{"id":913,"date":"2012-08-31T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lessradiation.co.uk\/?p=913"},"modified":"2012-08-31T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:34:50","slug":"ill-take-the-faraday-cage-carriage-on-this-train-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/31\/ill-take-the-faraday-cage-carriage-on-this-train-please\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll take the Faraday Cage Carriage on this train please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the New Scientist today &#8211; 1 September 2012 on page 18.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Joined-up power people&#8217; advocates using the latent power of smartphones to power cluster computing tasks, but then points out that the combined processing power is piss-poor compared to a regular desktop PC. The problem with this superb hypothesis is that processor cycles used on a phone eat battery power, and idle time doesn&#8217;t. DUH!<\/p>\n<p>They do mention that all the phones in a train carriage could combine over WiFi to perform a useful task. Presumably this useful task is to annoy an electro-sensitive person?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to use your phone\/laptop over free WiFi on a train, make sure you also use a secure proxy (hidemyass) or use a 3G Modem dongle instead &#8211; that way your Facebook account won&#8217;t get vandalised!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article in the New Scientist today &#8211; 1 September 2012 on page 18. &#8216;Joined-up power people&#8217; advocates using the latent power of smartphones to power cluster computing tasks, but then points out that the combined processing power is piss-poor compared to a regular desktop PC. The problem with this superb hypothesis is that processor cycles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lessradiation.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}