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  1. Re:Court order on British Pirate Party Asked To Pull Pirate Bay Proxy · · Score: 1

    Which is why they're, odds on, going to state, "We refer you to the response given in Arkell v. Pressdram."

  2. Re:High frequencies = hard on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    Unless this is as much an educational exercise as anything else, they're going to want to skip even what you suggested there on DIY as the risks to damaging the unit's moderately high- and for what they'd have to spend for doing a DIY antenna the right way, they're going to spend as much or more than buying a 3G or LTE repeater kit (Typically around $400-800...).

    The original poster of the question will thank themselves (as will their parents) for some time to come if they did that instead. Especially with a JetPack unit. The antenna access on little 5 device micro-routers like that can easily get damaged. Better off adding a small latency from the repeater to avoid damaging the JetPack in other ways since the connector is fragile and will eventually break off on them if they go the route described by the original post.

  3. Re:Wow, 3% = doom? on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 1

    Austerity failed because the bunch getting the freebies got pissed off and basically all they did was cut services and increase taxes- that's NOT austerity.

    How does revenue increase by increasing taxes, which is a net DRAG on revenue? You say it'll come from generating jobs and investment. You clearly have a bad disconnect with reality here. Those come from less taxes and less spending on the Government's part. Remind yourself...TAXES ARE A NET DRAG ON EVERYTHING.

  4. Might I suggest... on Ask Slashdot: Management Software For Small Independent ISP? · · Score: 2
  5. Re:Around your car's engine on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    This is so much fun, I had to log in on the computer to own these... >:-D

  6. Re:Around your car's engine on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters style would probably involve a fuel-air bomb or using C4 in the explosive mode instead of conflagrative.

    That's over the top and geeky like the one I posted- the LOX and barbeque grill (Or, skip the charcoaling and just simply cook it during the LIGHT of the briquettes...)

  7. Re:Doesn't add up on Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage · · Score: 0

    It's called an electric water heater. You know, that hot water thingy that allows you to have hot baths and the like... But then, you posted this as an anon coward on /. I shouldn't expect better.

  8. Re:Doesn't add up on Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage · · Score: 0

    10 kW...

    Let's see...

    Microwave: 1kW
    Stove/Oven: 3kW
    Regular Water Heater: 5kW
    On Demand Water Heater: 19-24kW
    HVAC: 15kW

    In short, there's quite a few things that use QUITE a bit of power and would deplete this quickly. As a simple backup like a UPS for short-term emergencies, this stuff would work "okay" for 2-3 houses and well for ONE house, but it's not the panacea they're painting it out to be. (Nor, are you knowledgeable about stuff like this as you think you are...)

  9. Pure unadulterated BS... on Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    This is not the power capability (except at a minimum draw) for 2-3 houses. If you've got ANY high-demand devices such as an on-demand water heater, oven/range, or a washer/dryer- you're going to burn through the pack MUCH faster- it'll almost power a SINGLE house fully.

  10. Re:Well duh on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    In Voire Dire (the questioning of the jurors...), you ARE under oath to tell the truth. Anything not told or mis-stated by the individual is perjury.

  11. Re:Well duh on Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation · · Score: 1

    The only problem is...it's not jury nullification that you're talking about here.

    Jury nullification is returning a not-guilty on a crime the Jury doesn't agree with. Not a criminal case, for starters. In a civil case of this nature there is no such beast as "nullification". What you're seeing here is explicit Jury Misconduct and the Contempt of Court is probably legit.

  12. Re:If the USA was a true democracy on New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ah, but we're not a Democracy. Democracy is MOB RULE.

    We're a Democratically Elected Republic- and you should learn the distinction and learn it well.

  13. Does Engrish on the 3S Software site... on Industrial Control Software Easily Hackable · · Score: 1

    ...concern anyone?

    "We software Automation." is prominently put up on their website...a German company's TYPICALLY better at English than that.

  14. Re:Non-local government is a bad idea on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 2

    ...aand the ones asking for it are the ones gaming the elections...

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57539706/congressmans-son-resigns-after-voter-fraud-video/
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/23/voter-fraud-houston-tea-party-truethevote-texas/
    http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/01/08/seiu-voter-fraud-caught-in-wisconsin/
    (There's quite a bit more...all you need do is do your own looking for it via Google...)

    So...you're going to get a fair election by these people observing it?

  15. Re:What obligation is there to allow these observe on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should be noted that they did NOTHING along these lines when the Black Panthers did what they did. However, the same bunch that's doing the asking is the one that allowed that to be done and nothing to be done about it. They've caught 30k fraudulent registrations in Houston, again done by the same bunch doing the asking for this. Most of the purges were not legit registrations. Even much of that 20% that people were ranting on and on about.

