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  1. Re:Pass on Apple Explains Face ID On-stage Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Apparently it does face recognition in 3D, so a simple picture would not work.

  2. I might regret saying this but... on HPE Unveils The Machine, a Single-Memory Computer Capable of Addressing 160 Terabytes (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    160 TB of RAM ought to be enough for anybody

  3. Re:Azure on Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 2

    I wonder if Microsoft is doing this for legal reasons. If the go far enough from the shore, they're in international waters, and are not subject to national laws anymore.

  4. Re:Hundreds? on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?

    More voltage, more amps?

  5. Fiber in Québec city on 90 Percent of Eligible Kansas City Neighborhoods Sign Up For Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    I live in Québec city and we're the lucky ones: Bell Canada decided to start their Fiber to the home program (Bell Fibe) in our town!

    I paid 50$ for the install, the tech spend 4 hours installing the fiber in my apartment and told me that it once took him 8 hours to do the install in an old house.

    Now I have 50/50 Internet (50 Mbps downlink, 50 Mbps uplink with a 250 GB/month cap) for 63$ per month and I'm really enjoying it!

    Granted, it's part of a bitter turf war with the cable provider (Videotron) but that's another example of competition being good for the consumers!

  6. Future past? on WebAPI: Mozilla Proposes Open App Interface For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    ... WebAPI will developed ...

    Ha yes, the good old future past tense. I will liked it a lot!

  7. Re:Makes Sense on Los Angeles To Turn Off Traffic-Light Cameras · · Score: 1

    In a lot of the intersections, there were no green arrows so in some places the only way for people to get across the street was to run a red light. And not just one person would run the light, but four or five.

    I spent some time in LA last year and it was still like that. I remember the first time the light turned red when I was waiting to turn left, drivers on the other side of the street waved at me to go on the red light. It's really counterintuitive at first but it makes a lot of sense after a few times.

    It's just important not to continue doing this outside LA.

  8. Re:It is not impossible on Dropbox Can't See Your Dat– Er, Never Mind · · Score: 2

    Well, files put in DropBox are available on their website; it's pretty obvious that they can decrypt them. The encryption part is about the SSL connection between my client and the dropbox server, me thinks.

  9. Re:Truecrypt on Dropbox Authentication: Insecure By Design · · Score: 1

    I tried using truecrypt with dropbox, but I wasn't able to open a truecrypt volume on windows that had been created on Mac (and vice versa). Is it me who screwed up something or is it a limitation of the software?

  10. Re:Is the reverse possible? on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Internet · · Score: 1

    I once wanted to write a perl script that would go to my ex's facebook profile and email me when something was posted or she commented something. But I was too lazy to write the darn script so I decided to meet new people...

  11. Re:Torrents on How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work? · · Score: 1

    Lots and lots of torrents from the empornium.

    I'll DL and have a look!

  12. Re:flicker crashes on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In SoCal, we have LED traffic lights everywhere.

    In Québec we have them pretty much everywhere too. Sometimes when the snow is just the right consistency and falls in the right direction, it sticks to the traffic lights lenses, obscuring them. In the past, the heat generated by the incandescent bulbs would melt the snow, but the new LED lights don't produce enough heat. A city worker has to remove the snow with a kind of small broom attached to a long pole.

    Two steps forward, one step back...

  13. Install a proxy on Relentless Web Attack Hard To Kill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We had this problem a few months back at work. Old but necessary asp web sites kept getting infected. It only took a few hours to install a reverse proxy with mod_security on EC2 and we were in the clear.

    Full story on my blog:
    http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/05/i_love_ec2_and_rightscale.php

  14. Re:never ceases to amaze me on Irrigation Controller Stolen, Wirelessly Rescues Itself · · Score: 1

    how they will visually identify the stolen property, call it in, and then leave and expect it to just stay there until they get back with more badges.

    I guess that they actually waited to get a warrant for entering the property. The only evidence that they had was that some dude said that the controller was his, that's not enough to make probable cause, IMO.

  15. Re:Spelling on "Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief · · Score: 1

    No, "viola" doesn't mean anything in french. "Viol" means rape.

    Well, it's the verb to rape (violer) at the third person of the simple past. A bit far fetched, but technically right...

  16. Re:Bandwidth Limits/Costs? on Amazon EC2 Now More Ready for Application Hosting · · Score: 1

    It doesn't show max bandwidth, but I'd expect Amazon to have some fat connectivity, though I'd want a CIR (Committed Information Rate, or guaranteed minimum rate) for any real pro application.

    They don't have a CIR, but I remember reading in the docs that they have 250 Mbps per virtual machine.

    So while Amazon looks interesting, I think I'll keep my existing hosting company, which is anywhere from 2-6x as cheap as Amazon's new, relatively untested service, with potential competition from Amazon's own services.

    It's true that Amazon is more expensive than a dedicated server, but the idea is that it's elastic: you could run 3 servers during peak time (let's says 4 hours per day) then scale down to one the rest of the day. This is cheaper than 3 dedicated servers.

  17. Re:No luck on Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives · · Score: 2, Funny

    A girlfriend? Proof positive that he's not a regular /. reader. Well, he could be this guy.

    Man, he's been dumped by his own robot girlfriend!
  18. Spider Critters? on Messenger Discovers "Spider" Crater on Mercury · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who got excited when I read "Messenger Discovers "Spider" Critter on Mercury"?

    I, for one, welcome our Mercurian Spider Critter Overloads!

  19. Re:Big businesses win, we lose! on 700 MHz Auction Begins Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Make this a truely public spectrum. There's always a technological solution to a government problem. Why sell what we can use for free?

    Let me guess: the government wants more money...

  20. Re:and in other news... on Number of Cellphones Now Equal To Half the Human Species · · Score: 1

    Hello and 'can you hear me' are the first two phrases that people learn when learning a new language. I remember the days when it was "I'll have another drink please" and "where is the bathroom", followed closely by "what's your sign?"

    Hey, I only know two sentences in swedish:

    Du har vakra ögon
    Vil du älska med mej?

    I'll let the scandinavian folks translate that (and find the dozen spelling mistakes I must have made...)

  21. Variable movie ratio! on High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The thing that drives me nuts with YouTube is their fixed movie radio (4:3).

    There's so much good content in 16:9 but encoded in 4:3 by YouTube.

    When I watch full screen on my 16:9 monitor, I have 1.5" of black bars all around the movie. :-(

    YouTube gurus, please fix that!

  22. Re:SO how long on High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon · · Score: 1
  23. Re:a quick comparison. on Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative · · Score: 1

    symbian::fat turkish dude
    google::sexy

    iPhone::Natalie Portman, naked and petrified

    nuff said

  24. Re:Whose deficit is it, anyway? on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons (but not the entire reason) Canada does not "have to" is because the US does. Canada benefits from the US umbrella.

    Exactly! I would even go further and say that Canada benefits from the NATO umbrella. Any country that attacks Canada would get a declaration of war from every NATO country (USA, UK, FR, DE, etc.).

    Terrorism is another story though...

  25. Re:American dollar still goes much futher on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 1

    The kicker on this is that they charge provincial sales tax on federal sales tax.

    Yep, taxing taxes, now that's a distinct society!