By the way, the article body is misleading... that water wasn't BOILING, it was EVAPORATING. Quite fast, agreed, but I doubt he could make water actually boil in a small tin can placed on the heatsink. And by how "fast" he got his hands out of the way from the heatsink before the egg experiment, if that sink would have been at over 100 celsius, he would have at least second degree burns on his fingers (he didn't even seem to get first degree burns by the way).
All in all, I'd have to say, that heatsink musthave been somewhere in the vicinity of 80-85 degrees Celsius (~180 F)... and the chip underneath probably at around 90-95 Celsius. Heck, that's what, proper cofee-serving temperature ? Heh.
Egg white coagulates between 144 degrees F and 149 degrees F, and the yolk between 149 degrees F and 158 degrees F. That's around 65 and 71 Celsius.
Having a PC heatsink at over 75 Celsius ain't that much of a big deal, why would an X-Box be any different ? If the temperature of an object you come into contact with is 149 degrees Fahrenheit, it would take about 2 seconds to cause a third degree burn... that's about as much as you'd need to start "cooking" the eggs too.
Heh, while some people actually spend money to CURE people of paranoia, it would be (at least) useful to have paranoia CLASSES thought as part of any "PC operator" course;)
As a side-note, they could also blackmail the users to TELL their employers they were stupid enough to let a keylogger software get installed on their computer (worse if the user did this at the office computer).
I don't know about you, but when I see somebody write "eyepod" or not know what "M$" means, that's a good sign of "fails the test of geekdom miserably".
Justice might be blind, but it can recognize a banknote by touch, apparently... that's the news, I guess.
"life in prison would have been to harsh, let's give him 12 years instead". Whoa, that kind of thing would have never happened to, say a petty thief that stole some food to feed his family (instead of, I don't know, robbing somebody at knife-point or worse), now would it ?
Let's put it this way... the car I'm driving (Dacia 1300, Romanian-made, from 1979) doesn't have a single airbag, crashing it in a wall frontally at 50km/h would almost certainly be lethal with or without safety belt, and so on. I never use it for longer drives, almost exclusively drive it inside the city or close by.
I know one thing for certain... if homehow "manage" to crash in it, I'll most probably die either way.
Before you even ask, yes, such cars are legally allowed to drive here in Romania. And yes, you are SAFER *without* the "safety belt" on, in this type of car. AND there's tens of THOUSANDS (if not hundreds of thousands) still in circulation in Romania.
Well, depends... if in his country (I suppose the USA) they don't HAVE to wear the seatbelt, it would be a good analogy. Quite frankly I hate having to wear it myself, but it's the law here, so... no choice.
In other news, European Union representatives claim they will no longer automatically accept political refugees from the former US of A, on the grounds that "the French hate them too much already". A triage process that will include the stereotype pannel of one Frenchman, one Brit and one German asking the typical "oh no, yet another American" questions will separate those that can file for refugee status from the ones forwarded to India instead. [/sarcasm]
"Possibly the only part of democracy they want to keep is the appearance that the populace have any influence in government."
Excuse me, but since WHEN did "the people" have ANYTHING to say in any government of a "large" country, ever ? Even today, the most self-acclaimed democracy (USA) is NOT a "democracy" at all, but a democratic REPUBLIC. The difference, ever so subtle, is that "the people" can only "elect" those they want to SPEAK FOR THEM, instead of speaking for themselves.
So the more you keep the façade of "democracy", the better it seems to be for the people. In reality, democracy is a critically flawed concept, even more flawed as communism (and we all know how that ended).
The only true freedom is anarchy, and nobody really wants that. There is no freedom, there is only the ILLUSION of freedom. And as long as that holds, nobody really complains.
Ah, so nice to see that even if Soviet Russia (apparently) failed miserably, its ideas live on strong and spread to its former enemies. Heck, I thought Romania was so-so ok under Communism as long as you kept your mouth shut (hey, I was 12 years old at the time, so what did I know), apparently now USA is heading the same way. Slowly, but surely. And they have the guts to "condemn" China for the "great internet firewall" ? Talk about hypocrisy.
