Comment Re:Another victim of the social media age (Score 1) 48
Would you be able to post links to provide background info? Where would I be able to see that podcast episode you're referring to?
Comment Re:Interesting question here (Score 1) 12
That's pretty much what the article is also saying in paragraph 4:
For years, jailbreaks have been held closely to the chest by security researchers, because the ability to jailbreak an iPhone means the ability to hack it. As we've reported several times, exploits for the iPhone can sell for millions of dollars, which means that no one has been willing to release jailbreak code publicly because Apple will quickly patch it.
Comment Re: Just needs a heatsink (Score 1) 314
Since the peltier cooler[1] is a form of active cooling, it could theoretically reduce the temperature to below ambient temperature.
That said it does generate net positive heat, so it's probably not very suitable for the Raspberry Pi 4 in the official plastic case.
Comment Re:G'Bye Landlines (Score 1) 11
It would be nice to see such a system that is open and standardised, though. Having everyone on WhatsApp would be... dangerous, to say the least!
Comment Google disagrees (Score 2) 19
Oops... it seems there was no relaunch of Google Maps in China:
Comment Re:IEEE Code of Ethics (Score 1) 64
Hm. How would this affect IEEE engineers who develop weapons systems?
Comment Money to buy their own products? (Score 1) 143
The clean up money will be used by individual states to cut other diesel emissions by replacing older, government-owned trucks, buses and other diesel engines now in use.
So the older, government-owned trucks, buses and other diesel engines now in use will be replaced by newer VW vehicles? Good for sales, at least!
Comment Re:Why don't they... (Score 4, Interesting) 264
OK, so it'll probably work, then? These were the users who were willing to do it the first time, so why not a second time?
Comment Re:I'm no expert. (Score 1) 629
Exactly, so make it look like a bluetooth headset! Actually, it could even function as a bluetooth headset as well. So, rather than being a sign saying "I'm old", it'd be a sign saying "I'm connected!"
Comment "Kiwis" (Score 5, Informative) 245
male kiwis produce transgenic pollen
In NZ, "kiwis" are only either the people (New Zealanders) or the birds, but never the kiwifruit plants! Very confusing...
Comment Foxit (Score 1) 236
Unfortunately, Foxit Reader doesn't seem to support many localised versions, unlike Adobe Reader.
Comment Browser window width (Score 1) 2254
Does the browser window really have to be so wide? I get horizontal scrollbars using my normal window size, which is quite annoying.
Also, please add Unicode & SSL support!
Comment Re:Typical applications? (Score 1) 235
I know that was meant as a joke, but such data would be stored in the rows of the table, not the columns of the individual rows.
Comment Re:What does the wasp do with it? (Score 1) 177
From the original paper:
The xanthopterin pigment found within the cuticle has been proven to be a suitable absorber of light for the harvesting of solar energy by a demonstration of its use in an organic solar cell, with a conversion efficiency of 0.335%.
I assume this was just a "proof of concept" organic solar cell, so the efficiency could probably be increased, but 0.335% doesn't sound like much!
Submission + - Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier 1
theodp writes: Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?
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