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I was really interested in Witricity and read a few related papers on their technology. There are a few problems that they are not so keen to publicize:

(1) If the receiver loop isn't "inside" the transmitter loop along the normal of the loop area then efficiency falls a bit
(2) Efficiency depends a lot on the orientation of the device being charged. If the receiver loop isn't very nearly coplanar with the transmitter loop, efficiency bombs
(3) Range is fairly limited
(4) When you have multiple devices charging concurrently, efficiency falls for every individual device being charged as magnetic resonance cannot be achieved nearly as well for more complicated multi-body flux loops

Witricity has been trying to push electric car charging as for that application these downsides don't matter as much. But even there, you get something like 50% efficiency. Do you want to nearly double your electricity costs just to avoid plugging in a cable? Interesting technology, but it doesn't see like a worthwhile proposition to me.

General purpose wireless power transmission is a really difficult problem. I was interested in the ultrasonic acoustic approach that uBeam is pursuing but that has its own slew of problems.
Not uncontroversial. There regularly are problems with invasion of privacy, for example a few months ago there was trouble with an Argentinean blog with photos of girls in public transportation (can't find a link right now, but it was on TV, etc..).
Similar spirit, different tech stack i'd say. :)
I'm convinced this is the best type of passive income. A job with minimal work (perhaps some kind of security guard or IT support) sitting at a desk. I would use the opportunity to work on my own projects that would actually make me money, all the while getting paid.
OpenBSD sells this stuff in online stores. But the marketing sucks. You have to find the sorta buried link named 'CDs/Tshirts/Posters' on the main page - no "shop" or "buy" or "order" nearby. Clicking that link gets you a page you have to read to figure out that you still need to pick a store. Then the US store only had the latest three versions on CD. I've got to find another store that'll ship to the US if I want a t-shirt.

OpenBSD swag exists, but you've got to be a determined purchaser to buy it.
>He was essentially fired from the employ of the CIA

No, he was not:

"The C.I.A did not file any report on Snowden indicating that it suspected he was trying to break into classified computer files to which he did not have authorized access while he was employed at the C.I.A., nor was he returned home from an overseas assignment because of such concerns," Todd Ebitz, an agency spokesman, said in the statement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/us/cia-disputes-early-susp...
Why does everybody list books, webapps and mobile apps as passive income? I hope you created them yourself. Then they are not passive income but a product. Like every product they have a lifetime, then you need a new product. Therefore you actually have a first or second active business and not a passive income. "Passive income" is rent for condos you own, or having shares in your friend's profitable business that yields dividends etc. or did I completely misunderstand the meaning of that word?
Best of luck :) If you have any questions, be sure to ask. I started with the Stanford videos on iTunes u. High quality stuff!
Also, you will shortly be hearing from him about the battery

Not a helpful addition. Don't further provoke a cop who has been violent with you. Another common piece of advice is not to ask about supervisors or for badge numbers if you already have a way to identify them.
So we've ostensibly replaced physical torture with mental. The effect on the person isn't any less detrimental.
Like most viewers, the DC viewer is best when it's gone and I can use a proper pdf viewer.
PHP would be a natural fit (Symfony2 or Laravel 4 (I'd vote for Laravel 4 as that is a rapidly growing market that is still relatively "poor" in learning material).

Also if you did happen to do it for Laravel 4, I'd buy it ;).
Where do you buy these kind of apps from?
You think the Montgomery activists weren't tortured mentally as well? Their children were being threatened.
How nice is living in Thailand? Quality of life wise, people wise, tech wise?
> Like I said before, nobody is going to use an OS-agnostic UI library because UIs imply necessary integration and a level of specificity that can't be generalized.

Begineers and people that care about presenting simple stuff will do surely use it.

The idea is to have good enough libraries to write portable code for simple stuff.

Should anyone have to go though the pain of creating a OpenGL context, matrixes and shaders to put some text on the screen?

You are always free to go write Win32, Xlib, Qt, GTKmm, MFC, Motif, wxWidgets, WPF, embedded Chrome or whatever UI flavor of the months is for REAL applications.
No not satanist, communist. The communists had a bit of a "thing" for atheism and the general public is pretty stupid about the use and care of Venn diagrams, so for them its close enough that a commie is an atheist so an atheist must be a commie, right? And even worse, the communists did have operatives in the Manhattan project, it wasn't just paranoia.

