Comment Remember the 2001 Stolen Capacitor Formula? (Score 1) 19

by Mike Morgan on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:32PM (#64046775) Attached to: Hackers Spent 2+ Years Looting Secrets of Chipmaker NXP Before Being Detected

I'm wondering if they let the hackers 'steal' deliberate misinformation. They could really do themselves a favor with supplying the hackers with 'secret' that are completely bogus and result in buggy/faulty chips. It was reported that the formula for the faulty capacitors was "mis-copied", absolving the hacked company of any responsibility.

Comment Re:Milk is also defined as whitish liquid from pla (Score 1) 520

by Mike Morgan on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:42PM (#56976570) Attached to: Should the Word 'Milk' Be Used To Describe Nondairy Milk-Alternative Products?

So I guess the FDA wants the dictionary changed too. And pity poor milkweed. It can’t be renamed to just weed, that would be a big problem...

Juiceweed. There. and b.t.w. we live in the Juicyway galaxy.

Comment Re:Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! (Score 1) 181

by Mike Morgan on Sunday May 27, 2018 @08:34AM (#56682486) Attached to: Are Google's Cat-Loving Employees Killing Burrowing Owls?

I just came to make sure this comment was here.

Comment Re:Male Robot (Score 3, Interesting) 90

by Mike Morgan on Thursday October 26, 2017 @05:12PM (#55440119) Attached to: Saudi Arabia Becomes First Nation To Grant Citizenship To Humanoid Robot

Is the robot required to be Muslim? AFAIK non-Muslims are not allowed to hold Saudi citizenship.

Comment Wouldn't a Stepped Process Would be Better? (Score 1) 177

by Mike Morgan on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:06PM (#55267191) Attached to: Vacuum Company Dyson To Build 'Radically Different' Electric Car

Wouldn't it be more beneficial for them to work with companies that are already producing electric cars? Instead of trying to develop an entire car, how about producing and perfecting their electric motor. Be the supplier to Tesla; seems like it would help Tesla get their cars out faster. With that capital, produce, supply and perfect the batteries. Then other components one by one until they produce the entire car.

Comment Roller Balls (Score 1) 183

by Mike Morgan on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:37AM (#54675841) Attached to: Scientists Discover How To Stop Luggage From Toppling On the Race Through the Airport

Wouldn't it be better to use roller balls instead of wheels to stop this behavior?

Comment As expected. (Score 0) 316

by Mike Morgan on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:31PM (#53684387) Attached to: Netflix is 'Killing' DVD Sales, Research Finds

... and DVD sales really cut into VHS sales.

Comment Bug Reduction (Score 1) 294

by Mike Morgan on Sunday September 11, 2016 @10:10AM (#52865681) Attached to: Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points

I have my router in my basement. I've covered the LEDs with black electrical tape because otherwise, after a few months, I have spiders and all sorts of other little bugs hanging around and trying to get into my router. I'm not sure if the bugs caused any real performance issues, but it's nice to not have to clean the thing for every hard reset.

Comment CompuServe - 1984 (Score 2) 53

by Mike Morgan on Friday November 27, 2015 @07:44PM (#51015415) Attached to: The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed)

I bought a Panasonic microwave oven from CompuServe for my parents in 1984. This microwave is still working. Used pretty much every day for the last 30 years.

Comment Re:Quiet? (Score 1) 558

by Mike Morgan on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @12:47PM (#49883989) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer?

I recently built a system for my mother-in-law. It's as close to near-silent as I've ever built. It's more than she needs to browse the web and watch videos.

MB: GIGABYTE GA-AM1M-S2H AM1 2 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU: AMD Athlon 5350 Kabini Quad-Core 2.05GHz Socket AM1 25W AD5350JAHMBOX Desktop Processor AMD Radeon HD 8400
MEM: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Memory Kit Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9R
PSU: Antec NeoPower 430
drive: Corsair Nova 2 SSD
Running: 14.04.1-Ubuntu

The thing uses such little power I actually had trouble with it rebooting. Initially I thought I had a buggy MB. The best I could tell; there wasn't enough current being drawn to stabilize the voltage. I swapped PSUs (with an identical Antec NeoPower 430 I had in my son's machine), re-organized the modular cables to be plugged next to each-other to possibly move both to the same rail, and the reboots stopped. What I really want is a quality power supply that is rated for something below 200W. From what I can tell from the UPS, the power draw is between 15W and 90W.

Comment You can't copyright a title (Score 1) 223

by Mike Morgan on Thursday May 28, 2015 @01:15PM (#49792297) Attached to: US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle

Wouldn't this be akin to attempting to copyright a book title? Each API is a title for the implementation it describes. You can not copyright titles, names , short phrases and slogans. An API seems to fall squarely into all of these.

Comment TED Talk by Bray Lotto (Score 1) 420

by Mike Morgan on Saturday February 28, 2015 @10:02AM (#49153267) Attached to: Is That Dress White and Gold Or Blue and Black?

http://www.ted.com/talks/beau_...

Blizzard Announces Overwatch, a First-Person Shooter 183

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:10PM from the gorillas-with-guns dept.

Today at Blizzcon, Blizzard announced its first new franchise in 17 years: Overwatch. It's a first-person shooter, a type of game Blizzard hasn't made before. It seems to be based on team deathmatch combat, with a number of characters/classes that all have different abilities. The beta test will start sometime in 2015 (you can sign-up here at the official site, unless it gets crushed by traffic). Game director Jeffrey Kaplan (a.k.a. Tigole) said one of their big goals is to make it an approachable game in a way shooters often aren't. A cinematic trailer is available, as is a gameplay trailer. Blizzard has set up stations for players at Blizzcon to play Overwatch this weekend, so more details will be coming soon.

Comment Spaulding Krullers (Score 1) 528

by Mike Morgan on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:38PM (#44096451) Attached to: The Glorious Return of the Twinkie

I've never had a Twinkie, and I'm fairly certain I qualify as a geek. I just wish they'd bring back Spaulding Kruller donuts.

Comment Rescue on Fractalus (Score 1) 285

by Mike Morgan on Monday April 08, 2013 @10:38AM (#43391221) Attached to: Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games?

The first two games I ever played from LucasArts (Lucasfilm Games at the time) were Rescue on Fractalus and Koronis Rift. They were two amazingly well done pieces of work considering the hardware that it had to run on (Atari 800XL). I always had high expectations from LucasArts after playing the crap out of these two games for years.

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