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We have had good results with the Barco Medical Diagnostics monitor lines - they are the only thing other than CRT's that our Radiologists are willing to use.

This is a very interesting project that I will be following; but I can't agree with this sentiment. Experience is a foundation of any skill and programming is no different. This argument could be applied to essentially any profession that requires experience to be competent in.

I think that it's better to look at the issue from another angle; the speed at which programming is evolving. If omniref were to pose themselves as a venue to simplify the act of learning new concepts and tools, that I can get behind.

Well, this will be an interesting ride. At least now Notch will have enough time and money to fund that Psychonauts sequel!

It's here: https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS-Docker

EDIT: Nevermind, seems this is all meta and dockerfiles.

Very interesting! The picture is kind of confusing though, it took me a minute to realize that the picture was of an "expansion board" with the module installed (in the lower left hand corner).

I like what I see though, they have packed quite a bit of processing power into the tiny package. Good amounts of memory too. And I really like the built in WiFi/bluetooth. Looks like it could be a good option for making connected devices with. The only problem is transitioning from prototype to production with Intels current business model.

This video does a good job to show off the Edison on it's own, for anyone interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GY8k...

I don't know if it's that black and white, but that's certainly each end of the spectrum. I think the most important thing is to stay away from aggregators and blogs and focus on websites that are making good content that can stand on its own.

Ars Technica and Forbes Technology are two good examples of this that come to mind, and until recently I would have counted The Verge as well. The problem is that instead of supporting the types of sites we want to read, we are complaining about the ones we don't.

It seems to me like this wasn't so much an oversight, as it was gleeful embellishment of the facts. I can understand a couple of the situations being honest mistakes, but most of them are perfect examples of how entrenched click bait and the colour yellow is in tech "journalism".

For production embedded systems I wholeheartedly agree with you. But for educational platforms, especially those aimed at complete beginners, the trade-off for accessibility could be well worth the excess power consumption.

Look, I get that the recent sea of -duino devices can get annoying and represents a new, unknown genre of programming to you, but don't be ridiculous. What stopping you from using whatever language you want to use on whatever platform you want to? And who are you to define what paradigms should be allowed on which hardware?

Embedded platforms are evolving at an incredible pace, in some cases outperforming PC's from just a few generations ago. There is more than enough headroom to make interpretation a viable model for micro controllers, and there is hardly a better way to make the technology more accessible to beginners. Granted, JavaScript would not be my choice either - but to say that interpreted languages aren't an option is ridiculous.

They aren't really that easy to weaponize, at least not any more. The earliest kinds of Lithium cells actually contained elemental lithium, and could easily cause fire or explosion under certain conditions. Think the Dell laptop fire batteries.

Lithium _Ion_ batteries produced today are newer designs which use an intercalated Lithium compound (usually with Cobalt, Iron or Manganese) which greatly improves the stability of the battery while under stress. Further to that, pressure venting is almost always incorporated into the canister enclosing the cell, allowing it to depressurize in a safe manner similar to capacitors.

That's not to say they are totally safe - all batteries require a great deal of care and not all Lithium batteries incorporate these safety features. The pouch cells used in RC aircraft, for example can catch fire fairly easily due to their lack of a strong outer shell, their extreme power density and lack of any protection circuitry. These are heavily regulated and you would not be allowed to take them in your carry-on, and all Lithium Ion batteries over a certain Wh rating are similarly controlled.

Quatar does not consider their slaves to be a part of the population of Quatar - they are essentially migrant workers who have had their passports confiscated.

Looks like the site might be under attack or just overwhelmed by traffic. Here's the google cache for those who can't access the site:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

What about misspelled domains? DNS Hijacking or Bit Errors? Hostile redirects from innocuous hacked domains? I'm not against using access as evidence, but there needs to be more context than a single attempt to access a domain.

Panasonic already has one of the largest production complexes in the world for battery production; but with the huge demand from Tesla they have had a hard time keeping up with the market. I see this as a way for them to scale up to a capacity that can handle Tesla's orders while still being able to produce 18650 cells for the rest of the electronics market. Over the past few months I (and many others) have had a very hard time getting a reliable supply of the NCR18650B cells Tesla is using in their packs.

