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  1. Re:Oh Great on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Now everything I own, from my Star Wars light saber to my Krusty the Klown glow-in-the-dark alarm clock, could potentially with wireless signal. Oy carumba

    That's actually been a documented problem in some devices with status LEDs, which inadvertently leaked information due to being tied directly to the (serial) data line, rather than a low-pass filtered version of it.

  2. Re:Just different ones on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's why we should just skip LED's and go straight to lasers.

    NOW I know why the sharks have their lasers... it's for communications!

  3. Re:If you want the signal to go through walls... on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1

    The Fraunhofer Institute also has an audio-frequency wireless solution that will go through walls, with the proper amplification.

    Very high bandwidth, it conveys a lot of information, especially in thin-walled multiple dwelling buildings.

    Unfortunately the teenagers who drive down the street at night also have this technology, though there's about zero information content to the "boom boom boom" sound it makes. It certainly penetrates walls, thick or thin, and is definitely audible.

  4. Waiting for multitasking on Apple Blocking iPhone Security Software · · Score: 2

    Apple is probably waiting until they implement multitasking in the next OS, so that they can have Kaspersky's software constantly running in the background constantly using 50% of the CPU to block malware.

  5. Re:Show me the receptors on Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein ... and Now Fat · · Score: 1

    Oh come on, that's ridiculous. Like when I'm reading your post, you're telling me I don't have a special receptor in my eyes for reading the word Mindcontrolled, and another one for the word Just? No way I can see all those different words with just a few kinds of receptors. Same with the tongue, obviously. If they could detect this fat, there must be a fat detector.

  6. Re:False analogy. on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    If I were teaching a class, I'd sure want to know that at least some of the students were benefiting and enjoying it. Otherwise I'd just feel it was wasted time, regardless of my salary.

  7. Re:IS there a link to the study? on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 1

    I recently did a survey of people from around the world, and found that in places where there were TVs, there was almost always electricity. So I'm publishing my preliminary result: TVs generate electricity! It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that they are the cause of electricity in all these places.

  8. Re:Glad on NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe as compensation they can send a T-shirt that says "NewEgg sent me a counterfeit Intel processor and all I got was this stupid T-shirt".

  9. Re:NewEgg handled it well, on NewEgg Confirms Shipping Fake Core i7s · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hell, I've never ordered from NewEgg, but they're the first place I go for reviews, and to leave my own reviews of products. I haven't found any other "review" site that isn't mostly ad-laden crap and pages with the title "Reviews of ", only to be empty and say "Be the first to review !".

  10. Aha, it's an ad for Panda software on HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Following the linked article, and following that to the original post, we find that first off, it's a single phone, not more than one that had this malware, and we are informed of the software that detected this, coincidentally the commercial product the researchers are working on:

    The interesting thing is that when she plugged the phone to her PC via USB her Panda Cloud Antivirus went off, detecting both an autorun.inf and autorun.exe as malicious

    I'm rushing out today to buy this software that can do such feats as detecting this malware. They have a Linux version, right?

  11. Re:You know Android has hit the big leagues on HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it says phones. No way the headline and summary would be referring to just one phone like that. No way at all.

  12. Samsung monitor model number decoding? on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    On this topic, has anyone ever figured out any pattern to Samsung's computer monitor model numbers? They have a large number of them but I've never made much sense of all the numbers or suffixes, beyond the first two digits sometimes being the diagonal in inches.

    Here are a few from my list of those that are 1680x1050:

    206BW
    2032NW
    2043WM
    2043BW
    2043EW
    2043FW
    2043NW
    2043BWX

    226BW
    T220HD
    2253LW
    2253BW
    220WM
    225BW
    2243BWX
    2220WM
    2243BWT
    216BW
    2243WM
    225UW
    2233RZ

  13. Re:Always worried about reporting. on Serious Apache Exploit Discovered · · Score: 1

    This just eliminates one less thing for a hacker to figure out.

    Ummm, so it means the hacker has one more thing to figure out? I'm confused.

  14. Re:It's unanimous! on Serious Apache Exploit Discovered · · Score: 1

    7 out of the first 8 posts agree that this is Windows only.

    Is the 8th one running Wine or something?

  15. *Almost* universal key on Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors · · Score: 1

    Ironically, this universal key will never unlock an iPhone.

  16. Re:Software?! on Energizer USB Battery Charger Software Infects PCs · · Score: 1

    But how does Energizer feel now, with egg on their faces?

    Only appropriate, given that their mascot is a bunny.

  17. Ditch typing and go voice on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go voice, you won't regret it. Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all.

  18. Re:BS on Why Broadband In North America Is Not That Slow · · Score: 1

    In Texas, Grande's lowest speed service is advertised as 384k/128k, yet speed tests and docsdiag shows that it's really 450k/196k:

    QoS max downstream bandwidth = 450000 bps
    QoS max upstream bandwidth = 196000 bps

  19. Re:Car analogy! on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    Warning: Professional Car Analogists on a closed discussion thread. Do not attempt.

  20. Re:Breakthroughs on Popular Science Frees Its 137-Year Archives · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just my browser, but I tried a few of those links and they don't go to articles about what is mentioned. One was about preventing your car from rusting, and another about cars too. Oh well.

  21. Re:Not buying Neweggs explanation on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it makes perfect sense. Just yesterday, a cashier stopped me and called the police, claiming I was using counterfeit money. "No, no" I said, "I just mistakenly gave you some demo money. Haven't you ever heard of demo money? It looks almost exactly like the real thing, and used for demonstrations." Unfortunately the police didn't believe me either.

  22. Re:Really? on Why Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality · · Score: 1

    Articles written by experienced people with a wide array of skills are stronger than those written by novices? Never could have guessed.

    That's the beauty of data mining; you can find things out that would have otherwise been totally unknown. TFA states that they will next be applying these techniques to determine whether water is wet...

  23. Re:What's the problem? on Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion · · Score: 1

    I can just see the review now... "I played the demo, and while it was fun at first, it quickly became tedious. It was almost as if the game itself was changing to become less fun. A few days later the game itself started crashing at startup. Definitely avoid."

  24. Re:How appropriate... on Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? · · Score: 1

    "Tumbleweed" is a perfect description of what will be left of the space program after the current administration is done with it!

    Thus setting the perfect stage for an old-west style shootout... on Mars!

  25. OT: "fast performance" is redundant on Wear Leveling, RAID Can Wipe Out SSD Advantage · · Score: 1

    wear leveling can eat up most of a drive's bandwidth and make write performance no faster than a hard drive

    It's not the performance that's no faster, it's the writing. So he should either say "...and make writes no faster than a hard drive's" or "...and make write performance no better than a hard drive's". Whenever I read this kind of redundancy, I can't help but imagine the author having trouble with indirection in a programming language, writing things like foo_ptr > *bar_ptr.