Comment Re: Anonymous (Score 0) 160
Cash you received from an ATM which records the serial numbers of each bill given to you. Your path to and from the store recorded by traffic cameras and toll transponders.
Comment Re: *TRIGGERED* (Score 3, Interesting) 571
Last I checked my phone does not have a 15" subwoofer. I can more easily hear the higher pitched voices simply because my phone is better at producing them.
Comment Re: Well.. (Score 1) 147
Sure you can. It's called Night Soil.
Comment Re: Is this the sort of thing we need legislation (Score 1) 150
So flavorous, eventbrite, and wanttickets don't exist?
Comment You can see the data yourself (Score 1) 64
You can easily view the data, parsed out, using an app like Boarding Pass Scanner (iOS).
You can use a generic barcode scanner as well, but it won't parse the fields properly.
The standard allows for a cryptographic signature, which can be validated so that you know the data isn't modified, but indeed, the data is not encrypted.
Comment Re: Should have read "or less" (Score 3, Informative) 144
"Or fewer"
Comment Re:Small Airports Have Advantages (Score 3, Informative) 203
I would love to see these large airports replaced with multiple smaller airports. A larger percentage of the population would have an airport nearby, and average travel times would be reduced significantly. It seems to me that planners are optimizing for everything except your personal experience when they design and advocate for mega-airports.
There is a challenge with replacing all large airports with smaller ones, when using a hub and spoke model. If you have smaller airports, you have fewer destinations, and fewer connecting flight options. NYC (DC, LA, SFO, Boston) as a gateway to the US from overseas makes some sense - lots of O/D traffic, and for those that want to continue onward, they can. I fly from my local smaller airport, which I love. And whenever I can, I use my smaller regional airport. But it doesn't always reduce travel time - it often increases it due to the need to connect for most destinations. In fact, it'll be faster for me to drive to JFK (two+ hours) for an upcoming trip to eliminate a nearly three hour flight and one hour connection - in the "wrong" direction.
Comment Re:You Don't Know Jack...on Netflix? (Score 1) 210
When I did corporate benefits enrollment last year, we had a tool called "Alex," which was also created by Jellyvision. Brought back great memories of YDKJ.
Comment V2I and V2V (Score 1) 481
From the summary:
self-driving cars using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2I) crash-avoidance technologies
I only have a passing knowledge of the space, but my understanding is that V2I is vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, and V2V is vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
Comment Re:Misplaced location (Score 1) 130
There is a magnetic pouring system (though the theory of operation is quite different). Never seen one in person, though. Bottoms Up Beer
Comment Re: So is it two or ten times tougher? (Score 1) 203
Every time the article is read, the strength increases logarithmically.
Comment Email Delivery for IT Professionals (Score 1) 405
A good read from the folks at mailchimp: http://mailchimp.com/resources...
There are a couple sections that might be of use.
Comment Re:Still use Crashplan (Score 1) 285
You can also install the Crashplan client on a device like a ReadyNAS - which would run 24x7 and not require their computer to be on. Offer to host one for your neighbor in your basement as well.
Bonus points for figuring out how to route between your house and your neighbor's without going to the Internet provider and back - point-point WiFi and a nice router?
I have a three-way backup scheme going, with our home computer and my parents' and in-laws'. We live close enough that if a catastrophic data loss occurred on one machine, it would be fairly easy to sneakernet over one of the backups, but far enough away that it would take a very significant event to affect all our backups.
Bonus points for figuring out how to route between your house and your neighbor's without going to the Internet provider and back - point-point WiFi and a nice router?
I have a three-way backup scheme going, with our home computer and my parents' and in-laws'. We live close enough that if a catastrophic data loss occurred on one machine, it would be fairly easy to sneakernet over one of the backups, but far enough away that it would take a very significant event to affect all our backups.
Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee 259
Wired reports on a disease infecting coffee plants across Central America that could lead to shortages around the world. "Regional production fell by 15 percent last year, putting nearly 400,000 people out of work, and that’s just a taste of what’s to come. The next harvest season begins in October, and according to the International Coffee Organization, crop losses could hit 50 percent." The disease is called coffee rust, and it has been damaging crops to some degree since the 1800s. It's not known yet exactly why coffee rust has become such a problem now, but one of the leading suspects is climate change. "Since the mid-20th century, though, weather patterns in Central America and northern South America have shifted. Average temperatures are warmer across the region, with extremes of both heat and cold becoming more pronounced; so are extreme rainfall events." The fungus that causes coffee rust thrives on warm, humid air, and higher temperatures have allowed it to climb to higher altitudes than ever before. But another likely cause is the way in which coffee is planted and harvested these days: the plants evolved as shade-dwellers, but are now often placed in direct sunlight. They're also clustered closer together, which facilitates the spread of disease. "The integrity of this once-complicated ecosystem has been slowly breaking down, which is what happens when you try to grow coffee like corn."
Comment Re:I am on the only one with the reaction (Score 1) 190
Watching the animated
I had the exact same reaction, FWIW.
