Interesting: Google blocked me sending a link to this topic via gmail to a friend who lives in SF bay area. I had to resend it, through Apple.... and that worked.

Any pet that impinges on your immune system is going to have long term positive influence!
Oh... dirty children fit that bill as well ;)

YMMV

Ford was all about the rich back around 191x..... In less than 10 years he made cars for the middle and lower classes....

I see Tesla doing the same thing.... it has only been only 5 years... give it a rest.

There is a lot of hate around Tesla because Musk is upsetting the old applecart.... well that applecart needs to be upset.....

Or would you rather be hauling the family in a buggy pulled by horses.... if so, theres a place for you... in Pennsylvania.

If you live on a small island.... the Tesla is a fantastic car. It is much cheaper than running a ICE for the same duty cycle.... my clients love theirs.

there is a lot of other electrical and electronics that turn those raw cells into a viable bettery pack..... you moron!

From the TFS' last link --> camera.pdf at the end of the abstract.

The LED driver could be altered so that it is driven through a buffer from the strobe line on the data bus. (not shown in block diagram) The buffer then is AC coupled to the LED. When the data strobe is toggling (data is being transferred) the LED lights up. When data is not being transferred the LED goes dark. Add a small parallel capacitor and the output drive of the buffer will easily keep the LED lit at 100% even if the strobe has a very low duty-cycle in it's active state.

This approach cannot be defeated since the data strobe (often referred to as dclk in the camera controller documentation) is a required active signal while the camera is active, and is static(not toggling) when no data is being transferred.

A similar trick can be used to indicate that the internal mic is active. Internal mics have a simple form of phantom power that is turned off when the mic is not in use. A simple transistor can be used to detect the presence of the mic power, and light an LED. Typically mic power is turned off in the hardware audio CODEC when the mic is not set as the source for input. Not doing so wastes power, and creates an undesirable source of noise at the input multiplexer of the audio CODEC.

This kind of security flaw is a consequence of the product engineer(s) not considering security at all when looking at the implementation. The project lead also didn't take a careful look at how STANDBY was implemented in the camera controller to see that it COULD be bypassed, as the camera controller device was designed to allow a free-running mode that ignores STANDBY.

... are just as companionable as dogs.

My personally belief is that cats are not truly personable and domestic unless they are free to enter and leave the house on their own terms.

Dogs typically are not allowed to do this as they will cause all kinds of problems in the neighborhood unless restricted. Dogs are cool with such restrictions as they MUST be trained to heel for basic civility.... They also require a lot more direct intervention from the host for their domesticity.

Cats, on the other hand, only need be shown the facilities, (cat box, food and water) and be shown the boundaries by their mother or an early human influence. Once the boundaries are established, cats will keep to the terms of the relationship (dogs will too, depending on breed and training). Where cats often go astray is when the terms of the relationship change abruptly. Owner moves from house with large yard to an apartment complex. In these cases the dog is more flexible in adapting to the changes. Cats are less flexible in these situations.

While both cats and dogs 'bond' and desire close relationships, cats want that relationship to be on THEIR terms, within the defined boundaries. Dogs expect YOU to define the terms, and continually reenforce those terms. Cats seems to expect that once the terms of the relationship are settled, those terms will not change quickly.

As a side issue. Lesser cats (as opposed to greater cats) have only been domesticated for about 5k - 10k years.... Dogs have been domesticated for about 50k - 100k years.

Personally I wish it were possible to domesticate larger cats... but realistically that won't happen for another 5K - 10k years.... Anyone who has dealt with Ocelots and other mid-sized cats can tell you... part of the relationship boundary is that a cat is only domesticated to the point where they see the 'master' as an existential threat. Healthy mid-sized cats do not perceive humans as an existential threat, and so are difficult to domesticate. At best we can come to some fragile truce with a mid-to-large cat.

That's no drive. That's a short putt.

Pro tip: You can't do holography with your Dad's gas HeNe laser ripped out of an old LVD player, because it has 'random dynamic' polarization. The laser must have fixed polarization. Fixed polarization requires lasers noobs cannot afford to buy.

opening that is. More advanced holography use a few more dimensions to encode animated transitions and visually complete "walk around" holographs. These advanced holographs use cylindrical or spherical surface geometry to reproduce the images. The people that do this for a living know far more about light that most of us ever will :)

Gracias. I too was trying to help the /. noobs understand how dimensions are used in physics by explaining how many dimensions are encoded in a simple hologram. Your post gave me an oprning to address that.

Won't someone think of the Girls? Microsoft can't shoulder this responsibility! They have a long history of terrible support! And they lack sensitivity to develop a proper Blueing agent for this context. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpy75q2DDow) I mean, what woman wants to suffer a Bust Sensor Overload Detection ($B00B1E51) error while jogging, or raiding their fridge! Reboobing in public places can lead to fines or arrest in some jurisdictions!

I'm sure most of the nerds here would like access to the 'raw variables'. Spice of life and all that. Most of us guys cannot contribute here as we lack the shelf to hang these raw variables on, and tend to spend far too much time trying to infer meaningful data from indirect observations... It is a terrible way to gather data.... ;)

I'll take Neal Stephenson worlds for $700... Nothing lake a good alternative past, present or future to get the blood pumping...

Sorry, holograms are not encoded in a simple 2D plane. This is because the film emulsion is not a mathematical plane, but a planar volume with more than enough height to encode the 3D interference pattern passing through the emulsion as well as the 2D polarization field relative to the projection plane. From that one gets 5 dimensions: 3 of position and 2 of polarization angle (normal to the projection plane) for every element of the hologram. And that is just a simple static hologram.