mordjah - Slashdot User

Comment Re: ST only needed transparent aluminum for... (Score 1) 247

by mordjah on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @09:13PM (#49573923) Attached to: Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable

Did anybody actually watch the movie? Iirc the transparent aluminum tech was payment for the tank.. They got standard big ass plastic panels for the tank..

Comment Re: Do not want (Score 1) 125

by mordjah on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @12:11AM (#49566273) Attached to: Smart Headlights Adjust To Aid Drivers In Difficult Conditions

And just in time for autonomous vehicles that don't even need visible light..

Submission + - DARPA Just Open Sourced All This Swish 'Dark Web' Search Tech (forbes.com)

Submitted by schwit1 on Sunday April 19, 2015 @01:46PM

schwit1 writes: Google appears to be an indomitable force. But, with today's release from the US military's research arm of its Memex search technologies and Europe's competition investigation into the Mountain View giant, it might be a propitious time for tech-minded entrepreneurs to start building a Google killer.

DARPA's Memex search technologies have garnered much interest due to their initial mainstream application: to uncover human trafficking operations taking place on the âoedark webâ, the catch-all term for the various internet networks the majority of people never use, such as Tor, Freenet and I2P. And a significant number of law enforcement agencies have inquired about using the technology. But Memex promises to be disruptive across both criminal and business worlds.

Christopher White, who leads the team of Memex partners, which includes members of the Tor Project, a handful of prestigious universities, NASA and research-focused private firms, tells FORBES the project is so ambitious in its scope, it wants to shake up a staid search industry controlled by a handful of companies: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Putting those grandiose ideas into action, DARPA will today open source various components of Memex, allowing others to take the technologies and adapt them for their own use. As is noticeable from the list of technologies below, there's great possibility for highly-personalised search, whether for agents trying to bring down pedophiles or the next Silk Road , or anyone who wants a less generic web experience. Here's an exclusive look at who is helping DARPA build Memex and what they're making available on the Open Catalogue today

Comment Re: If you are ABLE to be a hooker, detain you? (Score 1) 270

by mordjah on Saturday April 18, 2015 @08:49PM (#49502435) Attached to: FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment

the knife anology is pretty flawed as i see no mention of the requesite radios to carry out any such action.. i mean, they dont really have the wifi on the same network as control systems?!

Submission + - Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine 1

Submitted by Adrian Harvey on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:09AM

Adrian Harvey writes: The New Zealand based commercial space company Rocket Lab has unveiled their new rocket engine which the media is describing as battery-powered. It still uses rocket fuel, of course, but has an entirely new propulsion cycle which uses electric motors to drive its turbopumps.

To add to the interest over the design, it uses 3D printing for all its primary components. First launch is expected this year, with commercial operations commencing in 2016.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 118

by mordjah on Friday April 17, 2015 @11:38PM (#49498461) Attached to: Exploit For Crashing Minecraft Servers Made Public

+1 agree ;)

Comment Re:pacific northwest (Score 1) 124

by mordjah on Friday April 17, 2015 @08:49PM (#49497869) Attached to: Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help

My first thought was "Newp! Its dry enough here in the summer!" Then I remembered that to the rest of the world PNW == West of mountains.. Why eastern WA isn't its own state is beyond me.. No one on the east coast even knows we're over here... Until tax time anyhow..

Comment Re: Don't see what the big deal is... (Score 1) 119

by mordjah on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:32AM (#49483345) Attached to: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found In Windows HTTP Stack

wooosh!

Comment Re:Why stop there? (Score 1) 137

by mordjah on Monday April 13, 2015 @10:24AM (#49462717) Attached to: UW Scientists, Biotech Firm May Have Cure For Colorblindness

That was my second thought (first was "finally!")
This is on my list of gene hacks, expanded visual range. Further, this seems to be a very good vehicle to refine the concept of genetic modification via viral administration. It could open up a whole host of other applications.. I for one would love to grow a new set of teeth every 15 years or so. Perhaps this will open the door for some of these ideas while allaying the fears of the masses wrt gene mods...
Or perhaps we will simply open the way for the Eugenics Wars...

Comment Re:Double tassel ... (Score 1) 216

by mordjah on Friday April 10, 2015 @01:53AM (#49444407) Attached to: Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject

A thousand times this!
Please teach people how to operate the machine, not how to click the third icon in the second row..

Comment Re:Double tassel ... (Score 1) 216

by mordjah on Friday April 10, 2015 @01:51AM (#49444403) Attached to: Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject

HAHAHAHAHAH! Seriously, I just about sprayed my screen.. If you call "tech support" and tell them that, the response is invariably going to be two seconds of silence, followed by "Ok, have you tried rebooting, or restoring to factory defaults?" Never mind the fact that you are calling about a WEB SITE that spewed mysql connection errors all over the browser.. Do you really think that a tier 1 support rep in India knows what a database connection error is??

Comment Re:To see what happens... (Score 1) 113

by mordjah on Thursday April 02, 2015 @10:48AM (#49391511) Attached to: NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens

Right?! I Distinctly heard someone say "Hold my beer, Jeb!"

Comment Re:Who's being censored? (Score 1) 54

by mordjah on Saturday March 28, 2015 @10:15AM (#49360881) Attached to: Notel Media Player Helps North Koreans Skirt Censorship

HA! Read the article?? We dont even RTFS usually!

Comment Re:That's great if you have a mobile phone (Score 3, Interesting) 213

by mordjah on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:55AM (#49266735) Attached to: Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins

uhm.. no its really not.. you can purchase prepay sims that work as mvno (second class citizen, but no id) over the counter for 20 bucks or so.. no id needed.

Comment How about a more enforceable option? (Score 1) 168

by mordjah on Thursday February 12, 2015 @10:12AM (#49037627) Attached to: NoFlyZone.org Aims To Keep the Airspace Above Your Home Drone-Free

Screw voluntary compliance and screw more regulation. How about a small turret mounted em cannon or jammer? Or surely it cant be hard to usurp control of anything over my property, forcing it to land and rendering it salvage for my collection.. Please, overfly my property..

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