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  1. Re:When will they be dimmable?? on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    i was talking about making a dimmer-switch compatable CF bulb not LED. can flourescent tubes be run at different power levels? though making one that detected and shut of if the power was too low to prevent damage would be pretty simple

  2. Re:Good Start on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I'd also like to see any new houses/buildings required to use solar power cells or solar furnaces. Especially if you are in the Sun Belt. I know they aren't "clean" to create but we have to start somewhere, the technology is here, we can't wait for it to be perfect. photovoltaics are not clean to make, solar water heating for hot water and home heating doesn't really need anything nasty to make.

  3. Re:Good Start on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    LED will likely never be a major light source. LED is good in portable low power uses like flashlights because incandescent bulbs at that scale suck.

    in order to survive vibration and shocks a typical flashlight element is much thicker for its' length than a home bulb, because of this it heats up less and dissipates heat faster for any given amount of power, thus being much dimmer. LED lights at home fixture power levels fall between CF and incandescent bulbs in terms of efficiency and far above either in cost. the only use i could see for LED lamps would be for hostile environments due to LED being more resiliant than any glass based technology

  4. Re:When will they be dimmable?? on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    probably never, the only way to do it would be to use N loops and have the circuitry inside switch off some loops of tubing as the power drops, so it wouldn't be smooth dimming, but 2, 3, 4 or maybe 5 steps, the last one being off when there is no longer enough electricity flowing to run a single loop of tubing

  5. Re:Thank you Wal-Mart on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    the Hg in fluorescent bulbs, especially little CF bulbs isn't a large amount, just a bit of vapor. i wouldn't want to inhale a freshly smashed pallet of them, but the contamination issue is pretty much nonexistent, and is far offset by reductions in fossil fuel burning for electricity to power CF compared to incandescent lights

  6. Re:DMCA on YouTube's Content Identification Failure Raises Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    not a link, some listed person/procedure.

    the best way is to take it as snail mail since it's too easy to lose messages into a spam filter if you use email.

  7. Re:I failed to see how this'll help on HTML Encoded Captchas · · Score: 1

    traditional captcha bots can work on huindreds of blogs with only enough brains to figure out which picture is the captcha, this captcha is easy to mess with so a bot pretty much must be custom coded for your site especially if sometimes you slip the captcha code into existing page tables and use non-square cells and inequal sized cells to break things up for the bot. mix in some page content into a few more of those cells, even replace a section with an actual text character that belongs inside the captcha and botting will be made much more difficult.

  8. Re:I failed to see how this'll help on HTML Encoded Captchas · · Score: 1

    the trouble is finding where that set of tables is. the site can move it around on the page each time it is loaded, so the bot has to be much smarter than existing bots which just find the right URL to download the image

  9. Re:Trivial Solution on Computer's Heat May Unmask Anonymized PCs · · Score: 1

    folding@home running at low priority will suck up the unused cycles on your machine giving a pretty much flat power draw in response to "extra" work since you are always doing extra work

  10. Re:good article on The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market · · Score: 1

    the way the PS3 is doing, in 5 years sony will have cut their losses in console gaming and their remaining staff will be making games for the next nintendo and microsoft systems

  11. Re:good article on The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market · · Score: 1

    it's actually a single 486DX, they sure were expensive back in the day

  12. Re:Wii on Ebay on The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market · · Score: 1

    and the stores forgot restocking fees, they definitely should have included a 15% restocking fee on non-faulty returns on the PS3

  13. Re:would you trust it? on The NSFW HTML Attribute · · Score: 1

    that's not the point, the point is so reputable sites and blogs can post more risque content without causing problems for their readers who are at work.

  14. Re:uh.. what? on The NSFW HTML Attribute · · Score: 1

    actually it protects employers from employees, you see, the sexual harassment suit from someone offended by seeing porn at work will cost the company more than lost productivity of a single employee.

  15. Re:It's never about censorship when it CAN be. on The NSFW HTML Attribute · · Score: 1

    improperly marking regions as NSFW, and hiding additional content untill you notice what is going on and stop filtering NSFW or click to display the covered regions

  16. Re:Panasonic say: Buy Our TVs Film At 11. on Plasma or LCD? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    those sony TV's are shite though, my father got a really expensive Sony Bravio, the sound is cutting in and out on it just a few months after buying it. Par for the course with sony though.

  17. Re:My real experience in England on PayPal Launches Virtual Debit Card · · Score: 1

    and since paypal is involved, like with a strapon, someone is getting F&#ked in the ass

  18. Re:Beware of what? on Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards · · Score: 1

    modern electric and hybrid cars don't have 'toxic batteries' while it would be unwise to dump the contents into your pizza, they are not like old NiCad batteries which are quite toxic, or Lead acid batteries which are near perfect in reclamation and recycling, but can put out toxins if improperly disposed of or destroyed accidentally.

  19. Re:Linking vs deep linking on Judge Rules Against Deep-Linking of Content · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Any "gifts"? on Virtual Console Christmas is Retrotastic · · Score: 1
  21. Re:PS3 vs Wii on 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii - The Designer's Perspective · · Score: 1, Informative

    is that the PS3 release where your review mirror crops out building and shit?

    the same PS3 that can't do lighting right in fight night round 3? yea Sony released a real winner with that one

  22. Re:Winner: the PS2 on 360 vs. PS3 vs. Wii - The Designer's Perspective · · Score: 4, Funny

    # Games look almost as good as on the PS3.

    be careful, someone might get pissed and stab you in the face with a jagged PS2 polygon

  23. Re:dear nintendo... on Virtual Console Christmas is Retrotastic · · Score: 1

    who's to say the "Starting" point means 'and up' surely less popular publishers will want to sell games, even if they aren't really worth the full price,

  24. Re:Any "gifts"? on Virtual Console Christmas is Retrotastic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    weather integrates with games, so your sports game weather on the field can match your local weather, or the city you are playing in

  25. Re:Hopefully this will curb extended warranty sale on Microsoft Extends 360 Warranty to One Year · · Score: 1

    store plans are nice fo rthings that you don't wanbt to be going without during the replacement period, I got the 1 year plan from target on my wii so if anything goes wrong i can just bring it back and get a new one on the spot.