The current cheap chinese-made LED lights are amazingly efficient and put out a very good light, but suffer from capacitor plague.
The bathtub failure curve for these is rather steep; I have purchased not fewer than fourteen LED lights to replace halogens in a kitchen installation and had half fail within two weeks. A couple of those exploded when first switched on. The remaining ones have been going solidly for more than a year now.
Upon inspection, there is always a large electrolytic capacitor that has failed. I see them in other places too. Practically anywhere in town that has LED lighting (mostly restaurants for some reason) at least one fixture has the tell-tale dim flickering sign of a failing capacitor.
Put better caps in them, or find a way to do without them entirely, and you would have a very viable Incandescant/CFL replacement.
A remote kill-switch on my mobile communications device is just what I need. While we're at it, I'd like one for my car too. And a remote-detonator for my vault of data backups.
Because of course nobody except me could ever trigger them, could they?
You're joking, right? As another poster has said, anyone with an NFC chip can read those cards.
The PayWave system is also being pushed as a single factor payment system. Did you get that? Single. Factor. Wave your card at a cash register and you've paid for your meal. Or your colleagues.
Erm, banks are issuing cards with 2010's era paywave right now, and it's a major step backwards in security. We've gone from two-factor (swipe and PIN) to single-factor wave. Nothing safe about it.
Exactly. In the Jurassic period, for example, average surface temperatures were almost certainly higher than they are today. Yet the supporters of AGW who complain most about "cherry picking" typically start their graphs and charts after the beginning of the industrial era.
Okay, I don't usually recommend expanding acronyms inline, but here I'm prepared to make an exception...
I have seen some particularly nasty malware hidden in many BIOSes recently. The payload has the effect of preventing you from installing legitimate operating systems on your own computer without first paying large amounts of money to a large extortion group.
Through my research I have managed to trace the perpetrators to Redmond, WA.
I have seen some particularly nasty malware hidden in many BIOSes recently. The payload has the effect of preventing you from installing legitimate operating systems on your own computer without paying large amounts of money to an extortion operation.
So far I have traced the perpetrators as far as Redmond, WA.
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The current cheap chinese-made LED lights are amazingly efficient and put out a very good light, but suffer from capacitor plague.
The bathtub failure curve for these is rather steep; I have purchased not fewer than fourteen LED lights to replace halogens in a kitchen installation and had half fail within two weeks. A couple of those exploded when first switched on. The remaining ones have been going solidly for more than a year now.
Upon inspection, there is always a large electrolytic capacitor that has failed. I see them in other places too. Practically anywhere in town that has LED lighting (mostly restaurants for some reason) at least one fixture has the tell-tale dim flickering sign of a failing capacitor.
Put better caps in them, or find a way to do without them entirely, and you would have a very viable Incandescant/CFL replacement.
That's the best idea I've heard in a while.
Do you not keep any data locally on your phone?
Well, it would be if bitcoins could be mined any more with anything smaller than a supercomputer of ASICs.
There was a time when the idea that the government would capture and store every phone conversation and email of its citizens was paranoid
Although, to be fair, everyone with more intelligence than a tuna casserole knew in the 90's that this was happening.
A remote kill-switch on my mobile communications device is just what I need. While we're at it, I'd like one for my car too. And a remote-detonator for my vault of data backups.
Because of course nobody except me could ever trigger them, could they?
Okay, fair call. My bad - I was targeting the ludicrous tap-to-pay system.
I'm fine with chip+pin, so long as it preserves two-factor authentication.
Different "The Hobbit".
You're joking, right? As another poster has said, anyone with an NFC chip can read those cards.
The PayWave system is also being pushed as a single factor payment system. Did you get that? Single. Factor. Wave your card at a cash register and you've paid for your meal. Or your colleagues.
why are they still issuing cards with 1970's era magstripe technology that is so easily intercepted and stolen?
Do you have shares in a card-chipping business?
To be fair, all the other parties also oppose murder of one kind or another.
Now you can brake like a bus!
Here I was hoping this was going to be about a calendar system to replace davical + lightning, Outlook or Google Calendar.
Not so, it seems...
Erm, banks are issuing cards with 2010's era paywave right now, and it's a major step backwards in security. We've gone from two-factor (swipe and PIN) to single-factor wave. Nothing safe about it.
Betty Brown runs over your garden but Violet Gray won't.
The second part.
Exactly. In the Jurassic period, for example, average surface temperatures were almost certainly higher than they are today. Yet the supporters of AGW who complain most about "cherry picking" typically start their graphs and charts after the beginning of the industrial era.
Okay, I don't usually recommend expanding acronyms inline, but here I'm prepared to make an exception...
Mine won't. And neither will my next car.
Marijuana cures nothing, except perhaps intelligence.
I have seen some particularly nasty malware hidden in many BIOSes recently. The payload has the effect of preventing you from installing legitimate operating systems on your own computer without first paying large amounts of money to a large extortion group.
Through my research I have managed to trace the perpetrators to Redmond, WA.
I have seen some particularly nasty malware hidden in many BIOSes recently. The payload has the effect of preventing you from installing legitimate operating systems on your own computer without paying large amounts of money to an extortion operation.
So far I have traced the perpetrators as far as Redmond, WA.
Utilities often have a local monopoly, so customers can't do a thing if costs are passed to them. Happy or angry customers make no difference to them.
Other companies have some degree of competition, so putting up prices makes them less attractive to their customers, who will shop elsewhere.
You, sir, deserve a +5 Insightful for that comment.
Thank you for that delightful trip back to the year 2000. Tell me, did you warn them?
Especially at 9:26:53am