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  1. For What? on Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? · · Score: 2

    Who is this for?

    With only 4-8gb of flash I can't think of who this is for?

    Mid-range consumer desktops/laptops?

    Really with such little cache you might as well just add more ram.

    Wouldn't even dream of putting one of these in a server. It's a shame linux doesn't have L2ARC support and it would be nice if there was a drop in hardware equivalent.

  2. Re:Something disrupt the term "disruptive", please on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    How about game changer?

  3. Empty Never Means Empty on Hacking the Nissan Leaf EV · · Score: 2

    Gas powered cars still go many miles after the gas gauge hits empty. A fuel gauge reading empty is suppose to tell you "Fill up as soon as possible" not tell you need to get out and push.

  4. Re:P2P? on London Needs 70,000 Cells For 4G · · Score: 1

    Latency, many other reasons..

  5. Re:If Google is a monopoly, so is Coca-Cola on Google Accused of "Cooking" Search Results and Charging MSFT Too Much · · Score: 1

    Google is a near monopoly when it comes to online advertising, they get most of the US search traffic. They bought out Double Click, Ad Mob, and others. If you want to do any serious advertising online you have to deal with Google. You have to pay what they want and play by their rules (which can be quite akin to voodoo if you've ever had the misfortune of attempting it)

  6. Re:Satellites? on Pakistan Bans Encryption · · Score: 1

    I still haven't found an answer to how dictators prevent satellite internet connections

    They look for the dish on your roof.

  7. Re:Texas Police Are Pretty Bad on When Schools Are the Police · · Score: 1

    IANAL, and I believe it varies state to state, but if you notice "duty to retreat" refers to the use of "deadly force", a gun, knife, club, etc.

    I believe fist fights are treated differently.

    The issue here was that the person who was supposedly the aggressor was only 14. Assaulting a minor is taken quite seriously and is a more serious charge than assault. Many minors are aware of this and not afraid to use it to their advantage (not saying its an epidemic but it happens). If you were attacked by a minor, or group of minors, its pretty much a lose - lose situation.

  8. Re:Outsourcing on Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US · · Score: 1

    The difference between outsourcing to machines and outsourcing to foreigners is you own the machines, while the foreigners have their own machines and can do with them as they wish. Including but not limited to making their own version of your product.

    Whoever owns the means of production (the machines) has all the power.

  9. Re:Clancy? on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    I believe that was a laser, some of which cause permanent blindness.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZM-87

  10. Re:When this happens to the US or its allies on New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    We were talking about Iran, not China...

    Iran doesn't even have nukes yet..

    Any country attempting to smuggle a nuke in a cargo container would risk war if they were found out.

    And missiles are still important, sure you could smuggle a nuke into port citys, but the retaliatory strike could lay waist to ALL your cities in MINUTES.

    Yes, the USA came apart after 9/11, I was quite surprised to see how scared and panicked everyone was at the time and still is. Sure a country would be wise to use that against us, but again we were talking about Iran and their capabilities.

  11. Re:When this happens to the US or its allies on New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    And that's assuming the US doesn't use nukes - if it did, I give it about an hour before it becomes the Islamic Cinder Pile of Iran.

    And if Iran (or supporters) use nukes?

    How many do they have? How big are they? What kind of delivery systems do they have? Can they launch them before their country is destroyed?

    I dont think they or they're supporters have any significant capability.

    Of course engaging in nuclear war with Iran would be completely unnecessary and morally reprehensible.

  12. Re:I have to say I'm impressed on New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    2) This is much, much preferable to Israel bombing (or even nuking) bits of Iran. Shutting down their nuclear bomb program this way is far better - of course it also lets the cat out of the bag.

    Much preferable, but much less effective.

  13. a drink and a sandwich on Extinct Mammoth, Coming To a Zoo Near You · · Score: 1

    Who knows maybe Mammoths are really tasty?

  14. Sounds good but.. on Program Uses GPS To Track Sex Offenders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While 1000ft exclusion zones around schools, parks, playgrounds, daycares etc sound like a reasonable idea to most people I've always wondered how difficult it must be to actually go places and obey them.

    There are so many schools, etc in most populated areas how is someone supposed to get from one side of town to the next without coming within 1000ft of a schools property? Do they distribute maps? Obeying something like this would require so much effort that I doubt anyone who actually attempted it would be successful.

    The local news here once ran a story that 90% of sex offenders live within 1000ft of a bus stop. Makes a great sensationalist story, but I would bet that 90% of all people live close to a bus stop.

    Obviously some sex offenders need to be kept away from children, but other than forcing them to live in the middle of nowhere I don't see an easy solution.

    And these aren't the only people exclusion zones are applied to, they are also used against people carrying drugs or guns, of course most people completely ignore this unless they are unfortunate enough to get stopped in front of an elementary school with a little marijuana.

  15. Re:Does this mean.... on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: 1

    Have you ever run a successful content site?

    Craigslists phone verification isnt manual, and such a system is probably out of reach for most smaller sites. Isnt craigslist full of spam anyway?

    Verifying accounts manually is rarely economically viable. Making users jump through hoops discourages people from joining your site.

    I've got a site with 110,000 registered users. Manually verifying all 110,000 of them would have been a waste of hundreds of hours (at least) of my time which could have been better spent working on something actually productive, some spammers would have still gotten through, and I'd have lost members who were too impatient to wait the several hours at best average account approval time. And what if I want a day off, or a week off?

    The most efficient way to deal with spam is to use some sort of automatic account verification (email, captcha, phone), have some custom filters to detect common spam methods (like trying to post a link in the first message upon joining), and then deleting/banning the spammers that get through.

    This is what all successful websites do, because it is currently the best solution.

  16. Re:Does this mean.... on Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As long as its not you spending the entire day verifying user accounts for almost no money right? How does one manually verify that an account isn't intended to be a spam account anyway?
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  17. Re:Amazing... on Seller of Counterfeit Video Games Gets 30 Months · · Score: 1

    FTFA: He was sentenced to six months each for the mail fraud and copyright infringement crimes and an additional 24 months for the aggravated identity theft.

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  18. Re:Yay! on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    > China is catching up on us fast. They're building aircraft carriers, fighters, you name it.

    Using our own money, no less!

    and technology...

  19. Re:Yay! on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    China is catching up on us fast. They're building aircraft carriers, fighters, you name it.
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  20. Re:It is all about resolution on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Extra polygons and memory would give you bigger maps and farther draw distances, you dont need higher resolutions to see that.
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  21. Re:It is all about resolution on The 5-Year Console Cycle Is Dead · · Score: 0

    Its not all about resolution.

    What about polygon count, and memory size?
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  22. Re:No, just no.. on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure its a good thing. There are a lot of guidelines. You can quote wiki guidelines all day, back and forth. Its almost worse than going to court.

    I'm convinced someone who knew the guidelines well enough could charge money to argue on wikipedia on others behalf.
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  23. Re:No, just no.. on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    I know, you practically have to be a "WP lawyer" to argue anything.

    I imagine companies hiring people to argue "WP law" on the discussion pages one day.
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  24. Almost there on Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Compared to normal spider silk, it's not as strong," said Malcolm Fraser, a scientist from the University of Notre Dame. "But we are confident that, this being our first attempt, that we will be able to tweak the system to bring the system closer to the strength of true spider silk."
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  25. Re:British Power Supply on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    Usually when you invade you knock out the enemies power before you go in.

    The airforce was interested in this: mit plane that lands on a wire

    But thats something youd use before the war starts or in the ensuing insurgency.
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