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  1. Re:LOLWUT? on Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times · · Score: 1

    So, when you have someone you wish to track, you take their MAC address and run it through the one-way hash. Boom, tracking acquired!

  2. Re:Very nice on PressureNET 2.1 Released: the Distributed Barometer Network For Android · · Score: 1

    WOAH. Are you serious about the tethered helium balloon?

    I HAVE to try this. I shall be angry if I discover I've been trolled :)

  3. Re:How to easily add HTTPS to a website? on HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard · · Score: 1

    You gotta be kidding, if one of my vendor's gave me their root certificate to install on my machine, so I could securely connect to their site, I'd tell them to take a flying leap and get a real certificate. If I'm understanding right, your friend now has the ability to MITM his customers' SSL connections. We can argue about whether the root certificates preinstalled can be trusted, but I'm confident they're safer than the local Dunder Mifflin.

  4. Don't make the engines rotate... on Funky Flying Wing Rotates 90 Degrees To Go Supersonic · · Score: 1

    Use normal ol' turbo-fans built into the longer wings for take off and landing in the "wide" orientation.

    Then, once at about Mach .9 or so, you spin into the "narrow" orientation, where Ramjets built into the shorter wings take over and accelerate the whole mess to Mach 3, 4, 5, 6...

  5. Re:I've got a name for it on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 1

    Pacifists were reported to be protesting the product, but the White House insists its intention is to reduce blood shed...

  6. Re:*Still A Happy, Paying EC2 Customer* on Amazon Outage Shows Limits of Failover 'Zones' · · Score: 1

    I'd give you the good rating. You used the service in a sane manner that exploited the strengths of the system and avoided the weaknesses.

    I suspect many users of EC2 actually end up with less reliability than they'd get with a server in a closet, as they don't realize the true effort it takes to have an effective solution like you do.

  7. Re:have your own servers on Amazon Outage Shows Limits of Failover 'Zones' · · Score: 2

    Reddit's downtime has been a bit of a running joke for a while now, which most (all?) of it being blamed on Amazon.

    The way they implemented things is one of the big issues. For example, things like setting up RAID volumes across multiple EBS volumes. They just magnified their exposure to any issues in the cloud. Any one machine goes down the system gets hosed and needs recovery. They also are constrained to a single availability zone in order to get the performance they need from their setup. (This is not intended to be a factual statement. ie, I didn't confirm the details, but I believe it captures the essence of the issue.)

    To get the most from the "cloud" you need to build your infrastructure accordingly. You can't take old systems and throw them in the cloud and expect it to scale. Neither can you take all the old ideas, new tools will require new techniques which the industry will learn as things mature.

  8. Re:sounds like TWCs DNS servers on Amazon Outage Shows Limits of Failover 'Zones' · · Score: 2

    Typically your computer asks your firewall/router for a DNS lookup. It relays that to your ISP's DNS server. Your ISP looks up the DNS server responsible for the domain and contacts that server and sends your original request. That request doesn't include your IP however, so Akamai's DNS servers are returning regional specific servers based on your ISP's DNS server IP/geo-location. That's usually perfectly acceptable, since presumably your ISP's DNS server would be located on a good route with a low ping.

    So if you replace your ISP's DNS server with those of OpenDNS, google or whatever else, it is that server which determines your location when Akamai's DNS servers decide which IPs to give you.

    You should be able to replace your DNS server with your own locally hosted one as well. ie, you contact the root-servers, hunt down the responsible server, then contact it directly for the IP. I'm not sure what the implications of that is though. The intent of the typical setup is that the ISP DNS servers can cache things and reduce the load on the central root servers.

  9. Re:So thin you could break it in half... on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    If 50% more battery life only adds 10% to the overall weight, the current battery must be less than 20% of the iPad 2's overall weight. I kinda doubt that, though I could be wrong.

  10. Re:Call me paranoid... on Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Leave it with Skype if your time has ANY value whatsoever....

    I love VOIP stuff, but it can be a real time waster, especially if you enjoy these tinkering with these kinds of things :)

  11. Re:$.60 is more than enough to cover electricity on Inside the Mechanical Turk Sweatshop · · Score: 1

    Plus, that's only if you're actually paying for power.

