Comment Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is (Score 1) 615
Just like contesters in Ham Radio -- transmit wide, receive narrow.
Comment Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is (Score 1) 615
Cliffs of Insanity applies to my workplace, I'll have to remember that one! (Nice reference to The Princess Bride, too.)
I like Castle Aaarghh and Caerbannog.
I haven't noticed any loss in range or throughput yet on my Cisco/Linksys E3000 AP, but now I will be watching for it to happen. It is already a few years old and re-placed by newer models. I currently have it catching some air from the power supply fan on my computer, but that's not on 24/7.
Comment Re:3d is annoying (Score 3, Informative) 404
I totally agree. Too many movies are spending the entire budget on gratuitous special effects and the story line is merely an afterthought. This is made painfully obvious if you watch an old Alfred Hitchcock movie and then any of the recent blockbusters. Old black and white movie >> new 3D color movie.
Other ways to wreck a film:
comic-book colorizing (Casablanca)
"updating" (Star Wars)
Submission + - Your location 'extremely valuable' to Google
An anonymous reader writes: Google recently wrote off concerns about its mobile devices sending precise user location data back to its servers, but recently uncovered emails illustrate that user location is instrumental in its strategy. Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google wrote to Larry Page, founder and now CEO, explaining that location data from mobile phones was "extremely valuable to Google," especially given the privacy blow-up concerning its Street View cars at the time.
Cell Phone Interception At Def Con 95
ChrisPaget writes "I'm planning a pretty significant demonstration of GSM insecurity at Defcon next week, where I'll intercept and record cellular calls made by my attendees, live on-stage, no user-input required. As you can imagine, intercepting cellphones is a Very Big Deal in the eyes of the law; this blog post is an attempt to reassure everyone that their privacy is being taken seriously despite the nature of the demo. I'm not just making it up either — the EFF have helped significantly with the details."
Astronomers Discover 33 Pairs of Waltzing Black Holes 101
Astronomers from UC Berkeley have identified 33 pairs of waltzing black holes, closing the gap somewhat between the observed population of super-massive black hole pairs and what had been predicted by theory. "Astronomical observations have shown that 1) nearly every galaxy has a central super-massive black hole (with a mass of a million to a billion times the mass of the Sun), and 2) galaxies commonly collide and merge to form new, more massive galaxies. As a consequence of these two observations, a merger between two galaxies should bring two super-massive black holes to the new, more massive galaxy formed from the merger. The two black holes gradually in-spiral toward the center of this galaxy, engaging in a gravitational tug-of-war with the surrounding stars. The result is a black hole dance, choreographed by Newton himself. Such a dance is expected to occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy in about 3 billion years, when it collides with the Andromeda Galaxy."
Comment Audiophile sheeple (Score 1) 2
That's like those pricey replacement power cables that marketers say improve your audio ... without also changing the in-wall wiring, the drop from the pole pig, and so on. Now, a good UPS with filtering will actually do some good things for you, for a lot less that 7 thousand clams.
I used monster cable (or similar) for my audio setup because the conductors are thick (14 or 12 guage) and flexible, and it looks nice. The flat cable is easy to route.
One time I used RG62 coaxial cable for my speakers because it was cheap and shielded. It was useful for curing RFI* from my ham radio setup. (RFI = Radio Frequency Interference)
I used monster cable (or similar) for my audio setup because the conductors are thick (14 or 12 guage) and flexible, and it looks nice. The flat cable is easy to route.
One time I used RG62 coaxial cable for my speakers because it was cheap and shielded. It was useful for curing RFI* from my ham radio setup. (RFI = Radio Frequency Interference)
Submission + - James Randi $1Million Award on Speaker Cables 2
elrond amandil writes: James Randi offered $1 million USD to anyone who can prove that a pair of $7,250 Pear Anjou speaker cables is any better than ordinary (and also overpriced) Monster Cables. Pointing out the absurd review by audiophile Dave Clark, who called the cables "danceable," Randi called it "hilarious and preposterous." He added that if the cables could do what their makers claimed, "they would be paranormal."
Submission + - SCO says IBM hurt profits
AlanS2002 writes: "In its ongoing litigation against International Business Machines Corp., the SCO Group Inc. on Monday said IBM hurt SCO's relationship with several high-tech powerhouses, causing SCO's market share and revenues to plummet.
In a hearing before U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball, an attorney for Lindon-based SCO said IBM "pressured" companies to cut off their relationships with SCO. And "the effect on SCO was devastating and it was immediate," Mark James said.
IBM on Monday argued for summary judgment on the matters of unfair competition and business interference, but SCO contends that a jury trial is needed."
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