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  1. Re:List of Obama appointees who've had to withdraw on FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices · · Score: 1

    You forgot Hillary and Whitewater didn't you?

  2. Re:LOL, yeah on Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires · · Score: 1

    Would a spark-gap transmitter as a wideband jammer work though?

  3. Re:Not a bug on Apps That Rely On Ext3's Commit Interval May Lose Data In Ext4 · · Score: 1

    Not writing software properly on all fronts to my mind.

    A program writing a crapload of small files is just asking for major performance problems. KDE should not have been written like that.

    A minute or more is an INSANE amount of time to delay a write, in failure it just makes things that much worse. The writers of EXT4 should have been giving this serious thought.

    And the highest heresy: The 'nix attitude of "Lets just put it in a little text file" for every stinkin thing is a great deal to blame for both of these. If almost all configuration wasn't in dozens of little text files the startup process wouldn't be anywhere near that complex for KDE. If programs didn't go and write tons of teeny-tiny text files all the time in 'nix systems there wouldn't have been such a drastic speedup to motivate the EXT4 developers to make such a large buffer.

  4. Re:Inertial confinement vs. magnetic confinement on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 1

    Which brings up the very good question: Where the heck is our equivalent of ITER?

  5. Re:Energy Independence on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you've got shedloads of energy, distillation is a pretty cheap and simple technology.

  6. Re:Useless Information on Audio Watermarks Could Pinpoint Film Pirates By Seat · · Score: 1

    There's a flaw to your plan. More subtle watermarks are easier to remove. In fact they quite likely won't survive the lossy compression in the codec!

  7. Re:Their Dark Intentions Remain on UK Government To Back Off Plans To Share Private Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps it's time for people to refuse to call them anything but Ingsoc as a form of protest.

  8. Re:Digital broadcast on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    Better yet on Roku so you're only paying 2 subscriptions (net and netflix) instead of 3 (net, netflix, and XBL Gold). Did I mention the box is dirt cheap?

  9. Re:Digital broadcast on Why TV Lost · · Score: 1

    That's only 40% more range on a signal with serious range degradation. Unless I flubbed my math.

  10. Re:Boxee is not like RSS in a browser on Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back · · Score: 1

    Hulu doesn't want to block anything. It's the backers with the strings on the content who've gone stupid (though not really very suddenly, they just returned closer to their ground state of being complete morons).

  11. Re:It could be worse on Symantec Support Gone Rogue? · · Score: 1

    If they were McAffee/Computer Associates/CA/whatever they're called this month they'd have the option of telling people to run Stinger. As it is I'm not sure they have an option other than telling someone to transplant the disk into a non-infected system to kill the viruses without running them.

  12. Re:Reality on Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 · · Score: 1

    I'd guess any string on a given fret maps to that button and any and all strings strummed maps to the strum bar. There by a real chord of some sort could actually map to something in Guitar hero although there would be several different chords that would map the same way.

  13. Re:There is a good reason for this ... on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Who can't make up their mind on the number of kingdoms.

  14. Re:There is a good reason for this ... on Illinois Declares Pluto a Planet · · Score: 1

    Actually the difference is that K-12 buy the books, while college/university makes the student buy the books. It's amazing how much more fiscal responsibility there is when it's the local government's budget at stake.

  15. Re:5k fine, 1.8M in profits on UK Company Sold Workers' Secret Data · · Score: 1

    If it's the same small statutory fine, they could just pay it and keep going. It's not like this data is a product they're selling, this data is just a small HR cost with potentially large abusive rewards.

  16. Re:Physical is still the best bandwidth on How Much Longer Will Physical Game Distribution Survive? · · Score: 1

    Yup. If I remember good old Phantasmagoria had something like 7 cds.

  17. Re:Piracy? What Piracy? on Nintendo Asks For Government Help To Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually we're getting one Diablo and 3 3rds of a Starcraft game last I heard.

  18. Re:Still not..... on A New Way To Produce Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    As a substitution reaction do we need to start worrying about heat? After all thermite is a substitution reaction not much different.

  19. Re:How come it's only in Japan on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 1

    That's why they've got the lenses mounted sideways in a 3/4in barrel that doubles as the hinge. It's not like the lenses need to be much bigger for the tiny sensors non-DSLR cameras use.

  20. Re:The assumption here on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The criminal justice system?

  21. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    Ummm.... Isn't peak load usually after sunset?

  22. Re:Call him Monkey Boy all you want on Sony Makes It Hard To Develop For the PS3 On Purpose · · Score: 1

    Precisely. NES came directly after an industry collapse that took out most of their competition for them. They were virtually guaranteed success that success meant more developers hacking at the hardware to eek out more power.

  23. Re:Slow news day? on Face Recognition — Clever Or Just Plain Creepy? · · Score: 1

    Actually it's a very poor choice of identifier for the application. You don't necessarily know the email of everyone in your pictures. You're much more likely to know their name or at least something to call them by. Even if it's "spiky hair guy".

  24. Re:How come it's only in Japan on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Actually from what little I've seen Japan actually gets some camera phones with non-shit lenses. Something utterly unheard of in the US.

  25. Re:I'm unimpressed. on Sony Blu-spec CD Format Detailed, Hits Stores · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but don't CD's have some ridiculous amounts of error correction already?