    Not many in India do... http://www.travel-images.com/pht/india128.jpg

  12. Re:One guess why on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how that has anything to do with it.

    They've never blinked selling your hypothetical CPU as a 4-core CPU, not should they. They never had a problem selling a CPU with a lower rated MHz rating either, should that copy not perform stable at higher speeds.

  13. Re:How much juice was left? on Solar Plane Completes 24-Hour Flight · · Score: 1

    Be impressed, what you said is basically what this flight set out to, and did, prove.

  14. Re:Cases on Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem · · Score: 1

    The metal plates are not the antenna, the black lines are...

    Bzzzzttt, wrong.

    The metal plates *are* the antenna, the black lines are what separate one antenna from the next. The magic finger works by connecting the two antennas when placed over the black line.

  15. Re:Crank it to 11 on Knuth Got It Wrong · · Score: 1, Redundant

    There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't...

  16. Re:Impressive on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure, maybe he is wrong, but you're a bit of a douche for calling him an idiot for merely suggesting the possibility.

    Re-read your first post, based on that it's a perfectly legitimate suggestion.

    I think you should apologize and thank him for caring enough to reply to your post.

    Hug it out you guys.

  17. Re:Clever, but he has a lot of work ahead of him on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    Hey, what if that bottom shaft was connected to a motor tough enough to be the starter?

    Lock the output shaft, spin the bottom shaft, me would think that would spin the motor. Taking the car out of park means unlocking the output shaft.

    Though if the torque can't go one direction, could it go the other? Probably right? Too tired to think through. :)

  18. Re:Oh good, another scary number on Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer · · Score: 1

    I was wondering about that. 10,000 individual mutations is not so bad like you said, chances are a lot of those cells would die off.

    But if that 10,000 number refers to the number of mutations they could find today, ie, mutations that survived and live on in patches of your lung tissue right now, that is a different story.

  19. Re:Two preventable cancers on Scientists Crack 'Entire Genetic Code' of Cancer · · Score: 1

    I do not see the difference between these cancers and any others. There is no preventable and unpreventable class system.

    Whether the mutations occurred as a result of cigarette smoke, sunlight, red meat, physical damage (think asbestos) or just some other chance event, cancer is cancer is cancer for the most part.

    Maybe they can build

  20. Re:Why are manhole covers round? on How Do I Get Open Source Programs Written For Me? · · Score: 1

    A round cover can never fall into the manhole, a square one I imagine could...

  21. Re:rev (uniq too) on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Instead of "sort | uniq" you could simply use "sort -u"

  22. Re:Legality? on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    Don't bother re-applying the thermal paste, it won't make a difference.

    Just up the fan RPM and call it a day.

  23. Simply Awesome on smcFanControl — Cool Your MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Since I picked up a Macbook Pro a couple weeks ago, the heat issue drove me NUTS. But I held out knowing that something like this was bound to come up sooner or later, and voila, here it is.

    I've set the minimum RPM to 2000, and it's simply amazing the difference it's made, the area above the function keys is now just warm, instead of "burn-your-finger-instantly-hot"

    It now feels like the quality laptop I expected for $2k...

  24. Re:Quality TV will diminish? Huh? on The Mythbusters Answer Your Questions · · Score: 2, Funny
    Maybe Immortality if we ever get around to it... Things that would actually make a friggin difference to our lives rather than watching a TV screen to pass time in our wasted lives from conception to death.


    So you're gonna make us immortal, and then make us live forever without TV? You cruel cruel psychopath!!!
  25. Re:Bluetooth on Why the Rokr Phone Is An Important Failure · · Score: 1

    Treo's are great, but they're POS's. We've got only 4 treo's at my job, but there's always at least 1 person w/o, because it's broken or we're waiting for a warranty replacement.

    Average they've lasted for us is around 4-6 months before needing replacement. There are some do it yourself solutions to help the Treo pains, but you feel dirty and ripped off having to do that to your high priced devices.