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  1. Re:Congradulations China on Chinese Crew Completes Manual Docking With Orbiting Module · · Score: 0

    Considering how much their Shenzhou capsules and Long March 2E rockets resemble Russian Soyuz designs (Oh they aren't identical, there are a few upgrades), I don't think China have learned all that much in the interim.

  2. Huh, not mutually exclusive categories on Study Shows Teen Gamers Like Tech, But Don't All Crave IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    How many said they wished to produce educational video games for mobile devices?

  3. Re:Different networks on IPMI: Hack a Server That Is Turned Off · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same as if I turned wakeonlan on, it should be no surprise one can remotely wake it up if I did turn it off.

  4. Re:For The Sake Of Balance... on US Courts Approve 30,000 Secret Surveillance Orders Each Year · · Score: 1

    Not even that, it's 30,000 warrants for surveillance issued, if they stop surveillance, or need to extend the time, or that surveillance turns up a new address they need to put surveillance on too, basically it's 30,000 individual warrants.

  5. Re:How about printing the information on the stick on Using QR Codes To Save Lives · · Score: 1

    In the UK we have medical bracelets, sometimes the information is also important to first aiders (say a severe allergy to cotton bandages?), so locking it all down too much is not a good idea.

  6. Re:How about printing the information on the stick on Using QR Codes To Save Lives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't know about in the US, but in the UK we have allergy bracelets that lists all allergies that person has for such emergency purposes. Adding a QR code to digitize this information wouldn't be too terrible.

  7. Stupid and impossible law on 64 Complaints Received On UK Cookie Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How does one opt out of cookies without using a cookie to remember it?

  8. Re:A high schooler? on Judge to Oracle: A High Schooler Could Write rangeCheck · · Score: 2

    well, they'll certainly be very similar, they would probably end up the same if you instructed them to follow certain code conventions on variable names and the like.

  9. Re:Dis-proof of Goldbach as stated? on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 1

    91, 93 and 95 are all non prime, so even if we take negative primes as a stretch (so we could negate 2 instead) as to get an odd integer we would need to sum an even and an odd and 93±2 is not prime. Therefore disproven that all odd integers can be expressed as the sun of two primes or their negatives.

  10. Re:How radioactive do you need to be? on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 2

    Not if it was a gamma emitter in his blood stream, or quite a powerful beta emitter, yes an Alpha emitter would have a hard time penetrating the bodywork, though it only takes a few particles making it through to be noticeable increase on a Geiger counter if it is sensitive enough. As for detecting radiation, you do know the Earth itself provides a constant level of low level radiation that varies over the earth's surface (volcanic and ex-volcanic zones tend to be more active, but it can be detecting everywhere).

  11. Re:Seems reasonable to me on Connecticut Resident Stopped By State Police For Radioactivity · · Score: 1

    So ever taken a few smoke detectors home from Best Buy, you do know they work via americium 241, an alpha particle emitter?

  12. Re:Bystanders on Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin · · Score: 1

    I Anonymous' case, it is a grenade they use.

  13. Re:Bystanders on Pirate Bay Criticizes Anonymous' Attack On Virgin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Especially being how Anonymous only do extremely inefficient ICMP flood attack, the least they could do is learn to pull off a DDoS properly.

  14. No one has claimed apple is any better, we hate them too on that count, I would point out Google offers 2 browsers for android plus there are several 3rd party ones available.

    Now the fact Microsoft has tried this before and has just got rid of the need to follow the obligations of the courts against it until fairly recently might have something to do with things.

  15. Re:SSL still isn't the hotmail default! on Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires · · Score: 1

    No, infact, their enable to make it default on your account warns you that the windows mobile live app and some others will stop working.

  16. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    I've found some interesting pages on malware in wine: 2005 and 2007 (second is the one linked to in the wine FAQ).

  17. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    It's been able to for quite some time, there is even a dynamic malware analysis tool that makes use of this: http://zerowine.sourceforge.net/

  18. Re:Infected? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    Wine attempting to be bug for bug compatible also has been known to run windows makes malware.

  19. Re:Free phone calls? on Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones · · Score: 1

    I know on ex-Nokia employee with one... Oh wait, I forgot they've all but officially merged!

  20. Re:Fix bugs first on Skyrim Is Getting Kinect Support, Dragon Shouts Included · · Score: 1

    This is Bethesda, the bugs are part of the Bethesda experience.

  21. Re:Methinks a law of unintended consequences on Tennessee "Teaching the Controversy" Bill Becomes Law · · Score: 1

    Let the second dark ages begin!

  22. Re:Still working on it. on Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager · · Score: 1

    So , Chrome beta for Android doesn't count a Chrome on Linux on ARM?

  23. Re:Possibly on Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    *corporate

  24. Re:Possibly on Woz Fears Stifling of Startups Due to Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, ditch this chorister personage crap, also while there make patents non-transferable.

  25. Re:there is no post-PC computing paradigm on Google Earns $2 Per Handset; Apple, $575 · · Score: 1

    Morse is still the most reliable modulation. Especially through interference. It's also the simplest to build a transmitter/receiver for. As a such it's great in emergency situations which is why Morse operators are still somewhat sought after.