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Comment Re: Really Cool, But... (Score 4, Insightful) 63

This is correct. He identified a problem with the existing commercial drones. He iterated his design until he could achieve what he wanted to achieve. And most importantly, he wrote it down, and he shared what he did. As I get older, I am learning that it's not the end product interests schools or employers or government projects. It is the ability to identify problems, the ability to come up with solutions to those problems, and integrate those solutions into an existing design. He's thinking like an engineer. And they want to cultivate that.

Comment Re: Umm... (Score 1) 98

I recently played a few games on them, and it's not the same experience. Maybe the lane I was on was poorly maintained or just hexed, but pin 7 would always get stuck in the setter, then drop. Sometimes the system would catch the error, sometimes not. But if the pin stayed stuck, you had no chance at a strike. I was with a bunch of kids who were under 10 so it really didn't affect scores all that much. But I can see this being a big problem in a competition setting.
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Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209

An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg reports that ZTE and its cheap Android smartphones have been grabbing more and more of the market in the U.S. It's not that the phones are particularly good — it's that they're "good enough" for the $60 price tag. The company has moved up to fourth among smartphone makers, behind Apple, Samsung and LG. That puts them ahead of a lot of companies making premium devices: HTC, Motorola, and BlackBerry, to name a few. ZTE, a Chinese manufacturer, seems to be better at playing the U.S. markets than competitors like Xiaomi and Huawei, and they're getting access to big carriers and big retailers. "Its phone sales are all the more surprising because it's been frozen out of the more lucrative telecom networking market since 2012. That year, the House Intelligence Committee issued a report warning that China's intelligence services could potentially use ZTE's equipment, and those of rival Huawei Technologies, for spying. Huawei then dismissed the allegations as 'little more than an exercise in China bashing.'"

Comment Business MGNT defines the requirements... (Score 2) 154

Technical management evaluates the options based on the requirements, and makes recommendations. BizMGNT shit-cans the recommendation in favor of whatever buzz-word technology is in vogue. Engineers implement the technologies chosen scratching their collective heads as to how this meets any of the initial requirements;. AND they have to engineer supporting infrastructure with no budget, and even less time to make pager-duty tolerable. At least that's how it's worked in my experience. Someone who doesnt have to answer the phone at 2am gets to decide.

Comment Obfuscation of the systems from the users. (Score 1) 564

I have noticed this trend in OSs, Windows/OSX hide file extensions. Windows hides filesystem structure in "Libraries" (Complete Bullshit by the way. I went through and removed them from the registry, only to have them reappear after an update). Windows hides system files. Web browsers hide the protocol info. HTTP:\\ or FTP:\\ I do not like it.

Comment 5th amendment doesn't apply outside of court. (Score 1) 871

If the 5th amendment applied during interrogation, then no one could confess. Every case would go to trial. You can refuse to talk to police. Miranda rights apply when talking to police, AFTER GETTING ARRESTED. The summary is that there is nothing that you can say to help yourself until you get to court. By saying nothing there is nothing that the prosecution can hold against you.

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