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  1. Re:Wow! on Homebrew Cray-1 · · Score: 1

    The S3E itself can be clocked internally at 300+ MHz. However, the maximum speed achievable depends on the architecture and layout of the circuit implemented. The maximum clock is dependent on the longest logic and routing delay through the circuit. Since the design is apparently a register for register copy of the original Cray architecture, the original ECL logic still has a speed advantage over the CMOS S3E.

  2. Re:so... on Prosecutor Loses Case For Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    In what way is the DSM-IV not an encyclopedia? It's put together by a committee of experts in the same way as an encyclopedia. Sure it's a "manual" but it's 900+ pages of manual. That's pretty encyclopedic to me.

  3. Re:The Sound Track on Robot Swarm Control On Microsoft's Surface · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Needs more cowbell.

  4. Re:Yea.. on Glibc Is Finally Free Software · · Score: 1

    He was too busy fuming over (non-GPL) gnuplot.

  5. Re:Power from the people on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 2, Informative

    More or less yes. You have to have justifiable cause and the details may vary by state but every citizen can make an arrest for a crime or even a planned crime. This is how police officers get their arresting power.

    There was a case a few years ago of an immigrant police officer who was found out not to have valid citizenship and that invalidated all of his arrests. He had been brought in illegally as a child and never became naturalized. The interesting twist is that he had been an MP in the US military for which you do not need to be a citizen to serve.

  6. Power from the people on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since police powers are an extension of the rights every citizen possesses it will naturally be legal for anyone to do this without permission.

  7. Re:Size doesn't matter on Canon Unveils 120-Megapixel Camera Sensor · · Score: 1

    It all depends on how you intend to display the pictures. For most consumer applications the megapixel battle is over. If the pictures are only going to be seen on a screen or printed to something small like 4x5s, any modern camera will suffice. With an 8MP camera I can get acceptable prints up to 8x10 with just the slightest pixelation visible under close scrutiny. I recently had to shoot a picture for a book cover that I wanted to wrap from both extremes front to back across 15.5". This results in a tolerable ~200dpi using an 8MP camera whereas 300dpi would be preferred. I had to be careful with framing the shots because I didn't have the luxury of cropping or rotating them afterward.

  8. Re:State-of-the-Art Swimming Pool? on Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's all well and good but at the end of the day this is a pool for high school students, not Olympic athletes. I wonder what the premium was for incorporating all the fancy design compared to a normal low tech pool.

  9. Re:no points on North Korea Looking For Friends On Facebook · · Score: 1

    North Korea will eventually collapse. It's too big to keep itself afloat like Cuba has managed to do. They also don't have nearly as many affluent friends as Cuba does. The SK push toward unification is an effort to keep tensions low in the face of the mass brainwashing the NK regime uses on its people. It will inevitably fall upon the South Koreans to do most of the heavy lifting in taking care of the people when the collapse happens, which is why they are taking steps now to plan for that eventuality.

  10. Elementary school horse trading on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    This isn't a very fair assessment since in elementary school there is typically a single teacher for each student. Unlike in High school, the teachers and administration have influence over how the students are allocated. Frequently the teachers who are the better disciplinarians get the problem kids who act up and, predictably, perform worse in their school work. These sort of statistics cast unfair aspersions onto teachers who may be very good at their jobs but are stuck with bad seeds.

  11. Re:There's still a hole. on Linux X.org Critical Security Flaw Silently Patched · · Score: 1

    The annoying thing when MIT-SHM is disabled (as is the default with Cygwin/X) is that you get annoying warning messages to stderr from remote applications that keep requesting it.

  12. Re:A biologist doesn't understand programming on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    The brain/mind is an emergent system that develops from a multitude of stochastic processes. Nobody really knows how it works. Computers are designed to be deterministic and only deviate under faulty conditions caused by human error or design flaws.

  13. Re:Logo on Geek Squad Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter To God Squad · · Score: 3, Informative

    Best Buy could do the right thing and still protect their trademark by offering to license his usage for a token fee like $1.

  14. Re:Martini on The Vending Machines of the Future · · Score: 1

    You'll probably want to stay away from the Calpis too. A look at their international site shows a regrettable graphic for their AmealPeptide product too.

  15. Re:There goes the Eternal September on Is AOL Finally Crashing and Burning? · · Score: 1

    Thank God. Usenet is finally safe to use again. Let's celebrate by resurrecting the dead skull of Jesus thread.

  16. Re:...and RIM capitulates. on Saudi Says RIM Deal Reached; BlackBerry OK, If We Can Read the Messages · · Score: 1

    The NSA would prefer that didn't happen.

  17. What if I'm not an administrator? on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't normally run as administrator on my computers. I have installed Firefox as an admin., though, and I must use that account for updates. This is slightly annoying with Firefox because I get update nag notifications under my user account which can't be used to perform the updates. I don't always want to go through the hassle of shutting down my current session and switching accounts for the latest update. I hope this new feature can be turned off to avoid additional problems with the update process.

  18. Perhaps a little cheese with that whine? on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every broadband provider has access to the modems connected to their network to perform maintenance and updates as necessary. It's part of the fine print you agreed to. If you didn't want them getting into your router configuration you should have changed the default password.

  19. Re:Wow! on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    proven drivetrain

    I wouldn't exactly call it proven. Let's see how it performs after a year up in Alaska and then another in the desert.

  20. Re:A decade too late. on Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star · · Score: 1

    Perl doesn't really need that so much as it needs all the cruft cleaned out. That should have been provided long ago.

  21. Re:Press release from EFF on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The DMCA only really applies when you distribute copies after circumventing copy protection. If you keep them to yourself, you are operating within the bounds of fair use and the legal protections for reverse engineering and interoperability. There is potential for instructions on how to do these tasks to be considered a form of contributory infringement (witness the status of DeCSS) but there isn't any precedent on that yet for the US.

  22. Re:ocr on Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs · · Score: 1

    MODI just leaves you with the text pulled out of context. ExactImage's hocr2pdf can merge the OCR'd text back into the original scanned pages to produce a PDF with searchable text and all the original formatting and images.

  23. Re:So what on SFLC Wants To Avoid Death by Code · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the case of avionics, there are rigorous design and testing standards for electronics, software, and mechanical hardware that are mandated by the FAA. Passing them is part of the certification process. This task can be handled in house or by third parties that specialize in that task. The medical industry should largely be applying the same principles.

  24. Re:How ironic on Open Source GSM Cracking Software Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Senators don't draft (or even read) 2000 page bills. Their corporate overlords have staff to take care of those pesky details.

  25. Re:How does it create a closed circuit? on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Most transmission lines carry AC. The magnetic field generated by the current can be inductively coupled to draw off usable energy. This won't work for a DC transmission line though.