getsaf's comments

Morning dew is not enough to consider your lawn watered. Typically you want a few inches of saturated soil for watering.

As for why it's not "ideal" to run sprinklers in the middle of the day, the idea is that if you water early in the morning, then all of your sunlight hours beat on watered grass. If you just started watering in the afternoon, your grass has already been in prime morning sunlight without the watered soil to boost growing. It's not necessarily bad, it's just not ideal.

I'm not sure how this helps the issue but here's a great windows clipboard manager.

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

Looks nearly identical to http://planetpayment.com this kind of thing has been around since the 90's.

Is it just me or is 5k minified an immense amount of JS for a menu.

Here's a quick POC with most (if not all) of the same functionality. http://jsfiddle.net/vysrtjh6/1/

JS Minifies to 276 bytes.

Am I missing something here?

Definitely not this. HBO has written an app specifically for the Roku. As far as I can tell, Comcast is the only provider who disallows access to the Roku version of the app.

I can use the HBO Android app with Comcast just fine and push to a Chromecast, but not the Roku.

It's a ridiculous situation, Comcast is intentionally blocking Roku while HBO is embracing it.

Not much perspective to be had here unless you are assuming a single photon's distance traveled.

The analogy breaks down when you consider thousands or millions/billions of photons traveling simultaneously, then you can measure in miles.

A single photon's travel-distance doesn't mean much in this context.

I've experience the exact same process you do while trying to recall events and event order.

I attributed the difficult to a diagnosis of mild dyslexia and ADHD (if you believe in that sort of thing). Since these diagnoses in my early 20's I've learned these tricks (such as rationalizing event order).

Now, in my early 30's, this has just become habit. I'm still not as good at remembering events as others but with the mental tricks, I'm adequate.

Due to the fact that the site only links to the iTunes App Store, I can't even see what the app does. I have an apple device but I'm at work and don't have iTunes on my work pc.

I'd recommend some sort of description on the site.

Side note, that logo is sick. Good job on that.

I can't help but think that these things cannot be too accurate. Even in the cheese example given in the article, the outer layer of many cheeses are slightly (some more than others) different than the inside of the cheese block. So how accurate could the reader be for giving contents of the entire block given a scan of a small surface area.

This gets even worse when you scan say, the outer shell of a ravioli. The reader would see pasta which is great but how does the reader know whether it's just pasta or pasta stuffed with lard or spinach?

Thoughts?

I'm guessing they are using Visa's lesser known Money Transfer features. This stuff has been around for a little while. The company I work for recently started supporting this for insurance company payouts to customers.

https://usa.visamoneytransfer.com/Visa/Web/Help/FAQ

BTW, you can chargeback stuff on your debit card just like you can with your credit card. Both are save and typically 100% covered by the credit card company that issued the card.

I'm still amazed that people don't understand how disposable credit card numbers are. The worst thing thing you really risk when giving out your credit card is the hassle of changing any auto-payments you had attached to that card in the off-chance that your card is compromised. Debit cards are a little different in that your funds may be held for a couple of weeks under certain circumstances so that could suck but that's not often the case. /rant

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETVNext.aspx "... Oh, and by the way

ASP.NET vNext (and Rosyln) runs on Mono, on both Mac and Linux today. While Mono isn't a project from Microsoft, we'll collaborate with the Mono team, plus Mono will be added to our test matrix. It's our aspiration that it 'just work.'"

Thanks for pointing that out though, I learned something new today! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd642331(v=vs.110).a...

Thanks for that bit of info, I learned something new today.

edit: It's not really back yet.

I noticed just this morning that Comcast had switched cable modem to be IPV6 only. Last week it was IPV4. There have been a couple of outages lately so I've occasionally been pinging google.com to see if my connection is up. Last week it pinged an IPV4 address, today it's IPV6.

As a consumer of the internets, is there any 'tangible' benefit I can hope to see with IPV6 from my service provider?

"Petitions do work. What a lobbyist does is petition the government. They're just professional at it, and why we presume that a developer or a plumber or a chicken farmer should be as good of a lobbyist as a professional lobbyist is, is beyond me."

As much as I think lobbying is a great harm to the system, I can't help but wonder. Would it be effective if there were some sort of "Kickstarter" for lobbying that would allow the mass public participate in a particular lobbying effort with their own $.

Think "We the people" but backed by people who wish to affect change in a particular way with a small "donation". The difference would be that each project would need to be curated by a professional lobbyist to ensure that the details are correct. There could be a threshold set and a particular lobbying effort would only move forward if the threshold is met... Etc, etc, just like Kickstarter. I can't help but think that I'm being too simplistic and overly optimistic. Is there any particular reason this wouldn't work?

1. Plug the camera into a computer. 2. Use any of the any free undelete app available and undelete the video from the camera. 3. Profit?

The article describes the "sophisticated" attack

* Phish the users. The user must fall for this attack.

* Prompt the user to MANUALLY download AND install an application on their pc.

* Then (if that's not enough) download and MANUALLY install an app on your phone.

That's a whole lot of poor decisions on the end user's part. I wouldn't be surprised if these user's wouldn't have just replied to an email with their account number and PIN. Better yet just ask them to mail you cash, seems like something they would do too.

Think people. C'mon.

"Successful reexaminations should be a rare, exceptional case in a properly functioning patent system."

Unfortunately some 70% of reexaminations are confirmed to have some sort of issues. This is very shaky ground to be used to routinely afford millions/billions in damages and effectively "lock up" ideas that are obvious or unpatentable.

edit: add source http://ptolitigationcenter.com/essentials/common-questions/#...

If they can (and do) I fear that this will discourage the USPTO from invalidating any other patent review cases for fear of being sued out the yang.

If there is a plus side, this may affect the passability of future patent requests but I figure this will be less likely to occur and more likely that the USPTO will simply stop invalidating patent review cases. For the good of the country (world) I hope I'm wrong.