Indeed, it would certainly have to be a chip that's actually programmable via the USB ports to begin with, I would expect.

By infecting the USB controller, it can then infect any connected USB devices and cause them to pretend to be other hardware, such as network adapters and keyboards (which can inject malicious DNS data or attempt to run commands on your PC that can bypass admin protections).

Thus defeating the point of USB-C.

The USB controller chip is basically just a special-purpose MCU that talks with the computer's chipset on one side and your USB devices on the other. These chips are often designed such that their firmware can be programmed directly from the USB ports, which avoids requiring additional dedicated programming…

I'm well aware of the concept of oversubscription and QoS (That's why I said mean bandwidth requirements), but you might want to take more care with your usage of terms like throttling.

I strongly disagree with #2. I don't believe my ISP should have the right to decide that someone else's Netflix traffic should take priority over e.g. me downloading a game on Steam or downloading something (legal or not) via bittorrent (as far as I'm concerned, the two concepts are the same — you'd lump them both in…

"might kill one USB drive."

Indeed! Everyone assumes that all airsoft guns are like the cheap toys you can buy at major retailers, when there are numerous levels beyond that, from the cheap-but-okay Chinese brands to the higher-quality domestic and Japanese brands to home-built stuff. Give a Polarstar or Marui to someone who's only ever held a…

I'm not 100% sure but I think it might even be lower than that. Every Japanese-origin AEG I've ever seen has clocked in at no higher than 320FPS@.20g, with the majority being closer to 280FPS. Tokyo Marui especially likes to stick to the 280FPS point pretty consistently.

I'm not 100% sure but I think it might even be lower than that. Every Japanese-origin AEG I've ever seen has clocked in at no higher than 320FPS@.20g, with the majority being closer to 280FPS. Tokyo Marui especially likes to stick to the 280FPS point pretty consistently.

I came to the comments section intending on having this exact discussion. Glad someone got to it before me! Whenever there's an article involving airsoft guns, in my head I immediately start asking questions about FPS, BB weight, distance, etc..

Last Atlus game I played with dubs was Conception II, and it was absolutely terrible. To be fair, my initial reaction was pretty knee-jerk — I still might buy this, so long as there's an option to turn off the voices altogether =x

Dub only? Hype gauge tanked. Lost sale.

more interesting is the prospect of using your monitor to power your laptop while your laptop sends video to the monitor and the monitor uses the USB to power a built-in hub... one cable to rule them all.

I don't believe that's the same effect; that looks like a much simpler form that invokes the parallax effect similar to Sonic level backgrounds. Basically, take a square texture, tile it vertically, then for each row of pixels in that texture you can shift it horizontally and scale it down a bit to give the illusion…

I have an EnTune unit in my car. Doesn't work with my Windows Phone, so I've been contemplating getting one of those android-powered aftermarket units.

Twine is a very simple system that allows you to create interactive, nonlinear stories. Basically, you can make your own choose your adventure. It is incredibly easy to use. You connect your stories through various nodes, like you would a mindmap. Each choice the player can make gets a new note. Then, when you're…

Does it have tab isolation? If not, there's where all that RAM usage went.

Sure, I don't see why not. Doesn't really matter; they wear what they wear. I'm not really into fanservice but I do think people get a bit too riled up about silly things like this.

Underwater, on the deck of a sunken ship. I looked up and saw a sky of sea, slim shafts of light diffusing into rippling stars. There were fish all around me. One got a little too close to taking a detour through my eye socket, so I swatted at it. It quickly darted out of the way. Then I waved my hands at other…