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On the flip side, there are some situations where rough service bulbs are probably the only good alternative to incandescent bulbs—for example, the fully enclosed fixtures that most folks use in their hallways and porches. CFL ballast electronics and LED step-down electronics are typically designed under the assumption that they can breathe, and have a tendency to fail much sooner when they can't. And I'd be afraid to use halogen bulbs in those fixtures because of the higher temperatures involved.

I wasn't talking about CFLs or LEDs, I was talking about energy efficient Halogens, which are the same size and shape as standard incandescent bulbs:

http://www.amazon.com/Globe-Electric-00466-72-watt-Equivalent/dp/B00DR70TX6/ref=sr_1_2?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1388024249&sr=1-2&keywords=72w+halogen+clear+hours

As available on Amazon.com, and as understood by the overwhelming majority of the population that knows the term.

You seem to have at a strange compulsion, probably more than one.

Us => Right. Them => Bad. It wasn't true then either, but you could get away thinking that way.

I suggest you learn a bit more about the Soviet Union by taking 10 minutes out of your life to start correcting an enormous misconception that will significantly warp your thinking if you don't correct it. Watch this documentary film trailer. I suggest watching the whole documentary when you can. This Russian documentary would be good too. This book would also be good. If you think the West, including the US, was anything like an approximation of the Soviet Union, you are very badly misinformed. It is almost unbelievable that anyone could make a mistake of that magnitude.

Sure, they fought the breakup as an unconstitutional adventure, but JDR had both sides of the play covered. I seem to have lent out my copy of Constitutional Chaos out, but I'm pretty sure that's where the background info is (the book is mostly "things they didn't teach you in school about Supreme Court cases").

Hey, man, you look like a good fellow, I have these cables lying around, can sell you a few for cheap. They sound better, but it's not totally intuitive

Oh please, my AudioQuest cables heard that joke coming, with supremely high clarity, before you told it.

http://www.amazon.com/Accoutrements-Fuzzy-Glasses-Classic-Disguise/dp/B000JNS2ZS/

It's just another variation of this problem.

Design a product, gentlemen. Stop throwing wrappers around stuff. It's called usability testing. Better yet, take the design out of the hands of coders. A handful might be capable of the vision necessary to prognosticate actual usage and fix things in the way people actually use things. Probably not you. In fact, from decision theory, I will just use the rule assuming 100% of the time you can't do this. I will be right 99% of the time, an excellent success rate.

Also, what's up with the god damned overlay navigation "bars" that many mobile sites use? My screen space is already freaking limited and you wanna take up 20% of it with a god damned bar with a home button on it? At least let me turn the fucking thing off! See the book above, gentlemen.

...Because of the money involved ...

No, because of the political power involved. The surveillance state is about governmental power not handing out contracts for campaign contributions.

That's why we must put a stop to it ASAP: by getting big money out of politics.

That is an impossibility. Wealth has always bought influence in every society, under every political system.

the United States Constitution happens to include Article Five, which describes an alternative process through which the Constitution can be altered: by holding a national convention at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds (34) of the country's 50 States. Any proposed amendments must then be ratified by at least three-quarters (38 States).

Excellent idea! Mark Levin has been advocating amending the Constitution through the article five process as the only practical, peaceful way left to reign in our out-of-control federal govt which will never on-its-own relinquish the illegitimate powers it has acquired.

the purpose of passing a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will end corporate personhood* and publicly finance all elections

A really stupid idea for an amendment. The problem is that the fedgov is too powerful, making factional control of the fedgov a very high stakes endeavor. Devolving power back the States where it legitimately resides is the proper solution.

Re-banning corporate contributions will, once again, allow labor unions and big media outlets to almost completely define the political narratives regarding economic policy by disarming their opposition. Restrictions on campaign financing benefit incumbents. Public financing of campaigns will create a permanent political class which is virtually unbeatable in elections <- that's really, really bad. Weaken the fedgov and it won't matter so much who controls it. The founding fathers understood this.

One of the reasonable suggestions made by Levin is to allow States to repeal any federal law by a vote of two thirds of the legislatures. So, for instance, Obamacare could be repealed if 33 of the state legislatures voted to repeal it and there would be nothing federal politicians could do about it. That would be a great way for The People to reject laws to which they are strongly opposed. As it is now, the federal politicians pass laws that appeal to the weird little world of DC, knowing that there is almost nothing that voters can do about it. The amendment would reintroduce some measure of political accountability. It would be great to have representative govt again.

