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  1. Re:Welcome to 1994... on First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed · · Score: 2

    There are encoding algorithms that guarantee 50% duty cycle, and you then overrate the lighting power. Problem solved.

  2. Re:Welcome to 1994... on First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed · · Score: 1

    It's because they can reuse the channel space better than wifi.

    When you start rolling out WiFi for a building, you quickly find that three non-overlapping channels is not enough to tesselate with properly, so in the end you have large shared broadcast segments and contrained bandwidth.

    With the light fictures, they have alot of extra channels implicitly (unregulated spectrum), plus the directional nature of the light minimises overlap between stations. This alows for far greater bandwidth.

  3. Freaking copy and paste on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    What the hell is wrong with the major phone OS's these days - iOS, Android and Windows Mobile 7 all being initially released without freaking copy and paste. I had that on my shitty palm m100 about 15 years ago.

    Grrr! Try typing in a 64 character WPA key without it.

  4. Re:Plane on NASA's Kepler Spots Its First Rocky Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I think that's fairly common due to conservation of angular momentum in the Milky Way and all of the solar systems that formed within it. Our solar system is tilted however.

  5. Re:Different kind of change on It's Surprisingly Hard To Notice When Moving Objects Change · · Score: 1

    I think the illusion in this is because it's a group of shapes, plus persistence of vision - just like any other animation. My brain tracks the common sizes/colours spinning aroubnd, not original entities.

    If it was a single shape moving I could see the changes.

  6. Re:if there was something to test for... on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1

    The reason for temperature monitoring is that people who report ghost stories often claim getting "chills". If you can detect a temperature anomoly, and trace it back to an explainable source, then that falsifies that part of their experience.

    Same goes if you can detect other physical phenomena that have the protential to affet our sensations - infrasounds, magnetic fields etc.

  7. Re:Whats next? Creationism research questions? on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 2

    Urgh, that's not how it works.

    It might have a 4.5 billion years half-life - that's just the statistical average speed. Any one atom could randomly decay at any time immediately after it was created.

  8. Re:Not as impressed this time around. on Humble Bundle 2 Is Live · · Score: 1

    I think Osmos was a great game, and quite challenging in the later levels. Sweet graphics, cool music and the mental challenge of orbital mechanics.

  9. Re:So how is a 16 year old report news? on Medical Researcher Rediscovers Integration · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's the difference between software "engineering" and any other form of engineering. Maybe in another 200 years programmers will be there, civil and electrical disciplines have had a fair head start.

  10. Re:Contradictory summary on Australian R18 Games Rating Gets Gov't Support · · Score: 1

    How about parents just stop their kids from playing age-unsuitable games in the first place? I mean, that's what a rating is for.

    TRhe fact that an R18 rating might exist will make it even easier to make that choice.

  11. Re:Route table growth and IPv6 on Internet Routing, Looming Disaster? · · Score: 1

    Routing table size IS the big issue.

    Even with modern hardware accelerated routers, evey new session that flows through the router requires a lookup on the destination address to find the next hop. As the routing tables grow, so does the time taken to initially look up that match. This is a non trivial exercise that needs to be acomplishied in a very short space of time.

    That said, it's nothing that more/faster/parallel hardware cant fix.

  12. Re:The most surprising turn of events on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    Easy, use a hole-punching mediation service on a third host. Same way skype works/hamatchi works.

  13. Re:So... on WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal · · Score: 1

    >> What will be interesting though, is the day that America tanks in the world economy, and we watch the rest of the world shelter together in a huddle trying to save the world's economy without America to hold up the rest

    Uhh, you guys tanked 2 years ago and started the GFC, but most of the rest of the world survived fine.
    America is not driving the world economy - you guys are broke and your dollars stink. As an example, the Aussie dollar has gone from US$0.70 to parity now.

    The new economic superpower is China.

  14. Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers on Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout · · Score: 1

    -- "It does a bit, you're still gorgeous though." would communicate what you want without a messy argument.

    Hahahahahha. Hahahahahah, hoohoohooohohohoo, hehe.

    After many years of marriage and subsequent divorce I still I dont know much about women - but I'm guessing you know even less. :)

  15. Re:Worried? on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 1

    And along that line, go one further and have smart charge meters that negotiate power between each other, so that every car in your neighbourhood gets it's fair share of the off-peak goodness without overloading the transformer.

  16. Re:A correction, if I may. on Australian Telstra Monopoly Dead · · Score: 1

    Just a couple of months ago actually. A surprise for many, that's for sure.

  17. Re:chinese technology on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 1

    I have no doubt about the skills of Chinese scientists and engineers either, but do have significant reservations about their businessmen.

  18. Quality control? on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's one thing to buy cheap Chinese made consumer electronics goods, but would you really want to risk your life in an aircraft? They cant even get products specifically destined for children right without someone unscrupulous substituting something inferior or deadly (lead paint, melamine). Unfortunately as a country they have a long way to go to rebuild their reputation.

  19. Re:Where is the fun? on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    Killing Floor - whilst being graphically dated - is not a bad Team vs AI Zombie coop battle. Generally people are quite friendly too and will assist you to buy decent guns if you are short.

    I dont think I'd pay full price ($20) for it but definitely worth it on a Steam special.

  20. Re:PDAs have done this for years on One Step Closer To Speedier, Bootless Computers · · Score: 1

    I think you will find it just stays in low power standby mode, and when you press the button it comes out of stand by. Properly rebooting a PDA takes a significant amount of time.

  21. Re:How Long... on Canon Blocks Copy Jobs Using Banned Keywords · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hahahahahahahaha.

    Better add (.)(.) whilst you are at it too. :)

  22. Re:Distinction without a difference? on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    These says Brushless DC is very, very similar to a AC motor with Variable Speed Drive. They are both electrically commutated to make rotating magnetic field.

    The difference is the use of magnets (synchronous) versus induction cage (slip).

  23. Re:Visible? Opaque? on Visible Light 'X-Ray' Sees Through Solid Objects · · Score: 1

    Go through their clothes and look for loose change?

  24. Re:good! on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    What I dont understand is why they dont make the clients of the spammers accountable.

    Tracking down spammers is hard, but when they are trying to sell something there must be some vendor contact details of some sort - trace that back to the vendor and you're done. If there were no longer any clients to sell services to, spamming would stop.

  25. Re:Ergonomics, exercise, and variety! on Best Mobile Computing Options For People With RSI? · · Score: 1

    I agree with all of that. Stick with regular (but comfortable) input devices, get some exercise and stretching, and spread the load onto your other hand.

    I almost exclusively mouse with my left hand at work now, and save my right hand for playing games at home. A couple of hours of FPS is quite strenuous by comparison so it evens itself out compared to an 8 hour work day.