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  1. Photons? Radio waves are electromagnetic energy, a diode will crudely convert it into DC power, thats essently what a crystal radio does to produce electrical currents to drive a headset. So yes a big coil and a diode will convert radio into electrical power all beit small. The Rugby MSF long wave radio beacon,and several tv transmitter towers in the vhf days often had to deal with enterprising growers using an old bed frame and a big ass diode, to create astonishing amounts of free power to heat thier green houses, they where religiously hunted down and procescuted because they made big holes in the emission pattern of the transmitter.

  2. Re: Stupid crappy clone of Windows on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can take the loss of some inches, the galaxy tab s3 (9.7 inch) is superb, i moved from a pro 12.2 to that, and the mobility i gained was worth the size reduction. It still has tbe full featured s-pen/wacom combo, but has the most amazing screen to be found on any tab.

    Blazing fast, 7.0 and soon 7.1.

  3. Re: Huh on Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I migrated from an ipad to an android (samsung 12.2) tablet, and when that became long in the tooth shifted to a samsung tab s3, which i love deeply. Android tabs generaly have phone functions which you generaly dont find on chromebooks, i dont want to have to have a dongle stuck out the side

    Try pairing a bluetooth mouse to an ipad, does not work, but it works just fine in an android tab, you can even use usb, adding a keyboard and mouse to an android tab changes the experience

  4. Re: Swift is doing great. Go is doing great. But R on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Security, dynamic libs allow distros to deliver new versions of libs like openssl whch have security fixes, staticaly linked libs make that very hard.

  5. Re:Time to stop coddling the fascists on Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Demon was active long before that. It grew out of the "tenner a month'' club on CIX. That group was an internet connectivity "collective" that purchased and operated a bunch of dialup modems with routing onto the internet as far back as 1991/1992 i belive.

  6. Re: Well, damn on A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months · · Score: 1

    Or unlock a considerable amount of fresh water, that would visably raise sea levels world wide. It could be enough to put some landmasses underwater.

  7. The web was invented by tim berniers lee, a brit working in cern, a european city.

  8. This is great for devops, automated deployments on GoDaddy Proposes New DNS Configuration Standard (programmableweb.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Its one of the few thing that has to managed manualy in automated deployments, it would allow orchistration tools like k8s, docker-swarm and mesos to wire up the dns side too.

  9. Re:it would not make one bit of difference on ACLU Is Launching A Campaign To Convince President Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    True, some TLA will raid his house based on an anonymous terrorisim tipoff and they will find kiddyporn on his computer, fake logs and evidence will be trotted out. put him away and destroy his reputation at the same time.

  10. You can take your phone into any cellphone servicing center, and they will replace it in under 10 mins, for little more than the cost.

  11. Its also very very hard to acheive IP68 dust and water proofing if you have to also support cracking the phone open to change the battery.

  12. Re:Good luck with investigation! on How The US Will Likely Respond To Shadow Brokers Leak (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the actual breach occured over 3 years ago and the data has been in cold storage until now.

  13. Re: Read some Engels on Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    The "internet" as understood by 99% of its users, "the web", was invented by a british scientist operating out of a swiss institute.

  14. Re: Not Enough Performance on Leak Shows PlayStation 4 Neo Is Expected To Have Twice The Graphics Horsepower (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    1080p to 1080p VR is only 2x though, and probaly more relevant.

  15. Re: Where can I find a UNIX-like Linux distro?! on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Go freebsd

  16. Re: And hello problems on Adios Apt and Yum? Ubuntu's Snap Apps Are Coming To Distros Everywhere (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its far more than that, bundles are just disgused directories, snaps etc are more like docker for graphical apps.

  17. Re: 32-bit visual studio on Microsoft Declines To Make a 64-Bit Visual Studio (uservoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Checkout the jetbrains IDE's

  18. Re: And then those employees burn down your restau on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    That only works becuase of digital projection, nothing but bits to move around, fast food has ingredients that need assembling etc, that drop on the floor, the get jammed in the dispensers, that don't get cleaned out of the nozzles, and thus spread food poisoning etc, it's a whole different ball of wool.

  19. Re: wireless power- scamming rich guys since 1891 on Former Employee Accuses Wireless Charging Startup uBeam of Being a Sham (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    Solar bids for Power plant in Dubai, recently fell below the cost per kw of oil fired generation, dubai has one of the shortest supply chains for oil, and the lowest internal cost to thier power generation.

    http://www.apricum-group.com/d...

  20. Re: Google - A disconnected beast? on Google May Adopt Apple's Swift Programming Language For Android, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep agree, but if you are porting a big oop based api set, you want to minimise the adjustments the devs need to make to use it.

  21. Re: Does it matter? on Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting? · · Score: 1

    I still use it on Linux with few problems, to be honest my only real beef with it on Linux is due to pulse audio not being able to handle multiple Bluetooth connection profiles, so you can have stereo headphones with a mic, all other OS's manage to use AD2P for outgoing audio and HSP/HCP for in comming audio streams, Linux/pulse is the only combo that seems to insist on a single profile for audio in both directions.

  22. Re:Must be desperate to buy noted malware host SF on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    +1 on this, im in the philippines and i keep getting drive by download attempts when browsing slashdot on my phone or tablet.

  23. Re:About BIZX on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Put it away, there are young nerds in here......

  24. Re:The Hollywood Effect on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    If they can also throw in something that measures the IQ of the person pulling the trigger, and applies a suitable threshold, disabling the weapon, that would be cool.

    Below 100, disable weapon person is incapable of making an informed descion.
    Above 100, disable the weapon, person is capable of making a choice and should know better.

    Its a sarcasm trolls, sarcasm....

  25. Re:How smart? on Surprising Support Among Americans For Purchasing Smart Guns (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 1

    I cant work out if this irony or this person is just bat shit crazy.....