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  1. Re:I am amazed that there is no current limiter on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "I see a market for 'USB condoms' that provide this function for people who need to plug in unknown USB devices. "

    Now you have two unknown devices.

  2. Re:So much for public charging locations on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just buy a power-only or "data block" USB adapter. I got two on Amazon for like $8.

    And how did you check that those adapters actually blocked this power attack?

  3. Re:So much for public charging locations on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you were willing to go to that much trouble, you would just carry a battery and/or an AC charger and not bother with the public USB charging ports.

  4. Re:So much for public charging locations on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And how do you know this is true before plugging something into it?

  5. Re:And everyone's fuel mileage goes down. on EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "The total amount of fossil fuels needed to produce one gallon of ethanol is (counting everything, like fertiliser, cultivation, water provision, ...) is quite close indeed to one gallon"

    Energy balance is 1.3 for corn ethanol specifically. Sugarcane ethanol, OTOH, is at 8 which is comparable to new oil discoveries.

  6. He will only accept if he gets paid in currency other than sterling.

  7. Re:FPGA on Own An Open Source RISC-V Microcontroller (crowdsupply.com) · · Score: 1

    -1, misinformative

    RISC-V is an ISA only. It does not oblige implementations to follow any particular microarchitecture.

    The religious wars between CISC and RISC were given up decades ago in favor of data-driven architectural decisions. If using sequenced uops solves the problem, they'll be used. For example, here the Cortex-A57 Software Optimization Guide explicitly refers to uops starting in section 2.1: http://infocenter.arm.com/help...

    In the future there won't be any CISC or RISC, just wankers.

  8. It's only okay to tell Android users that they are holding their phone incorrectly.

    http://dontholditwrong.tumblr....

  9. Re:Incentivized vs fake? on Amazon Makes Good On Its Promise To Delete 'Incentivized' Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    " so every time I receive one, I leave a one-star review for the product."

    You place a rating on the product, when your actual complaint is with the merchant. Amazon has correctly removed a misfiled rating.

    Attaching your rating to the product damages any merchant who is trying to sell the same product with a decent customer experience. Congratulations, you're making everything worse including your own chances of encountering a merchant that does as you would like.

    "The obvious way for Amazon to fix this problem would be to stop spamming people that have requested to be removed from their marketing email list."

    Since Amazon isn't sending the spam, they cannot stop sending the spam.

  10. Re:Make the users accountable on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Badge-swipe to print reduces printing at the expense of employees' time, since now the printer cannot be printing the page while the employee walks to the printer.

  11. Re:Fax on Slashdot Asks: Is Paperless Office a Dream? (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Fax machines work. Scan-to-pdf-to-email is a shitshow.

  12. Verizon not technically able to download faster on Apple's Chip Choices May Leave Some iPhone Users in Slow Lane (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The Qualcomm modems support LTE modes that Intel's do not, but no network on the planet is currently supporting those modes. You can show a significant different when testing with lab equipment, but no one calls lab equipment.

  13. Re:An important study... on Online Bullying Counselling on Increase, Says Childline (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you walk away from bullies who can trivially replicate their presence on every corner?

  14. -1, pointless attempt to sound superior

    Advising people to use BCC is only relevant to cases where the initial long recipient list is *intentional*. In this case the initial email was accidentally sent.

  15. Re:Not a level playing field on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, so no examples of women being forced to take any advanced position that the didn't want. Good job.

    Marissa Mayer added value to Yahoo at a 100:1 ROI. Name another CEO that has done that well.

    Every cabinet has what seems like a shocking proportion of people with no experience at their positions. Look at the current British cabinet, for example, which cannot be blamed on pure diversity hires.

  16. Russians have standards

  17. Re:Not a level playing field on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Women are being forced to be CEOs? Do you have any examples?

  18. In the context of a citation, the data at the time the citation was made is the correct link. Moving to the new data potentially means correcting the article to match so it is reasonable to to leave that to a human editor. Perhaps an automated message could be dropped in the talk page if the target of an outbound link has changed substantially to alert editors to check for corrections?

  19. Re:Open Office Failure on Noisy Coworkers And Other Sounds Are Top Distraction in Workplace, Study Says (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Even cheaper is an open office with unassigned seating at less capacity than the workforce total. Since not everyone is in every day, they figure they don't need one desk per one person. You just pack people in at the next available spot.

  20. "Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it can be done."

    Actually, that is exactly what "possible" means.

  21. Re:non centralized DNS on Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? (oceanpark.com) · · Score: 1

    How does your setup handle a host name that no longer has an authoritative resolution, though it previously did?

    How does your setup handle a host that is the target of a DOS rather than their name service being the target?

  22. Re:I wish half as muc time and money... on Women in Computing To Decline To 22% by 2025, Study Warns (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    "I wish half as much time and money was spent on men. "

    Half as much as is currently spent on men? That still wouldn't get them down to what is spent on women.

  23. Re:Yes, selecting the US president isn't "gossip" on Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    "It's not our business that the primary was rigged, that Bernie supporters were framed for the violence at Trump rallies (actually staged to benefit Hillary)? Normal people would call that newsworthy."

    They would call that newsworthy if anything leaked were on subjects such as those. Since there isn't, it's just gossip with a click-bait headline.

  24. Re: Still a justice failure on Journalist Cleared of Riot Charges in South Dakota (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 2008 Amy Goodman filed a civil suit against the Minneapolis and St. Paul Police Departments, the Ramsey County Sheriff and United States Secret Service which resulted in a settlement.

    So, the day ain't over yet.

  25. Re:How can that possibly be legal? on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If it is really your car, a third party would be unable to sue the manufacturer when you do something stupid with it.