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  1. Re:Seniors see the world at blazing speeds on Flies See the World In Slo-Mo, Say Researchers · · Score: 1

    This is why it seems to take so long to turn off the left blinker.

  2. Re:Sounds like an episode of Doomsday Preppers on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 2

    If it's good enough for the CDC (who deal with things like flu pandemics), it's good enough for us:
    http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

  3. Huh? on Why Apple Went 64-Bit With the iPhone 5s · · Score: 1

    If you're virtualizing ARM, making it 64-bit just makes it harder. 64-bit CPUs have access to all the 32-bit instructions you need. It's still virtualized, though.

  4. Re:CMV keeps up immune response on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    Why it works in 50% might have something to do with how the CMV vaccines already in trials (not for HIV) only have a 50% efficacy rate in humans. This is according to a 2009 study I found via Wikipedia...

  5. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    An increase in supply now only decreases the pool for later profits. You want them to live long enough to:
    A) Have children
    B) Bug their children to give them grandchildren.

  6. Re:Not gonna happen on Promising Vaccine Candidate Could Lead To a Definitive Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    Even if that were true, if a competitor could kill that business and make only a few million in the process, that's still profit for them instead of the competitor.

  7. Re:Fascinating... on Stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All they need to do? It's already been done at the fab! Why else would this be coming out now? These researchers have been under a gag order for years and only now got bold enough to stand up to the NSA.

    Opinions above are exaggerated for entertainment purposes only

  8. Re:Really? on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Hope you've run WDIDLE on all those Green drives. As the other commenter said.

    http://www.ngohq.com/news/19805-critical-design-flaw-found-in-wd-caviar-green-hdds.html

    WD Greens are intentionally sabotaged against running in a RAID, but I still use them. And they work OK for slow storage.

  9. Re:RAID on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    Accidental deletion is a much simpler matter on a hard drive. The blocks are marked as free, but the data's really still there. With SSD, you don't have long before TRIM comes along and zeroes out the data.

  10. Re:Mass vs Size on Black Holes Grow By Eating Quantum Foam · · Score: 2

    Works for NASA anyway...well...almost.

  11. Re:No grenades were found on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 1

    One.

  12. Re:For those of you that don't RTFA... on TSA Reminds You Not To Travel With Hand Grenades · · Score: 5, Informative

    Furthermore, if I'm reading the numbers right, 1 live grenade out of 84 found - and that one was an accident by a travelling solider. The rest were completely inert and only look dangerous.

  13. Re:New definition of "Accessibility" on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    Why are you asking me?

    Because you may have tried it before. You had started the online discussion on the topic.

    I don't think any app requires authentication, but a lot require HKEY_CURRENT_USER - which isn't populated until you actually log in. So maybe this is what prevents explorer.exe from bringing up a full shell. I don't know. Thought maybe you had tried it.

  14. Re:New definition of "Accessibility" on The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services · · Score: 1

    Does using Explorer.exe instead of command.exe log get you in with a full shell and start menu?

  15. Re:Python on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    Once you extend the language to add the functions they need, it would no longer be Python. It would be a Python-like language. I don't get it - it's not like you're going to port in a Python program and it's suddenly going to generate cities instead of whatever it used to do.

  16. Re:The future on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    This isn't great for the foreground bits. It makes great background filler, though. There have been a lot of pieces of software that generate background imagery like this - it would never be in-budget otherwise. Massive is used to generate large crowds of moving people/creatures (like Orcs in LOTR). Tsunami to generate realistic water (e.g. Titanic). Before this, you just couldn't get the complexity. Few movies, like Ben-Hur, would get the resources to have 100,000 extras just for the background of a few scenes.

    At this point, the software does not produce art. It's only a tool to produce believable filler.

  17. Sim City on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    What would happen if we found a way to tie a Sim City engine to its output?

  18. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    If they do, it will be IR-transparent black lens caps and the CCD will filter IR in software...when you're the one using it.

  19. Re:Many cases where a third party can not be force on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Clergy on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    For the same reason as doctor-client. For one - the law shouldn't be preaching - it should be religion agnostic, not atheist. It's unfair to the constituents to have it any other way.

    And even if you're atheist, you can acknowledge the psychological benefits of faith - even if you don't believe that it's true. If it's helping the person in question, they shouldn't have any reason to avoid getting help.

  21. Re:The Stupid. It Burns on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    There's no law that requires the wording of the Miranda Warning to be used, but the Supreme Court has upheld that any statement made by someone who was held in custody and not informed of this right is inadmissible in court.

  22. Re:Screw your OS/X parametres on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    The only thing this has to do with tools is that it's cheaper to hire less talented people because the tools are easy to learn and there's a lot more of them now.

  23. Re:30bit monitor? How about simple Colour Manageme on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    I've used all three, and Mac OS X definitely has the best color management of those. If you have multiple screens, they each get their own color profile. You can manually tweak the color profile, but OS X has all of the setup screens needed to calibrate from with gamma for each channel.

  24. Re:Video Editing on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    It's very powerful, but it has a truly bad UI. UI doesn't stand for unintuitive. And why should you have to drag a shark onto a window to close it?

  25. Re:OSs are supposed to be generic on Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS · · Score: 1

    For some uses, like A/V, a low-latency kernel is very helpful - but your average user doesn't want that.