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  1. Huawei Tablet on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I donâ(TM)t know, man.
    This is what my Huawei Tablets wants to do, if I merely want to use a networked android app:

    https://twitter.com/BramStolk/...

    Straight up evil, if you ask me.

  2. Oh, Android. on Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Android and battery use...

    Unsurprising that a battery wont last.
    Hook up your phone to a PC and do âadb logcatâ(TM) to see a whirlwind of logs flying by at the speed of light.

    So.....much......crap.

    Iâ(TM)m a mobile dev, and Android devices are just too bloated. iOS bloat is growing too btw, but Android is in a league of its own.

    I dare you... adb logcat, and try to read it. You canâ(TM)t.

  3. If they are using the 7Y75, then it is only 4.5W TDP.
    No fan needed for that.
    http://ark.intel.com/products/...

    Seems like a great CPU for that wattage.

  4. Oil on Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Step1 in defeating them is so easy:

    Severely punish everyone buying isis oil.
    Assesinate them by cia if req'd.

    But somehow, the super power with oil addiction is far too sensitive when it comes to oil interests.
    Quit that oil addiction and hit the buyers hard.

    Maybe put radioactive tracers in the wells, and close down all refinaries where the trace shows up.
    Especially if it is a US owned refinary. Bomb it if you must.

  5. It sure was for me! on Video Games: Gateway To a Programming Career? · · Score: 1

    In 1981 I played the pacman clone 'Munchkin' on a friend's Philips Videopac game computer.
    I was hooked, and asked my father for a 'game computer.'

    He refused and said "We'll get a real computer instead."
    I asked him "What is a real computer?"
    And he responded: "With a real computer you can make your OWN games."

    We got a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and today I have my own indie game company and had a hit-game on the Appstore, reaching #1 iPad app in many countries.
    Games got me into programming.

  6. Re:What do you need the 3D for? on Ask Slashdot: GPU of Choice For OpenCL On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Submitter here:
    I don't need 3D as in the sense of rasterizing triangles in 3D space.
    I need the GPU to do General Purpose computing, as clearly stated in the summary.

    In my case: I need to do a massive amount of intersection tests between rays and AABBs.

  7. Waste on Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars · · Score: 1

    Such a waste of money.
    This will not make it onto the roads: overly complex.

    The money would be better spent on actual transparent material.
    If we could manufacture a material as transparent as glass or plastic, with similar properties as steel, they would make excellent pillars.

  8. Re:Wrong on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read the summary again. I did not bring up 'the sun', the summary did, claiming only the sun can do net positive fusion.

  9. Wrong on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Only the sun you say?
    A hydrogen bomb yields more energy than was put it, by a large margin.

    We can do fusion, we just cannot control it yet.

  10. No linux client from google on Dropbox Caught Between Warring Giants Amazon and Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is dropbox for me:
    There is no linux client for Google Drive.
    I think years ago it was supposed to be 'soon'.

  11. Wow... That is a LOT of devs.
    So we got 60k games coming to the platform.

    I got a dk2 as well, and yes: I am a dev.

  12. Article seems ignorant of current state on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    I think the article screwed up here.
    From the article:

    "Party Play allows four friends to connect via BlueTooth controllers to an iPad, enabling local splitscreen multiplayer. Take your iPad out to your flatscreen TV with a HDMI adaptor and bingo, the Apple microconsole has arrived."

    So the iPad is the microconsole, and you can ALREADY DO THIS.

    The iPad can mirror anything to a TV using HDMI, and the iPad can already do MFi controllers, so there is NOTHING NEW HERE.

  13. Rent vs own on Joss Whedon Releases New Film On Demand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I do not like renting, I prefer to own.
    Just put it up on AppleTV so it conveniently becomes part of my iTunes lib.
    Also I don't have patience for sloppy flash based players.

  14. Hasbro My3D on For $20, Build a VR Headset For Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Here you go: Hasbro My3D

    https://www.google.ca/search?q...

  15. Re:Bigger problem: stupid 'optimizations' on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    I bet it is.
    Where are the numbers from the profile runs?
    Could have left it in the code comments, or somewhere on a mailing list.

  16. Re:Bigger problem: stupid 'optimizations' on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    OpenSSL has a functionality: to provide high security. If it fails to do that, it loses all reason to exist, regardless of how efficient the code is.
    Also: allocation does not tend to show up in profiling.
    Last, note that allocation was deemed slow on SOME PLATFORMS.
    Way to go: completely compromise the security on all platforms because you think that on some platforms allocation is slow.

  17. Bigger problem: stupid 'optimizations' on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The bigger problem is coders that think they need to optimize for speed.
    Read the horror here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane...

    Ugh... premature optimization, the root of all evil. And now also the root of the biggest security hole ever.

  18. iPad on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please, give her an iPad.
    Less problems for you, less problems for Grandma.

    Zero maintenance, easy to use.
    This is no contest.

  19. Re: It's not free on PC Game Prices — Valve Starts the Race To Zero · · Score: 1

    Hrs of development does not scale linearly with hrs of play.

    A game with double the content will typically take marginaly more dev time to create.

  20. counter rotating on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    If the two engines rev at different speeds, the whole plane will start to roll, faster and faster.
    Consider this scenario:
    Engine 1 stalls.
    Engine 2 has its throttle stuck at wide open (Aircraft engines do this e.g. when linkage breaks: full throttle is safer than no throttle.)
    Then the pilot will die a horrible death EVEN BEFORE HITTING THE GOUND.

    You can do this with electric engines, not with IC engines.
    It's a death trap, and it will not fly.

  21. Logarithms! on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    Guess what... bitcoin price is arguably still trending up.
    All you have to do is look at the logarithmic graph.
    And frankly, logarithmic is the only way to view it, considering the exponential price movement.
    Here's the data: http://bitcoincharts.com/chart...

  22. benchmark on NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Tested, Fastest Android 4.3 Slate Under $200 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It does well for on-screen benchmarks, because of the low resolution of 1280x720.
    For on-screen tests, it will have to process fewer pixels than the more expensive models with high-res screens.
    This makes it look faster than it is, as you can see by the off-screen benchmark results.

  23. Re:Listen to A.S.T. on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 1

    That word does not mean what you think it means. In fact, kernel dbus is probably the most microkernel-ish feature I've seen added to the Linux kernel (although I haven't been paying close attention).

    From wikipedia:
    Traditional operating system functions, such as device drivers, protocol stacks and file systems, are removed from the microkernel to run in user space.

  24. Listen to A.S.T. on Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum had a point about Linux not being micro kernel.
    This is getting crazy: moving perfectly fine userland systems to the kernel.
    Isn't the kernel large enough already?

  25. Sometimes you need inefficiency on 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out · · Score: 0

    My previous apartment had a bathroom without conventional heating.
    You could still make the bathroom warm enough with the lights above the mirror though.
    Six bulbs of 60W gave me a nice and cosy 360W heating, which is actually not that bad in a small bathroom.
    If you remember to turn on lights an hour before your shower (in the winter), you would be fine.

    My new place has heated floors in the bathroom, so I no longer care.
    But for some people, 60W bulbs are nice.