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  1. Re:Peltier Effect on Intel Develops Micro-Refrigerator To Cool Chips · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The idea isn't to remove the heat from the chip, the idea is to remove the heat from this ONE SPOT on the chip.
    Basically they are trying to keep the core cooler, and dump heat to the transfer plate more effectively.

  2. Re:Welcome to the Age of Bayes on The Perils of Simplifying Risk To a Single Number · · Score: 1

    Not really, it just becomes calculus instead of linear equations. Anything can be modeled, so long as you know enough of the rules, and weights. Even including data that is directly affected by the model itself.

  3. Re:Yes! Absolutely not! on ACM Urges Obama To Include CS In K-12 Core · · Score: 1

    I hear you. Best trick I ever accomplished was a TCP/IP stack in QBasic found while bored in Computer 101. Had a 3D pong game set up with another computer across the room. When we got caught, I got an A for writing it, and a pass from all homework.

  4. Re:yeah great idea. on Using Speed Cameras To Send Tickets To Your Enemies · · Score: 1

    Borodin: Do you think they will let me live in Montana?
    Capt. Ramius: I would think they'll let you live wherever you want.
    Borodin: Good. Then I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman, and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pick-up truck, or umm... possibly even...a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
    Capt. Ramius: Oh yes.
    Borodin: No papers?
    Capt. Ramius: No papers. State-to-state.

  5. Re:Negative headlines sell better on What the Papers Don't Say About Vaccines · · Score: 1

    Except by weaker form of the virus, you mean a non viable analog of the protein coat, and not surprisingly, a lack of viable viral DNA/RNA? I mean we wouldn't want to infect someone with that which we are saving them from, right? Its not like this is the 1800s and we're injecting people with Cow Pox.

  6. Re:Public transport on Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes because this is working great for rural areas which do not show profit for secondary companies.... oh wait. It's called a natural monopoly for a reason. Treating connectivity like the highway system is EXACTLY what we need, not cherry picked competition.

  7. Re:Where is Intel in all of this? on Internal Emails Released In Vista Capable Debacle · · Score: 1

    Who else are they going to do business with? AMD? NVidia? Neither have the fab capability to do anything on this scale, and the other alternatives have even bigger issues.

    Heck NVidia just *abandonded* the IG market, that should illustrate it right there, people don't care about capability in IGs, they just want it to boot a desktop. In short, Microsoft really designed an OS that was not capable of running on current budget hardware, and then fibbed on the minimum requirements in order to make a sale / hold their dominance. And that is the basis of the suit.

  8. Re:Summary for non-engineers on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    That is the point, they were trying to test if the mic would still work while the device was active. Shocker that the mic won't work when it's trying to whisper over the local RF boombox that is the local TV station. Google is calling fowl on that, allegedly.

  9. Re:DynDNS on Best DNS Service With API Access? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sorry but you clearly read and understood the limitations, and then proceeded to completely ignore them in design. This was completely your fault, and blaming the company for it just proves how incompetent/irresponsible you are. I hope I never have the misfortune of any of my systems depending on you.

  10. Re:Holy crap. on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 1

    Actually it is exactly the boy crying wolf that causes those systems to fail. Had the stock actually permanently crashed, those stop loss systems did exactly what they are designed for.

  11. Re:Why on Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers · · Score: 1

    Unless someone disputes a charge... It's not all about the consumer, you have to look at the needs of the supplier as well.

  12. Re:Dear RIAA, MPAA, etc... on Fair Use Must Be Considered In DMCA Notices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This includes, but is not limited to:

    • Complete respect of the Fair Use Doctrine, and no further attempts to legally and/or technologically narrow it's scope
    • An immediate end and repeal of all laws extending the length of copyright ad infinitum

    Fixed that for you

  13. Re:Minimum Age on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    She didn't win despite her age, she won in part *due* to her age

  14. Re:Pirated from Salon, for your elucidation on RIAA 'Elektra V. Barker' Case Is Settled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or eventually, she just needs to eat. This *is* Courtney Love we're talking about, not U2. Sometimes ideals take a back seat to being able to maintain your lifestyle.

  15. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Everquest was considered well recieved and a huge hit at its time, and WoW has out sold it by a factor of about 15x now. While totally unrelated, I use this to point out judgement of scale and the fact that you cannot predict alternate cases accurately. You'll never know what it would have been without a component without a true control case, everything else is intelectual masturbation (blind speculation). A publisher can claim that it did not impact sales, and a publisher can also claim that massive piracy is destroying its industry (music now), its still blind speculation without an actual equal test case, and just as valid.

  16. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    I will personally state that your DRM lost you (and them) profit due to DRM in at least my potential sale. I refuse to buy products that require a CD to use.

  17. Re:Can Someone Please Speak English? on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 1

    It still wouldn't have been a big problem if the work was truly innovative, and by the spirit of the patent system, they actually LISCENSED their patents in good faith, instead of only using them to extort money on the backend or create product monopolies artificially.

  18. Re:DNS Glue poisoning was already known... on Attack Code Published For DNS Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, it's already as strict as it can be and still exist and it is still vulnerable coupled with another attack. Go read the brief again.

  19. Re:Love the lack of Windows support ! on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Love the lack of Windows support ! on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1

    Unless you need partitioning support.

  21. Re:Reduce your cell-phone taxes -- switch zip code on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 3, Informative

    This would be illegal in several jurisdictions. Just hope you never get caught doing that.

  22. Re:I hate AT&T on Real-World 3G Monthly Cost With Taxes and Fees? · · Score: 1

    Generally its not the RBOCs that clean up on the USF slush fund, but the small to medium independents.

  23. Re:configs are not written to flash, eh? on The Inside Story On the San Francisco Network Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Or the configs could be loaded from TFTP...

  24. Re:When we start on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing justice and retribution. The former is definately served by making him a contributing member of society with his talents. The latter is just the feeling you get for beating a dog with a stick for doing something wrong.

  25. Re:How about *asking* the user if they want to sha on Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    I didn't specify financial compensation. Compensation is judged by the group receiving it, and the point of the OP was that there isn't any real viewed "worth" to the current offering of a polite thank you.

    If you want something from your users, and you are not happy with the participation, then perhaps it isn't your users which are the problem, but instead the compensation that you are offering them for their time is not sufficient to motivate response.