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Comment Re:Efficiency should kill it (Score 1) 284

by daenris (#41305651) Attached to: Cutting the Power Cable: How Advantageous Is Wireless Charging?
My 30-day average electricity usage last year was 541kWh and that's for 2 people. This year so far it's 803, but that's for 3 people. My highest month ever was 1716kWh for 3 people, which was due to the AC running pretty much all the time the whole month. So I also have a hard time believing those numbers as an average.

Comment Re:DRM worked out then.. (Score 4, Informative) 464

by daenris (#41086595) Attached to: Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95%
Actually, he is saying it's 93-95% pirated.
this is a quote from TFA where it is quoted from Yves Guillemot

On PC it's only around five to seven per cent of the players who pay for F2P, but normally on PC it's only about five to seven per cent who pay anyway, the rest is pirated. It's around a 93-95 per cent piracy rate, so it ends up at about the same percentage.

Comment Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? (Score 2) 163

by daenris (#40831879) Attached to: Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency
I wish there was a mod crazy option. You really think that any and every pharmacy that a person might get their prescription filled at -- most of which are commercial entities without ties to a hospital -- are going to individually put serial numbers on pills that link them to the person getting the prescription filled? I'll give you a hint, I've worked at a pharmacy and they definitely do not do this. Let alone track fingerprints. There is a bottle filled with pain killers on the shelf. When a prescription comes in, the pharmacist or pharmacy tech grabs that bottle, and counts out the number of pills prescribed into a new bottle, which is given to the customer.

Now the pills might contain a serial number that ties them back to a specific batch, which would tie them to a pharmacy and they could pull up a log of customers who had prescriptions filled from that batch and narrow it down reasonably well (even to 1 person if that person was the only one who got a prescription filled from that batch) but there is no guarantee that it can be narrowed down to 1 specific person as there is no individual tracking information on the pills.
Space

Submission + - City Lights May Aid in Search for Extraterrestrial (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: It's difficult to look at the night sky and not wonder whether intelligent life exists out there. Indeed, the odds are very much in favor of there being countless civilizations scattered throughout the heavens, but the challenge remains in proving it. Recently, two scientists hit upon the novel but common-sense idea of searching for city lights on the dark side of distant worlds — a task advanced next-gen earth and space-based telescopes will likely be able to tackle in the not-too-distant future.
Science

Submission + - Voyager 2 Has Accepted The Commands! (messagetoeagle.com)

Submitted by laejoh
laejoh writes: NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received today november the 7th that the spacecraft accepted the commands.
NASA

Submission + - NASA Captures Radar Image During Asteroid Flyby of (nasa.gov)

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Stirling Newberry
Stirling Newberry writes: "We've all heard by now that asteriod impacts may be the cause of periodic mass extinction events – and perhaps of calls to defend earth against them. Maybe you have heard of comet panics. But near Earth passing events aren't all doom and gloom, in these images NASA and JPL used radar to capture images of Asteroid 2005 YU55, which will be closest at ~324,600 km at 1128 UTC, or 6:26 PM EST. Related NASA video is here, and as you can see, the moon will get a much better view than we will – though depending on the results of the asteroid's close pass of Venus in 2029, it could well pass this close to us in 2041. The images come from the Goldstone Complex in the Mojave desert."
Security

Submission + - Apple Nixes Charlie Miller From Dev Program Over D (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Just a few hours after it became public the security researcher Charlie Miller had inserted a proof-of-concept app into the Apple App Store to demonstrate a serious vulnerability in iOS, Apple informed Miller that it was removing him from its developer program.

Miller had created the app, which is a real-time stock ticker, a couple of months ago as a way to demonstrate an exploit for an iOS vulnerability he found that enabled him to load unsigned code onto a an iOS device. He submitted the app to the Apple iTunes App Store and it eventually was approved and appeared in the store in mid-September. Miller used the app to demonstrate the exploit in a video he created, but other people had also downloaded it.
Idle

Submission + - Kansas Governor Appoints CIO with Degree from Fake (cjonline.com)

Submitted by kstatefan40
kstatefan40 writes: The Topeka Capital-Journal is reporting that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback appointed Jim Mann as Chief Information Officer this week (with a salary of $155,000), and noticed that Mr. Mann listed his education B.S. in Business Administration from a degree mill called the University of Devonshire. "The school, according to a 2002 article by Wired, was owned by American residents in Romania, used mailing address in the United Kingdom, printed materials in Israel and banked in Cyprus. One estimate placed at 70,000 the number of degrees sold in the United States by their University Degree Program doing business as University of Devonshire and a series of other names." A spokeswoman for Governor Brownback said the decision by Brownback to hire Mann wasn't based on Mann's scholarly performance with the distance learning university.

A college degree isn't everything in IT, but this just seems like a really bad idea.

Submission + - "Life begins at conception" ? (cnn.com)

Submitted by sfm
sfm writes: On Tuesday, the state of Mississippi is going to vote on a controversial ammendment which declares a fertilized egg is an individual and is protected by the same laws that govern people living outside the womb. This has far reaching implications is the area of birth control, abortion, and family planning.

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