I'm with Linus on this one. Be yourself... There are too many companies and individuals that think they are great coders and they are not. And when you are contributing to the kernel writing piss poor code you deserve to be put in your place. Standards need to be achieved. They need to know if they attempt to contribute buggy code then they will get ridiculed. Why ???? Maybe they will do more QA before they attempt to upload.
Or.. if you are a conspiracy theorist like me... you are an employee from Microsoft or Wind River purposely attempting to cripple the Linux Kernel.
Ahh.. Now we have to vote between a Marxist or a Moron.
Maybe we should all write in Ron Paul! I don't like the way the Republican Party screwed him.
RI and Virginia delegates were blocked from voting in the nomination process. Their buses were actually blocked from parking.
The delegates should of got out, walked, and storm the convention to cast their vote.
I hope there's a grass roots campaign to write someone in. I don't like Obama... he created an "Obamanation of our great nation". I can't vote for Romney
either. I would vote for Ron Paul, he's for a flat income tax. I am all for that. Everyone should pay the same percentage no matter how much you make.
That's fair.
I live in a Massachusetts suburb near a town beach yet far enough away from the water that it doesn't force me to buy flood insurance.
This has helped my home keep it's value.
I second the North East. I have headhunters calling me every day. IT R&D is ramping up big time.
I'm content with my 24 mile commute. I get to drive my Wrangler Sport to work. No need for a fuel sipping commuter vehicle. I live @65 miles south of Boston
in a rural community.
I doubt they are running a remote firmware update. I bet they are just uploading python scripts, and if it fails, no worries Curiosity will receive a new program update.
Hopefully they are blowing up media hype. I wish NASA would be more scientific when talking to the public. we are not all idiots, just 75% of the population won't understand it. It's a shame really. Maybe the rest of the public can learn more if they are not talked down to.
One year ago I dumped my facebook account. I deleted all my posts, all my photos, all my friends, renamed my name to a fictitious name, and closed the account.
The problem is when you close the account it's still there so that's why I went through the hassle of deleting everything. WHY? I'll tell you why. I've been married to my wife for 26 years. She's awesome, she's my best friend too. A Girlfriend I had before I met my wife found me on facebook, next thing you know an old circle of friends found me. My youngest son's gf was also posting questions to her friends, I was also a friend. The post said "should I pierce my nose" ? Me being the way I am said "hell no, you have a cute little nose. a piercing would make you look like a skank."... well.. maybe skank means more than it did in the 80s. My youngest son and his gf was upset with me so I said you know what ? Enough of this crap. I was using fb to share photos of 4 wheeling with my Jeep and stuff, I don't care to know what everyone is up to. And if my sweet wife read what the old gf posted out of context, she would get upset. So I deleted everything. It's been a year now and no more fb notifications! I prefer to keep it that way.
My son's gf never got her nose pierced, in the end she agreed that her nose is too cute. And it turned out her dad said something similar to what I said.
She's still with my son.
I feel relieved that the old GF can't find me. I never posted my true street address, only the region I live in, that is all.
We should "minimize" our footprint on the internet if we really care about this. I deleted all my FB friends, pictures, and posts. I then changed my fb name to a fictitious one. I think we should all do it. Sure I have an account on a Jeep forum, linked in (it's out of data because my present employer monitors activity of employees there), slashdot, diydrones, and that's it. Everything else just has my ip as a footprint. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just tired of big brother. I'm worried about what society is going to be like 20 years from now. I hope my kids and grandkids still have their freedom.
I've built quadcopters and other r/c devices. I'm even guilty of purchasing parts at hobbyking. granted some the the parts are great, but you always need to order extra because the QA over in China isn't very good. I love the thrust I get out of the NTN 26-28a motor, but man.. If you need 4 motors you need to order 6 because 50% of the motors have bearings that fail. If it wasn't for the bearings the motors would be one of the best. I'm going to replace the bearings once I get the proper tools. Also tolerance.. hmm... you can always count on one part being wrong or a hole not lining up and have to machine the part yourself. Now imagine QA like that on a Lunar Lander project. Those poor Asians on that Lunar Lander. I say they have a 50% chance of survival. Not because they are not smart.. they are very smart. But they have QA issues.
