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See also nationalparktypeface.com which has a similar asthetic and motivation.

That question is as impossible to answer as "if I started an apple orchard how profitable would that be".

Making legal tax evasion accessible to the masses may be the only way to get the government to close those loopholes.

Isn't that making a decision for you? "users will only ever need to install software from our central app store" is deciding for the user that they don't need to be able to run whatever software they want on their device. It's fine if, as a user, you decide you don't need that capability, but you are still having that decided for you.

Disclaimer: I don't know the current status of 3rd party app on iOS but my point still stands.

I suppose they mean taking Apple's "We know what is good for you better than you do" approach. While Apple currently does not force OS upgrades, they do make a lot of decisions for their users without giving their users an opt-out or a way to roll back. This idea top-down, walled garden is pretty central to contemporary Apple.

About a year ago I was living in a place with a broken doorbell so I wrote a web page that would send me a text when it was loaded (hosted on my Pi). I then printed a QR code for the page that stated clearly "To ring bell, scan code". Users would scan the code which would immediately text "Ding Dong!", the page would let them enter their name. If they did I would receive a follow up text "It's [name]". Sadly in my year of living there only a handful of people ever used it.

Don't forget the people like myself with learning disabilities that require tech to organize and communicate. If schools were more willing to accept students who needed to use technology rather than writing them off as lazy or 'slow' the world would be a better place.

What an amazing thing to put in a EULA. Are they somehow sponsored by China?

What about option 2.5? Rather than hack the hardware, hack the software; buy a cloud-synced scale and sniff the traffic it sends out with the pi.

GPU's are really good at parallel tasks such as calculating the color of every pixel on the screen, or doing the same operation on a large dataset. According to Newegg, the GTX980 has 2048 CUDA cores (parallel processing cores) that run at ~1266 MHz as opposed to a nice CPU which might have 4 cores that run at 4 GHZ. In other words, if you want to manipulate a whole bunch of things in one way in parallel, you can program it to use the GPU effectively, if you want to manipulate one thing a whole bunch of ways in series, CPU is your best bet.

(note: this is massively oversimplified)

Can someone explain why this is not just something that Microsoft should patch in windows? i.e how is this not just a windows vulnerability that you can use TrueCrypt to take advantage of? Why are drivers able to escalate privilege at all?

Why are you trying to teach me English? This teacher should be arrested for trying to overthrow the government... What is the "broader explanation" for this English textbook?

Honestly it is stuff like this that Bitcoin would do amazing for if it had wider adoption. Scan the screen or click a button, send $0.10 your way, images appear. No muss, no fuss, no CC processors. The biggest benefit for this is, for someone who already is part of the Bitcoin ecosystem, the barrier to pay to see these images is smaller than using a credit card and maybe even smaller than PayPal. This biggest problem with using Bitcoin is that not many people (particularly those who would read a food blog) have it, and the barrier to buy into the Bitcoin ecosystem for many people is very high.

I agree. Here is what I would do:

Train cat to attack a laser point (easy)

Place ball next to target and point laser at ball and hope that it gets knocked in.

When it does, reward it getting knocked in and gradually increase the distance to the target.

I am assuming the cat would figure out at some point that it can carry the ball to the target in its mouth.

Using RFID to detect the presence of the balls feels like overkill. Why not a light sensor, or a hair trigger switch out of reach of the cat. Sure The cat can now be fed by finding random objects, but maybe the training of using the ball will stop the cat from figuring that out.

The limiting factor is going to be the speed of light rather than the bandwidth.

That is my biggest thought. If this is oriented to hackers, let me own the thing so I can do some really cool stuff with it.

For those of you wondering, it is due to weather concerns: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32955880

They will continue when the conditions are better.

I had a book of chindogu from at least 10 years ago. They had an invention that looked shockingly like the jump camera. Here is an image which shows a scan of a few of the images including the relivent one: http://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chindogu-un...

I find it kind of funny that Google is now using a system that was invented so long ago as a joke. Why not use any of the other system to capture 360 3d images? Why did Google decide 16 cameras was the right way to go?

The only reason I can think is you might get higher res images out of 16 cameras than with only a few and a hemispherical reflector or a motor, but is it really worth the extra cost and points of failure?