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  1. Note PWM LED issues on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Read the reviews about PWM LED systems and take it into consideration.
    http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pulse_width_modulation.htm
    Go for top end Dell, the ~$1000 Eizo range.
    Any Australian tech forum has a post on the Korean IPS options:
    "27/30" Korean Monitor Guide/Help Pt2"
    http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2023067

  2. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on Britain Could Switch Off Airport Radar and Release 5G Spectrum · · Score: 2

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-london/A20460782
    "but due to the congested airspace around both Gatwick and Heathrow, he was directed to land at Southampton Airport. Southampton was closer, but all the maps and charts had been lost in the blow-out, and having never landed there before, the co-pilot was obviously anxious about the prospect of making a good landing."
    http://www.fss.aero/accident-reports/dvdfiles/GB/1990-06-10-UK.pdf
    "The co-pilot had requested radar vectors to the nearest airport and had been turned towards Southampton Airportand eventually transferred to their approach frequency."
    "I have a VOR but it will be radar vectors onto the visual final"

  3. Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on Britain Could Switch Off Airport Radar and Release 5G Spectrum · · Score: 0

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390
    Maps get sucked out, needs radar to guide down?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
    No fuel, no transponder?
    That would be the classics, but maps are on computers now and this system is passive so the whole of the UK will light up - no transponder needed.

  4. Re:eMedal on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Dreaming of the eMedal, you find an evildoers site, but the whois is Whois Privacy blocked.
    Laundering the LEO request via a state agency you get the name back.
    They had a higher security clearance than your boss...
    Men in suits visit your cubicle demanding to know why their database was alerted...

  5. Re:Stress on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 2
  6. Re:Err ... on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Yes "nice cushy bunker somewhere." with a female contractor standing behind them :)
    http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/29/world/la-fg-drones-civilians-20111230

  7. Re:Not free but low cost: on Ask Slashdot: Open-Source Forensic Surveillance Analysis Software? · · Score: 1

    Yes with a few day/night waterproof ethernet powered or wifi ready cams, it could be a good set up. ~$100 per cam?
    Until the led ring fails, then its day only :)

  8. Not free but low cost: on Ask Slashdot: Open-Source Forensic Surveillance Analysis Software? · · Score: 2

    If you have a Mac and some cams (up to 60 cameras)
    http://www.bensoftware.com/securityspy/
    and http://www.bensoftware.com/securityspy/features.html
    "SecuritySpy can send email notifications, play alarms, or run scripts when motion is detected."

  9. Re:Tinfoil Hats? on India Bars ZTE, Huawei, Others From Sensitive Government Projects · · Score: 1

    Yes ~1987 is some time ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Sino-Indian_skirmish

  10. Re:Tinfoil Hats? on India Bars ZTE, Huawei, Others From Sensitive Government Projects · · Score: 1

    Much of the network maybe dual use like Australia. Would India want a country it has been at war with en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War really doing their base to base to capitol optical links?
    As for a "security threat" also view huge projects as a "security deal". We bought a huge telco system, you got jobs, we want hi tech weapon sales/code in return.

  11. Re:Remember Netbooks? on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 1

    Your forgetting the over 30 something PhD's from a top US universities who recall their 16-32 bit games from the mid 1990's.
    With skill, many years of coding and open source software they will get that old game up on a 1080p TV in all its 2.5D shader and fader glory.
    Irc is has a few tiny groups of people with the code, skill and cult like leader who will get their pointless project up on that big TV.
    ppc, arm, intel - no real gpu - just makes them code more for boasting rights after their day jobs at telcos, engineering companies, or US gov crypto work.
    What amazed me about a handful of nerds on irc was the time spent with their inner game group every night, weekends - while married :)

  12. Re:What's up with that giant capacitor? on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 2

    If its a capacitor from Japan, it might come with enough free MOX to give you a lab quality flux capacitor.
    With the right code you could be sending particles back and forth in time from your basement.

  13. Re: Without towers though... on New Microsoft App To Coordinate Disaster-Relief Efforts · · Score: 1

    Thats the key :) How long does your average suburban tower last without power? All the zoning, building codes, permits, environmental rules, costs, shareholders vs the FCC?
    "A spokesman for the FCC said the agency will look at whether to require backup power."
    http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/18/sen-schumer-cell-towers-should-have-backup-power-to-prevent-widespread-service-outages-like-after-sandy/
    It was to be 8h min of backup electric power at most cell sites but that was lost in the need for more study?
    So you have the "... disaster relief efforts near where you live and nationwide" tracking but it only works with power on.
    What kind of event can you report on with the power on?
    The human one.
    So expect a nice option to attach a photo, send location information and enter details about suspicious people.

  14. Re:Return fire! on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 1

    Ty, interesting comments.
    You can get amazing results with a database of older, known threats.
    Or you can work very hard and offer products that try to protect against zero-day malware.

