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Comment Misleading Headline (Score 5, Informative) 221

Wow. Misleading headline is horribly misleading. Quote from one of TFAs:

“We’re really disappointed that the TSA is removing them from our airport,” Martin said. “It is a great disservice to the flying public.
“People had become comfortable with the scanner. It certainly did speed the process and removed the need for the enhanced pat-down.”

i.e., it's not the "removal of the scanner" that "removed the nead for the enhanced pat-down," as the headline deceptively implies. Rather, the scanner itself removed the need. However, as a seasoned frequent flier, I'm quite acquainted with the fact that security checkpoints that do not have body scanners are not subject to an "enhanced pat-down," as Martin implies in the article.

Comment Re:Translation (Score 1) 866

"...conversion by various enzymes."

Though I'll grant that biology does just boil down eventually to chemistry and physics, at the high school level, anything enzymatic is squarely on the side of biology.

Though, of course, for brewing, the enzymes are /largely/ a black box, and you're correct that the other aspects of brewing/fermenting are more about simple chemistry.

Comment Re:Why does this matter? (Score 1) 574

Your analogy is flawed- Wal Mart and Best Buy are two competing companies. In the article presented, Mediaprovider (a company that makes eMagazines, including one about the iPhone- i.e., not a direct competitor to Apple) wanted to sell one of their products through apple's app store.

So, it's more like Amazon or Borders selling a book about public libraries. The money wasn't going "to Android" and away from Apple in the way that an "Amazon order kiosok" would funnel money to Amazon, and take it away from Borders.

And also- yeah. Fair competition is generally accepted to be good for the market and good for consumers. In this instance, "fair" meaning that products compete on their own merits (and flaws), and not on how well one company can suppress information about a competitor.

Comment Re:USB connectors (Score 1) 277

You missed some key points, here.
In USB 3, 150mA is a "unit load," and a given port may pull 6 unit loads- that's 900mA at nominal 5V, which is 4.5W; similarly, USB 2 is 100mA times 5 unit loads at nominal 5V- 2.5W.

Additionally, whenever the Battery Charging Specification is implemented, we'll be seeing 1.5A at nominal 5V, for 7.5W.

It's also worth mentioning that my Acer Aspire One pulls 9 watts while on battery, and doesn't have a battery that lasts 8+ hours.

Security

Submission + - Texas A&M University wins National CCDC

pdbogen writes: "Although the National Collegiate Cyber-Defense Competition website has not yet been updated to reflect the results, the competition concluded at noon today, and Texas A&M University walked away with first place in the second annual National CCDC. Sponsored by companies like Cisco, Tipping Point, Acronis, and Northrop Grumman, as well as government organizations like the Department of Homeland Security, CCDC is a three-day event, which pits college students against computer security professionals. Teams of college students are expected to defend a mock corporate network, while fulfilling business tasks and ensuring that Service Level Agreements for various services are not violated."
Communications

Submission + - Cutting Edge Credit Card?

pdbogen writes: "I've recently become fed up with the particular way in which Bank of America's web site is user friendly, so I've started thinking about getting a different credit card and transferring my balance. I'm interested in finding out what the most technologically advanced credit card out there is (both in terms of physical technology, and in terms of the support provided for the card. An RSS feed of my transactions? A programmatic way to get access to my bank balance?)."

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