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  1. Re:it seems elementary by Slashdot+Junky · · Score: 2 · on Best Buy Is Thriving In the Age of Amazon (defenseone.com)

    Sure enough! The attempted theft and death did happen July 22, 1995. It has been a long time. Yet, I do remember some of the people referenced. Hmmm... I am surprised that I don't remember the event.

    http://www.goupstate.com/artic...

  2. Re:Don't forget by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 1 · on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com)

    http://www.goupstate.com/news/... From that article: “If an end user buys an apparatus, a computer, and they want access to that, they would have to pay to have that filter removed,” Chumley said.

  3. Re:how 'bout some gun control... by niko9 · · Score: 1 · on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado

    Just like and armed churchgoer stopped this attack

    It wasn't an "armed churchgoer" as you misleadingly state. It was an off-duty police officer, trained in the use of lethal force.

    When you start with untrained use of lethal force you get George Zimmerman shooting at Trayvon Martin.

    I didn't mislead in any shape or form. An off duty cop is essentially the same as a private citizen with a firarm. No uniform to distinguish him from on duy bretheren; no radio to call for back up or give a description. Concealed carry permit holders can get training in lethal force tactics just like the police can.

    But fine, I'll play by your rules. You wan't another example? Here: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20120325/ARTICLES/120329781 Another church incident, another private citizen stopping an attacker armed with a shotgun.

    Here's the Huff Po version, sanitzed of any mention of a concealed carry permit holder stoppping the attack: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/25/south-caroline-church-ser_n_1378752.html He was magically "disarmed",

  4. Re:Matching the generosity? by jonhuang · · Score: 1 · on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children
    Here sweety, have some of this malaria drug which was developed on a Linux cluster. Here sweety, Bill gates has given:

    $43 million to genetically re-engineer bacteria to grow a cheaper malaria drug.

    115 million in 2001 to set up malaria research foundations

    $168 million in 2003 for malaria research. Not to say that the linux cluster was not a noble thing, but gates may have even paid for it.

  5. Re:Did he get the memo? by edbarrett · · Score: 1 · on Libertarian Candidate Michael Badnarik Interview

    It's not the Rs or the Ds with the plan-- it's selective service itself: see here.

  6. Lessons from the Past by Reconfigures · · Score: 0 · on What's Up With Computer Audio?
    Users forgot about PC audio when it became ubiquitous and as good enough to fool the user into thinking they were hearing real sounds. Other than adding conveniences like drive-rail mounted ports, what major improvements have been added to sound cards in the last 8-10 years? The industry has basically stopped true innovation since greater technology is no longer demanded by the consumer.

    I think the more interesting question to examine is the video card side of this. At what point will video cards exceed the specifications required to make grahpics truely look like real life?

    For example, people can actually pick out about 1,000,000 colors or so (IIRC). We got 24/32 bit color and that was the end of innovation in the length of color codes.

    What is the resolution of standard human vision? Some quick researching brings us this information:
    Consider a 20 x 13.3-inch print viewed at 20 inches. The Print subtends an angle of 53 x 35.3 degrees, thus requiring 53*60/.3 = 10600 x 35*60/.3 = 7000 pixels, for a total of ~74 megapixels to show detail at the limits of human visual acuity.
    Will we see the same languishing of the video card industry when the new offering can crank out 100fps at 10,600 x 7,000? We've already got the colors part down, resolution and poly counts will come soon enough. The monitors will have to follow suit of course but even current technology is giving some people a hard time:
    At a picture size of 7,680 by 4,320 pixels - that works out to 32 million pixels ... The realism creates other complications. The NHK is studying the physical and psychological effects of UHDV on audiences. One concern is a kind of motion sickness, which researchers attribute to a combination of the wide viewing angle, the massive image and the on-screen motion.
    This stuff is so exciting! If I didn't spend all my time focusing on my escort service business, I'd have to becoming a video-card-engineer-person-of-interest.
  7. NYTimes Review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Ars Reviews AirPort Express

    The New York Times published a review today as well. (no reg)

  8. Non soul-sucking registration link: by bjackson · · Score: -1, Redundant · on Google's Ph.D. Advantage

    Article

  9. Article without registration by kyoko21 · · Score: 1 · on NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC

    Read it here. Just cancel the print request... :P

  10. Link by pjt33 · · Score: 1, Informative · on The Worldwide Domain Battle

    Courtesy of Google News, no subscription required.

  11. Re:Not Online. by ksheff · · Score: 2 · on Debian GNU/Linux Used in Electronic Voting Trials

    It appears that your definition of art is whatever the "artist" thinks it is. By that reasoning, the guy who crapped his pants while waiting in line at the DMV, could claim it was an artistic performance. IMHO, this "art" is just a way to get attention by doing something as disgusting as possible and the people doing it probably belong in a mental institution.

    I'm also sure there are many people that would like to use your individual/municipality logic applied to zoning, regulations, taxes, etc.