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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 t…

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 cru…

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 ca…

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 titl…

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 yo…

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 br…

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 en…

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)…

> 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 purpos…

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?