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  1. Re:the text is incorrect on French Police To Switch 72,000 Desktop PCs To Linux · · Score: 2
  2. efficiently captures excess heat on Charge Your Mobile Device With Fire · · Score: 1

    0.5% efficiency

  3. Re:How about.... on Japan's Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck In Limbo · · Score: 1

    actual readings are less than Chernobyl exclusion zone (that is being repopulated for over 3 years now).

  4. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 1

    Who cares if they shelve it as long as they publish it. Just last week I benefited from their research. MSR has a paper on resolution independent curve rendering and using that technique to render text using implicit curves. People are using that to render fonts inside the pixel shader w/o any font/graphics API !

    did you license the patent?

  5. Re:TL;DR Version on The Memo That Spawned Microsoft Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, they let them research the shit out of stuff, and then SHELVE IT AND NEVER USE IT.
    M$ R&D department has only one role - to slurp up all the Stanford/mit/caltech they can get their hands on and deny other big corps (FB/google/amazon) that brainpower.

  6. Re:1 GB on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 1

    that is normal TV with a mix of SD and HD
    one DVB-T mux can handle ~5 HD channels or up to 8-10 SD ones.

  7. Re:1 GB on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 1

    30Mbits per mux = 5-8 TV channels
    you can have 160 TV streams on 1Gbit, thats a lot more than your "4 or 5"

  8. Re:300Mbps for $?$?$ on The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin · · Score: 1

    300Mbit is something you can get with ordinary Docsis 3.0 (400/100Mbit), no need for fiber.

  9. SDR = GPS with no restrictions. (gnss-sdr.org) on Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets · · Score: 2

    http://gnss-sdr.org/node/50

    You can do software GPS using $10 rtl-sdr dongles.

  10. Re:Routing Connections from Point A to Point B on Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    You might of saw packets still inside LINX.

  11. Re:making money on Interview: Ask President Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Education · · Score: 1

    Dont know about edX, but Coursera is trying to be a Linkedin for people with no CVs. They aggregate all your data (course results) and sell it to potential first employers

  12. Re:A third reason is they gave it to us free on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 0

    Throw in an advertising deal, "Delta Flys High on the Surface", and you will get an even better price.

    What was your point?

    Its usually the other way around. M$ bribes resellers with free advertising money/funds/inclusion into already running campaign.

  13. Re:A third reason is they gave it to us free on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 0

    Buying 11,000 Microsoft Surface 2 tablets is not "gave it to us free".

    11000 tablets and 19000 Lumias, Im sure they did it after researching the marked and concluding those are best devices out there, not because they got them at a HEAVY discount.

  14. Re:Turbulence ahead on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they're aware of the differences and are tweaking the software to account for necessary changes. Delta, or any airline or major corporation for that matter, doesn't employ idiots.

    AHAHAHAHaha, you got me till the last ascertainment

  15. training software also runs on same sys as tablets on Delta Replacing Flight Manuals with Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Wow. I didnt know Delta was using Windows RT internally for all those years .......

    Looks like M$ is in panic mode and giving surfaces away for free just to get some PR and traction.

  16. Re:Sorry, this is SlashDot. Save the fluff. on A Beautiful Mind and Broken Body For Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    no, you are a coward with no education and you didnt read the article

  17. Re:a few laws of physics problems here on Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats Outdoors · · Score: 2

    multipath and reflections

    are already used in DSP to model rooms and sometimes even to reconstruct 3D shape from sound alone

  18. Re:Here's why... on Did NIST Cripple SHA-3? · · Score: 1

    Just like that time A5/1 GSM encryption was weakened from 64 to 56 bits in US to make it "much more efficient".

  19. Photogrammetric bridging/map matching on Metadata On How You Drive Also Reveals Where You Drive · · Score: 1

    I saw a nice animation of a working system ~month ago. Cant find it now.
    It was basically a huge HMM problem.

    Video starts with IMU sensors reading of estimated car movement, somewhere else on the screen all the possible roads are listed and in time eliminated using HMM. Real position is snapped into road taken on the map after ~1 minute in a big city.

  20. Re:Sorry, this is SlashDot. Save the fluff. on A Beautiful Mind and Broken Body For Silicon Valley · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so how is your second ph.d coming along?

  21. Re:Looking at the thing. on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    they are smoking SCIENCE
    stick is relative - you move a stick and game autoaims you to the nearest target
    mouse/trackpad is absolute, you point directly at a pixel you want to shoot

  22. Re:It incorporates some interesting concepts, but. on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 1

    precision of physical sticks

    this is an oxymoron

    When things get intense, I always find myself pressing buttons harder and trying to tilt sticks further than they can move

    you might have a neurological disease, what you describe is some sort of alpha motor neuron disorder. Btw monkeys also have trouble with fine motor control.

  23. Re:Why do we trust SSL? on Ask Slashdot: Has Gmail's SSL Certificate Changed, How Would We Know? · · Score: 4, Insightful

        That made me wonder about something at work recently. All the machines at work are owned by the organization. It would be trivial for them to add their own trusted signing authority, so they could MITM every SSL web site.

    You just described for every enterprise firewall/scanner solution works

  24. Re:Advert for Upverter? on Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter · · Score: 1

    and now you can look at pcb/schematic without installing eagle, I say its a win.

  25. Interview with the Upverter Founders (theamphour) on Sparkfun's Entire Open Hardware Catalog Made Available On Upverter · · Score: 3, Informative

    Im sure a lot of people boil just thinking about cloud and corporations stealing your ideas (Occupy Thingiverse).
    Here is an interview with Upverter guys on theamphour. Dave doesnt take any shit and he hates the cloud so dont expect any PR fluff.

    http://www.theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-163-ramiform-reciprocity-raconteurs