Re: cheap fun BAC readers too inaccurate
Cheaper might be time release alcohol-filled nanoparticles. Sprinkle them in a drink, wait HH:MM, go from 0 to 0.3 BAC in seconds.
Posts by PleebSmash
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El Reg tests portable breathalyzers: Getting drunk so you don't have to
Kim Dotcom vows to KILL SKYPE with encrypted MegaChat
SEXY GOLD FireFOXY LADY hits Japan in transparent kimono today
GCHQ: We can't track crims any more thanks to Snowden
Wednesday 24th December 2014 00:36 GMT
Re: Facebook
Information overload. Big Data = big pile o' garbage. In the States, many overlapping intelligence agencies. Given the volume of data the NSA and GCHQ must be swallowing up, it's easier to collect it all and investigate an incident retroactively than stop an attack. These agencies would be in the market for a good AI. In the meantime, they will continue to swallow up everything they can like the vampire squids they are and whine about increased use of encryption while pouring millions into quantum computing research in order to break it.
Who wants SLEEP DEPRIVATION for Christmas?
IsoHunt releases roll-your-own Pirate Bay
Tuesday 23rd December 2014 05:27 GMT
Re: But really..
There are plenty of jurisdictions that look amenable to file sharing. At a glance I'd say Canada or Spain. isohunt.to is supposedly hosted in Australia. As for the TPB itself, it was a mix of magnet links and some torrents. Is a pure magnet site illegal? If the law says that "facilitating copyright infringement" is a crime, maybe.
Monday 22nd December 2014 21:58 GMT
Re: torrent
What's the problem here? When TPB went mostly magnet only, they massively reduced the resources needed to run the site and said it would make it easy to run TPB clones.
http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209/
Using this script, “allisfine” managed to copy the title, id, file size, seeds, leechers and magnet links of 1,643,194 torrents. Comments were not copied to keep the files as small as possible, and the end result is a full copy of all magnet links (magnet) on The Pirate Bay in a 90 megabytes file, 164 megabytes unzipped. There is some confusion as to whether the 1,643,194 torrents are indeed a full copy of the site, as The Pirate Bay itself lists 4,199,832 torrents in the footer link on its site. However, the latter stats apply to the number of torrents that are available on several public trackers, The Pirate Bay itself only hosts a fraction of those.Update: Here’s a copy of 17 million torrents from Bitsnoop.com, pretty much the same format but nicely categorized. It’s only 535 MB.
Monday 22nd December 2014 02:15 GMT
Why the chemistry between Hollywood, physics and maths is so hot right now
Kiwi hacker 'menace' pops home detention tracker cuffs
Sony to media: stop publishing our stolen stuff or we'll get nasty
HORRIFIED Amazon retailers fear GOING BUST after 1p pricing cockup
Sony Pictures email hack: The bitter 'piracy war' between Google and Hollywood laid bare
Saturday 13th December 2014 14:12 GMT
Re: Search for "torrents"
TorrentFreak is a news organization. They've done a lot of original articles and interviews on file sharing issues that you wouldn't see on any mainstream sites. They have been blocked by workplace filters and the like in the past, but good luck censoring it from Google.
QEMU, FFMPEG guru unleashes JPEG-slaying graphics compressor
Friday 12th December 2014 21:25 GMT
Re: It's probably not what the web needs urgently...
What's more, the JavaScript code produces a horrible mess for me on Chrome: http://bellard.org/bpg/lena.html. It seems to work on Firefox though.
Step by flashy step: Toshiba clambers up to next gen SSD
Monday 8th December 2014 19:48 GMT
get up
Samsung's aggressive V-NAND strategy looks like a winner to me. Greater capacity, greater endurance, larger process, and they have already increased the number of layers and bits per cell. Samsung could shrink the process and trade endurance for capacity. V-NAND will stave off Crossbar/memristors and chip away at HDDs if it can do all of the above, increase the layers past 32, and lower the $/GB.
VCs say Uber is worth $41bn... but don't worry, we're not in a bubble
Brit smut slingers shafted by UK censors' stiff new stance
Brits to teach Norks hacks about 'multimedia websites'. 5% of DPRK is in for a TREAT
Did North Korean hackers nobble Sony Pictures?
Nordic Samuel Beckett meets Kafka meets Gervais: Modern office parable The Room
VISUALISED: The Golden Vulture Dropping of Excellence
Sony cuff-puter to do one thing smartwatches can't: Give you DAYS of hot wrist action
Coming clean: Ten cordless vacuum cleaners
Sunday 23rd November 2014 10:38 GMT
Re: I Thought the Reg was an IT mag.
Don't you know about the GreenVac500 list, which ranks vacuum cleaners by Pascals per Watt?
