The minor rants thread.
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I'm ranting that their bug reporting website tells me I can log in with
guest
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(which would be good for me, since I do not want to track the process of fixing things) but I can't actually do it when I try. IT! JUST! DOES! NOT! WORK! Obviously nobody bothered to do the most basic QA of their own bug website in the last few years…... or maybe they did, but the QA team couldn't log a bug on their bug reporting website because they could not log in...
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True, but they must also be purely string contents. Binary is too closed!
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I lock my computer whenever I'm not at it and there's a possibility that someone could get to it without smashing a door or window. So the only time I don't lock my computer is when I'm home alone and I need to get a snack or something.
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That's not ISO-27001 compliant.
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Using this family of standards will help your organization manage the security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to you by third parties.
None of that applies. I'm protecting some session cookies and a few SSH keys. Also, my not-having-my-computer-fucked-up-by-a-family-member.
If someone breaks into my house, they're not going to fuck with my computer's settings. They're probably going to steal something and get out.
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They're probably going to steal
somethingmy computerand get out.<really, who's going to brake in into a basement
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@ben_lubar said:
They're probably going to steal
somethingmy computerandget out.find it full of LOLban, Dwarf Fortress and obscure BIT compilers and bring it back.<really, who's going to brake in into a basement
<someone who's going to fast and needs to slow down?
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@ben_lubar said:
They're probably going to steal
somethingmy computerand get out.ben doesn't have a computer. He has a dhromebook.
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I have a Windows computer, a headless Ubuntu computer, and a dhromebook.
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Could we get a mod to move that to the plumbing thread where it belongs?
Also - "photoshopped" hands... epic fail.
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Why can I not Logout from the Main Screen???
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Discourse is the software equivalent of the roach motel. You can login but you can't logout.
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Hotel California I presume?
No that's different. You can check-out of Hotel California, but you can't leave.
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Why can I not Logout from the Main Screen???
You can log out, but you're already on NSA's child porn list thanks to @dkf
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I'm older than that!
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How do I get a list of topics so I know which topic would be most appropriate for a post.
INB41: A to any such feature is the fact that Topic Titles (the only real hint as to what a Topic may be about) change.
INB42: Yes I could "bookmark" certain Topics, but I can only do that for Topics I know about
INB43: Yes, I could create a New Topic, but I can see no way (except "Reply as Linked Topic - which starts a new one anyway) that it can be linked.
INB431: Again, it would assume I "know about" the topic.
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Since you're obviously a rant looking for a cause, you could always try Discosearching for a suitable topic...
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Feature request, a My Personal Notes topic which is wiki editable by me, stickied globally for me, and invisible to everyone else.
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It's called "OneNote"!
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My apologies. I will be readjusting my sarcasm emitters.
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Status: I'm annoyed at those fucking newspaper journalists still perpetrating this Solar Roadways scam which has massive problems on the engineering side and is an even bigger clusterfuck on the economic scale.
And then this fucking article cites a physicist (who works for a, who'd have guessed, solar panel producing company) who states that this is an "interesting idea" which "makes sense".
I'm of a mind to write this guy and ask him to please return his diploma to the mill he obviously got it from.
At least I'm in a position where I get to inoculate a chosen few against this kind of shit.
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When I was in high school, I had a physics teacher I liked who heard one of those bullshit articles about how spy satellites can "tell if a penny on the sidewalk is heads or tails" and one day in class he was like, "ok, let's do the damned physics to see if this is possible."
IIRC a satellite capable of that resolution had a lens something like 150 miles in diameter. It was ridiculously large, and as he pointed out, if there was such a satellite it would be EASILY visible to the naked eye, kind of defeating the point of having it.
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What in the 9 circles of hell? Is it scamster's central or what?
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Is it scamster's central or what?
Not necessarily. It's certainly possible to extract electrical energy from radio waves. It's no different in principle (the scale is vastly different, obviously) from the idea that was popular some years ago of using microwaves to transmit energy from solar power satellites to earth. They're only claiming to be able to produce microwatts of power, which seems to me to be plausible.
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The amount of energy they'll be able to harvest will be so miniscule that these hardware applications:
will never work. That's why I'm calling it a scam.
I mean, look at this:
A credit card sized Freevolt rectenna can, in a typical highenergy environment, like an office or home, deliver up to 100µW and will harvest energy in any orientation.
http://www.getfreevolt.com/downloads/Freevolt Perpetual Power.pdfUp to 100 microWatt.
And then there's this failure of basic math (or at least clouding the issue)
The simple scalability of Freevolt means that two or more rectennas can be combined in an array to harvest more energy, up to 3mW for example
From 0.1 mW to 3 mW is a factor of 30. Not three as they're implying here.