The other part that really pisses off law enforcement is church members are expected to provide great references for each other. And every clearance "disaster" involved an agent or whatever clearing a bad guy, which is kinda bad for that agent. So when its review time for the security officer who Fed up, he really, really wants to be able to say something like "Well, yes, he did turn out to be an axe murderer. And yes, there were bloodstains in the carpet of his pleasure dungeon and the neighbors did report occasional screams. But his religious leader is just one step away from God himself, and he said he was a great fellow who tithed generously and who are we to declare ourselves more holy than gods representative on earth so clearly I shouldn't be disciplined because either a direct representative of St Peter was also fooled OR disciplining me would be an insult against religion itself" Just a big exercise in CYA.
> If you believe in the Rule of Law, then Snowden should be tried, and probably will be found guilty, for a fairly clear breach of the law.

This is circular reasoning. The government has made it (for all practical purposes) illegal for anyone to reveal its own lawbreaking. Obsessing over the lesser breach of the law committed by Snowden while ignoring the government's greater (in degree and in quantity) breach of the law is hypocrisy, and contrary to justice.

> The US President is bound by the constitution to use every means available to go after him.

No, the US President is an executive, not an automaton.

> national parliaments weren't doing their job...

Every check that was in place to prevent this situation has evidently failed. The best solutions (or even the good ones) may not lie within the established body of law.
Microwaves yes.

But inductive coupling? No - it won't even interact, which is what this article is about.
> I would expect it to not be designed/authored by the man behind pulseaudio

Having used a bunch of Lennart's software, I'm generally coming to the conclusion that he's better at ideas than code -- but once his projects take off and the bugs get fixed, the end result is significantly better than what we had before.

(Using pulseaudio as a specific example, per-app volume controls and easily mixing and matching sound sources and playback devices; seamlessly switching from speakers to headphones to HDMI to a sound server on another PC entirely, etc -- features that are too high-level for the kernel and too low-level for applications, and thus can only be brought into existence by a fairly large change in the audio stack)
Currently the Tesla userbase is relatively small so it might not be that worth pwning, but as cars start becoming more like this, we might start seeing some worrying news items... and I'm almost willing to bet at least one person in the world, if not a group, is already trying to find exploits in one.
My initial reaction to your comment was "ephemeral has been around for a while, and has real, tangible meaning, especially when dealing with crypto".

Then I realized the same could be said about the terms 'skeuomorphic' and 'Artisinal', and pretty much any other over-utilized buzzword.

And then I was enlightened.
You got the copyright holders' permission to use those gifs, I take it?
Learning what? How to program the kind of machine that's already been obsolete for 10 years?

I know a couple of people with RPis who are using them as "home server"-type devices. Those are useful, and more power certainly doesn't hurt. Whereas the people I know who bought them with some idea that they would "start hardware hacking" or some such sit there gathering dust.
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Yeah I want this.
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> Let's hope your office is secure since your security model relies on preventing physical access.

It doesn't have to be physical. I can just store documents on a server that I own and have control over. That still doesn't make it secure because I have to watchout for 0-days and what not. And even then it wouldn't be secure.

But at least I have controllability and observability. I can access and modify them anytime I want to and I also know when someone had unauthorized access to them.

Of course this is not entirely true in Mission Impossible like scenarios. And I'm not saying everyone should do what I do.

But I profundly dislike the superior attitude in articles such as these where the author tells me what to do and asks me why I'm not doing it yet.
Last time I happened on a site with scrolling like this they had a JQuery plugin that screwed everything up. And sure as rain:

http://kissflow.com/wp-content/themes/jarvis_wp/js/SmoothScr...
Look at it like this: you could catch many instances of undergraduate plagiarism if you a) google searched passages of submitted essays/disertations and b) cross-checked all submitted papers against each other (including previous years). Anyone can do this with no special tools, but systems like Turnitin automate the process. So I don't see how it could be a joke/scam (maybe if it's outrageously expensive). It also has other features like making sure students have used citations/references correctly.
Who said they weren't?! If you put the unaccountable "enhanced interrogation" users at the NSA above threatening children if they think that will get them what they want, you've got a much higher view of these people than most. The point that you seem to be dancing around recognizing is that all torture is bad, regardless of degree.
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I looked at that and other scanners when we were first investigating this.

We chose the ScanSnap because:

1. Speed

2. OCR

3. Ability to deal with odd-sized documents (small receipts and larger contracts)

4. Sheet feed (great for the 70 page shareholder agreement documents)

5. Auto-rotate (2 of those pages in that 70 page document were landscape, the rest portrait)

6. Scanning both sides (and discarding blank scans automatically).

7. Easy to service and clean (under heavy use the rollers get mucky in all feed-based scanners)

8. Small footprint when not in use

And what finally sealed it: Linux support.

http://www.micahcarrick.com/scansnap-1500-adf-scanner-in-lin...

