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  1. This could be an interesting precedent. on Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness · · Score: 1

    I wonder what would happen if his cousin, who's sensitive to electronic signals emitted by active, electrically unterminated gigabit ethernet cables decides to attend the same school. Or his sister, who's has epileptic photosensitivity at 60hz Or his younger brother who may attend next year but is allergic to asphalt, formaldehyde, pheremones, and can't metabolize sugar.

  2. Re:Eureka! on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 2

    Read again - more temperature means less time. So if there's no lower limit, SSD without power will be best stored at 0 Kelvin

    No I read the article. It's related to electron mobility at the time the data is written. If you heat up the SSD after it's turned off, electron mobility increases and you'll get more leakage. But if you wrote data when it was hot, you have a better signal to noise ratio.

  3. Eureka! on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 0

    So.. It's better to cook my SSD so that it can retain longer at 30 degrees poweroff? Guess i'll mount it to my cpu's heatpipe next time instead of the drive bay with the fans and good airflow, screw common sense! I guess those thermal pads were actually to help keep our nand toasty instead of cooling them after all!

  4. What does this bring to Swatting? on Judicial Committee Approves FBI Plan To Expand Hacking Powers · · Score: 2

    Lets put aside the ethics and legalities of what the FBI is proposing to do. Now it seems like this enables tricksters to engage in much larger scale abuse. Trick the FBI to hack Foreign government networks, infrastructure and companies (and get caught, since they are presumably not currently as good at it as the NSA). After all, they no longer need to do their due dilligence before cracking into aunt Bettie's IoT connected iron lung if her state owned ISP issued her an insecure router. Lets use an exploit to hardware reset that microcontroller, nothing could possibly go wrong, could it?

  5. Re:How is this different? on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 2

    It seems pretty straightforward, they carefully control the amount of oxygen at the bottom of the machine relative to the cross sectional area of the portion being printed so that the rate of polymerisation matches the the volume of plastic being drawn out of the unit. In a normal machine, after you cure a portion, you give it time to cure because throwing more energy at the resin will cause blooming and lack of resolution. This limits the amount cured chemically. Think of it as analagous to magnetic optical recording. Increasing your write current on a normal wite head increases the area written to, but the laser limits the area affected.

  6. Re:Redefine on The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the spirit of GNU, they should just make it Xbmc Based Media Center

  7. Level up the telemarketers on FCC Wants To Trial Shift From Analog Phone Networks To Digital · · Score: 1

    So does this mean that telemarketers will no longer be limited by the number of voice trunks they or their voip provider have access to? Anyone with a cable modem can automate calls to thousands of physical phones per second with the right protocols in place? Sign me up!

  8. Mechanical notch filter? on Engineers Invent Acoustic Equivalent of One-Way Glass · · Score: 3, Interesting

    seems like it only affects sound or wave functions in a specific frequency as determined by the speed of the air movement or electron migration rates or whatnot. Might not be very effective for general sound insulation unless it's fixed frequency, o (or else you'd hear the generated harmonics). Not too different than active noise cancellation.

  9. Re:That is very energy dense on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 1

    I think they mentioned it was half the voltage of LiIon so maybe around 1.8v? Still pretty nice, but we'll see what the charging behavior is like before I get too excited.

  10. A bit of the old and new but NAND? on Ultrasound Waves Used To Increase Data Storage Capacity of Magnetic Media · · Score: 1

    This sounds like MO recording with sound waves instead of a laser. I don't see how this works with NAND flash though. Even if you can increase the number of voltage levels stored on a cell after heating, wouldn't each cell need to be exposed in order for it to be targeted by the ultrasonics?

  11. Re:So really they can barely handle 300 people on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    It's more like a geometric relationship. 100 people in a room, and each action is relayed to 99 other players. 1000 players, the load is 100x as much. If the server could only support 300 players, they would have needed 100x time dilation.

  12. Only way this will work is on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    If someone developed a botnet of proxying servers. As long as users voluntarily install tools that provide proxying services, the responsibility for its use falls on that user. However, if the proxying were the result of an infection by a recognized virus, then there's an argument that the user had no intention or idea that they were proxying material. Not that I'm advocating such an idea, but I believe that if proxied torrents become standard, someone will make such a virus.