    Ask yourself something. Why? It's not to ensure the vote if you look at the facts. This is another ploy and Abbott's right about this. If it were a Federal agent instead of the OSCE, they'd get arrested as well- if you legally don't have authority (Treaties carry the same force as the Constitution, but do NOT trump it... Don't forget that this isn't a power delegated to the Federal Government but to the States by the Constitution...) you CAN get arrested by the group that does.

  16. Re:The reason Samsung is using Qualcomm stuff... on Is Qualcomm the New AMD? · · Score: 1

    The question would be...is the LTE part of the SOC or on a differing part?

  17. Re:Qualcomm is but a shadow of AMD on Is Qualcomm the New AMD? · · Score: 1

    1) They've got a design license like Marvell has.
    2) You can optimize the design around the instruction set arch and gain power-management stuff that the straight-up Cortex A8/A9/A15 won't do for you.

  18. Heh... Regarding laptops... on Linus Torvalds Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Linus might not understand the need to lug about a "monster"- the thing is twofold for me and his needs aren't mine...

    - Smaller than 17" displays have entirely too low a dot-pitch and are too small for my aging type II diabetic eyes. I can limp along with a 15" display, but...
    - Most of those "smaller" machines don't have the muscle needed to dev work, etc. and since I consult, doing things like porting game code, etc...

    Lesser machines don't do what I need. I don't really need a laptop in the normal sense (If I'm doing traditional laptop-ish things, my Android tablet does nicely enough and weighs in less than even his Macbook...)- I need a portable, reasonably lightweight desktop replacement. But then, Linus isn't doing what I'm doing- it probably makes sense for him there.

  19. Re:Still waiting on a server version of OMAP on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 2

    Marvell's done that...with up to quad cores even. Dell partnered up with them to make their first ARM server in their lineup.

  20. Re:Nook killer on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 1

    That entirely depends on the commitments to supply TI made to B&N. Those don't always die off when divisions change hands- and they go to the successor in interest when they do. So...it'd be Amazon having to supply their competitor with parts. Seriously.

  21. Re:And the Beagleboard, Samsung Products, et al on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 1

    Nope... Not even close.

    Igloo
    Cubieboard- once they get into production

    To be sure...there's more if you look. The big deal about Pandaboard is more that it's very readily available and it's the cheapest in the Cortex-A9 class.

  22. Re:And the Beagleboard, Samsung Products, et al on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 4, Informative

    It should also be noted that if they sell the division, TI or it's successor in interest is OBLIGATED to fufill any obligations for supply lifetime on parts- period. For TI to have gotten the business in the first place, they'd have to guarantee it. It's how that part of the industry works.

    I can assure you that the vendors of these devices will have 5-10 year windows on parts that WILL be honored or Amazon and TI would be on the receiving (read: LOSING) end of a nasty breach of agreement lawsuit.

  23. Re:And the Beagleboard, Samsung Products, et al on Amazon Considering Buying Texas Instrument's Chip Business · · Score: 2

    Quite simply, there's enough range of stuff (including the Embedded Sitara based BeagleBone...hint...hint...) that you can lay hands on for that price range right now from alternate suppliers of A8/A9 based SoC's.

    It's annoying, but you should be thinking in terms of being able to jump ship to something else on a moment's notice- they're in it for the money and they can drop anything anytime they feel like it. Even if TI doesn't sell this stuff...they could still end up pulling the plug on it all. It's just unlikely if TI's still doing the OMAP stuff- they use BeagleBoards and PandaBoards as internal dev boards for a lot of projects at TI. Now...if Amazon gets the division, it might be a differing story, maybe not- your guess is as good as mine. They've got to get dev boards for their own stuff and before they build out new models- it may be that nothing changes in the medium term because of that fact.

    If you're concerned, the Allwinner based devices are a good prospect as is the Igloo which uses the Samsung SoC lineup instead. Worrying about whether or not you're going to lose the Beagleboard/Pandaboard is really kind of fruitless. Go elsewhere if you're concerned.

  24. Re:Face Reality: on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In truth, that statement was a LIE, and they knew it. If there was actual cards that I could've laid hands on back when the NV1 was out, there would've been a Utah-GLX driver because they made the programming interfaces for an NV1 publicly available at the time I was one of the Utah-GLX developers.

  25. Re:Why is this supposed to be a good thing? on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, it's not.

    You and everyone KEEP presuming the only space at stake here. There's another and they want to play in this space badly because it's big-bucks for them or they wouldn't have done it in the first place. (Hint: There was no good reason for the Linux drivers they've made to date- because there really wasn't a market for those end-user drivers (these are treated as such by the community, but they're not really for the consumer market...) until recently in the first place.

    Think engineering workstations (early reasons...seriously, for both AMD and NVidia...) and supercomputing clusters using GPGPU computation (There's a reason for the opening of AMD's stuff...that's part of that.).

    If they want to play in that space...they're going to have to change attitudes, much like AMD did.