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  1. Wait a minute on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 1

    I gave you a arms, hands, feet, ears, eyes, and most importantly a brain, and you want me to build your tools for you too?
    - God

  2. Re:Nostalgic on Games That Design Themselves · · Score: 1

    Go on.

  3. Kill button on 92% of Windows PCs Vulnerable To Zero-Day Attacks On Flash · · Score: 1

    Adobe should give a notification in their updater that their software is insecure, and give the option to disable it until the next patch. Quarantine is usually the immediate response to an outbreak before we have a suitable vaccine.

  4. That 2%: on Stock Market Manipulation By Millisecond Trading · · Score: 1

    That 2% that is screwing over the other 98% is known as the Federal Reserve. The Fed is responsible for jacking around with our money supply to create inflation. Apparently it's not enough that they steal our money by inflating it away; they add insult to injury by hitting us with capital gains tax.

    End the Fed!

  5. Jamming on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Anything that would attempt to jam a spread spectrum signal would need to emit a lot of radiation. Program the drone to shoot anything transmitting a lot of power, then fly away from the source. If it's airborne it would get shot down. If it's ground based and hardened, then flying away will restore communications.

  6. People do Not emit light! on People Emit Visible Light · · Score: 1
  7. Thanks for the link. on Astronomer Photographs Meteor Through Telescope · · Score: 1

    Just sent my nephews a pair of them :)

  8. Manned fighters are a joke on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The military nearly always gears up to fight the last war, not the next one. I'm waiting for an air to air combat drone that can kill Predators, etc. Once those are in the air there will be no manned fighters; their performance is utterly abysmal by comparison.

  9. Frozen on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So this might be the answer to reviving those people that have had themselves frozen instead of dying naturally? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
    Maybe we need to administer a big dose of this stuff before freezing them?

  10. Processing power on New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images · · Score: 1

    It would be easy enough to require an obscene amount of processing power to find the image. Simply run the image through an encryption algorithm 100 times. The end user could wait a few minutes to decrypt the image, but there's no way a website could do that.
    Another way to do it is to include a decryption key as a captcha in the image.

  11. 150k is excessive on 0 A.D. Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    After all, God wrote the universe in just 1 line of APL.

  12. who needs a subject anyways? on New MechWarrior Announced, MechWarrior4 To Be Distributed Free · · Score: 1

    Can we get this released on STEAM?

  13. They shouldn't control it. on Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why exactly does the ISP control DNS?
    Given the shenanigans the ISPs and governmental authorities have been up to the last few years, I say we need to rethink TCP. You see, we've been assuming all along that ISPs are not malicious. We need to start assuming they are malicious. The new TCP protocol should only assume that all socket level data is sensitive and therefore must be encrypted as to both its contents AND its destination. This implies traffic shaping, onion routing and a public key based DNS

  14. Wait a second on Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hold on a second. If the energy required to split urea into hydrogen is very small, you've just solved the hydrogen storage problem.

    Crack the urea on the fly to hydrogen and combust it down to water. What are the waste products of the electrolysis?

  15. What is this "Boot" you speak of? on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 1

    Why exactly should computers "boot" up? Computer systems should have states. We should be talking about stuff like state synchronization delay, or energy required to change state. "Save" and "Load" do not belong in computer terminology, only revision/branch.
    Every day at a random period of time 1/4 of the computers at Microsoft and Intel should shut off with no warning, and they should be mandated to not run UPS. 2 months after they implement that policy we'll have reliable, quick booting computers.

  16. Hmph on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 1

    I see your need for a huge amount of feedback and I raise you the the time wasted on a small MMO.

  17. Well, on Windows 7 "Not Much Faster" Than Vista · · Score: 1

    I dunno, but boy is it gonna be fast when it gets here!

  18. Plausible Deniability. on USB-Based NIC Torrents While Your PC Sleeps · · Score: 1

    Hook one of these up with solar power and *put it in an empty lot* near your house.
    Why Officer I wasn't seeding, see: my Bittorrent isn't seeding anything.

  19. Difficulty adjustment on BioShock 2 Interviews and Early Looks · · Score: 1

    Keep score, and multiply the score by the difficulty. Should both enhance replay value and reduce frustration.

  20. Hear Hear on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 1
    I vote for NET2-TCP-IP.

    Layer a new P2P style onion routed obfuscated and encrypted protocol over the existing TCP network. Don't even bother using DNS: re-implement DNS using some kind of voting scheme/web of trust.
    Let's put an end to all this leasing and snooping garbage once and for all!

  21. Really? on Yeast-Powered Fuel Cell Feeds On Human Blood · · Score: 1

    In this economy?

    Man I'd be all over a nuclear powered stomach so I could quit this disgusting Eating habit.

  22. Re:Solution - Subscription Service on Stardock, Microsoft Unveil Their Own New Anti-Piracy Methods · · Score: 1

    Cool, I'll take the Deluxe package: 19.95/month for every game in the library.

    I play any game they have, they distribute the money among the developers based on the percentage of time I spent on each.

  23. Windows 95's trial by fire on 10 OSes We Left Behind · · Score: 1

    Quoting Wikipedia instead of regaling us with tales of yore? Heresy!
    Both of you are correct btw. The reason we had so much trouble with viruses and worms suddenly deliverable by the internet was because of the aforementioned design flaws in Win95. It was unix' trial by fire in the universities that enabled it to deliver its very enviable reliability to Linux and OSX.
    Oh and we were using Windows for Workgroups (3.11) to connect up to the internet.

  24. You keep money in a bank account? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1
    I quit doing that a while back. I bought real money with those worthless paper fiat FRNs.

    Section 10 - Powers prohibited of States No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

  25. Hyperinflation _not_all_that_bad??? on Taxpayers Fund AIG Lawsuit Against US · · Score: 1
    What the heck are you smoking, I want some!
    Inflation is the continuous theft or taxation of everyone that owns or is owed money.
    What is egregious is that most people think that inflation is somehow natural.

    I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. - Thomas Jefferson