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  1. What do they expect... on Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March · · Score: 1

    The DC police murdered a woman in front of her kid that was simply having mental issues and they did not want to bother trying to get her out of the car. The DC police sre some of the most horrible violent gang members out there.

  2. This is exactly how high capacity AP's work. it has basically 4 (or more, I have seen some with 8) ap's that are connected to high gain antennas that segment off what they see. An advantage of high gain antennas is that they squish their signal and receive "window" into tighter lobes.

    Honestly, if these people would take classes in RF design they would know this as the technology they are using has been around for decades, and the idea has been in use by companies covering large venues for at least a decade. The trick is the attenuation of the antennas' signal so you dont get a ton of reflections, you actually run that high gain antenna into an attenuator, plus you really crank down the power output for transmit.

  3. Australia being the USA lapdog? on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 1

    All of this is thin propaganda. Even a short search on the internet will poke a lot of holes in this. I am really surprised that the Australian Govt is actually being a lap dog for the USA in trying to discredit snowden and the leaks. I really hope that Auzzie citizens are up in arms at this.

  4. Re: Not the leaks on New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Disease is the PATRIOT act. and none of you are demanding to your congress critter to repeal it. Or telling everyone you know how it's what allows them to do this and more and getting other riles up about PATRIOT.

    That is the answer to fix all of it. Yet everyone here wants to piss in the same bowl of cheerios instead of actually doing anything.

    Get off your asses, spread the word and start writing letters.

  5. Re:does it work through walls? on Chinese Professor Builds Li-Fi System With Retail Parts · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nothing really. It's a new buzzword that everyone is oogling. we were getting 4mbps over IR point to point using PVC and some lenses to steal internet from the college back in the early 90's. One of the buildings was visible from our rental so we ran wires and had an old linux PC at each end using the DB15 ports on the old ethernet cards we found and set up a photodiode and an IR led on each end to set up an optical link. WE actually used visible LED's to start with to set everything up, and then went IR for stealth.

    Worked great we had the fastest internet around for a house with 12 random nerds in it. I will bet that the transmitter portion is still on the roof of that school building 20 some years later.

  6. Re:no matter where you are, it's gonna be laggy on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    Yup. on the best days we had a 3000ms ping from our station to the POP. The fun times are having to climb out on the roof during a massive snow storm to clear the dish. because it piled up 6 feet and is literally buried.

  7. Re:There are none on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    In a remote location, there is. Because "good" is better than nothing.

    If it's for dinking around on Facebook, then just get whatever, if it's for making money he needs to get TWO competing services not hosted on the same bird in the sky and set up load balancing. Heughesnet and ViaSat at the same time. He then needs to hire someone that has a clue that will install the dishes with the largest dish size they can get as he will need a buttload of gain to make it work through all weather. The dishes will also need about $1100 in special coatings to make them hydrophobic and shed as much water/ice/snow as possible and the coating needs to be redone every 2 years. This will not eliminate snow build up, you still need to send someone out often to sweep the dishes.

    The dishes will need to go up in the air as you will be nearly pointed at the horizon so either the location needs a clear view with no trees or mountians for at least a few miles or get them up 40 feet on a tower, a BIG tower that does not shake at all in storms.

  8. Re:10 Years of Research & unpressurised on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 1

    Each of these arms is tipped by a drive head (5), which is mounted on a tiny suspension mechanism that's designed to fly, thanks to a law known as Bernoulli's principle, a minuscule distance above the platters. The heads ride above the surface on a cushion of air that is created by the spinning of the platters.

    How do you think they fly? Bernoulli effect.

  9. Re:Now Open It on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 1

    No it's not.

    Comcast and AT&T Broadband merged and it was called the "at&t" merger for the year before and after it.

    Just because you don't like it doesn't change it.

  10. Re:this possibly means one of two things.. on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 1

    Good, then it needs to be hampered.

  11. What do they expect? on Report Claims a Third of FOIA Requests To the NYPD Go Unanswered · · Score: 1

    NYPD is the single most corrupt police department in the united states, they make the LAPD look like honest angels.
    If they were not corrupt they would happily abide by the law and answer these. What are they hiding? It has to be illegal and unethical activities.

  12. Re:Technology can't cure human nature on Bitcoin Protocol Vulnerability Could Lead To a Collapse · · Score: 1

    If SHTF ever came to be the rich man will be the guy that has the horde of Peppercorns. They were worth more than gold at one point, and if SHTF happens in a very short time they would because as valuable in the states because we dont have an easy way to grow them. Like Cinnamon and other spices, their value would utterly skyrocket.

