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  1. Virtual machines on All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What exactly is the point of spending so much money on hardware when you could run >40 virtual machines emulating different Android devices?

  2. You know what my mouse doesnt do? on Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3D Virtual Reality Worlds · · Score: 1

    It doesnt lag 3-5 video frames after the movement.

  3. ighome.com on Google Reader: One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Never user Google reader, but I had pretty big iGoogle homepage set up with ~12 RSS feeds.
    Swapped to ighome.com and never looked back.

  4. Re:Better quality more lag on Project Tango is Giving Mobile Devices a Sense of Space and Motion (Video) · · Score: 1

    half of that delay is probably from wirelessly casting video from tablet to that TV

  5. Re:Different than the SLAMM stuff at Carnegie Lab on Intelligent Autonomous Flying Robots Learn and Map Environment As They Fly · · Score: 1

    they used PTAM and replicated Jens Nyman's thesis from 2 years ago

    https://github.com/nymanjens/a...

  6. off the shelf software on Intelligent Autonomous Flying Robots Learn and Map Environment As They Fly · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are using PTAM package from Uni of Oxford
    http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gk...

    Whats more they are using off the shelf ardrone-PTAM package

    https://github.com/nymanjens/a...

    and replicating something done TWO YEARS AGO by Jens Nyman (from Belgian uni)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    so W T F

  7. Re:Need doublethink training on Google Is Offering Free Coding Lessons To Women and Minorities · · Score: 1

    Because you have a white penis.

  8. Re:wow! on Funding for iFind Kickstarter Suspended · · Score: 1

    Kickstarter doesnt claim that, and in fact recently loosened their entry criteria to be more competitive with IGG. IGG on the other hand deleted part of their TOS that claimed they were somewhat responsible for scams.

  9. Re:Supersize Meal... and a Diet Coke. on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 1

    Because that woman doesnt exist. In reality its 300 pound woman buying 15 pound mcdonalds lunch.

  10. Re:Blackberry - only vendor serious about security on BlackBerry Back In Profit · · Score: 0

    They are so serious they let UAE/India/Saudi Arabia etc snoop on BB traffic.

  11. Re:wow....200 whole orders??? on It's Not a Car, It's a Self-Balancing Electric Motorcycle (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    they all have same thing in common - they dont exist, but take preorders

  12. Re:And another on the ban pile on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    The drive did go into read only, until power cycled. As documented.

    No it didnt, it died when their test software tried to write to it. it :

    "is supposed to put the 335 Series in a read-only"

    but instead it:

    "write errors started appearing in Anvil's Storage Utilities, the application tasked with flooding the SSDs with writes. The Anvil app actually froze"

    whole computer stopped and two reboots later there was no drive and no read-only data to access. There was no read only state at any point.

    Basically Intel drive died like every other consumer SSD dies, taking all of your goat pr0n with him.

  13. Re:Why can't you plug into you TV anymore. on Cable Boxes Are the 2nd Biggest Energy Users In Many Homes · · Score: 1

    pay per view and SPYING on every single user

  14. Re:And another on the ban pile on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 1

    Intel didnt "let go", Its wear level counter reached zero and drive was bricked _by the firmware_ during next power cycle. Basically planned obsolescence.

    Whats worse Intel claims this drive should go into read only mode, not disappear.

  15. Graceful Failover ? What Graceful Failover? on Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs · · Score: 1

    Even Intel, behemoth of reliable server hardware, wasnt able to fix Sandforce problems.
    According to Intel representative Graceful Failover of SSD drive means you _kill_ the drive in software during a reboot :DDD and not switch it to read only mode (like you promise in the documentation).

    Kiss your perfectly readable data goodbye.

  16. Re:But didn't their patents protect them? ;D on Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products · · Score: 1

    What you really want to watch is this documentary: THE COMPAQ STORY - 1984 to 1988
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  17. Here is the hardware to do the attack: on Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.hides.com.tw/produc...

    This is an USB dongle, you push TS stream into it. Bundled Opencaster software will build TS stream for you. Basically its a small Digital TV station capable of transmitting one mux.

    * DVB-T version, will not work with ATSC TVs in US. Btw LOL US and your ATSC A/53 mpeg2 "hd"tv.

  18. Re:Good luck with that on Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually it requires about $200 and nothing more.

    http://www.hides.com.tw/produc...

    Bundled Opencaster offers point and click HbbTV support.

  19. Re:Concentration on Sparse's Story Illustrates the Potholes Faced By Hardware Start-Ups · · Score: 1

    no, you are going "100% sourced in USA" from a guy who gets M140 diodes and the rest of the stuff from china.

  20. K part, 500MHz stock bump DOESNT MATTER on Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Increases Clocks By 500 MHz, Lowers Temps · · Score: 1

    Intel bumped stock clock on a K designated unlocked part that NEVER works on stock. Pointless gesture.

    And it appears to be OC limited to boot, W T F Intel?

  21. Re:Digital vs analog on SpaceX Landing Video Cleanup Making Progress · · Score: 1

    FEC is a standard feature of any digital video broadcast

    problem is they only have TS file from the receiver with badly interpreted FEC, not a raw stream of I/Q samples that can be worked on more extensively, so only way to recover anything now is to try and guess what went wrong in the receiver and what got shifted/xored.

    It would be prudent in the future for SpaceX to have SDR as a backup receiver.

  22. Re:Avoi9ding to answer on AMD, NVIDIA, and Developers Weigh In On GameWorks Controversy · · Score: 1

    http://la.nvidia.com/object/nz...

    "The Way It's Meant to be Played"
    Nvidia pays you shitload of money for participating in this program, and can additionally guarantee certain sale goals (by bundling your product with their GPUs).
    In order to participate you only have to do two things, insert nvidia ad clip at the start of the game, and let nvidia rape your codebase.

    On paper Nvidia pays you for joint marketing campaign, but deep down in the paperwork you are letting them decide what your codebase will look like.

    Oh look, what a coincident: Watch dogs, game that is crippled on AMD, is a participant
    http://www.geforce.com/getwatc...

  23. Re:"HTML5 video" doesn't actually exist. on Netflix Ditches Silverlight For HTML5 On Macs · · Score: 1

    you can always do DASH in Flash like Youtube :)
    or raw mpeg streaming in javascript if you are crazy enough
    https://github.com/phoboslab/j...
    http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/...
    http://phoboslab.org/log/2013/...

    and look, iOS streaming app using this code: http://instant-webcam.com/

  24. Avoi9ding to answer on AMD, NVIDIA, and Developers Weigh In On GameWorks Controversy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nvidia PAYS for removal of features that work better on AMD

    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h...

    Nvidia pays for insertion of USELESS features that work faster on their hardware

    http://techreport.com/review/2...

    Nvidia cripples their own middleware to disadwantage competitors

    http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

    Intel did the same, but FTC put a stop to it
    http://www.osnews.com/story/22...

    so how exactly is that not Nvidias doing??

    Nvidia is evil and plays dirty. They dont want your games to be good, they want them to be fast on Nvidia, any means necessary. They use "means to be played" program to lure developers in, pay them off and hijack their games to further nvidias goal.

    For example how come Watch Dogs, a console title build from the grounds up with AMD GPU/CPU optimizations to run good on both current gen consoles, is crippled on PC when played on AMD hardware? How does this shit happen?

    This is something FTC should weight in just like in Intels case.

  25. Re:I routinely get new 550MB/s 120GB SSDs for $60 on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    Scaminston V300?

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/...

    Half the speed at same price? count me in!11