Recycling is already a much bigger business than most of us think. According to the book Junkyard Planet, recycling currently employs more people in any other industry except agriculture! That amazed me. NPR Fresh Air had a good interview about the book, in which that claim is made (I haven't read the book).

The alternative would be Insulin Coma Therapy, at least for some disorders. Not practiced in the West any more.

Sources: Insulin Coma Therapy

The famous mathematician John Nash (depicted in A Beautiful Mind*) was treated with it.

If you suffer from Nash's malady, don't read my current sig.

* Book , movie , trailer , documentary , DVD.

The alternative would be Insulin Coma Therapy, at least for some disorders. Not practiced in the West any more.

Sources: Insulin Coma Therapy

The famous mathematician John Nash (depicted in A Beautiful Mind*) was treated with it.

If you suffer from Nash's malady, don't read my current sig.

* Book , movie , trailer , documentary , DVD.

In the '90s, Microsoft's distributed component platform was DCOM, and they pitched Visual Basic as the 4GL language for custom applications. So there were lots of VB developers trying to develop and use COM components. Trouble was, COM was supposed to be programming language-neutral, but the entire architecture was designed with C/C++ in mind. So VB components kinda, sorta worked, with a lot of workarounds and gotchas (for example: dual interfaces are a cool feature of COM, right? But not if you plan to support VB clients). A pretty sharp MS MVP guy named Ted Pattison wrote some books about how you could maybe get this to work.

Why do people even bother with this kind of garbage when they need high performance? Use a language that was designed for it from the get-go, with direct access to the memory heap and system calls.

Uhhh..Win 7 comes in 32 bit as does Win 8.1, not that anybody actually buys win 8 on purpose,just to illustrate the point.

Uhhh..Win 7 comes in 32 bit as does Win 8.1, not that anybody actually buys win 8 on purpose,just to illustrate the point.

What reasons are those? If its money you should know those old Pentium 4s (which in my exp at the shop is the majority chip when it comes to old XP boxen) are sucking up power and blowing through your cooling like a drunk hitting a free minibar so they are COSTING you money, not saving it.

I have had excellent luck replacing those aging P4 boards with AMD Bobcat boards. They are faster than a P4, gives you an APU that will do 1080P over HDMI, and most importantly for your wallet uses less under 100% load than a P4 does idling, just 18w under full load. Use that PCI slot to add a PCI to IDE and you an even keep your old drives if you wish, thus saving even more money.

Old software? Win 7 Pro has XP Mode and the Bobcat supports hardware VM acceleration so that isn't really an excuse. In fact the only software I've so far run into I couldn't VM was a customer's Macromedia Xres and that is because that ancient POS is soooo old (1997) that it doesn't seem to like anything above a 2.5Ghz or above an IDE HDD, something about the way it swaps.

So there really is no excuse to keep XP, the old boxes didn't care about power wasting or heat while a modern chip uses a tiny amount compared to the useful work you get, there is plenty of software out there that will turn that old XP install into a much safer VM, and most software will run better even on an ultra cheap like the bobcat over those cycle wasting power pigs of the mid 00s.

Almost 3,000 results at Amazon for New Windows 7 Desktops at the moment...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_condition-type_0?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A565098%2Ck%3Awindows+7%2Cp_n_operating_system_browse-bin%3A2287320011%2Cp_n_condition-type%3A2224371011&keywords=windows+7&ie=UTF8&qid=1387734401&rnid=2224369011

And if you're interested in buying that then you'll probably want one of these as well (according to amazon).

http://www.amazon.com/Male-Power-Collared-Harness-Mankini/dp/B00CQCMP4Y/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_3/180-4293593-6900613

I'm not entirely sure what the link is.

The reviews are great: "My wife and I bought this after selling our daughter Amanda into white slavery. "

I didn't get that Text book.
Also my MBA classes also seem to actively discourage such actions. That said, it may mean to refocus the company.

Maybe that's why you're posting on /. instead of heading up a fire sale team...

Maybe you should read up on these topics, here's a short reading list for you (in MBA-style)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Distressed-amp-Financing/dp/0071750193
http://www.hl.com/library/bsttcacs.pdf

We'll have a group discussion about this in next week's round-table. See ya!

