Comment Re:One showstopper (Score 1) 566
Another alternative that is used on some business laptops is a collapsible RJ45-connector: http://www.pcstats.com/article...
Comment Re:Why conceal it? (Score 1) 740
"steal and redistribute", and this garbage is voted 3, Insightful? WTF.
Comment Re:Where's my IPv6 (Score 4, Informative) 546
You might wanna look at what headers slashdot sends as well: https://securityheaders.io/?q=...
Comment Re:HTTPS and Interstitials. (Score 3, Informative) 546
It really shouldn't work.
The plaintext version of slashdot uses http 301 (moved permanently), which causes the browser to simply skip connecting to the plaintext version the next time and connect directly to the redirected https URL.
Google.com however, uses http 302 (moved), which does not cause this caching to occur, and will work just fine for this purpose.
If Slashdot had used the "Strict-Transport-Security" header as well, your browser should categorically refuse to connect to the plaintext version (after your first connection) until the expiry date has been reached (usually quite a few weeks into the future)
If you can use http://slashdot.org/ the same way you use http://google.com/ your browser has security issues.
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 2) 215
680mSv will cause radiation sickness if the exposure is within a short time span. You do not know the timespan of this exposure. It may be more than five years in total.
Comment Re:summary is not accurate (Score 2) 53
"swordfish"
Comment Re:Water cooling FTW (Score 1) 371
very rarely do water cooling systems incorporate a completely external radiator.
All mine have had an external radiator. In fact, I haven't seen one that wasn't external.
Comment Re:Before assuming "they didn't control for" (Score 2) 152
Irrelevant. We cannot possibly know "all variables" - and thus stating that all variables have been accounted for is bunk.
However, that doesn't mean that the study is wrong - it's just not good enough.
Comment Re:Wow... worse than old usenet binaries. (Score 1) 193
Storing a lot of data on Youtube can be done. It can be done in a hacky and good way - and it can be done in a shitty, QR-code, spacewasting way.
Comment Re:why glass should respect privacy (Score 1) 154
OP is not me - but I often post as AC because I can't be arsed to log in.
Comment Re:Just goes to show. . . (Score 1) 256
Yes, you could write a stopwatch app which runs on the bare metal, without relying on anything but the hardware (OK, and the part of the BIOS which starts the bootloader, unless you want to re-flash the BIOS). However that would be more complicated than you think. You'd have to initialize all the hardware yourself and handle everything on the lowest level.
The BIOS initializes all that is needed for a text-mode stopwatch. It would really not be hard to write in asm.
Doing a GUI stopwatch on the bare metal would be no more complicated than doing a text stopwatch on the bare metal ("CLI" wouldn't exactly apply then, because without some operating system, there would not be a command line to begin with, unless you'd take the unnecessary complication of additionally writing a CLI to run your stopwatch from). Just the data structures to be copied into video RAM would be a bit bigger. But then, the mouse handling code would probably be much simpler than the keyboard handling code you'd need for the text version.
While USB keyboards work in compatibility mode - requiring no USB driver, the same is not true for a mouse. That would require USB drivers. That in it self would be far more complex than writing a text-mode stopwatch.
Comment Re:3D printer ready? (Score 1) 111
You can fork the software and hardware designs. Depending on how incredibly advanced your 3D printer is, you could in theory print it too...
Comment Re:SSD Drives (Score 3, Informative) 140
Bare NAND is presented as a block device. NAND SSDs are also presented as block devices. That does not imply that they are equal. SSDs have a controller that does remapping on the fly, in many cases on the fly compression, bad block handlling and much more. Bare NAND does not have that layer. That is why the ACs comment should be moderated informative, and you should be moderated "plain wrong".
Comment Re:COME ON! (Score 0) 305
So, no, he doesn't have the wrong definition of nutritious. You just read the first two paragraphs or so.
He also has the completely screwed-up definition of nutritious:
How can something that reduces your exposure to pesticides and antibiotic-resistant bacteria not be “more nutritious” than food that doesn’t?
Nutritious means to provide nutrients, not to exclude other stuff. And he also jumps to an unsubstanciated conclusion in that sentence. Minor exposure to pesticides might not be harmful at all. Minor exposure to bacteria is in many cases beneficial, since the immune system builds up immunity...
His article is at least as flawed as the study, and thus can be ignored.