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  1. Re:More computer model dumb thinking on Google's PageRank Predicts Nobel Prize Winners · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with computer models, without them we'd never get any high end engineering done.

    However the model can't be better then it's underlying assumptions and here I think that they've confused the relationship.

  2. Re:Boiling It Down on The Science and Physics of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    When I last read up about fusion it the problem wasn't that it takes too much energy to start the reaction(it does take quite a lot and all current fusion reactors are energy negative and although they're currently building the first energy positive fusion reactor right now in France) but rather the problem is that if you try to make a reaction large enough to produce more energy then you put in it has a tendency to melt the container.

    So basically it has become a material sciences problem where they have to figure out how to build a reactor that can withstand the enormous forces.

  3. Re:Correlation is not Causation on Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects · · Score: 1

    It's not an article, it's a 146 page report that you obviously have not read.

  4. Re:zero on power up? on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    The thing is that the rest of the computer will be built around the assumption that the RAM is dumb so it might just do something that the "smart" ram thinks is a power failure and then it goes and resets itself.

    Giving the RAM more smarts to become hackerproof will probably require the rest of the hardware to be changed aswell to account for that.

  5. Re:some subject on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 1

    To be fair the bounty was pathetically low, in fact I think it was lower then the standard charge for data recovery.

  6. some subject on Single Drive Wipe Protects Data · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought this would be fairly obvious from the fact there doesn't exist any recovery services that will recover zerod out data for you, at most they can usually try to recover data that has been deleted(forgotten) by the operating system.

  7. Re:zero on power up? on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    I'd be more worried about it accidentally zeroing everything out during normal operation.

  8. Re:zero on power up? on Solution Against Cold Boot Attack In the Making · · Score: 1

    How exactly would a memory chip define "power first applied"? And how would the memory itself erase anything?

    Afaik RAM is just a bunch of cells that are either charged or they're not and it's all decided by the memory controller.

  9. Re:Slashdot loves piracy on Valve Takes Optimistic View of Piracy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The basic premise is that there are enough people that are willing to pay for things that they like that the industry can go around, not everyone will get things for free just because they can.

  10. Re:It's revolutionary for windows on Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's · · Score: 1

    Yes it has been going down in the last few years but it's way to early to say something like "too little too late", that kind of expression is reserved for when something is in it's death throes but hasn't really realized it's dead yet. Windows would have to fuck up for another decade to even come close to MacOs in marketshare.

    Windows has the kind of monopoly every CEO dreams about having and even when they release downgrades they still have the bestselling software of the year.

  11. Re:It's revolutionary for windows on Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's · · Score: 1

    Are you on drugs? Windows still has a 90% market share.

  12. Re:Fish. on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed your account still has enough karma to post above 0.

  13. Re:Multi-player text adventures? on Zork Returning As a Browser MMO · · Score: 2, Informative

    The main difference is that it'll be browser based instead of telnet based, and with ads(unless you pay).

  14. Re:Fish. on Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld · · Score: 1

    While they might not be 100% accurate in all situations breath analyzers are still considered to be mostly accurate so I doubt all 3 of our scenarios. Wouldn't be surprising if they have some kind of unfixed bug though that is enough to invalidate the trial.

  15. Re:I'm right on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    You're aware you're insulting yourself right? This is so much fun, I should probably go and get some popcorn.

  16. Re:Ok, when wrong, you try to change the subject on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    You're hilarious 10/10 troll points.

  17. Re:Brute Force? on GPUs Used To Crack WiFi Passwords Faster · · Score: 1

    A brute force dictionary attack tends to run through the entire dictionary with various prefixes,suffixes, numbers, capitalizations and even word combinations.

  18. Re:Off the top of my head on Can We Create Fun Games Automatically? · · Score: 1

    I think Go is an even better example, the rules are extremely simple but the emergent gameplay is too complex to be brute forced(unlike chess).

  19. Re:Fuck you you lying sack of garbage on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    You seem to be unaware what the meaning of the word lie means so I thought I should take the opportunity to educate you. For something to be a lie intent is required, a false statement without intent to deceive is simply a false statement. Since I sincerely believe in what I wrote it's clearly and demonstratively not a lie.

    Now when we've established what the word "lie" means this sentence makes no sense whatsoever:
    "You're lying, apparently too stupid to read the entire thread."

    You're apparently trying to call me ignorant without knowing the proper word to do so while failing to understand that lying and ignorance are mutually exclusive.

  20. Re:Jeez... on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Apparently the blame doesn't really lie with that Canadian judge but rather with the British in the 1830ths. This issue is ancient.

    While I still think the whole "lets plant a deeply religious people in the middle of another deeply religious people both of which hate eachother" idea was stupid I suppose it's rather moot since we can't do anything about it anymore.

  21. Re:You are wrong on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Are you somehow trying to claim the Palestinians are really in fact the borg collective? Not individuals at all but rather they all share in all decisions and should thus share all blame...

    NEWS FLASH!

    In the real world there is no such thing as a hive mind.

  22. Re:Jeez... on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    You're behaving like a classic troll, you dismiss all facts other people bring to the table due to lack of evidence, then you do the exact same thing you claim your opponents are doing, which is claim fact without any citation at all.

    You claim you're unbiased while clearly only supporting the israeli side of the argument, how ludicrous is that. You keep using ad Hominem attacks against anyone who argues against you as if that was in any way relevant to the discussion.

    You have repeatedly ignored the parts of your opponents posts that you lack a proper response to and then you have the audacity to call me the troll when I call you out as biased.

    To any third party observer of this debate you make the Israeli look extremely bad by association with you, before today I was rather unsure of who was at fault in the whole Gaza mess but your pathetic reasoning did nothing to improve my image of Israel(I can do ad hominem too).

  23. Re:Jeez... on Gaza Debate Goes Virtual · · Score: 1

    Because you're clearly unbiased.

    Personally I think making the israeli state to begin with was a stupid idea.

  24. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    You're aware that EULA's are not solid contracts right? In the same way you do not actually get the right to my first born just because you write that, you do not actually get the right to destroy my computer just because you say so.

  25. Re:Please explain to me on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    You have the right to defend yourself, you do not have the right to beat someone to death, the proposed software would be equivalent to the latter.