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  1. Buy lots of these on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 1

    Yes, please buy bunches of these or some XBox Ones if you must. Life is too short to waste on tech support and these things can be maintained by a tweenager once the initial internet connection is established.

  2. Humidity will play hell with this on Researchers Create Mid-Air Haptic Feedback System For Touch Displays · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The speed of sound is relative to the density of the media it is traversing. All Ultrasonic transmit beamforming algorithms must take media density into consideration to achieve reasonable convergence. Unless this device is performing adaptive beamforming or has a very precise humidity sensor its functionality will be spotty at best, and even if it does the inventors just stepped into a shiatstorm of patents held by the companies that have been forming medical imaging IP warchests over the past 15 - 20 years. Good luck and godspeed.

  3. Nintendo should join the party on NVIDIA Begins Releasing Documentation For Nouveau · · Score: 1

    Nintendo should give up on making console hardware and stick with handhelds and offer their traditional console titles via Steam.

  4. Keep at it on Scientists Create 'Fastest Man-Made Spinning Object' · · Score: 1

    I'd like to encode some data in one of these spheres and have these fine gentlemen rotate it at light speed to send it and its information back in time. Why should Biff Tanen have all the luck?

  5. Re:Unclear whether this is a problem or not... on WD Explains Its Windows-Only Software-Based SSHD Tech · · Score: 1

    If the 'bridge chip' is just a reasonably generic SATA port multiplier

    A transparent bridging scenario such as this would not make much sense as an SSD can easily saturate the available bandwidth of a 6 Gb/s SATA port. A non-transparent bridging scheme which makes the device look more like a traditional spinning HD with a really big cache would make more sense as the SATA port driver would not have to route every sector write/fetch to specific device. Most likely the driver on the OS side only manages migration of data between the SSD and HD to balance read/write performance favoring keeping as much free space on the SSD as possible to enhance write performance.

  6. It could be worse on IBM Robotic Coworker Will Help Engineers Fix Broken Systems · · Score: 2

    Thank goodness this is an IBM product rather than another MS abomination. Future history could have read 2014: The year Clippy became self aware and doomed the fate of Internet in a nanosecond

  7. Re:So how do I pass these radioactive bacteria? on Radioactive Bacteria Attack Cancer · · Score: 2

    With the ability to target cells, specifically immunodeficient cancer cells, the total dosage of radioactive material needed should be greatly reduced. This would seem to be favorable to techniques that target all tissues in the vicinity of a tumor.

  8. Re:Any difference in where that thing was made ? on Raspberry Pi Production Heats Up In UK Surpassing Chinese Production Soon · · Score: 2

    If you cannot use solder wick properly then you aren't really skilled enough to be modding circuit boards.

  9. Re: Compatible with Windows 7? on Intel Unveils New Atom and Xeon Processors and Future Rack Scale Architecture · · Score: 1

    WinKey+X brings up a menu of all the OS admin utilities I use frequently. Hitting the WinKey and typing the first few letters of an application name works for everything else. No hacking required.

  10. Learn to code on Electrical Engineer Unemployment Soars; Software Developers' Rate Drops to 2.2% · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you have done the work to become an EE you should know how to code fairly well already and given the current need for skilled software developers you can probably get hired doing embedded systems work in any of the North American technology hubs quite easily. It may not be your preferred line of work but its a living wage until and work experience to tide you over until the wave of change sweeps across the industry.

  11. Apples vs. Oranges on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind the Gartner comparison is in number of units sold. Considering Apple is much more vertically integrated than MS they keep a much larger chunk of the unit selling price and therefore earn substantially more revenue from per device sold. Apple should really start rolling their own server and office productivity software to compete against the remaining MS cash cows.

  12. Re:Solved! on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    So are you willing to share the details of your /. account with your employer should they deem it a 'social media' site? I, for one, would like to cling to whatever shreds of pseudo-anonymity are left on the Internet.

  13. Re:Take the money and run on How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security · · Score: 1

    Those measures only apply to the offsite backups of the Bitcoin wallets, there is nothing preventing a fund manager who routinely performs transactions on these accounts from going rogue.

  14. Take the money and run on How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security · · Score: 0

    It only takes one person in the organization who decides to go on permanent holiday to make an illicit copy of the various Bitcoin wallets and then transfer the funds to their own account once they have already landed in a place with no extradition treaty.

  15. 4K single monitor gaming displays not ready yet on Triple Monitor Solutions From AMD, Nvidia Face Off · · Score: 1

    It seems these GPUs can also support 4K single monitor gaming quite nicely even if gaming quality 4K displays aren't quite ready for prime time yet.

  16. Nice, but... on RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video) · · Score: 1

    How long until someone reverse engineers the firmware to allow brute force cracking of the pincode without triggering an automatic data wipe? This isn't a matter of "if" but rather a matter of "when", IMHO.

  17. When life gives you lemons on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    So how many clicks does it take to get from Tub Girl to Goatse?

    Wait...don't answer that.

  18. Single player games vs online multiplayer on Can Legacy Dual-Core CPUs Drive Modern Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    While upgrading your older dualcore box may get you playable frame rates on many games you will still suffer from slow load times. This is not likely to be an issue on single player games but for many online multiplayer games you really don't want to be the guy in your group with the slowest load time.

  19. Re:knowledge on Russian Space Industry To Receive $69 Billion Through 2020 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They know that the privately funded space industry is growing and could potentially surpass state run space agencies one day unless they continue to innovate. I am guessing the Soviet space program would rather license technologies they develop to private industry rather than simply fade away into the history books.

  20. Re:Caution: on Whose Bug Is This Anyway? · · Score: 1

    Its them damn cosmic rays, I tell ya.

    The death of Moore's law, they will be.

    Or the reason semiconductor houses switch from conventional (bulk CMOS) processes to Silicon-on-Insulator. Many SOI processes are rad hardened by default.

  21. Anyone know if the Dunia codebase forked from CryEngine before or after this vulnerability was introduced? I'd really like to enjoy some FarCry 3 during my year end holiday but I'd prefer not to get hacked.

  22. Why did assembly line jobs leave the US? on Foxconn Thinks the iPhone 5 Is a Pain · · Score: 1

    The final push over the cliff for electronics manufacturing in the US was the deadline for implementing RoHS compliance. Given the costs associated with revamping processes and procedures to insure compliance it was a no-brainer decision to simply outsource circuit board manufacturing. In many cases it was a cash-positive decision as many outsource manufacturers would even agree to buy out existing assembly lines in the US and ship the equipment to Asia or Mexico.

  23. Start from the ground up on Ask Slashdot: What Equipment and Furniture For an Electronics Hardware Lab? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Conductive flooring paired with electrostatic discharge heelstraps (or better yet static dissipative shoes) will go a long way toward mitigating ESD risks in your lab. While wrist straps are effective they are inconvenient and therefore more likely not to be used consistently. Most lab furniture is conductive, but you often pay a bit extra for chairs with conductive castors. The need for lab coats depends on the apparel your lab staff typically wear (wool and synthetics should be covered with a dissipative lab coat, cottons are not typically an ESD risk).

  24. I'm giving her all she's got, Captain! on Scottish Scientists Create World's Smallest Smart Antenna · · Score: 1

    Interesting, but I would have preferred to have our /. robotic overlords read TFA to me in the voice of James Doohan.

  25. This discussion makes my head hurt on BitCoin Gets a Futures Market · · Score: 1

    And how many BTC will it cost me to get /. to add a -1 Dumbass moderation option?