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  1. HomePower on DIY Solar Resources? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest HomePower Magazine as a resource.

  2. Re:Self damning on City-Provided Wi-Fi Rejected Over "Health Concerns" · · Score: 1
    Note that for VHF, just 50 watts is enough to trigger the requirement.

    I wonder what damage I did to myself running 600 watts output on 2M RTTY back in the late 70's, maybe that explains the testicular cancer a few years ago....

  3. Duh on Identifying Manipulated Images · · Score: 1

    That's how Lieutenant Gaeta cleared Dr. Baltar over the faked photograph.

  4. Horses on A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    I remember a number of years ago when I lived in New Mexico there was an outbreak of Vesicular stomatitis in cattle and horses. A friends horse ranch was quarantined for a while due to several their horses becoming infected.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicular_stomatitis_virus

  5. Re:Assembly isn't obsolete! on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    The summary is incorrect. TFA was actually referring to converting assembly language to binary opcodes by hand, not assembly language programming itself.

  6. Gap? on Online Parent-Child Gap Widens · · Score: 1

    I'm much more worried about a mine-shaft gap.

  7. Napping on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 1

    I like to multitask between doing one job and napping. Any further tasks just confuse me.

  8. Re:I was there.. on Followup On Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    Probably because it was too slow and too limited or because PASCAL programmers just weren't very good since they never learned memory management or pointer arithmetic (see the Java parallels..?). I can never understand why people think Pascal doesn't have pointers, they are in the ISO standard for even the lowest level specification.

  9. Looks like on New ATC System To Rely On AT&T Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    Looks like spying for the NSA paid off. When does the revolution start?

  10. H is for... on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they included the "H is for Homicide" skit from Family Guy?

  11. Those were fun on Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 Application · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Somewhere around 1975 or 1976 I wrote software for a 4004 (using a teletype connected to a modem connected to a mainframe someplace that had the assembler) to run a X-Y table. You would place a wafer with thick-film resistors on it and it would test each one to make sure it was within tolerance and if it wasn't it would mark it with magnetic ink. I think we were probably still using the infamous 1702 EPROMs but there might have been something newer at that time.

  12. Re:The data is out there, electric makes senses on Is the Future of the Electric Car Industry in Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Oregon Trail Electric Consumers Cooperative (Eastern Oregon). Primary source is hydropower. $10 per month plus $0.065 per KWH

  13. Casio fx-115 on The Handheld Calculator Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    I still have the Casio fx-115 scientific calculator I bought like 20 years ago in Innsbruck. Solar Cell powered and still works great, although a bit grungy.

  14. Nothing New on Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved · · Score: 1

    David Letterman had "toxic steam" on his show years ago when he was still on NBC.

  15. Re:"At Least???" on Iran to Filter 'Immoral' Mobile Messages · · Score: 1

    There is more freedom on cable televison (since it isn't actually being broadcast on the public airwaves) but even so most cable channels are frightened to offend the fundies who will complain to the advertisers.

  16. Re:"At Least???" on Iran to Filter 'Immoral' Mobile Messages · · Score: 1
    There is hardly ANYTHING censored in the US

    Except for the unreasonable fear of "dirty words" on broadcast television. I was watching Billy Connolly on broadcast television down in New Zealand a few months ago, totally uncensored. I could just imagine how many millions of dollars of fines that would bring a station in the US.

    PBS had a series recently called "America at a Crossroads" (or something like that) where they actually apologized for censoring our soldier's speach in Iraq, citing the fear of huge fines from the FCC morality police.

  17. I'll take on Python On Planes Supersunday Release · · Score: 1

    Delphi on Drays

  18. Re:They are banned in Britain on Are TV Pharmaceutical Ads Damaging? · · Score: 1

    The US and New Zealand are the only two countries that allow advertising prescription drugs on TV. When I was down in NZ recently there was talk of stopping that practice there.

  19. Justice Thomas on Supreme Court to Rule On 'Obvious' Patents · · Score: 1
    Justice Breyer observed, 'It looks to me at about the same level as I have a sensor on my garage door at the lower hinge ... and the raccoons are eating it. So I think of the brainstorm of putting it on the upper hinge.'"

    Justice Thomas: "What's a hinge?"

  20. Erased it all on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 1

    Going to New Zealand and back so I used "Secure Empty Trash" on my laptop to get rid of all the horse porn, am I safe? :)

  21. Re:Frequency of seismic waves on P2P Hard Disk System Warns of Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Seismic waves range between 40 and 200 Hz.

    No they don't. They are often sampled at those frequencies but the waves themselves are much slower.

  22. New Zealand on Internet Connectivity Outside of the United States · · Score: 1
    The New Zealand telecommunications industry is in the process of being deregulated

    That doesn't sound quite right. Recently the government decided to force Telecom to un-bundle the local loop as a response to poor performance. They may even force Telecom to split into two operations (similar to British Telecom). That sounds more like re-regulation to me.

  23. DX-11 on Macrovision Wants Old DRM to Work Forever · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bought one of (WARNING-POPUP) these http://members.fortunecity.com/videotransfer/# a number of years back for about $30. There are schematics available on the internet for equivalent devices built with half a dozen cheap IC's.

  24. Re:I am Intel of Borg on The Trouble With Rounding Floats · · Score: 1

    There was a much less public fault in some 68882 FPUs from Motorola. Back in the last century we were using VME-147 boards that used a 68030 and 68882. We were running into some problems with floating point calculations giving the wrong result. At first Motorola denied there being a problem but we were able to produce a very simple test program that showed the problem. It turns out one version of the 68882 did have a problem where there was crosstalk between bits on the die. They ended up having to replace lots of VME-147 boards.

  25. On Second Thought on Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room · · Score: 4, Funny

    Forget the party button and the blackjack.