Comment rewrite RFC 1149 for using camels (Score 1) 541
A small modification to RFC 1149 for using camels. That should do it.
Comment it's not green (Score 2, Insightful) 404
TFA calls it a "green energy project". The type of people who think this is green energy are the complete f-ing morons that side track the rest of us from real viable energy advancements.
Further more, the TFA claims this will "lower the energy consumption of the market". At the inefficiency of this (which is already limited to being no more efficient than a car is itself), it will actually increase the energy consumption of the market.
Comment buy the name in the other TLD(s) (Score 1) 800
I had a similar situation. In my situation I was able to purchase the
Soon after that the squatter dropped the name and I picked it up. I'd paid for 'domain name back order' at my registrar, so it cost me a little more than normal, but not much more and the fucking squatter didn't get any of that extra cost.
Comment Re:This should be a lesson... (Score 1) 780
Offsite? The operative word should have been offline , as in an offline-backup.
Comment Re:Power factor compensators (Score 1) 859
Oops... I didn't have enough coffee in me when I read the post I was replying to. My post was replying to the notion that you can correct the power factor of a CFL with an inductor/cap, not that you can make it appear to draw no power to the metering device. (Which is also not true.)
Comment Re:Power factor compensators (Score 2, Informative) 859
It is in fact, you can make a fluro light appear to your meter to use zero power (with the right inductor/cap combo).
No, you can't.
There are two different types of power factor. One is related to the phase of the current being shifted from the phase of the voltage, the other is related to the shape of the wave if you plot the current.
The first type, which is the type that most people are familiar with, can be corrected with inductors or capacitors. This is often done for induction motors.
The second type of bad power factor is often due to rectifiers feeding a capacitor... your basic AC to DC conversion. The current only flows when the voltage on the AC side exceeds the voltage on the DC side. Thus, you get spikes of current centered around the peaks of the AC voltage. The phase is correct, but the current waveform is not sinusoidal. This cannot be simply corrected by inductors or capacitors.
As a side note, this is the bad power factor that many computer power supplies suffer from.
More complex switching supplies can overcome this issue. I've usually seen it referred to as a "power factor corrected" supply. They cost more because there are more parts in it. Thus, you don't see them in cheap CFLs.
IAAEE (I am an Electrical Engineer)
Comment Re:Doesn't Make Economic Sense (Score 1) 769
Add on top of that, that a diesel engine lasts longer because unburnt fuel actually lubricates the engine, compared to gasoline (now with ethanol!) that de-lubricates the engine.
Comment a double screwing, I can't have it anyway (Score 1) 355
It looks like I'm one of the people getting a double screwing from this. I can get the content (because I'm on Verizon, and they have a 'powered by Verizon' badge on the site, so obviously Verizon is paying for this content in some way), but I can't get the content because their player plugin is only for Windoze and Mac. And I don't want the content.
Comment Re:Say what? (Score 2, Funny) 452
Your data is more secure if you keep the computer powered off, in the first place.
Comment Ronja (Score 1) 264
Welcome to 10 years ago:
http://ronja.twibright.com/
Comment Re:left-view reporting does not imply unbalanced (Score 1) 377
Reporters, in general, are in a much better position to connect the dots than is the general public.
Too bad there are so few REAL reporters. I get my news by combining feeds from different commentators.
Submission + - Crime caused by publicized data about convicts? (latimes.com) 1
nem75 writes: "What has been highly discussed when the Megan's Law database of sex offenders was introduced seems to have come true in Lakeport, CA. The L.A. times reports about Michael A. Dodele, a convicted rapist, found murdered in a Lakeport trailer park. He moved there after having been released from prison just 35 days before. A 29-year-old construction worker has been arrested who explains that he attacked the suspect to protect his son from child molestation, after he found out on the internet about Dodele being a sex offender convicted of crimes involving minors. Only thing is, the public entry for Dodele in the database was wrong — though he was found guilty of committing crimes against adult women, he was in fact no child molester. Dodele's entry in Megan's Law DB has been removed recently."
Submission + - Creative art from Computer hardware parts [PICS] (funnytogo.com)
milos31 writes: "An interesting set of images with various models made from computer hardware parts"
Submission + - Offline Google Map Generator (google.com)
deander2 writes: "Project ogmaps downloads and builds an offline version of the normal Google Maps UI we know and love. It uses the same HTML+Javascript interface but pulls the image files from your local hard drive instead of their servers. Give it a location (or set of locations) before you leave, and enjoy on the road without having to hunt down an open access point. :)"
Submission + - So what is the 'Evil Color'?
marvinglenn writes: LEDs are being everywhere, and nearly for everything, now. Apparently, if you get the right wavelength LEDs, you can make people vomit. If this pans out, it's a nice non-lethal weapon. The US Department of Homeland Security has awarded a contract for a company developing just that. All I want to know is: what's the wavelength of this 'evil color' (from TFA)?
