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  1. I've seen that film on US Hacker Sets Off 156 Sirens At Midnight (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Then, when the real air attack happens, two hours later, the alarm system is disconnected, I think that was with a museum or something, but the idea is the same. RIP Dallas.

  2. Do they know its Apple they have by the balls?

    Well, it's not like they are going to really delete it.

  3. Re:Pity, since I can't accept the EULA on Microsoft's Edge Was Most Hacked Browser At Pwn2Own 2017, While Chrome Remained Unhackable (tomshardware.com) · · Score: 2

    don't work on circumvention tools

    So that's how Chrome remains unhackable!

  4. Re:Not the first ship tunnel on Norway Plans to Build the World's First Ship Tunnel (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd call that a barge tunnel, or a canal tunnel, but not a ship tunnel. Connecting two open-sea areas for use of seafaring ships, is really something new.

  5. I'd be really interested in knowing what the actual wattage/TDP of this processors is supposed to be.

    Yeah, if only there was a way of knowing that, like for example reading the linked article!

  6. I'm on a roll...

    - If the phone part is too difficult, how about making a phone that can be inserted into the expansion bay, and then share everything with the laptop, like converting notifications to emails, etc. The screen of the phone could be seen from the outside even with the laptop closed, and could be used.

    - I personally couldn't care less about the laptop being thin and stylish, and light as a feather.

  7. - A physical switch that cuts power to the camera and microphone.
    - Another one for WiFi
    - Lots of ports. If it's a Linux laptop must be mainly for nerds, and we have lots of equipment and move in lots of different environments. I want to be able to connect to an old monitor if needed. How many ports? Start adding and when you reach the eSATA, you may stop.
    - It should be a phone, with SIM and all that, and should run Android in parallel with Linux, for phone apps. Good integration would be nice.
    -GPS, Bluetooth. I'ts a phone too, right?
    - I should have control of the phone part, like being able to trick the phone part into thinking that it's in another location, things like that.
    - Multi purpose dock with possible extra battery, extra disk, DVD, or more ports.
    - Many possible disk, M.2, SATA, etc.
    - Docking station connection.
    - 8 cores, virtual machines are all the rage now, and they like cores.
    - Lots of memory, see above.
    - I personally couldn't care less about graphic performance, or graphic pixel density, as long as it's reasonable for working.

  8. Movement-activated cameras that upload their video feed directly to mobile networks. If we are talking low-quality video or even stills if the connection is bad, and better quality when the situation improves or the officer gets to the car again, the battery doesn't need to be huge.

  9. The problem is not big enough for most people on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    Most people may not like having their phones perused, but they also don't mind terribly, and don't travel so often.

    If you do mind, you already have two phones, one for home and one for traveling. That's a safer solution, even if you have to keep both updated.

    The real problem will come when not having a Facebook account will make you lose your flight, marking you as a suspect element.

  10. Let's search for a name on Apple's New Spaceship Campus Gets a Name, Lifts Off In April (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Its an annular campus. Think, think...

  11. Reviving acient microorganisms... on NASA Scientist Revive 10,000-Year-Old Microorganisms (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've seen that film.

    It doesn't end well.

  12. Re:oracle all over again on SAP License Fees Also Due For Indirect Users, Court Rules (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, if you are operating in twenty different countries, SAP will keep your accounting rules adapted to the intricacies of each one, yearly as rules change in every contry. And then offer you a consolidated view of all your financials.

    It's in fact the only solid reason I know for going SAP, but, as the decision makers are usually financial people, it works mightily.

  13. A robot tax is mainly unworkable on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you calculate a tax rate for robots? Does a completely integrated robotic factory (in essence just a robot with thousands of actuators) pay the same tax than a kitchen aid? What about vehicles? If they are AI driven then it's a robot and must pay taxes? Will you have to pay taxes for your Roomba? What if the robot is controlled remotely by a powerful CPU? What if it's not a remote CPU but a cloud of processing power, and more power is used if the robot's decisions are harder to make? The list is endless.

    If a transport company fires all drivers and substitutes them by robotic vehicles, it will make a lot more profits (presumably), and so pay a lot more taxes (presumably). It's simpler and more efficient to tax these extra profits than any robot tax you could devise.

