Nerrd - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Security is a process ... (Score 2) 46

by Nerrd on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @03:18PM (#48926359) Attached to: Security-Focused BlackPhone Was Vulnerable To Simple Text Message Bug

"SANs are immune to hacking" Oh man. That is rich. Can I interest you in a very fine Bridge? only slightly used.

Comment Re:Cam-tastic (Score 1) 152

by Nerrd on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @05:00PM (#48917915) Attached to: DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US

uh, we don't fight opium production. If anything we support it. Haven't you seen the statistics on Afghanistan?

Comment Re:Wow .... (Score 1) 155

by Nerrd on Monday January 26, 2015 @03:51PM (#48907431) Attached to: Scientists Determine New Way To Untangle Proteins By Unboiling an Egg

I read the article, and still can't figure out what they are really doing or how they are really gonna use it ...

The article says quite clearly: The scientific problem they're solving has to do with recovering proteins from test tubes in the lab.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 4, Insightful) 332

by Nerrd on Saturday January 24, 2015 @03:10PM (#48894071) Attached to: UHD Spec Stomps on Current Blu-ray Spec, But Will Consumers Notice?

Congratulations - you have made the exact same argument that was made against HD in the first place. Guess what: people will upgrade, because people who aren't you, can notice a difference in the living-room.

Comment Re:Hasn't this been known? (Score 1) 163

by Nerrd on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:27PM (#48663411) Attached to: Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector

Thats just because no one has bothered to make a malicious 40Gb NIC. There's nothing inherently secure about a PCIe card using DMA.

Comment Re:ROM (Score 2) 163

by Nerrd on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @04:00PM (#48662141) Attached to: Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector

SPI Flash - is an eeprom.

Comment Re:ROM (Score 1) 163

by Nerrd on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:55PM (#48662105) Attached to: Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector

PROM or EPROM actually.

Comment uh - by design? (Score 4, Insightful) 163

by Nerrd on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:51PM (#48662059) Attached to: Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector

It shouldn't surprise anybody that a malicious PCI-E card can access a system.

Comment Just Figuring this out? (Score 1) 567

by Nerrd on Thursday December 11, 2014 @12:19PM (#48573005) Attached to: The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait

I've been using one of my three monitors in portrait mode for decades. It was more important when you couldn't fit a full page of text in landscape orientation. It's also quite helpful to conserve desk real-estate.

Comment Re:Oregon... (Score 1) 198

by Nerrd on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:28PM (#47929815) Attached to: Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise

The more reasonable approach - which is actually used in a lot of places - is to pump water uphill. The real problem is when there is no shortage of water, and the reservoirs are full. This is precisely their argument when not honoring wind contracts.

Comment Oregon... (Score 5, Informative) 198

by Nerrd on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @02:01PM (#47929533) Attached to: Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise

Part of the problem might be that they can't sell the power. The wind farms we currently have are already producing more power than the bonneville power administration is willing to purchase - even though they are under contract to do so.

Comment Re:So-to-speak legal (Score 5, Insightful) 418

by Nerrd on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:57AM (#47907617) Attached to: Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor

They're not a utility - they damn well can terminate service for any reason.

Comment Line of Sight (Score 2) 268

by Nerrd on Saturday June 28, 2014 @12:44PM (#47340991) Attached to: That Toy Is Now a Drone

Line of sight between the operator and the model - has always been a legal requirement of operating R/C aircraft.

Comment Re:THIS JUST IN (Score 1) 298

by Nerrd on Thursday May 22, 2014 @01:14PM (#47067965) Attached to: Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites?

Did i though? http://www.engadget.com/2014/0... Its nothing but a really bloody accurate accelerometer.

Comment Re:THIS JUST IN (Score 0) 298

by Nerrd on Thursday May 22, 2014 @12:17PM (#47067177) Attached to: Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites?

The Gyro Compass was patented in 1911.

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