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Comment CFL Bulbs Suck; LED Are Great! (Score 1) 944

CFL bulbs, containing mercury, and lasting nowhere near what they're said to, suck and are overpriced. LED bulbs, while expensive, are amazing. I have some 10W and 7W LED bulbs by topin, which I got half price on ebay from someone who imports them.

I can't tell much difference in light output, but the fact I'm burning so much less power makes it all worth it.

Comment Re:Taxpayers Pay For and Own The School (Score 1) 1010

To haters over this comment, you should understand there are reasonable and unreasonable expectations of service here. Water fountains, toilets, toilet paper, soap, paper towels, hand dryers, etc are public useable in schools so long as the person using them has a legitimate reason to be at the school. They won't yell if you plug in your phone where I'm from, I doubt they'd care about a car.

Don't bring private property such as your/my house into this debate - it doesn't belong here, as a school is PUBLIC PROPERTY. Different rules apply.

Stealing a school bus or breaking into the school to hold your own function without permission/paying for the space rental is one thing, but using the utilities there when you're there for whatever legitimate reason is fine.

I see people use the playgrounds all the time during the off hours - should we arrest them for depreciating and breaking down public property? This police state crap is awful.

Submission + - The Second OS Hiding in Every Mobile Phone (osnews.com)

ilikenwf writes: While any given phone can be running a number of OSes, many if not all of them have RTOS firmware made by one of two manufacturers. The RTOS in both Qualcomm and Infinieon chips have been found to implicitly trust all commands they receive over the air. There are numerous potential exploits, including remote code execution with a 73 byte message. Considering law enforcement and hackers alike can spoof cell towers, there is a potential disaster.

Comment Do Not Want (Score 1) 115

I'm a power user and while I use google products, I certainly don't trust them. That said, I understand planned obsolescence, but I really just want to see some ARM systems put out that are comparable to modern x86 machines in terms of specs.

If anything this should have an HD display, 4-8 core processor, and 8GB ram for me to even care about it.

Likewise, on the non-mobile front, I wish Cubie and these other manufacturers would produce something that'd fit in a standard case, accept standard RAM modules up to 32 or 64gb, not have limitations on the gigabit ethernet controller, and have more than one SATA port. I want a real computer, only with the ARM architecture and power savings.

I nag the manufacturers and they just brush it off.

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