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  1. Re:Why are we letting this continue? on SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cube Sat's deorbit by themselves in weeks. These things won't be up there cluttering up anything

  2. Re:here's some feedback: on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    What they have lost is their mind... and that happened a while ago. Sadly this just proves it's still lost and roaming a desert somewhere

  3. Not to mention battery technology

  4. Musk is on record as saying that out of everything that could have been recovered, those two side boosters are the things he most wanted back. They have the upgraded titanium grid fins on them which can and will be re-used, and are seemingly a) very hard to make and b) expensive as hell.

    As a side note, putting a nose cone on an F9 core drops the grid fins performance by 30%, so those grid fins may actually be the only 2 in existence since they had to make them larger to account for that

  5. Re:Will be billed and the estate likely will have on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 2

    Which should be an insanely easy win since he did have a lawful DNR order files with the state

  6. Re:Parking? on Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Parking is probably a lot less critical when huge amounts of roads are impassable in cars.

  7. Re: 5400 RPM? on Teardown of New iMac Reveals Upgradable Processors, RAM (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    Pray you never have to use one of these things with a 5400 drive in it. They are so slow you really do wonder if there is something wrong with it. The fusion drive should be the minimum spec, and even that is only just useable

    In the days of every laptop coming with an SSD they still can't manage to put it in every desktop.

    Good work Apple

  8. USB1 only on New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sadly it's only USB1, so basically useless for moving files, which I imagine is the designed purpose. A cool device certainly, but at USB1 speeds more of a cool research project than something actually useful

  9. Re:Maybe not needed on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Shrink the Ethernet Connector? · · Score: 2

    And should be included on the power brick of any notebook that changes via USB-C. No idea why no one is doing this already

  10. Re:Why conceal it? on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why do you think it stigmatizes anything?

    Everyone putting food on the shelf in that state will be required to do this as far as I understand, so _everyone_ is in the same boat.

    This gives consumers the choice. If they want to buy more expensive non GMO options they will be able to make that decision.

    The fear the companies have is that there will be non GMO products available at the same price they have been selling theirs at, and everyone will buy that instead.

    If everyone is using the same base GMO ingredients, then no one has anything to worry about and everyone will keep buying exactly what they are already buying

  11. Re:So I Have To Have A Dual Socket Server? on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And there will be an option under system settings to change it, just like there has been with all the NT based systems, including the desktop ones

  12. Just put fibre to the user on BT Unveils 1000Mbps Capable G.fast Broadband Rollout For the United Kingdom · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. They are running fibre to "ideally less than 250m" from every home knowing full well that one day, at some point, they are going to have to cover that last 250m with fibre. Just do it already. Get the governement on-board and do it. Upgrade the whole damn country and never have to worry about the state of the copper lines ever again.

    Maintenance costs plummet and yes, the rollout will cost you an arm and a leg but you know what? You then become a first work country

  13. Re:If it ain't broke... on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    This

    generic x86 machine

    is where you fail. No OS has exactly the same expectations. In fact most are coded to the point they boot and that's it. Just have a look at the ACPI changes the linux kernel has gone through trying to make it work on all the different hardware.

    Granted adding basic support for a new version of windows that uses exactly the same bootloader as the previous version might not be exceptionally difficult to someone familiar with the code, however the point of the article is that there are very likely only 4 people left that are. Their job security probably isn't all that great and it won't take long for them to get bored of not having the manpower to implement new features

  14. Re:It was an almost impossible case to prosecute on Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting · · Score: 1

    Except that's not what would have happened if it went to trial..

    All that would have done is bring the same behavior to light in a couple of years, and, we hope, in a couple of years from now there will have been at least some healing in the community.

    Honestly all the evidence needs to come out quickly, but I'm not convinced a jury trial in a couple of years that acquitted the police officer would have changed anything

  15. Re:Are there alternatives? on FTDI Reportedly Bricking Devices Using Competitors' Chips. · · Score: 2

    Well the arduino guys switched to using a small ATMega chip to do their serial to USB conversion on the Uno, so at the very least that's an option.

    Also, since I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere yet, you can reprogram the bricked chips using the FTDI tools and get them working again, supposedly it requires linux for WinXP but it is possible

  16. Re:OpenVPN + Nagios on Ask Slashdot: Remote Server Support and Monitoring Solution? · · Score: 1

    Icinga rather than nagios... always... the simple basic changes to Icinga make it so much nicer to work with, even the v1 branch which is just a fork with some updates

  17. Re:+1 for this Post on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    This is a good solution, and I have a high power 2.4Ghz wireless N Mikrotik with GB ports..... but... they have some fairly large holes in their range.

    For example, nothing AC yet, that appears to be getting closer but still a ways off. Also, no simple dual band setup without basically building it yourself our of their pieces.

    Wwhat I'd love right now from Mikrotik is a dual band, high power, AC capable AP with GB ports. Actually I'd settle for just an N version but even those require you to build it yourself

  18. Re:Someone has to be in charge on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 2

    Kay is paid by Redhat to develop systemd and interact with the kernel developers.

    He's be doing the same thing for years and continues to develop code that breaks otherwise working systems, he then refuses to fix his broken code, claiming everyone else has the broken code, and they should fix theirs. Forgetting that all their code was working flawlessly until his patch came along

  19. Re:Only "discovered" someone's discover, nothing m on An Engineer's Eureka Moment With a GM Flaw · · Score: 1

    None of that matters. If you redesign a part, the part number changes, an errata is filed, the BOM is updated with the new part, and life goes on.

    The fact that they didn't change the part number screams to me cover up

  20. Re:Firmware on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    And even if it was, that's what the parking brake is for

  21. Re:good riddance on Adobe's New Ebook DRM Will Leave Existing Users Out In the Cold Come July · · Score: 1

    The simple answer to all this, is don't by a Kindle. By a device not attached to any seller like the Kobo. Sure the Kobo can use Adobe's DRM.... but why would you when you can just read epub files

  22. Re: Huh on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 1

    Yes, they would be stored in the firmware somewhere.... on a military grade receiver only. If you have that then it becomes kind of a moot point if you can hack the firmware of a standard unit.

    The keys would not be in the normal units because they don't need to be

  23. Re:Worst Summary Ever on Charles Carreon Finally Surrenders To the Oatmeal · · Score: 1

    Well done sir, well done!

  24. Re:Telegraph: They don't tap than service! on Snowden and the Fate of the Internet As a Global Network · · Score: 1

    Isn't the point to encrypt with their public key, and they decrypt with their private key.

    They encrypt with your public key, you decrypt with your private key?

    How does a public key decrypt something at all?

    Isn't the whole point that the PRIVATE key, is what you use to decrypt stuff sent to you, and since only your private key can decrypt it it's safe? If you can decrypt with a public key whats the point since your public key, is by definition, PUBLIC?!

  25. Re:xkcd is overrated on Creator of xkcd Reveals Secret Back-story of His Epic, 3,099-Panel 'Time' Comic · · Score: 1