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  1. Re:Great idea! on Peer to Peer Networking for Road Traffic · · Score: 1

    I can think of a few ways to reduce this problem: - Using the majority opinion (reduces response time) - Flagging vehicles as trusted/untrusted based on their history (history could be a majority opinion) - Only trusting 'certified' sources like police vehicles (reduces effectiveness) - Ridiculous sentences for anyone caught doing this (the least effective solution) Hopefully this issue is one of the first things considered before deploying a system like this!

  2. Re:Posted notice? on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    - Websites aren't like closets: you don't let everyone passing by your house just look in your closet. Websites are more like the signs on your lawn. Most people don't mind pictures of their signs on their lawn being taken. - robots.txt is an accepted convention, your picture taking robot's opt-out process is most certainly not. I can't believe how bad this analogy is. It describes scenarios like a bot hacking into websites and stealing credit card numbers unless the owners set the time to be off by an hour.

  3. Re:Phishing just got a lot more interesting on International URLs Pass First Test · · Score: 1

    I'd hope the first update all the browsers get is a 'language' label next to the address bar showing the language all the characters in the URL are from. URLs with multiple languages would then get a big flashing red bar screaming "OMG PHISH PHISH."

  4. Re:What do you know on Biology Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    You're so cynical, no reason to wonder for long. I'm sure the horrible, humanity-destroying thing they did to cause this move will surface soon enough.

  5. Re:Not good for large installations. on 'Dumb Terminals' Can Be a Smart Move for Companies · · Score: 1

    The main problem I've seen with these systems is stupid people testing programs containing infinite loops and forgetting to shut them down. Way to take up 50% of the CPU capacity, ass hole.

  6. Re:What's the enforcement mechanism? on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's even worse than that. Get a hundred different copies of the file from different people (and therefore with different watermarks) , cut out the intros, and 'take the average' for the rest of the movie to erase the watermark.

  7. Re:addendum on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 0

    Your post made me sad. The correct answers are: LIM x->0 (x/x^2) = D.N.E (the limit goes to infinity from the right and -infinity from the left) LIM x->0 (x^2/x) = 0 LIM x->0 (1/x) = D.N.E (equivalent to x/x^2)

  8. Re:Yikes! So much effort! on First-Person Account of a Social Engineering Attack · · Score: 0

    The sticky paper password on my monitor is just a distraction for the sticky paper password on the other side of my monitor. Uncrackable!

  9. Scaling? on Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid · · Score: 0

    I'm confused. He says it might be able to scale to 100 Tflop/s then says they expect to scale to 250 Tflop/s by next year.

  10. Re:When will it get converted to real therapy? on NIH Confirms Protocol To Reverse Type 1 Diabetes · · Score: 1, Funny

    God I wish I was a mouse... they know how to treat everything for them. Wait... what are you doing? What's in that needle??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

  11. What about the loses? on Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company · · Score: 1

    I changed my laptop from "max power" mode to "mid power", which was supposed to decrease power consumption by slowing the cpu to complement cranking the fan. It shutdown suddenly after about 2 hours, damn thing overheated. I'm lucky I didn't kill it.