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  1. Who cooks at 800C ? on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 1

    I usually cook at maximum 225C except for thin pizza which likes 250-270C. I canÃt understand what you are supposed to cook at 300C or above. This normal ovens never gets into radiant energy territory.

    What am I missing here?

  2. Re:bfd on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    €35.71/MWh from the generator is not exactly cheap by US experience.

    Only thing I could find on US electricity prices where http://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale_markets.cfm

    What is cheap and what is expensive electricity in the US?

  3. Re:I want my free encryption on Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter? · · Score: 1

    Say you want to check your mail at https://mail.google.com/ - if you do not know if you talk to the entity owning real google.com, then you risk talking to a man in the middle attacker - which may snatch your password pretending to be mail.google.com. So with encryption without identity you end up talking encrypted to anyone wanting to pretend they are mail.google.com.

    Or do you have a solution for preventing man in the middle attacks?

  4. Re:I want my free encryption on Ask Slashdot: Does SSL Validation Matter? · · Score: 2

    I want my free encryption because I don't trust some 3rd party to tell me whether I should trust the web site that I am visiting. Encryption and identity should never have been tied together in the first place. It's unfortunate that this business method has succeeded as long as it has.

    I dont see how you can separate encryption and identity - if you do not know who you are talking to then encryption has no value?

    Lets say a man in the middle says - Im your bank, please talk encrypted with me. Then the man in the middle just repeat what you say to your bank until you are logged in.

    The download certificate on first meet might provide some security, but would make it difficult to do business with unknown entities.

  5. Re:How do people pay eachother? on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    In my world I have to pay about $10 to use a check (not that I used one ever in my entire life).

    Paying by bank to bank or debit card is free.

    What pricing model the future has is not set in stone.

  6. Re:If the legal code is too confusing on Legal Code In a Version Control System? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If programming languages was written in plain words we wouldn't need programmers, but the secret order of computer programmers refuse to do it that way - simple programming is not possible they claim. What they really are afraid of is the fact that normal humans (non programmers) could just diff the text to look for bugs and even make their own software.

    PS! A lot of the people here at slashdot.org are members of this secret order so they will probably mod me down and try to shut me up - BUT justice will prevail.

  7. Re:e-Ink? on OLPC Spinoff Pixel Qi Merges E-ink With LCD · · Score: 1

    You could have e-Ink technology behind the lcd tech. When you turn off the lcd layer you would reveal the e-ink screen.

    e-Ink particles layer -> LIGHT -> lcd layer

    or if you had semitransparent particles:

    BACKLIGHT -> e-Ink particles layer -> lcd layer

    I really cannot see what technology is used from those blurry pictures.

  8. Re:LAfEU as in beer on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    Yes, if EULA = evil then LAfEU = ilfev.

    And ilfev isn't a real word so how could that be evil?

    LAfEU (pronounced life) - License Agreement for End User

  9. Re:Wow, what a prize! on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually they also ask you to tell how you did it. Even though they claim it is not a scam it seems like a scam in the sense that they after this weird experiment have proven that recovery is impossible.

    It is like me setting up a challenge - can ketchup stains be removed from my white t-shirt?

    Send a self-addressed, postage-paid box you pay shipping both ways with packaging material to the address listed below along with a sixty $60 USD deposit United States Postal Service Money Order only and I will mail the t-shirt to you.

    If you can remove the stain you get to keep the t-shirt and I will give you the amazing amount of money $50 and the right to become "official stain remover". Btw, if you can't prove you are a established ketchup removal business - you cannot use water or any other fluid.

    If this challenge is not taken within a year I have the right to tell the world that the worlds dry cleaners can't remove ketchup stains. The whole clothes cleaning industry is a hoax.

  10. Re:Uh, Google has fairly low pay, too. on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    The box that the iPod comes in is obviously more important for Apple than the kernel is for Google. Think that is what the parent poster meant.

    Guys customizing Linux kernels are well sadly easier to find than people designing product packaging well. Ever seen the boxes for a lot of noname products? If Apple had just as ugly box the iPod wouldn't be such a success.

    I which I was designed by Apple in California.

  11. Re:$$$ budget? on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depending on the size of the home he might consider using readers which only covers every door. So the system atleast keeps track of which room contains said item.

