Posts by Hud Dunlap

Attention, addicts: LEGO meth lab pays homage to Breaking Bad

Re: instant fail Sulfuric acid and 50% Hydrogen Peroxide.

AKA Piranha. I used to use it when I had a different job in the Semiconductor industry. It gets very hot and will destroy anything organic. It was used to clean the wafers before certain steps.

By accident one day a worker mixed Hydrofluoric acid with 50% Hydrogen Peroxide instead of Hydrochloric acid. It attacked the ceramic bath but didn't eat through.

How did he mix them up? He didn't speak or read English and grabbed the wrong bottles.

Apple crushes all competition in US Brand of the Year survey

Newegg. Never heard of them

I work with a number of people who work very hard finding the best electronic prices, They compare notes all of the time and I have never heard Newegg mentioned.

Makes me doubt the rest of the survey.

What did the Romans ever do for us? Packet switching...

Re: What have the Romans ever done for us? @AC 12:32

Maybe you need to read this book. The only thing the Romans gave us was the modern concept of a standing army.

Pentagon: Mobe operators want our radio bands? Fine, but it'll cost $3.5bn

@Steven Jones

Bush isn't in office anymore. Deal with it.

Texas school strikes devil's bargain, drops RFID student tracking

@tom 13

It is not inner city. Schools in the area run from 100K to 300k and higher with the new Subdivisions going up.

Yes some of the subdivisions have high crime rates but for the most part it is not bad. I can walk down my street at 2am and no one will bother me.

Let's waste even more money.

The School system is 1.3 Billion dollars in debt. Yes that is a "B" and not an "M". My property taxes are more than a payment on a good mid sized car.

D'OH! Use Tumblr on iPhone or iPad, give your password to the WORLD

@dijitulsupport

And these kids and idiots made how much we they sold it?

I should be so young and stupid.

Caterpillar B15: The Android smartphone for the building site

Re: But did you damage

One thing Range Rovers can handle is water like this. It is on reason why I never take my Honda Insight out in the rain in San Antonio.

Only my Landrover.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/slideshow/San-Antonio-flooding-May-25-2013-63231/photo-4684987.php

Motorola teases with Moto X 'design your own' phone

Re: We let them win!

But what about Canada? You could have let them "join" the United States.

See War Plan Red

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2070/did-the-u-s-plan-an-invasion-of-canada-in-the-1920s

Can DirectAccess take over the world?

Who is the Eadon Fellow and why does anyone care what he says?

It seems that way too many threads like this one are hijacked by this Eadon fellow. Everyone seems to spend more time bashing what he says rather than discussing the article.

The comments section used to be the best part of this site, now it is all "@ Eadon".

Review: Renault Zoe electric car

Count me out

I own a 2003 Honda Insight Hybrid. For the second time I am replacing the Batteries. No control module this time. I am lucky. Honda did a recall a few years ago and part of the recall upped the battery warranty to ten years. If it had failed three weeks in the future I would be looking at a $4000 repair bill on a car with 100,000 miles on it.

Oh, and don't even think about running it without the battery. The alternator doesn't work when the battery fails. I have a second car or I would be looking for transportation until the battery gets here.

Asteroid mining and a post-scarcity economy

Takes care of the asteroids that might hit the earth.

Forget Atomic bombs doomsday Scenarios. We will just mine it and bring it to Earth in pieces.

Satnav-murdering Google slips its Maps into car dashboards

Privacy issues

A lot of the places I go don't have cell phone coverage so I can't be tracked there without GPS. You sound like google. No privacy concern because you have already given it up.

Epic Fail for El Reg

Crushing $1.17bn Marvell patent judgment could set record

Re: Blackboard patent( you haven't been following patent law)

The new U.S. Patent law is first to file not first to create. It doesn't protect the inventor at all.

Originally in order to patent a device you had to bring in a working model. Blackboard patents were not allowed. This is why Alexander Graham bell actually had to have a working phone before he could patent it. The theory was already there.

Your post is inaccurate.

Blackboard patent

So what I am reading is that CMU came up with a theoretical method for doing something but never actually were able to make a real device. The is very much like Richard Feynmans patent on the nuclear submarine (read "surely you are joking Mr. Feynman").

Just because CMU is a university with lots of Government funding doesn't mean that they are not a vapor ware firm.

Senator pushes data cap and ISP monitoring legislation

Don't feed the troll

There are plenty of sites to discuss that issue on.

