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CompuHacker··on Have you heard 'the hum'? Mystery of Earth's low droning noise solved?
He's in the US, which rules out 50Hz at any precision. He needs to take measurements.
CompuHacker··on A man who was accidentally released from prison 88 years early
Good luck going anywhere after you say "No, I don't know where Jack is. Maybe we should head back to the ship without him."
CompuHacker··on MS-DOS runs the US Army's food service management system
There's a site selling floppy disks/drives, and their "gold standard" is the modular Dell laptop floppy drive (which has USB, and is recent). And disks aren't in short supply.
CompuHacker··on Iridium satellite constellation
It did not. The product is an Iridium transceiver, and a great conversation starter for this topic.
CompuHacker··on EIZO Announces Monitor with 1920x1920 Resolution
I've been looking for a 1:1 monitor for years before this; they're only made custom for military HUDs and such. I was so disappointed, especially in the people who called 5:4 and 4:3 "square" in response to forum posts asking about it.

Hoping for a power of 2 square model.

CompuHacker··on FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones
"Willful destruction of evidence." comes to mind.
CompuHacker··on Google search indexes itself
It works with

  site:http://www.google.com/search
, but all the results are considered duplicates and omitted. Hit the button.
CompuHacker··on Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
Because if he's lucky, he'll be weaving magnetic core memory in 20 years.
CompuHacker··on Countries don't own their Internet domains, ICANN says
I concur. The official response should have been, "Nope".
CompuHacker··on Helium.co: Connect devices to the web without Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Cellular
Being unfamiliar with wireless authentication/encryption; What prevents the Helium bridge/platform from impersonating a specific Helium device? Could they originate a false message or change the timestamps on an old message?
CompuHacker··on eBay user data for sale?
It's a feature of gmail to provide unique addresses. It might protect your other accounts that use your base e-mail address from an automated attack vs. the compromised data. It doesn't matter much if the database goes public, though.
CompuHacker··on eBay user data for sale?
None of the sample e-mail addresses contains "ebay", as in "example+ebay@gmail.com". I just thought that was interesting.
CompuHacker··on Firefox 29
Where the hell is my forward button? Why does browser.tabs.onTop not mean anything anymore? Where's my refresh button? On the... right side, inside the Awesome Bar? Why isn't a separate button? Why can't I put the Home button back beside the Back button? Why is the back button permanently part of the Awesome Bar? Why does the Awesome Bar change shape and size to allow the forward button to exist? Why isn't the forward button an element that I can move around like the refresh button? Why can't I move the Awesome Bar at all? What happened to the Status Bar? Why can't I replace the Status Bar with the Bookmarks Bar at the bottom of the screen? Why is the Start Button now permanently overlapping with anything displayed in the browser? Why can't I move the Menu Button? Why is your Menu Button right where Google Chrome's menus are by default? Also, when you remove the Title Bar, I can't grab the window because I keep my bookmarks as icons without titles on the Menu Bar.

Why are you messing with everything, Mozilla? Why are you breaking the UI metaphor? With the tabs on the top, all the elements under it are made to appear a part of that tab. There's no reason that I can see for the tabs to be on top. It doesn't look pretty, it takes extra pixels to render the smooth curve where the tab meets the next bar. Even if I'm insane and it's the same width, it still looks awful.

I've got five HD screens, and everyone is taking the tablet friendly, ergonomic approach. I want consistency. Please stop breaking everything. You're the last good browser, Firefox. Don't ruin it.

Please bring back: tabs on bottom, the permanent forward button, the refresh button, the bottom bar anchor, and the separate back button.

http://i.imgur.com/cFMoZ5b.png

CompuHacker··on AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user
What does an inactive Glass look like under infrared light? It probably glinted a ton on some recording device, someone noticed, he was detained. And they did say, word for word: "You were caught recording the movie".

Advice: Don't point what's basically a cheap webcam at a theater screen for the duration of a movie and not expect to get yelled at.

The legal side of this that everyone is discussing is the result of a failure on the technical side which hasn't even been figured out yet.

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