We are a Linux shop, and whilst we have a Mac and a Windows machine for testing everyone has a Linux machine.
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How many do you own?
Great work and keep continuing with the series. I understand this is not exactly the real git's inner working, but this series of articles may lead some other coder or hacker or other inquisitive mind to stitch together the missing part. That's the beauty of sharing!
Bank statements, receipts, and contracts are just as legitimate in digital form. Paper copies are not required.

Please feel free to go all the way.
I bring in 5-7k a year DJing and personal training. They're technically "work" but I'm literally getting paid to live out my hobbies I already do for myself, which to me is passive income. I would, however, like to turn a programming side project into something that's passive income.
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NSA has no interrogation capability at all. I no longer understand what you're talking about. Regardless, I feel pretty confident that what MLK and his associates faced is far worse than anything Snowden faces, at least from the US. Who knows where things will go in Russia.
It is a real shame, but OpenBSD as a project care a lot about having free access to all the available code[1]. It makes a lot of sense to me to want access to all of the code for something as core as the boot process.

Of course the project saying they won't support the hardware doesn't mean you cannot start the port yourself. That is how ports to palm devices came about[2]

[1]http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39

[2]http://www.openbsd.org/palm.html
I am highly amused that this requires a google+ login. Do they detect their own fake names?
At least this site looks halfway acceptable when accessed with RequestPolicy, adblocker and script blocker. At least it degrades nicely.
Did you read that article? I did when it was first published.

Are we really at the point where we take the word of an "agency spokesman" and not the sourcing of the journalists who quoted two unnamed sources to verify the story?
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Not so fast, here you have many fresh packages for NetBSD rpi
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/arm/6.0_201...
So another 3 months to buy a Motorola Xoom ;-)

Are you planning an iOS version?
I'd love to know how you got reputable actors to star in WoW machinima!
So Dreamweaver all over again?
I think in the tech circle, passive income is used to refer to something you could ignore for 6 weeks and it would still be earning you money. Most of the 'work' people put in seems to be increasing revenue rather than maintaining it, although yes I agree it isn't completely passive. The same could be said about your condos too though, they'll need to refurbished every few years. Unless you are outsourcing everything, you'll need to do some management of that yourself.
Pretty much all security breaks if the attacker has physical access to what he is trying to break into.
Learning how hardware actually works. I learnt on the BBC Micro, a 32k machine running at 2Mhz, powerful enough to run interesting things, simple enough that you could understand exactly how it worked, the memory map, how IO actually happened, etc. A serial port is great for this; USB or Ethernet, not so much.
I think you're missing the obvious: "passive" and "income". Passive income is income you earn passively, and in the context of the opening topic, it generally refers to something you've created yourself (whether the product, the system that sells it, or both), which is earning you money with a relatively low amount of ongoing work.
See how much Google sends you every month?
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The final price is determined by supply versus demand, not by the number of subrenters in chain.

The real problem in your situation is that these people are able to rent flats for sub-market prices. But it's not your problem. Your problem is that you don't have enough realty supply.
And/or more people who want to live in interesting city than interesting cities of Switzerland can house.

The latter seems to become a major problem in most countries.
It really isn't. For one thing, your body doesn't respond to magnetic fields at all.
Wow.

You do get, don't you, that there's no real difference between personal wealths of $100 million and $1000 million? And that there shouldn't be? Why do so few people get that there's a ceiling here? You earn enough money so that you can live off the interest of what's in your bank account, and congratulations, your financial worth is now $MAX.

Seriously. $MAX is a real thing in the real world. It's where you can stop working for money and start spending all your life with your kids, or doing the things you want to do regardless of the mortgage and the food bills and the school bills and so on.

Folks who think $MAX is a naive concept... need to grow up a little bit and remember that life ends and if you don't enjoy it during it, you don't get to enjoy it afterwards.
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I am surprised if I see people trained in critical thinking not supporting the humanity hero Snowden.

Just think of the immediate economic impact of US tech and US tech services not able to export. He is trying to fix that.
And long term, if people don't have free will they won't work as hard.

And worst, the information will be used for political reasons, not state reasons. The political party in power stays in power. (that is why THEY like it, the 10% approval ratting corrupt congress)
Whenever someone raises a point that Snowden might have revealed something that shouldn't be revealed, they forget that it's not only Snowden to blame for it, but the entire system from bottom to the top. If your personal security depends on arbitrary decisions of numerous officials, contractors and directors in several agencies and their arbitrary cooperation with similar agencies in foreign countries, then the problem is systemic; and Snowden is the last person to be blamed. Basically, your government is not doing the job you wish it was doing the right way. If you don't like and try not to support the system, then what do you care what Snowden released - you already accept the system as broken. However, if you rely and like the system, then you have to reconsider who you trust and with what.

