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  1. Re:112 speedo limit is fine.... on Volvo To Impose 112mph Speed Limit On All New Cars From 2020 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all cars have, or could have for no additional material cost, the ability to limit speed in software.

    You actually pay much more for components engineered to cope with the usually-unused capability to go faster: wheels, tyres, brakes, gearing, power output etc.

  2. 14 categories? on Google Lens Can Now Recognize a Billion Items (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But can it separate the billion things according to the one true taxonomy?

  3. Re: LiFi would be great on World's Fastest Camera Shoots 10 Trillion Frames a Second (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bit quicker than 2ms: that's only 500Hz, which would preclude SPDIF.

  4. Re: The reason we use exponents on World's Fastest Camera Shoots 10 Trillion Frames a Second (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    The UK hasn't used long scale numbers in quite a while. I remember this being an issue as a kid in the early 1980s, but not now.

  5. Re: user repairability on You Can't Open the Microsoft Surface Laptop Without Literally Destroying It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The boy has a cheapy tablet (Hipstreet Pilot) on which I am about to perform a second screen replacement, as he's a bit careless. The first screen replacement cost me £15 (under $20) and took about 30 minutes because I was being careful and methodical as I had no instructions.

  6. Re: CO2 is a global problem, not a city problem on Entrepreneurs Fight Air Pollution With CO2-Reducing 'CityTrees' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because of their lower CO2 output, even the dirty old ones are less bad for the global environment than petrol / gasoline cars. Older diesels are much worse for humans and other animals in proximity to them because of the particulates, but modern diesels as as clean as petrol engines.

  7. The most common vuvuzuelas â" those heard at the World Cup, for example â" sound a Bb. That'd work in D-minor but not A-major.

  8. Re:Interesting, but does it RUN LINUX? on Linux Kernel 4.9 Officially Released (kernel.org) · · Score: 2

    What is lmgtfy?

    (jk)

  9. Re:I'll wait for a third party review... on Elon Musk: Tesla's Solar Roof Will Cost Less Than a Traditional Roof (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Ohh how about a minor heating element that can be turned on in the winter to help de-ice/snow roofs"

    It has this.

  10. Re:Also known as on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a message familiar to many European HP printer owners of a certain age.

    If a document formatted for US Letter paper was sent to an HP printer loaded only with ISO A4, that message would appear and the printer would refuse to print.

  11. Re:Obligatory XKCD reference on Researcher Writes A Machine Language For The Universe (typepad.com) · · Score: 1

    Or this one

    .

  12. Re:The future looks bright! on New DisplayPort 1.4 Standard Can Drive 8K Monitors Over A USB Type-C Cable (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bit of pedantry: the 29.1" width includes the bezel. If it's a real 32" diagonal and a real 16:9 aspect as per the specs, the screen width is 27.9" so 138ppi. #pythagoras

  13. Landfill?! on Scientists Turn Paper Waste Into Aerogel (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 2

    could have huge implications not only for the rate at which we are filling up our landfills

    Wouldn't aerogel fill our landfills much faster than in its original, denser form?

  14. Re: Star's rapid change in mass? on First Planet Known To Orbit a White Dwarf Is Falling Apart (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. The media have confused surface gravity of a much denser object with gravity at orbit distance, which will be unchanged.

  15. Re: Star's rapid change in mass? on First Planet Known To Orbit a White Dwarf Is Falling Apart (nasa.gov) · · Score: 2

    Still doesn't change mass. Yes, density is a lot greater, but gravity doesn't care about that.

  16. The Soviets have already done Venus on NASA Targets Venus, Asteroids With Potential Missions · · Score: 1, Informative

    Including landers, returning pics from the surface. http://mentallandscape.com/V_V...

  17. 400GB on Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data · · Score: 2

    "400GB worth of emails, documents, and source code"

    Seems unlikely. There's going to be a lot of... binary data in there, surely.

  18. Re: Sad on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hey, it landed, did its science and lasted longer than the Soviet Venera landers on Venus, which were a resounding success â" lens caps asideâ¦

  19. Re:symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Yes, and that's fine as an additional precaution, but not as pretty much the only one.

  20. Re:symbols, caps, numbers on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 2

    Aldermore: a bank!

    They ask for e.g. first, third and fifth characters of a password that must be between eight and twelve alphanumeric characters, and the dropdowns to make the selection are lower case only.

    This means they're storing the password unhashed, at best locally encrypted but decrypted to check the user login. Once past that, the second and final step of the login is to answer one of five questions as previously stored.

  21. Shazam! on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    On my 4S, iOS8 is a bit slower and choppier but not to the point of getting in the way. Siri's "what song is this" feature is so magical, it makes up for the degradations IMO.

  22. Re:Depressing News on Universal Big Bang Lithium Deficit Confirmed · · Score: 0

    I see what you did there: very good.

  23. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh dear.

    Water flows, due to being liquid. Copper, on the other hand, is a solid at any temperature you're going to have at home.

    You circulate the water between the heat-producing surface and a heat-dissipating radiator.

  24. Obligatory xkcd on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 5, Funny
  25. move to Venus on Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The maximum SPL on Earth is a trifling 193dB: the point at which the negative peak of the compression wave is a total vacuum.

    Move to Venus with its 90atm ambient "air" pressure, and you could get up to 233dB!

    Seriously, if you live near me and like thumping bass in your car, move there now! Ignore all that propaganda about high temperatures and acid rain... 233dB!!!