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by trebor 15y ago
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who likes the normalize.css technique.
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by trebor 15y ago
I think this was mentioned in the other article's discussion, but the guy was driving, not the car.
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by trebor 15y ago
Looks like a good opportunity to relegalize mining and do a responsible job of mining it out. This kind of wealth could really help repay our debts and help our economy improve. And possibly make things cheaper to make microcircuits here, r
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by trebor 15y ago
You hate the ISP doing it, but you'll freely give Google a list of all sites you visit? Admittedly this doesn't tie to your Google account directly, but if you hit it recently enough for both requests to have a similar time and IP address..
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by trebor 15y ago
This is pretty ubiquitous to the industry, not only Rails.
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by trebor 15y ago
I haven't found one. At least with Rails 3 / ARel you can do queries like: Posts.where("posted_on BETWEEN ? AND ?", Date.current - 2.months, Date.current) But it still isn't the same. You can create a Rails app without an ORM, but
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by trebor 15y ago
As someone who knows SQL pretty well, it amazes me how Rails applications are architected. Recently I needed to create a record without a primary key (as a numerical ID). This isn't an issue to the database, but Rails would die any time it
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by trebor 15y ago
Some aging statistical research shows that if you have a bad experience you'll share it with 26 other people; having a good experience nets only 13 people. Multiply that by the internet and predict the market effects. As disastrous as this
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by trebor 15y ago
I'll take my visible 2D batteries for 24wH any day. :D
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by trebor 15y ago
At only 20wH/l for this battery, and with the grid and metal parts still visible, this "transparent" battery does nothing great. The energy density is laughable.
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by trebor 15y ago
Why indeed. It's just a publicity stunt, of course.
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by trebor 15y ago
I use Moom. It's inexpensive and you just hover your mouse above the maximize icon. http://manytricks.com/moom/
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by trebor 15y ago
What I meant about it being impossible to patch the ECU was, if they used one of the single-write chips to store the firmware it couldn't be hacked/patched except by being replaced, or possibly manipulated from the inputs. > Indeed, res
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by trebor 15y ago
Unlike lots of people, I RTM.
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by trebor 15y ago
I can't stand OnStar for those exact reasons, especially the GPS/data-connection.
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by trebor 15y ago
> And where there's software, there will always be viruses. Agreed. I just hope that the car manufacturers will take developments like this into account, and make these systems very robust.
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by trebor 15y ago
Interesting. But again (see my other response to a similar statement), theory is wildly different from reality. The ECU controls things like fuel-oxygen ratios, how much the throttle is open, etc. Steering, braking, and the transmission are
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by trebor 15y ago
Perhaps the barrier is lower. But understand my position: I am not an advocate of automated cars, or even highly computerized cars. The more computerized the car becomes the more points of failure it gets, whether that be a dropped internet
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by trebor 15y ago
Unlike a website, a car requires access to a physical, proprietary interface to embedded components. You must craft an attack to the interface and ECU. And there are chips that can have their memory permanently burned into them (I don't kno
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by trebor 15y ago
I disagree. One, you must have the knowledge of how to hack that specific car's ECU. You must know the make, model, and exact ECU of the car. Two, you have to actually be familiar with reverse-engineering ECUs to begin with. Three, you need
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by trebor 15y ago
Except that the target may discover the leak, and the lack of ability to brake; newer cars will warn when the fluid pressure is low. Switching the car to first gear to slow could get the driver out of immediate danger. I think the emergency
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by trebor 15y ago
But the way I understand it is that Thorium-based fission is more costly to weaponize than uranium, or plutonium based fission. Might be more technical, but it should be able to be operated without such a high technological level. So you co
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by trebor 15y ago
I keep hearing "fusion" and keep wondering if we shouldn't go for the thorium route first. It's safer than fission w/uranium and can even be taught to third world countries without fear of giving them nuclear bombs.
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by trebor 15y ago
As an LED enthusiast I knew it was only a matter of time before a good LED bulb came out. I'm hoping Switch lives up to this preview of it.
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by trebor 15y ago
Allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment. MongoDB is not the new MySQL, because software with as much inertia and adoption as MySQL will not see easy or even complete replacement. Case-in-point: IE6. IE6 is still with us today, as muc
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by trebor 15y ago
Then guys like LulzSec set up a hack and toggle everyone's locks every 5 seconds. It's safer to roll your own than use a service like this...
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by trebor 15y ago
See the other comment for the article/premise I referred to. I'm not a scientist, just a programmer trying to figure out if this'd work. The article stated that the magnetism of light is 100 million times more powerful than previously thoug
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by trebor 15y ago
If I remember correctly, there was recent talk about the magnetic component of light being much strong than thought. Well, why not focus light on this material and let the heat make a stronger magnetic field and use it as a solar panel?
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by trebor 15y ago
MySQL, with SQLite for development environments. I want to learn/migrate to Postgres though, what with MySQL being in Oracle's hands.
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by trebor 15y ago
Is it just me, or does the article date say "July 22, 2011" when it's June?

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