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  1. Re:Open their blinders with amazing apps on Why Open Source Phones Still Fail · · Score: 1

    Well as long as you're giving them away for free I'l ltake one.

  2. Re:What on US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption · · Score: 1

    The keys could be stored on a 2nd secure device, something like a TPM chip that nukes it storage after 3 invalid password attempts.

  3. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    No kidding, its a good thing the GP didn't mention a hybrid vehicle as well or we might have had a storm on our hands.

  4. Re:If one was produced with a 40nm process... on Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details · · Score: 1

    I thought Intel was already doing something like this? It was going to somewhat similar to a Cell processor except with something like 128 Pentium 1 cores on it.

  5. Re:I was recently wondering... on HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the world of computers it's usually a bit of both.

  6. Re:Propaganda on China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views · · Score: 1

    Certainly USA is a once beautiful long since neglected car, one of those massive land yachts that got a 1/2 mile to the gallon, broken down on the side of the road. Canada is a high performance Ferrari driven by a platinum blond supermodel. And Mexico is a rickshaw.

    Disclaimer: I am Canadian.

  7. Re:good work on Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... touche, at least someone else here is thinking.

  8. Re:good work on Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    Well 1/3 is hard to express as a percentage.

  9. Re:How does he know MS isn't doing anything else? on Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ever heard of the Streisand effect? If you're trying to suppress information about something a C&D is the last thing you want to do. Furthermore many companies when put in an identical situation will respond with "Thank you we are aware of the problem and are currently working on it" rather then a C&D.

    Also you sound like a schizophrenic jackass.

  10. Re:Tailgating to the max on "Road Trains" Ready To Roll · · Score: 3, Informative

    They do say that the lead car of the train would be driven by professional drivers. of course that won't really help if a car in the middle of the train does something unexpected.

  11. Re:so what happens when a public pc goes to a link on Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer · · Score: 1

    I was going to mention it, but you beet me to it. Now does anybody know of a tool to do that under windows?

  12. Re:Not so worried on AMD Graphics Chip Shortage Hits PC Vendors · · Score: 1

    Or wait till the next generation comes out when all the current generation stuff is 1/2 the price and everyone has plenty of stock.

    At least that's what works for me.

  13. Re:Detects terrorists... on Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In away your right, from what I understand suicide bombers aren't even remotely afraid or even consider what they are doing to be anything but gods holy work. They probably wont even register in the slightest on these detectors. Whereas the people who are worried about receiving securities own special "enema" will be.

  14. Re:Blanket licensing is never legal on Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project · · Score: 1

    Hard drives, iPods and tapes also get taxed. USB keys as well I think.

  15. Re:Carmakers lie on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    Your speedometer MAY be out by as mush as 5 whole kmph (or mph). No police officer is going to give you a ticket for going 5 over the speedlimit so don't even think of using it as an excuse.

  16. Re:Bloat... on Unfinished Windows 7 Hotspot Feature Exploited · · Score: 1

    The only person hate hurts is the hater.

    I'm pretty sure the Jewish would disagree with you on that one.

    Along with a few million other ethnic, social and religious groups throughout history.

  17. Re:That's easier said than done. on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many would argue that it is a valid defense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_Experiment

  18. Re:we care on Towards a Permission-Based Web · · Score: 1

    Not to be defending the GP (he is a tool) but you're analogy also breaks down. The mechanic will be more then happy to sell you whatever alternator you want (money is money after all) but he wont be there to install it in you car, provide any guarantee as to it's suitability for your car or even listen to you when you complain that it doesn't work in your car.

    That and alternators are pretty standard pieces of equipment, most alternators will go in most cars.

  19. Re:Just to put an end to this... on USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet · · Score: 3, Funny

    What butterfly slow? Seems you've never had to transfer 3 GB of photos by gathering a huge amount of hydrogen together, forming a star, waiting for star to burn burn through and go nova forming many heavier elements, taking those elements and combining it with alot more hydrogen to form a solar system, evolving life on one of the planets and shepherding their technological development in the hope that there will one day be 3 GB of photos and the computer to transfer them to.

  20. Re:Physical activity. on FCC Mulling More Control For Electronic Media · · Score: 1

    I dunno, those D&D kids could get pretty into it.

  21. Re:Thanks on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Nowadays, people just seem to point and click endlessly hoping that one of the results will be good

    That's how alot of photography was done even before digital cameras, I used to do alot of B&W photography with a film SLR and would process my own photos in a darkroom. I took hundreds even thousands of frames, I would go through about 100 shots to find 1 that I would consider presenting to someone else AFTER spending a few hours touching it up in the darkroom. There's nothing wrong with spamming shots with a camera and it's one of the first things I recommend to people who are starting out in photography.

  22. Re:Isn't this dangerous? on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's more to do with the EMP burst, it's much more effective at high altiudes/low orbit. If I recall correctly the US once accidentally knocked out just about every electronic device in Hawaii and the surrounding area while testing nukes in space. That and you end up dumping a whole lot of radiation into the van allen belts which isn't so great for space travel.

  23. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking that's exactly what they're going to do. If you're implement a drive-by-wire system you might as well go all the way and transform the joystick input based on speed, drivers preference and any other conditions you can think of. They've been doing it planes for years so I don't see why they can't do it in cars. Well actually there's one reason I can think of why this would be a bad idea, maintenance. Planes HAVE to be inspected and maintained constantly unlike cars where nobody really cares as long as your not a direct and imminent threat to other people on the road. This is fine since all the critical functions in cars are analog, mechanical links to the driver that are more likely to degrade over time then completely fail without and obvious warning signs.

  24. Re:How does one buy an open source program? on Metasploit Project Sold To Rapid7 · · Score: 1

    Well it depends on how you define open source. If it's simply a program that you distribute the soruce code along with it then it's quite easy, you simply sell the ownership/license the code to somebody else since you presumably own all the code this isn't a problem. Similarly with projects that do have 3rd party developers you can stipulate that they relinquish ownership of any contributions they make to the project to you or whatever organization happens to be managing the project. Where it gets tricky is when you have projects where anybody could contribute but you haven't put in the aforementioned stipulations, at that point you need to track down every contributor and ask for their permission to relicense/sell their code if they say no you either have to replace their code or fork the project to include only code that you DO have permission to sell.

    At least that's how I remember it working I may be way off base here though.

  25. Re:Doom3 on A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except for muzzle flash, that will lens flared and bloomed so much that it comes out as a near blinding white strobing blob in the middle of the screeen. There used to be a time when games had only 16 colours to work with and they used every last one of them, we now have 2^24 colours but only ever used white, black and brown and then call it the future of gaming.