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  1. Ok then on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    Maybe they could make it out of Unobtainium?

  2. Increasing casualties on Rediscovering WWII's Top-Secret Computing 'Rosies' · · Score: 1

    Atomic weapons are sort of the exception, so far.

    In some ways you could think of them as that. In others that would be a wildly, some would say M.A.D.ly inaccurate statement.

  3. Re:Thank you on Research Finds That Electric Fields Help Neurons Fire · · Score: 1

    you get by with one neuron, and it's on fire?

  4. What he wants is for them to charge him! They would lose and look like the utter buffoons that they are over it!

  5. Simple solution on Pirated App Sold On Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    File a DMCA notice on Apple, making damned sure that you clearly demarkate your legitimate application from the counterfeiter's listing in it.

  6. Missing the point on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Bing is responding to falsified click-stream data

    Quite obviously bing watches the results that the google searches of it's users generate merely to copy them. It's not innovation, its plagiarism.

  7. well on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    This sounds rather unlikely, as what lunatic is going to run the risk of putting an airframe in the sky with explosives on it instead of just delivering them from the ground? It's not like there's any need for a deep strike mission!

  8. Woah there on Comcast Activates IPv6 Trial Users · · Score: 1

    Simplistic understanding of mathematics there buddy. A /128 minus a /64 per end user does not equate to halving the address space.

      Them there digits after them there slashes are signifying how many times to the power of the number in the same way that 2 to the power of 2 is squaring 2 and making four. It does not mean 2x128, or 2x64. Consider this: 2 e2 (ie to the power of, or rather multiplied by) = 4 2 e3 ( ie 2 multiplied by 2 multiplied by 2)= 8, 2 e4 = 16, 2 e5=32. 2 e6 = 64. therefore a /6 is 64 address spaces, removing a /3 (which is 8 address spaces) leaves 56 address spaces, it does not halve it. In this vein half of the /128 address space is a /127.

    Hope this oversimplification helps, and apologies for the poor mathematical symbology there, its early morning, and I'm not really with it.

  9. learn about finance a bit on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    the US debt figures are scary to say the least. The whole financial system we live in basically values money as debt. The money in your wallet is representative of someone owing someone else.

  10. history fail? on Anonymous Organizes Global Protests For WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    I think the attack on Pearl Harbour indicated that the Japanese attacked the US, and then declared war. The tripartite pact was, in any case, something that Hitler and Mussolini could have ignored in that situation. It wasn't like they were ever too bothered about treaties etc.

  11. Re:Let's put it up on Wikileaks on Pot Grower's Privacy Challenged · · Score: 1

    I suspect the plan would then be that the price would be such that the risks, and costs of smuggling it would suddenly start to outweigh the rewards of doing so

  12. Re:History could repeat itself... on Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore · · Score: 1

    Nothing other than the dev filing the complaint works for Nokia. This is anticompetitive behaviour. I would not be surprised if his boss at Nokia bribed him to do it.

    sorry, but this is utter nonsense.

  13. Yup on Zynga and Blizzard Sued Over Game Patent · · Score: 2

    Diablo2 and Battle.net may well cover this more than completely

  14. You must be new here (n/t) on MS Asks Google To Delay Fuzzer Tool · · Score: 1

    n/t

  15. however on MS Asks Google To Delay Fuzzer Tool · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure that this wouldnt work without popups if the implementation was changed.

  16. Re:Windows Update? on Does Windows Phone 7 Have a Data Transmission Bug? · · Score: 1

    Probably downloading security flaws.

    FTFY

  17. Re:OS & Apps in 2.4Mb! on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    The Good Old RP06's (CDC drives rebadged) of 256Mb. You could make them dance over the floor in Diagnostic Max Seek mode.

    Them were the days.

    and were they usable afterwards?

  18. just checking on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    Not too sure of the rules here, but are true slashdotters also not allowed to have wine installed and have the relevant 'install' of windows fake files?

  19. well on Banknotes Go Electronic To Outwit Counterfeiters · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that he'd be happy with 10% of the home computer callout maintenance business of the entire US. He might be a tad busy though, and would probably need to hire some assistants. And a private jet.

  20. woah on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 1

    and just how much of their work was based on other people's work?

  21. hookay on AT&T To Pay $1.93 Billion For FLO TV Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Is said service going to be free then? coz if not you can bet your bottom dollar that those taxpayers that decide to use it will be paying plenty for it!

  22. meh on JBI's Plastic To Oil Gets Operating Permit · · Score: 1

    The density of same isn't really high enough to make this feasible as I understand it (Can't remember the details exactly)

  23. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    and i bet you have a Jar Jar Binks model too!

  24. Re:I Don't Like Amazon's Decision, But: on Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles · · Score: 1

    the US criminal justice system that it abides by CANNOT likewise "make a choice" tomorrow... and arrest everyone breaking new laws prior to their very existance.

    You wanna bet on them not trying?

  25. Interesting thoughts on Judge Declares Federal Healthcare Plan (Partly) Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Great post, I have a 2 observations however.

        Firstly the reason that your fictional Billy Bob's hypothetical 2 years after no insurance is so high is because medical care in the us price gouges ridiculously in order to game the rest of the system into getting an actual reasonable care cost. The insurance companies clearly go along with this, and it seems to me that they do so that they have these big scary numbers to quote whenever the cost of premiums gets questioned. The fact that they get insane discounts just proves that they're complicit in the gouging.

    The secong observation is that a universal healthcare system that universally pours money into the pockets of third parties that in no way actually contribute to improving the standard of care, or outcomes, is just looney tunes!

    The only way for this system to work is for there to be one payer. I am a brit and I thank god for the farsighted people who set up a healthcare that is truly free at the point of use, and a sensible way of having people pay for it!