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  1. Re:Fuzzy Logic Redux... on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 2

    I was thinking the same thing. Remember the company: Adaptive Logic with their AL220? There does seem to be
    some long cycle idea repeat loop going on in our industry. (Perhaps any industry really).

    H.

  2. Traffic lights inop? on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    What happens when the lights are out and a cop is directing traffic? Especially on a really wide boulevard with multiple left turn lanes etc. Does the car have a "Norman coordinate!" button?

  3. Re:Sigh on Experts Warn Of Possible North Korean Nuclear Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I was chatting with a mainland Chinese fellow the other day and he said that China keeps them as a friend because they piss of the US. That is useful to China. So, as long as China keeps DPRK's actions to their palatable threshold, China is OK with it. Esp, if the US is unhappy.

  4. Re:is this really news? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 1

    As Somerset Maugham said:

    "Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

  5. Crushinator on MABEL Robot Runs Like a Human · · Score: 1

    Sissy runs like the Crushinator.

  6. spamassassin + bogofilter on Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level · · Score: 1

    First spamassassin, then whatever it thinks is ham gets fed through bogofilter (Bayesian). What comes out of that is almost pure ham. Some stragglers get through but its not a major deal.

    H.

  7. Marvin on Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons · · Score: 1

    I've seen it. It's rubbish.

  8. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    About 20kbytes of code so I was told. The uP has an analogue block called a coulomb counter. There is also some non volatile storage to keep
    track of the # of cycles plus other pertinent facts about that battery pack.

    Progress no? Certainly good for uP vendors since each battery needs one.

    H.

  9. Re:Why not PL/1? on Stanford CS101 Adopts JavaScript · · Score: 1

    PL/1? That was my intro lang in 79 @nyu. I had no prob with the lang it was great to
    learn on, the real snag was punch cards and only getting 2 - 3 runs in in a 12hr day at the
    data center.

  10. Re:An hour? on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    He means it's been running since about 10 to eight.

  11. Re:My High School sucked on 16-Year-Old Discovers Potential Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis · · Score: 1

    Share a Bunsen burner? Why in my day, all we could do was light the taps and shoot a flame across the bench.

  12. Re:Same time? on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Perhaps in rendering aid you end up hurting them further (i.e. moving someone with a spinal injury). Then... if they survive, you might get
    sued for 'helping'. Not an easy call in the stressful moments after an accident. I would prefer to leave it to the professionals unless there was
    some pressing factor like a fire.

  13. user mode? on iPhone Jailbreak Uses a PDF Display Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Why is this phone not running user mode for this stuff? System mode for services only, why is PDF parsing being handled in system mode? All this stuff, non-executable stacks/data, memory protection etc ought to be set to the max. On the one hand its exciting to see these hacks, on another its depressing since in my own life as an ARM fw programmer, I would have been shown the door 10 yrs ago for that type of coding oversight.

  14. Virtual # writer on More Gas Station Credit-Card Skimmers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about a way to magstripe the virtual # you get from Citi or equiv. Basically, you program the card before use at the station with a fresh virtual#. So, skim away! I couldn't care less if they skimmed a virtual#.

    Or have a $75 limit on the card and only use it for gas.

  15. Virtual Credit Card Numbers on Blippy Exposes Credit Card Numbers Through Simple Google Search · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use them. Don't *ever* use a 2yr+ plastic #!

    Citibank has this feature, other cards must nowadays also.

  16. Careful... That's Davros's IP on Machine Translates Thoughts Into Speech · · Score: 1

    He's pissed and he's all about enforcement.

    Still I am sure he can be reasoned with.

    H.

  17. 90 day warranty on Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant Two Months Ago · · Score: 1

    He's already 2/3 done. I suppose Applecare is available.

  18. trifecta on Finding a Personal Coding Trifecta · · Score: 1

    1) Large cup of milk tea (Marks and Spencers gold)
    2) WXPN saved 5hr weekly stream of Starsend (http://www.starsend.org/)
    3) Emacs + happy hacking keyboard

    Mix & voila, you get 100+k of low level fw that is used in 100's of million chips on chip roms.

    H.

  19. logout on The Art of The Farewell Email · · Score: 1

    My friend Doug wrote just that. "Logout" to the co. Some people were pissed at his lack of sentimentality :)

    H.

  20. Re:uploading on IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution · · Score: 1

    :) I like the dd. So, a Harry Potter Pensive is not really needed any longer then?

    H.

  21. uploading on IBM Creates MRI With 100M Times the Resolution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now we are getting closer. Once you can extract the raw brain data, you can simulate the data. You can 'live' forever if they can get the raw data out.

    Adapting inputs to the simulation and that simulation can interact with you...

    H.

  22. beige box connected to generic isp on Email-only Providers? · · Score: 1

    My ISP pacbell provides an email box. That gets pulled by a beige box and massaged by a few filters and then its forwarded to gmail where I get the thrice washed contents. So on the road, I still get my beige box email and people still mail me there at a reasonable address. The beige box actually has a domain so eventually it will be even more 'professional'. The key is the .procmail forwarding script that does spamasassin then bogofilter then forward to gmail (who have their own quite good spam tech). A good soln for me since its accessible to me via iphone when I am out and about. Worst case, terminal into the beige box and read remotely. (pine/alpine etc).

    H.

  23. new BRCM chip on Users Report Faulty WPA In 2nd-Gen IPod Touch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That new iPod touch has a hw change on its Wifi. The disassembly showed it to be a BT+Wifi single chip design. Presumably its just a host driver/fw issue that will get resolved soon.

    H.

  24. Monsters from the Id on The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't be too quick to take a nap once that synapse parser starts getting the REM raw data. I would recommend a 'sleep' mode on that circuitry.

  25. My personal fav on Bone-Headed IT Mistakes · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could not access my mbox, the file was gone. Soon a co-worker stopped by... same... mbox gone. 2+2 together a quick visit to IT. "Hello, did you do anything to the company mbox's?", IT: "Oh yes, I observed they took up a lot of space on the disk so I *removed* them all"!

    H.