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  1. Re:Don't be lazy on Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices · · Score: 1

    If I had up vote points, you would receive them.

    FTFY

  2. Re: "Took some design cues" on Samsung Officially Unpacks Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge At MWC · · Score: 1

    it's < and >.
    Welcome to the 90s.

  3. Re:I strongly disagree. on Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly · · Score: 1
    I like how you say something dumb, get called out for it, and then follow up with random statements completely unrelated to your original point... But i truly lost it at

    If there is a failure of the "command channel" in the table, everything I said is correct.

    (not only because it's complete nonsense)
    Please quit posting on /. forever. Thanks.

  4. Re:how ? on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1

    I never said you said that, but you mentioned it only in the context of programming.
    Besides, you ignore the entire rest of the response.. Pot, meet kettle.

  5. Re:how ? on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1

    Was there a viable standard for this at that time?

  6. Re:How is a HDD firmware written? on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1

    The firmware is either stored on flash memory, or more recently, on the drive itself. Only a small bootloader is still in flash/rom of the controller

    That sounds like a chicken-egg problem. If the drive can access the platters without firmware, what's the point of the firmware then? Or if the 'small bootloader' can actually access the platters, then what does it need to read the 'real thing' from the platters for?

  7. Re:bennett haselton -- what remains what he can't on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr. Low-ID, here's your Interwebs 101: Don't feed the trolls. That is, unless you're in for quality counter trolling.

  8. Re:how ? on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1

    Right, manufacturers typically spend a shitload of $ to engineer their own debug interface and the respective hardware for it when there's an established and well-designed open standard around.

  9. Re:how ? on Ask Slashdot: How Does One Verify Hard Drive Firmware? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Ehm, first of all, JTAG isn't only used for downloading firmware to your device, it's also a debugging interface and *very* widespread.
    Second, you don't typically "disable" the JTAG interface on a released device -- what you do is set some "lock bits" or equivalent in the MCU, so the firmware cannot be read. No need to disable JTAG for that.

    But sure, go on demonstrating how little you know about the matter... AC after all.

  10. Re:Xfce 5 should be based on Qt. on Xfce 4.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Nobody would question that Java code was portable

    Really? Have they finally ported it to any platform other than the JVM?

  11. It's not a test track. Like, really. on Hyperloop Testing Starts Next Year · · Score: 2

    It’s not a proof of concept, or a scale model. It’s the real deal. "It’s not a test track," CEO Dirk Ahlborn says [...]

    Instead, this first prototype will test and tweak practical elements like station setup, boarding procedures, and pod design. [...] It’s also a way to prove that yes, this thing can be built.

    Way to contradict yourself... Twice. Emphasis mine.

  12. Re:Someone hand out some Pink Sombreros! on 3D Printers Making Inroads In Kitchens · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Slashdot sucks - go go soylent on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 0

    Nifty

  14. Re:"Could have allowed"? on Lizard Squad Claims Attack On Lenovo Days After Superfish · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Or a small business.

  15. Re:Strategy games? on Artificial Intelligence Bests Humans At Classic Arcade Games · · Score: 1

    how about chess?

  16. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    <)))><

  17. Re:Only 100 meters on UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology · · Score: 1

    I don't think I would want to be anywhere near that transmitter..

  18. Re:Not even close on UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology · · Score: 1

    PS: even simpler, it should be fairly obvious that 2 GB in roughly 1 second gives a rate of ... well, roughly 2 GB/second, not 1 Tb/second..

  19. Not even close on UK Scientists Claim 1Tbps Data Speed Via Experimental 5G Technology · · Score: 2

    1 Tbps = 1e12 bit/sec
    2 GB = 8*2*2^30 = 2^34 bit
    2^34/1e12 ~= 0.017 sec

  20. Re:I think I speak for everyone when I say on NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh come on, how would that even work? It's one and the same person.

  21. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    Sure. Except there was no nitpicking. OP said/implied "Don't jump on a bike high, you might fail to balance it". Answer is: one of the least likely accidents following riding a bike high would be to (simply) tip over mid-ride due to not being able to balance it.

    Next thing I know, you're nitpicking about how technically every action which directly or indirectly keeps a bike upright is "balancing". While true and pedantic in a lovely way, what you said is useless.

  22. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    Mh, the link should link to *CA, not *CD

  23. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 2
  24. Re:Parental control? on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    On your gateway, filter all traffic from and to your child's device except for a select number of domains which you do want to allow (the whitelist)

  25. Re:Not Bikes... on Federal Study: Marijuana Use Doesn't Increase Auto Crash Rates · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you have not a faint idea what this branch of the discussion originally was about.