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Instead of removing the battery, you could wrap the phone in foil.

This is actually part of the so-called "bogus pipeline." Test-takers are told that the test can detect any attempt to lie, causing them to answer the questions more honestly than they would otherwise. The MMPI does detect inconsistent and unrealistically extreme answers, but it's not quite as foolproof as claimed above.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline

RC4 is still a very widely used cipher, and its security is pretty questionable. See, for instance, http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/

I doubt terrorist-made drones will be remote controlled for exactly the reasons you just described; the skill level required is just too high. I'd expect them to work more like cruise missiles, a hand grenade strapped to a fixed-wing plane with a crude GPS-based autopilot that simply flies straight at the target. They might miss their targets more often than not, but that's not a big problem if your primary goal is to cause terror and mayhem.

I don't know about that, the last two 'normal' applications he wrote (git and subsurface) were in C.

It sounds like they already tried something like that on ISS, and the commercial cameras still had problems.

You can get pretty good results with just a little trigonometry. For example, in the diagram below, the ratio of angles A/(A+B) tells you how shaded the blue tile should be. You can apply this method recursively.

http://i.imgur.com/0rz69.png

It's true, and you can.

It means that the judgment is final and the case cannot be reopened.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice_%28law%29

Individual volume control for each app. That's why I use PulseAudio despite its problems.

It's 8-bit color; 8 bits per pixel for 256 colors. Nothing to do with the CPU.

Yeah, this argument would only apply to all-wheel-drive cars that are powerful enough to burnout on all four wheels.

I disable flash and JS to extend battery life on my laptop. I use a separate browser profile for webapp-type things.

It might also have something to do with giving the impression that the game is going to be something novel, quirky or even bizarre, as opposed to another polished but bland EA title.

An iPhone battery is roughly 1400mAh at 3.7V, which gives 5.2Wh or 18720 watt-seconds. A standard power outlet in the US supplies 15A at 120V, for a maximum of 1800 watts. So if you could charge your phone using the maximum power available from a standard outlet, it would take roughly 10 seconds. A typical laptop might take about 1-2 minutes. (That's assuming 100% efficiency, which is unrealistic.)

It's about what you'd expect. When you press any key, a few characters of linux kernel source code appears, so you can randomly mash keys and it looks like you're programming at breakneck speed.

I would assume that part of the reason military units are so expensive is that they already have high quality RF filters for jamming resistance.

The difference is negligible when both machines are fast enough to encrypt/decrypt at wire speed, otherwise FTP is faster.

They don't use the forensic tools on everything that passes through, and an SD card full of landscape photos is a lot less likely to arouse suspicion than one full of unreadable encrypted data.

That would be nice, but unfortunately it's not really the case. It's quite difficult to make a secure distributed system that allows anyone to join (as opposed to a closed darknet).

Here are a couple examples of attacks that DHT is vulnerable to:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/101.pdf http://www.cs.rice.edu/~twngan/doc/infocom06.pdf

> Someone should tell the Linux Kernel (and other Open Source dev, where a lot of terrific "as magic as it can get" sw dev happens) guys.

Apparently someone did. The express purpose of the Kernel Developers Summit is to work out problems that couldn't be resolved online.

They have privacy filters, a separate covering that reduces the viewing angle of any screen to almost zero. You can buy one yourself, if you want.

No, the IETF is to blame for TCP and HTTP.

Okay, they're geeks, but what've they done to deserve that much snark?

> Panels efficiency is measured in Watts, and this kid is not going to be able to record their efficiency with a simple probe DMM.

Well, he could've just connected a 5-ohm resistor across the leads, so he would be measuring voltage under a load instead of open circuit. Then finding the power produced would be a simple application of Ohm's law.

That's called Troxler's fading, caused by the gradual adaptation of photoreceptors in the retina to the recent average light level. But in the OP, the yellow dots are high in contrast, disappear in less than 5 seconds, and then seem to blink on and off at random. So I think this might not be the same effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading

It's unfortunate that due to lack of communication most users of gparted will have no idea why this "killer feature" has just disappeared after an upgrade.

I'm certain that Apple has provided the APIs that would be necessary for Flash to use less than 100% CPU, the problem is that Adobe has decided it's not worth their time to make use of them.

Each CPU has its own scheduler queue; load average represents the summed length of all of them.

The list is already public. There are many mirrors of it, for example, this one: http://dannenberg.ccc.de/tor/server/all

Knowing that open proxies have been a source of problems for e.g. IRC and email services, the designers of Tor intentionally made it technically impossible to hide an exit node to help mitigate the potential for abuse.