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Comment Re:Starlink the hell out of Europa (Score 3, Funny) 44

> India hid the Pokhran tests from US satellites
Its not the point you're trying to make, but seismic sensors knew instantly when India tested their bombs. I guess this makes clear what the real reason for us putting the INSIGHT seismometer on Mars. Tracking those Martian nukes!


Search for seismic in this article.
http://nuclearweaponarchive.or...

Comment How did you know (Score 2) 386

I am also networking and programming savvy but I always assumed good hacking jobs would go unnoticed. What tipped you off to being hacked and do you allow admin login to your router from the wan side? I'm generally aware that is the most likely attack vector. Thanks for any info.

Comment Re:Raise the Price (Score 4, Informative) 462

There is no regulation requiring electric alternatives be less than n% more than gas. There's no way to even enforce it. The Fiat has to be sold for $30k at a loss but the Tesla can go for $80k because the government things its so much nicer? No, Fiat just knows they are competing with the Nissan Leaf and no one would buy their car for 50% more than the Leaf is going for. He just wants to whine and make it sound like the government is ruining him, not that he's being beat in the market.

And as for that Executive Order, its directed at the California government as a goal to strive towards. You are trying to make it sound like he has passed some sort of law directed at car manufacturers which would be illegal, and impossible as there's no legal definition for "cost competitive". http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=...

There is no law requiring a Fiat 500e to be sold for less than 200% the price of a regular 500.

Comment They already know about Earth (Score 1) 239

If they are advanced enough to travel here then they've had their own version of the Kepler telescope for 500 years and have known at the minimum that Earth has liquid water, oxygen, and chlorophyll (I think that can be picked up used spectroscopy). Basically anyone advanced civilization nearby probably has known about Earth as a life-bearning world long before humans came along.

Just a cool thought to counter the idea that we're hidden until someone detects radio.

Comment Re:It never worked (Score 1) 69

When I was in a one bedroom apartment in Mountain View I tried google and could never connect to it. I thought "What a pile of crap". Then I set up my own wifi router. I couldn't even connect to that from an adjacent room half the time. If you're in any sort of apartment complex all the (now old) 2GHz baby monitors and 2GHz phones absolutely killed any signal that has to go more than 30 feet or through a wall.

Comment They weren't doing this already? (Score 1) 101

I'm amazed they they weren't doing something like this already. I think its a pretty standard cross correlation filtering method. They even say they're brute forcing it with a GPU, which surprised me. Am I missing something or could this be sped up quite a bit with FFT?

Comment Re:Not Surprising (Score 1) 144

As a reference for "good" wifi, the new 49ers stadium is claiming some crazy real-world useability. Something like every single person in the park will be able to fully utilize their 802.11n or 802.11g bandwidth. If this actually turns out to be true it could be the model for how to do large wifi projects right.

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