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  1. Re:Electromagnetic tracking? on Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games · · Score: 2, Informative

    Only the surrounding fields change a lot over time. They change when you turn on a light, when the compressor of the fridge turns on and whatnot. Also the EM input I tried did lag a lot because so many samples had to be averaged to compensate for errors.

  2. Electromagnetic tracking? on Razer, Valve, and Sixense Working On Motion Control For PC Games · · Score: 1

    The EM trackers I had a chance to try in a virtual cave were fickle things. They were hard to calibrate and even weak external fields made the setup unusable. Unless there was some kind of breakthrough, tracking IRLEDs is probably more cheap and robust. If you don't know it already, be sure to check out Chung Lee's headtracking demo.

  3. Re:This makes my day. on UK Consumers To Pay For Online Piracy · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. Over in Germany, we pay a similar tax on blank media. But it's only legal to copy content from sources that are not obviously illegal and are not copy restricted. As you can guess, the lawyers of the entertainment industry tend to consider all torrents to be obviously illegal.

  4. Re:Typical Noble Savage Fallacy on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 4, Informative

    A friend who actually lived for two years with a south american tribe claimed that crippled babies were drowned as quickly as possible.

  5. Re:I hope Canada stands up to this and says NO: on EU Demands Canada Rework Its Copyright, Patent Law · · Score: 1

    I actually like this system, because it gives me implied governmental approval to copy as I see fit.

    ... unless the original is copy protected or from an obviously illegal source.

  6. Re:Java too complex on Has a Decade of .NET Delivered On Microsoft's Promises? · · Score: 1

    And you may not want to use the .net framework for enterprise applications. The large object heap of the .net framework fragments and does not get cleaned up. This can cause any long-running application to fail with "out of memory" exceptions, although little memory is actually allocated.

    There's a nicely detailed article describing the problem. My colleage has already provided this feedback. As you can see, he's quite pissed. And reasonably so.

  7. Re:I'm so glad I bought a Droid on "Nexus One" Is Google's Android Phone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot to factor in patent fees. They probably won't get paid for the cheap Chinese knockoffs.
    AFAIK a 3g connection module with royalties costs over $100 per device alone.

  8. Re:do the math on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    You could use a Live CD (f.e. Ubuntu). I use it for online banking.

  9. Re:FBI bait? on "Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison · · Score: 1

    And would it make them guilty of entrapment?

  10. Re:A huge pain on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    Pure JavaScript code performs the same in any modern browser. Only interactions with the DOM have to be tested separately for IE. In my experience, the more complex a JS application becomes, the less code deals with the DOM and has to be tested on two platforms.

  11. Re:A huge pain on Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser · · Score: 1

    And I was under the impression that graphical JavaScript debuggers were provided with InternetExplorer and Chrome and available as an addon for Firefox. Silly me.

  12. Re:Just had to do it. on In Motor Learning, New Brain Connections Form Rapidly · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Aren't ALL photos modified these days? on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    I think you can draw a meaningful distinction between altering color values and modifying the geometry of image content.

  14. Re:Not so fast... on Major MMO Publishers Sued For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    And it gives the plaintiff the money to also sue your competition.

  15. Re:ATV? Progress? on Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply · · Score: 1

    You're confusing SpaceX with something else. Sea Launch, perhaps.

  16. Re:Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do *this* on Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tethering a capsule to the burned out upper stage of the rocket and spinning it up is neither hard nor expensive.

  17. Re:I am willing to accept unobstrusice ads on New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video · · Score: 1

    My setup comes pretty close:

    1. Install Firefox
    2. Install the FlashBlock addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/433)
    3. Type about:config in the address bar and set image.animation_mode to once (you have to type the value in)

  18. Re:Comparison to Space Shuttle invalid on SpaceX Boosts Malaysian Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    The Falcon 9, which shares most of its technology with the Falcon 1, is going to be rated for human transport. The goal for it is to service the ISS in combination with the Dragon space capsule. The cargo version of Dragon will be used for a few years before SpaceX introduces the manned system.

  19. Launch video on SpaceX Boosts Malaysian Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Wired article also embeds the complete launch video.

  20. Re:As I recall, about 2 years ago. SCOTUS on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 1

    ...and while what was done to them and the "innocent" people was bad, it does not equate to decades in prison for child sex abuse (you know what they do to those people in prison), the ripping apart of families, and heavy psychological damage to otherwise innocent children.

    Wasn't lobotomy considered to be a cure for communism? That means destroying parts of someones brain with an icepick.

  21. Re:No one here's buying it. on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Another argument on the child porn thing is to ask the question, what percentage of all child abuse has to do with child porn? Last time I checked into it, the most generous number I could come up with was a tenth of a percent.

    The statistics for Germany show the following numbers for 2008:
    1089 cases of statuatory rape.
    81 cases of child abuse for the production of pornography.
    0 cases of sexual child abuse resulting in death.

    http://mogis.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/die-polizeiliche-kriminalstatistik-2008-ist-da/

  22. Re:No one here's buying it. on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    PS: Maybe blooper is not the correct term. I'm referring to shows with compilations of entertaining accidents.

  23. Re:No one here's buying it. on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    That depends on whether a judge would consider the picture to be sexually explicit. I think that nude pictures of minors get shown on blooper shows in Germany without problems (I'm uncertain as I don't own a TV). The context of a publication is important when considering whether it was produced for sexual arousal.

  24. Re:Well done Germany on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 2, Informative

    While the Pirate Party in Sweden got 7.1% of the votes at the European election, the German Pirate Party only gained 0.9%. It was the first European election where the German Pirate Party participated.

  25. Re:kiddie porn "research" on German Member of Parliament Joins Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    In Germany, child pornography is defined as pornographic material with children of up to 14 years having or witnessing sex. This applies to real and realistic descriptions in any form, including textual descriptions and drawings. Material concerning teenagers less than 18 years old is called youth pornography.

    http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/184b.html