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  1. Could be transport conditions on Samsung Halts Galaxy Note 7 Production Temporarily (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So, likely Samsung could not really reproduce the defect and verify the causes in their own lab or they would not have shipped replacement devices with same defect.

    One possibility is that the battery, charging circuits or even the heat dissipating glue to keep the battery in-place gets damaged during shipment. How much control is there on sea containers for extreme temperature variations, humidity or vibrations?
    I can figure thermal glue loosing contact with the battery (or other hot operating component) on extreme temperatures. Or contacts loosing proper alignment on some vibrations frequencies and amplitudes. Could also be low pressure during flight transport that's causing damages to the battery. Would explain why a Note7 caught fire in a plane.

  2. Re:I had Prodos on My Apple][e in 1983-84 on 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There were at least two versions of the LC ROM and there was multiple revisions of the Apple][ Motherboards. Some had a socketed dip chip.
    If you used the wrong LC ROM, you got garbled font display as the data alignment/interleave was wrong. One version of the ROM required piggy-backing a line to the IC so it could address the char values range for lowercase.

    About the graphical text environment that allowed you, lowercase text and mixed text and graphic. It was brought by a software suit named like Mibbit.

  3. I had Prodos on My Apple][e in 1983-84 on 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > is pretty remarkable, considering the Apple ][ and ][+ don't even support lower-case characters.

    Wrong, there was a Prodos for the Apple][

    > Apple ][ and ][+ don't even support lower-case characters

    There was a program that piggy-backed the char display and used graphic mod to display lowercase characters, even supported accentss. Had bee used by word-processors back then. AppleWord and the Jane environment.

    And Yes I affirm, there was a Prodos for the Apple][ back then.

  4. Re:Old Saying on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    One solution would be having prepared statements for shell commands instead of doing those risky string concatenations.

    And I have stopped using rm to delete files because this command is way too stupid and can take options from file-names.

    I use find command,
    run it dry once to show what is found
    then run find stuffs-to-trash -delete

  5. SysFS fault? on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is SysFS deleting/erasing variables/files on RM?
    Can't these be handled like special device INodes?
    It is not like you can delete /dev/null by accident right?

  6. Re:End of life? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 2

    IMAP support tagging since since long.

  7. Re:Make them all Caddys and Priuses on The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Disguise all self driving cars as police cars... That should keep the drivers in the cars around them from driving as if there are no rules...

    You have a good point with your funny comment.

    Autonomous cars should have a very distinctive indicator light marker.
    Slow vehicles have to use an orange rotating beacon here.
    Cars operating autonomously should have something similar.

  8. Does not apply to some layouts on Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? · · Score: 1

    French fr_FR Keyboard layout has numbers at upper SHIFT selection.
    You are better using the numeric pad. Guess how it can be an annoyance with laptops.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  9. Was not Oracle code in the first place on Oracle Exec: Stop Sending Vulnerability Reports · · Score: 0

    Not to defend the Devil but:
    She basically acknowledge their product is highly bugged.
    She says they prefer to deal with it internally and are doing quite well. (fair)
    Given the base Flash code was not their own in the first place, and given their very uncomfortable posture:
    I'd say, She is doing pretty well as an Executive. Not the brightest possible communication but still decent.

    No need to beat a dead horse. It will not go any faster.

  10. Already within power circuit or useless on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When a device power circuit already integrate a voltage regulator, this is yet another battery scam.
    If not, it is either a cheap or old piece of electronic.

    This battery extender _is_ yet another battery scam.

    Next expand your car mileage by adding a water sprayer, magic canister?

    This is not news for nerds.

    _This_ is scamvertisement.

  11. They finally found some use for Minecraft on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    Now it is clear why Microsoft spent so much to buy Mojang.

  12. Our universe is an artifact from our consciousness on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 1

    We are just trying to describe and define it based on our consciousness and from what our senses can feel about it.
    And given our consciousness and our senses are themselves artifacts of the universe. I think we will never be able to understand and describe outside of the thin domain of our own being.

  13. Beware not to overheat your GPU/Memory on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 1

    It's a very good start but until they can manage dynamic clocking, proper monitoring of GPU, RAM and PCB temperature, and then adjust fan speeds or fallback lower in case of overheat, you are better be very careful with this recent feature.

  14. Re:"Up to" - marketing magic on Yahoo To Offer Bug Bounty Rewards Up To $15,000 · · Score: 1

    There is no wrong in your statement about $12.50 comes under "Up To $15,000,";
    So there is no circunstance where you would give me up to $1,000,000 in correllation to proving you wrong on the above.
    This is where I could prove you wrong.
    But giving me up to $1.000.000 for proving you wrong would prove you right.

    Finally, the only possible income of all this. is:
    - You have to give me more than $1.000.000 for, proving you are wrong on advertising a reward to an impossible circunstance.
    - And the reward has to be more than your "up-to" to save your wrongness or it would cancel itself.