Snowden here could only make you a service by pointing out a problem. And we all know that he really did not have any other way to do it. When he tried to discuss weaknesses privately within the system, he was dismissed. We know it not based on what he claimed (he could lie), but based on how NSA reacted and continues to react to the problem of trust. They made it clear that any employee who tries to discuss that topic would have a lot of trouble. It's manifested in how they sent out brainwashing instructions to their employees, how they dismissed the topic in the press and how aggressive they are to Snowden generally. How many people would like to risk just chatting to their boss after all that?

Anyone who likes the idea of all-powerful all-knowing god-like government agencies like NSA, army, FBI etc, should consider who little leverage and security they have in the result. When you have zero idea how your "national security" is being provided and all you know is there's a huge concentration of power somewhere at your expense, that simply means practically zero security for you.
Anyone else having their office ISP connection totally destroyed by 100+ Dropbox clients attempting Monday morning sync? We have a balanced, 300Mbs connection for about 160 users, and our network becomes unreliable during 5 minute bursts throughout the day.
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What are the visible signs that "society is currently evolving in a direction of openness and transparency, and of holding those in power to account"? Sure seems like the public at large is ambivalent at best to my eyes, but love to hear otherwise.
Would be a problem for metals. You really can't win when you're talking about high energy radiation.
You can probably melt the battery in Tesla. Batteries are heated, right? Add stress to batter, turn heaters on. Watch battery melt and/or explode. You can already do similar attack on laptops.
I know one: http://sucuri.net

Focused exactly on what you mentioned (web site recovery, monitoring and protection).

*I work there :)
Any reason why you haven't done an English version?
For your second point: i still use paper for doodling as brainstorming. Then it's either discarded or scanned.

So I use paper plenty, I just generally don't store it
Does anybody know how people come up with the metamaterial designs? Do they just try lots of aesthetically pleasing symmetries out until they find one that works?

Or do they have some forward model to predict the outcome before they build it, but given the often inexplicable results that doesn't seem possible.

Where do the ideas come from?
Website like Leanstack.io but explains them more deeply like highscalabilty.com
Is there such a website?
Don't know about EU laws, but in Russia every apartment rent agreement I've seen (which is statistically insignificant amount, maybe 4-5 agreements) had explicitly prohibited reselling/subrenting.
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When mining for bitcoins, what is the actual point of the calculations?
There is no evidence for anything in the news reports. It looks like the BSI is just phishing for active mail accounts. Looks like the german goverment will never understand that security == transparency.
No, your argument is illogical. Of course the entire system is to blame. Of course NSA shares some of the (hypothetical) blame if Russia gains access to US intelligence data, if only (in the highly unlikely event that it turns out Snowden was literally an agent) because of what NSA's own conduct does to the optics of what happened.

But that in no way immunizes Snowden from the consequences of his own actions.

It is perfectly possible for multiple parties to be implicated, and each for different reasons.
Also, if you google the title and click on the nytimes links from there, there is no paywall. It has always worked for me.

Probably they look at the referrer, but I don't know why they do it.
Super useful. Now if it only were to auto-create a G+ profile and scrape to find some profile pics.
Ephemeral messages and electronic communications are two incompatible things.
I agree with your general point, but while the Raspberry Pi has some SIMD instructions, they are pretty useless in practice. They are integer-only, only work on 32-bit registers (so you can only work on two 16-bit or four 8-bit values) and they are implemented serially on one lane (each clock, the CPU does the work on one of the values) instead of the parallel way SIMD is generally done.
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In the UK?

I'm tempted to go all of the way, but would kick myself hard if I did anything today for convenience that might create risk down the road.

Archiving the paper is a very minimal cost to pay to ensure we don't create that risk.

I should also add, we use grive https://github.com/Grive/grive to sync the entire contents of Google Drive to a local machine and then Tarsnap http://www.tarsnap.com/ to backup that.

We can use that to verify the state of Google Drive over time as well as to restore should anything ever happen to our Google Drive account (those well-documented instances of people getting locked out of their accounts).
Depends on the country, I suppose. IIRC, in Finland you can ditch the paper copies only after the digital version exists in two places, which could mean GDrive synced with at least one computer, or maybe even the gallery app on your mobile phone.
The whole human race is currently running off one hard-drive that has been in EarthPC for 10000s of years.
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Cool! My mom showed this to me (she's a maths teacher) In fact it was the first app she ever bought! She just loves showing it to all her science colleagues! That really is an awesome app!
Other jurisdictions may vary.