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  1. Re:I wish this was the case in the UK on Full Disk Encryption Hard For Law Enforcement To Crack · · Score: 0

    Watson is watching....

  2. Re:Jump rope? on The Physics of Jump Rope · · Score: 0

    Skipping does not require a rope in of itself :P

  3. Re:coal? on Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s · · Score: 0

    You have to admit though it was genius to include the human digestive tract in the power system... slight discomfort for the pilot and stench aside its one of the more innovative solutions!

  4. Re:I hope not on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 0

    They are used to talking to us on tech support hotlines... what can you expect :/

  5. Re:Giant SUV's on DoT Grants $15M To Test Car-To-Car Communication · · Score: 0

    While admittedly I have done the same... I tend to maneuver myself into less populated areas of the road this either means speeding up a bit or slowing down a bit. Perhaps I should not have told you this as you too will now do it an join me in my safe zone..... I do not like you being in my safe zone maybe I should tailgate you so you will drive away.

  6. Re:Stacking RAM is not new. on Single-Chip DIMM To Replace Big Sticks of RAM · · Score: 0

    I fail to see how heat dissipation is better... you are increasing the density of the components not decreasing them which leads to there being more heat that has to be dissipated over a smaller area.

  7. Re:Yeah, and I am a Pony on Making Graphics In Games '100,000 Times' Better? · · Score: 0

    That is what the bump map is for.. it contains the additional depth data.

  8. Re:What the fsycke happened ? on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 0

    I beg to differ, I come from a family of six ... not to large by older standard were 10-14 was common. Lets assume my parents are intelligent and they are my father a BS in theology and my mother a BS in English nothing really held them back from going further it just wasn't practical or needed for our lives.

    That said I come from a family of 6 siblings. Being the oldest I nearly helped raise some of the younger ones consider that an early taste of real life experience. The younger ones talked and walked earlier than normal due to having siblings to talk and play with them. No they haven't proven themselves in life yet but there is lots of promise. I myself am currently completing my BSCpE degree. The sixth sibling is likely the most intelligent of all of us though only six at this time he can currently beat about anyone in the family at checkers and once I get a chance to teach him probably at chess as well. Also you sell yourself short with a small family what is life worth after all of you can't leave a legacy behind you not eveyone is cut out for a large family but alot are don't persecute them for that some people excel at being parents others at being the next Louis Pasteur.

    Now stop to consider some of the great geniuses of our history... and consider what if they had never been born then consider the fact that we have aborted millions of children in the past few decades. How many of them could have been our next hope at scientific advance for from poverty and adversity often arises the greatest hunger for betterment. If you disagree I point to all the CEOs we have these days that are little better than druggies the scientist that slack off once they get their grant and make up for it with little more than BS.

  9. Re:What the fsycke happened ? on For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution · · Score: 0

    You know I could switch your view point around to a creationist agenda and say most of the same words ... like evolutionist are holding back science. Or that find evolutionism frighting in the scientific community.
    However the fact is as far as science goes it matters little how we got here. The same scietific methods are or should be employied by both creationists, evolutionists and what have you, so stating that some ideological predisposal somehow makes me, a creationist baptist, unfit for science is complete nonsense.

    An evolutionist has a drive to understand the biological workings of life I believe to be fully equall to a creationist who revels in the discoveries for the complexities of God's creation. Sure, the motives are different but the result is the same solid science and facts are discovered, documented and published.

    If everyone wishes to continue jabbing each other in the eye over technicalities when the real issues are ignored like how our mathematics teachers in this country mostly suck, how our history teachers are poor historians, how our science teachers get bogged down with the ideological formalities of evolution vs creationism and forget to convey the basic facts of the scientific method... sigh well I hope you see my point and I am sure most of you do.

    I personally believe that schools should inform children so that when they grow up they are able to make decisions on thier own... brainwashing for or against creationism or evolutionism (notice that I call neither of them science as they are belief systems.... sure you can argue that evolution has basis in science however the odds IMO are stacked against it and there are very large gaps in the theory where you just have to believe things are one way or the other.... so I personally can't count it as scientific fact)

  10. randoms peoples emails? I want hardware docs! on LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal · · Score: 0

    Heh... I woudn't mind if someone hacked oracle and found these docs for me :P nobody cares enough to go through the legalese to release them. Kidding aside it wouldn't be proper and probably no SO would accept the code :-/ .

