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  1. 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.

  2. Re:What is this in banana equivalent doses? on 16 US Ships That Aided In Operation Tomodachi Still Contaminated With Radiation (stripes.com) · · Score: 1

    I calculated 2.96 Libraries of Congress full of bananas.

  3. Re:What's the novelty? on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I was doing that in 1973. But everything in radar repeats at about a 12 year cycle, and that's about the fourth time coded signals have been hailed as revolutionary. The problem is that, if you plug the parameters needed into the radar range equation, the radar receiver needs a lot more sensitivity than the target's radar warning receiver because it's the inverse of the fourth power of the power transmitted vs. the second power at the target. Chopping it into noise-like stuff helps somewhat but you still need a lot of power. So you bang on him with a million watts of ERP and he will probably hear you with the dumbest of detectors, while you have a huge antenna and fancy coding to strain to hear his echo. Then he fires an ARM with a diode for a receiver to home in on your huge antenna.

    Best to get somebody else to transmit a lot of illuminating energy, preferably way off somewhere they can't be shot down. Then you can listen for echoes completely undetected, and you can be closer to the fighting (better sensitivity). It makes sorting out the echoes harder (directions and coding and all that), but that keeps us radar engineers in business.

  4. Re:There's a much easier solution to Trump on Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's a "None Of The Above" party, they'll get my vote.

    In fact, when I went down the line of candidates, Kasich looked better than everyone else, by default.

  5. I, for one, welcome our Microsoft Overlords on Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahahahha, JK, been on Linux for 4 years and enjoying the show "mit großer schadenfreude."

  6. Re:Business model? on Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Twitter, they make it up in volume.

  7. Re:They would prefer Detroit? on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    That would be me, in 1970. I moved to upstate New York, where the air is clean, traffic is miniscule, and Democrats are few and far between. They are also making progress against the kleptocrats. Google could move here, pay people $100K less, and they'd be happier.

  8. Re:Ownership vs. Renting on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    So you have a 20 story house??

  9. Re:And my monthy electric bill... on 2015's Electricity Retirements: 80 Percent Coal Plants (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in upstate NY we vote against those stupid policies regularly, and it does no good because The City votes for them. Until recently we were a monarchy headed by Sheldon Silver.

  10. Re:Cubic inches? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    And weight spec in stones...

  11. Re:GaN Transistors are the future on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that's RF. The promise of GaN was that it would be used everywhere in power circuits. To replace SiC.

    Maybe someday it will. Or something better will come along.

  12. Re:This has become so common it isn't news anymore on Another Windows 10 Update Causing Problems (windowsreport.com) · · Score: 1

    Linux & Wine. Lots of your old XP hardware will work too.

  13. Re:Geo Political Interference on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you oughta read Pope Frank's take on the issue, "Laudatio Si". Because your theology is seriously outta whack.

  14. Re:Why gas? on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    True, but methane breaks down. CO2 is forever until somebody sucks it out of the air and sequesters it.

  15. In upstate NY today, there was a massive spill of Solar Radiation. Dermatologists warned of a possible increase in skin cancer, but with the temperature at 20 degrees, risk is minimal.

  16. Re: Keep 'em coming! on As of Tonight, 1900 Steam Games For Linux (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever Linux innovates, Microsoft copies it. Then makes people buy it (they have no choice).

  17. Re:chip ? on To Secure ATM Transactions: Ditch the Card (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a Greek letter Chi, first letter in Christ.

  18. Re:Icebergs float on glaciers on NASA Announces That Pluto Has Icebergs Floating On Glaciers of Nitrogen Ice (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's like the air in Beijing, only colder?

  19. Don't get mad. Get even. Hasta la Vista, Microsoft!

  20. Re:It'd be interesting... on Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co) · · Score: 1

    In some cases, Win10 never started working.

  21. Oh, great, now they're locked into one of the 300 distros of Linux.

  22. Audacity always was a great audio editor. Although I use OcenAudio sometimes, has more toys.
    For FTP I just use the FireFTP plugin to Firefox.

    If I can't find something on the distro's "app store", I go to osalt.com, or Gismo's Freeware. They have a big section on Linux.

    Pretty much every piece of hardware I have works on Linux (except one Creative webcam). Old scanners, video capture cards, printers that won't work on new Windows.

  23. When you convert them to Linux, the difference is amazing.

  24. Re:Disagree on Grandma's Phone, DSL, and the Copper They Share (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm a retired vacuum tube engineer, you insensitive clod!

    (At least the first part of this statement is true.)

  25. Re:How to end this on A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that would work if "windows support" or others of their ilk were in the US, but they're in Bangalore or Kolkuta.