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Comment Re:As any developer worth their salt knows (Score 1) 260

by chrism238 on Saturday November 08, 2014 @11:02PM (#48343357) Attached to: Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted

"""quickly factor a prime number"""

I think that you can skip this step.

Comment Re:Perspective. (Score 1) 84

by chrism238 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:15AM (#48323127) Attached to: Satellites Spot Hidden Villages In Amazon

Imagine how we must look from their perspective. Like gods peering down on them from the heavens with magical devices that grant us powers.

Erich von Däniken would be extremely happy to read your comments.

Comment It'll be a vehicle (Score 2) 155

by chrism238 on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @01:18AM (#48089111) Attached to: Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year

If it's sanguine to place bets, my money's on an Internet accessible, or controlled, car killing its driver or targeting a pedestrian.

Comment Why is this story on Slashdot? (Score 0) 231

by chrism238 on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @11:48PM (#47709441) Attached to: $125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD

I can't seem to find its technical relevance anywhere.

Comment 2 legs versus 4? (Score 0) 306

by chrism238 on Sunday August 10, 2014 @09:40PM (#47644629) Attached to: New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One

If dragons are mythical creatures, who's to say that they have 4 legs and not just 2, anyway?

Comment There's an easier way with O'Reilly (Score 2) 82

by chrism238 on Sunday June 29, 2014 @12:15AM (#47343297) Attached to: Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own

I note that with BitLit the 'price' of an eBook from O'Reilly is $4,99.

However, if you sign up with O'Reilly (free), determine the ISBN of any of their physical books (which is on the physical copy that you bought, and O'Reilly keep a 'backup' copy of the ISBN on their website), you can receive an eBook copy of that book for - wait for it - also for $4.99.

Comment My vote for Amy Farrah Fowler (Score 1) 208

by chrism238 on Friday June 06, 2014 @04:34PM (#47182719) Attached to: Lego To Produce Three Box Sets Featuring Female Scientists

I wonder if enough requests could influence Lego's decision?

Comment Re:Auto Comment (Score 1) 187

by chrism238 on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:53AM (#46887153) Attached to: Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator

Well, not this time buddy!

Comment Re: Bose Wave Radio (Score 1) 702

by chrism238 on Friday April 18, 2014 @04:37PM (#46790765) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last?

Sure, but only 15 years? Wake me at 40.

Submission + - Video of Britain's Taranis supersonic drone (abc.net.au)

Submitted by chrism238 on Thursday February 06, 2014 @05:28AM

chrism238 writes: ABC News (Australia) is presenting vision of the of a state-of-the-art drone touted as the future of British warfare, showing it soaring over what is thought to be Woomera in remote South Australia — "'Australia's Area 51". The Taranis drone is a joint project between UK defence and BAE Systems. The test drone cost 185 million pounds ($AUD336.5 million). It is designed to carry a payload of guided bombs and missiles, travel at supersonic speeds, and fly undetected by radar. The UK military says the Taranis will be operable via satellite from anywhere in the world.

The first test flight is being hailed as a "major landmark for UK aviation". The vision shows the sleek Taranis, named after the Celtic god of thunder, making a seamless take-off and conducting a number of manoeuvres over red desert during its first test flight. The British Military of Defence (MoD) will not confirm where the footage was shot, but in a submission last year to a UK parliamentary hearing, revealed that the Taranis Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator had indeed conducted initial test flights at the Woomera test range.

Comment Re:make my day... (Score 1) 453

by chrism238 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @08:29PM (#45614561) Attached to: The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop!

"big iron" That's funny!

Comment All hail Apple's new storage technology! (Score 2, Funny) 158

by chrism238 on Saturday October 26, 2013 @07:24PM (#45248011) Attached to: Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam

"The actual emails added up to about 2MB of actual disk usage," So the 1,2, or 3 million emails occupied just 2MB of storage? Wow, Apple should be widely lauded for being able to store each email, including its header, in just one byte!

Comment On helium balloons? (Score 5, Funny) 92

by chrism238 on Friday September 13, 2013 @04:28AM (#44838611) Attached to: Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons

I'm sceptical; I think you could do it on LSD, but helium would just give you that floating feeling.

Comment Re:Snail Mail and a hardrive (Score 1) 121

by chrism238 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:03AM (#44827165) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget?

"never underestimate the bandwidth of a semi full of mag tapes".

Agreed! My recollection is that it was from Andrew Tanenbaum, and it was "never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway". http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

Comment Re:Power-only cable... (Score 1) 201

by chrism238 on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:30PM (#43898483) Attached to: Researchers Infect iOS Devices With Malware Via Malicious Charger

So the real issues is that these guys found a way to inject software onto it - less a charger security hole and more a regular iOS USB security hole.

So wonder if this could be a new jailbreaking vector?

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