cracked this nut: http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_patent_7508978.html?sc=fb&cc=fp I'm not clear as to the speed, however.
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    Google's Experimental Fiber Network

    To add to this: The communist manifesto states similar goals to the GP: 6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State. I don't really like the way that most cities are set up now either, where a single telco/single cableco typically gets...
  36. J

    Google's Experimental Fiber Network

    /me channels Mel Brooks "Google the FLAME THROWER! All the kids love this one..."
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    Amazon Facing Heat From Third Publisher Over Book Price Issue

    This is crap: I can sell a blank book/CD/DVD all day at the same price of a media release, but no one in their right mind would purchase it. Just because "people" associate the value with a physical medium does not mean the content is worthless. Well.. in most cases... "Dude, where's my car?"...
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    Amazon Facing Heat From Third Publisher Over Book Price Issue

    To say that I "don't get" the idea that value is a human concept would be mistaken: I *do* get that. I happen to think that the general public *thinks* they're entitled to free entertainment all the time. I also happen to think that line of thinking is a complete crock of crap: For most...
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    Amazon Facing Heat From Third Publisher Over Book Price Issue

    From a successful author: http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/563086.html I think she sums up the good and the bad with the current system. No one claims that any of it is perfect. Many claim that "it does work". The fact that the dumb masses think that entertainment or art should be free...
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