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The linked article really beats around the bush before describing the attack. This link is a bit better: https://dheatattack.gitlab.io/dheater/ It honestly doesn't seem that impactful to me.

Here is the spec sheet for the main square chip on that board. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq76pl536a-q1.pdf You're right. It does have a cell balancing feature.

I agree with the discussion here. State machines are very useful. The best thing about them is how easy they makes documentation. You just draw a state diagram and you're done!

If this software is so widely available why didn't ECM's antivirus software detect it?

ianaee, but the board from the led bulb looks just as hand soldered as the board from the cfl. I don't think the following argument holds up very well.

"I was quite impressed by the use of connectors in this bulb rather than relying on low-cost-labor for hand-soldering which has been used in the manufacturing of CFLs."

sorry revorad. you can just send it to my username @gmail.com

thanks!

i'd love one if you have an extra. send spam to jack at g mail thanks!

The OP also argues that the patent could be defeated by a patent review. "Virtually none of the patents that patent trolls buy would be issued today. The vast majority of these patents would not survive a U.S. Patent & Trademark Office patent review. Most were issued during the 1990s when the standards for business process patents were very low."

The OP goes on to say that the victims of patent trolls band together to finance the review to make it cheaper than settling.

Maybe I'm naive but it could simply be because they are evaluating it for internal use. The FBI and CIA don't want to use vulnerable browsers any more than we do.

the conditional syntax he describes does exist in many mainstream programming languages

(x==y) ? a : b

They should think about building this into the bottom of an insulated coffee cup. Another good product would be to put the thermal material in a silicon jacket instead of stainless steel so that it could be microwave safe.

link to google maps http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=-7.943126,-14.364...

"Third, the opportunity to host my own social networking server is one that appeals only to the smallest fraction of the social networking marketplace."

this argument seems really short sighted to me. If disapora takes off I expect social networking accounts will be like email accounts. There will be several dedicated hosts that serve the majority of users (like gmail, yahoo, etc.), but there will also be thousands of other smaller options (including self hosting) that savvier users choose as they see fit.

Back in school I helped write a file system based on ramfs that used the ram in all of the computers in our lab as one big shared super fast hard disk. It was a great learning experience.

I wouldn't say it's necessary for every programmer to know how the linux vsf system works and how files, directories and links are stored behind the scenes, but it is really interesting. Here's a good description of vfs http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/vfs... . The implementation in ramfs is pretty simple (compared to ext3). You can find it in your kernel source in fs/ramfs/inode.c. Theres a function in there called ramfs_mkdir that allocates and configures a new inode. Anyway, thats how i'd answer the question.

Steve's comment makes sense from his buddhist perspective: Life is suffering and suffering comes from attachment. He clearly wants iphone owners who are attached to their phones to suffer :)