It's time for the consumer to control the market. Refuse to purchase any computer that requires UEFI secure boot. Purposely goto best by, que up a sale, and at the last minute ask if it requires a signed bootloader.. and after they say yes. Walk away from the sale. Apple, HP, Gigabyte, and ASUS won't keep shipping motherboards they can't sell. It's time we take technology back. If this is the way it's gonna be I'll import my motherboard from a company that enables you to disable secure boot. DRM was forced upon us, we are winning the battle. Now it's time for another fight.
I used to make Jokes that Raytheon uses Java for all the user interfaces since I think when it comes to weaponry, Java is slow.
It's good to see they are moving to Linux, but I hope it's a hardened Linux. Also I'd like to see all the devices used in the drone to be able to authenticate authenticity.
I build vertical take off drones, I've got a quadcopter and I'm building a new one based on the APM 2.0 controller. I mounted a small micro car remote camera to my quadpod and record video to an sd card. My larger quadcopter will be able to lock on gps position, heading, and altitude.. awesome for photography. It will also support an upload of gps waypoints from google maps. I'm working on object avoidance sensors and code. I'm thinking about using the proximity radar sensors that have been available in the net for a while. I've got down facing sonar for auto takeoff and landing. I was going to arm the quadpod with a 100mw laser module to blow up balloons and melt r/c airplanes made of EPO foam, but I chickened out because it's not exactly eye safe, even with goggles. If you get a relection from the side you are in trouble. I might arm it with an airsoft gun. That would be cool.
Haven't we learned anything from sci-fi ? If we let Watson do all the thinking for us we will devolve and man's intelligence will deteriorate.
If you don't use it, you loose it. Just like anything else.
It's bad enough that we need Google to do research.
This is good news. The USA needs a good old Cold War Style competition to revive the sleeping giant! Hopefully the next president will have their priorities straight. Remember the booming 80's when the economy just grew? Well the spending done to grow the technology and build the hardware to make such a lunar mission possible will bail both countries out of their financial demise.
Around the year 1989 I was working as an Engineering Tech building and testing devices based on the 8051 embedded controller. Mostly access control systems.
The company fell on financial hard times around 1990, I found myself dealing with unemployment. I was renting an apartment from my inlaws at the time, had two sons and one on the way. I hit the ground running looking for work, at that time the US was still designing and manufacturing products locally but the economic slowdown put the brakes on hiring anyone, no matter how good you were. So what did I do? I taught myself Solaris, CAD, hooked myself up as an Autodesk developer. Back in the 90s companies used to submit RFQs in the newspaper. I found one requesting a high speed large printer solution. I partnered with a company that provided such hardware, an high speed plotter. When I presented my company I had to come up with a name on the fly since I couldn't just be a DBA.
I came up with Innovative Technology because the idea was that I'm gonna Innovate. The CTO of the company said "nice presentation, tell you what. Our current E
size drawings take over 45 minutes to plot. We just won a contract to wire a major building in NYC. We need to cut the time down, can you help?"
I replied that I could conduct a demo and plot out an E size drawing in less than 3 minutes. The CTO replied that If I could do that then they will offer me the contract. Well I called JDL, they hooked me up with another company, I wrote my code to integrate the plotter into their network, I bought a Sun Sparc 5 from a liquidator, ran my code on there. I installed PCNFS on the test workstation, connected to my printer driver, tested at the vendors site. I got the sample drawing done in 2.5 minutes. I was ready for the demo. I conducted the demo the following week, won the contract and the profit I earned bankrolled my business for a year. I grew the business, I added other vertical markets such as Point of Sale System, I even tought myself how to work on HP AS400 systems and landed a
contract to provide system administration on a visiting nurse company's system. I ran my onw consulting gig for 6 years. The only reason why I sold it and gave it up was I had a young wife and family that I wanted to spend more time with. I put in over 140hrs/week into my business. With the experience I picked up I was able to get my resume out and get a new job in the IT Industry in one week. I used the money I saved to put down on my first house. Yes I miss running my own business, but when I ran my own business I missed my family. All in all it's been a great ride.
I'm not an immigrant. I'm the great grandson of an immigrant if that counts. The way I look at it was I needed to leverage my skills to provide for me and my family. The motivation wasn't to earn megabucks. I would hustle, save some money, if I had a surplus for the month I'd take a short vacation with the wife and kids
The short 3 day vacations wasn't enough though. Trust me, working 40hrs/week I see my family a lot more.
I think anyone here on Slashdot, if they had to, they could run their own consulting business.
Who knows, I may have to do it again someday.
