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  1. Re:No Thermal Fuse? on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes In New York, Burns Six-Year-Old Boy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuses sit between the device and the battery. Not so much help when the fault is internal to the battery.

  2. Fuses work for high current. Not high voltage. That's why multimeter protection circuitry is so complicated.

    Fuses are also cheap. Mov's and spark gaps aren't so much.

  3. Re:I wish they could do that for news... on Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets (time.com) · · Score: 1

    function hasReporterFactChecked()
    {
            return false;
    }

  4. Re:comment on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you've got 3,000 drives at home to come up with directly home applicable numbers, then please share them.

    This is mostly useful to compare models vs models as the environment is kept the same.
    It's completely legitimate to say model X is more reliable than model Y, it's not valid to say model X has a Z% failure rate in a home environment however.

  5. Re:Shielding, jamming on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1

    The chip does mostly use public/private key methods, however the NFC aspect does transmit the magnetic stripe data.
    Why? Cause it means they can just use modified PoS machines rather than making new ones from scratch - the existing system needs that data so they made it less secure by keeping it pretty backwards compatible.

  6. Re:Shielding, jamming on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Keep Your Credit Card Secure? · · Score: 1
  7. People thought they couldn't sneak a new OS on your computer without permission as well but here we are.

    It'll be in the TOS somewhere in legalese.

  8. Re:74 at time of crash on Tesla Model S In Fatal Autopilot Crash Was Going 74 MPH In a 65 Zone, NTSB Says (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More than 'sort of'. Look at the photo of the car after the crash.
    It's almost entirely intact with minor damage if you ignore the roof!

    Very easy to see how the car thought it was clear - it technically was up to about a meter/4 feet above the road.

  9. Sorry I didn't catch that, someone else must have also been using your frequency and it came across all garbled.

    Maybe an organisation should be set up to make sure everyone uses different frequencies? Then your message could get through intact.

  10. Re:Decent broadband in rural areas on FCC OKs Sweeping Spectrum Frontiers Rules To Open Up Nearly 11 GHz Of Spectrum (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, you want lower frequency ranges for that, higher frequency = shorter distance.

  11. Re:Frequency limited by processor clock speed? on FCC OKs Sweeping Spectrum Frontiers Rules To Open Up Nearly 11 GHz Of Spectrum (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Frequency multipliers and other fancy tricks.

    You generate a 10mhz signal, then add it to a 20ghz sine wave. Bingo you've got a 10mhz channel at 20ghz.
    That's a simplification of what wifi channels do.

  12. I wonder what would happen if you spun the wheels in to the corner to increase traction.

    Or if the traction would vanish entirely once the tyre surface started moving sideways.

  13. Re:Forget Russia, Hillary spent $1 mil on trolls on PayPal Denies Twitch Troll $50,000 Worth In Refunds (ubergizmo.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hi Bernie Troll.

  14. Re:What about on ASUS Delivers Its Updates Over HTTP With No Verification (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    And the OS should also handle installation of programs and keeping them up to date.

    Oh wait my computer has done this for over a decade. Love Linux's lack of useless install wizards. :)

  15. Re:Bigger display is appealing on Pebble Unveils Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2, and Pebble Core Smartwatches (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    Battery life is the entire reason why I bought my Pebble Time in the last kickstarter.

    People who wear watches that need daily charging are either:
    1. People who take their fitness seriously - not applicable anymore with the Pebble Time 2 with the new heart rate monitor.
    2. Tossers who love showing off their smart watch and the Pebble's dimmer (but entirely usable) screen isn't suited for that.

  16. Re:This is the year of the Linux Desktop on Microsoft No Longer Allows Admins To Block Windows Store Access In Windows 10 Pro (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stop living in the 90's.

    These days there is a vastly higher chance that 99% of consumer gear 'just works' on Linux without stuffing around with drivers.

    Only with Windows can you take a new computer, clean install the OS and have not a single peripherals working out of the box.
    Even basic stuff like Ethernet will often not work.

  17. Didn't they try that with Avatar?

    Back then everyone decided that special effects be dammed, a big blockbuster movie does actually need a (non-plagiarised) story.

  18. Re:Wireless charging is probably dangerous on Gov't Researchers Develop Wireless Car Chargers That Are Faster Than Plug-ins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Who said a MRI is dangerous? Thousands of people have them every day with no increase in cancer risk.

    If you bring a large chunk of metal in to the room then sure it's dangerous but that's more to do with the metal flying physically towards a magnet rather than cancer.

  19. Re:Three times the efficiency?? Not likely on Gov't Researchers Develop Wireless Car Chargers That Are Faster Than Plug-ins (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be impossible for a wireless transmission system to reach optimal efficiency at the same point the batteries are at their optimum recharge rate.
    That would be the biggest fluke in physics in all of history if that were the case.

  20. "The entire thing is handled online"....except the bits that aren't. :P

  21. Re:Good on Kentucky Hospital Calls State of Emergency In Hack Attack (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because victims never contribute to their state of being a victim?

    Saying victim blaming is wrong is saying that if you become a victim you instantly become infallible, could not have contributed to the problem in anyway and are a completely innocent party.

  22. To have a problem you must actually first know what it is.

    5% is a symptom, it's not actually a problem in of it's self.
    If you want to propose what the actual problem is with hard evidence to say that it is the problem, then that's different.

  23. Re:Scary ... on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    On the Honda HR-V it does appear to be polled at least every 5 seconds.

    Open door, get out and walk two steps and the car is already pinging saying the key has been removed.
    I haven't tried it, but I'd bet that if you passed the key out the window it would still do it that quickly.

  24. Re:Scary ... on Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal 24 Different Car Models (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a rolling code so you can't replay.

    This attack is just making the key work from a few hundred meters instead of a few meters.

  25. It's actually negative 90% since you lose the game.
    You aren't gaining anything unless you *really* need the cash.