Just goes to show, in all human forms of gov't, whoever HAS the power is the one least worthy to HAVE it in the first place.
So what DO you solve anyway by building a "better voting machine" ? You still have the problems of a "democratic republic" election system in place, so basically you get to pick between the lesser of two evils, if you're lucky.
For what it's worth, you could just as well FLIP A DAMN COIN when you elect the president, the end result would be about the same.
Ok, I thought I knew a thing or two about English in general, even slang too (and there's always google to the rescue or urbandictionary, still nothing)... so, what's wrong with "Cluj" anyway ?
As opposed to China or India, however, my outsourcing plan would focus on a small town in Romania - for it is only in Transylvania where the werewolf can be hired to work with an unrivaled vigilance to avoid the whiz of silver bullets.
Sorry, I LIVE in a pretty small town in Transylvania (used to live in a slightly larger one), and software developers around here are all BUT immune to (the lure of such) silver bullets... ever heard of Cluj-Napoca or Baia Mare (or any of the software microbehemoths that start springing to life there) ?
My parents aren't able to read a newspaper without glasses and a bright light, they hate wearing their glasses any other time than when they read, basically they're one-quarter-blind. Any less light and they'd go berserk.
Me, personally, I never light up the "big bulb" in my room... and I am quite bothered by the bathroom light, but hey, I'm not alone.
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By the way, the article body is misleading... that water wasn't BOILING, it was EVAPORATING.
Quite fast, agreed, but I doubt he could make water actually boil in a small tin can placed on the heatsink.
And by how "fast" he got his hands out of the way from the heatsink before the egg experiment, if that sink would have been at over 100 celsius, he would have at least second degree burns on his fingers (he didn't even seem to get first degree burns by the way).
All in all, I'd have to say, that heatsink musthave been somewhere in the vicinity of 80-85 degrees Celsius (~180 F)... and the chip underneath probably at around 90-95 Celsius.
Heck, that's what, proper cofee-serving temperature ? Heh.
Egg white coagulates between 144 degrees F and 149 degrees F, and the yolk between 149 degrees F and 158 degrees F.
That's around 65 and 71 Celsius.
Having a PC heatsink at over 75 Celsius ain't that much of a big deal, why would an X-Box be any different ?
If the temperature of an object you come into contact with is 149 degrees Fahrenheit, it would take about 2 seconds to cause a third degree burn... that's about as much as you'd need to start "cooking" the eggs too.
So... scary-looking, yet absolutely normal.
Heh, while some people actually spend money to CURE people of paranoia, it would be (at least) useful to have paranoia CLASSES thought as part of any "PC operator" course ;)
As a side-note, they could also blackmail the users to TELL their employers they were stupid enough to let a keylogger software get installed on their computer (worse if the user did this at the office computer).
Hey, I bothered "decyphering" yours :) :D
And mine is in the signature, and it's short too
Wait, does that mean that if you fill a baby bottle with heavy liquor and suck on it on the street it's ok with the cops ? :)
I don't know about you, but when I see somebody write "eyepod" or not know what "M$" means, that's a good sign of "fails the test of geekdom miserably".
Justice might be blind, but it can recognize a banknote by touch, apparently... that's the news, I guess.
"life in prison would have been to harsh, let's give him 12 years instead".
Whoa, that kind of thing would have never happened to, say a petty thief that stole some food to feed his family (instead of, I don't know, robbing somebody at knife-point or worse), now would it ?
"All of them".
Non-console (versions) ? Fail check on 50+%
Non-MMO ? Fail check on ??%
Worth playing ? Fail check on 90+%
PITA to run on LInux ? Fail check on ??%
Try again.
"Are you stating that all linux users should be happy with their old games?"
YES. Name one non-console, non-MMO game that came out in the past, say 2-3 years, that is BOTH worth playing AND a PITA to run on Linux.
