tkinom

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   by tkinom 12y ago

   Very nice! I worked on the firmware for the "Applied Biosystems ABI Prism 310 DNA Sequencer". I remembered it cost >$60K each when it was released ~1996, 1997 time frame. It is good to see DNA sequencer tech progress faster
2. 302.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   What if, one day, someone equips with quantum computer + smart can figure out the private hashes in anyone's wallet base on the public BTC record? Would the BTC become completely worthless immediately?
3. 303.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   Are you sure? I just did a .dump on my signons.sqlite. The login and passwords are not stored in cleartext. ubuntu 13.10 firefox 27.0.1
4. 304.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   So like the Matrix.
5. 305.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   He is believer of $$$. Someone (or some org such as NSA ) is stopping the China and others from buying the product/using the service his VC firm is investing it. That's what really upset him the most.
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   by tkinom 12y ago

   BTW, the ARM cell phone SOC I worked with everyday has integrated GPU, video processor (HW base), 2,4,6,8 ARM Cores, with integrated CP (Cellular processor), almost all the necessary IO such as USB (OTG, 3.0), SD, Display controller etc are
7. 307.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   Intel Haswell has integrated GPU. I have been using one for ~ 1 year. It supports VGA, DVI, HDMI output all at the same time. Works well. Power is better than the I7 I used before.
8. 308.▲
   by tkinom 12y ago

   What Iran/China/Russian unable to force Google to do, EU is forcing Google to do it now.
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   by tkinom 13y ago

   ARM CPU/SOC shipped in billions of units. Latest production ARM in Nexus 5, 7 has 4 cores, integrate GPU, VPU (video processing unit.) Run from battery power. IMO, Intel is losing CPU war to ARM. We are also seeing Qualcomm's
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    Couple of comments on the openssl heartbeat fix.

    2 points by tkinom 13y ago|0 comments
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    by tkinom 13y ago

    Typical toaster, coffee pot are ~800-1500 watts according to google. Pumping 500 watts into the phone might be possible as long as it is not via the normal usb connector. How long would that batter last might be different story. https: