Comment Photographer doesn't know how to hire an attorney (Score 1) 667
How is this news??
Comment Re:Not really a vacuum tube (Score 1) 313
From the article the parts have three leads called a source, gate, and drain which FETs have - which is quite different from vacuum tube's grids and plates.
Comment Not really a vacuum tube (Score 2) 313
There is 1) no vacuum and 2) there is no "tube." While there is an electron emitter, this device should be called a MOSFET.
Comment The real problem here (Score 2) 131
Electronics that don't have battery compartments and no standards for rechargeable batteries that they contain.
Comment Re:Very Sad (Score 1) 129
Not too sad. Most Heathkit stuff being built by it's owners, means that it is also repairable by it's owners (and other owners as it passes hands). Especially with Ham Radio equipment, there are active communities that collect/repair them.
Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces 84
MatthewVD writes "A new, user interface-enabled generation of electronics that you wear under your skin could be used for convenience, or even pleasure, rather than medical reasons. Scientists at Autodesk Research in Toronto have implanted electronics with user buttons, pressure sensors and LEDs under the skin of a cadaver's arm and wrapped in artificial skin. The electronics could buzz you when you have an appointment, carry memory cards with data, or connect you in a social network with others wearing electronics."
Comment Re:Yeah, good luck with that. (Score 1) 303
>Dude was drama-queening on the interwebs,
If you call complaining about not being able to ever see your daughter drama; FTA
"Jerry had a fairly troubled past, and had been suicidial before those final few days of his life," Sandy said. "His ex-wife, who is the mother of his disabled 20 year old daugther, took a lot of his money for support and never let Jerry see his daughter.
Comment Utah IT pro (Score 1) 181
Password: Admin
Comment Re:So right (Score 1) 410
It's also interesting to see how high the UIDs are
Kinda like how your UID is high??
Comment Re:This is what happens (Score 1) 93
Thanks for posting. Sorry you got modded down.
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Comment Re:The "anti-indiviudal abilities agenda" (Score 1) 73
it is not at all clear that the error had anything to do with a focus on "individual abilities".
If you RTFA, there was a single point of failure isolated to a specific tool used to grind the mirror, and the subsequent mistakes made by management dealing with the error (i.e. when the mirror was on the bed of nails).
Comment Re:Safety (Score 1) 414
If there was the remotest chance their $millions worth of plane and PR could be brought down by your phone no one would be allowed them.
Slashdot has had an influx of non-tech ignoramuses. The fact is that there are distinct and well known reasons why there is electronics ban. Besides interfering with navigation, they can potentially interfere with communications with the control tower.
Electronic devices were designed not with airplanes in mind, but rather with a minimum amount of care that a consumer device requires.
FTA;
I don't buy that there is any interference issue, at least not in general,
The problem is we don't want airplane systems to withstand EMI "in general," we demand "perfect" operations so there can be a "perfect" safety record. Not just "in general" safe.
Comment Re:Before anyone makes any silly comments... (Score 2) 132
It would have been more informative to call the internal circuitry "filters" rather than "magnetics," which is conceptually more accurate.
That said, this has to be great advertising for Molex.
Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) Joins the Washington Post 232
kodiaktau writes "Slashdot founder and long time cat herder Rob Malda joins the Washington Post per an announcement today. According to the press release, he will be the Chief Strategist and Editor-at-Large working for WaPo Labs."
Rob has a more detailed description of the job on his blog: "Don Graham is trying to accomplish something that is a bit of a cliche these days: A startup inside an established corporation. A group that can exist at a nexus between newspapers, websites, cable networks, and TV stations and think about the big picture and the future without the normal burdens associated with a business operating at a large scale. ... They are actively iterating and experimenting in many directions, with strong support from the top of the organization. ... Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli assures me that I'll also be working with the newsroom where I can contribute words, ideas, and tools that will improve the experience of the journalists doing work that I personally believe transcends the bottom line."
