U.S. to boost arms sales to India: “”The essence of this strategic partnership is to provide a countervailing influence to China … to act as a restraint on the exercise of Chinese power,” security analyst Brahma Chellaney said.”
Why I love Slashdot, from a discussion on ” Was Thomas Edison Right about DC Power?”: “Taking this a bit further, why not have an entire rack power supply that can deliver a rail of 3.3V, 5V, and 12V to each server, thus eliminating the need for a high-current DC-DC converter on the target board? I am excluding things like the exotic voltages for CPU and RAM, but still it is the 12V and 5V rails that would have to be able to source significantly more current.” Where else would you find such electro-geekery?
slang watch: “ace” – Been seeing people say things like “f*cking ace”, which I guess is like “awesome”?