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Now, if only it would stop working on NTFS...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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University of Washington researchers have invented a cellphone that requires no batteries—a major leap forward in moving beyond chargers, cords and dying phones. Instead, the phone harvests the few microwatts of power it requires from either ambient radio signals or light. Can I play Snake on it?
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Shame we're nice n' analog all the time or we wouldn't need those pesky power hungry ADC/DAC chips.
Power from a dynamic mic though. - cool.
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I would have thought a Doom port would be the first challenge.
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Oooooh, silly me, you're definitely right.
TTFN - Kent
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The beginning of The Matrix.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Nope, the second step.
The beginning is here[^]
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Even calling it a cell phone is a stretch IMO. Not just because of the manual TX/RX switch; but because they're using a custom signal encoding method on a base station designed for this purpose. The fact that they talked about integrating into wifi base stations in the future suggests that it's going to be very range limited vs cell signals. And being analog data it's going to be back to having all of the static/etc problems that plagued that medium. From the description they gave, I suspect it needs to have a channel in use 100% of the time vs packeting the data and sharing so forget scaling for large numbers of users.
None of which is to say it's not a cool demo; but it's not what the headline writers are trying to hype it as either.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sometimes it feels like the line between work and video games is blurred. The story and graphics might not be comparable, but the gameplay mechanics feel like they are. For those that missed it back in the day (or that miss it now)
And if the latter, I grieve for you.
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What do you mean "miss it?" I'm still using it. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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For now, security researchers who have been invited by Apple to submit high-value bugs through the program prefer to keep the bugs for themselves. "It's hard times, for an honest man"
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The CA's new certificate option will give webmasters another tool to encrypt the internet. *%?
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I wonder how long will it take to be used by ransomware
M.D.V.
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Reuters reports that EU regulators are considering another record-breaking fine for Google over its Android operating system. More proof that Android is the new Windows
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The last thing we need is more fragmentation in the Android space - it's bad enough getting manufacturers to provide security fixes already, this is likely to just make a bad situation worse.
Effectively, it will hand dominance of the market to a few vertically integrated players (or in the phone space, one fruit-based company) and screw over consumers. Naturally, when Apple then effectively becomes a monopoly, they will be next in the EU's targets.
None of this is really in the interest of consumers.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: None of this is really in the interest of consumers.
I think they get a % of the fine as comision or something like that.
M.D.V.
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When we use our phone while walking, we employ a "cautious and exaggerated stepping strategy," Anglia Ruskin Unveristy's study shows. With that video, they knew I would post this
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And in other news, dog farts smell bad. Hope they didn't spend taxpayer money for that profoundly obvious study.
It Is The Absolute Verifiable Truth & Proven Fact
That Your Belly-Button Signature Ties
To Viviparous Mama.
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Only Michael Jackson could look cool while texting on the move... 
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Not that I'm sexist, I was looking for a particular post, but geez, googling "woman falls while texting" just comes up with so many links. Like this one.
Moral of the story -- that cautious and exaggerated stepping strategy is you fooling yourself that you're being cautious.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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With such staggering advances in science the human race is finally ready to populate Mars.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So does sexting make you walk straight?
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Only the guys. 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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