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Comment Re:This is nothing new (Score 1) 89

by lazyDog86 (#32560358) Attached to: Can Transistors Be Made To Work When They're Off?
Yep, that's exactly right and I still find it amusing the everything-old-is-new-again of the fact that the exponential behavior described here mirrors the characteristics of the old high-power bipolar technologies. So we need to dust off our old bipolar engineering texts to start working in the brave new world of low-power design.

Seriously though, this is a niche analog technology for a small, but important market. I imagine it will always be the realm of small volume, high margin products.

Comment Re:Bad Form Factor (Score 1) 167

by lazyDog86 (#32466044) Attached to: Hands-On With Dell's Streak Android Device

Things are now drifting to the converse of the SNL bit from the mid-90s where they had cell phones the size of pencil erasers to the status symbol being ever bigger phones. Come to think of it, remember the boom boxes in the '80s? (yes, yes, I'm very old. I know.) Those things were huge!

Maybe we'll get back to that and trendsetters will start carrying there MP3 player/cell phone/tabletbox-computer around on their shoulders for the world to see

You heard it here first!

Comment Re:This is easy (Score 3, Interesting) 170

by lazyDog86 (#32376934) Attached to: Chinese Networking Vendor Huawei's Murky Ownership

Seriously, that was exactly what I was going to say, but I'll even go one further: it would surprise me in the least if Huawei's equipment had a backdoor put into Cisco's equipment by the NSA that Huawei didn't catch when stealing the source code.

If the look hard enough, the Indians may well find two backdoors.

Feed Techdirt: Face Scanning Vending Machine Fooled By Photos (techdirt.com)

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Last year, we wrote about how cigarette vending machines in Japan were using facial recognition software to make sure the buyer was of an appropriate age. As we noted at the time, it seemed unlikely that such a system would work very well, and, indeed, The Raw Feed lets us know that it's easily fooled by a magazine photo of an older person. Not too surprising, of course, but you would think that someone would have tested for such things before putting the machines into practice. Unless, of course, they really don't care about the age of the buyers.

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Does an Open Java Really Matter? 766

Posted by CmdrTaco from the oh-finally-an-easy-question dept.
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions the relevance of the recent opening of Java given the wealth of options open source developers enjoy today. Sure, as the first full-blooded Java implementation available under a 100 percent Free Software license, RedHat's IcedTea pushes aside open source objections to developing in Java. Yet, McAllister asks, if Java really were released today, brand-new, would it be a tool you'd choose? 'The problem, as I see it, is twofold,' he writes. 'First, as the Java platform has matured, it has become incredibly complex. Today it's possible to do anything with Java, but no one developer can do everything — there simply aren't enough hours in the day to learn it all. Second, and most important, even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies — adding APIs and language features as it goes — newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better.'" Since Java itself never mattered except to sell books, I still don't see why opening it matters.

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