Completely relevant

Star Trek: Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation It's a good discussion of management techniques.

This is where Musk's Hubris is going to be a problem.

That's why I wear Eau My by George.

Sure, why not?.

*snerk*. It's still an outlet. /You didn't specify NEMA-5

IMO, the best pre-iPod mp3 player was the Rio Karma. It had FLAC and Ogg support, came with a half-decent set of songs on it, gapless playback, cross-fade, and you could create playlists on the device itself. Apparently you can still buy them here and there. I'd forgotten the (included) base station had ethernet, usb 2.0, and stereo RCA out.

The one major downside was that the scroll wheel was flimsy. Still, the iPod was in many senses a step backwards for the industry.

If you want to learn more about the state of the art, you might start here. It'll catch you up to where we were 20 years ago.

They are a bit pricey and hard to find. Here's one I found on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008OGNM8E/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B008OGNM8E&linkCode=as2&tag=wbh-20

Start reading Accelerando (printed/kindle version if you prefer it), then you can check more of his work. Maybe is not an authority about how the near future will develop, but at least wrote a lot about that.

For starters, BtC is inherently deflationary ... Less money chasing stuff; less cash for everybody to spend (as the supply of stuff out-grows the supply of money).

BtC maybe deflationary but so is the price of say PC components too. The real value of computers has declined exponentially since the 1970s yet the market is booming. Anyone knows that most PCs will sell a lot less next year than today yet people buy PC's. There's a great book called Less than Zero about this. I think bigger problems of deflation come around business cycles when wages don't adjust but deflation does not have to be the nightmare everyone is afraid of. In fact deflation is the whole purpose of economy, to get more stuff with less resources.

Mining BtC has a carbon footprint from hell (as they get more computationally expensive to generate, electricity consumption soars). This essay has some questionable numbers, but the underlying principle is sound.

Lack of deeper abstract thinking. Carbon footprints are moral masturbation because anything you produce has carbon footprint, either in fixed or marginal costs. By trying to regulate the end products, the author falls to economic calculation problem. As long as the externalities of pollution are paid by those who produce them it doesn't really matter for which purpose the carbon is produced. Saying one product is preferable to another is just politics. You can redistribute money for whatever things (research, medicine etc.), but that's beside the point.

There're valid points about problems but I think it's quite one-sided article. The reality has much more dimensions to this. I can see both good and bad sides of having an anarchist crypto-currency, just like piracy. On other hand it prevents the big institutions from rent-seeking (in piracy, making things cost more than their marginal and fixed costs and with crypto-currency excessive taxation), on the other hand it comes with all the problems anarchy comes with.

That would be really cool, even cooler if the case looked like this and paired with either one of those

http://www.mobileshop.com/blog/mobile-phone-blogs/retro-ise-the-hell-out-of-your-nokia-n97-with-the-cityman-450/

http://www.amazon.com/Native-Union-MM01H-B-1-Black-Handset/dp/B003DKL4JA/ref=pd_sim_cps_4
http://www.thegreenhead.com/2012/08/iphone-cb-radio-handset.php

They clearly had fun writing that for at least the exercise in wordsmithing alone. I imagine it must also be satisfying to banish your tormentors to their judgment. Unfortunately there didn't appear to be a place reserved for trolls.

Some other Infernos:

Inferno - Fun read.
Disco Inferno - Which Apple had fun with in this commercial.
Some people like this: The Towering Inferno Trailer

Amusingly, fake bitcoins are probably the only ones that'll have a stable enough price to be trusted. http://www.amazon.com/999-Fine-Copper-Bitcoin-Commemorative/dp/B00DEY7JYO

This is what they teach in driver's ed, but the above that I mentioned does work in RWD cars as well--it's just a lot touchier. Same for FWD--it's touchier. AWD additionally has the advantage that the car tends to spin around the center in a controlled fashion, rather than over or understeering. I've practiced it in every style of car, and I still take the car out on the first snow of every winter to find a parking lot and refresh. But without specifically practicing beforehand, your advice is 100% correct. If you're interested in the mechanics, The Drift Bible and the Physics of Racing series are excellent introductions, and The Drift Bible provides exercises to safely learn to control a car under those conditions.

