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by salem 12y ago
The documentary is interesting. Some of the steel structure held together by bolts were welded together with some extra steel braces.
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by salem 12y ago
Tesla would also be in a great position to sell grid storage to utilities using batteries that are awaiting swapping, and to re-purpose (not recycle) Tesla batteries for grid storage.
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by salem 13y ago
Not only that, but the early ARM architecture was terrible at running unix or other non-single address space OS's. If I remember correctly, the caches were virtually tagged, even on the StrongARM, making context switching on linux very
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by salem 13y ago
I wonder how long until Apple makes an official USB Power Delivery adapter for MacBooks.
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by salem 13y ago
They did however release a software patch within about 2 weeks of getting the report from Israel, but it took 10 days to make it to Saudi Arabia, one day late.
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by salem 13y ago
Sure, but the point is that it did not have enough precision for both a large absolute value, and small time measurements, when based on time since boot.
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by salem 13y ago
My understanding is that they used a floating point value for time measurements, and they used time since boot as a reference. After a long enough time since boot, there were not enough significant digits available to represent both time si
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by salem 13y ago
This is exactly what the Israelis figured out and told the Pentagon before this failed interception, but the information was not passed on to units in Saudi Arabia.
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by salem 13y ago
I am not a lawyer, but FreedomPop has one of the broadest privacy policies I have seen for an ISP. This leaves them with a lot of leeway when monetizing your use of the service, especially section 1 and section 4.
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by salem 13y ago
My impression of this is that Apple and Android still cannot 100% guarantee that your personal information is safe from apps, or that content is used as licensed. Apple's mitigation for this is aggressive curation of the Appstore, whil
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by salem 13y ago
Google maps was based on an acquisition, as were many of Google's marquee products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
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by salem 13y ago
That, and because historically, the ARM instruction set has always been the gold-standard power-efficient 32-bit architecture. Especially in thumb mode. Open-source software and the extreme efficiency goals of data centers make an interesti
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by salem 13y ago
It's probably been shot with a tilt-shift lens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt–shift_photography You can make a tilt-shift lens pretty easily with very cheap components: http://cow.mooh.org/proj
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by salem 13y ago
So apparently there was no fine. Amazing. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/12/06/ftc-flashlight...
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by salem 13y ago
Anecdotally, I also heard today that synthetic sapphire/ruby gems have become difficult for jewelers to source. Maybe someone (Apple?) is already soaking up higher purity raw materials for sapphire production.
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by salem 13y ago
"Usually a computer engineer or software person works with the EE" This does not always happen. This really depends on Conway's Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law For example, if the fir
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by salem 13y ago
That sounds really awesome! But as a military system, this project likely had a lot of mandated quality processes.
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by salem 13y ago
At the risk of a flame war, I'm going to state the obvious. firmware code often has quality issues because it is often written by Electrical Engineers. EE's often have little software engineering taught as mandatory subjects in co
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Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play...(venturebeat.com)
2 points by salem 13y ago|0 comments
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by salem 13y ago
Yes, people are frequently one switch away from death, the difference is the consequences of that switch. Also, these are pretty much standard these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device
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by salem 13y ago
Maybe this is it? http://green.autoblog.com/2012/10/31/calbattery-working-on-3...
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Kleiner Perkins Has Invested in a Startup to Improve Battery Power by 300%(techcrunch.com)
4 points by salem 13y ago|1 comments
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by salem 13y ago
Back to cave men, I'm sure
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Label sues Spotify over playlists(techdirt.com)
2 points by salem 13y ago|0 comments
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by salem 13y ago
So I guess the question now is, has this changed much since 2009?
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by salem 13y ago
The claim that he had the password on him is being denied. What they really should have done is hand transported a very large one-time pad, and after a one-time is successfully transported without interception, transport the data encoded wi
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by salem 13y ago
Seems to be working with the GCHQ/Scotland Yard claiming to be decoding a TryeCrypt volume, likely with cooperation from the USA http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/30/us-usa-security-sn...
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by salem 13y ago
This touches on one of the big issues with the agency model, Apple's 30% cut of IAP, and the rule requiring all digital goods purchases go Apple IAP made Apple the only bookstore on apple iDevices, outside the browser. IMHO, when the i
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by salem 13y ago
People may not like how this message is delivered, but I've worked support at a university full of supposedly smart people and saw the same sort of things. It's a real issue that I hope the raspberry pi and associated efforts do s
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by salem 13y ago
I've been there! My motorbike was in the shop for weeks, and they couldn't figure it out. A quick scan of the manual's troubleshooting section, a quick chat with the mechanic, a trip by me to the wreckers to buy an ECU and op

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