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  1. 30 day suspension of pilot's license for prev. guy on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    This guy flew his aircraft into the DC ADIZ.

    http://www.aerolegalservices.c...

    He did not land on national property or attempt to deliver mail, but other than heinous
    things, it's pretty much the same.

    He was given a 30 day suspension of pilot privileges.

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  2. Nothing to sneeze at on Forking Away: OnePlus Introduces Android-Based OxygenOS · · Score: 1

    I installed it on my OPO. It's not impressive. Going back to CM11 shortly.

    NOTE: Do *NOT* install this if you use an encrypted filesystem. It will hose itself up and be stuck in a "couldn't mount /data; reboot" loop. First, format /data the hard way -- without preserving encryption or *ANY* files on there.

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  3. Stupids' Day on Leak Reveals Government Conspiracy, Atrocity · · Score: 1

    Seriously, today's /. April Fools' things have been gangrenous post-rotten.

    Yes, I love FireFly and everything about it.
    Yes, I even liked Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

    Today's /. April Fools' things have been atrociously stupid.

    If you don't fool anybody it's not an April Fools' joke... you're the fool.

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  4. It's not hard when you know sciene and stuff on SpaceX's New Combustion Technologies · · Score: 1

    This guy walks into SpaceX.

    Elon Musk says "You here for the interview?"

    "Naw... just here to put in the Brawndo fountain."

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  5. No end-user would do this fiscally on Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC · · Score: 1

    Pretend you wanted to drive 8000 miles. The IRS expects that the cost per mile allowance is $0.50 based on gas, oil, tires, vehicle depreciation.

    To drive those 8000 miles the apportioned cost would be $4,000. You can get 10 round-trip tickets London-NY off-season and 5 on-season for that.

    During your trip if you follow your manufacturer's recommendations you'd need to change your oil three times. So would everyone else. At equal intervals. What a pile up at the mechanic at 3000m, 6000m, and just past it. Yuck!

    If you have average street tires then the trip there and back would kill half your tires (so they only have half left on them you need to replace them on this trip).

    If the speed limit was set at 100MPH and there were no stops you'd actually maintain that, but given that you will stop to stretch your legs, etc. that average goes down to about 80. That's 100 hours of driving, which with two drivers and sleeping in the car is 5 solid days. What's the value of 10-man-days lost?

    Finally even if all those things were true, the largest cargo that could be transported is a triple-tractor trailer -- 3 containers. This ship can do 18,400 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... You'd need 6,133 trucks to equal that and it would take them 5 days. The cargo ship can make it in 3-4.

    This is a nonstarter from every possible fiscal angle for the end-users, even if the road magically arrived today.*

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    * note that I didn't address at all that by the time your European car reached the US, it would not be homologated for street use by the DOT so you'd need to rent a car here anyway, and vice versa.

  6. Article is wrong. Transceivers do this already. on Full-Duplex Radio Integrated Circuit Could Double Radio Frequency Data Capacity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article is misleading. Transmission and reception on the same "frequency" is done today. However, there's some other "discriminator" in the signal. Either modulation method, phase, shift, orientation, or "something" is different so that the receive and transmit don't collide.

    This article -- despite its misleading introduction -- talks about a limited application whereby RX and TX can occur using the same frequency *BAND* (they say "spread spectrum") and allow full-duplex communication. The advance is that this is all on one chip.

    What would be truly revolutionary, like the example of two people talking to each other at the same time, is the ability to transmit and receive using the *same* exact method by both transceivers. THAT would be the holy grail.

    Not there yet.

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  7. Re:Transfer the heat to.... where? on Fujitsu Could Help Smartphone Chips Run Cooler · · Score: 1

    It depends what you mean by "by design" is :)

    Air is a great insulator, but poor conductor of heat.

    My familiarity is with generatios of Dell laptops that exchange more heat through the bottom of the case they do they through venting to the air. Their support system even ensures you tell them if you're using your laptop "on a solid hard surface".

    FYI 100C is higher than most hardware's failure point.

    I know you want links. I'm off to bed. Google is that way --> Lazy is that way ---, and links are found in delis.

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  8. Transfer the heat to.... where? on Fujitsu Could Help Smartphone Chips Run Cooler · · Score: 1

    In a laptop, the use of similar devices makes sense, as the heat can be transferred
    somewhere where it can be dissipated into the air. Unfortunately it's more efficient
    to transfer it to the table you have it on, so the bottom gets the heatsink which
    makes it horrible to actually put your laptop on your lap-top.

    In a smartphone, it's being held in your hand (on the back) and up to your face (on
    the front) with fingers on the sides. Where to exactly are they going to move the
    heat??? Heat exchanging is nothing new, but the ability to remove heat requires
    the device interact with a cooler medium to transfer that heat. Normally that's
    your palm, or the air, or both.

    So... I ask again... transfer the heat to where?

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  9. Re:Wireless charging hit mainstream ~ 1-2 years ag on Why Apple Won't Adopt a Wireless Charging Standard · · Score: 2

    AC transformer PF is 1.0. AC Transformer efficiency is generally between 95%-99%. See a novice primer at https://www.physicsforums.com/....

  10. Re:Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange I on Swedish Authorities Offer To Question Assange In London · · Score: 1
  11. May or May Not Have on Martian Canyons May Have Been Carved By Wind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes and your bags MAY or MAY NOT have shifted during flight.

    The Martian rocks MAY have been carved by MH370 when it crashed.

    "May" isn't the word you think it is.

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  12. I want one*.

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    N5NEQ

    *And by that I mean one per vehicle and one per office and one per home.

  13. "Difficult to install" == "Difficult to compete" on Google Faces Anti-Trust Probe In Russia Over Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's why you can't stop using google, or have any other choices, or even change the search engine simply by yourself.