Sorry, over the $250 nest -- http://www.amazon.com/Nest-Learning-Thermostat-Generation-T200577/dp/B009GDHYPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387311445&sr=8-1&keywords=nest

You're naive and gullible if you believe what the PR mouthpiece says during damage control after-the-fact.

You're a moron if you will believe the high level corporate and legal speculations of an outsourced tier 1 customer care agent over the official position of the company. Especially when that official position was it was a mistake that would be corrected, and it was within a day. AND additionally: it's even BACK FOR PURCHASE AGAIN.

http://www.amazon.com/Prep-Landing/dp/B0069YE7KA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387308803&sr=8-1&keywords=prep+%26+landing

Apparently it was removed for purchase for a few days because it was being aired on ABC yesterday, and is now offered again on all streaming services that carry it. But you, like the original article and submission, decided it made more sense to make up some huge conspiracy theory rather than find out the truth, which is that Disney asked streaming providers to stop selling it this week so they could air it on ABC exclusively, and then re-release it the day afterwards. In fact, it turns out it didn't even go away on VUDU or iTunes, because they didn't make a mistake and remove it for existing users like Amazon did.

What's makes your gullibility worse is the fact that amazon have done this before [nytimes.com].

That's a completely invalid comparison. The 1984 issue was because some random company self-published it as an eBook without having the rights, and so Amazon was required to refund people's money and remove the book. As I already said in another post, if you buy a stolen TV and the owner or police track it down, they will make you return it even if you didn't know it was stolen (and in that case you probably won't get your money back).

I found that by getting a metal filter and tamping a fine espresso grind down I can use far less coffee and get a very good cup, thought it takes a bit of elbow grease to push it down. I've also found the metal filter to be even easier to clean:

• run the cap and filter under the sink after pressing out coffee while press cap still attached to clean the filter and cap and to mostly separate the metal filter from the grinds
• remove the cap and metal filter. Rinse, leaving the filter inside the cap and set it aside to dry
• dump the grinds
• rinse the pump and separate, and set aside

I love the aeropress.

What kind of "security system" are they running that they just now updated to an OS about to be abandoned? I have a feeling this system is about as useful as a 30 day trial of Norton from 2002.

As for TFA? look folks, its a dozen year old OS...what do you expect? Its patches has patches and unlike Vista and those that came after XP allowed programs to just run amok in its registry and system files. Frankly there ain't no telling which piece is causing the bug and how long it would take to fix. You've got third party AVs and DRM that dig into the kernel, you've got the bandaids bolted on to try to deal with the fact XP was designed to run as admin...its just a mess folks, it really is. So just let the thing die already, I mean if MSFT was still offering patches to Win98, would anybody here REALLY argue it was a good thing to run it, really? Well then why would you champion WinXP, an OS whose system requirements are a 300Mhz P3 with 128Mb of RAM. Yes its THAT fricking old. Let the old gal die already, like Win2K it had a good run but that time is past.

For those running hardware so damned old it won't take anything newer I suggest you look at an AMD Bobcat Board which will frankly pay for itself in a few months thanks to lower cooling and the fact that at load the whole thing uses less than those power hog P4s did idling while running rings around all those old POS chips. Hell you can get one with a PCI slot and use a PCI to IDE/SATA adapter and keep your old drives and STILL be faster than those old Pentiums. You can even dual boot with XP if you need some time to switch over your programs but with only 4 months left better get on the ball. Use Win 7, use Linux, use something but get of XP already!

It's already pretty hard to find a legal copy of the original version of Star Wars.

It's not that hard.

What's hard is finding a good legal copy of the original version of Star Wars!

I got the Philips/CREE 100W equivalent bulb (7 emitters), and it needs a shade. The CREE spots are just a little too dazzling for me in a bare-bulb application.

I know these are freakish, but I have a couple and they're at least a little less dazzling:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GL6O5KI/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I1Y36MR4F4OF5J

This is starting to get reasonable for strip lighting cost:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOJ744Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I3PYU0GZDJGVNV

And I think these are pretty cool for garage applications:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLAA9NQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I2OF03B4UILFR6

This is starting to get reasonable for strip lighting cost:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOJ744Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I3PYU0GZDJGVNV

And I think these are pretty cool for garage applications:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLAA9NQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I2OF03B4UILFR6

Granted, it's a little on the freakish side, but here's 4400 LED lumens in a single socket:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLAA9NQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I2OF03B4UILFR6

I have some of the 2900 lumen versions of that (they don't have a cooling fan...) They work.

