dhaen - Slashdot User

Comment Re:In Finland (Score 3, Funny) 516

by dhaen on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:25AM (#48466865) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places?

I go once got lost in an Icelandic forest, but then I stood up.

Comment Re:Rules (Score 1) 429

by dhaen on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:18PM (#48336597) Attached to: Mathematical Proof That the Universe Could Come From Nothing

Thanks, I'd never considered "remove(ing) the dimensions". It helps a lot!

Comment They needn't be lying (Score 1) 170

by dhaen on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @03:02PM (#48319829) Attached to: NSA Director Says Agency Shares Most, But Not All, Bugs It Finds

They probably pass on the chaff and keep the juicy ones. But let me ask you this: If you had their brief, would you do anything different?

Comment Jamming (Score 1) 139

by dhaen on Saturday November 01, 2014 @11:15AM (#48287415) Attached to: World War II Tech eLoran Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK

AC is correct. Jamming GPS (or equivalent other satellite system) is trivial and has been done. It's a major system weakness.

Comment Broken trust (Score 1) 582

by dhaen on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:56AM (#47547903) Attached to: Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine

A decade ago I would have believed this as gospel, now I'm not sure. It's difficult to believe the US voice any more.

Comment Why just the MB Air? (Score 1) 365

by dhaen on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @06:04AM (#47304489) Attached to: Microsoft Wants You To Trade Your MacBook Air In For a Surface Pro 3

If MS were serious they'd say ANY Apple laptop. After all, what are they going to do with the trade-ins, open a store? No, they'll destroy them.

Comment Easy (Score 1) 228

by dhaen on Thursday June 05, 2014 @04:32PM (#47174719) Attached to: AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud

Or they could just phone you.

Comment No (Score 1) 2

by dhaen on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @04:41PM (#46993445) Attached to: Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+?

Try finding a Windows or Linux computer with a Thunderbolt connector.

Submission + - Can Thunderbolt Survive USB SuperSpeed+? (computerworld.com) 2

Submitted by Lucas123 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @01:48PM

Lucas123 writes: The USB SuperSpeed+ spec (A.K.A v3.1) offers up to 10Gbps throughput. Combine that with USB's new C-Type Connector, the specification for which is expected out in July, and users will have a symmetrical cable and plug just like Thunderbolt but that will enable up to 100 watts of power depending on the cable version. So where does that leave Thunderbolt, Intel's other hardware interconnect? According to some industry pundits, Thunderbolt withers or remains a niche technology supported almost exclusively by Apple. Even as Thunderbolt 2 offers twice the throughput (on paper) as USB 3.1, or up to 20Gbps), USB SuperSpeed+ is expected to scale past 40Gbps in coming years. "USB's installed base is in the billions. Thunderbolt's biggest problem is a relatively small installed base, in the tens of millions. Adding a higher data throughput, and a more expensive option, is unlikely to change that," said Brian O'Rourke, a principal analyst covering wired interfaces at IHS.

Comment Sol Sister (Score 4, Funny) 69

by dhaen on Monday May 12, 2014 @05:39AM (#46977617) Attached to: Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister

It's the best I can do!

Comment Re:Going over my head, perhaps, but..... (Score 2) 43

by dhaen on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:22AM (#46887215) Attached to: British Spy Chiefs Secretly Begged To Play In NSA's Data Pools

Very insightful. Wish I had some mod points...

Comment The alternative angle (Score 1) 109

by dhaen on Thursday April 24, 2014 @07:53AM (#46831531) Attached to: "Going Up" At 45 Mph: Hitachi To Deliver World's Fastest Elevator

I'd like a really slow, large elevator containing a restaurant or a bar. Have dinner or get pissed on the way home! Perfect.

Comment Sounds similar to Sony's offering for broadcasters (Score 1) 153

by dhaen on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:15PM (#46103795) Attached to: Facebook Puts 10,000 Blu-ray Discs In Low-Power Storage System

http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/prod... From desk models to Petasite. It uses cartridges of blu-ray discs, UDF.

Comment Re:Comparison: Bitcoin is like 'Abortion' in the U (Score 1) 475

by dhaen on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:56PM (#45727159) Attached to: Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban

So China is banning the currency because it wants to protect the United States?

Not for that reason only, but China has massive investment in the US in the form of US debts. China wouldn't want anyone defaulting. Nor would they like seeing the US$ fall in value.

Comment Re:This just shows that criminals are stupid (Score 1) 547

by dhaen on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @08:22AM (#45724639) Attached to: Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use

No no no, only the stupid criminals get caught. The clever ones just carry on milking us. Some of these are called "bankers"; "politicians"; The already rich...

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