  15. Re:That site is BS on Microsoft Fails Antivirus Certification Test (Again), Challenges the Results · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well based on clicking the 31 producers on http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/
    Reading the 2012/2013 results for Protection only:
    BitDefender
    F-Secure
    Trend Micro
    Get 6 out of 6.

  16. Lets do the math on A Humanoid Robot Named "Baxter" Could Revive US Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Places like Germany (west), Japan, Italy, South Korea bet the farm in the 1970, 80, 90, on emerging computer skills and basic factory robotics.
    What could they see that the US did not at that time?
    They could have invited a lot of cheap guest workers in or put production lines in low cost parts of the EU, the world...
    You end up with China today, huge production lines of people putting ever smaller parts together at a faster pace with wage demands.
    The EU/parts of Asia kept pace with tech in the main areas of production and can now embrace many/any new ideas.. at a set price, quality, quantity.
    What did the US do? Robotics would have been a huge upfront cash drain, the import of non US parts, experts - a shock to stock value and profit.
    What for? Disposable, non union, low pay, hardworking labour was a bus, van, car ride away in the form of an endless supply of illegal workers.
    If they lose a leg, arm, fall off a ledge, roof, get crushed who will come looking? Wage demands are not an issue.
    With the correct political donation to both parties, what was the risk of immigration dropping in without warning?
    What has changed? The robot parts are still mostly foreign, the software might be US - thats a huge "onetime" hit to profits over years.
    Are the costs of "documentation" or the risks of getting caught any different? Is the US boarder fence up and cutting the supply of low wage workers?
    What can Baxter make in the USA? The EU and Asia can make anything luxury. The EU and Asia can make anything useful at a good price.
    China and parts of Asia have cheap covered too.
    Whats left for poor Baxter? A military defence contractor with next gen drones to make and it has to be US only?

  17. Re:I'm not sure how much of a game-changer this is on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    It does turn Google and Apple device into nothing more than $200-1000 dumb input units.
    Your international computer is now a Dell and friends of Dell out of the box.
    Its all race to the default settings and who gets closer to the user before they https.

  18. Re:Just plug it in and boom on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    The HDTV is in your hotel room, the keyboard, mouse is your droid, Dell pad, iPad for input linked to the Dell device and then onto a hotel or cheap local telco modem network.
    The Dell part is the missing link turning your droid, iPad into a real computer, linking Tv and the net :)

  19. Re:The "Cloud" on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 1

    Your hardware is the only way to get to words before they are encrypted.
    Who wants to pass packets loaded with ad revenue as just another computer maker?
    The cash is in the content and with a device like this data is still in plain text before its lost to encryption.
    Contact your HQ about a cpu, gpu deal in a "secure" way and then surf the web in a hotel room - that brand will be back at you all night.
    Your message was secure, your later web surfing was unrelated to work - but the gateway, cookies, cloud are all legal in any tracking due to the fine print you clicked past.

  20. Re:"continue to search for and find other deposits on Rare Earth Elements Found In Jamaican Mud · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Read up on Bukit Merah, Malaysia where rare earth metals where processed slag from old tin mines.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/energy-environment/09rareside.html?_r=0
    Thats the PR you have to face when you want to set up and "not harm the local environment"... in 201x
    You wonder why press releases talk of not doing rare earth projects in Australia due to
    power, water, chemical costs ...
    for some reason they go back to 'other' parts of the world :)

  21. Re:What happens if you get rid of their backdoor.. on Australian Spy Agency Seeks Permission To Hack Third-Party Computers · · Score: 1

    Australia is not the USA. We had our state police running around suburbia "looking" for bank robbers in the 80'/90's.
    Getting the wrong house attracted the print press and tv.
    There will be no digital 'raids', nothing beyond another AV product not protecting a computer in time.
    The spyware will be the usual suburban type and any ip linked from it will an endusers home.

  22. Re:What happens if you get rid of their backdoor.. on Australian Spy Agency Seeks Permission To Hack Third-Party Computers · · Score: 1

    Your computer will be infected again with consumer quality spyware next shift.
    The ip it reports/logs back to will look like a local bonnet.
    If you have the telco skills/a friend... the ip will be a house in a state capitol running a consumer computer/OS.
    Just like any bonnet....

  23. Re:Huh... on Australian Spy Agency Seeks Permission To Hack Third-Party Computers · · Score: 1

    You will find a laptop in suburbia running Windows logging you from a house rented by a front company.

  24. Re:'Ground up plastic' on Geothermal Power Advances · · Score: 1

    Water with a hint of warm bisphenol A?

  25. Re:Polishing a turd. on Should Microsoft Switch To WebKit? · · Score: 1

    Skype is now in US hands :)