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  1. Re:And who pays to keep it floating? on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    I know why these gov services are unnecessary, but I think you would explain it better than me to the rest of /.

  2. Re:Grandmother, eggs on Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself · · Score: 1

    I'm in my last year in HS, my specialty is physics, and I did not understand what the actual problem is. Could you please explain?

  3. Re:How were electric cars EVER supposed to work? on Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself · · Score: 1

    That won't be a problem, just contract the spetialsts the HFT industry employs.

  4. Re:if everyone is using off peak hours on Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself · · Score: 1

    Or, you could just put flywheels at the substation to balance on the grid level, and make things a lot simpler.

  5. Re:if everyone is using off peak hours on Smart Power Grid Could Wreak Havoc On Itself · · Score: 1

    Sigh. Anybody heard of LEDs?

  6. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    Side question: how old are you? I know this isn't OkCupid, but... *blush*

  7. Re:The Lord has Spoken on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    The KDE remix is more than solid, especially if you turn off the assorted pointless services. I fell in love with it, my 50 y.o. uses it and has no problems, yet in general, he has trouble with Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v.

  8. Re:Been like this awhile on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Window decorations can be composited on the application framebuffer, if necessary, Wayland does not preclude remoting architecturally, the required components haven't been implemented, please feel free to do so.

  9. Re:He's not the only one on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Sigh - I think it would be less work to reconfigure KDE to run and look like GNOME. Throw in some application skins, or simplified app UIs as compile time options, or even run time options. I think upstream would accept as long as you don't actually throw out anything, just put it behind an advanced button.

  10. Re:KDE v3.5.10. on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    Trinity desktop might interest you.

  11. Re:At least... on Apple's Unlikely Security Mentor: Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Hide the admin account - to turn it on, set a ROT13 named reg key, and type a cryptic command in the CLI. And make the UAC box require password for every little thing, with scary warnings and icons. And put a dark red tint on the background.

  12. Re:What's wrong with X11? on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Not if the IP change happens mid transfer. Though I think all these points are mute if SIP is adopted for a generic session layer protocol (long live OSI). It provides a consistent method for NAT traversal - ISPs and OEM only need to make sure that SIP works, the rest is a done deal. Not to mention that it would ease IPv6 migration, with a few DNS tweaks. Though it might partly duplicate UPnP HTTPU based port forwarding.

  13. Re:more importantly... on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    Beautiful. Any idea how to submit that to the W3C, or similar?

  14. Re:It'll never make it through FDA trials on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    Cut down working hours, increase minimum wage, increase resource efficiency via government pressure, and open up the borders. Done.

  15. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    This is OT, but I have to ask - what kind of damage does risperidone do to a 15 y.o. for 40 days, on an increasing dose starting from 0.5 mg and finishing at 1.5 mg (IIRC). This was to years ago, I just recently found out it wasn't as harmless as they made it out to me - and I'm scared to death. Please don't spare me details or terms - explain as you would to a future colleague. My specialty is physics, and I'm still in HS, but biology has been an old love of mine...

  16. Re:Still a better prognosis? on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    Female condoms are polyurethane, AFAIK.

  17. Re:What's wrong with X11? on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Cellular standards have their own IP transfer specs, for everything else - Mobile IP. Changing IP address on the fly? Hell that'll break HTTP, screw everything else.

  18. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    OK. Use RDP.

  19. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Actually the guys at the IETF are thinking of extending TCP with transparent encryption, independent of the application, because SSL is quite the headache at times.

  20. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    blip.tv Keith Packard X11 Wayland presentation @ linux.conf.au 2011 (Brisbane)See the presentation, then talk.

  21. Re:Faster loops on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    If you want bare metal, use Ada.

  22. Re:Ghostery FTW on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    There are appropriate Adblock Plus subscribtions that do the same thing.

  23. Re:more importantly... on Researchers Expose Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged · · Score: 1

    Per domain browser caching?

  24. Re:This "safety net problem" on Can a Playground Be Too Safe? · · Score: 1

    I guess most parents know very well they crapped up their job in the past (I'm all for licensed procreation), and are trying to compensate, though inadequately - by being protective - because they know full well they suck at everything else, but don't have the balls to educate themselves - or an irrational component of their mind has more control than it is supposed to. Putting it shortly - this whole planet is in heavy need of therapy.

  25. Re:Bend Over ... on Making Sense of the NoSQL Standouts · · Score: 1

    The "mess" seems like YAML to me. Not perfectly certain what it is - but I can parse it right now perfectly despite the two vodkas since the morning. What kind of shit are you on, anyway?