Nevermind. This is a good thing. I was ripping at first. The Black Box has been with GM cars since 1994 and my 2010 Jeep Wrangler has it too. Basically the vehicles recorder stores the last 15 seconds of data this way if you die in a crash, data can be retrieved from the black box to see if the vehicle failed in any way.
Also the data can help you if you are in an accident and the accident was not your fault. It can not be used to monitor your driving.
LED lights may be cheap to run but they are hard on the eyes. Fluorescent, Sodium Vapor, they all suck. There's nothing like the glow of a incandescent bulb.
It's a warmer light. Easier on the eyes too.
Damn. When my kids were little I used to setup the refractor telescope with the solar reflector to view solar activity. Sunspots are easy to watch and detect. also I made my own equipment to observe the corona. It's real easy actually. Just create a metal disk that's large enough to block the disk of the sun, put it in the path of your telescopic solar projector. I taught my kids how to observe just the reflection on the screen.... and NOT TO LOOK DIRECTLY through the telescope.
Hmm..this dude must have watch too much sci-fi and not enough schooling.
I hope this article was posted on slashdot just to prove how dumb some people are.
As I'm getting older I'm starting to value my privacy more and more. So... I deleted all my friends, posts, and pictures on facebook and renamed my name to a fictitious character. As I'm getting older I value my privacy. If I want to talk about something I'll wait until I see them. I don't need everyone knowing my business.
I think all of us here should do the same. Too many people are addicted to facebook. It's an illness. Do you have any idea how many work colleagues hit facebook during work hours or on the phone hitting fb during the commute home ?
Think about the stresses that this structure will be under! Nevermind the power requirements for a MAGLEV. Maybe the people who dreamed this tried to beat alcoholism by taking LSD ? ->reference to other insane slashdot news posting.
Is this the dumbing down of science ? I design autonomous robots. Running on a treadmill is nothing compared to running on terrain! Running on a treadmill the feet and stride do not need to adapt for the terrain. The balance algorithm isn't as complicated if you are running on a treadmill.
I'd imagine that this robot is pretty easy to knock off it's feet.
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Have you ever used a SDR to read the transaction between a fob and a volkwagen ? It's very interesting. Also it's not encrypted. I don't know why.
I'm with Linus on this one. Be yourself... There are too many companies and individuals that think they are great coders and they are not. And when you are contributing to the kernel writing piss poor code you deserve to be put in your place. Standards need to be achieved. They need to know if they attempt to contribute buggy code then they will get ridiculed. Why ???? Maybe they will do more QA before they attempt to upload. Or.. if you are a conspiracy theorist like me... you are an employee from Microsoft or Wind River purposely attempting to cripple the Linux Kernel.
Hopefully market demand will render Intel's attempt at controlling the motherboard market to fail.
Ahh.. Now we have to vote between a Marxist or a Moron. Maybe we should all write in Ron Paul! I don't like the way the Republican Party screwed him. RI and Virginia delegates were blocked from voting in the nomination process. Their buses were actually blocked from parking. The delegates should of got out, walked, and storm the convention to cast their vote. I hope there's a grass roots campaign to write someone in. I don't like Obama... he created an "Obamanation of our great nation". I can't vote for Romney either. I would vote for Ron Paul, he's for a flat income tax. I am all for that. Everyone should pay the same percentage no matter how much you make. That's fair.
I live in a Massachusetts suburb near a town beach yet far enough away from the water that it doesn't force me to buy flood insurance. This has helped my home keep it's value.
I second the North East. I have headhunters calling me every day. IT R&D is ramping up big time. I'm content with my 24 mile commute. I get to drive my Wrangler Sport to work. No need for a fuel sipping commuter vehicle. I live @65 miles south of Boston in a rural community.
I doubt they are running a remote firmware update. I bet they are just uploading python scripts, and if it fails, no worries Curiosity will receive a new program update. Hopefully they are blowing up media hype. I wish NASA would be more scientific when talking to the public. we are not all idiots, just 75% of the population won't understand it. It's a shame really. Maybe the rest of the public can learn more if they are not talked down to.
