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Comment: Smart card, secure element, HSM (Score 1) 70

Also, RSAs authenticator keychains. And more.




Comment: you have to use thin glass (Score 1) 767

by YesIAmAScript (#46392573) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

Thick glass will fracture when you pour boiling water in. The inside of the glass heats up and expands while the outside is still cool and that creates internal stresses and breaks it.

By making the glass/ceramic thin the whole thing expands with the heat which causes no significant stresses.

You could double-wall it or insulate it as others mentioned.

Comment: they don't care (Score 1) 767

by YesIAmAScript (#46391213) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

DRM doesn't have to be undefeatable. The point is simply that the number of people who have hacked machines which bypass the DRM is much smaller than the total installed base of machines.

So this makes it hard to make a viable business model by selling 3rd party cups. Even if you and everyone you know can run un-DRMed cups, companies still can't viably make generic cups.

Comment: Re:is the USB 'bug' fixed, at this point? (Score 3) 77

I gave up on BBB and went to rpi because BBB couldn't come up with a distro that worked.

Got tired of dd'ing my SD storage space back to stock and starting over when the unit ceased to boot after installing another stock apt.

And that's assuming it even worked when clean which it didn't, at least not at first (I got one of the first batch).

Comment: how many productions moved overseas? (Score 1) 131

by YesIAmAScript (#46352485) Attached to: Visual Effects Artists Use MPAA's Own Words Against It

The VFX workers may eventually have to come to grips with the idea that if you can't do it better you can't charge more for it. And thus they will probably have to cut their rates to compete.

This is basically the end game of the guild system Hollywood uses. You can keep people from undercutting you within the country by requiring guild membership and declaring union shops (or productions), but then the production just moves overseas. How many films are produced overseas nowadays to mitigate labor costs?

Comment: 2012 Lincoln MKS, 2013 Cadillac CTS (Score 1) 155

by YesIAmAScript (#46213749) Attached to: Elon Musk, Tesla CTO Talk Model X Details, Model S Upgrades

Musk says AWD has never been put on a car with no loss of efficiency before.

2012 Lincoln MKS:
FWD version: 17/25 mpg.
AWD version: 17/25 mpg. And the AWD version is more powerful.

2013 Cadillac CTS:
RWD version: 18/27 mpg.
AWD version: 18/27 mpg. AWD version has same power (same engine) as RWD version.

So yes, AWD has been added without a loss of efficiency before.

Elon, it would be fantastic if you would bother to check to see if what you say is true before you say it.

Comment: Re:"Must accept harmful interference..." (Score 1) 158

by YesIAmAScript (#46205969) Attached to: L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says

The issue isn't acceptance. The receiving devices are accepting the interference. The issue is the radiation:


b and c indicate what's going wrong here.

The system isn't emitting on 700MHz intentionally. It's just that the equipment is out of spec. Either it was designed wrong and the proper testing not done or else it was designed correctly and not built properly so the particular units that were installed in this building are out of spec.

Comment: Re:The building owner is at fault? (Score 2) 158

by YesIAmAScript (#46205887) Attached to: L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says

The manufacturer of the ballasts already said they would replace them. But the building owners haven't taken advantage of this.

Devices of that sort (unintentional emitters) are subject to FCC regulations but do not go through FCC testing. They are generally self-certified. That is, the makers submits a document indicating they have tested the device and it conforms.

Comment: cars do have dead reckoning (Score 1) 151

by YesIAmAScript (#46196593) Attached to: Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones

A GPS which receives speed, wheel position and reverse light data from the car does dead reckoning. I watched a friend's car do it just this weekend as we drove into an underground parking garage where you get no GPS reception.

Dead reckoning for car NAVs has been around forever, it actually predates GPS. The first in-car NAV systems by Etak were made using only maps and dead reckoning because GPS didn't exist yet. It also predated affordable LCD panels.

Before accelerometers and gyros were cheap Garmin even made add-on GPSes for cars which required installation so the NAV could get speedometer data and reverse light data so it could dead reckon your position.

