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by ajays 13y ago
I've heard of some folks using a Fresnel lens to concentrate light onto a smaller area, where the silicon is. It improves the efficiency significantly, but can also cause heat issues (which can hurt efficiency).
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by ajays 13y ago
Wait: so before accessing a website I have to go read its terms of use? What if I set up a website, put a clause saying "you agree to pay $50/page view" in there, and hid it away. Google crawlers will find my site in no time,
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by ajays 13y ago
Here's a tin-foil-hat needing random theory of the day: Apple gave keys (and protocol) to decode iMessages to PRC Government, in return for being allowed to sell iPhones in China. Somehow they leaked, and now someone in China is offeri
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by ajays 13y ago
I apologize for sounding outraged; I wasn't outraged at the actual events, but the story telling. It's as if someone leaves out critical parts of a story, and you're so engrossed in it that you think: wait a minute, how did t
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by ajays 13y ago
I understand that it's a fun little story. But, for god's sake, at least make it somewhat believable!
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by ajays 13y ago
This story is woefully incomplete. Where is the kid flying to? Boston, I imagine. Who takes him through Customs and Immigration there? Since he flies out of LHR 4 times a year, one can only presume that he flies back also. What happens in t
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by ajays 13y ago
No, Weev did not "exploit" anything. He _requested_ information from a server. If the server owner had so desired, they could have made the data private by adding a password. They chose not to. In the end, the decision to offer We
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by ajays 13y ago
It is the server's problem. A misconfigured server is not a client's problem. Set aside the SQL injection. Suppose there's a bug in Apache's path parsing such that using "\" instead of "/" causes
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by ajays 13y ago
/u/biot's analogy is apt. But I don't understand why it isn't a defence that the HTTP protocol starts with a REQUEST . The server is the one who actually serves up the information. If I _request_ something from yo
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by ajays 13y ago
"Because the housing bubble was not driven by supply and demand." .... except in San Francisco. Everyone wants to live here, and Facebook, Twitter, etc. are turning out paper millionaires by the bushel. Expect the house prices to
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by ajays 13y ago
Don't let the sugar-coating fool you: the Google guys got a sweet deal from NASA, all in the guise of "research". The stats from the article prove it: of their massive fleet of aircraft, only 1 was used for any 'research
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by ajays 13y ago
Every photo on Flickr has a copyright tag attached to it. At least on Flickr it's not challenging at all.
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by ajays 13y ago
> Plus it's a prize Microsoft probably feels it can't afford to lose. Just like their search engine? They have been flushing cash down the "online services" drain for years, with nary a profit to show, nor any progre
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by ajays 13y ago
I feel that often such discussions tend to the extremes: either do nothing, or replace everyone with robots. The happy middle ground, for example, is left out because it's the least controversial. There are some jobs that are best a
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by ajays 13y ago
> By programmers, I mean real programmers. You can hire decent programmers for $150-$200 a month. This shows you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. A decent programmer will cost you close to $1000/month; a good
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by ajays 13y ago
I am sorry, but even if you absolutely ignore everything else, Clapper's lying to Congress was illegal. He has also exposed the fact that NSA has violated the constitution many times. What is "classified" anyways? Some guy si
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by ajays 13y ago
I know the stock price isn't everything, but this is quite telling about Ballmer's reign: http://tinyurl.com/ballmerballmer I didn't include AAPL, because that would have destroyed the others. And GOOG wasn&#
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by ajays 13y ago
It's a shame that the EFF had to fight so hard to get the opinions. What is really telling is that the Obama Administration delayed the release till after the FAA was passed and signed.... and then released a completely redacted versio
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by ajays 13y ago
"Dear Google, please save us!" You might as well have said, "Dear God, please save us!" Sorry, but you won't be saved by any corporate entity; they're in bed with the surveillance state anyways. It is people li
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by ajays 13y ago
(I voted against it) In the ballot, they claimed a cost of $45B. But after the measure passed, the cost ballooned to $98B (yes, you read that correctly). Then, after howls of protest, the cost now is $68B.
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by ajays 13y ago
I'm sure they would _absolutely_ love to. But the Constitution came with conditions to prevent this very thing. But don't worry: sooner or later they'll figure out a "threat" big enough to get rid of it, while peopl
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by ajays 13y ago
They won't let you in. They'll just put you on a flight back. Sometimes, they won't even let you board. See this latest example: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-0629-no...
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by ajays 13y ago
Because the US knows what's possible? They know how much they can tap the cable, and if the cable had Chines equipment, they'd be tapping it similarly too?
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by ajays 13y ago
The reason Obama Administration is pissed at Snowden is not because he leaked so-called "secrets", but because he exposed the "man behind the curtain". That is to say: Obama is no different than any mainstream Republican
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by ajays 13y ago
Is it GB/s or Gb/s ? Even SATA3 maxes out at 6Gb/s
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by ajays 13y ago
> And, errr, here you posit "total - non-trivial number < most" I would posit that you have a significantly higher percentage of pro-legalization Democrats than Republicans. Most opposition to legalization comes from Republi
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by ajays 13y ago
You may not like the reference, but: Nixon (a Republican) started the "drug war". Nancy Reagan with her "just say no" campaign was totally anti-drug. But in general: most of the Republicans are opposed to MJ legalization
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by ajays 13y ago
The reason the "DAC" is being built in Oakland is because Diane Feinstein is the biggest war monger out there. How can she even run on a Democrat ticket surprises me.
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by ajays 13y ago
Notice that the bogeyman of "terrorism" is coming up just as the drug war is winding down (Cali legalized medical MJ in 1996, and this year Colo & Wash legalized it completely for recreational use). The powers-that-be need an
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by ajays 13y ago
The biggest problem with GIFs would be the colorspace: GIFs are usually limited to 256 colors. Color quantization from a JPEG to GIF would kill the photo. The whole "living image" sounds nice. If it was possible to create a format

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