Empedocles99 | 13 years ago | on: Brooklyn: Hobo stoves charging cell phones
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Empedocles99 | 13 years ago | on: Stanford’s Self-Driving Car Tears It Up On Racetrack – Tops 120 MPH
Mapping down to the millimeter is great, but the conditions on track are continually changing. Weather (rain, sun, track surface temperature, air temperature), debris (dirt, grass, marbles, spectator thrown shoes), rubber being laid down on the track, changing condition of the driver's vehicle and other vehicles are all things that need to be contended with. Simulation helps, assuredly, and is used in human based efforts extensively, but you can't exactly just play back your simulation on a real track and expect the car to stay on course at race speed.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: I hereby resign
Maybe not exactly what you meant, but Raptr employs video game players (including a few pro/ex-pro players), and is a social network for video game players.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Blizzard Lays Off 600, Including About 60 Developers
You would only be partially correct. See this report we did at Raptr:
http://blog.raptr.com/2011/09/27/zynga-report/
Specifically, ~20% of WOW players also played a Zynga game, and ~30% of XBox players also played a Zynga game.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory
Reminded me of this, a WWII/Cold War missile test site in San Diego:
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Sean Parker: “Little Startups Are Ridiculously OverFunded”
"you can get a small 3bdroom house for $300-$350K in a very safe area"
I'm curious where that is? In my area, the only house I saw for sale in that price range was a 1 bedroom house literally behind a strip joint.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Anonymous Correctly Predict The De-listing $1B Company
The part you are missing is how do you get such an obviously fraudulent company listed in the first place?
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: I was once a Facebook fool
A more interesting metric is: # of votes up / (# of times viewed or # of users viewed)
(to normalize against changing userbase size)
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Help, I’m on the IRS hit list
How did this person become a US Citizen if born in the UK? She got citizenship to work a summer job?
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Sony to ban gamers from PSN unless they waive right sue over security breaches.
I'm on my fourth or fifth xbox 360 due to hardware failures. I lost track... that's one reason.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator
I thought the 40-bit keys were used due to cryptographic export restrictions, and not lack of randomness?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-bit_encryption
Seems to agree with me.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Poll: Do you use AdBlock?
Too many times has my computer succumbed to malware in ads (mostly flash and java). Noscript for me.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Hotmail Adds New Feature "My Friend's Been Hacked"
So, they've made it easier for people to launch simple denial of service attacks on hotmail accounts.
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Who Owns Facebook? The Definitive Who's Who Guide to Facebook Wealth
Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
Google has billions in cash sitting around, I'm sure if they hired a few thousand people to deal with this problem that some significant strides could be made. This, however, may not be the most prudent use of resources (cash).
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: iPhone 4-digit passcodes more secure when containing only 3 unique digits
The phone leaks password data? It tells an attacker that the password contains only numerics?
Empedocles99 | 14 years ago | on: Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
Songkick requires logging in to a facebook account. This site is doing exactly what we're discussing NOT doing.
Empedocles99 | 15 years ago | on: Osama bin Laden Is Dead
It's pretty common for them to have pre-written obituaries for famous people that are likely to die soon.
See: Debate over Britney Spears' Obituary
http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-01-22/news/17150316_1_hollyw...
Empedocles99 | 15 years ago | on: Toyota's Recall Crisis: What Have We Learned?
Except when they went rally racing in WRC, where they got banned for cheating in a really egregious manner.
Empedocles99 | 15 years ago | on: Software Patents Shut Down RunwayFinder
Premise:
a) Many (most?) small software outfits, and software developers don't agree that software should be patentable.
b) Some of us would be willing to pay an insurance premium against patent trolls
Proposal: Form an organization (or convince an existing one like the EFF) funded (donations, I'd presume) by all of us to:
a) Lobby for changes to to the patent process and law.
b) Aggressively challenge obvious software patents as being obvious, or using prior art.
c) Serve as a communal defense fund/legal help for small businesses against patent trolls.
d) Maintain a community database of bad patents and potential prior art (to be used in defensive or offensive legal actions)
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There are a lot of coatings, metals, and metal alloys that are not safe to burn, including Galvanized Steel (Zinc), Stainless Steel (Chromium), and Magnesium.