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  1. Re:AnoNet on IPv4 Free Pool Drops Below 10%, 1.0.0.0/8 Allocated · · Score: 1

    Because everyone else is using the private networks correctly, and they don't want to step on anyone's toes with their private network.

  2. Re:Fooooosh.... on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just not in Boston, the local authorities will be called and panic will ensue at your terrorist activities. Especially if you have a lite-brite.

  3. Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get on Radio Hams Fired Upon In Haiti · · Score: 2, Funny

    "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

    Also, Elvis isn't dead, he just went home.

  4. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    It can still be devastating in the right hands, as collateral damage. Until more things come EM-shielded. And it wouldn't even have to be on moving vehicles, I'd imagine there are enough unshielded systems.

    Imagine what one could do in a hospital. Or an airport...wall street, police station, phone company, power station, a mall.

  5. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    Or someone with a pacemaker happens to be in the line of fire and hit by accident.

  6. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    I do everything in my power to not run into things. That doesn't mean someone driving down the road the opposite direction isn't going to be drunk/falling asleep and run into me. I'd still like to be able to survive that.

  7. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    And what happens when you hit someone else with the same vehicle? Or do you only aim for little cars?

  8. Re:what about the other 10% on New Brain Scans Can Spot PTSD · · Score: 1

    I understand the other measures, but how does checking out in the pharmacy make you less vulnerable to attack?

  9. Re:Hmm... on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mountain Dew, now enhanced with Vitamin Dew

  10. Re:4th amendment and the RIAA on RIAA Wants Limits On Net Neutrality So ISPs Can Police File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Civil war? When did that happen? I just never stay up with current events....

  11. Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    Right, and if you're using a protocol for data transmission sending packets of data, there would be no issue. If you treat the 8 wires in the cat 5 cable as separate signals, and don't use any protocol, it would be feasibly like receiving data from 8 out of sync sources. Kinda a stupid thing to do, but the audiophile world is kind of like that. I personally would send packets and reconstruct the data on the receiving end.

  12. Re:We need more ideas such as this on A Space Cannon That Might Actually Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think they'd need to tether it to something in a geosynchronous orbit.

  13. Re:Of course on Bing Gaining Market Share Faster · · Score: 3, Informative

    a bunch of Verizon blackberrys

  14. Re:Hm. It sure wouldn't hurt to update it a little on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    It still has pretty bad jaggys even over the component, since it does no AA and its only 720x480.

  15. Re:In the words of the great Ken Titus... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why conform, when the conformists are so fucked up?

    Because everyone else is doing it. Duh.

  16. Re:So... on Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense · · Score: 1

    Unless you're trying to make sure you won't be liable for talking to a child.

  17. Re:Simple... on Defining Useful Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    While it may not be "smart" coding utilizing "stored procedures" just for the sake of decoupling the database, it is smart when there is a call for complicated set logic which is much more efficient done in a stored procedure.

  18. Re:Well, it's open source, so fork it. on FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    I would imagine anything that makes it into Debian stable is pretty comparable, given the two years or so between Debian releases. Now if they're using Debian testing as a base, I would concede that its quite feasible that the code could be less stable than a FreeBSD based distro.

  19. Re:Windows 8.. on Microsoft To Switch Focus To Windows 8 In July 2010 · · Score: 1

    Or they realized that with new releases they can charge customers multiple times for the same software.

  20. Re:I for one... on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 1

    6.71316708 × 10^-28 meters.

  21. Re:I for one... on LHC Has First Collisions After Years of Waiting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you think, if somehow the sun were turned into a black hole, it would suck in the earth?

    How about if we turned a pound of bricks, or a pound of feathers into a black hole with the LHC?

    What's that? It would still only have the mass of a pound and not have the gravitational pull to suck 'everything' into it, outside of a radius of ~6.71316708 × 10^-28.

  22. Re:Why not? on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they gave it to him so he would feel bad about starting a war after getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

  23. Re:I read the article... on Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Intent, just like the difference between manslaughter and murder.

  24. Re:Penalties on Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior · · Score: 1

    Even if the patent is for clicking (once) to buy something?

  25. Re:Penalties on Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior · · Score: 1

    In this case however, what has MS disclosed that would encourage innovation?

    A patent was supposed to be for the case, "I have this neato machine that does X and Y, it uses this method M to do X and Y"

    So anyone else could see a machine that does X and Y, and build there own as long as it uses some other method of their own devising O to complete X and Y.

    A software patent is a case "I have this neato program that does X and Y on a computer"

    And the patent is for doing X and Y, not the implementation M. M is not disclosed. No one else is allowed to do X and Y.