  14. Re:0.4 of a phone on 99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    t doesn't matter that Android completely dominates in the poorer parts of Africa, India, and China

    Right, but only up to a point. If you have to travel to Africa and live there for some time, and the local apps (informing of the danger of crocodile infestation, for example) are only developed for Android, then it matters a bit for you that you only have an iOS device (that bit being perhaps the hand lost to a crocodile's bite).

    Market share is always important, and one platform tends to push others out, as the cost of developing for more than one platform is always bigger than developing for just one. In the long run, "there can be only one".

  15. One of the main reasons why Playboy dropped nudity in the first place was because the internet filled the demand

    Like the Internet didn't fill the demand for news and opinion articles.

  16. Obvious application on Oxygen From Earth's Atmosphere May Be Traveling To the Moon's Surface (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, somebody finds a way of sending all our excess CO2 to the moon, fast.

  17. Re:What do you want to be ? on Bitcoin Was 2016's Best-Performing Currency (newsweek.com) · · Score: 0

    Is bitcoin trying to be a currency, or an investment scheme ?

    Is neither, is, and always has been, an opaque transfer system, with added storage. Changes in value are simply a sub-product of the structure of the transfer units.

  18. If just there was a word for "Single Particle of Light"...

  19. Re:Why always going for hominoid? on Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot To Explore a 17th-Century Shipwreck (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    It is explained. The reason was to facilitate the remote controlling by some kind of VR setup. If you turn your head, you expect something similar to happen to your robotic avatar. If you raise your arm, it's better if the distance between your "eyes" and your "shoulder", and the relationship of lengths of your "arms", is human-like. So you end up with a human-like structure. If you want to protect your sensors with a hull, a head-like cover is as good as any other.

    On the other side, there are many other alternatives open to you, and it's clear that they went for the hominoid look, but that's also very human :-)

  20. As Steve Jobs would say... on Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot To Explore a 17th-Century Shipwreck (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ocean One is the best name they could come up with?

    That's the kind of names that happens when you concentrate on the product, and not on the marketing of it.

  21. Re:Wider range of professions for women? on Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    True! There is an app (Line) where, if I want to blow a kiss, I need to make it as a female, as no male-blower exists. I demand male kiss blowers! They could be lumberjacks, for example.

  22. Re:If confirmed, does this make it realistic? on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you serious? If the EM drive works we are at the gates of a major revolution in Physics (as in 'our understanding of Physics'). First we should have to understand how it works, tinker with it till the smallest-lightest-efficientest designs emerge. In parallel, other people would be trying to determine WHY it works. That's a much bigger task, that requires a rewriting of most Physic's textbooks. When we have a new theory that explains the EM drive, then probably still better drives can be designed, perhaps using other kinds of radiation.

    What I'm driving at, is that discussing how possibly adequate or inadequate this EM drive is to space travel is like discussing the usefulness of electricity when good old Thales started rubbing amber pieces against animal skins.

  23. First or second part? on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stranger in a Strange Land is really like two novels. The first part is good, classical Heinlein. The second part is some kind of rambling political pamphlet that always manages to bore me. I read somewhere that they were written with several years difference, and it shows.

    I hope they base it in the first part, really. Well, probably, if it's a typical TV product, they will take the basic idea and massacre all else, so why do I care?

  24. Most annoying feature ever? on OnePlus 3T Smartphone Featuring Snapdragon 821 Launched (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The OnePlus 3T can also capture automatic selfies when you smile for the camera

    I really hope that this feature can be turned off.

  25. Come on. This is supposed to be a nerds' site. You should know that this kind of studies are useless because there is no way to prove causation. Perhaps people who like soda are more prone to diabetes in the first place. Perhaps (oh! sudden insight) they don't only drink soda but also overeat and don't move their sorry asses, like, ever.

    When somebody makes a study of a thousand vegetarians that run 5K every day, and take half and force them to drink a glass of soda every day for ten years, and then compare the results with the other half, then I'll be interested. Until then, extracting a variable like this from such an interdependent mess as is human health, is simply the embodiment of a strong desire for publication, nothing else.