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Comment Re:Here's a radical idea (Score 1) 102

by Hrdina (#63917319) Attached to: Vermont Utility Plans To End Outages By Giving Customers Batteries
I live in an urban-ish area of the NE US. We've had a handful of multi-day outages in our neighborhood over the past decade or so, and they have all been caused by downed power lines.

It doesn't help that I live on a dead-end of our local power grid.

I would love for our utility wires to be buried. Our former neighbors were from Switzerland and were shocked that our power lines were not buried.

Of course, at my previous residence the power lines for our subdivision were buried, but they were fed from overhead lines on the main road. Those were knocked down multiple times, but by poor drivers rather than by storms.

Comment Re:Saving KSP (Score 1) 85

by Hrdina (#54534265) Attached to: Take-Two Acquires Kerbal Space Program

I bought mine directly from the KSP store back in March 2013, and never migrated it to Steam.

After this announcement I went and made sure I'd downloaded the latest version from the store, just in case. Sadly I haven't played the game in quite a while (since Science arrived I think). Maybe I should correct that.

Comment Re:Yes I do (Score 1) 438

by Hrdina (#54371745) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS?

I likewise switched to Feedly when Google abandoned Google Reader. I have a couple hundred feeds in my list. I won't go so far as to say I wouldn't be browsing the internets without RSS, but I certainly wouldn't have time to cast such a wide net of interests.

RSS is one of the best things on the net, which is why I would not be surprised to see it wither and die.

Submission + - Chemical Bike Lock Causes Vomiting to Deter Thieves

Submitted by HughPickens.com
HughPickens.com writes: Ever had a bike stolen? Bike thieves have had virtually free rein around San Francisco and the Bay area for years, stealing thousands every year, turning warehouses and underpasses into chop shops, victimizing residents and city officials alike. But BBC reports on a new weapon in the arsenal of devices developed to thwart would-be thieves — a bicycle lock that spews a pressurized, stinking gas if someone attempts to cut the lock. The company claims its "noxious chemical" is so disgusting it "induces vomit in the majority of cases." Even better, it claims, the gas causes "shortness of breathing" and impaired eyesight. The company says that the compressed gas is perfectly safe — and can only be released "by trying to cut through it with an angle grinder". If the chemical countermeasure is released, it is a one-time only use, and the lock — which costs over $100 — will have to be replaced. But the hope is that the unpleasant experience will cause them to abandon the attempted theft, leaving the bicycle behind. The inventors have not yet tested the device on an actual would-be thief, but have tested it on themselves and volunteers at distances of two feet, five feet, 10ft and 20ft. “At two feet it was pretty bad. It was absolutely vomit inducing in 99% of people. At five feet it’s very noticeable and the initial reaction is to move away from it. At 10ft it’s definitely detectable and very unpleasant.”

Submission + - A solution for DDOS packet flooding attacks (oceanpark.com)

Submitted by dgallard
dgallard writes: On October 21, 2016, a DDOS attack crippled access to major Web sites including Amazon and Netflix.

PEIP (Path Enhanced IP) extends the IP protocol to enable determining the router path of packets sent to a target host. Currently, there is no information to indicate which routers a packet traversed on its way to a destination (DDOS target) enabling use of forged source IP addresses to attack the target via packet flooding.

PEIP changes all that. Rather than attempting to prevent attack packets, instead, PEIP provides a way to rate-limit all packets based on their router path to a destination. In this way, DDOS attacks can be thwarted be simply only allowing them a limited amount of bandwith.

Comment Re:Predictable (Score 5, Informative) 338

by Hrdina (#52808041) Attached to: Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad

This rocket was brand new it was the first that would have been SCHEDULED TO REUSE later after this launch.

Wrong.

--quote-- For SpaceX, the private space company owned by Elon Musk, it was the "first launch of [a] flight-proven first stage," the company says. The mission was using the same rocket booster that sent the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station earlier this year. --end quote--

Sorry, but that quote is wrong. The first reused booster is (was?) scheduled to launch SES-10 later this year.

Submission + - Researchers sport system to pull rare earth materials from used hard drives (networkworld.com)

Submitted by coondoggie
coondoggie writes: Open and easy access to rare earth materials — which are critical parts of electronics in everything from cars to computers — is still more a dream than reality. One of the ways to address that anxiety is to harvest and reuse such material from used electronic components – in particular computer hard drives.

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