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Comment PIP (Picture-In-Picture). Does HDMI-2.1a make it? (Score 1) 35

FTFA: "...having the source device configure content for the specific display."
I really hope that this means that we'll soon be able to put/position multiple HDMI streams on one large display, like a background stream, program streams, and Nest/Ring/Sec camera windows on one big display.
Lcd/Plasma/OLED/TV's began to lose PIP (Picture-in-Picture) capability over a decade ago, so it's about time that feature came back to we the new consumers.

Comment JUUL should sell device w/Empty but REFILABLE PODS (Score 1) 232

Tens of Millions of JUUL device owners are out there - Flavored "Pods" have been outlawed.
JUUL should sell the device+charger with 1 Tobacco, and 2 newly designed empty but REFILLABLE pods from now on. ...and sell empty REFILLABLE pods to please its customer base that loves JUULs' form factor. ...but mostly the white LED night light feature that JUUL alone features!

Comment Being so high & wide, did it affect SAT orbits (Score 2) 42

FTFA: "The space hurricane was more than 620 miles wide and high in the sky -- it formed in the ionosphere, between 50 and 600 miles up."
My questions are:
1. Does this phenom affect orbit paths & positions of large and small SATs?
2. Surely this has happened before, and it will again: Were we already prepared for this one?

OS X

Apple Patches Massive Holes In OS X 246

Trailrunner7 writes with this snippet from ThreatPost: "Apple's first Mac OS X security update for 2010 is out, providing cover for at least 12 serious vulnerabilities. The update, rated critical, plugs security holes that could lead to code execution vulnerabilities if a Mac user is tricked into opening audio files or surfing to a rigged Web site." Hit the link for a list of the highlights among these fixes.
News

Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome 456

destinyland writes "A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents. (They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and HUD seriously considered funding their proposal.) The city's architectural concept included supporting the Dome with air pressure slightly above atmospheric pressure. (Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping it from floating away...) There would be no more heating bills, fly-fishing all year, and no more snow shoveling. And to this day, the former city planner insists that 'Economically it's a slam dunk.'"

Comment nothing new here (Score 1) 517

Until the recent 3G launch and the 2.0 firmware upgrade you could not even save files to the device without installing a 3rd party 'hack'.

This is something that has been possible for a long time on wireless devices but was crippled by Apple. During this time they were claiming the same things regarding its capabilities ala the Internet. "We do it all"

And now, how about downloading and installing an application outside of the App Store? oh right not possible without another 'hack'.

Therefore, who cares about flash etc, you can't even perform simple protocols on the device.

Comment I voted Enterprise (Score 2, Interesting) 926

An average episode of Enterprise was much better than an average episode of any other series of Trek.

People complain about continuity with other series, but all are guilty of that:
TOS - UESPA? Starfleet? What's the diff?
TNG - Klingons are all about honor? Tell that to the ones on TOS
DS9 - Trills look different to the ones in TNG
Voyager - Faster than Warp 10? (Actually, that's consistent with TOS, so which series is right?)

People complain about the time travel: all TNG era series used time travel in the finale except DS9. They made a whole TOS crew movie about time travel

People complain about T'Pol and her lack of clothing: Please watch TOS again people.

Sure, bad ENT is really bad. But bad Voyager is way worse. Spock's Brain is a terrible episode. How many times did Wesley save the ship in TNG? How many "The Chief gets his brain fucked" episodes were there in DS9?

I voted for Enterprise because it was pretty good most of the time. Which is better than the rest of the shows.

Comment Re:Easy to get these lasers...They are 100% safe! (Score 1) 772


Me, The Mayo Clinic, and The Archives of Ophthalmology say that Laser Pointers are _absolutely_completely_safe to stare at for several minutes. Trust them!

See: "Laser Pointers and the Human Eye: A Clinicopathologic Study"
Abstact: "Continuous exposure was directed to the fovea for 1 minute, to the retina 5 below fixation for 5 minutes, and to the retina 5 above fixation for 15 minutes."
Research conclusion: "The risk to the human eye from transient exposure to light from commercially available class 3A laser pointers having powers of 1, 2, and 5 mW seems negligible. "

http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstrac t/ 118/12/1686

My guess is either the pilot is a psycho-somatic sissy, or it was a multiple WATT Laser (that somehow got aimed well enough) that they saw: I.e. not an e-z to aim "pointer".
Read MY fine article then consider those two probabilities...

Funny they wont mention what freaking color it was...heh...

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