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  1. Re:It's called the key on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would recommend against this practice mainly for security reasons. You may suddenly need to accelerate to avoid an accident.

    It is generally accepted that it is otherwise useless anyway. Google for:

    should i shift in neutral going down hill

  2. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    No problems ;-)

    Also, re-reading your post and analyzing the context, I assume that it wouldn't make much sense to wire them in series, only in parallel would.

    Wiring a bunch of trickle charging device in series would make them even more trickle. Kind of what is needed to cause a spark-plug to spark. I might be wrong about this although. Anybody cares to comment?

  3. Re:Smartphone? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    You can switch the battery in the Samsung rugby phone and in many others that also support going into the bath so I am not sure what advantages there is to a sealed battery. Can you enumerate some ?

  4. Re:Smartphone? on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    Bonus: and get better battery life. Since battery life is limited by charging/draining cycles. Using a battery to charge another battery is inefficient.

  5. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    1000 of them in sequence or serial.

    sequence sounds identical to series, not to parallel. I know only two ways to wire stuff, (light bulbs, batteries, speakers, etc.) parallel or series.

  6. Re:This is why the equipment should be heterogeneo on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 1

    Make sense, I always wondered why you needed spaces after the [ and before the ]. Make sense if they are program arguments. Good one !

    But in realty, bracket support has been built into bash for eons mostly for optimization purposes. It is the case for other functionalities where the legacy executable is still present on the system but not needed.

    ~# which [ /usr/bin/[
    ~# ls /usr/bin/ttt
    ls: cannot access /usr/bin/ttt: No such file or directory
    ~# mv /usr/bin/[ /usr/bin/ttt
    ~# which [
    ~# if [ 1 = 1 ] ; then echo true; fi
    true
    ~# mv /usr/bin/ttt /usr/bin/[

  7. Re:This is why the equipment should be heterogeneo on Intel Gigabit NIC Packet of Death · · Score: 1

    line 2: -ge: command not found

    with $uid set to 1000001:
    line 2: 1000001: command not found

    The condition is always false and the user never goes the /dev/null

    I guess you need to use brackets, in bash at least...

  8. Re:Is a blog format possible on What Alfred Russel Wallace Really Thought About Darwin · · Score: 1

    Nah, those dates in the past are the *titles* of the articles not the date they would supposedly have been posted in the blog.

  9. Re:Don't worry Iran... on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 2

    Holy shit, I never realized that temperatures could go that high on planet Earth, there is even unconfirmed report of 87 Celsius in Iran:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

  10. Re:I'm waiting for the day on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 2

    more like server overload.

  11. Perfect for me. on A Server That Can Fall From the Sky, and Survive · · Score: 1, Funny

    This is perfect for me. When my girlfriend goes nuts, she throws everything around, including computers. She broke a few already. My thinkpad T-43 amazingly survived a few hits from her.

  12. Re:same as before, use Cat5 on What the FCC's Wi-Fi Expansion Means For You · · Score: 1

    Enough already! I have a fews 100 ft extensions and I just let them lay on the floor. I thus benefit from the lowest possible cost whenever I move my equipment moves.

  13. Re:Independent: the best #horsemeat Twitter gags on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 1

    I regularly eat 100% horse meat burger and I like it better than beef actually. So as long as it is horse meat, I do not mind.

  14. Re:Defection on AMD Files Suit Against Former Employees For Alleged Document Theft · · Score: 2

    Whether for political or monetary reasons...

    Aren't they the same utimately?

  15. You can enable the "save tab prompt" when quitting. I saves all open tabs and you get re-logged automatically into the sites you were logged in when FF restarts. I close random tabs to leave only the tabs I need to work open when I restart because FF takes to much memory. about:config, preference browser.tabs.warnOnClose, browser.warnOnQuit, browser.warnOnRestart

    http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/796107

    http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/935532

    http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time#w_restore-the-previous-session-every-time-you-open-firefox

  16. Re:Really looking forward to ESR 17 version! on Firefox 18 Launches With Faster IonMonkey-Enabled JavaScript, Built-In PDF Viewe · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of my coworkers installed native Linux on his laptop with a VMware Windows machine on top that's running the IT department official versions, which let him max out the hardware RAM and lets him do most of his work from Linux, which was at least somewhat helpful.

    I used to do the same in 2002. Funnily enough, IT support guys would come to my desk to install stuff and I had win NT running in a VM fullscreen and the IT guys never realized I was running linux as the native host.

  17. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases....

    http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

    Is Phyton a fork of php? it seems like it has some similarities anyway...

  18. I am looking for librairies to build a PFD on Visualizing Personal Flight Data With OpenFlights.org · · Score: 1

    I am looking for Open Source librairies to build a "primary flight display" PFD.

    Java would be nice, otherwise C, C++ would do. I am looking for a toolkit/framework to build the PFD. Basically graphical widgets, etc.

    So far I did not find much. Anybody has pointers?

    Thanks in advance.

  19. Re:two choices on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 1

    Yep, when kid comes, you definitely need a third media server. I got along fine with 2 before that.

  20. Re:Lack of direction? on Facebook Gives Free Voice Calls a Trial Run in Canada · · Score: 1

    Exactly, it works fine with your dedicated or other not congested WiFi router. You may as well forget about it in busy hotspots.

  21. Re:Both Toothbrush.... on Scary Toothbrush Prompts Shutdown of World's Busiest Airport · · Score: 0

    ... and it's owner where shoot 38 times. Each.
    Only way to be sure.

    Orly way to be sure.
    Use a submachine gun!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Airport#Incidents.2C_accidents_and_attacks

  22. Re:Particle problems, too? on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    At that altitude, the pressure is about half that of sea level. So to pressurize the building, you would have to do so by several psi to bring it down to something a little lower.

    well, 1/2 atmosphere = 7 psi.

    5 psi should be enough,

    8 psi causes stress on en airplane fuselage but planes have to be light. Submarines can stand 1,500 psi and above...

    My point is that it just might end up being cheaper than fixing/adapting every piece of equipment individually, in a never ending quest. Who know?

  23. Re:Particle problems, too? on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    This is ridiculous. Just pressurize the server room or whole building and be done with it. That layer of air would automagically reappear for the heads to glide over the platters.

    As for particles, I know nothing about the subject but I guess that mountain isn't much closer than we are from the particle sources. I do not think the additional layer of atmosphere said particles have to go through to get to us makes a difference.

    My understanding is that particles are deviated at higher altitude than mountains by the Earth magnetic field.

  24. Re:Meanwhile, in the USA, Gasoline at 9/10s on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 1

    We still have 9 tenths of a cent per gallon on USA gasoline sales. Maybe we can look forward to rounding it to a penny.

    In Canada, they still have variable tenths of a cent per liter, !

    http://www.ontariogasprices.com/

  25. Re:Links, such as these: on That Link You Just Posted Could Cost You 300 Euros · · Score: 1

    No, I don't get those link as clickable so I would have to cut and paste and no referrer from /. would be sent to their server.

    It just made me think about a small script that would request their pages and fake referrers from various sites the attacker wishes to get into rouble with them.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer