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See also nationalparktypeface.com which has a similar asthetic and motivation.

That question is as impossible to answer as "if I started an apple orchard how profitable would that be".

Making legal tax evasion accessible to the masses may be the only way to get the government to close those loopholes.

Isn't that making a decision for you? "users will only ever need to install software from our central app store" is deciding for the user that they don't need to be able to run wha…

I suppose they mean taking Apple's "We know what is good for you better than you do" approach. While Apple currently does not force OS upgrades, they do make a lot of decisions for…

About a year ago I was living in a place with a broken doorbell so I wrote a web page that would send me a text when it was loaded (hosted on my Pi). I then printed a QR code for t…

Don't forget the people like myself with learning disabilities that require tech to organize and communicate. If schools were more willing to accept students who needed to use tech…

What an amazing thing to put in a EULA. Are they somehow sponsored by China?

What about option 2.5? Rather than hack the hardware, hack the software; buy a cloud-synced scale and sniff the traffic it sends out with the pi.

GPU's are really good at parallel tasks such as calculating the color of every pixel on the screen, or doing the same operation on a large dataset. According to Newegg, the GTX980 …

Can someone explain why this is not just something that Microsoft should patch in windows? i.e how is this not just a windows vulnerability that you can use TrueCrypt to take advan…

Why are you trying to teach me English? This teacher should be arrested for trying to overthrow the government... What is the "broader explanation" for this English textbook?

Honestly it is stuff like this that Bitcoin would do amazing for if it had wider adoption. Scan the screen or click a button, send $0.10 your way, images appear. No muss, no fuss, …

I agree. Here is what I would do: Train cat to attack a laser point (easy) Place ball next to target and point laser at ball and hope that it gets knocked in. When it does, reward …

Using RFID to detect the presence of the balls feels like overkill. Why not a light sensor, or a hair trigger switch out of reach of the cat. Sure The cat can now be fed by finding…

The limiting factor is going to be the speed of light rather than the bandwidth.

That is my biggest thought. If this is oriented to hackers, let me own the thing so I can do some really cool stuff with it.

For those of you wondering, it is due to weather concerns: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32955880 They will continue when the conditions are better.

I had a book of chindogu from at least 10 years ago. They had an invention that looked shockingly like the jump camera. Here is an image which shows a scan of a few of the images i…