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  1. Re:Secrecy is a double edged sword. on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 1

    They tried that, but they just kept getting lost or stolen.

  2. Re:passwords.. on Hack AT&T Voicemail With Android · · Score: 1

    The same way that the roaming tower knows whom to bill for carrying the call. They can easily use ANI or SIM details to verify the identity - caller ID is just an info service, not a security mechanism.

  3. Re:SATA in USB enclosures on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    You seem surprised, but here is one quick example: Seagate ST910004FAA2E1

  4. Re:more importantly on Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available · · Score: 1

    You saw that movie too? Pretty ridiculous, huh?

  5. Re:Pffft! Gifts? on German Airports Use Bees To Monitor Air Quality · · Score: 1

    Markup? Are these bees wholesalers now? Cut out the middleman - buy directly from the bees!

  6. Re:Too noisy and too much heat waste on Seagate Releases 3TB External Drive for $250 · · Score: 1

    Uhh...what? The guy's talking about USB drive enclosures. Why are you bringing up eSATA? There are plenty of external SATA drives in USB enclosures that are USB bus powered.

  7. Re:Ordering and Convergence on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    So the real problem are all other logic puzzles - that often use misleading words to actually mean the opposite of what is implied.

  8. Re:How about a famous saying tattoo instead... on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    or a capital letter H if you're a complete smeghead.

  9. Re:Implant a ROM on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    What about e-ink? ;-)

  10. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    DVD CSS keys?

  11. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I was just about to post that.

  12. Re:Directway? on Best Phone For a Wi-Fi-Only Location? · · Score: 1

    Satellite introduces LOTS of delay. It requires sending microwaves up to a satellite and back down again PLUS traditional Internet latency.
     
    Every bit of it would work, but there would at least be a 2-second delay between you speaking and the other person hearing you. And echo cancelers don't work on those time ranges. That means you'll hear your own voice echo back in about 4 seconds whenever you say something. Then you stop because you thought the other person was speaking, then realize it's your own voice. So the other person thinks you were done talking, and by the time you start talking again, they've already started talking.
     
    It doesn't matter if it works. It doesn't work well.

  13. Re:We knew this years ago ... on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    Recent films are edited on at best a 4K digital editing system. That's more than 1080p, but it's not as high as the 10,000 ppi source. The point in my original reply was that the person posting on 10,000 ppi was making a silly claim against photographic prints being at 300dpi. When you blow something up, dpi goes down. Not as low as 300 dpi, but nothing that makes the 10,000 dpi figure very relevant.

  14. Re:Sweet, a use that isn't lung replacement on Researchers Create Lung On a Chip · · Score: 1

    The "R" in RAID stands for redundant. I thought most people wanted their RAIDs to be redundant ;-)

  15. Re:how did we manage on Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update · · Score: 1

    But at least they can dispatch someone to a rough location while asking where they are.

  16. Re:Expiration on Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update · · Score: 1

    More likely this is small town politics aimed at one specific person they didn't like rather than a behavior or activity. Then again, maybe someone was using watermelon chunks as bait, and the fish were choking on the seeds. So they made it illegal to look like you were going to attempt that.

  17. Re:We knew this years ago ... on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and SD isn't a storage format either. It's just an interface to flash memory. I get that you know a lot about film, but you're addressing things here that nobody is talking about. My claim that the dpi figure was meaningless was referring to the fact that people don't often use 35mm as a viewing size.
     
    I think you're in the running to win the 2010 Pointless Pedant Award

  18. Re:That's all and pretty and works pretty well... on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 2, Informative

    The pixels ARE square - at least in the display sense. At 78um x 102um it comes close to a 4:3 display turned on its side. Now, 4:3 is what computer graphics have been using since CGA at least.

    However, that measurement (FTA) doesn't take into account the pixel pitch. There's a gap of approximately 33um (eyeballing this) between each pixel horizontally, where there's maybe a 5um gap vertically. That makes each pixel take up approximately 111um x 107um which you might as well consider perfectly square, since I am not measuring this.

  19. Re:We knew this years ago ... on A Professional Perspective On Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Finally, standard 35mm film is around 10,000 DPI, dude.

     
    35mm film is a storage format, not a display format. Yes, blowing that up to an 8x10 still gives you something like 1,000 dpi. But the 10,000 dpi figure is meaningless unless you like looking at 35mm wide prints at 12 inches away.

  20. Re:I need saturday mail pickup on Amazon Opposes Plan To End Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    OP sounds like they have a Post Office box and not home delivery of mail. When they receive larger packages that don't fit, they have to be able to pick it up from the postal office on a Saturday. Or they're really lazy and they don't buy stamps in bulk or use online shipping tools for small packages. We have outdoor drop boxes for mail all over the U.S. Especially outside of most post offices, or even in the lobby of the post offices that have a 24 hr. lobby for checking PO Boxes.

  21. Re:So how does this work? on Skype Releases Open SDK · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Using SkypeOut as a trunk in Asterisk would make them a little bit of cash. Otherwise, I can't really say I know what their "normal" business model ever was.

  22. Re:Joke of the day on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    If you use XP, you hold down the shift key when you hit the shut down button. This lets you shut down without updates. But you really could have just hibernated. Hibernate suspends to hard disk and requires zero power.

  23. Re:I'm just getting used to this new fangled AGP.. on Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus · · Score: 1

    You must not have done well at sawing the board in half. At the very least, you shouldn't be getting sparks. The worst you'd have done is sever most of the connections on the card. Not having electricity making a complete circuit isn't the same as a short circuit.

  24. Re:ok... on Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus · · Score: 1

    Requiring Windows is no less dumb. My current mobo lets me flash straight from a usb flash drive from a BIOS interface.

  25. Re:No federation on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    I mean since a month ago. If it's still public, then I think "now" is perfectly appropriate. I set up a federation server and tried it out back when it was still closed beta.