    I'm pretty sure that yandex knows how to do all this, so claiming it's "difficult to install" must mean "difficult to compete".

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  14. Re:No more downtime on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, so here's the simple answer. Note: I'm generalizing a lot to make this simple.

    All functions have a known entry point which you can think of a name that you can call like
    print("hello world"); -- calls "print" so it knows where "print" is.

    Somewhere in the memory was loaded the function print(). There's also a symbol which allows everyone who wants to call print() to know where it is.

    The livepatch loads a new function into memory. Let's call it print2(). It then goes over and makes the symbol that used to let everyone know where print() is point to print2(). Anyone that comes after this patch will still think they are calling print() but in fact will be calling print().

    The stop_machine() is part of how ksplice (the proprietary-vendor method does it). That is not part of kernel live patch (klp).

    What klp does is ensure that a process is in a "good point" to be messed with, and then changes its pointer to e.g. print().

    That allows no changes to affect the process until that pointer to print() is changed at which point any subsequent call to print() will run print() instead.

    Ehud
    P.S. I have some code from the early 1990s where we used to do this on VMS/OpenVMS. We literally patched the running kernel (much as is done here) and allowed a system to run for years with newer kernel code.

  15. Seiki +2 on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I also second the Seiki 39". Got mine from Amazon.com when it was $400. Now it's 2/3 of that.

    On my NUC it actually uses the 4K resolution but I rarely use it as a monitor because of the low refresh rate (15Hz) at that resolution.

    It is an AWESOME TV!!! I have it hooked up to
    - Roku3
    - Google Chromecast
    - Amazon Fire Stick

    If I had to find downsides it would be
    - no "discrete code" to switch to a particular input. One selects "source" then scrolls up or down from the current source to the eventual source input. This makes things tougher for scene-remotes.

    Ehud

  16. 68th to 22nd and there are many to go on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All new languages start out at the bottom, as Swift did.
    In time, the ones that don't get used fall down.

    Swift has gotten up to 22nd, but the rest of the climb past the stragglers won't ever happen.

    However, to be "the most popular language" is clearly no contest worth winning.
    Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are most popular compared to Steven Hawking and Isaac Asimov.
    Being popular doesn't mean better, useful, or even of any value whatsoever. It just means
    someone has a better marketing-of-crap department.

    There's a time to have popularity contests. It's called high school.

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  17. Nobody should trust these scammers on Winklevoss Twins Plan Regulated Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who would trust them?

    First this: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/ed...
    (bitcoin trust)

    Then this: http://www.investopedia.com/ar...
    (bitcoin payment system)

    Now this thing... ("regulated" exchange that can't leave the US for an international virtual decentralized currency...)

    Perhaps they just didn't get that memo about their relevance having tanked somewhere after they wanted to
    renege on their FB settlement and go for a do-over uh-gain:
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

    Their fifteen minutes of fame is up. The harder they try and bring themselves
    into relevance the funnier it gets. The bell has rung. Time to get off the stage little boys.

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  18. 30 day notice both ways on Obama Proposes 30-Day Deadline For Disclosing Security Breaches · · Score: 1

    I agree... the Government should provide notice within 30 days of when they've obtained my personal data without permission.
    Equally and only if that is done, corporations should also let me know within 30 days when someone's obtained my personal data without permission.

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  19. Fear solves nothing on New Canadian Copyright Laws Require ISPs To Retain, Share Illegal Download Info · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You can be afraid or not but that has nothing to do with this.

    The "summary" doesn't make things sound worse than they are. READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE!

    ISPs now MUST forward notices. They did not have to before.
    ISPs now MUST share subscriber name and address and info with the complaintant. They did not have to before.

    What kind of a moron would think any of this is a good thing? Of course, purchased politicians and the MAFIAA who bought them.

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  20. Re:Cue the RMSDSers on Red Hat Engineer Improves Math Performance of Glibc · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why yes, you are a stupid moron.

  21. Jitsi did it. on Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service · · Score: 2

    Jit.si is open source encrypted chat that works on any chrome browser.

    It's nice of Kim Dotcom to one day have an alternative... but smoke and vaporware can't compete with an existing working solution.

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  22. FAA has sole jurisdiction on Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the United States the Federal Aviation Administration is the entity with jurisdiction over all airspace SURFACE to SPACE*

    This has been discussed on slashdot so many times in the last year wrt drones and FAA authority that it's beating a dead horse.

    NY Councilmen can posture and mumble and pass laws all day long but they have no authority over the air.

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    * Note that this includes surface to 400ft which some people believe is magically exempt from regulation... except the FAA has recently shown it's not.

  23. Re:Hope he doesn't lose power on Raspberry Pi In Space · · Score: 1

    No, I'm afraid not. (And these are name-brand Class-10 cards).

    When the corruption hits the Pi won't boot at all. No grub no kernel no initrd no monitor sync.
    A fresh card fixes things. Restoring the image to the old card fixes it too.

    We have near 100 of these in the field and while I've bench-powerfailed them to no avail,
    out in the real world they die due to fs corruption.

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  24. Hope he doesn't lose power on Raspberry Pi In Space · · Score: 2

    Pis are great.
    But when the power drops.the filesystem on the SDcard is corrupt.
    Then the Pi is dead with no hope of doing anything unless you brought a spare SDcard or something to mount/fsck/correct it with.

    If I was going into space I'd take a Droid or an iPhone. That way I can play
    Angry Birds In Space in space.

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  25. Obi-Wan told Luke... on Kawa 2.0 Supports Scheme R7RS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's like Old Ben Kenobi told young Luke Skywalker:

    "If you're trying to run it on a JVM you've already lost to the darkside."

    Star Wars Quotes (that never happened)

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