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Your presentation has presenter notes but your MacBook has only one display?

Create a dummy display for the full-screen presentation, share that into the remote meeting/projector, and preserve the primary display for presenter notes, logtails, chat, etc.

The Shaper Origin handheld CNC router makes an impressive attempt at compensating for imperfect frame rigidity, as it's designed to be handheld. The Origin operates in only two axes and uses consumable tape placed on the workpiece as an optical reference, but its progress is noteworthy.

Yes. It's disappointing to hear your friends didn't receive theirs. If they're still interested, there are comments on that Kickstarter organizing an independent production run of the open source design.

Yes. I backed a Kickstarter for the pISO that did this with the Pi Zero. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178023282/piso-the-most...

Open source hardware and software published at https://github.com/ALSchwalm/pISO

As much as I appreciate the privacy-first aims of the GDPR, I think that at some point it collides head-on with property records.

Privacy and property rights are interconnected: after all, what is privacy but the right to do with yourself and your property as you see fit without outside observation/interference?

These rights are sometimes at odds with each other: can you really own property if your ownership is not publicly recorded/recognized?

Judge Story "went on to acknowledge the Georgia situation is 'an unusual case because most official codes are not annotated and most annotated codes are not official.' Despite the fact the OCGA is official law, the judge said its annotations are entitled to copyright. The Georgia General Assembly has made clear 'that the OCGA contains both law and commentary,' Story wrote, and the two are distinguishable."

Removing commentary or replacing with original commentary would abridge the official code.

If LexisNexis should be compensated for the value they added, then the state should pay them for that value, just as they pay the legislators to write the law. The resulting code should be freely available to every citizen bound by it.

If the settlement is not greater than the gain of the fraud, it looks more like a cost of doing business than a penalty.

Bias need not be coordinated or conspiratorial to exist in media. Trump and Clinton each have more than twice the earned (free) media coverage than their nearest competitors. The amount each campaign spends on bought media is a small fraction of what is bestowed by news editors and producers.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/15/ny-times-trumps-mamm...

If Evernote integrated Markdown into its mobile, web, and native editors, I would be much closer to an ideal. It's early, but Classeur shows potential to fill this gap.

I tried http://Marxi.co, the so-called "missing Markdown editor for Evernote," but had enough syncing issues during the brief ten-day trial to put me off purchasing a subscription.

There's also a Sublime plugin that offers two-way Markdown conversion into Evernote, but I only have Sublime as a native app, not on mobile or web. https://github.com/timlockridge/SublimeEvernote

Perhaps with Evernote's renewed focus on core product, they'll take a look at improving the experience of the text editor.

The Plex app on the Amazon Fire TV (and stick) is fantastic. I'm a big Plex fan, but I don't immediately see any incremental benefits to running Plex Media Player, or why I would dedicate a Raspberry Pi 2 (much less a Mac or Windows box) to my TV for the purpose.

park.io discloses that they buy some names for their own portfolio. Whether disclosure makes it appear less disingenuous is in the eye of the beholder.

In their FAQ, park.io writes that one of the reasons an expiring name might not be listed is "because we intend to order this domain for our own portfolio. We don't do this often, but every once in a while there is a domain we want for our own collection and so we do not list it on park.io."

It's dynamic range compression for equity!

Audio compressors have features such as "soft knee," which gradually eases into compression over the threshold. Easing into the threshold might be a beneficial complication to the idea of Progressive Equity.

Biometric EarPods are real -- but the product is called The Dash, made in Munich by Bragi. The Dash monitors movements like pace, steps, cadence and distance as well as heart rate, oxygen saturation and energy spent. Two tiny LEDs emit low intensity red and infrared light into the capillaries in the ear. The optical reflection of the emitted light reveal the relative amount of red and white blood cells more than 50 times every second. A precise heart rate and oxygen saturation level is calculated with the data.

The Dash Kickstarter is already fully funded; I'm a backer waiting with eager anticipation. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellobragi/the-dash-wir...