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Comment: Re:WebOS (Score 2) 115

by Sporkinum (#43742747) Attached to: Google's House of Cards

That doesn't work they way you think it works. They have tons more information on you they don't show. Just because you have search history off doesn't mean they don't have it. It only means they don't show it to you.

Concerning WebOS. My wife tried android on her HP touchpad and promptly went back to WebOS. She probably uses the touchpad more than her desktop.

Comment: Re:I only go to the grocery once a weel, but... (Score 1) 417

Exactly. I could do 90% of my job remotely, and I did so a couple of days this winter when the roads were crappy.
That being said, we rarely make trips into town to shop. Most grocery shopping is done by me by my wife emailing me a grocery list, and I stop at the store on the way home. It doesn't waste any more gas, just half an hour or so of my time.

Also, the other guys that were on a bike rant. I am a cyclist, but the roads I go to work on are too dangerous for commuting by bike. However, I went for a walk at lunch today and I saw 3 different douchebags on fixies blowing through stop signs and lights. Idiots like that give cyclists like me a bad name.

Comment: Re:Cost Per Lumen? BS! (Score 1) 308

by Sporkinum (#43538159) Attached to: Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed

I think that is part of the reason for lack of LED uptake. Everyone has been burned with CFLs that never lasted as long as advertised. Since LEDs cost more and put out less light for same cost, and use roughly the same amount of electricity as CFLs, people are wary. I know I am. I don't want to spend a ton on LED bulbs that will last a year.

Comment: Re:What about plants (Score 1) 314

I'm starting my tomatoes under 10 Cree LED's mounted to a heatsink, with water-cooling on the heatsink running through a copper pipe in the water beneath the starts, so they get both light and heat. They're doing fine so far, is the best I can say: growing faster than last year's starts, which were getting full sun but no heat, whereas these are getting very indirect sun but 14 hours of LED per day. Because I'm a geek I have an arduino measuring/recording the temp of the LED heatsink, the water beneath the plants, and checking a realtime clock to decide when to turn things on and off, with control over the LED dimming (for overtemp) and pump speed (likewise). The Crees are cool white, putting out about 50 lumens each, which is a meaningless measure for growlights, but useful for comparison, I guess. Tomato starts at the edge of the array are growing much more slowly than the ones right under the lights (the LED's are packed all in one small array) so since the whole works is at the same temp, I presume that means the ones in the center are strongly benefitting from the LED light. If I did it again, I'd make an array that was planar rather than packed in at one point, for growing in a downstairs space with only small windows, but I'd stick with the single block of LED's for what I typically do, with them sitting in a south-facing window upstairs.

Comment: Re:Opt Out? (Score 2) 78

by Sporkinum (#43425685) Attached to: RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever

Isn't ghostery owned by Evidon, who also owns Rapleaf? I wouldn't trust either of them.
However, I wouldn't trust Safe Shepherd either as they are aggregating info as well.

Seem like best bet for yourself is to stop scripts from running and cookies from storing.
Also, most of that technology is rendered useless if you are blocking ads because you never see what their magic mojo is throwing at you.

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+ - Ship Anchor, Not Sabotaging Divers, Possibly Responsible for Outage->

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Nerval's Lobster writes "This week, Egypt caught three men in the process of severing an undersea fiber-optic cable. But Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the reason for the region’s slowdowns was not the alleged saboteurs — it was damage previously caused by a ship. On March 22, cable provider Seacom reported a cut in its Mediterranean cable connecting Southern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East and Asia to Europe; it later suggested that the most likely cause of the incident was a ship anchor, and that traffic was being routed around the cut, through other providers. But repairs to the cable took longer than expected, with the Seacom CEO announcing March 23 that the physical capability to connect additional capacity to services in Europe was “neither adequate nor stable enough,” and that it was competing with other providers. The repairs continued through March 27, after faults were found on the restoration system; that same day, Seacom denied that the outage could have been the work of the Egyptian divers, but said that the true cause won’t be known for weeks. “We think it is unlikely that the damage to our system was caused by sabotage,” the CEO wrote in a statement. “The reasons for this are the specific location, distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage and other characteristics of the event.”"
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+ - United States begins stealth bombing runs over South Korea.->

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skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States of America has started flying B-2 Stealth Bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea during raised tensions in the region. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the US Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The US Military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The US also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting it's allies in the region.

The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' main land."

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+ - USN's Littoral Combat Ships deploy while under heavy criticism

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colenski writes "The United States Navy's Littoral Combat Ship system is currently deploying to Singapore as part of the Navy's asymmetric warfare strategy, but does so under heavy criticism for cost overruns, survivability, and many project setbacks. The Navy is still upgrading the fleet before it has even deployed, and the first vessel in the class, Freedom, has had many problems of it's own leaving Navy insiders to refer to the LCS system as the 'Little Crappy Ship'"

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