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Comment Paint me a picture... (Score 1) 128

AS IANAL, I've not taken a BAR exam; having difficulty envisioning why this is a problem, or why laptops of any kind were previously allowed. If such a simple feature like this is enough to cheat on such an illustrious exam, then how can any faith be placed in the hands of lawyers that have passed the exam in the last 10 years. Or if this was merely a tool for already intelligent people that deserved their PASS, why do we care? ATM, i am imagining an 80 year old lady with a large ruler walking between aisles of desks and no comprehension of electronics since the Wheelwriter, failing students with their fancy illuminated gizmos
China

Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea (usatoday.com) 406

The Pentagon is demanding that China return an "unlawfully seized" underwater drone after a Chinese warship took the device from waters near a US oceanographic vessel. From a report on USA Today: A U.S. Navy underwater drone operating in international waters was captured by a Chinese warship in the South China Sea, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement on Friday. The drone is not armed and is used for gathering weather and temperature data. The incident occurred Thursday. The drone was launched by the USNS Bowditch, a civilian crewed oceanographic ship that is operated by the Military Sealift Command, off the coast of the Philippines. These types of drones, called gliders, typically collect unclassified data, such as water temperatures and salinity levels. "We call upon China to return our UUV immediately, and to comply with all of its obligations under international law," Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, using the abbreviation for "unmanned underwater vehicle."

Comment Re:It's official ... (Score 1) 68

Technically, AsusWRT is forked from Tomato. There is, however, openwrt based entware/optware package managers for MIPS and ARM based routers, respectively, when utilizing AsusWRT-Merlin. Asus also runs some additional packages via their own hosted optware repos, but these are generally outdated, with exception to certain core extras.

Personally, I think the AiCloud features are nice in theory, but I also prefer the more standard options. AiCloud has companion android/ios apps for the less technically saavy.

Comment cheap dualcore asus ac56u with asuswrt-merlin (Score 1) 238

as the subject line indicates, i use the rt-ac56r (~100usd at walmart) as my primary router and with the asuswrt-merlin fork i have dual simultaneous openvpn servers configurable from the webui. awesome router. and true to asus' reknown for keeping old devices updated, the 'adaptive qos' based on trendmicro's DPI based system is on it's way to this venerable device, which premiered in the latest model, the rt-ac87u

Comment not taking sides here, but... (Score 1) 110

I switched to CenturyLink 10mbit DSL because I suffered a dramatically reduced income, after having been on the 50/10 Comcast tier. I even had to spend some time in a pretty poor town. I had my full 10mbit there. Most of my neighbors there we're on centurylink, many using their IPTV-based PRISM service because it was cheaper than comcast and more reliable than satelite. I even worked with CL Engineers in diagnosing a broken fiber run into town. The way I see it, CL is still mostly an ATM based DSL provider and they ultimately have a lot more work cut out for them and with not nearly the resources Comcast has, in upgrading their entire networks.
Science

Scientists Create 'Fastest Man-Made Spinning Object' 159

dryriver sends this news from the BBC: "A team of researchers claims to have created the world's fastest spinning man-made object. They were able to levitate and spin a microscopic sphere at speeds of up to 600 million revolutions per minute. This spin speed is half a million times faster than a domestic washing machine and more than a thousand times faster than a dental drill. The work by the University of St Andrews scientists is published in Nature Communications. Although there is much international research exploring what happens at the boundary between classical physics and quantum physics, most of this experimental work uses atoms or molecules. To do this they manufactured a microscopic sphere of calcium carbonate only four millionths of a meter in diameter. The team then used the minuscule forces of laser light to hold the sphere with the radiation pressure of light — rather like levitating a beach ball with a jet of water. They exploited the property of polarization of the laser light that changed as the light passed through the levitating sphere, exerting a small twist or torque. Placing the sphere in vacuum largely removed the drag due to any gas environment, allowing the team to achieve the very high rotation rates. In addition to the rotation, the team observed a 'compression' of the excursions or 'wobble' of the particle in all three dimensions, which can be understood as a 'cooling' of the motion. Essentially the particle behaved like the world's smallest gyroscope, stabilizing its motion around the axis of rotation."

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