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  1. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    per year.

  2. Re:Anecdotal on iPhone and Location: Don't Panic · · Score: 2

    They are - I worked as an intern at AT&T research one summer, and one of the other interns there was doing something with exactly this data. Of course, it was behind a few layers of security and could not leave the building, and even after all that the intern got only anonymized data, but it was definitely collected.

  3. Re:Wrong problem anyone? on The Hobbit Filming at 48fps · · Score: 1

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001149

    This was the beast that I had back then - beast as in huge and ugly, not beast as in awesome and powerful.

    120hz.

  4. Re:Wrong problem anyone? on The Hobbit Filming at 48fps · · Score: 2

    Gamers typically set their monitors to refresh at 125hz, if they can. I haven't been serious about gaming since the hey-day of CRTs, so I don't know what the current style is.

    But back in the day, we'd get CRTs that could refresh at 125hz and set the game's refresh rate to match.

  5. Re:Solving a different problem on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    This seems like nonsense, but it's hard to prove it since you left it severely under-described.

  6. Re:Explain why Science ASSUMES Evolution as true. on Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist · · Score: 2

    ...

  7. Re:What would the impacts of this be for cryptogra on Claimed Proof That P != NP · · Score: 1

    In fact, there is a very famous algorithm that can be used with a quantum computer that factors integers in polynomial time. QP != NP.

  8. In other news, on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Government shuts down one private website.

  9. Re:Interesting applications on The Mouse Vanishes · · Score: 1

    Because projecting one 2-D representation (the hand on the camera screen) onto another (the computer screen) is much easier than projecting one 2-D representation onto a 3-D representation.

  10. Re:Zapp Brannigan's Reporting Strategy on Apple Censors Consumer Report iPhone4 Discussions · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's because the government had it taken out.

  11. Re:Who's taking care of ordinary folk's business? on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 1

    Supposedly that is the job of congressmen and senators. They are elected by Joe Six Pack et al and are, as such, beholden to them.

    Now, let's see how long I can keep a straight face.

  12. Re:Official Notice and Explanation on Google To End Google.cn Redirect · · Score: 1

    It's a tendency that gets bred out of the population, by and large.

  13. Re:Principles of Restricted Choice on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    What is the difference between parallel universes existing, and reality acting as if they do?

  14. Re:What's counterintuitive about it? on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    Just because you don't care about birth order doesn't mean it is irrelevant to the likelihoods.

  15. Bayes' rule on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    P(A|B)P(B) = P(B|A)P(A)

  16. Re:Wait a sec on Best Way To Publish an "Indie" Research Paper? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right.

    Also journal papers are usually much longer than conference papers. Conference papers are often limited to 8-10 pages, while journal papers typically have no hard restriction, and are often 40 pages long.

    It is very common to submit a "journal version" of a previous conference paper.

  17. The only thing more annoying than an Apple Fanboy on iPad Left Vulnerable After Record iPhone Patch Job · · Score: -1, Troll

    is an Apple fanboy hater. Get over yourself.

  18. Re:Speaking of Bouncing Balls... on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1

    We've got some native English(tm) speakers.

  19. Re:That kind of thinking... on Parallel Programming For the Arduino · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Arduinos are allowed to have security holes.

  20. Re:He Won! on The South Carolina Primary and Voting Machine Fraud · · Score: 0, Troll

    I interpreted PDS as to be the affliction tormenting those who are so deranged as to think that Palin is anything other than an idiot.

  21. Re:Cue in fucktard sopssa trolling in 3, 2, 1, ... on Apple iAd Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First, reading comprehension. He didn't say that Apple doesn't invest in R&D. He just stated some assumption about what Microsoft does, and said "Apple does nothing like that." I think that statement is probably false, and probably a troll, but what you said is demonstrably false. And a troll :)

    Second, don't be a jackass.

  22. poor use of "or" on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Window 7 the way forward?"

    Uh... yes? no?

    The OR version of "or" that computer scientists creates a question for which the answer provides little relevant information. The XOR version of "or" that is the popular meaning in spoken english has similar problems.

  23. Re:what has the university to do with it? on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 1

    No idea? Why don't you tell us. Is the answer one, and one?

  24. Re:what has the university to do with it? on University Networks Block Student Project · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There is a University College that is part of Rutgers University. "University" and "College" are both words. They have meaning.

  25. It astounds me on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That this isn't done everywhere. With all the red light cameras everywhere (for safety), you'd think they could put a few out there that would make it so I don't spend 3 minutes every morning staring at an empty intersection.