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dexter313··on The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death (1997)
Switch to metric system USA!
dexter313··on Can you fool a computer at generating random numbers?
same here
dexter313··on Verizon says leaked data is not from its servers
Did anyone download the file?
dexter313··on 3D-print records for your turntable
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947970

It sounds pretty good, similar to an old tape recording.

dexter313··on Quora Plans To Expand Beyond Q&A
>> Quora and Wikipedia have long been seen as complementary <<

How is that true? I can't even search on quora without loging in.

dexter313··on [dead]
I'd say that's impossible to determine even for youtube.
dexter313··on "PSY - Gangnam Style" 100k hits remain to hit 1 billion YouTube views
It is already over 9000... err i mean 1000000000

Youtube has refreshed the view count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

dexter313··on Rent by the minute, park for free with new Car2Go service (Seattle)
Anyone from Seattle, how does that compare($) to taxies?
dexter313··on $2,500 Bounty on Mark Zuckerberg
Title is misleading, $2,500 is payed to whoever gets Mark to contact businessleads.com
dexter313··on Scientists warn of sperm count crisis
Children of Men here we come!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206634/

dexter313··on Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene
The light seen in the video is not the 30 minute-one. There the weight drops much quicker. Look carefuly at about 55 second in the video.
dexter313··on Gravity Light - Alternative form of lighting to replace Kerosene
Looks like the half an hour duration is only good for powering a LED at a small power. The light seen in the video at the 55 seconds mark, shows the LED at full power and the weight drop speed is about 0.7 cm per two seconds (again, aproximately from the video), thats about 4-5 minutes for a meter of height.
dexter313··on Signal-blocking wallpaper stops Wi-Fi stealing
Does it block cell phones?

3G and 4G have similar frequencies to wi-fi.

dexter313··on Doom 3 BFG Edition source code released
What file is that from?
dexter313··on Guy writes 4000 lines of terrible code
I don't know... I think this is way to complex to be written by an idiot. Must be fake.
dexter313··on Laservex: HTML5 Laser Puzzle Game
infinite power!

http://imgur.com/AbvXE

dexter313··on Europe Proposes Cheap Quantum Optics Link to the International Space Station
Just testing a longer distance through the air, and testing how they pass the athmosphere.
dexter313··on A SSD in Your Pocket
>>Is the 'installing device driver' and 'safe to eject' malarkey still just as slow and clunky with USB3?<<

Im curious about this, anyone has any experience?

Are USB 3.0 ports common now?

dexter313··on Watch Mitt Romney's Facebook Likes Decrease in Real Time
Romney is losing ~566 likes per hour. It will take him 886 days to lose them all.

Also here: http://private.woutervdb.com/romney/

and obama: http://private.woutervdb.com/obama/

dexter313··on Curiosity: Should We Poke The Cube?
I think this is very interesting, it looks stupid at first, but that is exactly the kind of experiment i would want to do on humanity if i had the power of Peter Moylneux.

It's so simple yet players are communicating using words written on the cube, and when the 50000$ chisel (currently in-game purchasing doesn't exist, but it will soon) is available, i bet it will be purchased immediately.

dexter313··on Smuggling USB Sticks
I don't that cubans have many 10Mbps connections.
dexter313··on Smuggling USB Sticks
It takes about 2,89 days on a 1 Mbit connection to download 32 GBytes.
dexter313··on Apple pays $20m to use Swiss rail clock
That's about 0.2 $ per user.
dexter313··on Sharing secrets and distributing passwords
It explains how a password can be cut up in pieces and distributed so that each piece individualy can be used to reveal the secret.

Skip to >>Shamir’s Algorithm<< section to get to the most interesting part.

dexter313··on A Slower Speed of Light
Just finished the game, it perfectly simulates contractions and time dillation on a 2D surface, check it out.
dexter313··on Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
Video was never cut, but the radio is still off.
dexter313··on Red Bull Stratos Skydive Rescheduled for today
Felix's helmet heating apears to be broken. They've also cut the radio talk between Felix and Joseph.
dexter313··on Nori Lights - Bicycle Illumination System
This is genius, how come no one thought of this before, it is cheap, provides more safety for bicyclers and freaking looks like tron bikes! This guy deserves to make money.
dexter313··on Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
It does. Still I think the point of game of life is not to look organic but to make complex thing from very simple rules. Like supposedly the universe we live in. Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, no computer can do that of course.
dexter313··on Conway's Game of Life, using floating point values instead of integers
Awesome, but the results/behaviour (in the video) don't seem very complex like the original Conway's game of life.
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