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by streety 18y ago
There was a story a few months ago about being able to figure out which keys were pressed by the sound they made. Does anyone know how that story developed? If it was validated then I'm not sure this new attack vector really changes anyth
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by streety 18y ago
The blender stops after 3 seconds.
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by streety 18y ago
I've been considering something like this for the smartphone I don't have in the automated home I also don't have. By mapping the room location by wifi strength and then the direction with an in-built compass it should be possible to 'targe
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by streety 18y ago
I've enjoyed some of the posts on the f5 devcentral site but this fell short. The premise of the article is flawed. The 'solution' presented tackles hotlinking only and doesn't prevent someone on your site saving an image to their hard dr
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by streety 18y ago
"googling my name gives me someone else for the number one result, and that dude isn't even in the software industry." You say this like it's a bad thing. I would say it was great news. The likelihood that people searching for you being c
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by streety 18y ago
Any suggestions on how to mitigate the risks of a technologically inept government leaving a list of all the sites I visit on a train? Route all traffic through a VPN out of country perhaps?
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by streety 18y ago
All the comments so far seem to focus on Uranium based nuclear weapons but what about plutonium based? My physics knowledge is basic at best but my understanding was that if you had a working nuclear reactor then plutonium could be extracte
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by streety 18y ago
As far as I'm aware this is the first economic crisis during which mini-notebooks have been available. I don't see how you can tease out the effect of the crisis from the other factors involved in their growing sales.
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by streety 18y ago
"The most sophisticated SEO strategy I've ever heard about is "remember to provide a back link whenever you put a link on you[sic] website". What's this, if not a joke." The joke being that the author feels qualified to make a blog post on
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by streety 18y ago
Please don't do it this way. Google, Yahoo and Windows Live now all have APIs you can access to fetch contacts without having to handle the users credentials. Getting contacts via delegated authentication should avoid aggravating the techn
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by streety 18y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658417.stm Not only that but apparently good old Alistair has my back.
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by streety 18y ago
It was about 6%. Not market leading but competitive. The main reason why I opened the account was that it was one of the few ISA providers accepting transfers in. They have more of my money than I would be happy losing but I consider myse
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by streety 18y ago
I found this to be an interesting read for the UK consumer perspective: http://www.fool.co.uk/news/your-money/savings/2008/10/07/ice... Personally I have a significant sum of money in an icesave, part of Landsbanki, account. With the Ice
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by streety 18y ago
The cable is clearly the weak link here. Would it be that much more difficult to hide a NAS device in the wall? p.s. Isn't there a rule about linking to the original source? http://www.instructables.com/id/Hidden_USB_Storage/
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by streety 18y ago
It sounds like an orbital ring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_ring
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by streety 18y ago
Previous, limited, discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319323
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by streety 18y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The article does say at the end that there will be another court hearing in 2009 to decide whether he is personally responsible. I assume that is to cover the excess.
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by streety 18y ago
I'm confused as to why you need to protect oil rigs from tsunamis. I thought that tsunamis were only dangerous when they reached the shore. In open water all you get is a slight swell.
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by streety 18y ago
"As background, fusion is the physical principle by which the sun produces heat and sunlight as it fuses together hydrogen atoms, not to mention being the chemical reaction that unleashes the H-bomb's lethal and terrifying force." On read
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by streety 18y ago
I feel as though I'm reading the menu at a particularly fine restaurant. There's lots of, "Oh! That's interesting." but what I really want to do is taste the food. edit: Abstracts are available at http://www.e-pages.dk/tilsted/96/
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by streety 18y ago
You need a certain level of karma before it becomes a issue. I think it's 50. Possibly 100 or it's 50 and then you can flag submissions at 100. Anyway, there are cutoffs.
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by streety 18y ago
I don't think that's entirely true. People might talk (brag?) about their latest results but if you want to compare notes on methods it can get extremely frustrating.
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by streety 18y ago
A valid point. A similar approach can be taken for solar and wind. Use excess energy to pump water into a higher reservoir which can be released during overcast/still periods. The only difference I can see being that with tidal you know e
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by streety 18y ago
Playing around with some figures sourced from wikipedia and assuming best case scenario meeting the demand for oil would require an area the size of Germany be turned over to algae oil production. One of the points raised in the post that I
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by streety 18y ago
Absolutely. Demand is, to my knowledge, rising and showing no signs of stopping any time soon. The aim of efficiency drives are to slow this rise, not lead to the decommissioning of power stations.
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by streety 18y ago
What I found most sad about this is that in the entire post he didn't post a single link. Not one. There is a lot of new technologies discussed and I for one would like more information so I can make an informed evaluation. This post does
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by streety 18y ago
I haven't read the whole post yet but what I think he means is that if energy efficiency goes up locally there will be a bunch of power stations sat idling because it isn't efficient to send the energy long distances to areas where demand h
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by streety 18y ago
Regards #2 the article doesn't give many suggestions and I'm not sure what is suggested is all that good. "the geeks want better security, more customization, and full compatibility." Assuming geeks are highly tech savvy, living at the blee
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by streety 18y ago
"I assume that by post, you mean comment." I feel I've been caught out on my speelling while commenting on someone else's. Shame on me! "However, I think it should include submissions. :-)" I agree completely.
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by streety 18y ago
Having worked with formaldehyde I expect that is a horrific practice for all concerned. Very shocking. I'm not sure why, as a vegetarian, you feel you don't need to worry about avian flu. You catch it by being in close proximity to live p

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