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  1. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    So the only risk factor here, is when the laser points through the windows into the cabin?
    What is the risk involved when the laser beam goes vertical parallel to (not hitting) a cabin window?

  2. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    > Laser dazzle is complete and can last quite a while.

    The pilots and their windows are on the top side of the aircraft. The lasers are pointed to its belly. Can that do any dazzle/harm whatsoever?
    I imagine a landing with horizontal lasers would, but while trafficking (likely by autopilot) i doubt that.

  3. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    They should just inflate the autopilot.

  4. Re:Tempest in a teapot on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 1

    > Seriously, /. without the comments is like Playboy with no pictures.
    Hear hear. I find the pictures on beta a distraction.

  5. I have nothing against the BETA design on QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks · · Score: 1

    I have nothing against BETA design, except perhaps that it has less room for text.
    I just hope my boss doesnt think i'm venturing on some "The 9 Things About Cats You Should Know" website or Youtube..

  6. Re:Well congratulations on How Google Broke Itself and Fixed Itself, Automatically · · Score: 1

    I believe they designed servers and integrated some smart software to be able to do that with great performance.
    But you can duct-tape this kind of recovery on commodity servers if they boot via PXE/TFTP on a rudementary but very effective level though, in tandem with one configuration channel each that you could have fallback for quite simply.

    I imagine rollout scripts would first check if rollout to a test-subset is succesfull before continueing with all production servers. I speculate this article might just be about this subset, but story being spiced/beefed up in spite of more exceting/serious errors at server heaven.

  7. Hardware not YET efficient enough to scare me.. on Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    The hardware is not ready, at least not until they use hardware to build composite mutation-images that show relevant (pixel) changes only. There is no point in trying to parse a single image a second, or -on the opposite side- a video stream.

    In my opinion, efficient wearable vision software should ignore lower quality versions of what it already saw, it would make a huge efficiency leap. I believe this architecture ultimately would be a software skeleton for a mental world reconstruction much like humans perceive.

  8. Celsius on Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified · · Score: 1

    > minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92 degrees Celsius)
    minus 92 degrees Celsius (minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit)

    There i fixed that for you.

  9. Re:Any Android Tablet on Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? · · Score: 1

    No. For simple users i would go with an ipad.
    Seniors dont care about investing (time/attention/money) in more possibilities or the latest technology, they just want the most fool-proof solution to their problem.

  10. VLC and files in folders on Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? · · Score: 1

    Works great. Searchable. Allows any hierarchy. Downside is a file can/should only exist in one folder, you could migate this using multiple playlists.

  11. Nuclear Bumperstickers on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Mexico is going to see a whole lot of trucks with a nuclear sticker soon, if this proves to help being stolen.

  12. Slow news day or /. broken? on Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Dupe http://news.slashdot.org/story/07/06/26/1855202/day-of-silence-on-the-internet

    I saw no new frontpage stories for over a day, whats up /. ?

  13. This is going to drive apps to the OS.. NOT on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    This is not going to help the developers that ponder developing a Windows RT app right now.
    I have no Windows8 or RT phobia, but this news (if true) would put me off..

  14. Random chance of live/property destruction? on GOCE Satellite Is Falling To Earth But Nobody Knows Where It Will Land · · Score: 1

    Time to up my karma..

  15. Ever seen a remote desktop tool that's fast/efficient enough to play back video?

    Err, yes. RDP.
    Its so effecient i often wonder why my wooden medieval laptop running Linux is able to play the video, thats when i realize its streamed via RDP from my Windows PC. Sound and everything.

  16. Re:Really? Did we ever really want smart watches? on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    No, it just doesnt enough. People expect the thing to replicate all smartphone functionality, when in fact it only works with the Samsung browser, WhatsApp, S-Calendar, and the default (not gMail) email app.

    A bit like the Samsung S-View cover feature. Its nice, but why doesn't it tell me more about individual app notifications? (the same way i do see a face when called)

  17. Re: Generic Shooter X on Under the Hood With Battlefield 4 · · Score: 1

    Battlefield has vehicles. Which is why i enjoy BF, its a bit more arcade gaming that way. I dont want an infantry simulator,say CoD.

    IMHO BF3 dropped the ball though regarding vehicles, no fun being a driver there. The insane GPU specs didn't help either.

  18. Maelstrom on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    The funny thing with terrorism is that it means "scaring people". Which happens to be exactly what "terrorism preventing" does:

    Politics found a war terminology, that also depicts its own negative side effects, side effects that actually support the war argument.

    There should be a word invented for this maelstrom, because irony is not cutting it.

  19. Yes. on Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    I switched to CrunchBang. Its less annoying than the Unity interface (i have no use for its features, they just get in the way and frustrate me) works great on my old (non-pae) notebook.

    Now in CrunchBang i just have to right-click to start applications, and manually have to add new applications to that menu, but that was surmountable.

  20. Re:Illusion of privacy on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1

    Google has been very adamant that the NSA does not have access to their servers.

    No, Google did not choose to join a program that would give NSA access.

    "we have not joined any program that would give the U.S. government—or any other government—direct access to our servers. "
    Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.be/2013/06/what.html

    We know nothing about what Google did not choose to do, for all intents and purposes, because the NSA does have this goal i assume they have (or are going to) meet it. Likely in secret.

    Furthermore as stated elsewhere encryption is irrelevant, with or without willing cooperation from Google Inc. the NSA is able to decrypt it.

  21. Sea could sequester plutonium on Fracked Shale Could Sequester Carbon Dioxide · · Score: 1

    And in other news..

    "The same seas that we evaporate and drive boats across could become repositories to store large quantities of plutonium. A new computer model suggests that holes in the Atlantic Ocean, a 106400000 sq-kilometres formation right next to the U.S. that is a hotbed for water, could store all the radio active waste emitted by the country's power plants from now until 2080."

    0_o

  22. link broken: htmL on Orbital Sciences Cargo Test Mission To ISS Launches Successfully · · Score: 1

    Fixed link: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/orbitalsciences-index.html

    URL for "successfully launched their demo cargo mission to the ISS" is missing the last character, gives 404.

  23. Re:Was Java a good choice for the AP requirement? on Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I hear you, but Java made that even simpler (to grasp).
    You only build (and debug!!!) something (with a GUI) once, and it works for everyone (ok, over 99% of users) that has the (proper) VM installed.

  24. Re:Dwight Schultz: A-Team meets ST:Voyager on Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Right i must have been confuzzled.

  25. Re:Was Java a good choice for the AP requirement? on Murdoch's AP Computer Science MOOC Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I should also mention that there are a LOT of compilers and other solutions available based on the (object) Pascal language today, such as http://smartmobilestudio.com/
    Good times for pascal.