janekm

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by janekm 10y ago
If it's using a milling machine to cut the PCBs it's neither cheap (breaks a few end-mills per project), instant (have to redo the board several times to fix milling issues) not very useful (1 layer, huge tolerances)... It's
482.
by janekm 10y ago
Actually that would be really cool with self-driving cars, have a "tanker car" pull up next to you to extend the range for long-range "sorties"...
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by janekm 10y ago
It's the standard one, pretty much. The one everyone uses...
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by janekm 10y ago
Well... I gather uBeam's stick was to give a demo of an impractical ultrasonic power transfer system (off-the-shelf transducers transmitting a small amount of power over an insignificant distance) and claim that they just needed to sca
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by janekm 10y ago
A lot of these should be in the public domain now, seems like a perfect opportunity for putting together a nice collection of these (perhaps even sold through Kindle)?
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by janekm 10y ago
There's already a Flash upgrade service for iPhones available in China (similar kind of BGA chip). Which is kind of terrifying, the Flash on the iPhone has undersell so it has to be milled off on a CNC router, but apparently the proces
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by janekm 10y ago
For what it's worth, that is what countries with competent security do (Israel, China whenever/wherever there are security concerns), multiple stages of security checks (but of course the earlier ones are designed to minimise queu
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by janekm 10y ago
CH340 has no practical Mac support last I tried. Try CP2102, works great and cheap too.
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by janekm 11y ago
In that traffic jam, is 1 car passing that point every 2s? No? Then I guess your road is not operating at peak capacity.
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by janekm 11y ago
For a government agency to spend money is not as undesirable as it would be for you and me. Budgets have to be justified, and not spending money leads to reduced budgets (and hence reduced influence). Spending budget on high-profile project
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by janekm 11y ago
Even that XMos dev kit won't give you all you need for the beam-forming part of the microphone array: "Customer adds own DSP to create differentiated product" The DSP is where you'd implement the beam-forming algorithm t
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by janekm 11y ago
They have not confirmed that at all. Should any such contact have existed, it would have been through the destroyed personal phones.
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by janekm 11y ago
The Google Play store is also not accessible in China, an no doubt a few other countries, so it's just sensible to provide an alternative download anyway...
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by janekm 11y ago
Try tacky flux, much nicer still...
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by janekm 11y ago
Fair enough, the Google comment was unfounded (and I do believe that many at Google also have strong convictions to protect their customers' privacy but it's a lot harder to do when your business model depends on storing your cust
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by janekm 11y ago
It's implicit, the equivalent of a warrant canary, if there had been anything of remote interest (which nobody expected) there would have been a lot of noise about that.
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by janekm 11y ago
Am I the only one who reads the quotes in this article as "see Apple, if you don't give us what we want then we may just have operational reasons to not disclose vulnerabilities to you, wouldn't that be a shame..."?
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by janekm 11y ago
I'm continually baffled by the pathological disdain some people like yourself seem to show towards Apple... Is it the cognitive dissonance that "Google does no evil", therefore if Apple is seen working for the privacy of thei
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by janekm 11y ago
Not to mention fishing, guns, hifi, photography... Mostly clearly targeted at a male audience as is evident from the adverts in them.
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by janekm 11y ago
I'm sure you're right that the exact timing is speculation, but a peak of 164 for an active individual seems quite reasonable to me (he did state bus resting heart rate is 58). It's pretty pointless stealing a modern phone wi
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by janekm 11y ago
Turn off, rather, in fact I heard from friends in Brussels that cell towers in areas with bomb threats had been switched off when there were threats a few months ago.
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by janekm 11y ago
The acoustic impedance of water is 3500 that of air: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_impedance so the intensity of that sound will be 3500 times less than it would be in air. Also, the impedance match between
503.
by janekm 11y ago
More accurately, better if considering antennas of equal footprint area, however chip antennas are usually designed to be very small (like this one) as the extra cost is only justified when space is at a premium. In my experience in practic
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by janekm 11y ago
There's also this one for iOS, which is pretty impressive (and has direct Latex output): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-mathpad-handwriting...
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by janekm 11y ago
So it wasn't after all, with more testing... I must have been lucky and hit a spot where the obfuscation distance was small.
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by janekm 11y ago
Oddly, when I checked during the last few days Google Maps suddenly got a lot better, including 3D buildings and accuracy to about 50m for GPS location. Maybe something changed recently? There have been rumours about Google re-engaging in C
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by janekm 11y ago
You can get cross-border sims now which let you use the HK network (going around the GFW) even on the mainland.
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by janekm 11y ago
Indeed, the link only confirms that he allegation had been made; whether it has ever occurred is rather harder to confirm, of course.
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by janekm 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it were mostly due to journalists exaggerating these stories, I'm always amazed by what gets written after I talk to a journalist ;) It would make sense that a "day in the life" story would be
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by janekm 11y ago
Yes, there have been such allegations. A recent case involves Airbus who allege industrial espionage in the context of revelations that the German BND helped the NSA spy on European businesses: http://www.bbc.com/news/w

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