I suppose you could, but it'd really ruin your reception. As long as you have the need for a functioning antenna connected to the device, stray signals will be received as well as transmitted. Not to mention that your idea would increase the build cost in a way that most manufacturers would deem "unnecessary".

Just as described in some of the prior posts, I'd prefer UploadStream and DownloadStream. But if for some reason you don't want to use those names, how about StreamToServer and StreamToClient ?

I've got a 48" LCD that is used daily. Also an old P4 Xeon machine (call it the space heater) running 24/7. That and the other usual stuff (laptop, stereo, kitchen appliances, washing machine, electric dryer, clocks, various chargers, etc.) The only common amenity that I am without is the dishwasher.

My normal power consumption is about 400-500 kwH per month. Granted I do have a gas furnace and water heater. Of course during the summer, during the months when I am running two A/C units pretty much constantly, it does rise up to about 1700 kwH.

But anyways 500 kWH is not at all uncommon, and is not indicative of living "in a one-room shack with a single LED lightbulb and a Mac mini".

Surprised nobody has suggested denyhosts yet. I used to get my port 22 knocked on at an average of once per second, for months. For convenience I didn't feel like changing my ssh port, and it didn't worry me much because it is my personal machine with root login turned off, and with good passwords on all other login accounts. But as someone else mentioned, it filled my logs and made it hard to notice the more important things... After installing denyhosts, the ssh dictionary attacks were blocked almost immediately and almost entirely.

Most planes employ a self-adjusting louvre system that continuously pushes in the right amount of air to keep cabin pressure at the right level. When the amount of air coming in equals the amount of air flowing out (and there most certainly is air flowing out), cabin pressure is equalized.

They do seal the doors, for passenger comfort. Yet, the plane is definitely not 100% airtight. Or watertight for that matter.

I'm absolutely certain that I could cook the same food in just as much or less time with only 1 V.

By the way, I'm getting ever closer to turning in my slashdot card. If the editors can't catch such a fundamental (and fundamentally simple) misuse of terms, E.G. if the editors don't understand these simple electrical principles that were discovered ALMOST TWO HUNDRED FREAKIN YEARS AGO, then I no longer want to be associated.

This is a TECH site. The editor of this submission should know the difference between voltage and power. No, I'm not new here. It used to be better.

From TFA: "The nine spots should enable several family members to watch a 3D image at the same time."

Is it just me, or does the thought of nine people crowding around a 12" screen seem a little absurd?

Heh. He *demands* a better crack to be made. Why doesn't the developer just build a freeware version and post the torrent to that?
Oh yeah... That route wouldn't have gotten all the free advertising.

Just a FYI.

If I wanted a phone with a FM receiver in it, I'd pay a little extra to get a phone with a FM receiver in it. That is, unless YOU want to pick up the tab for a feature I'd never use. It would be unfair, at best, for you to mandate a feature designed for your gain and expect me to pay for it.

-Thank you,
-Your source of revenue

99% of the Android users assume that since they've gotten the phone from their mobile provider whom they somewhat trust, and the phone came preloaded with the Android market app, that they can trust Android Market as much as they trust their mobile provider.

And what happens if that user has already installed the app by the time Google decides to remove it from the marketplace? They've still got the malware... Which they falsely trust is not malware.

The parent is joking, right? Why the hell was it marked +5 insightful?

Well I hate to be the first to break this news to you, but... There never was a need for the LVM team to coordinate with the ext3 team, because the filesystem is abstracted away and irrelevant to LVM. As far as LVM is concerned, it's just a logical mapping of blocks of data to a physical volume. The data could be a real filesystem, or not... It could be raw data written to the volume without a filesystem. LVM wouldn't care. And you could still use LVM to make a sane, fast, performant snapshot of it either way.

one possible solution:

Download the android SDK; write an app; run it in the emulator that comes with the SDK.
I'm not sure how much work it'd be to tie your 3G card(s) into the emulator (that comes with the SDK), but it's possible.
Linux would be my first choice, but the SDK also runs on windows or mac os.

Bonus for getting a useful app included in the app store.

Nah to capacitors. What you want is inductors! Connect a large inductor to a 12v battery, and current starts flowing. Disconnect it, and suddenly you get a voltage spike (into the hundreds of volts!) Satisfying Ohm's law with the fact that an inductor's current can never change instantaneously. Relays? Yah. Connect a relay to itself in series and you get what is called a "multivibrator". As soon as the circuit is closed, the current begins which activates the electromagnet, which pulls the contacts open... And then then very little current, and a large spike in voltage from the inductor. And the process repeats. Hundreds of times per second. Yah, touch the terminals, I dare ya!