One year ago I dumped my facebook account. I deleted all my posts, all my photos, all my friends, renamed my name to a fictitious name, and closed the account. The problem is when you close the account it's still there so that's why I went through the hassle of deleting everything. WHY? I'll tell you why. I've been married to my wife for 26 years. She's awesome, she's my best friend too. A Girlfriend I had before I met my wife found me on facebook, next thing you know an old circle of friends found me. My youngest son's gf was also posting questions to her friends, I was also a friend. The post said "should I pierce my nose" ? Me being the way I am said "hell no, you have a cute little nose. a piercing would make you look like a skank."... well.. maybe skank means more than it did in the 80s. My youngest son and his gf was upset with me so I said you know what ? Enough of this crap. I was using fb to share photos of 4 wheeling with my Jeep and stuff, I don't care to know what everyone is up to. And if my sweet wife read what the old gf posted out of context, she would get upset. So I deleted everything. It's been a year now and no more fb notifications! I prefer to keep it that way. My son's gf never got her nose pierced, in the end she agreed that her nose is too cute. And it turned out her dad said something similar to what I said. She's still with my son. I feel relieved that the old GF can't find me. I never posted my true street address, only the region I live in, that is all.
We should "minimize" our footprint on the internet if we really care about this. I deleted all my FB friends, pictures, and posts. I then changed my fb name to a fictitious one. I think we should all do it. Sure I have an account on a Jeep forum, linked in (it's out of data because my present employer monitors activity of employees there), slashdot, diydrones, and that's it. Everything else just has my ip as a footprint. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm just tired of big brother. I'm worried about what society is going to be like 20 years from now. I hope my kids and grandkids still have their freedom.
I've built quadcopters and other r/c devices. I'm even guilty of purchasing parts at hobbyking. granted some the the parts are great, but you always need to order extra because the QA over in China isn't very good. I love the thrust I get out of the NTN 26-28a motor, but man.. If you need 4 motors you need to order 6 because 50% of the motors have bearings that fail. If it wasn't for the bearings the motors would be one of the best. I'm going to replace the bearings once I get the proper tools. Also tolerance.. hmm... you can always count on one part being wrong or a hole not lining up and have to machine the part yourself. Now imagine QA like that on a Lunar Lander project. Those poor Asians on that Lunar Lander. I say they have a 50% chance of survival. Not because they are not smart.. they are very smart. But they have QA issues.
It's time for the consumer to control the market. Refuse to purchase any computer that requires UEFI secure boot. Purposely goto best by, que up a sale, and at the last minute ask if it requires a signed bootloader.. and after they say yes. Walk away from the sale. Apple, HP, Gigabyte, and ASUS won't keep shipping motherboards they can't sell. It's time we take technology back. If this is the way it's gonna be I'll import my motherboard from a company that enables you to disable secure boot. DRM was forced upon us, we are winning the battle. Now it's time for another fight.
I used to make Jokes that Raytheon uses Java for all the user interfaces since I think when it comes to weaponry, Java is slow. It's good to see they are moving to Linux, but I hope it's a hardened Linux. Also I'd like to see all the devices used in the drone to be able to authenticate authenticity. I build vertical take off drones, I've got a quadcopter and I'm building a new one based on the APM 2.0 controller. I mounted a small micro car remote camera to my quadpod and record video to an sd card. My larger quadcopter will be able to lock on gps position, heading, and altitude.. awesome for photography. It will also support an upload of gps waypoints from google maps. I'm working on object avoidance sensors and code. I'm thinking about using the proximity radar sensors that have been available in the net for a while. I've got down facing sonar for auto takeoff and landing. I was going to arm the quadpod with a 100mw laser module to blow up balloons and melt r/c airplanes made of EPO foam, but I chickened out because it's not exactly eye safe, even with goggles. If you get a relection from the side you are in trouble. I might arm it with an airsoft gun. That would be cool.
Haven't we learned anything from sci-fi ? If we let Watson do all the thinking for us we will devolve and man's intelligence will deteriorate. If you don't use it, you loose it. Just like anything else. It's bad enough that we need Google to do research.
Uhm we need military bases. How else are we going to protect ourselves from the Middle Easterm Mutant Zombie Apocalypse ?
Yeah but the Russians were the first to get a probe to land on venus and transmit photos and data back. That's a feat in itself. Venus is damn hot.
This is good news. The USA needs a good old Cold War Style competition to revive the sleeping giant! Hopefully the next president will have their priorities straight. Remember the booming 80's when the economy just grew? Well the spending done to grow the technology and build the hardware to make such a lunar mission possible will bail both countries out of their financial demise.
Next thing you know all babies will be created in a test tube.
