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  1. paying by the meter is appropriate on An Iowa ISP's Metered Pricing: What Will the Market Bear? · · Score: 1

    But it has nothing to do with net neutrality or this ruling.

    Both of those things aside, $100 for 25GB per month is too high. Tiered pricing is fine, but gouging isn't.

  2. standard deviation doesn't weight by observation on Why Standard Deviation Should Be Retired From Scientific Use · · Score: 1

    It weights by the difference between the observation and the mean, by the variation. So large observations are not weighed any more than small ones. Two observations equally far from the mean get equal weight.

    Widely varying observations do get higher weight and that is intentional. Standard deviation is that way because it is so useful in analysis of variance and measuring likelihood of statistical significance.

  3. but it didn't remove the option. on Silicon Valley Workers May Pursue Salary-Fixing Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Informative

    The agreement was not to reach out and poach others' workers. It wasn't to refuse to hire them. You still had the option of getting a 25% raise to go to Google, all you have to do is apply to Google.

    The agreement didn't reduce the options available to people, it just made it so the engineer had to take the first step, the recruiter wouldn't call you to entice you.

  4. Re:Stunning preview? on Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect · · Score: 2

    Google also does that. They integrate panoramia pictures in some locations.

    Go to "Old Tucson Studios" in google maps (not the preview). Grab the man and drag him to a spot on the map. You will get pictures of the different buildings. In some you can click on other areas which will transition to another picture a different person too. You can move around like this. It's all from public pictures.

    Google hasn't integrated this into the preview yet, so they clearly don't know what to do with it yet.

  5. it's more like bearer bonds on Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And issuance of stock certificates. This person is allowed to continue his work if he works according to the regulations.

    Same with those who issue stock certificates.

    Bearer bonds are so heavily regulated that you never see them anymore in the US, some say they are essentially illegal in the US now.

  6. Re:if you can access it on a website on Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device · · Score: 1

    Oh. Okay. The single page project page wasn't all that descriptive so I went by the summary partly and stated you had to go to a website and enter a PIN to log in. It wasn't particularly clear.

    If this is just a smartcard, then this system has been in use for at least a decade. MS' internal VPN system used a smartcard login system, and IE supports it. That system is even more secure actually because it uses a challenge response and a PIN, it doesn't just decrypt a password which can be captured on the host computer and reused.

  7. if you can access it on a website on Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not offline.

    This really is some guy just using a system he thinks is less likely to be compromised. Well, that's what everyone else does too.

  8. please go back to apprenticing on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, a breaker doesn't immediately trip at 0.1A over. Not even close.

    And you say there are 40A outlets? No kidding. I would think you'd know the names NEMA 14-50 and NEMA 6-50 (stove/dryer outlets). This article isn't about NEMA 14s or 6s or the rare 5-50., it's about regular NEMA 5 household outlets ("standard 115v nominal household (NEMA 5-15p) plug is rated for 15 amps").

    Please tell me your name so I can know I'm not having you wire my house.

  9. it's not 8.3A on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    It's 12A. And the breaker will be at 15A. 12A is the max allowed for continuous on a 15A circuit (20% derate) and car charging is considered continuous use by code.

    The breakers will not be rated for over 20A. It depends on the wire, but the outlets aren't rated for more than 15A usually, 20A tops and you cannot put a breaker higher than the outlet rating on a circuit in the US. In other countries like the UK where outlets are individually fused, you can have a high power "ring circuit" such as you speak of.

    It is very easy to trip circuit breakers charging EVs off random outlets like this. This alone is a good reason for people not to charge off random outlets like this, think of the people inside who lose services because you tripped their breaker.

  10. a Leaf takes about 1.5kW on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    12A/110V.

    Not 1kW.

    I don't know about arrested, but this kind of situation has to be controlled. It's super easy to blow a circuit breaker charging an EV off a 110V outlet. And some outlets where the wires aren't connected well will heat up and that can be a problem.