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these hardware applications:
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will never work.
I'd have to go back and read it again, which I'm not going to bother doing, to figure out which category they claimed those devices were in, but they did say that in some applications it would be insufficient to power the device, but that it could significantly extend battery life.
Edit to respond to your edit:
From 0.1 mW to 3 mW is a factor of 30. Not three as they're implying here.
I'm not sure I see that implication. Yes, that would require an array of 30 rectennas. They say "two or more;" obviously, 30 is "more."
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At 0.1 mW? Don't bother. That's putting the "in" before significant. You'll get more energy from solar cell / capacitor combination even in low-light spots.
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I kinda think this doesn't belong in this thread, and actually merits a TDWTF post, or a spot in a combo post, at least.
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I'm not sure I see that implication. Yes, that would require an array of 30 rectennas. They say "two or more;" obviously, 30 is "more."
Yes, for you that's obvious. Now, how many people will actually spot this? Please also strongly consider the fact that most people have serious difficulties converting milliWatt into microWatt and vice versa.
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most people have serious difficulties converting milliWatt into microWatt and vice versa.
Do those people read engadget.com? I dunno; I only read them when somebody posts a link, so I don't know their target audience. Techies, consumers or potential investors?
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@Freevolt said:
The simple scalability of Freevolt means that two or more rectennas can be combined in an array to harvest more energy, up to 3mW for example
I'm an entomologist so let me break down the word "rectenna"
rect: from the Greek rectus meaning "arse"
tenna: British slang word for a £10 noterectenna: You'd be better off shoving the money up your arse.
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rect: from the Greek rectus meaning "arse"
tenna:British slang word for a £10 noteDevice for collecting piss and shit.
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I remember reading somewhere that this sort of tech is being offered to power / recharge mobile phones by one of the major players.
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Yeah, that's a great idea. You know, the EM waves your device uses to communicate? We're going to siphon off some of those so your device has to spend more energy to communicate.
I swear, some of those people are unable to think for more than 5 meters of gravel road.
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If you're referring to the Qi charger (and similar stuff - your link is broken, by the way) - that's not what I linked is about.
The Qi is using negotiated induction coupling at a way higher power rating, completely different frequencies and only works with special chargers at zero distance. What I was talking about? Siphoning power off ambient RF.
I'm not quite sure how you managed to confuse the two.
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No confusion. Broadcast Power has been around since Mr Tesla Himself (like a lot of modern Hi-Tech ideas). It is because the supporting tech is becoming available that it is feasible to do it now.
Did you know that the principles behind Fax technology were developed and working before telephones?
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Did you actually look at the power rating before spouting off this nonsense?
Here, I'll reiterate: This thing needs a checkcard sized rectenna to create 100 mikroWatt of power.
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100 mikroWatt
Paging @DUTY_PEDANT
Fuck Me!. Here, have a Bugatti Vayron, it will ease the transition pain:
Early Mobile Phone:
Modern Mobile Phone:
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You just made clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. There's little stuff like "conservation of energy" and "impossibility of lossless conversion of energy" and, most importantly, the fucking miniscule energy density in the RF band which makes your notions laughable.
There's a reason why the Qi standard needs special devices and direct contact.
Hint: It's not because energy harvesting is so easy and efficient.
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Ok, I got a "Good Post" notification today - no biggie, but when I try to find out about it, I get stuck in a loopback overflow
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Lead + Horse + Trough + Water = Not Drinking = Fail
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It's not my fault if you failed Physics 101. I'll laugh at you all the way while you're falling for those Solar Roadways morons. Or Free Energy proponents. Or Cold Fusion scamsters like Rossi.
You see, from your pretty pictures post I can easily see that you have been confusing "technical viability" and "economic viability". I don't argue that it's impossible to build such devices (technical viability).
It's the economic viability where those things fail. It does not work because those things don't produce enough energy. And, no, they won't ever produce enough unless you crank your WiFi router up to levels so you could broil an egg on its surface.
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Sorry, that behavior's within documented spec.
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And, no, they won't ever produce enough unless you crank your WiFi router up to levels so you could broil an egg on its surface.
What, you don't have that on yours?
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The thing about broadcast power is: If I deploy something like this near my router I will have 100 µW of free power (not what they claim, but for the purposes of illustration). If I deploy 10 of them, I will have 1 mW of free power. WITHOUT any degradation to the power / range of the router. Buttuming, I don't block the signal.
INB4: Again for the purposes of illustration, I am buttuming a 100% lossless environment