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I did a load of background reading on this yesterday so here's some interesting related material. One interesting source is the NASA guidelines for li-ion use in space :
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20090023862_2009023573.pdf

Now NASA I think have a pretty good track record of thinking technologies through carefully... (By the by, did you know that GS Yuasa also have a contract to supply their li-ion batteries to NASA for use in the ISS?)

Also, did you know that prior to the 787 the Cessna CJ4 was the first civili aircraft to utilise li-ion batteries (supplied by a123). In 2011 there was a fire onboard one whilst it was connected to a ground power unit. As a result the FAA ordered all 42 in operation to be changed to conventional ni-cd or lead acid.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-11-01/html/2011-27596.htm

This is interesting as it's similar i.e. on the ground. This of course *could* be coincidental.

Next up are lots of interesting pictures from the NTSB investigation. Much as I HATE to link to the Daily Mail (normally a pretty retarded publication) I couldn't find any other pic sources. Bizarre :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268152/Boeing-787-Dreamliners-burnt-battery-spewed-molten-electrolytes-reveal-investigators.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

And some great source material from the NTSB themselves :
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/boeing_787/boeing_787.html

And the NTSB update on the investigation (including some samples of their cell CT scans) :
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/boeing_787/JAL_B-787_1-24-13.pdf

NTSB Primer on li-ion battery tech :
http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2013/boeing_787/Primer_LIB_Technology.pdf

One of the theories being talked about are the fact that the li-ion batteries that Boieng (via Thales) decided on are based on a lithium cobalt oxide cathode which is old tech and regarded as not exactly the safest variant of li-ion technology out there :
http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=257987
and via a translation :
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tu.no%2Findustri%2F2013%2F01%2F17%2Fher-er-dreamliner-problemet

This EEtimes article has some interesting comments :
http://cdn.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4405441/787-Dreamliner-investigation-probes-battery-charging-electronic

And some info from GS Yuasa :
http://www.s399157097.onlinehome.us/SpecSheets/LVP10-65.pdf

All interesting stuff. Personally I think they shouldn't have been allowed to 'trial' li-ion on such a big aircraft especially after the cessna incident. Trying so many new tricks at once isn't wise - as engineers always say, just change one thing at a time...

Well, judging from the project data sheet for Yuasa batteries (guessing the front and rear ones are similar) the LPV 10 and 65 http://www.s399157097.onlinehome.us/SpecSheets/LVP10-65.pdf, and MSDS of http://www.gsyuasa-lp.com/download/file/fid/112 use a organic solvent (mixture of alkylcarbonate solvents). (like ethylene carbonate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene_carbonate) and that stuff should be solid at room temperature. I wonder how it leaked through the bottom of the battery compartment of the Japan 787? The info does suggest it will burn if you get it hot enough.

This pic got me thinking about an alternate plot where Batty found out about replicants built without limited life span and infiltrated Tyrell corp to recruit Rachel to his cause.

Speaking of fishing I am just learning to fish, anyone with useful how-to links would be greatly appreciated, and yes I have used the google.

Get an e-mail address like ebay-customer-support-for-realz@hotmail.com

Send a zillion messages saying "Our records indicate your account information contains an error please click here and reenter your information."

Make a sort-of realistic looking copy of the site at your chosen URL.

Oh, wait, you meant fishing, not phishing. Sorry.

I run three monitors, allowing access to three unmodified pages simultaneously and spread the "tab-load" across them.

Screenshot

In 1996, I had a PowerMac 4400 (overkill, but one of the few Macs into which you could stick multiple Ethernet cards, 100Base-T on the network) running Vicom Internet Gateway (had Parental Controls and all sorts of nice features). I used to restart that machine every now and then. When the Linksys BEFSR41 arrived, it freed up the PowerMac and I would reboot it every few months just for fun (paired with an original Shark Fin cable modem from LANcity -- seldom restarted that either -- as it was in the basement and the router was in the attic). Eventually bought a Linksys WRT54GS (v2) to use the Parental Controls feature (not perfect, but mostly did what I needed, though that feature is being discontinued). Never restarted that much either (paired originally with a 3Com 3CR29210, later with a D-Link DCM-202, and these days with a Motorola SB5101). This is all on a network with several TiVos, a Win/XP machine, a handful of Macs (mostly MacOS X these days), and an AirPort Express (2 client laptops) and I still don't need to restart it. You probably need to figure out just what is failing by doing some network sniffing? Maybe it's related to the ISP? I've had this gear hooked up to RCN's cable for 7 years with few issues (with the gear itself).

