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  1. Re:Too Soon? on Embedded Linux Conference Headlined By Drones · · Score: 2

    Debugger is de person who sold us de system.

  2. Too Soon? on Embedded Linux Conference Headlined By Drones · · Score: 2

    >booting, trace analysis, NAND support, PHY frameworks, power management, defragmenting, *systemd*, device tree, and toolchain.

    Let the ranting begin, right here.

  3. It was never not prohibited on FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 2

    The rules for access to the frequency spectrum used by WiFi require that the device has a mechanism to prevent it interfering with other users of the channel. That is why frequency hopping, spread spectrum and exponential backoff algorithms are all parts of devices permitted to be used in these bands. The devices are not licensed to access the band, they are certified to comply with the rules to access the band.

    A device specifically intended to prevent someone else accessing the band is a clear violation of this law. There was no time since WiFi existed that this was remotely legal.

    People should be in jail.

  4. Re:Worthless on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or build the building horizontally and put in moving walkways.

    Just as much space, at a fraction of the cost and it doesn't have to exist to massage the ego of an oil rich prince who murders atheists for fun.

  5. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    Do you often misinterpret tongue-in-cheek language as serious?

    Maybe it's why you're ashamed of having your identity associated with your words and post AC.

  6. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    My test proves nothing. It's just a thing. Someone might find humour in it.

    The hard to tell comment was referring to the standards of dress.

  7. Re:Cannot WAIT for the Greece Summer Sale! on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Grappa is Italian, you're thinking of Tsipouro -- even if they're mostly the same thing.

    And you're only about the 4th person that I've ever encountered besides me who will admit to liking grappa -- I know old Italians who wince at the mention of it. :-P

    I love grappa. I mourn the end of the bottle I got in Garda several years ago, where my host Mario said "Don't get the muck at the supermarket, I'll show you where to go" and he did.

  8. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Athens: Fail (pimp)
    Penang: Pass
    Copehagen: Fail (prostitute, It's legal there)
    Stockholm: Pass
    Reykjavik: Pass
    Mexico City: Fail (Pimp)
    Madrid: Pass
    Jerusalem: Pass (A pot vendor got there first)
    Haifa: Pass
    Tel Aviv: Fail (Prossy)
    Milan: Pass, but it's hard to tell.
    Munch: Pass
    Frankfurt: Pass
    Paris: Fail (Young madame)
    Levi: Pass (too cold!)
    Seoul: Fail (Front door staff of dubious establishments)
    Daejeon: Pass. Nice place.
    Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama, Kumagaya: Pass, Pass, Pass, Pass, Pass, Pass (in fact no one solicited anything in Japan)
    Amsterdam: Special Fail (prossy, and I was walking with my wife at the time)
    Brussels: Pass (but probably only by random chance)

    The UK and US are not included because I've lived in both places.

  9. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    It's a shame it's in Athens.
    I went there a couple of years ago and I got the impression of a ruin on top of hill on top of a slum.

    I travel a fair amount and I judge the quality of a city based on my experiences in Athens.
    E.G. : The Athens Test
    1) Visit a city.
    2) Go about your business
    3) Note the nature of transaction being offered by the first unsolicited approach you receive on the streets.
    4) If it's a pimp or prostitute offering sexual services, it fails the Athen's test. If it's anything else, it passes.

    Guess which city failed this test most effectively?

  10. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    Sugar in high enough concentration is toxic to bacteria and humans alike.

  11. Re:VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, System C on Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? · · Score: 1

    Haskell is quite unpleasant. It's like they pretend that it's a pure language by giving all its hacks academic names. Monads? Currying? Closures? Hacks.

  12. Re:VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, System C on Ask Slashdot: Is Pascal Underrated? · · Score: 1

    You mean EDIF. Been there, done that. God it sucked.

  13. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    So go ahead and eat nasty overcooked eggs. Your loss.

  14. Re:Seems to me that the cops getsit backwards on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    >executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police,

    That sounds pretty gender discriminatory to me.

  15. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    Dang, we'll outsource anything.

  16. Re:Boiled at 90C? on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    It's a pretty central fact to cooking. If water boiled at 385 Kelvin, we'd have made 100C = 385K.

  17. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    At the bottom of website you posted:

    The FDA now requires that eggs must be packaged and refrigerated within 36 hours. We exceed these newest standards. This minimizes Salmonella from growing in or on the eggs. One should assume, most raw foods may have some level of bacteria and as usual we advise that all eggs be properly cooked to a temperature of 165F to ensure destruction of any Salmonella and to wash hands with soap after handling eggs. After all we do live in a world of microbes.

    Eat safely,

    Phoenix's Egg Farm

    That kinda contradicts your statement.

    No. It suggests a lawyer told them to put that there to cover their arses.
    I've been eating their eggs for some years, because I understand their farming practices are sound, so there is a substantially lower risk of salmonella poisoning than from other supplies.

  18. Re:Boiled at 90C? on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    >Which again supports my point. For real world use there's little difference between Celsius and Fahrenheit for people who use them. That celsius is based on properties of one chemical compound (out of millions of compounds) really doesn't make it more useful for anything.

    I cook with water every day.Stop pretending the boiling point of mercury is just a relevant to most people. It isn't.

    212 isn't a big round number. 100 is.

  19. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    It seems like just another degradation of language by the uneducated. The naming certainly was part of my CS degree curriculum. In the 80s and 90s it was sufficiently established that it was taught in colleges and it's neither complicated nor difficult to grasp.

  20. Re:Boiled at 90C? on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    Celsius is only arbitrary if you ignore the fact that it's anchored to two immediately useful temperature for most people in most places.

    Remembers the freezing point and boiling point of water in Kelvin would suck just as much as it does in Fahrenheit. When I've doing physics calculations, I'll use Kelvin, where it's the logical unit leading to the simplest form of equation.

  21. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    It would be an interesting way to eat a "raw" egg without having to worry about salmonella.

    I eat raw eggs without worrying about salmonella.

    I get my eggs from these guys: http://www.phoenixseggfarm.com...

    If your egg supply is infected, you should change egg supplier. Those eggs cost more, but they don't make me ill.

  22. Re:Wow .... on Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg · · Score: 1

    So there's money to be made breeding hamsters for their ovaries?

  23. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    What problem? I was explaining why it's called firmware to the guy 2 levels up who things Android doesn't reside in any sort of ROM, whereas is obviously does. We don't have the universal, persistent RAM quite yet.

  24. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 2

    Google aren't manufacturing and selling the phones to the carriers. The manufacturer is.

    The phone that Google manufacture are generally updated in a timely fashion.

  25. Re:The solution is obvious on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 1

    Software : In Ram
    Firmware : In Rom, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH ROM, Bubble memory, Phase change memory or something you built with Lego.