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  1. Re:24W for equivalent of 100W light? on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 1

    It depends on CFL - I've seen some year-old CFLs that have been used in sub-zero temperatures ad now take more than 3 minutes to get to full brightness.

    Incandescent bulbs have nice extra feature - they add up to heating in room :)

  2. Re:24W for equivalent of 100W light? on Philips Releases 100W-Equivalent LED Bulb, Runs On Just 23 Watts · · Score: 1

    I've got LG 12W LED that's rated for 3600K, but it's so freaking green and cold.

    So, apparently there is still a problem with making LEDs to produce right colour.

  3. Re:Only the larger ISPs are blocking it, it seems. on Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun · · Score: 1

    So in order for uTorrent to be accounted as evidence you would have to download with certified version? :D

    What country is that? :P

  4. Re:Cm'on on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    That would be just language specifics if used outside it's purpose.

    For generating HTML there is no problems with having leading/trailing spaces, however if your output needs to be strictly formatted, you wouldn't output some unrelated \n just for fun.

  5. Re:Cm'on on Recently Exposed PHP Hole's Official Fix Ineffective · · Score: 1

    Actually it's sane to not put a closing tag, as you might accidentally add newline or space after that, which could in some cases result in invalid response (for example xmlrpc). Especially hard to debug if it's inside some included class and breaks xmlrpc server.

    However the real question is - who runs PHP using CGI mode? It's 21 century.

  6. Re:Floor tiles on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    While on this, let's also replace doors and windows (for defenestration purposes)

  7. Re:already have 23" on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    Next - 19 3/4" racks coming to a data centre next to You.

  8. Re:metric? on Open Compute Developing Wider Rack Standard · · Score: 1

    And on regular human-object level we use metric, which eliminates useless constants and conversions.

  9. Re:Three minutes on British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic · · Score: 2

    There is good way to abuse that.

    #1 Buy an Amazon EC2 instance and set up TBP proxy there.
    #2 Add proxy IP to DNS.
    #3 As soon as provider blocks that IP, just restart it proxy will get different IP.
    #4 Repeat from #2

    If providers are determined to obey censorship, they will end up blocking ranges of Amazon EC2 IP addresses.
    If Amazon gets pissed off and blocks your account, just set up another account.

  10. Re:Three minutes on British Ban Spikes Pirate Bay Traffic · · Score: 1

    Unless you expect a web-server to be also a mail server which is common only for small companies and geeks.

    For webserver all ports except web should be blocked. For sending an email you should look up MX record first.

  11. Re:Vanity Site? on GNU Media Goblin 0.3.0 Released · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Release the drone.... on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    It's possible that there was big red button, that erased original software and leaves trojan.. The one that pretends to do what it's supposed to (with less accuracy), while listening for encrypted commands from US base.

  13. Re:Still waiting .... on Coursera: Dozens of Free, Massive, and Open Online Courses · · Score: 2

    Cryptography is in progress, new videos, homeworks, I can't complain

  14. Re:Some things should probably be left alone on Open Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Unless the transmission locks in gear and the throttle gets stuck. And the cheapass mechanic using it skimped on brakes (possible - they wanted sportiness and handling, who cares about stopping? The brakes are to get into donuts and spinouts).

    A modern car is basically entirely software controlled except for two safety-critical systems - steering and brakes (the software can modulate power going to the brakes (traction control, ABS) and steering, but if it fails, it still works

    Exactly. Car is designed in a way that you can do lots of damage to it, lots of things can break, however you will still get some steering and brakes. As long as this remains (even for electrical brakes that have failsafe load resistor on them) you are safe in case something breaks.

  15. Re:A true story on Operators: Nokia Would Sell Better With Android · · Score: 1

    Sure, just wait 3 years for SP2 and you'll get stable phone.
    Or in 1 year you'll get more or less acceptable stability with SP1.

  16. Re:a clarification on Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver Published · · Score: 1

    While in other countries it's specifically allowed to do for compatibility, even if your licence forbids to (basically the point in license is illegal and ineffective).

  17. Re:My RNG algorithm... on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 2

    As the rest of variables are known for each individual point in time, your choice is limited by 1/10 preference of dog (your precision to measure percentage in page is cancelled out by fact that dog probably has some favourite toys is probably ).

    Given call centre with 50 employees I could constantly dial to the numbers you have chance to choose and ask if you have called and what number have the person told you. That would give 2/3 advantage to find out the number (If the person would lie, or hangup, he probably wouldn't told you the number in first place).

    So, that's not random

  18. Re:Twitter Feeds on Quantum Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    That would be predictable generator, as access to source code and algorithms would allow you to do the same calculations and predict random numbers generated by it.

  19. Re:uh oh... cue the aspect ratio people.. on 1366x768 Monitors Top 1024x768 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    16:9 users are also screwed by salesman's, as the overall area is less than 16:10 which is less than 3:4.

    Next they are going to sell 2.39:1 and then 1920:1 with all pixels in single row. So instead of current cut of 30" 1920x1080 they'll sell a thousand of 16" displays.

  20. Re:Quantum Internet on The First Universal Quantum Network · · Score: 1

    However, since I was unable to predict what state the particle will be in when it is changed, the other side cannot tell if the change was due to transmission or just some random event. Thus, your message arrives faster than light, but no one can read it, or even realize that there even was a message sent to begin with.

    If the state changes are truly random, you can work by detecting non-random anomalies in state, and build an information transmission scheme around it.

  21. Re:minor issues on 11-lb Robot Can Jump 30 Feet Into the Air · · Score: 1

    Except, it can't jump back out through the window.. Who needs a robot that can't even do self-defenestration?

  22. Re:I liked the old fullsize sims better on Apple vs. Nokia, RIM and Motorola On Nano-SIM Standard · · Score: 1

    As long as they keep compatibility by being able to pop it out, we'll be happy to play Matryoshkas with them:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Telia_micro_SIM_with_brackets.jpg

  23. Re:Wrong units... on Garden Gnome Tests Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Calibration mass would be susceptible to wear and degradation, so true high-precision scales should measure local gravity by using tangent galvanometer

  24. Re:Hydrogen centralizes the pollution for remediat on The Mercedes-Benz 'Cloaking Device' · · Score: 0

    Whoops, your old battery appears to be out-of-life and needs replacement.
    That would be $2000 and you'll also need to pay another $500 for disposing of hazardous chemicals.

  25. Re:Thermodynamics on The Mercedes-Benz 'Cloaking Device' · · Score: 1

    What's non-bio about dino-waste?