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  1. Zyzel NSA325 on Backdoor Discovered Into Seagate NAS Drives · · Score: 1

    Cheap, you can install debian (Why on earth does evert NAS Manufacturer think that he can do better than to take a standard distribution).

  2. Re:Consensus on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    I worked in experimental QM for quite some time and can tell you that the majority of hte scientists accepted QM quickly. However, there was no "consensus" for a very long time. Even nowadays sometimes scientists show up on conferences claiming that this or that QM effect could also be interpreted classically (usually due to a gross misinfromation on their side....). I cant keep all fellow scientists from being stupid (or brilliant), and i dont want to.

  3. Re:What a waste on Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps · · Score: 1

    The OS was outdated, but when it comes to sending text emails and receiving phone calls for a week with a single battery charge my Nokia E63 still outperforms my Galazy Note II....

  4. Consensus on Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate · · Score: 1

    Science does not need consensus to find the right answer. Would we have waited for consensus about quantum mechanics and SRT before starting to use these theories, then we would just be starting to develop lasers, tunnel diodes and other things.

    Sort the publications by the impact factor, and remove everything with impact 1 from your view. The you will remove the biased, paid for shit.

  5. Some more details? on Pioneer Looks To Laserdisc Tech For Low-Cost LIDAR · · Score: 1

    I find the original article and the one at slashdot to be spectacularly void of information.

  6. SSL on Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption · · Score: 1

    So if i browsw Websites using SSL (something which the ISIS probably also does), i am also a terrorrist?

    I guess i wont tranfer in Istanbul Airport the next time i travel.

  7. tcl/tk on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Its incredible how many *huge* simulation and engineering systems, adminirtative tools, and other things are still powered by a language the mos important datatype of which is a string.

    I for my part discovered tcl/tk as a programming language for everyday use only in 2007, and even if my tcl/tk programs were not that elegant (as e.g. the equivalent python program) they were compact and *extremely* stable (within 4 years of round-the clock data acquisition with sessions of months each, i never observed a crash attributable to the core libraries, no memory leaks etc....)

  8. Putting every feature in one project? on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Pointless article on Research Scientists To Use Network Much Faster Than Internet · · Score: 2

    I guess it means:

    a) We rent existing but empty channels/fibers from providers (otherwise 5M would be impossible)

    b) We dont connect it to the internet; although they sadly dont mention if they have a private internet (not news) or if they use another protocol to avoid the negative side effects of TCP/IP (little news, unless they show the numbers)

    c) If I assume they are talking about 10 to 100 Gbit per second, then it would not be so fast) as far as I understand, single channels in fibers go up to 40GBit/s

  10. Re:Why does anyone care? on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1

    * Because destruction free techniques like laser ablation are base on high local fields

    * because a 1ps pulse spreads over 10^12 Hz bandwidth, which may be useful if you want to have "more white" light (but this pulse is actually not very short)

    * because pump-probe techniques depend on short pulses. If you additionally need a strong pulse, higher power may come in handy

    * I also imagine it could be an advantage for generating plasma.

  11. how i can disable MMS. In the whole last 9 years when the phones i used supported MMS, i think i used the feature 3 times:
    * one time for test
    * two times to receive a train ticket (now they switched to internet+app)

    I have no clue why i should use MMS. I use SMS a lot (since it works with all phones).

    no need for this feature.

  12. Never seen them blocking CNTRL-C CNTRL-V on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And that works fine for me. (using keeppass)

  13. Re:BBC / other state broadcasters? on EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People · · Score: 1

    Well, and you would be able to receive the french, german etc state/taxpayer/publically funded programs.

    The obvious way is to reduce the "entertainment" part of the public programs everywhere.

  14. I see it coming.... on How Amazon Could Drive Blended Reality Into The Living Room · · Score: 2

    When trying on this underwear virtually other customers looked like this....

