Recent content by Maxx_Power

This is a fun read. I totally forgot about Huawei and started thinking about tanks. Wait, is that part of the 5G rollout?

What about IN video games?

Hilarious stuff by our standards. That breeze killing children thing must be originated from the earlier fan-death myth from Korea. I just want to point out that there is some semi-truth/context to some of those claims: (1) Cold water as in tap water has been and still is in most of China -...

To the best of my knowledge, the topmost silicon layer of these reverse-package chips are usually known as the de-stress layer. They are there to mechanically cope with differential thermal expansion under load. If this layer isn't specified correctly in thickness, the silicon die can...

“Apple cares deeply about the safety of our users, especially during times of crisis and that’s why we have engineered modern safety solutions into our products. Users can dial emergency services and access Medical ID card information directly from the Lock Screen, and we enable government...

Probably a good idea to think features through and test them before shoving them into the latest phone to beat Apple.

Deep packet inspection. China has been using that for over a decade. Almost all known VPN protocols (as of 2014) leave certain telltale patterns that the traffic encrypted (however many bits) in a sequence of packets is VPN-related. It takes a few packets (as of 2014) to identify the traffic...

Italians have always looked up to quality engineers ever since the leaning tower of Pisa. /joke

I don't think the entire PE thing was originated by the Gubmint. That association has tried to pressure every state in the US and spread its influence in the minds of university students for a long time now. They want everyone to believe that you are a true engineer when you pass their...

Well, LG is also Korean.

"Wankz, who not only want their pornos taken down but the identities of the uploaders revealed" and shake their hands.

I think it is fair that if OneDrive bothers you with a popup once a week, you can complain on a forum once a week with a post. There is nothing wrong with that particular frequency.

My previous university's physics research group all switched to iMacs at some point, years ago (admittedly Apple's least reliable computer). They all work wonderfully. Previously it was iterations of Dells and IBMs. A lot of other researchers in the group doing computational stuff, myself...

I agree. It is not just the visible components either (like memory). A quick example is: a few years ago after the launch of the HD7000 series, AMD disclosed to the public that its AiB custom manufacturers were causing some serious instability in their GPUs because the ceramic surface mount...

I love to show off my SuperFish install and custom bios roms.