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  1. Re:Can't wait! on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    At your service.

  2. Re:Summary please on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    Is that all your want?
    Save time and watch Maburaho. The nerd kid has magic and gets a harem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpWq_zGprAU

  3. Answer: on Yet Another European Government Drops ACTA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Corruption

  4. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This question is so misguided, and will only end in hypocrisy.
    If it really bothers the poster that much, simply go without the toy.

  5. Re:Openwashing on Why Open APIs Fall Far Short of Open Source · · Score: 2

    Words have meaning, and meaning in particular contexts.
    Corporate doublespeak attempts to corrupt that meaning, in this case by intentional reversal; applying a word to it's diametric opposite.

    Most people here quite clearly understand that.

  6. Controlled market on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 1

    With music there are only two choices:
    1) Monopolistic pricing
    2) Zero price point

    The equilibrium price isn't an option, and most people value the product far less than its cost.

  7. Openwashing on Why Open APIs Fall Far Short of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yep, openwashing strikes again.
    'Open API' means something akin to 'documented API' for proprietary software.

  8. Free stuff on EFF Launching 'Patent Fail' Campaign · · Score: 2

    I'd like to thank the countries which have hamstrung themselves by allowing software patents, for the mass publication of ideas which would otherwise be trade secrets.

  9. Lacks commerical awareness on The Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware · · Score: 1

    You'll be mightly lonely, and probably poor

    Or a wealthy corporation will come along and profit from your legally unprotected design. You can't shame a company into compliance with your kooky culture, so you're boned.

  10. Legal basis on The Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware · · Score: 0

    The design and the source code have copyleft licences which derive from the underlying copyright.
    The hardware itself, if not patented, is simply in the Public Domain.

    Sorry but your "unspoken rules" are not worth the paper they're not written on.

  11. There is a reason - Physics on In Hot Water: The Effects of Even Modern Nuke Plants On Water · · Score: 1

    These figures are pretty rough, but a black-body emitter can radiate around 56,000 joules per second per square meter.
    Evaporating one kilogram of water removes 2,260,000 joules.

    The reason power plants user cooling towers is related to the latent heat of vaporization of water. It's a lot.

  12. Lol efficiency on In Hot Water: The Effects of Even Modern Nuke Plants On Water · · Score: 1

    Let's say your reactor runs at 1000K (Your one degree cooler water is 999K)

    Thermal efficiency = 1 - (999/1000) = 0.1%

    Your reactor is 0.1% efficient. That's not so good.

  13. Re:There are other options I guess on In Hot Water: The Effects of Even Modern Nuke Plants On Water · · Score: 4, Informative

    Point i) is a thermodynamics fail.

  14. Hilarious on Leaked Heartland Institute Documents Reveal Opposition To Science · · Score: 2

    How did science get from this definition:

    The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

    ... to the bastardized meaning used in the American media?

    What happened America? You used to be cool.

  15. Re:"Smart" TVs? on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, if you are happy with a lame smart TV and all the DRM that will inevitably come with it, more power to you. I want my content exactly how I've always got it, and I'm willing to pay for it. EXCEPT nobody has got it right yet, and they never will, so I'll just take it for free.

  16. Re:"Smart" TVs? on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PCs are smart and work for you.
    TVs will become smart and work against you.

  17. Call me a ludite on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    I don't want any of my technology to be "smart" for the newspeak definition of smart.

  18. The year 2027 on Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For' Child Porn, Says Legislator · · Score: 1

    The last days of the human race.
    No child has been born for 18 years.

    Which is a good thing, because we can finally enjoy our internet freedom in peace.

  19. New features on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Visio .vsd import
    Native PostgreSQL driver
    Java 7 support
    AES encryption .msi Windows Installer - I understand that .msi is a big deal for corporate installs somehow.

    Anyway is it just me or is Libreoffice really really awesome. There seems like a tremendous amount of energy behind the project, and it's all headed in the right direction.

  20. Dev on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    But that's what the usability studies indicate that users want this.
    The ONLY reason you don't love it yet, is because you haven't learned the new paradigm, or you're too stupid to do so.

    Ok, no more negative feed back please, La la la la la la la I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

  21. "Blackhole IE Exploit Kit" on Cryptome Hit By Blackhole Exploit Kit · · Score: 4, Informative

    This attacks specifically checks for, and excludes browsers which are not IE 6 to 8

  22. You are here on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 4, Insightful
  23. You should kill us all on sight on Sony's New CEO To Look Beyond Hardware · · Score: 1

    And now, for a thousand generations, geeks everywhere will be telling their family and friends that Sony sucks; and they won't even know they're doing it.

  24. Re:Upgraded to Guess from Wild Ass Guess. on Texas Supercomputer Upgrading the Hurricane Forecast · · Score: 1

    It never will, due to cumulative uncertainty in chaotic systems.

  25. Bullshit anon. on Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations · · Score: 2

    Things don't "just happen" to my data. What can and can't be done with it, is regulated by the European Data Protection Directive, UK Data Protection Act 1998, and several other laws which reflect European attitudes to the key role of privacy in human rights law.

    However there are gaping loopholes:

    Personal information may not be sent outside the European Economic Area unless the individual whom it is about has consented.

    So buried in the terms will be a clause consenting to export my data to a data ghetto such as the United States, and that is where the problems begin.