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But can you average 60 miles per hour in your commute? Maybe if you're going 30 miles on the freeway and only a few blocks on surface streets, but for going short distances within cities, bikes can be comparable or even faster than cars (see: Bike messengers)

On my car, you can always shift from Drive to Neutral just by pushing forward on the gear lever, without your foot on the brake, without pressing the button on the gear lever, etc.

If you're driving down the freeway, putting the gear selection lever to neutral would be a much better choice than killing the engine and taking out the key.

I found an industrial park that appears to be the next best thing to a Velodrome for local cyclists. Very cool map!

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#15/-119.86045/34.43307/yello...

What do you get for $3/month? The Premium page is very unclear.

Any ideas for a cheap source of SODIMM sockets?

The point of carbocation's technique is to avoid requiring users to reset their passwords, but to protect every user with bcrypt. The existing SHA password hashes could be used as the input to bcrypt.

It's a bit steep at $89.

http://earthmake.com/product/arlcd/

Various apps now include chromecast support, so anyone with the Netflix/YouTube app can stream to your chromecast.

Using your Chromecast this way puts you at a disadvantage with many TVs. My TV only provides HDMI power when the input is selected (this may be per the spec) but that eliminates Chromecast's 'switch the input automatically' feature.

> 3. Music sounds terrible through it. It lacks an optical audio out port so it just uses the TVs speakers which are obviously not great.

I have my TV's optical audio out running to my receiver. That way all my HDMI devices (laptops, Raspberry Pi, Chromecast) are hooked directly to my TV and the audio is automatically sent to my stereo system.

> 4. This is probably a personal issue, but Chrome tab streaming constantly drops out after a short period of time. I've yet to get it working fully

I've never experienced this problem.

For point 6, I prefer to plug in the Chromecast to a real 5V DC power source because the USB port on my TV is only powered when the TV is on, and I like that Chromecast can turn on the TV and switch the input itself.

Could you elaborate on the unlock process with your z-wave lock?

Are you using openzwave, RaZberry, MiCasaVerde, or something else?

Docker already runs fine on 32 bit systems if you compile it yourself and remove the check for 64-bit-ness.

Everyone thought it was $150M but it turned out to be $280M. Not that that makes much of a difference for Microsoft.

The agreement has been public since 2009.

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/NovvMS-104-8.pdf

> Microsoft also debated the exact language the message should contain. In the end, senior vice president Brad Silverberg said in a 1992 email that the message needed to steer users away from DR-DOS. "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS," Silverberg wrote.

Daily commuters are exactly the kind of person that will make this airline cease to exist, because the service could no longer pay for itself.

Seeing him tracking satellites made me think of the potential for servo-controlled directional antennas with common Wi-Fi. Anyone built a tracking antenna mount using servos? Seems like you would be able to 3D print one that could point my 400 gram Ubiquiti Nanostation device towards various peers to make a mesh network of difficult to jam directional links.

From the paper [1]

The WiSee proof-of-concept is implemented in GNURadio using the USRP-N210 hardware.

Each USRP is equipped with a XCVR2450 daughterboard, and communicates on a 10 MHz channel at 5 GHz. Since USRPN210 boards cannot support multiple daughterboards, we built a MIMO receiver by combining multiple USRP-N210s using an external clock. In our evaluation, we use MIMO receivers that have up to five antennas. We use single antenna USRP-N210s as transmitters.

So basically, they are using 6+ USRPs at $1400+ each to do these experiments. However, since each USRP is communicating on a 10MHz channel at 5GHz, someone with between two and five MIMO 802.11n Wi-Fi devices could theoretically do the same.

[1] http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/wisee_paper.pdf

I can picture carpool lanes being turned into automated vehicle lanes.

It's the opposite, actually. It's illegal right now to fly any drone above 400 feet. Drones under 400 feet must be within line of sight of the operator. The FAA will now be forced to allow civilian drone flights, mostly for photography, law enforcement, search and rescue, industrial/commercial things like movie filming and power line maintenance. I hope there will be expedited shipping personally :)

Hasn't the FAA seen Die Hard 2?

Acura is the big winner of this year's superbowl!

Yes.

Forwarded to a cryptography Professor and some of his students : )

I would prefer google voice style, my phone rings and I am connected. I don't often take phone calls through my computer, despite using skype chat and having a webcam. I suspect many others are the same.

Which makes me wonder what percentage of internet users have ever had a google hangout?

Actually that's the code for an older 20% project:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/radish.html

It's likely that of the reported install base, only a small percentage of devices are actually in active use today.