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  1. The design should translate transparently to MRAM chips, if their engineers are competent.

    If they're really good, their architecture will also handle Intel's 3d Xpoint DIMMs, too.

  2. Worth getting if only so Find My iGadget worked. Definitely a killer app for this service.

    I just hope it goes back to working on my iPad when the data pass I bought for a period of heavy use expires.

    It would be amazing if I could keep migrating to ever-newer devices by moving the Apple SIM from device to device...

  3. Flabbergasted by the implications on CRISPR Eliminates HIV In Live Animals (genengnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could actually move people off antiretroviarals, and into long-term remission.

    Don't expect a silver bullet - AIDS will be cured like cancer, driven into remission, and only "cured" after we're confident that it won't show up again later on.

    In spite of that? I expect it's going to be far cheaper than treating patients with long duration HAART cocktails, and treating the side effects of those drugs. Even if each patient's viral strains have to be sequenced, and a CRISPR cocktail picked based on the strains harbored, AIDS drugs are not cheap. This could be a turning point representing the beginning of the end of AIDS.

  4. Re:Do you want a zombie apocalypse? on CRISPR Eliminates HIV In Live Animals (genengnews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's also how you get a cure for AIDS. Stop making zombie jokes, this could be the end of the epidemic.

  5. Re:They used to be good on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    Alt-green button. Use alt-green to invoke the old behavior.

  6. Depending on whether you're considering the mean, median, or mode, the "average" may or may not be at the 50% point. Seemingly pedantic, but useful - having one billionaire could drive up the mean income in an entire county full of poverty to the point where it looks like you don't need to focus safety-net programs there. Meanwhile, I'll link you to a site on these averages, since they explain it better than I can. Now, it's entirely possible that the mode - the most common value - could be well above or below the 50% point - the median, really - in a skewed distribution.

    You have to know which average to look at; some will tell you damn dirty lies about certain datasets.

  7. Re:The thing that always worries me about this on Facebook is Working On a Way To Let You Type With Your Brain (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In the short run, it's simple - take the EEG headset away from them and hide it while they're drunk.

    In the very long run, I presume we'll be able to set things in advance that queue outgoing communications when our biomonitor tells our personal AI that we're past some user-defined limit of intoxication.

  8. Re:Are they going to require a CC to activate your on Roku-Enabled TVs Will Soon 'Listen' To Programs You're Watching To Suggest Streaming Content (variety.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Append "/nocc" to the Roku activation link. It'll activate without a credit card. Normally you have to call support for that...

    CAPTTCHA: Keyhole

  9. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've had $90 DSL that wasn't fit to fill out job applications. College-student jobs don't take paper applications or resumes any more. Just saying - if you can't log onto a "careers" website, you will find it hard pressed to get a job unless you know someone who can pull strings for you.

  10. Re:Government solutions are always transient, too. on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You get decent service for $30. I pay $90 for crap. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data."

  11. Re:Background and the real issue on FCC To Halt Expansion of Broadband Subsidies For Poor People (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    If I may point out something you may be overlooking:

    Libraries block webmail. Not all of them, but mine does. And if you can't check your email, you can't apply for jobs.

  12. Is there a list of what's compromised by this attack? Or perhaps, a list of things known to be unaffected?

  13. Re:solid state cache for a hard drive? on With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Drobo with 256 gB of flash. The array has stopped crashing my PC since adding the SSD cache - the timeouts came before the disk spin-ups for the Windows network file system. Copying files to the array happens at 80% of the gigabit ethernet bus speed, now.

    You say it doesn't make too much difference, but you clearly haven't played with it for a little while. It's not a miracle, but it is quite a difference.

  14. Store some very important nonce, or part of the decryption key, in volatile, battery-backed (capacitor-backed?) memory. If the password is not entered, the charging circuit will not activate, and it is indeed connected to the erase line on the RAM. Thus, if someone tries to bypass the charging limiter, they zeroize the key store. Use other standard anti-tampering mechanisms to prevent chip-shaving and all the other physical attacks secure crypto-processors have been using for decades.

    But that's how you'd implement a self-destruct timer.

  15. A Question of Proportion on Microsoft Locks Ryzen, Kaby Lake Users Out of Updates On Windows 7, 8.1 (kitguru.net) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anybody really think that everyone will "upgrade" to windows 10 because of this?

  16. Re:Already exists on US Army Unveils 3D-Printed Grenade Launcher Called RAMBO (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Dialed to maximum yield and using the smaller of the two recoilless rifles, the maximum range of the weapon was inside the minimum safe range for the nuke. You were encouraged to trigger it remotely, from next to a bunker (that you could dive into quickly, and planned on abandoning as soon as the shockwave had passed twice), or on the back of a Jeep for some serious shoot-n-scoot action.

  17. Honestly? I'm curious whether they violated any of their own terms by deliberately soliciting bids to bump the NRA from their ad slot.

  18. Re:The last time I dropped some hydrogen metal on World's Only Sample of Metallic Hydrogen Has Been Lost (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It may also be on the floor, waiting for someone to step on it, crack the grain, and suddenly turn from a dust speck into a hundred and seventy liters of extremely hot hydrogen gas, quickly reacting with the oxygen in the air...

  19. Not universally. Though ironically, it's usually feature phones aimed at the geriatric that have FM tuners and antennas, and can use the speakerphone to listen to radio.

  20. Re: Simple Answer on Apple Explains Why Its R&D Spending Is On the Rise (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You know Apple spun off Arm after designing the architecture for the Newton MessagePad, right?

  21. Re: The Guardian goes full racist on Reddit Bans Far-Right Groups Altright and Alternativeright (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Citation, please.

  22. Re: Think of it as evolution in action. on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 2

    Methadone is actually a very effective painkiller in its own right - and for such a powerful painkiller, it's surprisingly hard to accidentally die because of it.

  23. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The roll-your-own kit actually costs about $35 if you want to build an epi-pencil. $30 for the reloadable autoinjector, $5 for consumables.

  24. I should point out that this is the prototype for a tracks-and-arms machine intended for ongoing Fukushima clean-up. We can't really ask what they did in Chernobyl - they just sent in unprotected conscripts to clean up - even replace the soviet flag when the radiation bleached it - after which they were either euthanized or tranquilized while the radiation poisoning ran its course. (Though, in the circumstances, it's hard to tell the difference, there) The lucky survived a while without cancer.

    These days, though, we have tungsten, boron nitride, and leaded glass. And now we have something else to carry it for us. Which is good, because if this lights a candle under Cyberdyne's butt, they're likely to actually ship product - someone's likely to ship product - before we next need something like this.