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  1. Re:sniffing for encryption on NSA Data Mining Much Larger Than Reported · · Score: 0

    cellphone detonated bomb is NOT a smart thing, practically every ATF squad has (should/must) a jammer (jams almost everything up to xx gigahertz) - employing this baby in bomb related events is a standard procedure EXACTLY because radio triggered bombs are popular, and GSM/CDMA ones are easiest to make and hardest to quickly track.
    Heck, I can make one in an hour now (remember its christmas). Simply connect speaker of the phone to the detonator circuit and you are ready to go, no need for fancy shmancy sms/callerID if you are in a hurry, just prey not to get one of those nice "would you like to buy" calls when you are priming this thing :]

  2. Re:Endurance Factor is a total BS on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: 0

    >So what?

    ? Nothing, All I'm saying is that the "tester" was clueless.

    >I recently bought a 2GB Kingston card for my Canon, which gets an average 3.3
    >MB per picture at full resolution. Let's say for arguments sake that I can
    >only get 500 pictures on the card. If I can fully rewrite the card 10000
    >times, then that's 5000000 (five million) photos. If you do some more math,
    >you find that if I want the card to last five years, I can take up to 2700
    >photos each day, every day.

    That is true. I can only add that my boxes are using SLC cards in CF-to-IDE adapters, and are swapping about 100-500MB daily (custom routers/scanners/filters). The oldest runs since May and there were no badblocks on any of those cards (>10).

    MLC is _good enough_ for camera usage. SLC is desired if you swap a lot of data (its way faster).

  3. Re:Lexar on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: 0

    >Its just an advertisement.

    What is an advertisment? My post or anandtech "test"?
    link to more sources: http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17211 3&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=137&mode=thread&p id=14331586#14331873

  4. Re:CompactFlash most widely used? on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: 0

    SD license costs money, so is not so popular (as it could be)

  5. Re:parent is advertising on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here :

    http://www.edn.com/article-partner/CA503389.html

    "The endurance of MLC Flash memory is a minimum of 10,000 write/erase cycles per cell, compared to around 100,000 cycles for SLC Flash."

    http://www.electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?SEC TION=3700&PRIMID=&FileName=TOSHIBA.apr2004.HTML

    "Currently, life expectancy of SLC flash is rated at approximately 100,000 cycles and MLC flash is rated to have approximately 10,000 cycles."

    and so on, better? Anybody with a clue about flash memory knows that. Guy from Anandtech was a consumer, not an engineer, that why this "test" is just a "test".

  6. Re:Lexar on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: -1

    > but lasts 5 times less than the slowest ones

    this is a BS, as previously stated here http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17211 3&cid=14331446

  7. Endurance Factor is a total BS on 1GB CompactFlash Roundup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Kingston is MLC based and has the WORST life cycle,
    Fast cards are SLC based are and on average ~10 times better.

    Here is a proof : http://www.achieva.com.au/news_slcvsmlc.htm

  8. How to POST on How to Write Comments · · Score: -1
  9. Re:No open source drivers on The Portable Linux Based GP2X is Here · · Score: -1
  10. Re:Can someone please explain... on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: -1
  11. Re:Hijacking to force release prisoner release? on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: -1

    >Norad exercise
    well, read again, because this wery exercise was "coincidentally" taking place at 9/11/2001
    this was a main reason for misplacing jets

  12. Re:The fourth package's removal reason? on New Releases for Debian and SUSE · · Score: -1

    >Ah, now that makes sense. I've heard a lot of people say that Debian lacks polish.

    You dont want to know what 'polish my ass' means ;]

  13. Re:After on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: -1

    >She's the hottest one.

    agreed ;-), she looks like a lady when you take her to dinner, and a total slut in bed, perfect combo

  14. Re:But it's warmer.. on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs · · Score: -1

    its not about flickering, fluorescent light sources are just bad for health - they radiate all kinds of 'nasty stuff'

  15. Re:Corporation on The Philanthropic Arm of Google · · Score: -1

    erm, arent those stocks non voting non dividend one ?

  16. Re:read the TOS agreement on Google Readies Platform for Video Distribution · · Score: -1

    charge FROM YOUR cut

  17. Re:Google Uploader on Google Readies Platform for Video Distribution · · Score: -1

    I'm sorry, but I dont speak english, so me clicking yes on that TOS wasnt too much legal binding, was it?

  18. last time I checked on Russians Claim Their Hackers the Best In the World · · Score: -1

    it was Poland who had the best programmers.

  19. ana... on Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anal-Probes Stay Inside a ...

    wake up, wake up !

  20. Re:Dear god, not another one. on Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but this guy's so prolific it makes me wonder what he's doing right.

    Its called money.

  21. Re:Observe without interfering? on Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days · · Score: 1

    + there was a "quantum" word used, and whenewer I see one I know that you cant observe without interfering





    j/k ...sortof

  22. Re:Alarmist on Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yes, you are

  23. Re:what's the news here? on High School Kids Beat MIT at Robotics Competition · · Score: 1

    but money *IS*
    Have you seen those subs? MIT one looks like from SF movie, those kids made _something_ from broom sticks and won.

  24. Re:Too bad there are only two outcomes on Brazil: Free Software's Biggest and Best Friend · · Score: 1

    erm, stop stuffing yourselfe with that McDonald _something_ , turn off TV, go out and look around you. Germany made that decision a long time ago and migrated number of public institutions with succes. Not everyone in the world is lazy as americans, some people do work for themselfes (instead of VCing out of busines and money small companies for breakfast).

  25. Re:Easy to read and print on Inside the PSP · · Score: 1

    a beer for you it is