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  1. Re:Hope it has GigE. on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound right to me, your movie would have to be about 90 GB (at 2 hours) to saturate that bandwidth. 100Mb/s*7200s /8[b/B] =90GB. Am I missing something?

  2. Re:If they're going literal.... on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    In your example the problem is not so much this law as it is cannabis prohibition.

  3. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Was that blue nightlight canary shaped?

  4. "Fourth-world internet service" is that how Mother boxes communicate with each other?

  5. Re:1st hand experience on CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories · · Score: 1

    I found that SOP with Comcast is to renegotiate the cost every 6 months or when ever their "deal" expires. It's a pain but it will save you quite a bit of money.

  6. Re:begs FFS on Entire South Korean Space Programme Shuts Down As Sole Astronaut Quits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not evolution it's erosion, we are losing the original meaning and gaining nothing.

  7. Re:You know what? Screw them. on Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia · · Score: 0

    It appears you have no idea what 1st, 2nd, and 3rd world means. It is a cold war relic that refers to alignment not development. 1st world: USA, UK, etc, 2nd world: USSR and China, and 3rd world was everyone else that didn't pick a side.

  8. Re:Look to the future on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 2

    It can stay in sunlight if the axis of the orbit is pointed at the sun. I'm not sure what it would take to maintain such an orientation year round though.

  9. Re:Old news. on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Heat pipes are a little different as they rely on a phase change of some internal liquid.

  10. Re:Is this an achievement? on Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon · · Score: 1

    Babies and boats don't have 7 meter umbilicals attached to what is basically an underwater sail.

  11. Re:Is this an achievement? on Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon · · Score: 1

    The thing of note here is that this vehicle is half surface and half submersible. There is the top section that is mostly a surfboard with solar panels and a bottom section that hangs down about 7m and has a bunch of wings on it. So the fact that it didn't get torn apart or tangled up is impressive.

  12. Re:Distinct DNA on U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to draw the line, but "Can it suffer?" is just as much a grey zone as the DNA one, as any stressing factor can construe suffering. A plant suffers from lack of water, a bacterium suffers in too low a pH, I suffer if I don't have coffee in the morning.

  13. Re:There goes Google on Canadian Court Orders Google To Remove Websites From Its Global Index · · Score: 1

    Then you find it using a different search engine. It just shows why the way they implement "right to be forgotten" doesn't make sense.

  14. Re:As an OS, sure, as a UI, no on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The most glaring example of this to me is the default setting of "hide extensions for known file types". I think it first showed up in XP, but why would you ever want that turned on?

  15. Re:No Benedict Cumberbatch? on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    "Yes he is playing a blue skinned admiral, but he is definitely not Thrawn"

  16. Re:so? on Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    I've heard it was more about avoiding any emotional attachments, and seeing as this is an important part of parenting the two don't go together very well.

  17. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I'd rather be beat up and robbed than shot and robbed.

  18. Re:Did Fluke request this? on $30K Worth of Multimeters Must Be Destroyed Because They're Yellow · · Score: 1

    Why is it listed as a coffee maker?

  19. Re:three responses on Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests · · Score: 1

    The dog's sniffing around isn't even considered a "search" so it can't be illegal. Now the cop just has to claim the dog looked at him he right way and they can tear your car apart.

  20. Re:Please fix the Micro-USB orientation standard on Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC · · Score: 2

    Already done, the next version is reversible.

  21. Re:Flat like a shell. on Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram · · Score: 1

    Does turtle prime disrupt the whole stack with a mighty smack of its flipper?

  22. Re:Maybe the Patent Office will notice on JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' · · Score: 1

    Gritcoins?

  23. Re:Hitchhiker's Guide on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 4, Informative

    But the books aren't even the original story, the radio program was. That's one of the best things about H2G2, in each of it's incarnations it starts the same way but the plot eventually diverges.

  24. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Monterey, CA did it a little while back. One nice side effect I've noticed is less light pollution compared to the presidio which didn't change their lights. No idea about the cost savings though.

  25. Re:Redundant keys on Bill Gates Acknowledges Ctrl+Alt+Del Was a Mistake · · Score: 1

    I often use it to get spell check results without moving a hand to the mouse, though it doesn't seem to show them in this text box (using Chrome).