  15. Probably on Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce · · Score: 1

    I am over 40, the main exposure in question should be Caesium 137, and 20km around the reactor AFAIU no foods are grown.

    Taken my average lifespan, the expected difference between the area in question and areas further away/areas where i lived/the exposure we all got in 70s and 80s, i dont see any objective reason against it.

  16. I think the reasonable way to handle such things is: donâ(TM)t allow the user to go to additional websites, but give them pixels-and-mouse only access to VMs in some cloud, the sate of which is thrown away after the session (and important data explicitly saved to an temporary drive, where you can run all the checks which you like.)

  17. Fascinating on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    How fast some LGQBT woud use predjudices to bias assumptions over the causality of independent events to a macroscopic economic development which they donâ(TM)t like.

    Seriously, i would have expected more tolerance and unbiased views of a group who suffered intolerance and biased views much too long.

    Any heterosexual who would complain that homosexuals are served or mainly served in some bars in his neighbourhood would be quickly seen as the idiot he is. A bar/restaurant/pub is a service. It is fine with me if they specialize for a specific group, and as long as they donâ(TM)t stop me from entering based on my religion, sexual orientation or skin colour, they can do whatever they want.

    The idea that LGBQT need "special" parts of the towns to thrive and survive is utterly stupid and disgusting.

  18. Re: How much you got? on Oracle Bullies Enterprise Clients Into Cloud Purchases, Consultant Claims · · Score: 1

    The point in real life is not about being buggy, but about providing workarounds, solutions and prompt support for bugs. In the meantime i actually like companies who focus on the most important bugs and leave the rest alone.

    (e.g. i am a heavy matlab user for 15 years, and my best times with ML were the ones where they only focused on the things which made it crash; my worst times with ML were the ones where they "fixed a fundamental problem".

  19. Re:Wow. on MetaMorph Helps non-Engineers Design Circuits (Video) · · Score: 1

    And these are the kind of circuits i could draw when i was 7 years old.

  20. Wow. on MetaMorph Helps non-Engineers Design Circuits (Video) · · Score: 2

    What are you guys talking about?

    a) Tools which generate schematics from functional descriptions have been around for some time.

    b) Block-level graphical editors for devices have been around for some time

    c) The assumption that the difficult part about engineering an electronic device is drawing the final diagram, is IMHO a complete misunderstanding of the topic. The best we can get from this is the hardware equivalent of the myriad of badly written Javascript and PHP combinations of pseudo-code-moneys who believe that knowing the fundamentals of CompSci is not needed.

  21. xeon chicken roast on When Nerds Do BBQ · · Score: 1

    where else?

  22. As a Java/C/Python Multiplatform Programmer. on Is Microsoft's .NET Ecosystem On the Decline? · · Score: 1

    No. Its not an the decline. It's a rock solid language and in a few cases i had to bind complex functionality on windows systems in a controlled way, and used C# and it was a very good experience. I donâ(TM)t see any reason that the language will decline soon. maybe it wont have explosive growth, but Java did neither grow from one day to the next.

  23. Why not improve Java? on WebAssembly: An Attempt To Give the Web Its Own Bytecode · · Score: 3

    Probably some legal bullshit, but I think the effort could be better spent in making the JVM attractive and safe for the web...

  24. That must be a joke. on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    I take that the OP is neither a mathematician nor a physicist (as i am). NaN is a reasonable "Default" value for 1/0, and has the advantage that it propagates without you checking for it.

    A physical or engineering simulation which divides by 0 should return NaN or terminate.

    And yes, the serious reason would be that if an engineer uses ANSYS to validate if the bridge is structurally stable, i donâ(TM)t want that some asshat intentionally accepts bad meshes (i.e. meshes with "empty/zero sized cells" without errors.)

  25. Simple advice on The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    Do what you like and what you are good at.

    When i started studying physics, we were tolde that we would be all unemployed. So few people studied that we never have problems in finding a Job....