khundeck - Slashdot User

Comment "Python Code" (Score 1) 131

by khundeck on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @12:27PM (#47508547) Attached to: The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast

First: This is awesome. Of course I love this little hack that exploits some pretty serious default misconfguration.

Second: I hate seeing "code" which is really just a 'wrapper' around other tools. This isn't 'Python code' as much as a 'glorified shell script that relies on Linux free tools!".. maybe some attrition for:

airplay-ng

line 138: os.system("aireplay-ng -D -0 0 -a" + network.MAC + " mon0 &")

Linux Wireless Network tools????

line 255: 'iwlist wlan0 scan 2>/dev/null',

Third: It really doesn't matter, because 1) Did I mention this is COOL shit. :-)

KPH

Comment Re:Important part the summary neglected (Score 1) 81

by khundeck on Thursday September 19, 2013 @08:29AM (#44892511) Attached to: South African Research Team Creates World's First Digital Laser

I fail to see how that's digital ...

Well you said it not me. :-) ["fail"] It's pretty obvious FTA. Maybe you're subtly suggesting that lasers have always been digital??? I don't know enough about it.

FTA: A 'laser beam' apparently has a few components. The "analogue" way - two mirrors on each end of the device. The "digital" way - replace the one curved mirror with an LCD THAT HOOKS UP TO A COMPUTER. The computer controls the LCD (orientation of the liquid crystals) and ultimately affects the laser shape. I'm amazed that they can use an LCD instead of the mirror..

KPH

PS: FRIGGIN' DIGITAL LAZZZZZERS!?!?!!

Comment "Open Systems" (Score 1) 131

by khundeck on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @09:32AM (#44496457) Attached to: IBM Opens Up POWER Architecture For Licensing

I use a lot of IBM software and hardware on a daily basis. I /really/ feel like this is more of a 'corporate alliance' than an 'opening up' of their 'intellectual property."

I guess I just dislike the fact it's called the "OpenPower Consortium". Somehow I feel it dilutes the word "open", which has a lot to free/libre.

KPH

Comment Re:Not really (Score 1) 717

by khundeck on Monday May 06, 2013 @08:38AM (#43640877) Attached to: The First Fully 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Successfully Test-Fired

This is mostly true, except, I'm curious about this part (in the article):

"But one important trick may be the group’s added step of treating the gun’s barrel in a jar of acetone vaporized with a pan of water and a camp stove, a process that chemically melts its surface slightly and smooths the bore to avoid friction."

I don't do 3D printing, but this sounds kind of like digital-age gunsmithing (?)
KPH

Comment Re:I have a better idea... (Score 1) 208

by khundeck on Friday March 01, 2013 @01:00PM (#43046337) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Clarifies His Position on Signed Modules

Moderators -- come on..this is should +3 Funny.... this is hilarious! :) I never laugh before noon EST. Mod parent up. KPH

Comment Paywalled (Score 1) 97

by khundeck on Sunday December 23, 2012 @10:32AM (#42374845) Attached to: Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ

WSJ does not allow people to read this content for free.... KPH

Submission + - Baumgartner Completes 13.5-Mile Free-Fall Jump, Aims For Record (google.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17, 2012 @03:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: On Thursday Felix Baumgartner climbed into a capsule carried by a balloon, floated up to 71,500 feet, and jumped out. He free-fell through the atmosphere for almost four minutes, hitting an estimated top speed of 364 mph. "I wanted to open the parachute after descending for a while but I noticed that I was still at an altitude of 50,000ft," he said. After finally deploying his chute, he fell for a bit over four more minutes, before successfully touching down in the New Mexico Desert. This jump was to prepare him for a record-breaking jump of 120,000 feet later this summer, during which Baumgartner will break the record for highest free-fall jump — and the sound barrier. '... a 36-pound spacesuit is all that separates Baumgartner from a hostile world that would boil the blood in his body. Baumgartner will wear a chest pack crammed with data-hungry instruments to help ground controllers monitor the attempt — and log scientific data. Some will keep tabs on his heart rate and oxygen intake to see how a body in a spacesuit reacts to a boundary no one has broken (and lived to tell the tale): the speed of sound.'