Samsung spaffs $3.9bn on chip factory in TEXAS

What is it going to cost

I live in texas. How many of my tax dollars are going to create 200 jobs? How much money is perry and his buddies making off of this?

New transistor tech could beat silicon and save Moore's Law

Where are you going to get the equipment to run the wafers.

Silicon wafers are generally eight inch in diameter with twelve inch becoming common and sixteen being talked about. It has been awhile since I worked with Gallium Arsinide but I don't recall anyone running any thing bigger than six inch. The new tools move wafers a lot faster than the old tools. I don't think Gallium Arsinide can handle the stress. Currently Gallium Arsinide is run on older, slower tool sets. Then you have die size issues. Your yield is going to be terrible on the smaller wafers.

All in all I can see some of the current Gallium arsinide fabs running specialty chips but I can't see the big production houses doing it.

Forget fluorescents, plastic lighting strips coming out next year

@Schultz

"Is this supposed to be funny, or is the state of American politics such that no one even proof reads the bills before submission?"

I guess you didn't follow the Obama-care debates. Nancy Pelosi's " We have to pass this to see what's in it" sums up the U.S. Congress on both sides of the isle.

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/46/4/We-have-to-pass-the-health-care-bill-so-you-can-find-out-what-is-in-it-Top-10-quotes-of-the.html

Pandora sues publishers over online music royalties

So how is iheart radio making money

So how are these people doing it?

http://www.iheart.com

Tesla Model S named '2013 Automobile of the Year'

Re: And

@ Eddy Ito. You made my point for me. The EPA numbers aren't valid.

I don't have a heavy foot.

It is the air conditioner, which runs most of the time in Texas. The Air Conditioners don't run on the EPA test. Actually some people with hibrids say you get better milage with a heavy foot because you actually use the battery. Mine stays 100% charge 95% of the time. At 90000 miles I am getting ready to have my second set of batteries put in.

The of the original poster was that you could trust the EPA numbers. The reality is you can't.

The EPA says....

They also said my 2003 Honda insight got 56 MPG highway and 56 MPG city. After 85,000 miles I have averaged 43.

And what would this care cost if I weren't supporting its manufacture with my tax dollars?

Apple enables 'Superstorm Sandy' donations in iTunes Store

not everyone is happy with the red cross.

http://politicker.com/2012/11/staten-island-borough-president-dont-give-money-to-the-red-cross/

Oldest unreadable alphabet yields to 'tablet' computer

This is nothing new

Ok, the LED's rather than flashbulbs are new. HP developed this technique years ago and it was used to study the Antikythera mechanism found off of Greece.

Democratic congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans

Re: Fits in with Republican Ideology

If Canada's health care system is so good, why did my Dentist move here?

Reg hack uncovers perfect antidote to internet

Re: Not even a hard-hat ?

"Hard-hats were invented for building sites were you might get hit on the nut by a passing brick, wrench, or other small items"

Hard hats were developed during the building of the Hoover Dam. Cut fatalities drasticly.

IEEE admits its MS-DOS history revisionist is in Microsoft's pay

Re: Patents were not such a big deal, 30 years ago

I looked at Compaq computers many years ago when they first came out. They made it very clear it was not a clone of IBM. They gave me a long list of programs that the Computer would run without issue, but it was not a clone. ( yeah right)

Buffett no longer Intel Inside

of course he knows something we don't

You don't really think he donates to politicians just for political reasons do you?

Privacy snafu as TOPLESS Mark Zuckerberg picture leaks online

Re: I'd like to see

"Well yes, a relatively low-ranking field agent about twenty years ago."

That was his cover story.

'That new Google button was our idea', claims lawsuit

The new U.S. patent law will stop this

There were a number of posts to El Reg about this, U.S. Patent law is no longer based on the inventor but first to file. If they didn't get a patent first and Google took what they showed them and filed for a patent, then they are SOL.

Posner to Apple, Motorola: 'And don’t come back'

old western joke

Two ranchers were in court contesting grazing rights. The Judge starts off by saying " last night the court received $10,000 dollars from the plaintiff. Last night the court received $15,000 from the respondent".

" The court will return $5,000 to the respondent and continue to try this case on it's merits".

MPAA boss: 'SOPA isn’t dead yet'

Information used for lawful purposes??

Or for political retaliation?