Sadly, those aren't the two worst town names in KY. Jump down to Kentucky http://s88932719.onlinehome.us/townname.htm

I decided to use OpenDNS to get around the Verizon DNS redirects (they even redirected my own domain!). The redirects were very poorly implemented, often times just replacing image sources, other times redirecting entire domains, never consistantly, I found it difficult to do normal web browsing in many cases.

To make matter worse, I decided to set the DNS in my ActionTec router they provided (despite the fact I specifically asked for a dumb bridge ahead of time) to OpenDNS, turns out the ActionTec's are rigged to use ISP DNS anyways, and it's not just the 704s, they sabotage their own equipment!

Since I wanted a dumb bridge and to manage everything with my Linksys to begin with, I ordered an ancient Westel off of eBay. Since doing that and setting everything in my Linksys router everything is smooth. I would have ditched Verizon a long time ago if there wasn't a regional monopoly where I live. Cable wasn't even an option when I moved in, it might be now, but if it is, it's Comcast who isn't any more reputable.

Well, my Rio 300 only worked with Windows/98 on a PC with a Parallel Port. While someone had written some Windows/2000 software for it, I could never get it to work. I don't think Creative ever supported it after 98. I donated it to a local Boy Scout troop when I gave them my PIII machine. Also tossed in my serial port connected Olympus D-320L camera (now there was a great little early digital camera!). I still have way too much old gear, most of it worth not much. Want some?http://s90697863.onlinehome.us/ebay/misc/ForSale.html

In this case, it might be better to call it a "do not kill" switch.

Bwha ha ha ha ! That's actually funny!

But seriously, don't you wish that you could post a link to an image, like this one of ED 209 of Robo-cop lore...

Alas, when it comes to pics, /. is one of the forbidden...

Microwaves: I wish someone had the sense to build one with just a big knob to set the time, a small knob to set the power level (clicking to an off position if you just want to use the timer), and a big start/stop button.

You just described my microwave, which improves on your design by making the door the start/stop button. Basically if the timer is on and the door is closed, the microwave is operating. Very handy when you interrupt cooking to stir or check the contents - simply shutting the door resumes cooking. Pic here (sorry for the quality, it's a cameraphone): http://s87598121.onlinehome.us/images/pic-0003.jpg

Just because the government is regulating something doesn't make it inherently worse off.

we aren't asking the government to do any more regulating, we are just asking them to make permanent (via legislation) and enforcable (the FCC enforces laws, it doesn't create them) what the FCC was doing prior to selling out to AT&T and SBC. net neutrality isn't a new way of doing things. it the way things were always done in the past. the tiered internet is the new way of doing things.

It isn't the regulation that is inherently bad, it is the misuse of the regulation.

now that the FCC is owned and operated by the telecommunications industry, we need congress to pass legislation that makes it illegal to stop the earlier (and more effective) practice of net neutrality.

the "hands off the net" stuff is just astroturf by the telco industry to convince the public to let them proceed with thier tiered internet plans. passing real, and enforcable, net neutrality legislation will stop all providers from creating a slowlane to relegate non-paying traffic to. the bill that would gut net neutrality failed to pass (a win for net neutality), but the AT&T merger went thru, which was a defeat for net neutrality as well.

Ban pharma commercials just like they banned tobacco ads on TV. Synthetic drugs are not the way to go. Our bodies are organic! Does anyone wonder why pharmaceuticals compromise the liver and kidneys? Your body can't handle synthetics. Most drugs are derivitives of herbs anyway, so just use the herbs! You'll be much better off. Here's a company whose products can even help the body cure cancer http://www.new-chapter.com/ - check out the report on Zyflamend. Dr. Katz, The Director of Holistic Urology at Columbia University Hospital confirmed this in clinical trials. Are we so dumb as to be duped by Big Pharma?, who by the way published most of the medical textbooks being used by medical schools. Sound like Medical Mafia to anyone?


Jerry Kilmer
Parsippany, New Jersey
http://www.s104307521.onlinehome.us/thai.html

For technology, I've used a Radio Shack product called "Home Monitor" for about 20 years. It connects to a phoneline, and dials (no tones) a set of numbers you program if the temperature goes past your limits, if the power goes out, if there's too much noise, or if an external switch changes state.

For procedure, we drain the water out of the water supply system, and make sure the low spots in the drains and traps have some environmentally friendly anti-freeze in them.