The next big thing in medical science: POO TRANSPLANTS
Sunday 23rd November 2014 10:31 GMT
Re: Sewerage workers
The problem there is that the aggregate of everyone's pee and poo water contains pathogens, which are apparently screened out in the NON-DIY POOP REVERSALS.
After USA FREEDOM Act's failure, what's next for mass surveillance?
Samsung, Apple soap opera drama: Korean giant WILL churn out chips for iPhones, iPads
SCREW YOU, net neutrality hippies – AT&T halts gigabit fiber
Thursday 13th November 2014 23:18 GMT
Re: Yeah, right
You'll see that Google Fiber has "started early discussions with 34 cities in 9 metro areas around the United States to explore what it would take to bring a new fiber-optic network to their community."
How many regional monopolies does Google Fiber have to put to shame before the ISPs start competing again? Do Google Fiber and other entities have to expand gigabit to every city before Time Warner, Comcast, AT&T et al. will improve their services? Keep in mind that Google Fiber plans to make money while doing this, independent of theoretical benefits of more Google users or ad exposure.
Wednesday 12th November 2014 22:21 GMT
Re: Yeah, right
Meanwhile, Google thinks it can roll out 10 Gbps before 2020.
I shed a gentle tear for the poor, misunderstood, and most importantly, over-regulated AT&T.
'Yes, yes... YES!' Philae lands on COMET 67P
The last PC replacement cycle is about to start turning
Wednesday 12th November 2014 14:16 GMT
Re: it's optional
Intel tried. Their roadmap keeps 1366x768 in the entry category of 2014 laptops. Intel completely missed the phablet and ultra-high PPI phone displays (as high as 2560x1440), but correctly predicted a trend towards greater than 4K premium displays (Dell, iMac).
Wednesday 12th November 2014 06:39 GMT 
it's optional
As long as I can be more productive on the laptop, and it costs less while performing better than a phone or tablet, with a better UI and a larger screen, the laptop can be the desktop. Surface is a neat idea but entirely overpriced. Just getting a stupid keyboard for your choice of app-laden tablet costs $70-130.
The $300-500 laptop range is great. Broadwell will arrive in force soon along with Kaveri's successor. 1366x768 panels will hopefully die out.
WATCH Rosetta's Philae's SUCCESSFUL drop on Comet 67P
Mozilla makeover to boost Tor torque, capacity
Tuesday 11th November 2014 04:21 GMT 
advertising
"The company was also developing an 'experiment' through it's nightly Firefox builds to establish a means to keep advertisers happy without invasive user tracking."
My guess is that it will end up replacing "private window", so the users that don't bother initiating a private session can still be tracked by advertisers. Since they are setting up relays, it seems they are all in and will make Tor part of the core functionality of Firefox. Let's hope they can get some Tor vulnerabilities patched up before it launches.
"First, Mozilla engineers are evaluating the Tor Project’s changes to Firefox, to determine if changes to our own platform codebase can enable Tor to work more quickly and easily."
Even before Tor lands in vanilla Firefox, the Tor Browser might get improvements.
Kryder's law craps out: Race to uber-cheap storage is voer
Monday 10th November 2014 23:44 GMT
Re: I'm old enough to remember
Fill a 2.5"/3.5" form factor with these, and watch disks, NAND, and tape die.
Ex-NSA lawyer warns Google, Apple: IMPENETRABLE RIM ruined BlackBerry
Hans Neij of Pirate Bay arrested in Thailand
Branson on Virgin Galactic fatal crash: 'Space is hard – but worth it'
Multi Jet Fusion: THAT's HP's promised 3D printer, not crazy 'leccy invention
Friday 31st October 2014 07:11 GMT
coming soon
Another exciting and revolutionary innovation from HP... in 2 years. Maybe. Along with memristors.
I read the hype about this printer yesterday. It seems very capable and a real effort in making HP not just a leader in 3D printing but making the plasticky goods that come out of it useful. I want to be less skeptical than Simon but HP talks big (memristors, "The Machine") yet the company has been cleaved in two since. Tom's Hardware claims that "Those competitors are not so much the consumer-grade MakerBots of the world, but more like Stratasys; which is to say, this technology is aimed primarily at commercial applications." I'm eager to see more ceramic/metal/circuit/cellulose extrusion in the future so we can move beyond plastic, chocolate, and pizza printers.
Brazil greenlights $200m internet cable to Europe in bid to outfox NSA
NATO declares WAR on Google Glass, mounts attack alongside MPAA
Planning to fly? Pour out your shampoo, toss your scissors, rename terrorist Wi-fi!
Google Glassholes are undateable – HP exec
Thursday 23rd October 2014 16:30 GMT
Re: Pretty arrogant
This would all be fixed with a covert smartglasses device, with the lens as the screen, rather than a corner screen that causes eye strain and gets you attacked.
As for romance, allow the distracted to fail. Let the few who can deliver cheesy lines dictated by their smartglasses succeed.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
