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  1. Re:Will the wires catch on fire? on USB 4 Will Support Thunderbolt and Double the Speed of USB 3.2 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Behold the magic of differential twisted-pair signaling. It's not 100% immune to the outside world, but damn close. Add some shielding, and a robust receiver circuit (like the world-beating(?) Cypress FX2LP USB2.0 receiver I designed), and you're good to go. Faster transmission can trigger a 2cd-order higher power effect in that send/receive circuits are typically lower noise when biased at higher currents. So the tighter eye diagram requirements of the higher speeds may trigger higher power in the transceivers to cope. Or not. I haven't done IC analog circuit design in a while, so I'm not sure how FinFETs compare to planar FETs WRT noise.

  2. Dark Side of the Rainbow on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    All they will find is a giant projection of The Wizard of Oz playing on a loop. The source of light will be a prism in geosynchronous orbit. How much money will they spend to find the obvious? What a waste.

  3. How does Trump know these things? on Trump's Meeting With The Video Game Industry To Talk Gun Violence Could Get Ugly (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If he heard it on Fox News (and he did), then it must be true.

  4. Children on New Jersey Governor Signs Net Neutrality Order (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    Just the latest example of Democrats cleaning up the messes Republicans leave behind.

  5. Here's a penguin, don't know why on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Family Guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Find well reasoned, detailed analysis in other posts.

  7. Only a problem during Tulip Mania on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    This will only be a problem until the world is well populated with digital coinage. Eventually, it will cost more in fuel than it is worth to mine. I have no idea what the timeline or carbon-line looks like though. Someone should do that math. Of course, the modeling of digital-currency-to-national-currency exchange rate would have to be a WA-WA-WAG.

  8. Re:Sucks how, exactly? on Bluetooth Won't Replace the Headphone Jack -- Walled Gardens Will (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the post I came here looking for. Bluetooth connectivity, predictability, controllability, etc, are all horrific. And how is it that an S7 still can't play Netflix/YouTube with audio sync'd? And everybody refuses to put an AV sync slider anywhere. Why? The hardware behind bluetooth may be competent. But the software-verse is unimaginably horrible. And after 4 revs, nobody has cared to fix it. Or even acknowledge that it's broken.

  9. The bias is what you make it on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook's "bias" can bend in any direction. It all depends on what you Like, Follow, etc. Trust me, my MotherInLaw's FB feed is *not* biased against Trump. I've seen it, horrifying as it is.

  10. The Bat! on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    I used The Bat! many years ago and liked it. Haven't used it since, though.

  11. Re:i can't wait! on Micron and Intel Announce 3D NAND Flash Co-Development To Push SSDs Past 10TB · · Score: 1

    This truly is the way "audiophiles" think. I'm still emotionally scarred from the crap I read in Audiophile magazine(s) while in high school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:AI isn't taking over on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Read Diaspora by Greg Egan. http://www.amazon.com/Diaspora...

  13. Re:It's high time for a new consumer protection la on AT&T To Match Google Fiber In Kansas City, Charge More If You Want Privacy · · Score: 1

    So I suppose product placement in movies should be forbidden as well? Don't give Republicans ammo to whine about over-regulation. Let's just break up companies that provide data delivery and ISP services, into those two components.

  14. AIX @ IBM on X Window System Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I was a co-op at IBM in Manassas, VA in 1992. My group was aggregating components for a submarine-based rack system with an embedded "monstrous" 19" monitor. I thought running processes on a remote system and viewing the result on a local system was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my life. My mentor was tasked with finding every security leak he could in X. I was clueless then and my brain on overdrive just learning vi (not vim) and ksh. It was a mostly worthless internship, but it did imbue my soul with unix. So I have that going for me.

  15. Try it, 404 on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 2

    Try clicking "Try it!" on their web page. Your container is lost at sea :/.

  16. Bust ass on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    I started running 40 miles / week and lost 40lbs. No other changes.

  17. Develop sideways on Turning Santa Cruz Into a Haven For Hackers, Makers & Startups · · Score: 1

    Build an office park on The Mystery Spot, if you can find it.

  18. Extrapolation on Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? · · Score: 1

    Greg Egan - Diaspora, Ray Kurtzweil - The Singularity

  19. Where to buy? on New Analysis Casts Doubt On Intel's Smartphone Performance vs. ARM Devices · · Score: 1

    If you can't buy one of these, who cares?

  20. Re:What are we doing to our children? on Iris Scans Are the New School IDs · · Score: 1

    Yes, because "we" demand zero-defect terrorism policies.

    The people are demanding that. The politicians are claiming that the people are demanding that. The distinction isnt subtle.

    Citation? The same could be requested of me. Has anyone even asked this question. Google doesn't turn up much on the topic amazing.

  21. Re:What are we doing to our children? on Iris Scans Are the New School IDs · · Score: 2

    We are conditioning them to live in a police state.

    Yes, because "we" demand zero-defect terrorism policies. Don't blame the gubrmnt just because people flip out over bombs but accept causes of death orders of magnitude more significant. The terrorists have officially won.

  22. Algorithms instead of languages? on Summer Programming Courses Before Heading Off To College? · · Score: 1

    https://www.coursera.org/course/algo About the Course In this course you will learn several fundamental principles of algorithm design. You'll learn the divide-and-conquer design paradigm, with applications to fast sorting, searching, and multiplication. You'll learn several blazingly fast primitives for computing on graphs, such as how to compute connectivity information and shortest paths. Finally, we'll study how allowing the computer to "flip coins" can lead to elegant and practical algorithms and data structures. Learn the answers to questions such as: How do data structures like heaps, hash tables, bloom filters, and balanced search trees actually work, anyway? How come QuickSort runs so fast? What can graph algorithms tell us about the structure of the Web and social networks? Did my 3rd-grade teacher explain only a suboptimal algorithm for multiplying two numbers?

  23. SPICE, the grand-daddy of most of the rest on What Early Software Was Influential Enough To Deserve Acclaim? · · Score: 1

    We wouldn't have the processors to run most of this software without the seed - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPICE .

  24. Retire at 20 on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sell for $5mil and be done with earning a living. Relax and enjoy the rest of your life.

  25. Dark Angel on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 2

    Remember the ever present police hover craft in the dystopian future of Jessica Alba's backside?