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  1. Lasers meet Quantum Tunnel on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    So,
    take two flat single isomer cristals of a few attoms thick.
    on to each add a uniform raised matrix to each (like an egg box).
    position so that the gap between the raised points is correct for tunneling (given the correct potential).
    provide a even potential between the two crisyals to cause all points tunnel at the sametime (this is the laser bit).
    this should cool one side and heat up the other.

    repeat until cold enough

  2. The company's breakthrough is on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    To make it efficient? and controlable.
    The main problem i see is in the transit of the electrons/energy across several atoms etc...

  3. Quantum Tunnel in reverse? on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Can someone please explain how you Quantum Tunnel in reverse, do the electrons magically get sucked in a shell or something.
    And for that matter how you do Quantum Tunneling that results in a -ve gradent less than the energy used to tunnel the electrons in the first place. i.e. More heat is produced tunneling than tunneling looses.

  4. Great for the Arprotek e-Cube/gBox on Ultra Efficient Chip Cooling Passes Boeing Tests · · Score: 1

    Shoud be able to keep this little puppy cool

  5. Re:Hmmm on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 1
  6. less than a dozen monitors that can... on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well from reading a few artivles about needing more than 8bit per channel, its all down to bleading.
    It's a bit like using 24bit sound recordings to mix and then downsampling them to 16bit.

  7. Hmmm on Matrox Parhelia 512 Preview · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good job my pc Blew up the other day, I now have a great excuse to upgrade..

    Or more seriously, I wanted to upgrade before (from my G400) but GForce / ATI have poor 2D performance and some bad filters on there cards which require a bit of hacking to sortish out, and Matrox didn't have a viable home/gamer solution, sure there 10bit medical cards look nice, but not quite for me.

    The only problems i have had in the past with matrox cards are,
    Poor OpenGL support, though the drivers seemed to have been fixed as of Feb this year.
    There Linux support is a little, well patchy. they do provide drivers, but there only half open and a bit of a pain to get working corretly, some of the problems may have been down to old X4 versions though.

    Well I'll Buy one in the next couple of months and try to post a more informed comment!!

  8. Re:what % of criminals are going to on Smart Cards Vulnerable to Photo-Flash Attacks? · · Score: 1

    I was mearly suggesting that there criminals and could do if they wanted to. People have there identity taken by somone else every day.

  9. Cool on Arprotek e-Cube/gBox Barebones Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    With somthing that small, it shouldn't be to hard to find enough liquid nitrogen to dunk it in. And all the vapor would breing great atmosphere to the games.

  10. what % of criminals are going to on Smart Cards Vulnerable to Photo-Flash Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Let me think,
    The US Government,
    The UK Government,
    The French Government,
    THe Canadian Government,
    The Japaniese Government
    need i continue
    oh and of-course Microsoft.

  11. Re:WTF???? on Microsoft's Goal, Security Through Obscurity? · · Score: 1

    Loads of ways to un-install activex controls,
    regsvr32 was kinda designed to do this and can be run from the command line
    The list of registered activex controles is stored in the registry (funny enough) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
    mor or less all those larlar.ralral entries are OLE (activeX) components,
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsID lists there GUIDS (global unique identifiers).

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\licenses holds licence info (search on the internet for this key if you're missing active X licences!)

    That'll do for now, have fun and be carefull!!!!

  12. Copyright on Wrangling Over Proposed Privacy Laws Continues · · Score: 1

    dosn't the copyright on information disclosed by an individual belong to that individual. So this bill is a pro piricy bill, to bad we ain't the RIAA.

  13. Me and my dog. on Why Hal Will Never Exist · · Score: 1

    I comunicate with my dog both visuialy and verbaly, it works quite well (usually in favour of my dog).
    Basicly if the computer is my Dog then why not treat it like a dog.

  14. IQ C on Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Not meaning to be rude to your co-worker but, the lights are on and no-ones home, prohaps it's a good time for mass demotion of people who are still to ummm.... stupid to understand.

  15. An ELUA that forces open source drivers on MS Judge to Allow Demonstration of Modular Windows · · Score: 1

    What would prevent Windows only hardware,(one of the big obsticals that alternitive systems have), would be require that there ELUA for the DDK states 'All derived works must be open source etc...'

  16. Re:Heroin? on Sewage To Be Turned Into H · · Score: 1

    Cheers for the overrated, It looks like someone didn't read the main story which was about turning, waste(shit) into H(Heroin).
    If you're a dealer who dosn't sell shit then drop me a line.

  17. Source Code on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    He made a far worse error than suggesting KDE or Gnome were an operting system component.

    KDE and Gnome come with source-code, so you CAN remove/ re-write, substiture etc... the web browser or any other componenets

  18. Re:How i gave away my credit card details. on Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card · · Score: 1

    Yep, anything that can recieve TV signals.

  19. Re:How i gave away my credit card details. on Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card · · Score: 1

    OK, you can have a satalite disk, but don't have to pay for any services, i.e. you can opt-out.

    everytime you buy a can of coke etc.... you are indirectly paying for advertising this is a non-optout non subscription service, even if you don't have a TV

    I prefer direct payment.

  20. Re:How i gave away my credit card details. on Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card · · Score: 1

    The general point is, I'm a fairly cautios person, I always ask the police for ID, throw away all those 'You have won £30,000', all you have to do is sent £10 to claim you prise junk mail letters etc... It was only the aggressive nature of the caller that made me susspitious, basicly you can
    get anyones credit card details,
    Pick a number from the phone book,
    Just phone up the TV licensing people, and enquire about 'your' license,
    If it's about to run out etc... then
    Phone the number in the phone book,
    tell them there TV licence has expired,
    Take there details,
    Pass them onto the TV licensing people (so that they think evrything is ok).
    And use there credit card details for making calls to phone sex lines, or whatever.

  21. How i gave away my credit card details. on Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had a call the other day, from someone the BBC T.V. licensing department; or so I thought.(The BBC is a non-optout subscription service)

    The caller said that I hadn't paid my licence for the year, and asked if I would like to.

    Being a bit crap with bill payments I found this quite handy, I searched around for my credit card, but couldn't find it, so,

    I told the caller that, "I couldn't find my card and would I be able to pay over the phone tomorrow". She said that, "they were open tomorrow", but expressed great concern, because they were, "checking licences in the area", so I had another look for my credit card and found it, gave the caller my details.

    A few days later the T.V. licence arrived,
    I have cancelled my credit card because I couldn't be sure if the caller really from the BBC, if so they've started demanding money with menaces.

  22. Re:Heroin? on Sewage To Be Turned Into H · · Score: -1

    But all you got was shit

  23. Re:Great idea! on Fighting Back Against EULAs · · Score: 1

    People download and run windows patches everyday, and they don't even come with the source code.

  24. Re:Don't try this at home. on Fighting Back Against EULAs · · Score: 1

    You could do that if you wanted to, and if the mortgage etc.. company didn't turn down your revised contract then they would be obliged by it. Just because someone give you a piece of paper to sign dosn't mean that you can't make your ammendments to it before signing(so long as you inform them)

  25. A more generic solution on Fighting Back Against EULAs · · Score: 1

    Do somthing like a findwindowa looking for windows with the title Agree , or I Agree and send a wm_click. You could then honestly say you didn't click anything.

    A rozor blade is good for removing security (if you break this then a EULA applies/ your warenty is void) stickers.

    All of this may violate the DMCA, in that copy protection (the EULA) is removed/by passed.