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  1. Re:Well it's about time on Integrated Circuit Amplifier Breaches Terahertz Barrier · · Score: 1

    >At that point the connectors are lossier than the gain maybe...

    The pot-o-gold is to do it on silicon, with the downconversion a few nm away.
     

  2. Re:washing machine fun on NASA Spacecraft Images Crash Site of Retired LADEE Probe · · Score: 2

    But you'd be required by state law to hire a licensed and bonded plumber to remove it from the crater.

  3. Narrow Bezel vs. Thin on LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Narrow bezels are nice.
    Thin cases are very, very poor tradeoff.

    Twice as thin == 1/3 of the potential battery volume, bendgate and a less robust design.
    I'd love my Nexus 5 to be a couple of mm thicker with the extra volume filled with battery. I expect there are some iphone6 owners in the same spot.

  4. Re:Plays nicely inside a container on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    > it can do all this while just spawning one program inside just like chroot does (so no need to run systemd inside).

    Kind of how Plan9 handles every process. Plan9 does it with less fussing though.

  5. Re:Nice Thing: systemctl status shows you log entr on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    I tried it. It took 5 seconds to complete and put funny carreted As in the output..
                          ââ 670 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

    WTF?

  6. Re:It freakin' works fine on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 1

    I one tried to get MythTV to work with Pulseaudio.

    There may be unsolved crimes from that era, but I couldn't tell you if it was me. I had my memory of that time wiped to save me further anguish.

  7. Gay? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 3, Funny

    So he isn't sad?

    Neither would I be with that income stream and position of power.

  8. Re:Jesus never says no to non-believers on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1

    > it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual

    If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.

    Less than 200 years ago, slavery was considered a good thing by the Western civilization. Moral isn't a static value, it changes. At the times the Bible was compiled, such acts were admissible.

    So as a survival/moral/ethical manual, it's not really cutting it any more.

  9. Re:Why at a place of learning? on Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease · · Score: 1

    Careful! There might be Haskell programmers on campus.

  10. Re:6 years of hacking with the same malware? on Security Companies Team Up, Take Down Chinese Hacking Group · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A sane hacking group would just use the existing hack until it fails, while keeping the new tricks in reserve. Expect more, better hacks from the hackers. They've had a while to work on them.

  11. Re:Jesus never says no to non-believers on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1

    > For example, you can never put too much water on a nuclear reactor.

    Like in Fukushima?

  12. Re:Jesus never says no to non-believers on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1

    > it's more or less of a survival/moral/ethical manual

    If that were so, I would have killed my disrespectful daughter and wife by now.

  13. Re:Commonwealth? on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 0

    You do know that the Queen runs the commonwealth don't you?

    Will they want to be joining in with the commonwealth games?

  14. Re:Jesus never says no to non-believers on Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination · · Score: 1, Insightful

    >If one studies the Bible one will understand that Jesus Christ ain't a dude who will say *NO!* to the non-believers

    That presupposes that the accounts are true. I have reason to think they might not be.

  15. Re: What will it take? on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Yes. But that's not a street bus. What's to stop people walking on a bus and ignoring the machine. I think that's a hard problem without a human present to enforce it.

    With an underground you have machines and people employed to watch the machines. On a street bus the driver both drives and enforces payment.

  16. Re:SystemD! on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    But the original SystemBCPL had a structural beauty that later versions never matched.

  17. Re:She's.. on Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer · · Score: 1

    The events have been well documented.
    The events were not at all well represented by the press.

  18. Re:She's.. on Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And yet I was modded down. Do Fox news reporters get mod points?

  19. Re:She's.. on Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer · · Score: -1, Troll

    >"And as I was typing and working on questions for a Benghazi-related story"

    That's all you need to know she's a partisan hack.

  20. Re: What will it take? on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Automated driving of a bus is probably and order of magnitude simpler that automated collection of cash from bus passengers.

  21. What will it take? on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Automated vehicles that work?

  22. Re:What a great idea! on US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    That's the most messed up thing I've read in a long time.

  23. Would it hurt the article author.. on OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .. to spend a sentence explaining what the hell factory and tubleweed are?

  24. Re:A bit???? on Austin Airport Tracks Cell Phones To Measure Security Line Wait · · Score: 1

    RFCs? That's IEEE 802.

    For 802.11, the chicken and egg problem is that you use the MAC in the security association exchange.

    For MAC randomization you must do duplicate detection. The recent proposal in IEEE 802.11 by Mathieu Crunche was to send a reverse ARP to probe the MAC you are trying to spoof. Retry until you get no response.

    But you can't send that RARP until you've done the security association. So you'd have to invent something else to get around that problem or do it a different way.

  25. Re:PDX on Austin Airport Tracks Cell Phones To Measure Security Line Wait · · Score: 1

    Yup. There are many things wrong with the TSA.