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  1. Re:The longer you wait... on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 0

    I take you are unfamiliar with the content firewalls in large corporations.

  2. Re:The longer you wait... on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 1

    It's less than the price of the guitar I didn't buy (because I got a junker instead and fixed it up with nice hardware). So I'm tempted.

    I think it would be a neat productivity tool and I could keep my screen private instead of having 4 monitors filling my desk for all to see.

  3. Re: The longer you wait... on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 1

    H, J, K and L were always on the home row.

  4. Big Monitors Please on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 1

    I don't want to play games on one.

    I do want to use one that presents a huge space of windows. I just look at a window and it expands into my central vision and the keyboard and mouse are right there. No need for an array of monitors. No overlapping windows.

  5. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    "However it's nothing like the Portland MAX where they actually took the lines all the way to the airport, unlike in D.C."

    The DC Metro does go to Reagan. It just doesn't go to Dulles.

    However the planes go to Dulles, not Reagan.

  6. Re:Track width (two new rails required) on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's why no one employs me as a train designer.

  7. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    I travel to D.C. from the West coast fairly often. Not once have I been offered a sensible flight option that lands in DCA. It's been Dulles or Baltimore all the way.

  8. Track width on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    They don't need to rip up the track to replace with standard width tracks. They just need to add a third rail. Easy.

  9. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    As one who rides Washington D.C.'s metro rail every day risking death by electrical fire, shooting and/or mugging I feel your pain.

    I've been on it a few times. It seemed to work fine. No muggers.

    However it's nothing like the Portland MAX where they actually took the lines all the way to the airport, unlike in D.C.

  10. Energetic event? on Japan's Space Agency Loses Contact With New X-Ray Telescope Satellite "Hitomi" · · Score: 2

    I don't know about that satellite, but when I'm floating around in a vacuum and I have an energetic event, I feel pretty messed up.
     

  11. For any reasonable bit error rate, it is entirely possible to build a chip that can do error correction at 57 Gbps.

  12. People..... PLEASE... just destroy all those stupid records and data you have policy/access to...
    all they do is turn you into the DEVIL marking other innocents with your sin.

    Unless you happen to be a falsely convicted innocent person who's alibi happens to be in the phone records.

  13. There's an economic need for about 7,000 new lawyers per year, yet our universities are pumping out 40,000 new lawyers per year.

    If only there was a way to increase the number of lawyers needed. Sounds like maybe something the government could help with, they're all lawyers.

    I use about 4 or 6 corporate lawyer weeks a year. Patents, getting sued, etc. So spread across the population there should be 1 lawyer for every 10 working adults.

  14. I especially disagree with his opinion about art. I could see a practical art, maybe, but most of the art scene in big cities sucks. I have had a lot of exposure to it because my sister is really into it (and is one of said artists.) I have attended the shows and other stuff she hosts, and am around lots of other artists that come to these things, and one thing I've observed is that basically nobody comes to these artsy events/shows unless they themselves are an artist, and even then they're mostly just there to support their fellow artists. While the later is applaudable I guess, I can't help but observe that this business model just doesn't work very well, and explains why most of them are poor.

    When I go to those events, it is to buy art to hang on my wall. Often what's showing is shite and I don't buy anything. You find that there are local artists you like and you can ignore the rest. However I agree, those things are packed mostly with artists. I've seen the look on their faces when they conclude that I'm a buyer, not a seller.

  15. Re:He's an "Ideas Man" on Jason Bradbury Believes Coding Lessons In Schools Are a Waste of Time (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 1

    That made me lol. It holds true all the way from Excel power users to the EEs who design the chip circuits. There's a kind of recursive irony in the fact that the EE cannot design a modern cpu without the aid of modern CAD/CAM tools.

    Oh we could. But they would be very different architectures.

  16. Re:Should the Pope Stop Preaching? on Slashdot Asks: Should NPR Stop Promoting Its Own Podcasts and NPR One App On Air? (boingboing.net) · · Score: 0

    Or whatever the hell he does?

    Yes he should. Preaching is teaching people to believe things they are told, not things that they have good reason to believe.

  17. Re:in an attempt to explain this to others.... on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    This may be true. I usually use the command line stuff on my Mac book when transferring -- scp, ssh etc. So it doesn't feel any different to Linux which is running on the majority of machines. The NAS is the only thing on the internal network than multiple OSs talk to.

  18. Re:Insurance on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got no problem with a manual car, but shifting with my left hand gets me all dyslexic. Bad enough I have to drive on the wrong side.

    When I lived in the UK and was travelling to mainland Europe often on business, I got used to flipping back and forth. The most important thing being to pay a little conscious attention at junction so you know the right lane to aim for. If you are on mental autopilot it's easy to go to the wrong side. So you need to make it a conscious thing.

  19. Re:$15,000 on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    A reusable capability would cost more. Cracking one phone without revealing the methods for $15k would be marketing.

  20. Yes. You speak the truth. Those low end desktop macs were not inspiring products.

  21. Re:Don't conflate those things on Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't think governments scale well. The larger the structure the less the possibility of oversight. Why is it that the Canadian government can get things done that the US can't? I suspect dunbar's number is the answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Or just that it's a Parliamentary system, where the party with the majority chooses the leader and so the party and leader in power are actually in power.

  22. My father has a Quadra 610, one of the last true Macs with a Motorola 68k processor.

    I had a Quadra 950. It was awesome. I was fluent in 68K machines code back then (A symptom of college that hadn't worn off yet) and the 68040 CPU was rocking. The box was an example of fine metal origami.

  23. Re:Outside Party? on FBI Delays Case Against Apple; May Have Way To Break Phone (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If I had to guess, I would say it was Johns Hopkins University.....

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    Johns Hopkins denied it today.
     

  24. Re:in an attempt to explain this to others.... on More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't seem to have a problem. I think it's using CIFS (because I expose that for windows PCs as well). My NAS box sits there whirring happily and my Mac Book Pro talks to it without anything that causes me stress.

  25. Re:Scary ... on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    His explanation is a little odd. Either the head-antenna is a more efficient isotropic antenna, so more power is being drawn from the battery, or it's creating a more directional antenna with more of the energy pointed in the direction of the car, or both.

    Maybe we should fit our key fobs with Yagis.