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  1. No Shit.. on Digital Photos Give Away a Camera's Make and Model · · Score: 1

    That data is obviously on any uploaded pic site. The only way around is a copy paste of that image into a new file.

    I just do not understand why it took a crack team of scientists to overstate the obvious... again.

  2. WARNING... on Feds Can Locate Cell Phones Without Telcos · · Score: 1

    Looks like we're going to need A LOT more tinfoil!

  3. It is that spot... on Pinpointing Creativity In the Brain · · Score: 3, Funny

    most surrounded by THC and alcohol. Very easy to pinpoint.

  4. "Trust..." on Some Schools Welcoming Patent Firm, Others Wary · · Score: 1

    "The primary ingredient in any relationship."
    -CJ, Dawn of the Dead

  5. Sued on A Replica of the First 4004 Calculator · · Score: 0

    He'll end up getting sued under a non-compete clause. It's all the rage in Silicon Valley.

  6. Re:And Blame Microsoft in... on French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, but just out of boredom. I can easily see Balmer shouting: "développeurs, développeurs, développeurs!"

  7. Re:Beyond limits on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    The RED system is geared towards that resolution projection. Final Cut Studio has been modified to edit native. There are a few projectors slated to be released to go along with it.

    James Cameron just shot and is editing Avatar in full resolution. There's a server farm dedicated to just this purpose.

  8. Beyond limits on RED's New Digital Stills and Motion Camera Pushing the Limits · · Score: 1

    There's currently nothing that can project the resolutions they're talking for the upper range.

    Beyond just the camera, a server farm will be needed to edit a full length movie just for the mid range.

    And... where does all that data get stored afterward?

    Legacy data?

    He's got a long history of incredible promises with this camera range but these logistical issues are just massive.

  9. Re:Generic Rhetoric Comment on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    Do we really adapt as well as any other species? We do not exercise any form of population control. We do not find balance with our environment. Our birth numbers actually increase in lean times.

    It would seem to me that we are entirely at odds with our environment. At least if you look at any other mammal.

  10. Re:Generic Rhetoric Comment on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most places will never be able to even consider buying other land. Nasheed has been running a program for a few years now to make his people viable transplants to new cultures. He knows they need new skill sets and will need to be highly adaptive to make this viable. He does not seem to think buying huge tracts of land will work. He even states in much of what I've seen that they'll eventually lose their culture and just be absorbed by the new nations they disperse into.

    (I'm uninformed on Bangladesh so I cannot comment on them specific.)

    Other places either wait for help (which will never arrive from the uninformed or the uncaring) or will be forced to just make a run for it at the last moment. Displaced refugees NEVER works. This proves out time and time again. Even the poorest of nations could start asking to allow very small groups to be allowed in now in an effort to begin a relocation program. Nasheed, when queried on keeping his people together, says that in 50 years he does not expect them to maintain much if any of their culture. He knows the idea of just displacing one group into another never works and is planning on blending his people in small increments.

    As for agreeing it's manmade, I'm still on the fence on that. Man-helped, no doubt. And should we carbon-whores pay into a sollution, yes we should. The people of nations like this are on the very low end of responsible. (But even the Maldives have concrete roads and cars!) But we've only walked erect a few million years. The face of this planet in that space of time has changed. In a billion years this planet's face has changed dramatically. So change is a constant. We just don't adapt as well as other species. We like finding blame and do not seem to flow well this type of change.

  11. Generic Rhetoric Comment on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd try to post some offbeat humorous comment, but I don't see a damn thing funny about this.

    I helped a photographer assemble footage for a piece he's doing about this. He's gone there and stayed with Mohamed Nasheed for a few years running. The place is small enough that everyone more or less knows everyone. From what I saw they are incredibly pragmatic and dignified about this. They don't want a handout but would like to bring the world's attention to it. There are dozens of similar smaller nations that will not have the luxury of money to perchance buy their way out of this. I suspect, when this reaches critical mass, money won't be much of factor anyway. I hope the entire world will be able to be as calm and dignified and take a cue from the way they're currently dealing with it.

  12. When mine crashed on The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives · · Score: 0, Redundant
  13. Re:Sheer genius on Windows 7 Benchmarks Show Little Improvement On Vista · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was done in an effort to illustrate the issue.

    -Approved by the Office of Redundancy Redundant Department

  14. I carry one... on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have an old defunct pager that still lights up when pressed. I keep it on my belt when I want people to think how important I am. Sometimes I'll bump the button so it lights up and I can then say: "They really need me, sorry but I have to go."

  15. Re:If by open... on Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform · · Score: 1

    I'll make sure I make that change when I write YOUR signature.

  16. If by open... on Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform · · Score: 5, Funny

    he means they'll track all my personal information and use it to their advantage... then count me in!

  17. Orwell Estate... on Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use · · Score: 3, Funny

    Orwell's Estate should sue this guy for copyright infringement. That'd teach him!

  18. Re:Break out the copy machines... on Microsoft Working On Its Own App Store · · Score: 1

    I should switch back from FF. Oh wait, it already does all this and so much more.

  19. Independent verification on LHC Forces Bookmaker To Lower Odds On the Existence of God · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, if there were a god and we were part of the creation an independent verification would have to come from outside this existence.

    Bizarro perhaps?

  20. Check HIS voting on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: -1, Troll

    It always seemed funny to me how no one ever talked about Obama voting (almost consistently) for increased military spending and increased Bush "security" laws.

    I don't think either one was a clear cut good choice.

    Eh, I guess you get what you pay for.

  21. Deep in the bowels of MSland.... on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 1, Interesting

    there's an entire division of people packing their desks up right now and going home.

    "We had a good run team." One of them says as they walk off into the sunset.

  22. Things like this... on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: -1, Troll

    When I read things such as this I like to take a moment to let the dumbfounded feeling wash over me.

    This is just not that important.

  23. THX-1138 on Depressed Astronauts Might Get Computerized Solace · · Score: 0

    "Yes, I understand.... can you be more... specific?"

  24. hybrid on Russian Regulators Block Google Online Advertising Acquisition · · Score: 0

    Actually I'd think the US and much of Europe is headed towards a hybrid of oligarchy and fascism. Very elite few grandfathered in not by a blood family line but by a CEO corporate grooming leading with an iron fist a totalitarian nationalist ideology.

    Perhaps we should name it... fascigarchy?

  25. Re:Kudos for the Russian regulators for... on Russian Regulators Block Google Online Advertising Acquisition · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sadly, all of the recent gov't events seem to point to a clear corporate ownership. The few who care are grossly outnumbered by the ignorant, the ones who don't care and the ones scared shitless.