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  1. Re:BIOS Attacks on Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd swap out the keyboards as well. Just sayin'

  2. BIOS Attacks on Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment · · Score: 4, Informative

    Plug in UEFI bootable USB stick.
    Turn off
    Turn on
    Keylogger and remote backdoor installed.

    So those machines are toast. He needs new ones.

  3. Re:Ring of Fire on Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' · · Score: 1

    Because they think they can get paid before the subduction zone stops subducting.

  4. Re:It's definitely a problem here on DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security · · Score: 1

    >at local DHS field offices in over 60 locations across the country

    Stretching far afield to places like Virginia and Maryland.

  5. Re:1% on IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' · · Score: 1

    My thoughts we that doing two divisions might work for a single case, but it isn't really scalable in this age of nosql and hadoop clusters.

    Why not count up two counters +1 +2 (for the threes case) and +1 +1 +1 +2? Count up the smaller of the two counters until it passes the other. If you miss a value, print it out, fizz on the one counter and buzz on the other.

    Instead of demanding the user enters numbers, it tells the user which numbers will work.

    Scalable and parallelizable. With some thought, you could make it thread safe also. No divisions required.

  6. Re:areas of specialization on IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' · · Score: 1

    I most regularly write in Python and System Verilog. I mix basic operators up all the time. After two weeks of vacation, I'm probably worse off than normal. It doesn't take long to type 'python operators' into Google.

    But ask me about cryptography and I can bore you to tears with unnecessary details. The concepts are qualitatively different to the names of primitive operators in programming languages.

  7. Re:Keep that poison away from us. on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 1

    >No wonder people are obese, sick and have cancer. GM is poison.

    Don't look to the micro-nutrients first. Start with the macro-nutrients. We eat a lot more of them.
    Try sugar, wheat and weird fats that didn't exist before 1970 for starters.

  8. Re:Trust us.... on China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn · · Score: 1

    >Drugs are specifically designed to interrupt or change normal metabolic pathways and processes, whereas food is not.

    All foods affect metabolic pathways. Try eating a few slices of bread and see what happens to your insulin, blood glucose and LPL receptor expression.
    Try eating lots of broccolli and see how your thyroid hormones react.

    As xkcd probably said, we are all big bags of chemical reactions and we throw other chemicals in our gobs to keep the reactions going. Don't think there is a magic division between drugs and food where food is inert and drugs aren't.

  9. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    Fraction of a cent? I travel. Using local SIMs saves me far more than the full price cost of the phones.

    European law requires the SIMs as a condition of using the GSM, 3G and LTE spectrum, or at least it did the last time I checked. So unless the US invades Europe, I don't think they are going away.

  10. Re:Also, would never work for European market. on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    I live in the USA and I'm in the UK right now, using a local SIM. If you don't offer than capability, you've shrunk your market to only the people who don't travel (hint:not the ones who tend to buy the fanciest phones).

  11. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards · · Score: 1

    Yup. I will never be a customer for a phone that doesn't let me use the SIM of my own choosing.

  12. Re:Why under the sea? on New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding · · Score: 2

    Haven't you seen it? It's huge.

    There are more jumpers are the Finnish end though.

  13. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    Yup. Lead acids can be optimized for different types of load.

  14. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    45.83W for a day is 45.8333.. Joules * seconds in a day. = 45.8333.. * 24 * 60 * 60 = 3,960,000 Joules.

    You're off by a factor of 1000

  15. Re:Women in IT on Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper · · Score: 1

    >(It's a joke! Claim down.)

    I claim up. It's higher.

  16. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    Small ones are affected more than big ones. A classic case is motorcycles with an added aftermarket alarm/disabler. The trickle draw dramatically shortens the life of the battery. Car's were not affected so much, but with increasing draw, the batteries have to be increased in size not only for capacity as for robustness in the face of trickle current.

    I can't be arsed to go googling for real data, but when I was designing cell tower backup systems (a former life before I got dragged into cryptography), the load/reliability data came with the batteries.

  17. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    And a nice strong light in the ceiling of the garage to power the solar cells.

  18. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    Lead Acid batteries hate trickle current.

    Devices that use it (clock, alarm, remote opener etc) should have a secondary battery that is OK with trickle current and recharges using an occasional a burst from the main battery. This would cost a few extra cents, so instead they just do it stupid way on most cars.

  19. Re:$80k car, $10 cutoff switch? on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    Yes. Well predicated.

  20. Re:$80k car, $10 cutoff switch? on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 1

    >*should* fail-safe to the open position.

    Not in my first MX5. It failed down.

    My second MX5 and my first 350Z both solved this problem by not having retractable lights.

  21. Re:Compass on Cassini Gets Amazing Views of Saturn's Hexagon · · Score: 1

    My coffee milk frother does this. It's not that unique.
     

  22. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For 45W? That's a lot of watts for a 15mA receiver.

     

  23. Re:And, Folks, stay tuned.. on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 2

    No, that 1100w per day. That would be an increasing rate of power draw.

    1100Wh per day. So a draw of 1100/24 W = 45.83W.

  24. In Other News on Tesla Model S Battery Drain Issue Fixed · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 12V battery of a family member's Honda Civic didn't just draw more current than intended. It failed completely! The car could not start! The whole battery had to be replaced at cost to the owner and the Honda CEO was nowhere to be seen.

  25. Re:Already does. on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    You still need engineers to design phones and door locks and bridges and stuff. There are plenty of more constructive things to be getting on with.