Comment Re:Fake audio is useful. (Score 1) 89
A pretty good rule about hearing gunshots is:
If you hear the gunshot, they missed you. Even if the bullet is subsonic, you'd feel it before you heard it, if it hit you.
A pretty good rule about hearing gunshots is:
If you hear the gunshot, they missed you. Even if the bullet is subsonic, you'd feel it before you heard it, if it hit you.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to have my desktop machine as far away from my ears as the cables will allow. This also means putting it out of reach to set anything like drinks on top of it. I do have an 8-channel mixer and a USB3-SATA drive dock on top of it, but I have to stand up and take a couple steps to reach either of those.
If I could do it without knocking a hole in the wall, I'd put the whole machine in a different room so I don't have to hear it or feel its heat.
I'd have to agree. I get the distinct feeling this is a setup for a spinoff show. I just hope the "build team" is given a decent idea to work with.
Perhaps this will end up with robots being mind controlled also- where an operator thinks about grasping an object in a hazardous area and the robot does so as naturally as a human could via a prosthetic. This might make dangerous situations like entering a burning building or a fukishima type plant disaster easier due to a lot of the controls being created for human interaction verses remote robotics.
You just reinvented the waldo.
In modern America, you don't go to cons. You become them.
Anything that is a sphere and orbits a star is a planet. Asteroids don't have sphere shape. Same goes for comets.
Ceres and Vesta are nearly spherical, yet are asteroids. Do they get counted as planets too? (They used to be.)
You're right that the definition was tailored to keep the number of defined "planets" within reason. There was no way to include Pluto in this category and NOT include Eris, Haumea, Makemake, etc., so the definition was tailored to exclude them. It also happens to exclude Ceres and Vesta, though it wouldn't be a huge problem if they were considered planets (as they are the only two members of their class).
Being male, I can't be a tetrachromat, but on more than one occasion I've demonstrated better color discrimination than is considered typical for males (at least as I've been told by female graphic designers). Although rare, these defects do occur in females well -- I had a girlfriend who had difficulty distinguishing between pale pink, pale orange, tan, and light gray. This was limited to pastels though, she was fine once the color saturation got bumped up a bit.
Nope, just severely allergic to stupidity. Whether I agree with the law (some parts I do, some I don't), or indulge in that sort of material myself (which I don't) are both irrelevant -- if content you are distributing is likely to cause authorities to intervene if it is noticed, then encrypt that shit. Simple as that. If you are in the habit of moving such content, it's even better to get in the habit of encrypting EVERYTHING so as to obfuscate what is worth attacking and what is not.
Sweet Jesus, if you're going to send things in the clear, you have no idea who might be able to lay eyes on it. This goes for storing things locally -- people have been busted for stored files when they take a machine in for repair as well.
When in doubt, encrypt. When not in doubt, get in doubt.
And how, way I ask, does packet radio not accomplish the same thing, across considerably larger distances than a peer-to-peer mesh network? The mesh isn't useless, but at some point it still needs to connect to some place with proper connectivity. This may not be within the range of the Internet of Things. Given the right band and the right gear, radio will be considerably slower but also considerably further-reaching. Otherwise I see no substantial use for the IoT that satellites don't already solve.
Ernestine, is that you?
Maybe the perfect person to point out this absurdity to Congress would be that Technician in background.....Al Franken. Too bad he hasn't gone on to a position of any prominence.
We don't give a shit.
(This should have been the Verizon ad all along.)
Most videos (at least those linked to from meme-based image sites) are stored in GIF format...
While I don't disagree that the storing videos in GIF format is incredibly inefficient (and annoying), I somehow don't think that "meme-based image sites" are actually a significant fraction of internet bandwidth use compared to websites that use more standard video formats.
Not to mention that our poster child for "meme-based image sites" now supports webm, and the format has become incredibly popular there.
Sounds like to me a prime opportunity to re-open one, and tout "american or canadian made" with "staff from inside the country" along with "rigorous QC."
Of course! Because we all know no American agency would place backdoors or malware in a product, right?
Tesla's tower would have done nothing useful, although with 200KW at 20KHz going in, it probably could have lit up fluorescent lamps and gas tubes for some distance around. Since the location is now surrounded by a housing subdivision, rebuilding the tower and powering it up would annoy the neighbors.
It wouldn't have done what he envisioned, but it could well have proven to be the worlds' first VLF radio station. I'm sure it would have crossed his mind to modulate the transmitted power at some point, and any receiving equipment on the other end could easily have demodulated this into an audible tone. Other people were already playing with radio, including modulating it with audio frequencies, but even if the idea wasn't original, it could have provided a viable product for Tesla to market and sell. It would have been accidentally useful, but that's exactly the sort of break Tesla could have used.
Say "twenty-three-skiddoo" to logout.
