The truth is that when digital data are modulated with some "dense" QAM scheme, then the amount of noise the cable introduces IS important. The 1s and 0s will get distorted if noise is too high. BUT, the other truth is that, all you have to do is buy a cable that is compliant conductivity-wise. All those fancy Monster cables are an ordinary cable, just upmakerd. And you should NEVER exceed the distances recommended by the standard. You should not build a 100m link even if it's consisted of monster cables. Better save the money for repeaters.

I can tell you the government is not going to give "unlimited" electricity for free. There is going to be some Kwh limit defined as "more than enough to power a household". Because, otherwise everyone will allow the neighbouring MiniMarket to connect their fridges to the appartment's outlets, for a small amount of money paid to the appartment owner. Also, the new PM also promised free food (aka food stamps) for the poor people, but this doesn't mean they will be able to park a truck outside and start loading as much food they want.

Microsoft tried to implement a system where sites and advertisers are NOT anonymous and hence responsible for their content, as a subset of the web, the world went crazy and MS abandoned the idea. IMO users should be anonymous, but sites and advertisers should not be. Also, the site doesn't mention you should have 16.0.0.296 to be safe, the linked article does.

What it means "investigating"? An exploit kit exist, they can download it and see how it works and have people working on it round the clock. The fact there is no commitment on when the bug is going to be fixed is absurd.

My password is 'incorrect". So if I ever forget it, the computer will helpfully remind me that "password is incorrect"

This thing is ridiculous. A website subcontracts ads to an ad-service, and the ad-service allows ads from anoynymous people to be shown in the website. If the ad is a virus, only the anonymous guy is legally responsible, but he is anonymous so you can't get to him. I absolutely loathe the fact there is no "guaranteed eponymous" area of the internet, and a switch to block all sites that are behind anynoymous registrars or serve ads by anonymous ad peddlers. As long as we have anoynymous websites, anonymous advertizers and anonymous everything, creating a web inside the web which no site or ad peddler is anoynymous and hence is responsible for his actions is the only way clueless people can surf.

Google caved in and released Nexuses with 32GB storage. And I haven't met a single Android fanboy downplaying the importance of local storage.

Anyone else thought of the "Software is sh!t" scene from IronMan 2 (it's said by a Russian-speaking character).

So, if you want to really take advantage of the hardware you 've paid for, you 've got to go Nvidia. All the others are basically frauds when it comes to Linux support. So, why so much Nvidia hate in the community? Isn't having a Linux system that's 99.9% open-source and has killer graphics better than having a system that's 100% open-source but doesn't allow you to take advantage of the GPU hardware?

The prices the article mentions are before or after incentives? If someone makes an electric car that costs, say $30000 after incentives, the government will greatly reduce the incentives, as they will evolve into a huge financial liability.

"Do you have any other questions? Thank you for contacting Comcast, have a great day." This sounded like a dialog from a dystopian movie.

Now, if we could get legislation to ban contracts restricting class-action suits...

(at last, a Stallman lecture that you can sit through) Now, as regards topic, presenting "free software" as the only way to gain customer rights is a recipe for disaster. It basically gives proprietary companies the "right" to never deal with customer rights complaints, because "if you want that use free software".

I don't say this often, but we need some regulation here. All airplane seats should have enough legroom to accomondate an 185 cm person, with the front seat reclined. This would prevent airliners from putting seats that recline too much (what kind of stupid engineers design economy class seats that recline so much anyway?) PS: So many thanks for tiping me on Knee Defender! I am only 177 cm, but have trouble when inconsiderate people in front of me recline the seat all the way.

Just a failure of the magic smoke sealant.