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/04/06/appellate-court-dismisses-lawsuit-on-behalf-of-joe-the-plumber

United Nations gifts NORTH KOREA with tech worth $50k

It is not authors and inventors anymore

The so called patent reform act has changed this to first to file. I believe El Reg has had a few article s on this

Russell Brand 'threw small voice-enabled iPad through window'

Re: rather insulting headline

Mr Grease monkey.

You may not advise me to check UK slang. This term was used in reference to Americans in an American city. How people in the UK refer to their police is not something that is of interest to me. We also have the terms fuzz and pig and those went out in the seventies. Yes I am aware that a lot of the police in any locality are just criminals with badges. I also know that a lot of them are hard working people who try to make the community better, some time they die in the process.

The headline is completely out of line. I notice that none of El Regs people have bothered to reply.

rather insulting headline

"Big Easy filth slap warrant on bad boy shlep"

Big Easy Filth???? The New Orleans Police Department is not filth.

Rutgers student guilty, faces 10 years for webcam spying

demanding your right to trial by Jury costs you ten years?

This is the issue I have with plea bargaining. 600 hours of community service is nothing. Now he is looking at ten years because he wanted to be tried by a jury of his peers. That is his right, he should not be penalized for it. The 600 hour community service offer implies to me the DA didn't think he had a case.

PhD pimp's mobe lock screen outwits Feds - Google told to help

Re: genius Feds....

As a convicted felon and parolee he doesn't have the same rights as anyone else. As a condition of parole the police have the right to search him or his possessions at any time. The article even states that.

My problem is why someone involved in human trafficking is getting such light sentences?

Apple using Texas cash to boost US hiring

Re: As a Texan I can't stand Perry

Yes it has already been taken from me. Texas is also laying off teachers because the state is short of money. Compared to Samsung, Apple is a drop in the bucket compared to Samsung and Freescale.

You say the money will come back to the State in Taxes. I have never seen anything to back that up.

As a Texan I can't stand Perry

Apple has wads of cash and now Perry wants to take money from me and give it to them. I am willing to bet the land that it is going to be put on is owned by a friend of his or the nearby land is. Land that is not currently very valuable until Apple moves in.

Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades

What about the poor aligator?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9600151/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/gator-guzzling-python-comes-messy-end/

this is old news.

Sleep Cycle

I prefer smart alarm

Most of the features are similar but smart alarm also tracks sound. This allows you to track things that might wake interfere with your sleep, like your spouses snoring or the neighbor starting his motorcycle to go to work at three am.

Beer. The best sleep aid.

The cure for US job woes: More immigrants

Note to your bootnote

When George W. was running for Texas he ran on the platform of making bi-lingual education mandatory so that every one who went to a Texas school would have to learn Spanish regardless of their ethnic origin. When it comes to immigration, George W. and his cronies are as liberal as they come.

We have an estimated 23 million illegal immigrants in this country. Looking at the job numbers in your article implies that we should be at 0% unemployment. NOT!

Carrier IQ VP: App on millions of phones not a privacy risk

What about the U.S. Senate

They can say what they want to El Reg. I want to see their response to Senator Al Franken. Lying to him would be a very bad idea.

are the posts broken

Sometimes I wonder. My post saying that the response to Senator Al Franken is the one that matters.

I thought I left my phone in my coat.

Alibaba! and! friends! offer! to! swallow! Yahoo! whole!

Ali Baba and the forty thieves?

Who was the genius in China who came up with that name?

BUSTED TWO: Carrier IQ monitor-ware on iPhones too?

Ask your bank

Given that so many financial institutions pushing people to use their phones for banking etc.. the smart thing to do is ask them if it secure given this information.

Climategate 2.0: Fresh trove of embarrassing emails

What about the B.E.S.T study?

http://berkeleyearth.org/

A study designed to prove that these guys really weren't lying.

iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung

As a person who...

I work on the equipment that makes the chips for all these phones. A barista I am not. I use my iPhone all of the time at work. Videos, pictures, looking up parts etc....

We have a lone Samsung user. I can't wait to show him the video.

Clegg orders fresh review of UK extradition treaty

McKinnon is not important to most Americans because

Murders, shootings and stabbings are a common occurrence here. People are losing their homes at a record rate.

I would like to see a reasonable response to why the Lockerbie bomber should be tried in Scotland but McKinnon should not be tried in the U.S.

At the time of writing two downvotes but no explanation why.