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HNaTTY··on Return of incandescent light bulbs as MIT makes them more efficient than LEDs
If they're on dimmer circuits, they could just be cheap LED bulbs. Even if the dimmer is all the way up, and even if the LED bulb is marketed as dimmable.
HNaTTY··on Micro-engraver who works between heartbeats to keep his hand steady
http://grahamshortart.com/ He has this website which hasn't been kept up to date but shows some of his work
HNaTTY··on UC Davis spent thousands to scrub pepper spray references from Internet
Criminal offense in that it's perjury, but you could also be required to pay the other side's legal fees.

As far as I know, punishment for the perjury has never happened. The only case I know of where legal fees were paid is Automattic vs Steiner.

HNaTTY··on The Law is Clear: The FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite its OS
> The feds can not force me to decrypt my own crypto, I have 5th amendment protection against that.

That depends on what the gov't knows about what encrypted files you have. In the worst case, they don't need to ask you for your password, they just need you to decrypt your data.

In Re Boucher is the most famous case where the government ruled that the 5th amendment couldn't prevent the government from compelling someone to decrypt their data. On the flip side, Wikipedia has this short blurb on it's article on U.S. V Hubbell: "The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hubbell. The Court held that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination protects a witness from being compelled to disclose the existence of incriminating documents that the Government is unable to describe with reasonable particularity. The Court also ruled that if the witness produces such documents, pursuant to a grant of immunity, the government may not use them to prepare criminal charges against him."

HNaTTY··on In Colorado, a look at life after marijuana legalization
It's good, because you can avoid all taxes by growing your own.
HNaTTY··on SSH Backdoor found in Fortinet firewalls
This script worked for me once I enabled SSH on the lan interface on my FortiGate 100D running 5.0. But the only command that seemed to do anything is "exit". Everything else gave an "Unknown Action 0".
HNaTTY··on Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone
WalMart is advertising the LG Sunset for $24 next Friday -- Android 5.0, 8gb flash, 4-core 1.2ghz, 4.5" screen, MicroSD slot.

I'm planning on getting one and adding a bluetooth remote music controller as a music player on my motorcycle.

HNaTTY··on Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers
> (legitimate visits, obviously)

That's an important point; I'm seeing referral spam in my GA reports which I never noticed before 2015. I manually discount it when compiling reports, and my understanding is that these spammers hit GA UAs at random without even loading your website.

HNaTTY··on Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
From what I've read so far, this has to do with heat necessary for the catalytic converter to absorb NOx -- without enough heat, NOx isn't absorbed, so in emissions test mode, they're just running the engine in such a way that more heat is generated to make sure the cat works properly.
HNaTTY··on To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10%
A Hulu++ you say?
HNaTTY··on How I Gave Up Alternating Current
Deep cycle lead-acid batteries are still the go-to battery for off-gridders. They're recyclable and fairly affordable for the amount of energy storage.

He's not using a high-CCA battery, you can see the model of the battery behind the window in the picture.

I hope this situation changes in 2016 because I'm tired of adding distilled water.

HNaTTY··on How Berlin’s Futuristic Airport Became a $6B Embarrassment
Flying into Colorado Springs is a bit sketchy, there is often turbulence from the mountains when you're descending. I wouldn't be surprised if DIA being located so far east has something to do with that.
HNaTTY··on Lost Posture: Why Indigenous Cultures Don't Have Back Pain
The book Starting Strength is often touted as the best way to learn the deadlift, front/back squat, overhead press, and bench press. It has a lot of detail about the posture you want during the lifts, as well as how to increase your workloads until you are Huge(tm). In short, you have a program of lifts you do (sets x reps x weight = work), and you increase your work output every time you go to the gym, which means you need to structure your workouts to allow for recovery but not atrophy.
HNaTTY··on End the Ethanol Rip-Off
That doesn't make any sense.
HNaTTY··on New Tesla battery could power your home, and maybe the electric grid too
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-stor...

"The main problem with gravitational storage is that it is incredibly weak compared to chemical, compressed air, or flywheel techniques (see the post on home energy storage options). For example, to get the amount of energy stored in a single AA battery, we would have to lift 100 kg (220 lb) 10 m (33 ft) to match it. To match the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, we would have to lift 13 tons of water (3500 gallons) one kilometer high (3,280 feet)."

