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  1. Words on SpaceX Fires Mars-Bound Raptor Engine (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    âoerocket engine that doesn't end in an uncontrolled explosion is a good thing."
    The industry thinks âoeexplosionâ is a unspoken word and prefers âoerapid unscheduled disassemblyâ

  2. Re:Tom Cruise and "total commitment" on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Remaining good Eye." FTFY

  3. Re:Why would ANY ISP like this? on FCC Leaders Say We Need a 'National Mission' To Fix Rural Broadband (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I have two locations in Texas using rural internet delivery, one is 60$ per month. The other is 125$ a month. One site is less than a mile from the tower, the other is 17.7 miles from the tower. The one costing 125$ a month get heavy use, close to a TB per month, and is rock solid, and a good company, never any drops or "netflix" hour slowdowns. The 60$ a month is owned by a national rural carrier, and is the closer to the tower, it experiences overloading, downtime etc. It is obvious the backhaul is not enough. Honestly I prefer paying more for reliability. BTW they both use the same equipment, but I did pay for my own equipment with the more expensive one, and did opt for a licensed band transceiver. Cant say enough for a good company www.ranchwireless.com verses www.risebroadband.com

  4. If your in an industry that requires it: on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Almost Nothing Come With a Proper Printed Manual Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Our products are not for consumers. Our products are super expensive, pretty much 10 times COT's. The required manufacturing Flow Control Documents, Quality Control Documents, Identification Documents, recording of all of the above on paper, and proper filings makes up 90% of the cost of the parts.
    Documentation of API requires changes from both our company and customer, so you even need a little wag of that cost to add into the part. Or in some cases, where our customer likes to change all of the above, its about 5K every time they want to change anything before the next build.

    Otherwise for COTS having available online PDF of your language flavor I think is preferred.

  5. Re:Controllable Field, Calibration Estimate Way Of on Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So ya go ahead and skip the 25% and 50% test, just flip that big switch for me will ya already!

  6. maybe watch a movie on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he should watch Rocket Farmer once or twice. Or maybe he's been watching it to much..

  7. Re:What are you even concerned about? on Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? · · Score: 1

    I agree, 62 doing what I like, yes still working, coding, designing, mentoring, and proud to build important products. I can walk in a walmart and point out products I have touched, you have phones with sensors I have touched. Space shuttle has parts I have built by hand, the newest airplanes both commercial and military fly with products I got to help design, build, test and deliver. Write in many old languages :) assembler, C, VB, or what ever is best for the project.

    Played with web stuff, found it boring. Prefer different path, and am enjoying it. Not rich enough to buy a large farm, but have a few acres, and enjoy that too!

    Einstein was right,
    "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

  8. Danger Danger on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Sad I am getting so old it hurts to flail my arms like that any more. Post little but still read daily.

  9. on a side comment on all in one functions on FCC Chief Tells Apple To Turn on iPhone's FM Radio Chip (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not just buy like a transistor radio with solar cell charging, their very cheep. Where's my Swiss knife pop out of my Iphone, that would be more useful.

  10. Turn it on, will not work on FCC Chief Tells Apple To Turn on iPhone's FM Radio Chip (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    No internal antenna.

  11. Acording to Elon Musk on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    It is not a crash at all....
    Just an 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'

  12. I believe slashdot put up a story on Trump is Launching a New Tech Group To 'Transform and Modernize' the US Govt (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That should have been a comment to https://slashdot.org/story/17/...

  13. Regular Use of VPN on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: 1

    Using a self setup vpn in a data server that does not gather you data is what I am doing. Its not that I care that the government gets it, its I don't need Comcast, Verizon, Tmobile or other service provider that I am SURE will sell my browser data. I do quite a bit of research on our products, and even at work they use comcast! I do not know if management realizes the trove of data that comes from this. Maybe someday they will wake up.

    I also use my server for transferring large files to my customers using opencloud. Do not want dropbox getting access to things they have no business seeing. But sales uses Dropbox on a regular basis. Sigh...

    Am I just getting old and err.. paranoid?

  14. Re:Who will care? on US Congress Votes To Shred ISP Privacy Rules (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I currently run a openvpn server, and think I will now spin one up on digitalocean for 10$ a month, for my family anyways, this stuff just makes me sick and tired.

  15. Re: And if you tried this in America on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Typical oversubscription ratios pre Netflix and YouTube era was around 20 to 1 now your lucky to do 7 to 1 in the wireless isp world. So ya fiber to POP will be necessary in the very near future. I would like to see some improvements in the regulation area for smaller players to be able to enter. This would help in the last mile approach and allow more bandwidth per user

  16. Re: How did she do it? i.e. inet source and fundin on The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have very recently looked at becoming a isp. Cogent will work with Small ISPs, hundred megabit connection is around $325 per month and a one gigabit connection is around $1200 per month. My intention was to bring it out via wireless and that Equipment is easy to figure out and do the problem is that it ended up being around $1500 a month to get roof rights to get the darn data out from a carrier center which was only 100 yards from my first POP.

    The capex "capital expenditures" you can expect to be around 7 to 30K depending on number of initial customers. But in this case my opex " "operational expenses" were to great. You will see in my case I would have to have around 50 customers to break even, and that's just offering 20 meg service. To get where you could start making a real wage and take a day off you have to reach 500 customers. So if your ever really thinking about doing this stuff do some real research.

  17. They communicate with anybody? If they do their not Lone...

  18. Re: Sleeper hit? on Google Chirp To Rival Amazon Echo · · Score: 2

    I will chirp in, pun intended. I use the grocery list the most while having hands full taking things from the fridge. Second setting timers for what I am cooking and alarm clocks. Third is my drive times then weather and music. Looking up fun facts during arguments is fun too. Way more useful around the house than that smart watch would ever be. Voice recognition is superior to Siri . I find the smart interface to to my AnyMote to clumsy at the moment and use the direct connect from my pad or phone more to control my IR devices. But hay that's just software and it can get better. No smart light yet. I am building my own.

  19. Do miss the days.. on Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Miss the days of the 6502 and Z80 with 8K of 2102 ram. Could heat my sandwich while I wrote assembler code on the card...

  20. Re:Something strange going on... on Meteorite Strike Kills Man In India · · Score: 1

    Humm, maybe from North Korean Launch? Sling shot from space?

  21. Raspberry Pi in general on $5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have not played with one of these but I have several A and B+ being used daily.

      One is my voip system using Nerd Vittles PIAF http://nerdvittles.com/?p=1015...

    The other does my weather station
    http://weewx.com/

    The other does my BBQ controller
    https://github.com/CapnBry/Hea...

    Sure there are many more uses.
    The new board may save a bit in my new builds will see...

    All running quite fine...

    So yes they have their place, low power, and reliable, no fan.

  22. Re:If your critical stuff is IOT.... on XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with this security problems, in a "real" wind farm and not the item in this discussion (which is smaller intended for a home type) you would network all these together and have access only via vpn per farm area.

    Still does not excuse the problem of inadequate security, but direct access to internet from a large wind turbine would be a no-no for sure.

  23. Re: Yes on Does It Make Sense To Hand Make Printed Circuit Boards? · · Score: 2

    No, you do not need automated assembly for smt, or even silk screen solder paste. We do it here daily by hand for space level stuff.
    Small air powered dispensers, and a oven is all you need.

  24. Re: Its all in the taxes and incentives. on How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the savings will be passed on ha ha.
      The average cost of electricity here if you average all the suppliers somewhere around 10.5 cents per kilowatt hour I think it's just another way that using it for collecting taxes here .

  25. Wondering on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    How big of a net you could stuff in a shotgun shell, I smell money here ....