  15. Re:Not putting in DRM isn't going to eliminate DRM on Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards · · Score: 1

    Yay, free cars.

    But until the star-trek utopia arrives the people that used to make those cars now need a new job...

    1. Give or sell cars for free or at a loss
    2. Then sell tuned fuel in tiny sealed tanks witn embeded engine njectors, brand and model specific fittings,
    3. Ensure the fuel gauge scream empty and engine shut down half tank capacity or decrease even if parked all night,
    4. Profit
  16. Re:More... on Cambridge University Scientists Find Quadruple Helix DNA In Human Cells · · Score: 2

    Do you mean a corkscrew shaped DNA?

  17. Re:If this intellectual property is like your hous on What Could Have Been In the Public Domain Today, But Isn't · · Score: 1

    Your proposals sounds really clever.

    I deserve you a symbolic +1 Interesting because I have no mod points today.

  18. Re:Non-bullshit non-jargon translation please... on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 1

    Geek translation:

    Focusing on tablets = You will get more of the Unity crapbloat
    redesign Unity for mobile = We tried to sell it on desktop and...
    push deeper into the cloud = there are kids reading you know.
    faster and cost effective to scale out modern infrastructure on the cloud of your choice = we are going cheap on giving you a choice between clouds and clouds or clouds...
    create clouds for your own consumption and commerce = You know who will consume and who will do commerce.

  19. Re:Reversion to mean? on Wozniak's Original System Description of the Apple ][ · · Score: 2

    And one trick he missed that could have been done cheaply... if the video vertical sync pulse had been made available someplace in the I/O space as a bit you could test, then it would have been trivial to know when you were in the vertical blanking interval so that you could flip video buffers cleanly.

    $C019 ;RDVBL bit 7 Apple IIe IIgs Vertical Blanking
    $C041 ;RDVBLMSK bit 7 Apple //c Read VBL Interrupt

  20. I designed some back in 2008 on Undergrad Project Offers Site Privacy Information At a Glance · · Score: 1

    I thout-off and designed such icons back in 2008

    My version is modular, account for color-blindness and can render B&W over white, black or any coloured background..

    I released them by-nc-sa
    http://www.noiraude.net/notracking/notracking.svg

  21. Re:Fuck GizMag on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 1

    Not only de-duping but:
    - Sorting and grouping,
    - Compressing patterns by combining and diffing matches,
    - Replaying known scenarios (sequence patterns) that will help the sorting and classification,
    - Playing challenging scenarios (as dreams) to help reveal relevance of the information itself as well as en-light unconsciously captured information (unprocessed details.

    As a result, after a good night, you awake with freed short term memory and processed long term memory.

  22. Re:Fuck GizMag on Researchers May Have Discovered How Memories Are Encoded In the Brain · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The memorization job during night is more like a reprocessing of the short term pattern matching, or optimization.

    Let imagine you saw a calico cat during the day:
    Your short term memory barely stored the information patterns nearly as :
    1 - Surrounding environment (time, location, current occupation)
    2 - Encounter with a wandering animal.
    3 - The known cat of your neighbor.
    4 - An uncommon variety calico.

    During the night you reprocess optimize/compress the following pattern information as:
    1 - related and share the same pattern memory as: your usual work commute
    2 - related and share common animal encounters,
    3 - share the already memorized recognition pattern of your neighbor's cat.
    4 - share your already memorized recognition pattern of calico cats.

    If you sleep/dream good enough, your brain will iterate and further optimize/reduce these patterns by walking across which materialize as dreams.

    Your awake activity will bring new data as patterns that will help optimize and compress older memory patterns. In the long run, it may even produce lighter or more optimized memory, merging each duplicate information with "related to". Commonly used relations will wire faster actual synaptic links.

     

  23. XUL on Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL

    Multi-platform with Xulrunner, integration with HTML5 engine if needed.

  24. Transactions with real electronic cash on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    What we need is exchange transactions made with electronic signed cash species. Actually, transactions revolves around pure arithmetic and thus permit this type of frauds by creating more virtual fictional money with no real value.
    If we could have signed species objects made of {{serial#,amount,emitter},emitter-signature},owner},owner-signature}, transactions made by signed clusters of species objects. No one except countries, central banks authorities would be able to electronically sign the species with the same process as printed money is done. Fictional fraudulent species would be much identifiable by their invalid signature. Each transaction would require a signed transfer from current owner and next owner of the currency/cluster, not the fictional arithmetic operation +/- we are used to.

  25. Alike most DSLAMs on HP Announces ARM-Based Server Line · · Score: 4, Informative

    This type of setup is already used in Most DSLAMs. Full rack, 2PSU, cooliing, 24 or 48 port (x)DSL cards with ARM CPU as independent servers, Internal management card and network switch. Think of blade server racks.