    I do not know if this would be cheaper, just a thought.

  12. Re:Ah...That explains... on The Principles of Beautiful Web Design · · Score: 1

    Well, I think you got a god point.

    For a successful musical lead you need a "star" - a master of all crafts.

    There exist some "star" programmer/web designer - and they are very expensive and really only needed in a few settings.

    In my real life the most cost effective solution is have the designer sketch in Photoshop, have a ui person critise his work, take an intern or a student to create css and html, an solution architect create a framework and some programmers to create the solution.

    Ok, a mediocre designer might also be an mediocre programmer and make mediocre websites, but the top notch people rarely are top notch in all professions.

    The webmaster is dead as in a person that is "Jack of all trades, master of none". He is replaced by highly trained professionals and some cheap students.

  13. Re:'Duh' Browser security on Tim Berners-Lee on the Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You must need to know WHO your talking with to create a secure connection.

    It is no point in having a secure connection to a person you do not know who is.

    You cannot know if you are talking to a man in the middle or you are actually talking to the man you want to be communicating with.

    To get the ww2 version of this:

    You got an ubersecure connection with a german spy which got an ubersecure connection to the man you think you are communicating with. Then the german spy can listen in and you nor the person you want to communicate with will know about the spy. All the spy has to do is to relay all information.

  14. Re:Ones and Zeroes on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Funny you mentioned microsoft:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/hero/sfdetails/

    wonder if they licensed the word superheros...

  15. Re:HomeDepot in Canada on Card Processing Software May Store CC Info · · Score: 1

    Or it might be only the transaction number. I have worked with a lot of online payment systems which got this kind of functionality. If a refund is necessary you just use the original transaction code and tell the payment broker to reimburse the credit card. This way you may also know that you never reimburse more than the customer actually paid.

  16. Re:No good games? No problem. on More Classic Games To Hit Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    It's Paperboy were talking about! No gameplay, no gfx, no hype - but it probably got some hypnotic mumbo jumbo in the works - which got everyone hocked. There is no resonable explanation why anyone want to ever play that game again.

  17. Re:final specs on Another Ars Ultimate Budget Box · · Score: 1

    And for Office use you almost double the price with MS-Windows + MS-Office.

    The difference between a DVD burner and a CD reader is about $20 why mention it at all?
    When the article then goes and adds this non essential dvd burner?

  18. Fuel cost is not that expensive on How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs? · · Score: 1

    I would think fuel cost is the least expensive thing about school. Telecommution barely works in a work environment - and now you expect 10 year olds to sit at home in front of their pc.

    My view is that education is not really about learning the most important thing is learning sosial interaction with real people at your own age. Without to sosial interaction school provided me (with real people) I would still be sitting in front of my computer being upset by slashdot articles..

    The view that school is for learning lot of facts is not really a realistic view (in my humble opinion). Retoric: Who makes the most money good scientist or good salesmen?

  19. Re:Freak on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I usually write malicious code for windows during the day.

    It is called having a job and puts food on the table.

  20. Re:Through a non-geeks eyes... on Tech Support Businesses on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Guess they get disappointed when the high tech guy just reformats and install a fresh windows.

    Such tech support usually always has a clause that you (the customer) must backup all data before repair.

  21. Re:These TLD are meaningless on ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to put Canada under US?

  22. Is the server slashdoted? on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    Trying:
    http://print.google.com/

    get me for the last 20 minutes:

    Server Error
    The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.

    Please try again in 30 seconds.

    Or is the service not availible outside US?

  23. IT Doesn't Matter on The Changing Face Of Campus Tech · · Score: 1

    This is a nice situation where we can say that IT doesn't really matter. Since almost all schools have IT.

  24. Re:Pounds, ounces, what...? on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 2

    Or 160 grams as normal metric people can relate to.

  25. This is making plants speakers (not amplifiers) on Using Plants as Speakers · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is clearly stated in the last link:

    "The system, comprising an amplifier, vase and an acrylic resin cylinder, makes flowers' petals and leaves vibrate and transmit sounds, just as the paper cones of stereo speakers vibrate, the two said."

    So the system has an amplifier and the plant has the role of loudspeaker. I was hoping for a powersaving alternative to my amplifier, but I better stick to it a little longer.