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  1. A similar recipe: on What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? · · Score: 1
  2. Here's a list of congressmen to vote out:

    http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml#N

  3. Mandiant Report on Chinese Hackers Launch Zero-Day Malware At Spiritual Activists, Military Groups · · Score: 2

    This seems consistent with the Mandiant report, at least the Spear Phishing attacks and maybe the tools?

  4. Synergy on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Use your laptop and desktop together with synergy... if your latency is low it's the best way to go.

  5. Learn phy layer communications on Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? · · Score: 1

    There are a few good books out there like "Digital Communications" by Proakis. Try writing some algorithms in MATLAB or python with all the pylab tools.

  6. Re:The Register says exact opposite on Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung · · Score: 1

    The author of the register article also doesn't seem to know the difference between legislation and litigation.

  7. Re:Better than Arch? on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: -1, Troll

    It doesn't sound like you really know how to use gentoo based on what you're saying. I've built KDE and a system from scratch and it doesn't take one day let alone three. Also, don't set USE flags system wid unless you know you want to, that's what /etc/portage/package.use is for. And by the way, there's no newuser switch, it's newuse, as in new use flag.

    Don't bash it just because you can't take the time to read the handbook and figure out how to use it.

    Gentoo's not for everyone, certainly not you.

  8. Re:Field dependent requirement on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    How does Windows calculate how much time is left on your file copy?

  9. Re:Well... on Why You Should Be More Interested In Mars Than the Olympics · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm more interested in how london is a police state under martial law because of the olympics.

    Oh please, London was a police state before the Olymipics.

  10. I don't care about either. on Why You Should Be More Interested In Mars Than the Olympics · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll care when the Olympics are ON Mars.

  11. Drobo on Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? · · Score: 2

    If you can afford it ($700, diskless) Drobo is easily the best storage small business storage solution out there.

  12. Re:units! on Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement' · · Score: 1

    big difference between dollars and Swedish kronor

  13. units! on Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement' · · Score: 2

    10.6 million what?

  14. Lawbreakers on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    Imposing laws on law breakers always works.

  15. Link Please on Taliban Offer Question-and-Answer Service Online · · Score: 1

    I'd like to ask some questions....

  16. Re:Challenge Accepted on Software-Defined Radio For $11 · · Score: 3, Informative

    All recent RF chips for wireless are zero IF nowadays.

    Not true, super heterodyne is still very popular.

    A SDR approach will use a big DSP (vector DSP even) to do the processing in software.

    Not really. Depending on your platform the industry trend is actually going away from DSPs. DSP operations are being implemented in FPGAs these days (since they're faster and the newer Virtex 6 or 7s (and whatever Stratix whatever) are really huge).

  17. Re:Challenge Accepted on Software-Defined Radio For $11 · · Score: 1

    You're just talking about different receiver structures (super heterodyne and direct conversion respectively). There's no receiver structure that's specific to SDR (in fact the USRP, which is an SDR, has a super heterodyne structure). IQ sampling doesn't have anything do with receiver structure either, super heterodyne receivers and direct conversion receivers can have IQ sampling (the USRP, a super heterodyne as I mentioned, implements IQ sampling). Also, implementing a filter with a sharp transition band is due to using a digital system, there's nothing special about SDR that let's you implement a 500 tap FIR filter, there *is* something special about digital system (FPGA, ASIC, DSP, GPP) that let's you implement a 500 tap FIR filter.

  18. Citizenship on Ask Slashdot: How Have You Handled Illegal Interview Topics? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work for DoD indirectly (not a defense contractor) and my emplyoer cannot hire non-US citizens, so there are exceptions to that rule.

  19. Re:Barring? on Microsoft Barring Certain Staff From Buying Macs, iPads? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually Guinness is a UK owned company. Diageo owns Guinness

  20. Spectrum not overcrowded, mismanged on 'Twisted' Waves Could Boost Capacity of Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did my MS thesis on wideband spectrum sensing (just about everything under 2.2 GHz). Turns out the spectrum isn't actually overcrowded, it's underutilized, especially over 500 MHz. Look at some papers by the Shared Spectrum Company www.sharedspectrum.com/. This is common misperception and it's the result of FCC policies (that they're working on changing). The underlying problem is that institutions that have spectrum allocated for them now actually need it, just not most of time.

  21. This isn't going to accomplish anything on Maine Senator Wants Independent Study of TSA's Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    TSA would be required to choose an 'independent laboratory'

    If the TSA is choosing the lab then this isn't going to accomplish anything

  22. Re:Is it possible to combine systems in a receiver on China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites · · Score: 1

    You can get better accuracy by remaining stationary and averaging you location.

  23. Re:Verizon's rationale on Why Android Upgrades Take So Long · · Score: 1

    Which I was I bought my phone outright, it's an N900 though.

  24. ITAR on EU Moves To End Surveillance Tech Sales To Repressive Regimes · · Score: 1

    They should use ITAR as a model. Though the A stands for Arms, it covers a lot more than firearms from my experience.

  25. Re:Reasoning on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    - Truly deep and telling story lines that make you think about the wonderous possbilities

    Watch PBS!