  13. Re:Yeah, Sure ... on Bitcoin Protocol Vulnerability Could Lead To a Collapse · · Score: 1

    Only reason is the black market uses it. but that is falling apart as the cops found ways of snagging drug dealers and other criminals bitcoins so they will be switching to another way.

  14. Re:Now Open It on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 1
  15. Re:this possibly means one of two things.. on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 4, Funny

    We dont need a war in california. Yes I disagree with everything California stands for but that is no reason to go to war there.

  16. Re:A risky gamble on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 2

    The trick is to tell the CIO of the company that is your customer that the price and deadline time doubles every single time they make changes. The trick is to get an accurate scope and then a project manager that will tell the customer NO! in a way that they understand, I.E. excessively high prices and they sign a paper that the deadline is ok to ignore. Suddenly that feature that they dreamed up in a meeting is not so important anymore. If it's really important then they will be OK with letting the system solidify and then start a new project to add it.

    Software is 100% identical to Construction. you can not add a new Solarium in the middle of it after construction is 80% complete, et most software companies dont have the balls to tell the customer, "It will cost you an additional $22,000,000 at this point to add that and we have to throw away everything and start over.

    The ones that do are the ones that are successful.

  17. Re:Now Open It on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 1

    Oracle seems to be able to. They blew up payroll for a large company, Comcast. Completely pooched payroll right after the AT&T merger and pissed off a ton of people.

  18. Re:Now Open It on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 1

    "or the superstar statusing of the engineers at Tesla."

    I heard that they look for people that demonstrate they are good and ignore fake things like degrees that do not show aptitude or drive.

    Granted this was from a friend of a friend that worked there as a drive systems engineer, he claimed that he was recruited by Tesla from his work on electric cars he was publishing online.

  19. Re:this possibly means one of two things.. on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree, I wish they would just take the military budget for Air Conditioning and give it directly to NASA. it would triple our space research funding.

  20. Re:A great example for kids on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 1

    CNN?? Or would you prefer Fox News instead.

    Come on back when you mention a CREDIBLE news source because you mentioned an entertainment tv network. CNN has not had news on it for over a decade now.

      Differences: The rate of public school students entering college after graduation has fluctuated between 62-67% in recent years. A variety of factors come into play which result in that relatively low matriculation rate. The drop out rate in public schools tends to have a negative effect on matriculation data.

    In private schools the matriculation rate is typically in the 90-95% range. Minority students who attend a private high school are more likely to attend college than minority students who attend public school according to NCES data. The reason why most private high schools do well in this area is that they are generally selective. They will only accept students who can do the work.

    I will leave it up to you to take classes on how to use google to find further information. Check your local high school about adult remedial classes and computer useage.

  21. Re:A great example for kids on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 1

    I went to public school but the bulk of any real education came from my father at home. He had me learning algebra and geometry in grade school, I was also experimenting in electronics and using a soldering iron (OH THE HORROR) at age 8. Learning the maths needed to figure out transistor gain, analog electronic circuit design and digital electronics. I knew Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal and could covert between them in my head at age 12.

    And my father knew nothing at all about electronics and computers, but he knew how to get the books I needed and how to research answers.

    Today I can run Assembly, C and C++ code in my head, I can out code review even a PHD in CS as I can process it as I am reading the code and spot errors they even miss.

  22. Re:A great example for kids on 10-Year-Old Boy Discovers 600-Million-Year-Old Supernova · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nope. It is shown that home schooled and private school kids get a far higher education overall. Now the people that are interested in control whine that they dont get the proper exposure to liberal/conservative "values" but that is nothing but raging by the extremists on both sides. Parents do tend to cherry pick, but that flushes out when they hit college.

  23. Re:Helium Leaks on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 1

    not my experience with seagate. every replacement came with MAX 90 days, you can even verify that on their website, the serial number of the replacement refurbished drive is 90 days max.

  24. Re:Fuck everything, we're going to 7 platters. on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 5, Funny

    and an 8th platter on the back for hard to reach data.

  25. Re:Silly question on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 1

    No you dont.
    You need air inside so the heads fly, please please learn how hard drives really work before trying to pass off an answer to someone, all you are doing is spreading misinformation.

    Far more heat transfer is from the metal-metal contact and ALL The heat is from the motors that are bolted to the frame already.