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Comment: Re:Most common recycling programs (Score 1) 260

by Splat (#43196529) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity?

The point is - you have to be dirt poor to not be able to save up $250 to buy a desktop computer or used laptop from the pawn shop. If you can't afford that, then you can't afford internet access or electricity or backup storage media to use a computer, of any kind, and you would get more done by simply getting a smartphone. If the donation thing just makes you feel good about yourself, buy a new computer and donate that.

You... don't really understand poverty much, do you? There are discount Internet connectivity programs (Comcast Internet Essentials) that can get you online for $10 if you are below certain income criteria. Even if you're having trouble paying your electric bill, you can get help with that too from most utility companies.

Comment: Re:This depends on the use and purpose (Score 1) 282

by Splat (#43196505) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content?


There is no "proper", or "best practice" place. Your two questions are entirely dependent on your use-case scenarios. If you want to block flash scripts on your kids browsers, do it host level at the OS. If you are dealing with a gigantic 2000 employee office campus, then you'd want to probably handle that centrally on a giant honking appliance/router designed for it where you can centrally manage policy.

But ... you can flip both scenarios blocking mechanisms I just mentioned and they'd still work. "Proper" can be entirely subjective based on what you're trying to accomplish and other factors involved

Comment: Re:2006? (Score 1) 260

by Splat (#43172443) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity?

A full, true, Raspberry pi setup that could replace a computer (including a case + power supply + sd card, etc) will run you around $85. There's not $85 of scrap value in an old P4 unfortunately.

ExtremeTech did an article on this:

There's been many valid points made here about the long term costs of power consumption versus the short term upfront costs of new hardware investment. Unfortunately the issue with most non-profits is they don't have the upfront capital to invest in say 50 Raspberry Pi systems, but they can easily spread out the power consumption over the long term of 50 P4's (as inefficient as they are - agreed!) through operating expenses.

Comment: Re:2006? (Score 4, Insightful) 260

by Splat (#43171665) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity?


Comment: Qualified to comment ... (Score 2) 425

by Splat (#42376113) Attached to: Has Lego Sold Out?





Comment: Re:Actually closed-blob free? Re:Except that it's (Score 1) 152

by Splat (#42320187) Attached to: Open Hardware and Software Laptop

horseshit.... how many netbooks/tablets/convertibles/whatnot have a RPi header + many servo/motor PWM capable controllers?

I can count them on no fingers.

So you're going to do what with this, put your entire laptop onto an RC Plane? No, for that you'd use a Pi, Arduino, or any more appropriate form factors. Same on a RPi shield - are you going to cut a hole in your keyboard for the shield to stick out?

Comment: Easier then you think (Score 1) 368

by Splat (#42253779) Attached to: Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap

I've looked into this myself. I have an associates and have been slowly chipping away towards a Bachelors for years. http://www.degreeinfo.com/forum.php has a lot of good resources on this, but basically you can hack together credit from a combination of CLEP, DSST, among other equivalency testing, and then transfer them into one of the friendly-towards-this-kind-of-thing schools like Excelsior or Thomas Edison State college.

I was actually enrolled in Thomas Edison prior to knowing about this, slogging away at online courses. After learning about this "hack", and even figuring out a sure-fire way to a Bachelors degree in like 6 months, I didn't do it and I now haven't continued any further with Thomas Edison. For some, having a "BS" or "BA" in and of itself might be worth it, but for me the whole idea/thing just made the online degree seem like a joke if you can test your way out of an entire degree basically
