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  1. Fake Fake Fake! on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is 100% fake.

    http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storag...
    1: That's not handheld.
    2: That's a CO2 tank.

    He's built a paintball gun and put a bunch of shit on it, then added sparks at the end of it.
    1800 Joules is way over a fucking 44 magnum (1300-1500). Yet if you look at the videos posted, you can see that when he fires at some particle boards nothing fucking happens. The "article" original claimed it was 3,000,000 Joules. LOL!

    If you read the video descriptions on Youtube, he claims:

    WXPR Test 3 - 1" long 0.25" aluminum sabot (1.1g total mass). 1.6kJ caps, 500 psi injector. 36" distance to target: angled 3/4" plywood board with 1/4" mild steel backplate. Made a 1/2" deep indent in target and bounced off. Speed was above 250m/s.

    Successful proof of concept for repeatable shots on the same set of rails.

    So, 1600 J, not 1800. And that tank at 500 PSI is an "injector"? LOL! It's an air gun with some capacitors for no reason!!
    His latest video involves shooting a cantaloupe, because everyone laughed when he couldn't penetrate plywood. He claimed they were "steel backed" plywood boards, but he still barely put a dent in them.

    Here's the cantaloupe: https://youtu.be/t0vCiafjUy8 He allegedly fires at around 1300 J according to his own LCD display. There's an odd cut at 1:51 in the video as well, so I have no idea what he's actually doing. (Watch from 1:49 to 1:52 at 0.25 speed to see the cut). You can watch the shot in slow mo too.

    Here's a 44 magnum shooting a watermelon: https://youtu.be/dYtfq8KdlnE A 44 magnums runs at 1300 J to 1500 J. Do they seem at all comparable?

  2. Re:Wii U's capabilities were notably lower on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have the GC controller or memory card ports, and the console's slot loader won't accept the smaller GC discs.
    BUT it contains all the hardware necessary to play GC games. If you boot into Wii mode you can hack the Wii environment that lives in the Wii U.
    A few homebrew tutorials later and bam, you're playing GC and Wii games on your Wii U via an external USB drive.

  3. Re:Service Dog on Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't even need to be a service dog. Any dog will do wonders for mental engagement.

  4. Re:real confirmation on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's absolutely confirmed by MS's own admission.
    They claim it was a mistake.
    LOL

  5. Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? on Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com) · · Score: 0

    WalMart and Amazon are fucking retail stores, not tech companies.
    I'm not trusting them or their "clouds" with my data.

  6. Re:real confirmation on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\
    Enjoy your forced download.

  7. Re:Forced upgrades on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A National Security Letter will get almost any corporation to play ball.

  8. Re:Broken/missing links? on China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Broken/missing editors?

  9. Re:Still waiting for prices to drop... on Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Or do like me: Stop buying shit that represents only marginal improvements.
    I'm sitting pretty on my 4.5 GHz i7 from 4 years ago. The only thing I feel like upgrading is my GPU.

    Can we please get back to upping clock speed?

  10. Good on Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome (chromium.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "notifications center" is the fucking shit that lives in the system tray 24/7 and spams you when shittysite.com wants to send you a notification, even after you've closed the tab. Websites pushing notifications that you didn't send a GET request for is an absolutely horrid idea, and I hope this is an indication that Google is giving up on it.

  11. smashed window and cut seatbelt sounds like security dragging these people from the vehicle to detain them

    Yes.

    (well within their right to do so)

    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooope.

  12. Re:Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    The election is still over a year away, but the media decided we needed TWO full years of election coverage this cycle.
    Hillary and company fired their campaign machine up the second she quit her job of being Secretary of State. Once the dust on her pitiful legacy had settled, she was suddenly "being asked" about a "potential bid" for the white house. The media jumped at the chance for more ratings and propped up Trump as her main competitor, long before either candidate had formally announced their desire to run, let alone either of the two shithole parties naming them as their candidate.

    Hillary has hated Obama to the very core ever since he was installed as the candidate in 2008. Taking the position of Secretary of State position was to be a stepping stone to her bid in 2016, which would have had the full backing of Obama and the Democrats. She fucked it up so royally that the Democrats needed a backup in case Hillary's incessant scandals didn't go away.
    They didn't, and Hillary was absolutely fucking livid that Sanders was brought out against her for 2016. So much has come out and her behavior as Secretary of State was so ridiculous that Obama has declared full on war against her. The talk of Biden running is a slap to the face for Hillary, and the goal is now to burn her legacy as Secretary of State to kill her chance this round and to run out her clock for any future bids - in 2024 she'll be too fucking old to be electable (in 2020 she'd be going against an incumbent and would need a miracle to win).

