Or bypass the problem completely by using a USB microphone. These digitize the audio right next to the microphone proper, with everything floating at the same voltage so nothing substantial is picked up betwen the air pressure sensor and the A-D converter.

Bluetooth headsets work great for this, too. Most current generation laptops already have the bluetooth central-role radio onboard. Or get a cheap low-profile bluetooth dongle.

4. PC/laptop microphones suck. I don't know why no one bothers to test them to the same level as your average cheap dumbphone speakerphone. They pick up all kinds of system electrical noise, ...

The problem usually isn't the microphone. It's the way it's wired (per the standard) and the way the desktop/laptop is powered.

PC microphones are wired UNbalanced: They have a signal and a ground wire, rather than the + and - signal wires and everything-but-desired-signal cancelation of the balanced wiring setups typical of professional microphones.

Laptops typically use power supplies that are not grounded, so they don't require a three-prong outlet. This usually ends up with the stray capacatance to BOTH sides of the line wiring capacitively coupling equally to the laptop "ground". That means the "ground" of the laptop is at half the line voltage - about 60 volts of AC (a rotten approximation of a sine wave plus lots of other junk it picked up at an assortment of frequencies). The capacitance is substantial - not enough to shock you if you touch the laptop and ground, but enough to feel a buzz if you rub your hand lightly across a "grounded" metallic part of the device.

Plug in the unblanced microphone and hold it, put the headset on your head, or just leave it sitting on the table. The "ground" is at 60V and you are driving maybe a couple MA of it down the shield wire. The voltage drop of that current (along with any other pickup) adds straight onto your audio input. The best microphone in the world will perform horribly if hooked up this way.

Try this: Unplug the laptop and let it run on battery. Notice how almost all of the noise disappears. You can also get rid of most of the noise by tying a decent ground onto the laptop. (Unfortunately, many meetings last longer than the laptop batteries...)

Plug in a VGA monitor with a three-prog power plug, which grounds the case of the laptop via the shield and the two hold-in screwd. I've done that without actually hooking up the monitor (which would have disabled my laptop screen) by adding a couple of the nuts scavenged from another DB connector as conductive spacers so the actual signal pins are not quite into the plug. And done this on a docking station, so the laptop headset was quieted when the laptop was docked, even though I used none of the docking station features except the power input.

Make a second cable with a three-prong plug to bring a ground up to the laptop. Green wire from the third pin to a screw into or clip onto such a chassis ground point.

Or bypass the problem completely by using a USB microphone. These digitize the audio right next to the microphone proper, with everything floating at the same voltage so nothing substantial is picked up betwen the air pressure sensor and the A-D converter.

When I've served, nobody tried to get out of it, once they were selected and showed up on the day. Multiple people lied to get on the jury. Ended up hung with people wanting vengeance, and people who hated government. The facts don't matter, just personal agenda.

So the reports that she hired terrorists to kill an ambassador at Benghazi aren't substantiated by her record? All the conservatives lied to me.

She did, just not in a timely manner, and not in a way that can guarantee 100% coverage.

And time shifting doesn't use just one. Time shifting monetized (when done by a company) is almost always not fair use. Tivo is the only one that survived legal challenges.

But it meets more than just one criteria. It's non-commercial. The problem with fan fiction, someone can claim that it hurts the protected work, even if not monetarily benefiting the infringing work.

I do agree it's complicated, and often difficult to predict, but fan fiction has generally been allowed (whether by the rights holders, or the courts), so I don't think they'd have nearly as much to fear as people here assert.

If you sniff someone's password, if they re-use it places, you could track them down online and try email or bank accounts with that password. If you don't re-use passwords, the worst they could do is delete your card.

Which trademark was used? Just the fact the title was "power rangers"?

Fair Use is also the sum of the parts of the defense. It's parody (kinda), non-commercial, uses the character names and ideas, but doesn't copy the creative details of the original. Any one alone wouldn't be fair use, but possibly all of them together is. Making every unrelated claim at the same time diminishes your case in a criminal trial, but is acceptable (and preferred) when claiming Fair Use.

I never said any such thing. And I'm constantly told here that people who buy Apple pay more to get less, so it's obviously common (if Slashdot A/Cs are to be believed).

I'm simply saying that spreading the weath amongst the poor benefits the economy much more than giving the same wealth to the privileged few.

Also, anyone with a WiFi GoPro turns of the WiFi, if they aren't actively looking at it all the time because WiFi kills the battery. The people who bought a WiFi one so they could start and stop the camera with the remote for each run will leave it on, but what could someone do with the WiFi password? Screw up a single recording out of the thousands for the day? Watch what the camera is doing without permission? Mythbusters uses them for the multi-angles from a crash vehicle, but it's not like they are the camera of choice for porn makers, where you could sit outside a porn studio and watch free porn or anything.

The only thing that could possibly matter about this is people who still haven't heard about password reuse being a bad thing.

Though, if you were to automate grabbing the pwd and giving the command to wipe data and turn off, it'd be interesting to use in crowds. Everyone with a gopro in a concert would have their footage wiped, or something like that.

I see nothing in the context of what I wrote that advocated any changes to any voting system. Just an acknowledgement that the error rate for our current system is high, and it's been pointed out to me that would be impossible without collusion. And if a 3rd party were to come in, collusion would be even more beneficial than today. So the low barriers to fraud today would be lowered in the presence of a persistent and popular 3rd party.

There are ways for verified voting that prevent intimidation. That you can think of non reveals limitations about you, not verified voting.

U.S BLS May 2014 Jobs Report.

States who raised minimum wage, saw greater economic growth and more jobs than states that didn't.

Inflation isn't caused by decreasing the wage gap. Inflation is caused by monetary policy. The two are orthogonal, so there is no answer, because it's like asking to explain the effects of a NYC pizzeria changing its box colors on the average food consumption levels of animals in the San Diego Zoo. Sure, it could be studied, but is unrelated, so nobody has.

There is no link between minimum wage and inflation, so explaining the link is impossible.

Oh, and in countries with a high minimum wage, the people on minimum wage make more than America's middle class, so a higher wage for those people would provably improve the middle class. When the minimum wage is set well below poverty level, the effect isn't the same. Set the minimum wage at $25/h or higher, define "middle class" as $50k to $60k, and move the minimum wage from $25 to $30 and tell me the effects on the middle class.

You are looking at the micro and arguing against the macro.