Let's put it this way... the car I'm driving (Dacia 1300, Romanian-made, from 1979) doesn't have a single airbag, crashing it in a wall frontally at 50km/h would almost certainly be lethal with or without safety belt, and so on. I never use it for longer drives, almost exclusively drive it inside the city or close by.
I know one thing for certain... if homehow "manage" to crash in it, I'll most probably die either way.
Before you even ask, yes, such cars are legally allowed to drive here in Romania. And yes, you are SAFER *without* the "safety belt" on, in this type of car. AND there's tens of THOUSANDS (if not hundreds of thousands) still in circulation in Romania.
Well, depends... if in his country (I suppose the USA) they don't HAVE to wear the seatbelt, it would be a good analogy.
Quite frankly I hate having to wear it myself, but it's the law here, so... no choice.
How about the "fair use" dispute ?
You know, as in parody, for instance, to name but just ONE of the legitimate "false positives".
Ah, yes, because every MP3 file playing a certain specific song is identical in length/checksum ... [/sarcasm]
In other news, European Union representatives claim they will no longer automatically accept political refugees from the former US of A, on the grounds that "the French hate them too much already".
A triage process that will include the stereotype pannel of one Frenchman, one Brit and one German asking the typical "oh no, yet another American" questions will separate those that can file for refugee status from the ones forwarded to India instead.
[/sarcasm]
"Possibly the only part of democracy they want to keep is the appearance that the populace have any influence in government."
Excuse me, but since WHEN did "the people" have ANYTHING to say in any government of a "large" country, ever ?
Even today, the most self-acclaimed democracy (USA) is NOT a "democracy" at all, but a democratic REPUBLIC.
The difference, ever so subtle, is that "the people" can only "elect" those they want to SPEAK FOR THEM, instead of speaking for themselves.
So the more you keep the façade of "democracy", the better it seems to be for the people.
In reality, democracy is a critically flawed concept, even more flawed as communism (and we all know how that ended).
The only true freedom is anarchy, and nobody really wants that.
There is no freedom, there is only the ILLUSION of freedom.
And as long as that holds, nobody really complains.
I suppose sand, oil and people count as WMDs then ?
Ah, so nice to see that even if Soviet Russia (apparently) failed miserably, its ideas live on strong and spread to its former enemies. Heck, I thought Romania was so-so ok under Communism as long as you kept your mouth shut (hey, I was 12 years old at the time, so what did I know), apparently now USA is heading the same way. Slowly, but surely.
And they have the guts to "condemn" China for the "great internet firewall" ? Talk about hypocrisy.
Just goes to show, in all human forms of gov't, whoever HAS the power is the one least worthy to HAVE it in the first place.
I've never had such problems with Kaspersky... I barely notice it's running most of the time.
So what DO you solve anyway by building a "better voting machine" ?
You still have the problems of a "democratic republic" election system in place, so basically you get to pick between the lesser of two evils, if you're lucky.
For what it's worth, you could just as well FLIP A DAMN COIN when you elect the president, the end result would be about the same.
Ok, I thought I knew a thing or two about English in general, even slang too (and there's always google to the rescue or urbandictionary, still nothing)... so, what's wrong with "Cluj" anyway ?
Sorry, I LIVE in a pretty small town in Transylvania (used to live in a slightly larger one), and software developers around here are all BUT immune to (the lure of such) silver bullets... ever heard of Cluj-Napoca or Baia Mare (or any of the software microbehemoths that start springing to life there) ?
My parents aren't able to read a newspaper without glasses and a bright light, they hate wearing their glasses any other time than when they read, basically they're one-quarter-blind. Any less light and they'd go berserk.
Me, personally, I never light up the "big bulb" in my room... and I am quite bothered by the bathroom light, but hey, I'm not alone.
And here I was, thinking it's about cows sniper-camping :p :'(
My dreams are ruined
Lameness ?!?