    The Republican circus has been getting the most attention because they had their "debate" and because TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, but he and the Republicans are a fart joke compared to the divine comedy that is Clinton and the Democrats. I expect Hillary to lose a LOT of ground over the next month, but she likely won't formally bow out until spring. My guess is she'll burn $125,000,000.00 or more on her campaign before giving up, with a hefty sum being from her own purse (or the foundation's) toward the end.

    Expect the Democrats to move quickly after tonight - Trump's support is starting to worry them so they want to build their platform and attack sooner rather than later.

  13. Re: sTEM on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.
    Feel free to link that shitty comic, but physics is the study of the fundamental mechanisms of the Universe and math is a language that is used to describe things.
    Doing math doesn't result in physics. See string theory.

  14. Re:sTEM on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 2

    Physics is not applied mathematics.
    Mathematics is a language. Physics is a field of study encompassing the fundamental workings of the Universe.

  15. Re:With a $15 dongle? on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'd have a bubble where people were fiddling with their phones because it just crapped out on them.

  16. Re:Snap-tite isn't new on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 1

    They nailed through the wrist, not the hand.

  17. The opposite of a woman is a wereman.
    A man is just a human.

  18. Re:MTU on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And for a 10 Mbps connection you drop the max MTU and split the packets. Routers in the middle of a path can do this.

    Video Streaming Service A sends a 64 KB packet to ISP B over a 100 Mbps link, ISP B knows Customer C is on the Shit Tier package and can handle 10 Mbps, and decides to split up the 64 KB packet into 4 KB or whatever packets, Customer C gets their shit.

    4 KB / 10 Mbps 64 KB / 100 Mbps, no additional jitter. Without even inspecting the traffic to see if it's Netflix or Skype or their own VoIP service, they can control jitter to be no more than the source or no more than some baseline acceptable level.

  19. Re:MTU on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    64 * 1024 * 8 / 2 / 1000 / 1000 = 262 ms worst case, not 328 ms.

    And routers should know the capability of the links and can split up the jumbo frames into multiple packets to let VOIP through ahead without wasting much bandwidth at all. Hell, my shitty D-Link does this - every boot it scans the link to determine connection speed and uses that in its QoS engine.

    Further, the use case in the article is 8 Gbps in a studio environment. They can dedicate the entire link to video. 8 Gbps down a 2 Mbps pipe is never going to happen, so your example is ridiculous on the face of it. They're claiming a ten-fold improvement. So how about an MTU of 16K instead of 1500 or 64K?
    Worst case is 66 ms additional delay on your 2 Mbps link.

  20. MTU on BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If people would just accept a decent MTU none of this would matter.
    The max is 64 K but we're stuck with 1500 (including overhead) because you can't be sure that every hop will support your MTU.
    Internally you can enable jumbo frames and shit will work, but once you need to go out over the internet all bets are off, so you limit your shit to 1500 and your performance goes to all hell.

    We're basically delivering UHD movies via telegram.

  21. Re:XXXSS exploits on Disclosed Netgear Flaws Under Attack (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In mIRC, open the About window and type arnie

  22. Re:NetWho? on NetBSD 7.0 Released (netbsd.org) · · Score: 1

    I am a known troll, but I'm also correct.

  23. NetWho? on NetBSD 7.0 Released (netbsd.org) · · Score: 0

    Choosing NetBSD over FreeBSD or OpenBSD is like being offered a free soda and asking for Shasta Cola over Coke or Pepsi.

  24. Re:Can't find Maintainers on Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    In the real world, you go to work doing shit you don't want to do 90% of the time, but you do it because you like money.
    The problem for Linux is people can get a better job elsewhere - less shitty work, less shitty working conditions, and better pay.

    Just treat it like the job that it is.

  25. Re:Having trouble finding people? Really? on Linus: '2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop' (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Like we're going to listen to a 6-digit UID noob on fucking Slashdot for advice on how to run our shit.

    If you can't commit to the hours required then perhaps you should seek out another hobby. And honestly, if you knew what you were doing you wouldn't be dealing with emails 7 days a week or being hit with "personal insults". Further, those "insults" ARE about the code, in your case they happen to be about the shitty fucking code you keep submitting.

    I'm Linus Torvalds, fuck you.

    P.S. Why are we losing developers? 2016 is on track to be the year of the Linux desktop and we need more developers for when the masses adopt Linux and all he bugs and security holes are forced to the surface.