    Let's see more EVSEs installed and then we won't have to worry about this issue. And maybe we can charge a little quicker too.

  11. You're an idiot. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    I'm glad the company weeded you out though. Does a company really need someone with as little horse sense as you?

    Anyone who is able to work in the US could apply for a job like that. That includes citizens.

  12. Re:What's the basis for this fee? on Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops · · Score: 1

    Few customers produce more power then they generate, simply because they aren't paid much for that power.

    So most customers are making out like bandits being paid retail rates for virtually all the power they generate and don't use. The utilities are losing their shirts on that power.

    Why concentrate on the little extra tail on that?

  13. you don't own the battery on DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    You buy the car, lease the battery. Why the snark about changing the definition of ownership?

    If you don't like the lease the battery arrangement, get a different car. Renault even has other EVs to offer.

    It's pretty absurd to say that this changes the definition of ownership when the part affect is a part you didn't actually buy.

  14. widgets on the lock screen on Apple Developing Curve Screen iPhones and Improved Sensors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First you need to check that box in security as you saw.

    Then at the lock screen sweep from left (all the way left) to right. You'll get to a blank screen with a plus sign on it. Click the plus sign and you can add a widget.Now if you want that to be the default widget instead of one you have to sweep to get to, then you have to sweep back to the main lock screen, click and hold it and drag it to the "remove" item at the top.

    The setup/install is screwed, you do have to go through setup at least partially twice due to that update.

    The PDF renderer is bizarre and on top of that it interacts with the terrible download UI in bad ways. Frequently my phone will finish the pdf download in the notifications, then show nothing at all, then like 30 seconds later it'll bring a PDF reader to the front (my Nexus 4 did it too). And if you want to view the PDF again later, you have to click the link again, watch it download (not sure it's downloading or just verifying an existing download) before it can be viewed again.

    I love how the notifications work compared to the iPhone though. And the keyboard is about 10x better than the iPhone one, using the iPhone one now is like torture to me.

    It kills me that there is virtually no help for anything. Try asking the phone questions like "what are those icons up at the top of the screen" (the notifications). You can do so either with the excellent voice search or by typing it, either way it won't give you any answer, it just searches the web. And even if a result comes back from the web, the result isn't keyed to the OS you are running. Back when I was running ICS on my Nexus 4 I would search and get "help" answers that only applied to Gingerbread.

    Speaking of notifications, I watched two ladies use their Samsung Galaxies last week, both had notifications lined up all across the top of their screen. They didn't know what a notification was, how to view/answer it or how to make them go away. Really sad.

    I do like the Nexus 5 though, better than the Nexus 4 I had before it. And it's a heck of a value. But it still has a ways to go to catch up to the iPhone in usability in many ways.

    Now, if I could just get Apple to see what the Nexus 5 does right and copy that. The price. The screen. The keyboard. The ability to use bluetooth (non-4.0) devices without an Apple auth chip installed. The ability to use other mail clients as if they were built-in.

  15. Square was there to lose the money on Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 · · Score: 1

    The credit processing networks didn't offer an equivalent service because doing so would cause them to lose money.

    Money losing market-niches are generally rather sparsely occupied.

    Now I guess Square is established enough they are going to vacate that niche too.

  16. Re:Keep In Mind on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 1

    They talked about the fingerprint reader, the secure storage and how the new M7 processor will give you better battery life. These are real things that impact customers. Didn't they talk about faster LTE throughput too? Maybe I misremembered.

    It wasn't just specs.

  17. I was testing my N5 against a 5S at lunch today on Nexus 5 With Android 4.4 and Snapdragon 800 Challenges Apple A7 In Benchmarks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We ran Sunspider (1.0.2).

    The iPhone 5S (and a Nokia Lumia 920) pasted my Nexus 5 on Sunspider. Both were about twice as fast as the Nexus 5.

    I like the Nexus 5, it's very snappy. But when using it, it doesn't feel faster than a 5S.

    The N5 is a heck of a value.

