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Comment Re:Cry me a fucking river... (Score 1) 374

But what the original AC stated is also technically correct:

Syed Hussain had already been jailed for his part in a cell that had discussed an attack on a Territorial Army base in Luton using a bomb attached to a remote control car.

So Syed Hussain was convicted of terrorism as well as being involved in said fraud.

Comment Re:death of the pc? (Score 3, Informative) 511

Sunspider score? That's more to do with improving Javascript engines than a better CPU! The Note 3's CPU is apparently capable of 930 MFLOPS, while even the lowest end E6300 Core 2 Duo can get 8.8 GFLOPS.

If you count GPU performance then the iPhone 5s has 76.8GFlops, but then consumer graphics cards were up to 1TFlop by 2009.

Comment Re:What would be sweet... (Score 1) 222

Will a Raspberry Pi running a minimal Debian (or other Linux) installation on an air-gapped network (it can even be just the Pi plugged directly into the host via a crossover cable) using an encrypted tunnel like SSH really be any less secure than a running a custom decryption service over some kind of custom USB bridge? (I assume you were thinking this, otherwise it's back to being networked anyway)

If your host PC is compromised than nothing is going to stop it requesting decrypted data from the Pi anyway.

Comment So instead of diving for hours with an air tank... (Score 3, Interesting) 375

... you get to dive for the 10 minutes that the "micro-battery" can provide power?

Seriously we go through this every time one of these artificial gills is announced, you need too high a flow rate for a battery to realistically be able to provide power for, so you end up with a system that lasts for far less time than a simple air tank could provide.

Comment Re:damn subpixel antialiasing (Score 4, Insightful) 59

You know what really annoys me? How almost all 1080p displays these days seem to, by default, take the hdmi video input, slightly up-scale it (to overscan) and sharpen the hell out of it.

What the fuck?? It's a digital signal, they're taking the literally pixel perfect input and ruining it by smearing individual input pixels over several output pixels and putting sharpening artefacts everywhere. Why? When is that ever a good idea?? Why would you ever need to overscan HDMI?

Comment Re:Good. Attics & closets waste $30 bulbs. Dim (Score 1) 767

How many solid state devices costing less than $10 and subject to heavy heat cycling do you have in your house from 1994 that still work?

I thought you said you'd only be using this bulb once a week for 5 minutes? I've subjected some of my high-power LED spotlights to far more extreme thermal cycling than that already (in a high-humidity environment) without issue. You can't have it both ways, you can't complain that an occasional use bulb is a waste of money because it will fail with heavy use.

Comment Re:Greetings from EU (Score 2) 767

I'm pretty sure the UK is still in the EU (even if it doesn't like to admit it), and none of those things have happened here. I have 8 year old CFLs that work fine, and I have reasonably priced LED spotlights that are indistinguishable from the halogen spotlights they replaced.

Take your FUD elsewhere.

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