For the human touch, we use an on-call caretaker who does a walkabout every couple of weeks, and who is on call.

This is where the Harrisville GrassCam has been hosted for the past 6.5 years. I used to put a Christmas candle inside the PC's box to keep it warm over the winter when there's no heat at all, but one winter the bulb burned out and the PC worked just as well, so I don't bother with it anymore.

The US abandoned a simlar plan for a nuclear plant off the coast of New Jersey called the "Atlantic Generating Station."

http://s159443129.onlinehome.us/pdf/ocean_structur es/140e_atlantic_generating_station.pdf

It wouldn't float but it would be offshore.

The site is alternatively hosted at http://s173754370.onlinehome.us/endgame/news.php. The link in the article redirects to this page.

It is back up finally they have Relocated http://s173754370.onlinehome.us/endgame/news.php go get em guys see if we can /. it again :)

New (real) host:
http://s173754370.onlinehome.us/endgame/
http://www.gmworldwar.com/ - coming soon

This is not the same as the previous Google Maps Risk, nor is it the same developer. I was never able to see the original gmRisk, it was taken down before I found it...

Anyway, enjoy, now that it's working.

- JS

http://s173754370.onlinehome.us/endgame/news.php

After a good slashdot thrashin' I decided it was finally time to break down and get a host, at least for this application. Let's just hope I don't use up the 500GB bandwidth too fast...

The way it works is you boot the 'desktop' CD, which runs a live session, giving you a desktop with an install icon on it.

If, for some reason, you don't want to run a live session, you'll need the alternate CD, yes.

Here it is: RetroFind.

My first grenade throw in the original FarCry: http://s133761904.onlinehome.us/FarCry0000.jpg If you're wondering, the guy's foot is stuck between the pipe and the wall.

Realistic? Not at all. Amusing? Undoubtedly. :)

check out my brand new design:
http://s87360432.onlinehome.us/slashdot.html

After reading the rules, like the one that says 'echo the current layout' and 'use the same font' and 'dont change the graphics' - I REALLY think taco will pick my new layout. New laptop, here I come!!

That's an understatement.

One day when I was bored a compiled a list of all of the differences between American English and UK English.

http://s95353305.onlinehome.us/british

Some may be old or unused...

I dunno... At first, I just knew of their one song, but I kinda got to liking Jacob's Ladder (v.2) recently, so I wonder if I'd like some of their other stuff.

Even if you don't care much for anarchist politics, an anarchist-leaning band seems a lot more likely to give away free music and support p2p. ;)

I dunno... At first, I just knew of their one song, but I kinda got to liking Jacob's Ladder (v.2) recently, so I wonder if I'd like some of their other stuff.

Even if you don't care much for anarchist politics, an anarchist-leaning band seems a lot more likely to give away free music and support p2p. ;)

I'll go one step further - first, the search box doesn't belong on the bottom, but secondly - find-as-you-type itself should be a user-disablable option.

In the meantime, I use Retrofind as my solution to the problem. Retrofind is a Firefox extension that replaces FAYT with the old-school semi-modal dialog box.

If I'm 37 PgDn keypresses into a long SlashFark thread, and I see that someone's replying to user "foobar", and I want to find the original comment, I do not want to see the browser window jump up to 32-PgDns (landing on "foo", "fool" or "foosball") when I type "foo", only to land on the 28-PgDn level of "foobar"'s post.

Why not? Because it's bloody hard to remember that I'm 37 PgDn keypresses (or 37% of the way through the scrollbar, etc) into the thread when I just wanted to "Find 'foobar'". If "foobar" doesn't exist (maybe it was a typo, maybe it was beneath my moderation threshold), but "foo", "fool", or "foosball" does, I've now completely lost track of where I was in the thread. I want to navigate if, and only if, the string exists - and I want to do it when, and only when, my eyeballs and brain are expecting it.

Those are the most egregious examples, but the more I tried to use find-as-you-type, the more I decided it wasn't for me. In comparison to the old find-in-page dialog, FAYT felt the web browsing equivalent of auto-focus-stealing, auto-raising windows on the desktop. FAYT is not a bug, but at least for me, it's a misfeature.

I'm curious - am I alone in this opinion?

Post-Nirvana, why don't we call all alternative songs a remix? Post-swing era, why don't we call all Ska a remix? Post-Dizzy Gillespe, why isn't all trumpety jazz a remix?

