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Comment Re:Do the math (Score 5, Interesting) 338

I love them. And I will try to keep getting them. If the problem is that people equate cleaning power with Watts, they should mandate some measurement of cleaning factor instead of maximum power. Then people can determine if they want the 2100 W vacuum cleaner, or the 1600 one with the same cleaning factor. I see what happens at other peoples houses. They have their eco vacuum and the cat hair just stays on the floor if you don't pas over it 10 times. It's the same thing with all their washing machines. In the US washing my clothes takes about 1 hour for washing and 40 minutes for drying. In the EU with all their eco washing machines it takes 2 and half hours for washing clothes (one and a half for quick) and 80 minutes to dry it. Is it more eco-friendly? I'm sure it is. But in return I have to actually plan out when I'm going to wash my clothes because it takes twice as long. Maybe I just have a bad washing machine, but all the ones I've used here are like this.

Comment Re:Safety vs Law (Score 1) 475

You can say it's the fault of the people who speed all you want. It is, but that's not the point. But at the end of the day laws have to be followed by people and when making laws (or setting speed limits) you have to take into account how people will react. As others have already posted, many if not most people will drive at whatever speed feels safe for the road conditions. In fact this is what is taught in driving school in Europe. If you feel that the situation requires a different speed, drive at a different speed. Usually this means drive slower. The problem is that when the speed limit is lower than the speed people normally feel is safe, they will ignore the limit. This is why you don't just put a highway near a school and stick on a 15mph sign. You make a small street with bumps and lights and all that.

Submission + - Daimler's solution for annoying out-of-office email: delete it

AmiMoJo writes: Sure, you can set an out-of-office auto-reply to let others know they shouldn't email you, but that doesn't usually stop the messages; you may still have to handle those urgent-but-not-really requests while you're on vacation. That's not a problem if you work at Daimler, though. The German automaker recently installed software that not only auto-replies to email sent while staff is away, but deletes it outright.

Submission + - Boffins find hundreds of thousands of woefully insecure IoT devices (theregister.co.uk)

mask.of.sanity writes: More than 140,000 internet-of-things devices, from routers to CCTV systems contain zero-day vulnerabilities, backdoors, hard coded crackable passwords and blurted private keys, according to the first large scale analysis of firmware in embedded devices. Four researchers from EURECOM France found the flaws when conducting a simple but systematic, automated, and large-scale analysis of 32,356 firmware images running on embedded systems within thousands of different devices.

Of these, 693 had at least one vulnerability while 38 contained active (or possibly recently patched) zero day flaws.

Comment Re:$200MM (Score 1) 107

And I completely agree with you on all of those points. Like I already said: I was just pointing out that kilo = k not K. There is no ambiguity there. If you just have a k without context, then it is pretty much impossible to know what exactly it means. Also note that according to SI a kb is 1000 b. It's just that no one seems to actually use the proposed kib notation, because kibi byte sounds stupid. On a related note, it's also very confusing that in many places people use b for byte instead of B. Or sometimes it's unclear which they mean.

Comment Re:So what (Score 1) 168

The reason processors are small is mostly due to yield. Silicon wafers have more or less a constant amount of defects per unit of area. What this means is that the larger your chip is, the lower the number of working processors you end up with. The smaller the chip the more working processors you end up with per wafer.

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