Comment Re:Return on investment (Score 1) 541
When did they move Fools' Day to 4 January? :P
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Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 232
Do not mistake transient governments for the principles on which a nation is founded. I'll take "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" over "Peace, Order, and Good Government" any day
I'm stealing that
Comment Re:sure it is (Score 1) 1079
In some parts of the United States, actual police officers can be hired privately in their off time to work as security guards. In many cases they are allowed to wear their official uniform. -Police officers in such places may never truly be considered "off-duty". In some municipalities, police officers may be required to carry their weapons in circumstances even when they aren't on the tax payers' clock.
Comment Re:Don't forget the asteroids. (Score 1) 361
Doesn't the tendency of an event recurring increase with the passage of time?
No, the likelihood of an event happening stays the same. If an event has a 1/100 chance of happening in a year, it still has a 1/100 chance of happening this year, which ever year this is.
Comment Re:a PC actually wrote this article (Score 1) 551
Standby power uses about 0.5-4 watts. Not ideal, but that's pretty small.
Not Ideal is right... Add the power supply for the monitor's soft power button, The Bricks for The Speakers, Printer, Router.. The fact I have more than one computer (3)... a few misc. things too and all of sudden it's close to 150 watts when not in use.
My motherboard does nothing to kill the phantom loads of peripherals.
That's the beauty of a 2 kW appliance timer. All that crap is really off.
Yes after doing this to not only the computer, but the LCD TV and other things in the house using appliance timers I did indeed save 70%, yeah **** 70%! Not exaggerating. This is the real deal. Shut the crap off and you do save a lot. Noticeable on the First bill after doing it. $75 electricity down to $20. It is indeed worth doing. Stand-by never gave me any noticeable savings on my bill. Shutting the stuff off off off saved me far beyond my expectations.
Comment Re:a PC actually wrote this article (Score 1) 551
In order to do that, the power supply is still running.
My computer does not have a BIOS option for power up. It does however have a power up after a power outage setting. So the wheels started turning. I set the shutdown to run on a schedule. The some time after the computer shuts down I have an appliance timer cut power to the outlet. This not only shuts off power to the computer (which has already shut down) it also kills power to all phantom loads associated with it. Then when the appliance timer comes back around to turn the power on, the computer turns on as if after a power failure.
This is the kind of thing you figure out when you pay different rates for on-peak and off-peak power at your home.
Comment Re:(Sigh) (Score 1) 412
They are all censored by your government
Comment Re:::yawn:: nothing to see here, as usual. (Score 1) 292
Well.. All THEIR base are belong to us.
Comment Re:Power Law? (Score 1) 397
You did your math backwards!
Power DECREASES with distance!
If you were right, we could get more power by moving away, that doesn't make any sense.
It should be about 1 and a half watts at 5 meters, not 375!
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Submission + - SPAM: 11-year-old takes school network by the horns
alphadogg writes: When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Millbrook, Ala., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. For Jon — who says his favorite reading material is computer trade magazines — it's been the experience of a lifetime, even getting to select and install a gateway security appliance largely by himself. "This is kind of a small school, and I'm known as the computer whiz," the sixth grader says
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The 30 Dumbest Video Game Titles In History 113
An anonymous reader writes "Not every game involves taking an axe to the head of a criminal; some classics from the 80's involved massacring camels from aircraft, or in the case of "How to Be a Complete Bastard" for the C64, something altogether different(unless you're a camel). CNet has collected the 30 most ridiculous game names and concepts from the last 25 years. Quite frankly, how some of these — including "Touch Dic" from Korea — ever made it onto store shelves is beyond me."
