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  1. Re:Kinda matches my attention span :-) on Storing Qubits In Nuclei · · Score: 1

    Well, with the quantum memory you won't know until your data is alive or dead until you open the box. And you're right that latency is relevant, as if it takes longer than 1.75 seconds to read the data it may be difficult to use.

  2. We're more openly fragile than others! on Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns · · Score: 1

    DRM makes stuff fragile, so the consumer will lose it more easily. This just makes it fragile in an open environment, which is not relevant once you lose the stuff you paid for.

  3. Re:Can the article example serve as prior art? on X-Rays Emitted From Ordinary Scotch Tape · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What are you doing taking a hamster on vacation?" It's to feed the snake.

    You have that much trouble finding a hotel with rats?

  4. Re:There is hope on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    But the equalization hole is tiny and water's capillary action would block it from flowing in until there was sufficient pressure difference. However, if water does ruin the inside of a hard drive the damage would probably be limited to inside the drive -- so go ahead and try to use the drive after cleaning. If it works, great. If not, then replace it. It would be safest to replace the drive, so an alternative is to plug both old and new drives in USB cases and try to copy the data over. If the damaged drive fails electrically or mechanically, only the USB case is at risk (and it will probably survive).

  5. Re:Still doesn't answer the most important questio on Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 · · Score: 1

    Never mind what's out there. If there are 37,964 extraterrestrial civilizations which are more advanced, I want to know how many terrestrial civilizations are more advanced.

  6. You're confusing space with the Moon on The Smell of Space · · Score: 1

    I think you're confused between the smell of the ISS (workshop) with the smell of lunar dust (gunpower).

  7. Re:Correlation != Causation on Patient "Roused From Coma" By a Magnetic Therapy · · Score: 1

    The second half of TFA explains this exactly, if you'd bothered to read it.

    What are you, some sort of literate participant? We can't have that kind of thing going on here!

  8. It's a workaround not a repair, and being careful on NASA To Repair Hubble By Remote Control · · Score: 1

    Because there is a possibility that switching to the backup will permanently break something. They wanted to be sure they knew what was broken before trying to work around it. There is a possibility that when "flipping the switch" that the switch will break or something else will permanently fail. It would be more than awkward to later figure out that there was a simpler solution which was no longer available.

  9. Try Streaming Bittorrent on Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hulu should offer a streaming bittorrent feed as an alternative. We discussed the technology here earlier. The client's interface could be better, but at least it's something which might help with the bandwidth issues.

  10. Compare notes, then formally record things on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 1

    I'm involved in open communities where discussions are used to ask about difficulties, suggest tests and solutions, and point out oddities. Sometimes these discussions identify issues in enough detail that code and/or documentation changes are made. Without the discussion, the knowledge base doesn't get those improvements.

  11. 33% increase on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 1

    Actually, he increased productivity by 33%. Before he joined, each employee's average productivity was 33% of the total, so his joining changed it to 133% of the previous total. The next employee will only increase it by 25%.

  12. Re:tsk tsk on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 1

    What if you get the customer of 1000 truths?

    Use the BFG?

  13. Does anyone car? on Current Scientific Publishing Methods Problematic · · Score: 1

    the quality of the analogies varies quite a bit.

    Did they try saying how it is like a car?

  14. Re:Non-Obvious & Novel? on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1
    Part of what she described is already in the /. Relationship system.

    And for this comment I'm getting a narrow window which is about 24 characters wide. Maybe that's another way to limit comments, although it was not in the above suggestions.

  15. Service your implementation on Government Begins Securing Root Zone File · · Score: 1
    "This is in service of implementing DNSSEC"

    I in service to knowing what you say.

  16. I'm your browser and I'm here to help. on 20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even better, a tag could tell your browser which standard policy is being used. Tell your browser which policies you want to be accepted, and what action to take for sites with other policies.

  17. Re:Moral of the story? on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boeing uses analogs, and hydraulics controlled by the motive force of the pilot that is in turn, connected to the 'autopilot'.

    What an awful analogy, and not a single mention of a car.

  18. Re:Alternative that is available for moible now... on Firefox Add-On To Track Your Location Via Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Xtify doesn't have a browser dependency. It has a Blackberry dependency. And only three other phone types are in the release schedule.

  19. Re:So, nobody found this odd? on Election Dirty Tricks About To Begin · · Score: 1

    No need to distrust that location, the sites abc.go.com and abcnews.go.com have been the ABC site locations for quite a while.

  20. Re:Efficiency on Plug-In Hybrids Aren't Coming, They're Here · · Score: 1

    Think of all the excess weight in a truck that she just doesn't need (and then she goes and makes it heavier with extra motors and batteries).

    Think of all the excess weight in an unused passenger compartment. Or if you think the steel chassis under the truck bed is wasteful, you're not aware of the need to add steel to a passenger vehicle to support racks of batteries.

    Yes, an electric vehicle needs a power plant to recharge. But a large nuclear plant is quite efficient, being a single facility which can power a huge number of houses; your house only needs several pounds of copper to deliver the power...including to your car. Except here we're talking about hybrid cars, for which an electric recharge is optional. If I were converting a car, I'd include a charger just for the extra flexibility. Especially because if the gasoline engine breaks but the electric drive can still work, at least I wouldn't be stranded and can still move around.

  21. Re:Registering copyright on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    You can obviously register your altered code. It's the violator's problem to grab the version before yours if they want to not steal your one-line copyright-registered change.

  22. Re:Open source people are greedy too. on An Open Source Legal Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The problem is that the words themselves come from a time when stealing/thieving by definition meant that you deprived the original owner of the use of their property.

    Well, send me the title for your car. It's just a piece of paper, and you can keep the car and continue using it. I'll just register as the owner of the car. And start sending you invoices for your use of the car. You still have the car and can continue to use it, so it's not theft.

  23. My test: on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 5, Funny

    "To continue, guess which finger I'm holding up."

  24. Re:I know I do on Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apparently someone is indeed less dense.

  25. Cage is poor choice on Congress Endorses Open Source For Military · · Score: 1

    Two organization enter..one with heavy firepower.
    Yes, I would enjoy watching that.

    Not if you're at a cage match. Watching it on television should be safe, but a cage is too porous for heavy firepower.