HNaTTY··on What is the best hard drive?
I'm super excited for the new Seagate 8tb drives @$260/each.

Please order a carton of them and let us know ASAP how they work for you!

HNaTTY··on Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats
As a counterpoint, I'll point you to Chris Rock's opening monologue on SNL last month, wherein he makes 9/11 jokes. Famous comedian, Network TV, IN NYC... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZLKqGhSZs It got some comments but there was no lasting controversy about it as far as I'm concerned.
HNaTTY··on Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats
And once the first domino (theater) falls, the pressure on remaining theaters increases tremendously.
HNaTTY··on Doxxing defense: Remove your personal info from data brokers
I hope you're doing anything@subdomain.example.com otherwise you'll get catchall spam.
HNaTTY··on Who Has Your Back 2014: Protecting Your Data From Copyright/Trademark Bullies
Godaddy supports a lot of international TLDs that Namecheap does not.
HNaTTY··on FTDI removes counterfeit-bricking driver from Windows Update
Since the "making the hardware unusable" step is just setting the PID to 0, the slope doesn't seem too slippery to me. If the manufacturers of the counterfeit chip had their own PID and Windows drivers, they wouldn't have used FTDI's. FTDI here is merely enforcing that chips which are not theirs don't use their PID.

I agree that their updated driver will probably continue to not work with these counterfeit chips, and while it shouldn't mess up the chips' functionality in Linux, fixing the PID in Linux is fairly straightforward.

In the case where the driver will continue to not work with these chips, "bricking" only refers to not resetting the PID which causes the device not to work in Linux as well.

HNaTTY··on Nexus 6
Likely due to the larger 3200mAh battery, compared to 1800mAh for the iPhone 6.
HNaTTY··on Town Becomes a Beer Ad, but Residents Don’t Feel Like a Party
Likely from all the preparations, and hiring the local restaurants/bars/etc on the main drag. Who is going to clean up all the blue paint and throwup? Local guys I guess.
HNaTTY··on PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s Crowdfunding Account
They definitely allow donations, if you're a 501(c)(3) charity.
HNaTTY··on Amazon Flexes Its Muscles in Fight Against Publishers
I like your writing style.
HNaTTY··on Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it
Interactivity is one thing, but I'd just like to see a simple motion detector hooked up to the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi, controlling the monitor. It bothers me that this monitor is just on all the time.

Detect motion -> refresh the data and wake up the monitor. Or just wake up the monitor since the data is being refreshed quite frequently already.

Also, I don't have any complaints about code clarity, everything seems straightforward.

Well done!

HNaTTY··on Google AdSense leak?
I guess the IRS isn't the right place to go because all that money is probably reported as income by Google. Too bad because IRS whistleblowers are eligible for a percentage of any amount the IRS is able to collect, and with a company as big as Google, that could be an earth-shatteringly large amount of money.
HNaTTY··on The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
I understand your frustration, but (a) there are no easy answers, and (b) as I'm sure you can imagine, bicyclists don't like riding near your car either.

I've pissed people off by following traffic laws on a bicycle as much as breaking them; I'm slow to get going from stop signs and I won't pull to the side of the road so you can squeeze me into a 2ft space of sand and crap next to the curb as you pass me.

A lot of the times that I break traffic laws, the result is me getting out of your way (running the light/not stopping at the stop sign/riding on sidewalk).

Of course yours and my experience could be very different. Traffic isn't too much of a problem here, one way or the other. The biggest problem I have to deal with is if a train comes through town and I have to wait 5 minutes for it to pas.

HNaTTY··on CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired
I see it as a kind of sociopathy, an inability to empathize with others and a tendency to see them not as human but as resources for you to use. I have a high sensitivity to it and no tolerance for it. And I agree that sales people are the #1 bullshitters.
HNaTTY··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I was able to basically saturate my connection downloading the torrent, 10.3mb/s. 10 hours later I'm still at a ratio of 0.038. Kind of surprising how many folks are seeding.
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