    Now, about the awful pictures it takes... Is there any chance a better camera app (which also sucks) can improve them some?

  18. going per mile is not a great measure on Tesla Fires and Firestorms: Let's Breathe and Review Some Car Fire Math · · Score: 2

    Since the biggest factors in car fires (mechanical failure, electrical failure, being in another fire and arson) all are active not just when the car is moving but when it is still.

    The number of fires expected for Teslas in collisions at this point in time is about 1.25. We're looking at 2 or 3 right now (depending on whether you count Mexico).

    This is above average and thus a valid reason to investigate.

    Some math:
    99.7% of collisions do not result in fire. About 11M cars are in collisions per year in the US, out of 250M cars. So about 4.4% of cars are in collisions per year on the road and 0.0132% of cars will catch fire due to collisions in a year on the road.

    Tesla has about 20,000 cars out there, for about 6 months (on average), or about 10,000 car-years so far on Teslas. You would expect thus 1.32 car fires so far due to collision.

    We have 2 or 3 depending on whether you count the Mexico fire. There is a case for not counting it, since all the other stats I list are US-only.

    Given that car fires of all types rise with the age of the car since the fire prevention mechanism age and become less effective, having 2 or 3 car fires due to collision in 10,000 car years is perhaps alarming.

    Either way, despite what greencarreports says, this rate of collision fires seems high enough to warrant an investigation, even with the small sample size.

  19. yeah, that's the thing for me on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    People trying to revive the movie's image are missing the point. It's not that everyone missed what it was saying before, it's that it just wasn't very good.

    You don't have to look very far to see where it falls short. Just look at Robocop. It has Verhoeven doing satire too. The 6000 SUX commercials are like the insert commercials in Starship Troopers, and you've got "OCP runs the cops", and all that. But the big difference is that Robocop is actually a good movie. It's enjoyable during the satire and it's enjoyable during the action.

    Starship Troopers just isn't very well carried when the acting starts. You've got a lot of awful actors in a lot of ham-fisted action scenes failing to entertain.

    Is it funny at times? It it pointed at others? Certainly. Those things are some of the best parts of Verhoeven's action movies. But all-in-all, it just doesn't cut the mustard.

  20. Re:Is anyone giving money to Sony? on A Playstation 4 Teardown · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's not true. The drives also had a digital signature on them to make them work with the 360. No signature and the drive wouldn't work. The signature was tied to the drive capacity, serial number and model number.

    People hacked around this by putting custom firmware on drives that gave it the serial number and model number of another drive. You then could copy the digital signature from that drive and get as much storage as that signature allowed. So, for example, if you copied the signature from a 60GB drive you got 60GB of storage even if you have a 200GB drive.

    So no, it wasn't just a proprietary enclosure. And the process of duplicating that signature violated the DMCA. Hacking/duplicating firmware probably did too.

  21. it just doesn't have a lot of HP on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    It's a big, heavy car and it really doesn't have that much HP.

    Electric cars have a lot of torque down low so people think they are immensely powerful, but they really aren't. Not that it matters much most of the time.

    The Tesla S will also begin to slow down due to overheat in just a few minutes truly hard driving. Drivers testing the car at the refuel event at Laguna Seca said the cars started to reduce power after only 2 full power laps on the track.

  22. Yes, Apple deletes posts from their forums on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 2

    Especially if you write that everyone should return their phones.

    Use another forum to get your word out Lessig. You know how this game is played.

  23. Re:'Now we know version v7.1a is not backdoored' on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    Agreed there, but if he didn't audit the source code why did he make the statement it is not backdoored? He can't know if he didn't even look.

  24. Re:'Now we know version v7.1a is not backdoored' on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    Trust me, I'll audit it before I state that I know it isn't backdoored.

    I wouldn't hold your breath for either to happen.

  25. 'Now we know version v7.1a is not backdoored' on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 0

    'Now we know version v7.1a is not backdoored, what about previous versions? Were they backdoored?'

    This written by a guy who indicates he didn't audit the source code.