Comment Re:How do you determine healthy food? (Score 4, Insightful) 455

by khundeck on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @10:34AM (#38514548) Attached to: IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent

I barely want to point this out, but, what's "affordable" has a lot to do with where you geographically live.

Fishing == rivers, oceans (ie. coasts, islands,..)
Red Meat / Chicken == land (ie. farms, mountain herds, ..)

What's missing in our 'food equation' is self-production and high-valued local produce. Whatever is good/sustainable for your region is what you should consider consuming. Reliance on cheap/subsidized imported food just won't add-up long-term.

KPH

Submission + - Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Gov't (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:29PM

jfruhlinger writes: "A year ago, Google sued the U.S. government because the government's request for proposals for a cloud project mandated Microsoft Office; Google felt, for obvious reasons, that this was discriminatory. Google has now withdrawn the suit, claiming that the Feds promised to update their policies to allow Google to compete. The only problem is that the government claims it did no such thing."

Submission + - Adobe Releases Flash to HTML 5 Converter (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @08:50AM

An anonymous reader writes: Adobe has released its Flash to HTML 5 conversion tool, codenamed "Wallaby." Wallaby is an application to convert Adobe Flash Professional CS5 files (.FLA) to HTML5 and its primary design goals were to get the best quality and performance on browsers within iOS devices like iPhone and iPad.

Submission + - A letter on behalf of the world's PC fixers (pcpro.co.uk)

Submitted by

Barence

on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:16AM

Barence writes: "PC Pro's Steve Cassidy has written a letter on behalf of all the put-upon techies who've ever been called by a friend to fix their PC. His bile is directed at a friend who put a DVD bought on holiday into their laptop, and then wondered what went wrong.

"Once you stuck that DVD in there and started saying 'yes, OK' to every resulting dialog box, you sank the whole thing," Cassidy writes. "It doesn’t take 10 minutes to sort that out; it requires a complete machine reload to properly guarantee the infection is history."

"No, there is no neat and handy way I’ve been keeping secret that allows you to retain your extensive collection of stolen software licences loaded on that laptop. I do disaster recovery, not disaster participation.""

Submission + - $30 GPS jamer - jams your life (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @01:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: A simple $30 GPS jamer made in china can ruin your day. Not just affecting your car navigation — ATM machines, cell phone towers, plane, boat, train navigation systems all depend upon GPS signals that are easily blocked. These devices fail badly — with no redundancy. These jamers can be used to defeat vehicle tracking products — but end up causing a moving cloud of chaos. Next wave of anti-GPS devices include GPS spoofers to trick or confuse nearby devices — scary.

Why Teach Programming With BASIC? 709

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @09:06PM from the because-of-the-great-name dept.

chromatic writes "To answer the perennial question 'How can we teach kids how to program?', we created a web-based programming environment. As we began to write lessons and examples, we surprised ourselves. Modern languages may be powerful and useful for writing real programs, but BASIC and Logo are great languages for demonstrating the joy of programming."

Why the First Cowboy To Draw Always Gets Shot 398

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 04, 2010 @04:00PM from the more-guns-less-crime dept.

cremeglace writes "Have you ever noticed that the first cowboy to draw his gun in a Hollywood Western is invariably the one to get shot? Nobel-winning physicist Niels Bohr did, once arranging mock duels to test the validity of this cinematic curiosity. Researchers have now confirmed that people indeed move faster if they are reacting, rather than acting first."

The Art of Scalability 63

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 04, 2010 @02:16PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

Martijn de Boer writes "Creating high performance growing networks is really a special skill managers and network architects should possess to be ready for the future. The Art of Scalability is a book written for these kinds of functions, and prepares you for the present and the imminent future. Scalability is achieved by principles that work on many levels within enterprises, whether it's processes, organizational structure or setting up your project, this book covers it all." Read on for the rest of Martijn's review.

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