DEFCON was in their facilities last month (and has contracts for upcoming years), and FAL.CON is next week.

Crappy troll, 2/10

I havenâ(TM)t been reading Slashdot much these last 10 yearsâ¦.but seriously, what happened? This is the kind of content that would be openly mocked 10 years ago. Donâ(TM)t the editors feel shame? People can see this.

And echo cancelling. The speaker and the mic are right next to each other. And multi-channel compression. And noise reduction. And beam forming of multiple microphones. All on a DSP that is small enough to fit inside your ear and run off battery. And configurable and tunable to meet individual differences.

History is not on the family's side on that one: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F11%2F07...

I've yet to meet a "Rockstar" that followed any sort of process. I've been in the embedded world for 15 years, and I can churn out code that mostly works in almost no time. Churning out code that is modular, reusable, will survive system test, third party security reviews, deployment to a wide variety of field conditions on potentially out of spec hardware, and give a path to debugging when its not working is a whole different matter. Once I create that code, I need to communicate and document all of this. I guess I probably don't look so Rockstar after I spend the time to do all this. Even when I do this really well, and fast, I can only do so much as a single person. I also don't want a 60 hour work to be a normal thing. If I can empower a team of 5-10 people to do this almost as well as I can, that's where the real multiplicative power comes in. The Rockstar isn't the person who churns out code fast, its the person that raises the level of an entire team. Anybody that tells you otherwise is a business type who has never been in the trenches and experienced it first hand.

Ill bet Russian drone parts are A-OK to buy.

VirtualPC is a virtual machine, not an emulator. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fques...

So the wife and I used this service twice. Both times we got maybe 2/3 of what we wanted. Most of the substitutions made were pretty wrong. Two cans of baking powder was substituted for a box of baking mix, fresh bone in chicken for frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts. stir fry sauce for General Tso sauce, wonton wrappers for egg roll wrappers, etc., etc. A bit annoying, but even more annoying is that I'm paying the somewhat inflated prices of groceries already due to Coronavirus, then I'm paying a fee to the store, and then I feel compelled to tip because of how bad these companies are screwing these gig economy workers. It makes my groceries 20-30% more expensive for me to not get what I want. Just not a good long term solution. So after our last order, we decided no more.

This virus will pass given time, masks help some, eventually we will all be exposed to it and we will go back to stores. We need this to happen at a rate our hospitals can support, so I support the lock down (and was one of the first people I know to go into quarantine). But we don't need to draw it out any further than the rate our hospitals can support.

Also, we are a country of temporarily displaced millionaires who think they are one life change from being rich. The reality is that we are a country of mostly poor people with a few staggering wealthy people that we see in the media driving our perception of the world. Most Americans simply don't make enough money to pay someone else to do their shopping.

Agreed. There are standards and practices for validating both physical and IoT security. Some two bit startup doesn't have the resources or process in place to take these steps. A large company that has a reputation to protect does. Nobody wants to be on the front page of Slashdot or CNN or some industry newsletter with a vulnerability.

Also, brand names have a wide variety of quality levels. It should be no surprise that a $1500 lock on a custom steel door with a reinforced door jam is much more secure than a $69 electronic lock attached to a foam core door with two screws and a wood jam. A determined attacker will get through either, but one will take a much longer amount of time and tools.

Can they increase the quality of the comments? Its pretty bad on there for anything outside of niche subjects.

Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.

I've known several Greeks over the years, and all of them have said basically this to me at some point.

All this hate on the Classic mini NES, I just don't understand. My wife was able to go to the local Target and get one for me for Christmas. It's pretty awesome, it just works, has good games, has HDMI. Great execution by Nintendo.