That's exactly what I meant (I think you misread me). Tires spinning more distance (ie. odometer reading) than the GPS records means the road is slippery. Well, if the GPS has that much sensitivity. :)

That's literally true -- as I recall, there was a study that found about 70% of the time, dogs signal in accord with the handler's expectations, rather than per what they actually found (or didn't find).

Speaking as a pro dog trainer, I don't find this the least bit remarkable. Dogs suitable for advanced training want to please their handlers. Theit handlers want to find drugs. QED.

What state are you in? Always good to know which actually have heard of the Constitution.

I see what you did there, Slashdot editors. Brilliant.

If you had used an accurate headline, such as "Bomb hoax perp caught despite using the target's own network." then the "despite" part would have sounded stupid and you would have had an obviously non-story, right on the face of it. But by throwing in a random unrelated part of the story and misleadingly implying something about it, you made it sound interesting! More people need to learn this trick: lies make things interesting!

A guy puts on a mask and walks into a bank. He hands the teller a note, "My name is John Smith, and this is a robbery. Shhh. Give me $10k." Police later investigate John Smith, and confirm it was him. Headline: "robber caught despite using mask" because, clearly, masks are an important and very relevant part of the story!

Hi.

the Nyquist limit of the audio sampling hardware of a cell phone over instruction rate of a modern CPU is a pretty small fraction.

The "audio" in question is most likely all below 24 kHz, that being the Nyquist limit for the 48 kHz sampling hardware, unless it happens that some phones can actually sample faster, and have microphones that can respond to higher frequencies.

The instruction rate of the CPUs in question is many times that frequency.

It doesn't sound likely.

Using multiple cores turns out to help the attack (by shifting down the signal frequencies).

Say what? Through what mechanism would multiple cores shift down the frequency? And what about parallel instruction streams contributing to noise?

TEMPEST was a details-secret government requirement meant to defeat means of eavesdropping on classified computer data from its electromagnetic emissions. I guess they need to include audio too.

My impression is that the noise comes from the power supply, not the CPU. I can certainly hear it with some computers, and it is related to work on the video card in my experience. I'm astonished that you can actually pull data from that, and in fact I'd like to see independent confirmation before I believe it.

if you and your bro were watching the game on the couch and he said he'd give you $5 to get him a fresh beer, you'd at least consider it...b/c you can buy a beer at the bar later w/ it

if you refused, but he then offered you $50 to get him the beer, most ppl wouldn't turn that down!

"Get me a beer and I'll give you $5."

"No. Get it yourself."

"Sudo get me a beer and I'll give you a tenth of $50."

"Okay! Here's your beer."

"Get me a beer and I'll give you a hundredth of $500."

"No. Get it yourself."

"Sudo get me a beer and I'll give you a thousandth of $5000."

"Okay! Here's your beer."

globaljustin, you appear to be correct that the responses are varying, so I must reluctantly agree that your model is perfectly accurate.

A few more direct from China:

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=7+inch+tablet

Mostly these are bulk sales only, but a few will sell individual units. (And I don't know what shipping from China costs, but I've bought small electronics, phone chargers and the like, from Hong Kong that were under $5 =including= shipping.)

BTW according to inside info from Apple, as of a couple years ago the actual cost to make an iPad in China was $38. (And would have been all of $6 more if made in USA.)

I don't doubt there have always been the occasional tamed and made-a-pet cat, more or fewer depending on the culture (as someone pointed out re ancient Egypt). But on the whole, you're right -- in fact it's only been the last 50 years or so in the American farming midwest that more than the occasional kitten was made into a pet. The vast majority worked for a living, in the barns and fields, and unless tamed young, yeah, they're NOT pets, nor can most be made into pets later.

Conversely, most dogs that are not handled young still act like dogs, not like wolves.

Back about 1980 I had one that spent all day every day hunting gophers, and was so good at it that he completely exterminated them within about half a mile of my rural house, and so thoroughly that after the cat died, it was a good three years before I saw another gopher. (Prior to this cat, they'd been thick as plague.)

Conversely, once I came home after being gone for a week, and here's three lazy cats in the house watching a mouse sitting in the middle of the floor, but none could be arsed to get off their comfy couch... and all the cat food was in the kitchen drawers, where it had been stashed by mice in my absence. Two of these were good hunters outdoors, but apparently indoor mice were 'pets'.

I once had a cat that was freakish smart (on a par with an average dog). This first became evident when one day I was hiding behind a box and using a 'fishing line' to play with the feral kittens. All but one chased the string in the usual way. The freak looked at the string, looked UP the string, then jumped over the box to grab my hand. (Which is exactly what average puppies will do.) This cat later became a house pet... which gave me opportunity to watch him with mirrors. The other cats thought something they saw in the mirror was IN the mirror. But the freak would immediately look over his shoulder at whatever had just appeared in the mirror. He had all manner of freak-thinking behaviors I've never seen in another cat. (Incidentally, he was a hermaphrodite -- born female, developed male genitals at about 3 months. And was the product of 4 generations of inbreeding down from one female, which I only knew because the feral colony there was small and isolated.)

More typical, tho, were my feral barn kittens... I'd bang the dish on the concrete to call them for breakfast. And if after a couple days I then held the dish out of their reach, rather than looking up like "Hey, where's my dish?" like a puppy will, the kittens tried to eat the concrete floor. I wish I had video; it was hysterical. And a good demonstration of how dumb most cats really are -- tho they *condition* so rapidly that they appear 'smart'.

[I'm a pro dog trainer, but I usually also have several cats.]