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Comment Re:USB is the answer (Score 1) 696

by irc.goatse.cx troll (#24779461) Attached to: What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers?

Those Logitech docking stations annoy me to no end just because they shouldn't exist --

I'll buy a wireless mouse as soon as logitech makes one that charges via usb and can be used as a wired mouse while charging.

That is to say, I want a standard low power draw wireless mouse when using it normally, but then I want to plug a cable into it and have it jump to 1000hz/2000dpi/all the other great specs Logitech is capable but tones down to save battery life.

Having your mouse die out and you have nothing until its done sitting in a cradle just seems like bad design.
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Submission + - BitTorrent can verify and repair corrupt files

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jweatherley writes: "I found a new (for me at least) use for BitTorrent. I had been trying to download beta 4 of the iPhone SDK for the last few days. First I downloaded the 1.5GB file from Apple's site. The download completed, but the disk image would not verify. I tried to install it anyway, but it fell over on the gcc4.2 package. Many things are cheap in India, but bandwidth is not one of them. I can't just download files > 1GB without worrying about reaching my monthly cap, and there are Doctor Who episodes to be watched. Fortunately we have uncapped hours in the night, so I downloaded it again. md5sum confirmed that the disk image differed from the previous one, but it still wouldn't verify, and fell over on gcc4.2 once more. Damn.

I wasn't having much success with Apple, so I headed off to the resurgent Demonoid. Sure enough they had a torrent of the SDK. I was going to set it up to download during the uncapped night hours, but then I had an idea. BitTorrent would be able to identify the bad chunks in the disk image I had downloaded from Apple, so I replaced the placeholder file that Azureus had created with a corrupt SDK disk image, and then reimported the torrent file. Sure enough it checked the file and declared it 99.7% complete. A few minutes later I had a valid disk image and installed the SDK. Verification and repair of corrupt files is a new use of BitTorrent for me; I thought I would share a useful way of repairing large, corrupt, but widely available, files."
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Submission + - The first image taken with an ultra low field MRI (arxivblog.com)

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KentuckyFC writes: "MRI machines are about to get smaller, much smaller. Most of their bulk is taken up by the huge superconducting magnets required to generate fields of about a Tesla. Now a team at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico has built a machine that can produce images using a field of only a few microTesla. So giant superconducting magnets aren't necessary, a development that has the potential to make MRI machines much smaller, perhaps even suitcase sized. Today, the team has posted sections of the first 3D brain image taken with the device (abstract, pdf)."
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Journal Journal: Moderation rant.

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While looking at one of the current topics, 'What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie?', I couldnt help but notice the huge number of comments. As I post this(1am central), there are currently 1127comments. While thats not too abnormal, Look at the moderation breakdown:
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