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  1. Re:"microcontroller" vs. "PCB"? on Hands On With the First Open-Source Microcontroller (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The FE310 is a RISC-V instantiation. Here is the repo that will generate a configured RISC-V RTL: https://github.com/ucb-bar/roc...

    The compiled verilog netlist and layout for the FE310 is pretty useless to anyone not targeting an ASIC the same configuration on the same process in the same package... and completely useless to anyone targetting an FPGA.

  2. Re:FBI Jurisdiction on How A Massive India Call Center Swindled 15,000 Americans (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    The FBI is primarily an investigatory bureau (hence the "Bureau of Investigation" bit) and there are many parts of investigation that do not require any extraordinary police powers. In addition, when a a crime crosses national borders they may be called to meet with those who do posses police authority rather than shout responses across the border.

  3. Is a CPU made of discrete transistors sufficient for your needs, or do you insist on vacuum tubes?

  4. i3, i5, i5 stand for: good, better, best.

    Seriously, that the definition of these marketing terms. They divide a market segment into 3 tiers. The low end is i3, the high end is i7, and the middle tier is i5.

  5. Re:No Moore's Law on Intel Finds Moore's Law's Next Step At 10 Nanometers (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    When it costs 10^7 USD to put up just one factory, you're going to heavily incentivize the equipment supplier who is a 1 month outlier on the schedule.

  6. Re:That is why we can't have nice things on Changing Other People's Flight Bookings Is Too Easy (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Since it never involves talking to a person, isn't it anti-social engineering?

  7. Re:No Moore's Law on Intel Finds Moore's Law's Next Step At 10 Nanometers (ieee.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's what a scientific law is: a relation between measured observations. It can be purely empirical.

    There's a law for centrifugal force, and it isn't even a real force!

  8. 10% of what? Expectations of whom? on Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei (nikkei.com) · · Score: 2

    1st quarter is always slowest, and they are constrained on parts supply for the Plus.

    Was there supposed to be some news in this article?

  9. Re:Over/under: Invasion of sovereign nation or tru on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If the media was in the bag for Clinton, why was there so much coverage of EMAILS BENGHAZI and so little of Trump's actual conflicts of interest? Even now, the coverage is mostly of jobs announcements that don't have anything to do with Trump's election and whatever crazy tweet he made at 6am.

  10. The priesthood on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 1

    The complainers did not want to eliminate the old priesthood, they wanted to become the new priesthood. They are mad that their lessers can buy complete working products without blessings or incantations.

  11. Re: Apple EarPods and "no headphone jack" on Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls AirPods 'a Runaway Success' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Any battery operated device is going to run out of battery.

    Any earbuds are easily lost. I lost my Bose QC20s. It's because they are small, not because they are Apple products.

  12. It's the least they could do.

  13. Re:Sure, this will work... on World's Largest Hedge Fund To Replace Managers With Artificial Intelligence (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Make them eat each other.

  14. Re:Prime... not so much any more on Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How much credit are you getting when you report the SLA miss?

  15. "If there are two competing theories, at least one of them is wrong."

    Actually, I have a counter example to my own claim: wave-particle duality, where two contradictory theories were both proven correct. J. J. Thomson won a Nobel Prize for discovering the particle nature of the electron and his son George shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the wave nature of the electron.

  16. "then it's proven right"

    By scientists.

    If there are two competing theories, at least one of them is wrong. That does not represent a moral failing of the scientists that proposed that theory.

  17. Re:Tesla employees not pleb enough... on Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What gas station to do you go that allows you to leave your car unattended?

  18. The fraud was in how they represented themselves to the court when they sought the orders to force the ISPs to turn over identifying information. They did not disclose that they themselves had uploaded the material, so the court would never have even wondered about whether that uploading carries implied permission to download or not.

  19. Re:Time for OpenWRT? on Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    "the problem is in the firmware"
    OpenWRT firmware contains a Linux kernel.

  20. Re:Random jackass whines about nonsense on David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm old enough to remember when "buttery smooth" scrolling seemed to be of vital importance on Slashdot.

  21. Looking for bias where there is none alert! on Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    If the number of people allowed to access the internet is limited, that would mean that those allowed get a greater fraction of the available bandwidth.

    Why do you hate the Pigeonhole Principle?

  22. "a Democrat president can spend like there's no tomorrow"

    Which Democratic president are you thinking of? Government spending under our current Democratic president has increased at the slowest rate since the Eisenhower Administration.

  23. Re:"Amazon be ashamed pay their workers so little" on Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In this day and age, Adam Smith is considered a communist.

  24. Competition on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber just doesn't want competition for their upcoming Car Dating feature where they will be able to get a cut.

    Extra $100 for a guaranteed Car Date match, amirite?

  25. So are full-time employees at tech companies on Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    At any decent engineering firm, interns are doing real work that is worth real pay so it is unsurprising that at companies where the full-time employees make a lot of money the interns make a lot too.