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  1. Re:IBM (IBM) on Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label · · Score: 1

    That's a ticker symbol, standard in news about publicly traded corporations.

  2. Re:'cause we all know blogs are reliable source of on Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police · · Score: 1

    Michael Totten is not your average blogger.

  3. Re:One possible explanation on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, BNL and PTB are both in the northern hemisphere, unless there's a Bizarro Germany in the south that I'm not aware of.

  4. Re:One possible explanation on Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance · · Score: 2, Informative

    On page 2, the authors write,

    Moreover, the difference in latitude between BNL and PTB, as well as the difference in their climates, argues against an explanation of this correlation in terms of seasonal variations of climatic conditions such as temperature, pressure, and humidity etc., which could have inuenced the respective detection systems.

    If this was caused by power loads due to seasonal weather, opposite effects would have been observed in opposite hemispheres.

    But I don't know a tenth of what you do about MCAs, and I'm not qualified to judge whether you or the researchers are correct.

  5. Re:luv 2 brag on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1

    e8500 - This is an upper-range dual-core Intel CPU.
    4gb ddr2 1066 - 4 gigabytes of fairly high-speed RAM.
    p5q-3 - The motherboard. I had to look this up.
    4870 - An ATI Radeon video card.
    freezer 7 pro - An aftermarket heatsink for the CPU. Very effective, and very quiet.
    rosewill case - Can't complain here. Rosewill makes a nice solid case.
    250 gb hd - A 250 gigabyte hard drive.

    All in all, a better machine than what I'm typing this on.

  6. Re:The investor's budget? on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 3, Informative

    It doesn't need to be "screaming fast," but scrap that Pentium and get a modern CPU.

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000867.html

  7. Re:What a secret! on id CEO Claims PC Hardware Manufacturers Love Piracy · · Score: 1

    matlab vs mathematica. Mathematica is beautiful. Nicely built, nice to look at. And a veritable thumbscrew to develop in, just like mac os. Matlab gets results, and is beyond ugly in design. It's literally a deep dark pit in the ground and you can see a faint red light glowing at the bottom. Yet nearly everyone jumps in the matlab pit.

    matMatlab gets results, and is beyond ugly in design. It's literally a deep dark pit in the ground and you can see a faint red light glowing at the bottom. Yet nearly everyone jumps in the matlab pit.

    It's literally a deep dark pit in the ground and you can see a faint red light glowing at the bottom.

    literally a deep dark pit

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  8. Re:New feature? I've been using for ages. on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    The new feature is to have Gmail use SSL automatically, even if you don't log in from https://mail.google.com./

  9. Mod parent underrated on Rare Q&A With Rockstar Games Head Sam Houser · · Score: 1

    I'd do it myself, but my mod points expired ten minutes ago.

  10. Re:militancy on New Spore Details, Possible Movie Deal · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, the term "militant atheist" was coined by Richard Dawkins, who is clearly of the opinion that a militant atheist is a good thing to be.

  11. Re:I think you've got it on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Khashishi's description, the time sequence in the construction of the two random sequences makes one of them seem a priori random, and the other to be a one-time pad encoding of the message, while in the Smith/Yard article you can't tell which is which.

    One-time pad ciphertext does appear to be random. Shannon proved that it has perfect secrecy.

  12. Re:Perfect example on IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops · · Score: 1

    From punch cards to computers.

    Punch card systems were computers.

  13. Re:Yar! on Interview With an EVE Pirate · · Score: 4, Informative

    The pirate/temperature graph has been part of FSM scriptures since the beginning.

  14. Re:Way to go, Congress! on Senate Passes Bill Targeting College Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually, prices are now falling. When I drove to work this afternoon, I saw gas for $3.66 per gallon.

  15. Re:The ruling is a trip. on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 1

    We laughed at him and made jokes, but he proved, beyond the shadow of a doubt and with geometric logic, that murder simulators cause violence.

  16. Re:Still could be innocent on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I were separated from my wife and bound by a restraining order, and she was having sex with her new lover IN MY HOUSE, I would probably kill her, too.

  17. Re:From the Linked Blog on How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that St. Paul specifically okays interfaith marriages in 1 Corinthians 7:12-16.

  18. Re:wtf is PI license on PC Repair In Texas Now Requires a PI License · · Score: 1

    "Private investigator." Not the police, but someone you hire to, for example, follow your spouse around to see if they are cheating.

  19. EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW! on WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates · · Score: 1

    Those 20 acronyms are a total joke. It looks like the only ones in common use are ASL and IRL, which appears as part of "let's meet in real life." Spreading this kind of misinformation won't help anyone.

  20. Re:Petard, meet hoist. on Google Trends vs. Community Standards On Obscenity · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fish reproduce sexually, but they do not have sexual intercourse as we know it. Nearly all known fishes are oviparous. The female releases her eggs in to the surrounding water, and there they are fertilised by the male. For more information, see "The Deep South." Futurama. Writ. J. Stewart Burns. Fox. 16 Apr. 2000.

  21. Re:Easy. on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 1

    You didn't convince anyone with this post. You just established that you do not value software freedom as much as the parent does.

    If you're selling a product, and the customer asks whether it has a particular feature, the correct answer is not, "who cares?"

  22. Yes, it is. on New Browser-Based MMO Teaches Mandarin Chinese · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your passport does not confer the right travel, your nationality does. Your passport is proof of nationality, and you can still prove your nationality by other means. Having your passport's number and expiration date helps. If you have an American passport, turn to page 6. You will notice that the State Department recommends making two photocopies of your passport data page.

  23. He is NOT proposing the use of malware on USAF Considers Creation of Military Botnet · · Score: 4, Informative

    The U.S. would not, and need not, infect unwitting computers as zombies. We can build enough power over time from our own resources.

    Rob Kaufman, of the Air Force Information Operations Center, suggests mounting botnet code on the Air Force's high-speed intrusion-detection systems. Defensively, that allows a quick response by directly linking our counterattack to the system that detects an incoming attack. The systems also have enough processing speed and communication capacity to handle large amounts of traffic.

    Next, in what is truly the most inventive part of this concept, Lt. Chris Tollinger of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency envisions continually capturing the thousands of computers the Air Force would normally discard every year for technology refresh, removing the power-hungry and heat-inducing hard drives, replacing them with low-power flash drives, then installing them in any available space every Air Force base can find. Even though those computers may no longer be sufficiently powerful to work for our people, individual machines need not be cutting-edge because the network as a whole can create massive power.
  24. Re:Also illegal, at least in Canada on Microsoft "Albany" Offers Office and Security as Subscription · · Score: 1
  25. Re:The best things in life are free ... on Beatles and iTunes At Last? · · Score: 1

    Garth Brooks, actually, and he apparently is locked in to an exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart.