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  1. Re:Dumb ass question. on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    How about downloading everything from the search device and uploading to the cloud? Should be interesting reading.

  2. Re:Attack Software on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Maximum battery power output is limited by internal resistance.

  3. Re:Hyperbole stew on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Take note nowhere does the phrase "Within the USA" appear in that quote. The Constitution of the USA defines the powers of the US Government and its agents, it doesn't grant rights. Therefore it should apply world wide, not just "inside the USA", meaning the border zones should still be protected.

  4. Re:Hyperbole stew on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    I've wondered what I could do if I had the resources, to play games with American border security. How about a custom cellphone using trinary logic and a custom OS that looks like android. That could keep them spinning for weeks.

  5. Re:Ways around this on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    The interesting point is his own party is throwing gas on the bonfire, directly and publicly attacking him at every opportunity.

  6. I support police body cameras. They prove who did what when the bullets fly, keep the police honest, and people behave better when they know they are on camera. Also you know when you are on camera by looking around for cops, not like having them hidden in the background live-streeming your life. But nobody gets to watch the vid without a judicial warrant.

  7. Re:easy to fix without adding more limits on CS Professor Argues Silicon Valley Is Exploiting Both H-1B Visas And Workers (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Make H1B an auction, where employers bid for them instead of distribution by lottery. That will make them cost more than American workers and thereby eliminate the companies that only want low wage "guest workers" while still letting the legitimate skills shortages to be filled. Oh look, a free market solution!

  8. Re:Radiation wrecks robots? on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use fuel reprocessing the leftover waste is down to background radiation levels in decades. Or you use thorium salt reactors and eliminate most of the risks and "burn" almost all the radiation at much lower cost. But solar and wind are still cheaper.

  9. Re:Money to be made... on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Tube technology (pre-transistor) is known to be highly resistant to radiation, and can be used to make cameras, sensors, and motor control circuitry.

  10. Spying is about control, and Euro politicians want control as much as American ones. This means the spying will happen regardless of any "Agreement" with the USA.

  11. This would actually be a desirable trait in much of the third world, where girl children are considered undesirable. Human nature would be to assume "The other guys" would have the girls, and the population would crash when that didn't happen.

  12. It's obvious the future is putting smarts directly in the memory for massive parallel processing with no memory bottlenecks. Everything else is just incremental improvement.

  13. Re:Hypocrites, criminals, and nihilists, oh no! on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No way would Putin want to annex Greece. I don't think Russia has enough money to fix their problems.

  14. Re: Isn't this illegal? on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the private language of Big Business Moguls, "The Swamp" is their name for government interference in their ability to make money.

  15. I suggest your evaluation of the intelligence of the border security agents might not match up with public perception of same.

  16. Re: Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Countries that are big into symbolism (the pledge of allegiance in school? Really?) tend to do poorly on protecting the poor and minorities.

  17. Re:Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If they didn't plan on logging in then they don't need your password. Also you can use your phone right after and change your password.

  18. Re:Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The server very well could be at the border. The constitution free zone of the border covers most of the USA.

  19. Re:Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Lawfully Authorized means permission to Authority to violate the Terms of Service, not who you work for.

  20. Re:Against TOS on US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Lawfully Authorized sounds like it would mean with the permission of the service (Facebook etc), or with a Judicial Warrant. I don't think the police asking would count as Authorized.

  21. Re:But can it survive Fukushima? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Radiation causes induced voltages in the circuitry at low levels and molecular changes that destroy semiconductors at very high levels, where heat causes the circuitry to melt. You can reduce radiation sensitivity by increasing the operating voltage of the circuit, thereby reducing the relative magnitude of the induced voltages.

  22. Re:Is it really that hard? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    A refrigerator on earth is colder inside than outside. This is because of a device called a heat pump, it moves heat from inside he box to outside the box. Given the atmosphere of Venus is denser than that of Earth we can assume that venting heat to the atmosphere will work there, meaning a heat pump has a working medium to move the heat to.

  23. Based on average refrigerator lifespan, a nuclear powered heat pump and insulation would work for years, thereby allowing a rover to operate on Venus.

  24. Re:Not About Safety on Iris Scans and Fingerprints Could Be Your Ticket On British Rail (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The use of biometrics is to prevent you loaning out your bus pass or rail pass. Even though only 1 person can use it at a time, they want your wife or kid to pay up for their own pass. Of course once they have your biometrics in a government database it would be wasteful not to use it to identify people at anti-government protests.

  25. Arm doesn't own a chip fab, others make their stuff under license. Intel could do that, while working on designing low power chips for mobile use. Trying to shoehorn x86 chips into mobile use is a waste of resources when the market is already standardized on Arm chips.