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  1. Blank space on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 1

    The blank space on the card, esp the back, is there for you to write why/how this person is important to you. Bring a pen/pencil.

  2. The problem is our clocks. on Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Pish, we'd have maximum sunlight if we always rose at dawn. But dawn time keeps changing. So if we redefined the day to start at dawn rather than midnite, and workday clocks were changed to always measure from there, the problem would be solved. (Yeah, penguins and polar bears WOULD have problems...)

  3. No wonder on Online Learning Becomes Court-Ordered Community Service · · Score: 1

    The educated criminals go into politics.

  4. Sounds like a limit to me... on AT&T Clarifies Data Limitations On "Unlimited" Data Plans · · Score: 1

    ...when they limit the bandwidth. False advertising?

  5. Smart/dumb. Doesn't matter in aggregate on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    It's a feedback loop. Self-correcting, eventually, if we don't all died from climate change.........

  6. Kills mosquitos.... hmmmmm on Power Beaming For UAVs and Space Elevators · · Score: 1

    Just think what a hack it would be to log in and redirect those microwave beams from a few thousand square km of solar cells in space towards people you want cooked... Well Done!

  7. Sounds ideal for a space-based energy weapon! on MIT Produces Electricity Using Thermopower Waves · · Score: 1

    Zap! Like Israel does, only anywhere.

  8. Re:NSA vs. PUBLIC on NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much · · Score: 1

    You're wrong about public key. It may be 0.1% of the traffic because it is so calculation-intensive, but what it transmits are private keys for the remaining 99.9% of traffic.

  9. Re:they aren't very well going to admit defeat. on NSA Still Ahead In Crypto, But Not By Much · · Score: 1

    1. Various encryption schemes often have quirks that reduce the search space enormously. 2. While a single "processor" may take many years, multiple processors and parallel techniques reduce that burden. As well, the silicon/galium-arsenide/dna gets faster each year.

  10. WD has a solution on Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives · · Score: 1
    http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/

    WD Align software aligns partitions on the Advanced Format drive to ensure it provides full performance for certain configurations.

  11. Re:Mixed Tape on The Ultimate Interstellar Valentine Mix Tape · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally, the record was made by scratching.

  12. One solution to pedophiliac acts on Man in Court Over Simpsons Porn · · Score: 1

    Since most children are abused by relatives or friends, children should all be removed at birth from their parents and raised by robots isolated from all human contact.
    Then they will be safe from sexual abuse.

  13. Save megatonnes of CO2 with this - & more! on Sonar Software Detects Laptop User Presence · · Score: 1

    Cool idea! You could save megatonnes of CO2 with this.

    Suggestions:
    1. Allow configuration of "absent time" before darkening screen
    2. Provide link to OS Power settings
    3. Allow configuring (auto/manual) of Hz of sound, from 16khz to system max
    - to avoid any interference from other noise sources
    - for kid/pet preference (BTW, my dog didn't notice - standard poodle)
    4. Provide totals by day/week/... of different activity states.
    5. Show timeline along display box
    5. Allow stretching of display box and scaling of time line

    Ideasfor further investigation:
    a. use stereo speakers to determine how centred the echos are. Consider "absent from
            computer" (vs absent from room) if not both centred and close. You could allow a
            configuration setting for this too - "how centred / how close", e.g., a slider on the
            display screen, to compare with the graphs.
    b. Use different frequencies within speaker/microphone ranges to "fingerprint"a room
    c. Use "fingerprinting" to come to conclusions about what kind of room, e.g., bath stall,
            outdoors, small, large, busy, empty, dimensions- what can you discover
    d. Use 2-speaker sonar to create a crude touch screen. (No 3d mouse since you need a
            plane to localise a point in 3D with only 2 speakers.) Could calibrate like on an old
            palm - push here, showing a X in various places.

    You must have hit the beta-tester jackpot with a Slashdot reference!

  14. Re:Before the arguments start? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1
    Haven't you heard of the Chicago 7? Ball gags really worked to convict them...until the appeal.

    tOM

  15. Re:Before the arguments start? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1
    Perhaps trying to avoid jury nullification/deadlock?

    Can't let a jury of peers make decisions important to the RIAA!

    tOM

  16. Twist locks are much better on Cable Management To Defeat Clutter? · · Score: 1
    Twist locks like http://cableorganizer.com/twist-locks/ with knobby ends are much better for keeping cables together. They are secure, some can be screwed/glued to places, and they are fast to undo to add or subtract cables.

    tOM

  17. Re:Abandon all logic ye who enter here on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1
    That should be self-centred OR irrational....

    tOM

  18. Re:What article? on Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Flash is still 10-20x the price for the same GB. Recent developments have increased max magnetic density 1000x current. While you may be happy with 128GB, think of what you could do with 128TB. Store all your HD movies, lectures, conversations, life. Keep all your web history, including pix and html. And then there's the "killer app" we haven't reached yet...

    tOM

  19. Re: Walk on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    Kegel exercises are more fun when performed with a partner. tOM

  20. You don't need much exercise to stay in shape! on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1
    Are you worried about weight or health?

    For your heart, you need aerobic exercise 20 min/day 5+ days/week. So for lunch, run 20 minutes and eat while working. Or bike. Or climb lots of stairs. Sweat. Give yourself a sponge bath in the handicapped washroom if you have no shower available

    For strength, you need to stress your muscles to the max 3x/week. Look up "body weight exercises" or join a gym or buy some elastic bands you can attach to stationary objects and stuff in your backpack or briefcase for portability.

    But for weight, you just have to eat fewer calories. Switch to more fibre and less fat foods. Eat fruit for snacks, not pop or chips. Eat more vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Trim all fat/skin off your meats. Make eat smaller portions. Stay hungry until your weight is what you want.

    Ideally, do both.

    tOM

  21. Battery life on Lies, Damn Lies, and Battery-Life Statistics · · Score: 1
    It's hard to measure battery life definitively because there are so many ways to use a computer. Online gamers or DVD watchers may get 1 hour while writers offline get 3.

    What I've done with XP is to use SpeedSwitchXP to cut cpuspeed to 60% on battery, turn the screen down lowest, turn off wifi & bluetooth, remove USB keys and any other removable media, set and use BattStat, which allows me to turn off the screen with f8.

    tOM

  22. Re:It requires an iframe, so noscript will help yo on Sniffing Browser History Without Javascript · · Score: 1
    You're right. You can just add the attribute "hidden" and stick it at -9999 and the user won't see it.

    tOM

  23. Re:"functional programming languages can beat C" on World's "Fastest" Small Web Server Released, Based On LISP · · Score: 1
    Oh yeah? OK, invert a matrix in C, and then in APL (or J). Make the C program accept binary, integer, single precision or double precision arrays, real or complex numbers.

    Try programming:
    sin=: 1&o. NB. Function to be approximated
    x=: 5 %~ i. 6
    c=: (sin x) %. x ^/ i.4 NB. Use of matrix divide

    tOM

  24. Re:Not murder on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 1
    If the tech handling the request was in India, what law applies?

    tOM

  25. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1
    But the GPS aerial will likely be put on the roof to "foil" such attempts. You'll just have to cut the wires.

    tOM