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  1. Re:Wrong conclusions from the data on Embedded Developers Prefer Linux, Love Android · · Score: 1

    I imagine they just want Android for UI design, internet and non RT peripheral interfacing ... mostly the same reasons for wanting Linux.

    No need to handle things monolithically, you can always run a more predictable RTOS alongside.

  2. Re:options? on Embedded Developers Prefer Linux, Love Android · · Score: 1

    TFA has a list of commonly used ones besides from Linux.

  3. Re:Maybe NASA will let others play with it on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Of course whether it's boiling "all that water" or rather just some of it is entirely up in the air,

  4. Re:Produce Bags? on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    Talking about organic food ... given that it's San Francisco I wouldn't be surprised that an increase in organic food consumption (with more use of organic fertilizer with corresponding risks) plays a small part as well.

  5. Re:What was the temperature? on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it could be retrofit, I said it doesn't have to be a problem.

  6. Re:What was the temperature? on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Cold doesn't HAVE to be a problem ... the batteries generate a ton of heat, insulate them and put in a pumped liquid cooling system. If they need to heat up, just shut down the pump.

  7. Re:And ripping that "key" on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    If start/stop button in cars like this are allowed to solely trigger software a MCU it's a failure of both the regulator and the designers.

    IMO there should always be a way to turn off the engine which relies on simple hardware ... connecting some parallel electronics to the start button to detect say a 2 second depression for an emergency shutdown without going through anything more complex than passives, transistors and relays is trivial.

  8. Re:What do we lose? on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    I don't see why a profession which damages women should be outlawed for that reason alone ... I guess these pencil pushers haven't done a menial job in their fucking life. Between chemical exposure and repetitive strain both the duration and quality of my life has been substantially reduced ... all in perfectly legal jobs these assholes have no problem with.

    Is porn an ideal job? No ... so what, most of us have far from ideal jobs.

  9. Re:... but not this time on Facebook Sued By Rembrandt IP For Two Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    "Upon finding for the claimant the court shall award the claimant damages adequate to compensate for the infringement, but in no event less than a reasonable royalty for the use made of the invention by the infringer, together with interest and costs as fixed by the court. "

    The actual royalty rates you have to pay to use a patent officially are not limited to reasonable ones.

  10. Re:Time to haul the red herrings on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    That's what I meant, if it doesn't have sovereignty it's not really interesting ... although Monaco seems a much better idea than Jersey, too many plebs on Jersey with much more political power. Monaco is primitive in some ways.

  11. Lawyers ... habitual liars as usual ... on Facebook Sued By Rembrandt IP For Two Patent Violations · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The way the patent laws work, and have worked for 200 years, is that when someone else uses it—whether intentionally or unintentionally—they owe a reasonable royalty," said Melsheimer. "It's not necessarily a function of bad intent or malicious planning. The notion that the original inventor didn't succeed in commercializing the invention is, legally speaking, not relevant.""

    Patents are absolute monopolies which allow any and all royalty rates ... reason doesn't enter into it.

  12. Re:Congress? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 2

    Well as I said it's non ionising, but the jury is still out on the long term effects of THz radiation ... so patdown it would be, assuming I'd still chose to travel to the US despite it's governments hostility to visitors (and it's own population).

  13. Re:Time to haul the red herrings on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    As I said, be sure to stash some stuff on islands (ie. yachts, precious metals, lots of equipments including a bio-fuel plant etc etc). The revolution might confiscate wealth inside developed nations, but it's unlikely to come to more primitive island states with smaller legislatures and populations which are more easily controlled.

    The plan is austerity, economic collapse and neo-feudalism though ... not revolution.

  14. Re:Congress? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    Oops ... I thought they were both being taken out of commission ... so if I were to travel to the US I'd still have the choice between increased cancer risks and being felt up? (I'm not rich enough to avoid the procedure.)

  15. Re:Congress? on Rapiscan's Backscatter Machines May End Up In US Federal Buildings · · Score: 0

    Cancer risk from non-ionizing radiation actually ...

    The latest research suggests that it's ability to affect DNA is highly dependent on both frequency and specific coding of genes, the evidence is very murky though. I don't think any congress critter and especially not any lobbyist will go through these things though, they are solely for the plebs.

  16. Re:Time to haul the red herrings on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    It has to do with bad news in general ...

    Equities, banks, bonds ... it will all blow up. Own physical stuff ... and be sure some of it is in places out of reach of governments you don't outright own (ie. on an Island) in case the plan for neo-feudalism doesn't pan out and there is a socialist revolution instead.

  17. Re:Just stupid on Bit9 Hacked, Stolen Certs Used To Sign Malware · · Score: 1

    Because admins want to ssh into it with their home laptops they browse for porn with?

  18. Re:Revoke the keys, issue new ones on Bit9 Hacked, Stolen Certs Used To Sign Malware · · Score: 0

    Meh, there hasn't been an OS level remote root exploit in *nix's in eons ...

    Just having a service on a commodity *nix PC which only has a single open port to take data, signs it and spits it out would be secure against network attacks.

  19. Re: Mach-Woodward Effect on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 1

    Windmills heat up the air and slow it down.

    Merely pushing against the universe as he claims doesn't heat anything up, it makes the violation of the first law even worse in fact ... how is entropy increased in the universe by his drive to be able to accelerate the craft and the universe?

  20. Re:FAQ from Dr. Shawyer answers a lot of questions on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 4, Informative

    EM can serve as reaction mass, but it creates very little momentum.

    This shows the problem :

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_photonic_rocket

    PS. with antimatter/matter fuel a photonic drive would make sense.

  21. Re:Mach-Woodward Effect on China's Radical New Space Drive · · Score: 2

    In the case of the LED I'd say you are using the mass of the fuel as a propellant, just a very tiny amount of it (mass/energy equivalence and all). A very inefficient type of drive. A better term for these kinds of drives would be matterless. The propellant is created in situ from the energy released by the fuel in the form of photons.

    It's never going to be efficient though, when you have all that spent fuel you might as well accelerate it and use it as propellant ... always going to give you more bang for your buck (not trivial in the case of nuclear fuel, but still true even there).

    Mach Woodward violates the first law of thermodynamics ... he claims that the energy which goes into the kinetic energy of the craft is extracted from the rest of the universe, if that's not a perpetual motion machine I don't know what is.

  22. Re:Completely Predictable on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 1

    You're there to get a good job too and with the job market as it is you can't really afford being filtered out on GPA.

  23. Re:My Theory on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 1

    Why did Romney lose? People don't like the privileged much any more (Bush got a pass because he could play such an endearing moron).

    It's much better to groom someone who came from relatively humble backgrounds ... they will be hungrier for money and less likely to suddenly go FDR/JFK on you as well.

  24. Re:My Theory on Dozens Suspended In Harvard University Cheat Scandal · · Score: 1

    That's where they went wrong ... if they already had political pull they would have been part of the group who were caught but didn't get suspensions.

  25. Re:Valve Handheld. on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    The Xi3 computers are endorsed by Valve, but they are not the "official" Steambox ... that will only come in 2014.