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Comment Best to reuse and run them down hard (Score 1) 57

There are a lot of lithium battery -ode designs. Reuse first. A 50kWH pack can run at half capacity for a while until all the important stuff gives out. I take worn out IMR batteries (3AH, 15A continuous draw) from vaping and reuse them for flashlights. It's like a nursing home for them.

After they exhaust all the charge cycles, then they go to the recycle bin.

Comment Re:Get the DEBARK Smart Video Doorbell (Score 1) 120

I am more interested in this model, after dealing with the RING for my parents.
Looks like a solid Chinese clone of the RING, and the SD card and de-mount notifications are appreciated.

I've not heard of SDVR, and was wondering if it can dump stuff to a NAS on the same network? I just don't know what the heck SDVR means. Google wasn't much help.

Or, if it's the other way, does it just keep the SD card network shared so you can review videos whenever?

Comment Re:skewl (Score 1) 631

...but it is a fact that 33% of the "adult male African-American" demographic has a felony conviction.

Just to clarify, was that specific to one study in one location? Or one study overall?
Percentage seems a little high, but is entirely possible depending on how small a sample it is, or where it was studied.

Comment Re:I suppose that's an improvement, but... (Score 1) 205

This sounds like my iPod Video (5G). Sure, I can replace the hard drive and battery, but I'd have to gently separate the case clips and screen from the front cover just to get in.

Dedicated people can do it, but clumsy people like me can't. This sort of thing is what made 3rd party repair shops a thing, whether or not Apple gets money from it.

Either they want to give a nod to those 3rd party shops (doubtful) or they cut costs on the entire manufacturing line to use default, mass produced parts that are also sold to every other motherboard manufacturer.

Comment Re:Broken Extensions? (Score 1) 127

In v48, addon signing was REQUIRED, with no about:config workaround like in previous versions.

I'm still sitting on v47 until I find a way to run unsigned (read: old/unsupported but still working) addons. The authors aren't going to resurrect something they made three years ago just to get it approved. They got some donations already and moved on.

Comment Firefox 1.0 (Score 2) 113

I also remember when Firefox was toted as the light and speedy version of Mozilla.

I remember when I could run Firefox on a USB stick with less than 100MB memory usage! And 200MB with the flash plugin!

They've always had customization, addons, extensions, and everything else. As time went on however, in handling all those APIs, it slows down. Then, some of the addon authors slow it down even more. Maybe it's because they use Javascript for everything?

I know this is a totally vague question, but it went from slim to bloated fast.

Comment Re:Microphones (Score 1) 77

Streaming live ambiance from the surface of Mars would be interesting. It's still eerie to me to see photos of the surface, simply because of the colors and shades present in the sand. It's (bad joke) out of this world.

Submission + - Sexually Transmitted Virus Sterilizes Insects While Encouraging Mating (nationalgeographic.com)

cold fjord writes: National Geographic reports, "Why would a sterile male cricket mate with an infertile female? On the surface, this behaviour makes no sense: sex takes energy and effort, and there’s nothing in it for either of these partners. Neither one can foster the next generation. Shelley Adamo from Dalhousie University has the answer. Her team have shown that one particular insect virus can sterilise crickets, but also change their behaviour so they continue to mate with each other. By doing so, they pass the virus on to uninfected hosts. This virus is the latest example of parasitic mind control ... Scientists have now documented hundreds of such manipulators." — TED2014 Video

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