Slashdot Mirror


User: asvravi

asvravi's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
140
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 140

  1. Re:Units on Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged · · Score: 1

    Most reports out of TEPCO seem to be using the sieverts as a radiation rate measure, assuming a default per hour dosage.

  2. Re:OK folks, time to jump ship on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Used Chrome but did not notice the Google profile sync - that holds promise for a better future in my browser world! I can live without the smaller customizations.

  3. Re:OK folks, time to jump ship on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    The very point of extension is to keep the browser light weight. And I did say "supposedly light weight". Pardon me, but do try and read English.

  4. OK folks, time to jump ship on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Going down the drain despite everyone's best efforts and intentions. Except for identity management and PDF viewing (why should webpages be limited to HTML??), nothing else makes an ounce of sense in a supposedly light weight browser. Here is hoping Chromium or Chrome catch up on the extensions and sync scene soon.

  5. Re:You mean like people do already? on Beijing To Track Citizen's Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    Here is an extensive implementation of traffic tracking using mobile phone density for Bangalore and other Indian cities.

  6. Re:Using Incandescents means *more* mercury releas on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Worldwide average mercury content in coal is 0.2ppm - that is 50 times lower than the figure you quote. Reference Pg8. or Google searches. So there is a difference, but not all that great as you project. Regardless, those are some interesting calculations you have there, thanks for taking the pains to actually analyze objectively.

  7. Re:Light output is terrible for CFLs and LEDs on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    That's too much effort! I just stuck these type of nifty strips to the cabinets underside - http://www.ledlightsworld.com/smd-3528-flexible-led-strips-300-leds-p-90.html?zenid=tfq3nqp3visro06g1iij7bph27 Clean, even,reliable lighting.

  8. Re:Ultrafast search and metadata filesystem on File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? · · Score: 1

    Vista has it... and I guess so does Win7. Why don't I see it being exposed or people actually using it?

  9. Re:"The study predicts that Mobile devices..." on 1Gbps Wi-Fi Coming Soon To a Billion Devices · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Any device needs to be ON for a finite amount of time before a virus can infect it..
    2G -> 3G battery life drops by 15%
    Bluetooth on -> Further battery life drop of 5%
    Wifi On -> Further battery life drop of 15%
    1G Wi . . . . ... NO CARRIER

  10. Re:ahem on LG Wants PlayStation 3 Banned From US Market · · Score: 1

    FOUR patents? Really? Unless they are the very best patents (which I doubt), usually it takes four hundred before the defence even starts whimpering.

  11. Re:The price of easy and automatic on USB Autorun Attacks Against Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    User-friendly
    Secure
    Functional

    Pick any two...

  12. Re:I love it! on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    vi or emacs?

  13. Re:AT&T's Fault? on AT&T Sued For Systematic iPhone Overbilling · · Score: 1

    What do the other four users feel?

  14. Re:And Yet, No Ogg Theora in IE on Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video · · Score: 1

    On Slashdot, only such comments can get modded +5 insightful!

  15. Re:Wireless peer to peer? on Egypt Cuts the Net, Net Fights Back · · Score: 1

    TCP over Pigeon Protocol

  16. Re:I call no-way on Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam · · Score: 1

    You sabotaged your own search... now searching for "TIPC layer 3" returns this slashdot article as the first link!

  17. Corporate adoption on Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    So is there anything stopping its adoption in the enterprise and Fortune 500 companies, replacing the likes of Norton? How about managed updates, LAN update server, policy based scanning settings etc?

  18. Re:Museum Fight! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be called UNCOBOL already?

  19. Re:Says something about the state of things on Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center · · Score: 1

    Yeah, all 100 million of us. I just wish they let me have my $2M in cash.

  20. Re:Oh come on on BSD Coder Denies Adding FBI Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Well somebody did.. and named the script kdawson.

  21. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    You might want to try "spurred".

  22. Re:Passwords are a failure on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    My brokerage account has a secure password that I only use there, but resetting the password requires only my username, SSN, ZIP code, and last name.

    Well I just checked and your brokerage account doesn't seem to have much funds in it anyway.. so relax. By the way, your new password is "0wned". Dont mention it.

  23. Re:FASTSAT Post on NASA Solar Sail Lost In Space · · Score: 1

    Weird.. I am able to paste.. infact this is my email hash 3b31fe778a4e91b2aca116e84a144285 pasted in.

  24. Re:The West is too reliant on American services on WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul · · Score: 1

    Your country (Australia) uses EFTPOS that is essentially a Maestro card - a MasterCard (read American) service.

  25. Re:Quick question on Researchers Develop Genuine 3D Camera · · Score: 1

    Kinect is not exactly a ranging camera, it is based on structured light processing. There are 3 types of classifications in 3D cameras -
    1. Stereoscopic - the most prevalent kind, meant for human vision
    2. Time of flight - these are true IR ranging cameras that get depth information from the time the light takes to reflect off the object. Mostly used for machine vision since it provides true depth numerically for each pixel.
    3. Structured light - The shine a patterned light out and analyze the way the light distorts in the captured 2D image to extract the depth information at each pixel.

    No. 2 and 3 are often paired with regular cameras to get a decent color image. But you are right that the Kinect cannot see from any additional angles.