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  1. Distance isn't the important part, it's trajectory on SpiderSense Suit Delivers Superhuman Perception · · Score: 1

    The suit's controller package needs to calculate over several measurements if objects are getting closer to you before issuing a warning. Then the article's example of walking between library bookshelves being problematic wouldn't be anymore. Bonus points if it also accounts for the relative direction and size of projectiles to determine if there truly will be a collision or not.

  2. Re:Thinness, weight and repairability on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    Too bad I don't have any points to mod you up right now, it's time someone talked sense around here. All these FOSSheads ultracompact devices to be fully modular, and they'll never stop complaining until they have everything... except with computers, which can always be faster.

  3. Re:Size on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1

    Which is also why I specifically bought an HTC Aria without subsidy a couple years ago and still use it today. I just flashed CyanogenMod 10.1 (Jelly Bean) on it and it feels like I have a new phone.

  4. Re:Black Hornet is White on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 1

    All the better to confuse the enemy!

  5. Dammit on New Threadlike Carbon Nanotube Fiber Unveiled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I can't buy any cables till they replace them with this. Damn you, technology.

  6. Why isn't there a precise atomic standard? on Standard Kilogram Gains Weight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The mass of X number of molecules of element Y = 1 gram.

    Like there is for the second:

    "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom."

  7. Re:Article is pure postulation. on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And if you wanted an article that actually intelligently criticized Windows 8 instead of that completely unscientific article from Scientific American:

    Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users

  8. Article is pure postulation. on 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stop propagating the myth Steve Jobs started that few people bother to test first hand.

    Here's some articles from people who actually USED Windows 8:

    Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck

    Touchscreens and the Myth of Windows 8 ‘Gorilla Arm’

  9. Re:Have Microsoft Pay on VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App · · Score: 2

    If Microsoft paid them, wouldn't other major software brands want funding to port to Windows 8 too? And after that, what if other OSes wanted popular software ported to their platform? Sets a terrible precedent IMO.

    However, they could either A) make a substantial anonymous donation to the Kickstarter fund or B) outright buy VLC and internalize the development team.

  10. Did anyone else read the headline as on Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City · · Score: 2

    a prelude to the first war in space?

  11. Unidirectional microwave-only cloak -> omnidirectional visible light cloak?

    It's gonna take a little more than "a few years".

  12. Re:Fermi's p on Super-Earth Discovered In Star's Habitable Zone · · Score: 1

    ...1.9 times the radius of the Earth...

    I believe a planet with 7.1 times the mass of Earth, assuming the same density, would only have 1.1923 times the radius of Earth. Check your math.

  13. Moooooo. on Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle · · Score: 2

    It's amazing how hard scientists work to recreate apocalypse scenarios from fiction. In this case, Metal Gear Solid 4.

  14. Touchpad/keyboard for media center computer on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    If you have a Mac Mini or other living room media center setup, use this Logitech app or a similar app to control it.

  15. CERN network architecture on IT At the LHC — Managing a Petabyte of Data Per Second · · Score: 2

    Those with further interest in the article may find this informative:

    http://www.geant2.net/upload/pdf/LHC_networking_v1-9_NC.pdf

    Apparently, CERN uses BGP between T0 and T1, and uses only ACLs, no firewalls, for security.

  16. Re:Asus on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I recommend Asus too. Their computers are the best looking next to Apple's design, durable, and have an extremely good price-to-performance ratio. Don't get Asus and Acer confused, Asus is a much superior brand.

  17. Does not look user friendly on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    The new design strongly highlights the current tab, but subdues the other tabs into an ambiguous text and icon soup; they do not have shape. I'm having a hard enough time getting my parents to grasp the concept of tabbed browsing, must Mozilla and Google make it so much harder with this and the obfuscation of the new tab button?

  18. Pretty cool, I must admit on Nanocoating Waterproofs Any Gadget · · Score: 1

    I was convinced when they took off the back cover of the HTC Thunderbolt and resubmerged it. It would be nice if phones started being shipped with this preapplied. Didn't DuPont already make hydrophobic coating for pants?

  19. Paywall. on Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack · · Score: 1
  20. Electroactive Polymers on New 'Rubber Robot' Crawls Through Small Spaces With Inflatable Limbs · · Score: 1

    don't require bulky air compressors and have been around for decades, and far surpass this in strength and precision.

    Electroactive polymers

    Move along people, nothing to see here but balloon animals.

  21. Re:FYI military uses iodine tablets to purify wate on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    Wow, I never knew that. It's amazing what Wikipedia gets wrong all the time. Dang that unarbitrated hogwash.

  22. FYI military uses iodine tablets to purify water on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 2

    The purified water doesn't taste very good, but when it's the difference between hydrating and not hydrating, aka life and death, it's worth it.

  23. Don't need an optical drive even for live Linux on Whither the Portable Optical Drive? · · Score: 2

    Take a Linux CD ISO and extract it to a FAT32 USB drive (7-zip can do that). Delete isolinux.bin and rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. Then grab syslinux.exe and run "syslinux.exe -mifa [drive]:"

    You can still use the drive for storage.

    There are also many tutorials out there for installing Windows 7 from a thumbdrive.

  24. Re:other bits to consider besides software on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    Yes. In fact, giving free software implies that you think they don't know how to use computers, and that you're a cheapo to boot. People like to load what software they please on their computers, regardless if they had to pay for it or not, what's important to them is that they chose to do it. Big computer companies and lots of geeks just never get that.

  25. Re:Go basic on DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers · · Score: 1

    That solution has always befuddled me. Why bother physically securing hardwired, functioning USB ports when you can

    1. Remove the USB ports or
    2. Disable the USB ports in Group Policy.

    The simplest way to prevent burglars from coming in your windows is to not have windows. Though you may like your windows, USB ports are not a necessity.