    If you are a Sun/Oracle engineer please, get me these docs! I woudn't even mind being under NDA myself as long as I could write BSD/GPL drivers for the hardware. Heh NDA on 20 year old hardware would be weird but whatever. http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home
    Leo Hardware Reference Manual (800-7216-10; June 1993)
    Leo Theory of Operation (800-7220-10; June 1993)

    I also wouldn't mind having Fujitsu AG-10E docs and binary drivers for both .... sigh.... I guess this is what turns some people to doing luzsec things they can't have any fun with whatever interests them so they join a "cause" ... not that I would hack anyone I just don't have any interest in that sort of hacking though no doubt my interesting old hardware and reverse engineering will lead to at least some understanding of that sort of things. Hey I may not get my

  11. Re:Games on Linux means the end of the MS Empire on Microsoft Brands WebGL a 'Harmful' Technology · · Score: 1

    Eh... RedHat is taking care of that bit..

  12. Re:Problem of perception? on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 0

    Javascript can peg a core.... I've had the XUL UI its self hang up on me before but I do tend to run the nightly versions. Heh I've seen firefox pop up a notice saying that script is taking too link well close it and you lose the ability to close tabs XD... sigh I thought it was comical anyway.

  13. Re:Where are the GUI designers going to realise... on KDE 4.7 – a First Look At Beta 1 · · Score: 0

    twm is mid 80's and that was a blatant troll ... lol seriously nobody uses twm.... on the other had FVWM2 isn't half bad and is highly customizable on top of using less memory than twm.

  14. sun4m i386 on Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy · · Score: -1

    ...I was disappointed it didn't say SPARC... very disappointed especially after sun4m got my hopes all up..

  15. Re:In other news.. on FSF Suggests That Google Free Gmail Javascript · · Score: 0

    Yes the sun is dying :C

  16. Re:9,000,000,000 on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 0

    Well we can already feed 18 billion for sure.... I mean everybody knows us american eat twice what we are worth.

  17. Re:And it's useless. No 64-bit support. on ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers · · Score: 0

    ARM chips almost always used embedded ram right on top of the chip package. So yeah.. they are going to probably have 2-4Gb per chip mounted in a POP (package on package format). Its definitely going to be a more NUMA like architecture the question is... will the separate processors share any memory at all or will they act completely separately.

  18. Re:Wrong logo on Pocket Wars and Cores · · Score: 0

    Intel XScale ... is ARM!

  19. Re:1.2GHz pretty standard on Google Nexus S Processor Overclocked To 1.2GHz · · Score: 0

    Well while you are heading in the right direction even that isn't entirely true... as ram isn't overclocked by overclocking the CPU so large programs that jump around alot won't see the speedup as much as smaller programs that are highly compute intensive. Also for emulation purposes like on the Pandora handheld .... the ram is probably the primary bottleneck as it isn't very fast at all and both the CPU and GPU share it.

  20. Bad title on Open Source After 12 Years · · Score: 1

    I nearly thought this was an annoucement of some 12 year old piece of software going opensource... which might acutally have been noteworthy. Open source is a much older concept than 15 years anyway for crying out loud the Linux kernel is older than that. GNU started in '83 and Linux in '91.... way before 12 years ago.

  21. Re:Adding a fix? on Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. · · Score: 0

    Well its kinda hard to read your whole post if only the first line was visible with no indicaiton there was any more too it... Thanks for the mod down... what was the point of that.

  22. Re:This Is Different, the Chinese Stealed Our Net! on Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. · · Score: 1

    Actually ipv6 is less environmentally friendly as it requires bits to be thrown back and forth to get the job done.... just like an 8-bit micro is better for some jobs than a 16 or 32 bit micro as the larger ones inherently consume more power. Oh right... Al Gore... carry on.

  23. Re:Adding a fix? on Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. · · Score: -1

    How do you not call a giant gaping hole... "not broke"?

  24. Re:why mastercard? on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 0

    They aren't breaking the law until proven guilty in a US court of law. Until then these companies are jumping the gun.

  25. Re:why mastercard? on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 0

    How is that... threaten to fire me?