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  1. Re:Pie == 9.0 on Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    But they are 'edgy' and 'unique' and 'hip', and are the likely result of non-tech people inserting themselves into the tech industry and making a need for themselves and their jobs. Android 9.0 would be much more useful...

  2. Re:Who's buying the cheapest possible safety devic on eBay and Amazon Delist Faulty Carbon Monoxide Alarms (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know any namebrand CO detectors because I buy them once every decade. That is my beef with Amazon, in the areas where people need guidance because they don't recognize any of the brands due to an infrequent purchase, Amazon seems to steer you to these garbage products.

  3. Re:Scrypt on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever? · · Score: 1

    Didn't know this. I just started using void* last week, so your comment is timely to prevent a bad habit from forming. Thanks.

  4. Re:I thought the methane ocean was of interest? on NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' · · Score: 2

    Ummm, no shit. But there is no rule that says all life has to be exactly like us, and thats why those methane oceans are interesting because they could harbor life that uses different building blocks.

  5. Re:I thought the methane ocean was of interest? on NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' · · Score: 1

    UAV -> Underwater Autonomous Vehicle

  6. I thought the methane ocean was of interest? on NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they send a UAV or UUV to go swim around in the oceans? I figured that was what was really interesting on Titan because it could contain life.

  7. Re:What's wrong with Tokens? on Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards · · Score: 2

    Except they already had it. It was called the Chicago Card Plus and it worked perfectly for years (source: Chicagoan who used the CTA for many years every day). The question is, why did they have to change it?

  8. Re:Radio waves are completely blocked by water. on Unifying Undersea Wireless Communication Using TCP/IP · · Score: 2

    Yes, thats all true. As I said above, its penetration depth is given by the frequency dependent skin depth of the medium. BUT, some things don't need much bandwidth, nowhere near as much as 1200 bps. And if the navy invested millions into a 28 mi antenna to produce that 76 Hz, the low bandwidth it gets, and the concept of radio in seawater, is obviously not that silly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine

  9. Re:Radio waves are completely blocked by water. on Unifying Undersea Wireless Communication Using TCP/IP · · Score: 2

    A lot. Air is almost non-conductive, whereas seawater is highly conductive, so the interface is highly reflective, and refractive.

  10. Re:Radio waves are completely blocked by water. on Unifying Undersea Wireless Communication Using TCP/IP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes they do travel through water. Their attenuation is frequency dependent and is given by the skin depth of water. Lower frequency waves propagate further than high frequency. At the wireless frequencies, water highly attenuates its propagation such that it can only communicate a few meters, but submarine ELF frequencies (73 Hz) can penetrate on the order of 1 km with only 60 dB loss or so, and ionospheric waves (approx .5 Hz) go through the complete ocean and into the lithosphere. [Source: Me. I am currently doing heavy research into this subject for a research contract] As a layman thinking only of WANs and 2.4 GHz stuff I could see how you could make this mistake, but what you way is false. Even GHz waves will travel, albeit an insignificant amount, but still finite.

  11. NOAA data down on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    Attempting to do some basic research for a contract and I need access to geomagnetic data from NOAA and their websites are down. Now I have to wait to see if a fitting function based on historical data works on current real-time data.

  12. Re:Lots of gullible people, like slashdot on Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I looked up Dice Holdings, Inc and at first believed it was some \. jape, like a fake website constructed to mess with people. But further investigation showed it was no jape at all, and the crap blogspam I have seen populating this site now makes perfect sense. Thank you JustOK.

  13. Lots of gullible people, like slashdot on Foxconn Denies Plans For New US Operations · · Score: 2

    "...lots of people jumped to the salacious conclusion that a U.S.-based Foxconn factory could finally produce an American-made iPhone..." Including freaking /. itself at http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/09/0136211/foxconn-sees-new-source-of-cheap-labor-the-united-states. I've watched this site slowly assimilate into the blogspam world, and here is a perfect example.

  14. Re:What is white house honey? on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe · · Score: 1

    No shit. Now I know. Thanks for the knowledge.

  15. What is white house honey? on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe · · Score: 1

    The recipe is pretty straight forward, but what is white house honey? It looks like it is 1 lb of actual honey based on the fact you add it at the end. But is it just normal honey, or is there some special twist that makes it 'white house honey'? Do they have a bunch of bees in the attic?

  16. Thanks on Voyage to the ATX Hackerspace in Austin, Texas (Video) · · Score: 1

    I just moved to Austin and am wanting to start hobbyist robotics, so this post was extremely useful. Thanks.

  17. Stop apple posts? on Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research · · Score: 1

    I don't know where else to post this. Is there a way to stop any apple and apple/samsung patent war posts from being displayed to me? I can't express how much I don't care to see this on slashdot while I browse for interesting things, but seemingly have to. Is there a way to block these types of posts?

  18. asked an opthalmologist on Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery · · Score: 1

    So I forwarded this page to an ophthalmologist and apparently it is a well-known phenomenon for new IOL's.

  19. Re:Parking tickets on Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots · · Score: 0

    So I was apparently logged out of my account gargeug I wanted to make this post from. Why is there not some prompt like "Are you sure you want to post this anonymously?"

  20. Re:slow down cowboy! on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Seriously. All this article is making me feel is dread knowing a new barrage of requests to update firefox will soon be arriving, and I will have to ignore them for a few weeks so I don't lose any of my add-ons. I'm not a software developer, but I'm pretty sure dread is not a feeling developers should be striving to instill.

  21. similar research on NAND Gate Built From Bacteria · · Score: 1

    There is a professor named Eric Klavins at University of Washington who was doing this like 2 years ago. I toured his lab and I think he already had all the basic logic gates working, and they were working on getting an oscillator going. Here is his site in case you are interested. http://depts.washington.edu/soslab/mw/index.php?title=Main_Page

  22. Re:Still my browser...for now on Mozilla Contemplating Five Week Release Cycle · · Score: 1

    I am right there with you. I seem to have lost half of my add-ons since they started this release schedule. They weren't super important ones, but these add-ons are really the only reason I use firefox. Once an upgrade kills one of my main ones, I think I am gone. In fact tonight I plan on installing a few other browsers to see if I like them in preparation for the inevitable. I've been hearing good things about Opera. btw...I like your nicely veiled signature on Heisenburg

  23. google didn't help on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was working on a metering device for residential solar arrays and attempted to contact google about the technical aspects to link our product easily with google's powermeter, as it was just getting going. They never got back to me or showed any interest in getting some products to adopt the technology. Seems to me they lost it on their own...

  24. a fix on What Makes Parallel Programming Difficult? · · Score: 1

    Well, we just learned about this in a graduate comp arch course and yeah, it can get hairy. Especially if using a processor consistency model as opposed to the sequential consistency model. The easiest fix is to throw up some fence instructions around the interdependent code sections to force sequential consistency, and then lay some flags as a means of time signaling between the processors. This eliminates the randomness that the author discussed in one of the examples.

  25. Picture on Cracker-Size Satellites To Launch With Endeavour · · Score: 1

    Here is a link that shows the actual PCBs rather than, say, a cracker... http://www.space.com/11508-shuttle-launch-satellite-chips-endeavour.html