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Is there any reason for this?

Clicking on the Princess Bride links me to Ep6, Lost Ark, Avengers and BTTF.

To me it implies that they're related or similar. But I can't see any relation or similarity across these 5 other than score.

Jamming can happen at all layers.

The most basic of jamming is to drown out all other communications with high-power noise. But in the case of illegal/covert activities this isn't ideal as your transmitter will be pretty easy to find.

So then you have to pretend to look like a legitimate signal. Which is where encryption and modulation can help. But then application level encryption isn't going to help against basic jamming.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=random+number+between+1+and+100 :P

In NZ, at least in supermarkets, Coke usually sends their own employee to manage their shelf space for most of the day. The only time I ever touched the Coke shelf was late evening near closing.

As i've never worked in a servo I couldn't confirm if this is the case.

Something about this doesn't sound right to me. Or is this just the Greeks being paranoid/BI employees being stupid?

If you're working on a game based around military facilities and want to get reference material of these facilities, Why wouldn't you seek cooperation before hand?

Doubly so if you're basing it on a country who are touchy about such things and convicted a planespotters of espionage.

To me, my $4000 Savile-Row suit is worth twice as much. It's not bespoke, it's made-to-measure. Sort of half way to bespoke.

I don't need to wear suits, I never really have. I've always worked for relaxed companies, never been to a wedding (well, apart from the one I bought the suit for).

But I'm a skinny guy. Even the slimmest of fitting shirts and suits on the rack didn't really fit. My suit? It's like a glove. I put it on and feel awesome. And this is why my suit is worth every penny.

Or, Another range of "gaming" accessories.

I worked for a company that made a product similar to this and I'm not convinced they work as a consumer product.

Our customers would plug the device in and then use it for maybe two weeks and then forget about it.

The reality is, for most people there isn't much you can tell them. "Have shorter showers, turn off appliances at the wall, and buy new whiteware with a higher EnergyStar rating". In fact, I ended up increasing my power usage as I realised how little I was saving by turning appliances off.

To me, 6 hours is pretty good for a laptop running Linux.

Because it's interesting and satisfies (at least my) curiosity.

Could we not have a per-object lock, but only on objects the programmer defines as requiring thread safety?

I read/heard/imagined(?) that the reason GPU vendors weren't willing to hand over their source was due to a proportion of their performance being software based. Which then a competitor could also implement.

Time to reprogram my Kinesis' footswitch! ... If I can remember how

I have a few issues with QR codes.

1. They are still cumbersome to use. If I could open up my camera app (which I can launch with a press of a button) and point it at the QR code then maybe. But currently I've got to unlock my phone, open google googles, put google goggles in 'live' mode, then point it at the code, and wait for it to focus.

Now, there might be camera apps that scan for QR codes while you're snapping pics. But if it's not baked into my stock phone I don't see anybody else doing it.

2. I really only ever see the things on the Tube. But there's no cell reception on the tube. What use is a URL I can't load?

3. If I showed my mother (Somebody I'd consider a 'typical' user. Has an iphone and a few apps on it. Uses the web for facebook, work and emails) a picture of a QR code she'd probably tell me that the art lessons I took in high school didn't pay off. If my mum doesn't know what a QR code is what's to say other people will?

4. A QR code alone isn't a call to action. Tell me what I'm going to gain by scanning it and I'll probably be more receptive to it.

I know right.

If I had a few billion dollars I'd (like to think I'd) happily plonk my cash into space mining. Even if I was unlikely to see a return before I died.

Why is the first tangible reward a t-shirt and not the product?

If I was going to fund something, I would want to know my money is going to the product and not merchandise.

I don't think a YC pitch would go well if they said "And with the first $10k we're going to send out t-shirts to the first 1000 subscribers on the mailing list."

Not only are they full of false positives, they're full of false negatives.

Some sites that appeared to be a personal dump of harmless images were blocked, while sites with various 'porn words' in their domains hosting as much porn as their owner could fit in them were fine.

While I give credit for the Moz docs for being accurate.

They're not exactly the easiest things to browse or find what you're looking for. For webdevs they've got a load of stuff that you just don't care about.

for what it's worth, I found the parallax effect on the background image rather annoying.

Every time I scrolled every single visual reference point of where I was reading changed.

So how does one become a 'Premium Partner'? Can't seem to find out how.

That's a precedent for the Australian courts. Not the New Zealand courts.

How does this differ to WebOS? Isn't it pretty much the same concept?

I've been to two 'Immersive Theater' 'experiences' which sound similar to the spy experience mentioned in the article. And I found them rather contrived.

The actors stick to a script, and any attempt to interact or change the outcome of the experience is largely ignored. If I wanted to be ignored I'd go to the cinema, musical or a normal theater production.

Other experiences, e.g. Clay Shooting, treetop walks, jetboat rides and the such are generally prohibitively expensive to do once a week, and aren't really accessible unless you live close by. At least with the cinema I can afford to go once a week, see something different each, and it's a short walk/train/bus journey from home.

You could use EncFS. But this then this isn't multi-platform friendly.

A step in the right direction IMO.

Now, I hope the other protocols I use such as Skype, Steam (And I guess Origin too) would follow suit. I would love to know when my friends are playing games, without having to be tied to either wine, virtualbox, or my gaming PC or yet another client.

I might agree, it looks like a nice phone. Possibly better than the Android competition.

But the underlying issue I have with the iPhone, is the lack of freedom I get with it. I don't want to (and more or less can't) be restricted to iTunes, and feel I shouldn't have to void my warranty to use the device how I see fit.

I'm a 0 generation immigrant, and 0 generation re-migrant.

But given the age I immigrated at, It's more akin to being a 0 generation dual-immigrant.

Newzbin isn't an NNTP provider. They just provide the .torrent equivalent of Usenet.

So yeah, they will most likely still allow access to NNTP.

I'm guessing the action of the impeller sucking air through itself would be enough to keep a reasonable amount of dust from collecting in the gap.

It'll probably fall apart in heavy dust environments, but most things do anyway.

To quote the pdf:

"""Rotation of the heat sink at several thousand rpm also provides a potent remedy to the longstanding problem of heat exchanger fouling. Consider for example the CPU cooler shown in Figure 1. The finned, metal heat sink cannot be seen because it’s covered in dust. But the fan blade, which operates in the same environment, is for all intents and purposes perfectly clean. This contrast in dust accumulation is at first startling, but in hindsight entirely expected. The air bearing heat exchanger therefore provides a complete solution to the problem of performance degradation due to heat sink fouling. In specialized applications involving extremely high particle loading, a straight-radial rather than backward-swept fin design would likely be used [Bleier, 1997]."""

Ruh Roh. The service I'm using to acquire accommodation seems to be dependent on AWS. Guess I'm going to be homeless tomorrow if it doesn't get fixed. :X

Note to self. Don't ever build a service reliant on AWS.