Around the year 1989 I was working as an Engineering Tech building and testing devices based on the 8051 embedded controller. Mostly access control systems. The company fell on financial hard times around 1990, I found myself dealing with unemployment. I was renting an apartment from my inlaws at the time, had two sons and one on the way. I hit the ground running looking for work, at that time the US was still designing and manufacturing products locally but the economic slowdown put the brakes on hiring anyone, no matter how good you were. So what did I do? I taught myself Solaris, CAD, hooked myself up as an Autodesk developer. Back in the 90s companies used to submit RFQs in the newspaper. I found one requesting a high speed large printer solution. I partnered with a company that provided such hardware, an high speed plotter. When I presented my company I had to come up with a name on the fly since I couldn't just be a DBA. I came up with Innovative Technology because the idea was that I'm gonna Innovate. The CTO of the company said "nice presentation, tell you what. Our current E size drawings take over 45 minutes to plot. We just won a contract to wire a major building in NYC. We need to cut the time down, can you help?" I replied that I could conduct a demo and plot out an E size drawing in less than 3 minutes. The CTO replied that If I could do that then they will offer me the contract. Well I called JDL, they hooked me up with another company, I wrote my code to integrate the plotter into their network, I bought a Sun Sparc 5 from a liquidator, ran my code on there. I installed PCNFS on the test workstation, connected to my printer driver, tested at the vendors site. I got the sample drawing done in 2.5 minutes. I was ready for the demo. I conducted the demo the following week, won the contract and the profit I earned bankrolled my business for a year. I grew the business, I added other vertical markets such as Point of Sale System, I even tought myself how to work on HP AS400 systems and landed a contract to provide system administration on a visiting nurse company's system. I ran my onw consulting gig for 6 years. The only reason why I sold it and gave it up was I had a young wife and family that I wanted to spend more time with. I put in over 140hrs /week into my business. With the experience I picked up I was able to get my resume out and get a new job in the IT Industry in one week. I used the money I saved to put down on my first house. Yes I miss running my own business, but when I ran my own business I missed my family. All in all it's been a great ride.
I'm not an immigrant. I'm the great grandson of an immigrant if that counts. The way I look at it was I needed to leverage my skills to provide for me and my family. The motivation wasn't to earn megabucks. I would hustle, save some money, if I had a surplus for the month I'd take a short vacation with the wife and kids
The short 3 day vacations wasn't enough though. Trust me, working 40hrs/week I see my family a lot more.
I think anyone here on Slashdot, if they had to, they could run their own consulting business.
Who knows, I may have to do it again someday.
Nevermind. This is a good thing. I was ripping at first. The Black Box has been with GM cars since 1994 and my 2010 Jeep Wrangler has it too. Basically the vehicles recorder stores the last 15 seconds of data this way if you die in a crash, data can be retrieved from the black box to see if the vehicle failed in any way. Also the data can help you if you are in an accident and the accident was not your fault. It can not be used to monitor your driving.
LED lights may be cheap to run but they are hard on the eyes. Fluorescent, Sodium Vapor, they all suck. There's nothing like the glow of a incandescent bulb. It's a warmer light. Easier on the eyes too.
Damn. When my kids were little I used to setup the refractor telescope with the solar reflector to view solar activity. Sunspots are easy to watch and detect. also I made my own equipment to observe the corona. It's real easy actually. Just create a metal disk that's large enough to block the disk of the sun, put it in the path of your telescopic solar projector. I taught my kids how to observe just the reflection on the screen.... and NOT TO LOOK DIRECTLY through the telescope. Hmm..this dude must have watch too much sci-fi and not enough schooling. I hope this article was posted on slashdot just to prove how dumb some people are.
As I'm getting older I'm starting to value my privacy more and more. So... I deleted all my friends, posts, and pictures on facebook and renamed my name to a fictitious character. As I'm getting older I value my privacy. If I want to talk about something I'll wait until I see them. I don't need everyone knowing my business. I think all of us here should do the same. Too many people are addicted to facebook. It's an illness. Do you have any idea how many work colleagues hit facebook during work hours or on the phone hitting fb during the commute home ?
Think about the stresses that this structure will be under! Nevermind the power requirements for a MAGLEV. Maybe the people who dreamed this tried to beat alcoholism by taking LSD ? ->reference to other insane slashdot news posting.
feet, stride, gait, and balance all need to be adaptable when walking on terrain.
Is this the dumbing down of science ? I design autonomous robots. Running on a treadmill is nothing compared to running on terrain! Running on a treadmill the feet and stride do not need to adapt for the terrain. The balance algorithm isn't as complicated if you are running on a treadmill. I'd imagine that this robot is pretty easy to knock off it's feet.