Sampling used to be a gimmick but now it's the status quo. It is certainly not something to bemoan - it's simply the new norm. This is the digital age and there is a dichotomy between artists and audiences. Artists want to protect their creations, but the audience wants to share and participate.

Anyone who is tired of all the "remixing" in the world is in for a long, arduous ride. Sampling is the new piano. It is an instrument like any other. /.ers should appreciate remixing all the more since it represents the marriage between computers and culture - humanity and machinery.

Rant - Artists who oppose to their work being remixed (musicians, artists, cartoonists, authors, etc.) should be ashamed of themselves. When you release your work into the world, it belongs to the world. Is there any more sincere flattery than the remix\interpretation\fanfiction? We emulate because we love!

Plug - My S3M remix of Send Me An Angel. Don't send me to jail, Real Life.

Note: The first linked pic looks like an A-10 rather than what it is labeled as (F-15)

This guy wasn't.

if you tell it to "Use secure virtual memory."
As evidenced by profiling in Shark, page faults can trigger decryption. I was initially worried--as files in /var/vm/ appeared to contain a uniform 128-bit pattern, I had thought at first that Apple was simply preventing user-space processes from reading them, but this is fortunately not the limit of 10.4's virtual memory protection.

GDS keeps track of your Internet history, so you can actually search (and view) the cached contents (from multiple dates) of the sites you've visited with Firefox or IE. I only use GDS for this function, as I'm organized enough to know where I've put specific files on my HD. I don't use AIM or email much either. It also only searches the first 5000 words of a textfile, so it's useless for my IRC logs as well.

Google Search history keeps track of which pages you've visited through Google, but Google Desktop Search keeps track of every page you visit.

As a sidenote, I discovered that GDS merely takes a system screenshot to generate its website thumbnails.

Indeed. We can also test the Infinite Monkey theorem by making an uncharted desert isle and waiting to see how long it takes to recreate Gilligan's Island.

(Hawai-three? Sounds like a 'clever' film sequel title.)

--
"'Sonic 3 the Hedgehog'? What a dumb title."
"It's 'Sonic the Hedgehog 3'."
"No it isn't. The number's the same color as the 'Sonic', so you read it first."

Most Walmarts sell a converter device that allows you to use any PS2 controller with an Xbox. It's about 20 bucks. I use one so I can play Guilty Gear X2 #Reload on my Xbox with a Hori Real Arcade Pro. Works like a charm.

1. Boot Windows into modified boot.ini
2. Options are Grub or Windows (from c:/boot.ini)
3. Select Grub, Options are memtest, a minimal dos (sorta handy), Windows (iterate) or various Knoppices.

YMMV... I wasted a fair bit of time doing this on an old P2 - 350 I had lying around. A lost weekend if there ever was one!

OMG! It's like a USA Today infographic.

Look for an upcoming slashdot book review on My Pet Goat

here

I seriously doubt I'd be revolted by seeing her naked...

Here is a link for those of you who want to see the phone and don't mind that these particular photos show people wearing clothes. (I'm curious how this website stands up to being slashdotted. :-)

jc

Plus I've mirrored it here, with the author's permission: http://s108450040.onlinehome.us/savingenergy.pdf.z ip. Al asks that I should "let your mirror users know that substantive comments (that is, science based as opposed to political ranting) also welcomed."

OT, but your signature sucks.

Alternate "open selection in new window" that doesn't require waving your mouse around like a Harry Potter wannabe is Super Drag & Go - highlight an url, drag it anywhere on the page and drop it to open it in a new window. Also works with links, images, etc. Extremely handy.

The site is chugging along slowly, but here's a mirror of the two shots on the front page so people can get the gist of the mod.
Front
Back

The site is chugging along slowly, but here's a mirror of the two shots on the front page so people can get the gist of the mod.
Front
Back

http://s92169157.onlinehome.us/img/whiteis.jpg
Mirror 2

Enjoy, and hey at least this post had a point.

Located here, 6 page PDF file

One cool feature mentioned in 4.5 is "iMix", which publishes your playlists to the iTMS for all to see. So out of curiosity, I tried to publish my "top 25 most played" playlist. Out of the 25 songs on the list, only seven were available at iTMS.

Sure, one could argue that I have eclectic taste in music, but on the other hand, they are missing some pretty big names: Radiohead, Frank Zappa, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Chick Corea...

On an unrelated note, I wonder if iTMS is going to start offering lossless files. That would be cool.