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Comment Re:Concentration (Score 1) 103

by horm on Saturday June 07, 2014 @01:52AM (#47185301) Attached to: Sparse's Story Illustrates the Potholes Faced By Hardware Start-Ups

Out of mod points. Legitimately impressed.

Comment Re:Seven crew? (Score 1) 128

by horm on Thursday May 29, 2014 @12:33PM (#47120519) Attached to: SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule

The summary clearly states "up to a seven crewmembers."

Comment About time. (Score 1) 128

by horm on Thursday May 29, 2014 @12:26PM (#47120425) Attached to: SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule

I can't wait for SpaceX to take us to the moon.

Comment Forget the police (Score 1) 626

by horm on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @03:16PM (#47049373) Attached to: Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets

Think about all the lawyers that specialize in speeding tickets and DUIs that will go bankrupt!

Comment Slavery (Score 0) 150

by horm on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @05:55PM (#46943871) Attached to: Why Hollywood's Best Robot Stories Are About Slavery

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

Comment Re:The interesting bits (Score 1) 209

by horm on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @04:48AM (#46876307) Attached to: Stanford Bioengineers Develop 'Neurocore' Chips 9,000 Times Faster Than a PC

Ultimately, it's all digital, since a discrete amount of electrons are traveling through a cross-section of conductor per time unit.

Comment Editing? Anyone? (Score 5, Funny) 245

by horm on Sunday April 06, 2014 @05:16PM (#46678867) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market?

Seriously? Nobody even bothered to read the first sentence of the submission?

Comment Re:Sour grapes (Score 1) 381

by horm on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:13AM (#46503415) Attached to: <em>Sons of Anarchy</em> Creator On Google Copyright Anarchy

Beckett Prime or Clone Beckett?

Comment Re:No contract, wifi-only (Score 1) 126

by horm on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:58AM (#46471079) Attached to: Replicant OS Developers Find Backdoor In Samsung Galaxy Devices

As long as your phone is unable to connect to a cell tower/rogue femtocell/etc. you should be fine. The backdoor that was found is in the Radio Interface Layer (RIL), which governs communications between the Phone app and the radio. Wifi/bluetooth aren't managed by the RIL.

Comment Should be "Back Up" (Score 1) 983

by horm on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:14AM (#46463439) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

As in "How Do You Back Up 20TB of Data?" "Backup" is a noun. Verb conjugations are "back up", "backs up", "backed up", etc.

Comment Re:Fuck PETA (Score 1) 191

by horm on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @10:54AM (#46396205) Attached to: PETA Abandons $1 Million Prize For Artificial Chicken

Yeah, FUCK BETA! ...wait.

Comment Theremin (Score 1) 22

by horm on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:03PM (#46378297) Attached to: Gesture Recognition Without Batteries

So they built a theremin. Whoopdie-doo.

Comment PETA SUCKS (Score -1, Offtopic) 70

by horm on Sunday February 09, 2014 @11:07PM (#46207273) Attached to: LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers'

FUCK PETA! ...Wait, what are we angry about, again?

Comment Bzzzt (Score 1) 371

by horm on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @06:46PM (#46095403) Attached to: How loud is your primary computer?

Mobo and/or gpu noise coming through speakers. Maybe a grounding issue. I have no idea what to do about it, already tried throwing in a PCIe sound card rather than using on-board sound.

Comment Re:And IBM (Score 1) 474

by horm on Saturday January 25, 2014 @04:09PM (#46067863) Attached to: Schiller Says Apple Is the Last PC Maker From the Mac Era, Forgets About HP

The Atari now is Atari in name only. The name has been owned by several different companies in the past couple decades.

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