K7DAN - Slashdot User

Submission + - Pirate Radio is Alive and Growing, Mostly in the Big Cities (ap.org)

Submitted by K7DAN on Thursday April 28, 2016 @05:08PM

K7DAN writes: Just as the demise of terrestrial radio has been greatly exaggerated, so has the assumed parallel death of pirate radio. Due to the failure of licensed stations to meet the needs of many niche communities, pirate radio continues to increase in popularity. Helping facilitate this growth is the weakening power of the FCC to stop it, reports the AP.

Submission + - Canadian & Singapore Researchers Claim Lithium-ion Battery Breakthrough (channelnewsasia.com)

Submitted by K7DAN on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:19AM

K7DAN writes: Channel News Asia reports that A*STAR's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore and Quebec's IREQ have doubled the capacity of Lithium-ion batteries using a novel technique that involves synthesizing silicate-based nanoboxes as compared to conventional phosphate-based cathodes.

Submission + - Putin Annexes Pandora (rainnews.com)

Submitted by K7DAN on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @05:16PM

K7DAN writes: RAIN (Radio and Internet News). APRIL 1, Moscow: In a daring extension of Russia’s growing imperialism, Vladimir Putin today annexed Pandora Radio. A referendum had been scheduled for later this week, which would have provided Pandora citizens the opportunity to vote on the annexation. A spokesperson in Moscow told the United Nations that Russia “skipped” the Pandora vote — presumably one of the six skips per hour allowed by the Internet radio giant.

Submission + - Be a Hero! Help Find Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370

Submitted by K7DAN on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @06:23PM

K7DAN writes: Yes, you can help find Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 using the crowd sourcing satellite photo search Website, Tomnod: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/
I've found listening to music and scanning the satellite photos is a great use of the few idle moments I have during the day. The only negative is I wish I could select the search area rather than having it assigned by Tomnod's server or choosing a manually initiated random assignment.

Submission + - MeetUp.com Suffers Substantial DDos Attack (meetup.com) 2

Submitted by K7DAN on Thursday February 27, 2014 @09:00PM

K7DAN writes: The following message appeared at the top of the MeetUp.com Website this morning: “Meetup is currently under DDoS attack. Our services may be up/down intermittently as we seek to restore full functionality.” A few minutes after that, the site was unavailable for almost three hours. But who would DDos MeetUp? And why?

Submission + - NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record Data Transmission to/from the Moon (nasa.gov)

Submitted by K7DAN on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @11:57PM

K7DAN writes: NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth at a record-breaking download rate of 622 megabits per second (Mbps).

Submission + - Obama Care Requires Java. Shall we call it, "Obama Java?" (wahealthplanfinder.org) 1

Submitted by K7DAN on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @08:12PM

K7DAN writes: I decided to check out registration for Obama Care at the State of Washington's Health Plan Finder https://www.wahealthplanfinder.org./ Here's what I found when I started the process (using Chrome):

Warning:
We're sorry but Healthplanfinder requires JavaScript in order to run. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to continue.

If you need help changing your browser's settings please contact the customer support hotline at 1-888-123-4567 between the hours of 8pm and 5pm, Monday through Friday.

Lovely! Now millions of folks who apply for Obama Care will enable Java in their browsers and also enable their computers to be subject to all the security and other problems that ride along with it. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030778/researchers-javas-security-problems-unlikely-to-be-resolved-soon.html

The most unbelievable aspect to this is government customer service reps helping people change setting on their browsers. What a mess!

Comment Ham Radio? (Score 1) 612

by K7DAN on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @06:18PM (#41531741) Attached to: Ask Steve Wozniak Anything

Hi Woz, Have you considered getting back into Ham Radio? The meshing of that hobby with the Internet and current technology is amazing. Even folks like Leo Laporte and John Dvorak enjoy playing in this space. How about you? Dan Van Hoy K7DAN (USA) VR2HF (Hong Kong)

Submission + - Angry Birds Attack Space Needle (nwcn.com)

Submitted by

K7DAN

on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:23PM

K7DAN writes: "Those angry birds are back and one of them has found a new home on Seattle's Space Needle!"

Submission + - What happens when you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (todayifoundout.com)

Submitted by NervousWreck on Thursday March 22, 2012 @10:13PM

NervousWreck writes: I'm sure we've all wondered at one point or another. This guy found out, lived, got married, and had a kid.

Comment Make that... (Score 1) 1

by K7DAN on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @09:18AM (#39123543) Attached to: China computer maker seeks iPad sale ban in Shanghai...

"Apple's ongoing battle..." that should read. Commission of an omission on my part.

Submission + - China computer maker seeks iPad sale ban in Shanghai... (channelnewsasia.com) 1

Submitted by

K7DAN

on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @09:02AM

K7DAN writes: "Apple's battle defending the Ipad trademark in China is taking place in Shanghai. Proview Technology out of Shenzhen, China (a Taiwan affiliated company) claims that it registered the Ipad name in 2000 and the international patent secured by Apple was not properly secured in China. Analysts believe Apple will likely settle the dispute out of court. Chinese courts are notorious for ruling in favor of local companies no matter how strong the case presented by foreigners."

Submission + - Adobe to Abandon Flash Player on Linux (adobe.com) 1

Submitted by ekimd on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:46AM

ekimd writes: Adobe has anounced their plans to abandon future updates of their Flash player for Linux. Partnering with Google, after the release of 11.2, "the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the 'Pepper' API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe." Viva la HTML 5!

Submission + - UN pushes plan to regulate the Internet, makes SOPA look like a paper cut (wsj.com)

Submitted by no0b on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:20AM

no0b writes: On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year's end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish "international control over the Internet" through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices.
" Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;"

Submission + - Catastrophic space weather warning for UK (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @06:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: The UK Government has been told to shape up or face a catastrophic shutdown due to bad space weather or EMP attacks. A defence committee report found the UK was complacent over the threats, which are increasingly critical as vital services rely on electricity and communications networks. Although EMP fears are nothing new, the report highlighted how damaging an incident could prove and the length of time it would take to recover. “The likelihood of a severe space weather event is assessed to be moderate to high over the next five years, with the potential to cause damage to electrically conducting systems such as power grids, pipelines and signalling circuits,” the report said.

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