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  1. Re:we'll see on Obama Talks Internet Freedom, China Censors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We the people already held all the rights. We only consented to surrender SOME of them to form a limited social contract to secure life, liberty, and property. We don't have free speech because the government said we could....we have freedom of speech because we never gave it up.

    This. Until "progressives", socialists, and the marxist democrat party decided that a dependent voter base was a key to power.

  2. Re:Why reduce the DPI instead of using larger font on Are There Affordable Low-DPI Large-Screen LCD Monitors? · · Score: 1

    "Reading Glasses - The High Performance Solution!"

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  4. I just asked bing: on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    How can the suckiness of Microsoft be reversed? It said:

    THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

    This wolfram thing might be working out after all.

  5. Re:It is already here on 10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes · · Score: 1

    Your assertion is about as supported as the parent's.

    At least we all know how George Soros votes.

  6. obviously! on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    put it in the cloud!

  7. Re:it is petty... on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: 1

    right...and such personal attacks are petty. like i said.

  8. it is petty... on Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain · · Score: -1, Troll

    to engage in such a personal attack, but it was big of the satirist to voluntarily give him the domain.

    I just hope Mr. Beck makes good use of DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com. He could make some good adsense scrilla if he gets it today!

  9. Re:Carmakers lie on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    This is an old thread by now, but I did a bit of searching.

    I see several people make the same claim as you, that GPSR's can calc instantaneous speeds from doppler shifts.

    So I emailed Garmin to ask about the ETrex series, they emailed back (actually surprisingly),

    Thank you for contacting Garmin International. I'd be happy to help you with your Legend.

    The unit determines speed by using the track log data and calculating time/distance between those points.

    Please let me know if there's anything else I can assist you with.

    I found a thread where iPhone devs were talking about it....turns out they have to use position changes too: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=526261

    And here's some code for it in c++: http://www.geoframeworks.com/articles/WritingApps1_6.aspx

    So we are both right. ):

  10. Re:Where's the... on Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence · · Score: 1

    Actually, murder rates plummet after a population is killed.

  11. Re:Carmakers lie on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GPS was never intended to measure speed. All it does is get position and repeat. Speed is calculated based on change of position over time, which is good for averaging but NOT good for spot measurements.

    And there are several ways to calculate change of position, not all GPS's do it the same. Haversine, Spherical Law of Cosines, etc. Some may even use geometry on UTM (which can work cause rhumb lines are great circle lines in mercator projections). But again, what happens between refreshes and recalculations is lost in the averaging.

    Those road-side radar speed signs...real police radar (the kind admissible in court) have a calibration regimen in order to stay accurate. The roadside radar signs....not so much.

    I'm not arguing your speedometer is off...could be tire size, bad design, conspiracy...whatever. But GPS and radar signs aren't the standard by which to judge.

  12. Re:Release cycles? on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because when you go to download it, it asks you which version you want. It even explains the LTS thing.

  13. Re:Netbooks on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Will Block Atom Processors · · Score: 1

    it's a higher quality product

    If by higher quality you mean the same quality, sold to artsy elitists, with a custom OS that basically invented the "bloated and slow" genre...the I guess you are right.

    And don't make me get my anecdotes out to counter your anecdotes.

  14. o rly? on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    What technologies are the focus in the original Night of the Living Dead?

  15. Re:Maybe on A Clever New Approach To Desalination · · Score: 4, Funny

    True. Too bad greenhouses are impossible.

  16. imagine a beowulf... on Tilera To Release 100-Core Processor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...cluster of natalie pormemes.

  17. Re:What I would do? on What If They Turned Off the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Fascism the insulting label IS used by lefties to insult righties. However, the ideals the Fascism espoused ARE leftist ideals.

    "... by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation's system "the corporate state".(Rao, B. V. History of Modern Europe Ad 1789-2002. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd, 2006. p. 215)

    As Mussolini put it, "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

    Government control of all commerce is a leftist ideal, probably somewhere between socialism and communism. And I use leftist here in the USA sense.

  18. Re:What I would do? on What If They Turned Off the Internet? · · Score: 1

    "right-wing"...."N. Korea and China"...

    Maybe you are from somewhere where right-wing means socialism, communism, or fascism (which are all degrees of the same thing), but in the USA, right-wing means the opposite. Like Libertarianism but with a touch of Judeo-Christian morality.

  19. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    There are tools for excel VBA in OO. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA

  20. And to add to the misery... on Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...slashdot readers are bringing SparkFun.com to it's knees as we speak.

    Stand back, SPARC, we'll take care of this!

  21. We've learned this lesson already... on How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...with networked printers.

    Sometimes, it can be trivial to print a few hundred pictures of dicks to an IP printer on someone elses network. Or http or telnet into the printer and wreck all kinds of havoc, or just print a ream of test pages. Or use the MFP's fax function for moar great pranksterism. Maybe get a copy of the last x scans....

    Of course, years of ubiquitous networked printers have yielded us "some serious attention to the question of" MFP security. Oh...nope? Don't expect much for robots.

  22. Re:And by all developers you mean on "Side By Side Assemblies" Bring DLL Hell 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm Rocco. I'm the +5 Funny man.

    Nice Boondock Saints ref. (:

  23. learn to.... on Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 4, Informative

    sudo apt-get install fail2ban

  24. buzzword incompatibility... on Bridging the Gap Between User-Generated Content and Interesting Content · · Score: 5, Funny

    User-generated Content must be crowdsourced. Then you can proactively leverage the synergistic paradigm of the folksomony. We recommend a mashup.

  25. Re:Okay on Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards · · Score: 0, Troll

    I voted for Obama and I support him and healthcare reform.

    Don't get me wrong, some of my best friends use irrelevant disclaimers in an effort to apply ethos to a logos argument.. However...blah blah blah...

    Pure fagotry there, bro.