I don't see Panasonic wanting to give up any of the control it has over this sector. The agreement is probably positioned to obligate Tesla to purchase X amount of cells a year to make the new gigafactory economically feasible for Panasonic.

Halt and Catch Fire is doing a bang up job of reflecting the technology and even the market of the time. Really refreshing to see.

What constitutes a "rip off"? It's hardly a rare or unique idea to emulate vintage monitors or terminals. Not to mention this is free and open source, rather than Cathodes paid/closed model.

While I own, use and love Cathode, I'm glad to see this project. Cathode has several annoying bugs and only a few developers to work on them. It is poorly optimized and slays battery. With a community of developers I think this has potential to exceed Cathode, if it hasn't already.

The stingray is a man in the middle. It requires an uplink to real cell phone services to operate, so a phone call to 911 is going to be patched through

It's possible, but I think that it is more likely that they were placed there to make it more difficult to crack the cipher via character frequency analysis.

Then again, I suppose there isn't any reason that it couldn't be both.

I feel like this is not an applicable comparison in regards to workmanship. However, if this truly is the way you want to operate, then I really see no way around simply accepting the situation the way it is now.

I can understand why you feel this way, but I don't think it applies to software as much as it would tangible goods or service.

This is something that certainly needs to exist, but I am exceptionally wary of it being helmed by weev.

I feel for the guy. No idea what he thought was going to come of doing this, but I bet it wasn't this. I have a hard time believing he meant to steal 900 identities without using at least a couple layers of protection.

But then again I have no idea what else he was expecting to get.

Instagram has done this in the past as well, and IIRC; before the merger. But by all means - jump on the Facebook hatewagon and take a ride.

I think that you are absolutely right that the web has changed, but I think that it's pretty easy and cliche to blame 'Murican media on it. It's inevitable that things like the internet are going change for a multitude of different reasons - to blame any one seems shortsighted. People were making the same claims about Endless September and the AOL invasions; but the internet adapted and became something else. In one case, it turned into the internet you remember as the "original".

The internet has changed, but to try to make a claim that there ever was an "original internet culture" is to miss what the internet is and always has been, an amorphous mass of people, constantly changing and evolving into something else based on the technologies available to it.

I loved the net of the 90's and even the early 2000's as well, and I miss it and remember it fondly. But to try to say that it was the original internet; you might as well just be yelling "Get off my lawn". And even then, the BBS folks might want a word with you.

Nobody wants to use it? Bullshit! You need to make people want to use it, and show them that you have a great product to sell them. I think this product has a lot of potential and I'm interested in trying it out. I'm going to show my supervisor this later because if this could be adapted for more than just invoices (say; medical forms) then this could be a contender for an automatic routing system we and many other hospitals want to set up.

Buck or SEPIC based DC/DC conversion systems absolutely do not cost more than even a single LiIon cell. And to have multiple converters is far from a novel concept.

I think this is a neat implementation but there is no technical justification for this price tag, and the idea is far from unique. Looks cool though, and I guess for some that's all that will matter.

Well considering that she really has no problem sidestepping the generally accepted etiquette and ethics of journalism when it suits her, I think that was exactly the way Forbes should have handled it.

After reading that article, I'm just left with more questions. How were these people hurt? I don't see a BB Gun accident sending 7 people to the hospital.

Well, actually - yes; depending on the country. But that's not the point. The point is that your own country has to go through more convoluted international channels to get your data.

This is different though, as most of the components that are used in this device require you to sign an NDA to even get the datasheet. Most devices beforehand had at least a semblance of the open source movement.

Though I don't know either way in this specific case, this is a very common thing with postsecondary education.

Lots of kids are getting too used to highly curated, manually disciplined classroom settings. They are used to the teacher reminding them that they haven't turned in that assignment. The reason they don't skip is because the school will call their parents. They aren't allowed anything other than limited access to technology, because it's "distracting".

When they get to college, they just aren't ready for independence. Without the nannie-teachers and the parents, they don't have a support system that can point them in the right direction. Aspergers would have no doubt exacerbated the situation, but I am not on the spectrum and have very similar addictive tendencies that caused me to nearly fail my course as well.