If "all your waste" is recycled beer twice a year, I don't see a problem with that.

If these lightbulbs are being used 2 hours a month, I could make the environmental case (strongly in the case of CFL) that the "inefficient bulbs" are the better choice.

The case for efficiency has been overstated, oversold, and now legislated. Having said all that, I've converted about 20 bulbs in my home to LED, and plan to get 20 more in the coming year. But, like all good things, they will also create new use cases that wouldn't have been feasible with the older less efficient tech, case in point:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GOJ744Q/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2646TPXB3L2VL&coliid=I3PYU0GZDJGVNV

You can get a 60W equivalent [LED bulb] at any Home Depot for $13 or less.

Maybe, but if you want a 100W equivalent, you're out close to $50. And the thing is hideous to boot.

invest in a HD PVR so you can control your own content, edit/annotate/narrate and upload wherever you want.

The questions and answers about this product states that it'll work for the Xbox One, but the PlayStation 4 appears to have HDCP encryption to keep you from doing just that.

Go old skool and point a camera at the TV.

invest in a HD PVR so you can control your own content, edit/annotate/narrate and upload wherever you want.

The questions and answers about this product states that it'll work for the Xbox One, but the PlayStation 4 appears to have HDCP encryption to keep you from doing just that.

This is 1780 lumens (and $53): http://www.amazon.com/Philips-423525-White-Light-Dimmable/dp/B00B2KUA3Y

I own two, and although they look goofy when turned off, I've been happy with the amount of light it puts out and the color.

BTW, I was a hold out for a long time, I stock piled "dorm burner" halogen stand up lamps for years with bootleg 600 watt bulbs (now banned), I still miss the incredible light those things generated. I hate CFLs, I've broken a couple and the mercury cannot be good to inhale. I'm going LED, even if it costs hundreds of times more than CFL. I just wish the manufacturers would increase the lumens output.

Now there's a marketing scam - selling long-life incandescent as heaters!

You could even cook with them!

Agreed. If you really care about sharing gameplay videos, you're probably going to invest in a HD PVR so you can control your own content, edit/annotate/narrate and upload wherever you want.

Yes, because they outlawed small electric heaters as well. Your education system in Canada must be really lacking for you to really be that dumb.
http://www.amazon.com/Lasko-101-Personal-Heater-White/dp/B005Q1APZS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153170&sr=8-14&keywords=small+electric+heater
http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-Ceramic-Heater-Small-Room/dp/B004GBKPYK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153224&sr=8-13&keywords=tiny+electric+heater
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/706168623975461667?gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=OY2-CyTHCqygSwz2lm5_UA&ds=sh&pq=tiny+electric+heater&cp=17&gs_id=jy&xhr=t&q=tiny+electric+desheater&pf=p&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=iXN&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&sclient=psy-ab&oq&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.57967247,d.aWc&biw=1456&bih=777&ech=3&psi=d0euUqaJKuScyQG5goC4BQ.1387153271112.1&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=hEeuUry7GIm4yQGbpYGoBQ&ved=0CJABEKYrMAQ

I can go on and on, but it seems that the very stupid canadians dont know about electric heaters.

Yes, because they outlawed small electric heaters as well. Your education system in Canada must be really lacking for you to really be that dumb.
http://www.amazon.com/Lasko-101-Personal-Heater-White/dp/B005Q1APZS/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153170&sr=8-14&keywords=small+electric+heater
http://www.amazon.com/Sunbeam-Ceramic-Heater-Small-Room/dp/B004GBKPYK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1387153224&sr=8-13&keywords=tiny+electric+heater
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/706168623975461667?gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=OY2-CyTHCqygSwz2lm5_UA&ds=sh&pq=tiny+electric+heater&cp=17&gs_id=jy&xhr=t&q=tiny+electric+desheater&pf=p&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=iXN&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&sclient=psy-ab&oq&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.57967247,d.aWc&biw=1456&bih=777&ech=3&psi=d0euUqaJKuScyQG5goC4BQ.1387153271112.1&emsg=NCSR&noj=1&ei=hEeuUry7GIm4yQGbpYGoBQ&ved=0CJABEKYrMAQ

I can go on and on, but it seems that the very stupid canadians dont know about electric heaters.