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  1. Re:Discovery? . . . Or Invention. on HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor? · · Score: 1

    Except that the inventor's get no benefit from this patent, it being the property of HP.

    The fiction of the corporation as a legal person pretty well robs the patent system of it's utility
    as an incentive to individual inventors.

  2. Re:Wires, wiring (doomsayers will rise again!) on HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor? · · Score: 1

    And what would those proteins be called, perchance? Dare I say "nano-scale assemblers"?

  3. Re:Have you ever smelled a dog's ass? on HP's Crossbar Latch... Next-Gen Transistor? · · Score: 1

    Moderators, please get on the ball. This one should be pegging the meters. I mean, did *you* ever consider the issue before? Democracy depends on nurturing such contributions to public discourse. Remember: If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

  4. Re:Interesting point on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    > I'd never seen something like it in N.Am.

    Well, the V.C. were wily S.O.B.s, but not so high tech as all that. Dung and bamboo was more their style.

  5. Re:The More Appropriate Question... on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    A truly evil and clever car won't give itself away with trite jests. It will just wait until you're crusing over a causeway and lock up one of the front wheels for fun.

    Putting computers in cars is about as smart as giving control of the government to an idiotic madman.

  6. time to get over it on Carbon Dating & The Shroud of Turin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the british museum's dating was patheticly incompetent, failing to account for the role of accumulating bioplastic coating on the fibers, the preservation of the shroud in oil during the late renaissance, and now, as has been demonstrated by use of other dating methods, the selection of repair materials for the dating. the only reason it was ever accepted was that it's results were pleasing to the rejectionist viewpoint.

    vanillin decay products demonstrate that the shroud is composed of materials of two distinct periods, one consistent with it's documented provenance (to the 13th century), and one consistent with its physical characteristics (1000 BC to 700AD).

    given that it is the only proposed physical artifact of a pivotal event in human history, with profound import, compentent pursuit of an accurate and factual account of its characteristics is a very worthwhile endeavour, and entirely undeserving of the deceitful mockery of the poster.

  7. other interesting intel trademarks on New Intel Trademark Filed · · Score: 1


    The original poster seems to have missed other
    interesting trademark options being held open
    such as "Intel Inside F00F" and "Intel F00F".

  8. 400K bit broadband to become available in UK on 8Mbit Broadband to Become Available in the UK · · Score: 1

    The useful bandwidth is the symmetric part.
    The rest is deceitful advertising.

  9. Re:One button mouse flamage here on Will Mac mini Lead the Charge to Smaller Desktops? · · Score: 1

    At least 8 out of 9 mac users I know do exactly what I do when I get a new mac: Throw away the crappy one-button mouse, and get a nice 4-button scroll-wheel model. The productivity increase is great all-around, sure, but now that OSX supports X11 programs, there's no way you can operate some of those without chording support.

  10. Re:For those who have RTFA issues... on MS To Limit Security Fixes to Legal Copies of Windows · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This will last about a week. After that, with each security patch released, a new flock of botnet worms will descend on the vast majority of unpatched windows computers, and headlines will be screaming about how windows security vulnerabilities are destroying the Internet. Steve will then repent.

  11. Re:Even worse is anonymous harrasment over PSTN on P2P Meets PSTN, With Bellster · · Score: 1

    of course the solution is to keep records of the calls through *. when the police come, you give them the records.

  12. Re:Gamma is not linear on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    momentum.

  13. Re:Become your own grandpa on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    Man, I sure wish you were the guy responsible for handing out the Nobel prizes -- assuming I'm first in the line, that is.

  14. Re:Such precision? on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    All of which is invalid if uniform constant expansion is not the sole explanation for baseline redshift.

  15. Re:Thanks for the link. Now what about... on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The naive use of redshift as a universal yardstick of distance, predicated on uniform expansion, must end before it does more damage to our understanding of the universe. There are quasars with redshifts on the order of 0.2 obscuring more distant galaxies with redshift on the order of 0.1. It's just not a reliable measure of distance.

  16. Re:wow on How Do 'Singing Magnets' Work? · · Score: 1

    Funny. My wife asked me that same question recently. I can now confidently answer: Yes! But waxing is even better.

  17. Re:What was the mistake? on Sony Admits MP3 Error · · Score: 1

    Soon everything else will be trademarked, and you'll have no choice.

  18. Re:Money is bad on Big Money Comes Out for the Inauguration · · Score: 1

    "Buy a Dell, go to hell"

    Looks like I'll be spec'ing HP boxen going forward.

  19. Re:MMOG obviously. on Ex-Lover Deletes MMOG Character · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, not everyone can get respect as a person.
    I'm content to be a wallet with no sperm left
    at the end of the day.

  20. Re:sip? iax? on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but Skype is the only voip provider that has a free softphone that Just Works cross-platform.
    And offers an API.

  21. Re:Beware of Skype's third party apps on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    No. Read the EULA please.

    Skype is not a trojan horse. There's plenty of money to be made on the for-fee POTS dialout, thank you.

  22. Re:Supernodes? on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    > I'd really like to hear how...

    Simultaneous SYN.

    Skype does not use it.

  23. Re:I can knock it if I want to... on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    And at a private university nobody would dare pull this kind of crap, because they know which side of the bread holds the butter. Public institutions, on the other hand, are just iron rice bowls, endlessly stomping on a human face.

  24. Re:Worst thing about Skype. . . on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be ported because it interoperates with other software by virtue of using a standardized protocol. Netmeeting on Windows does the trick. Ohphone worked on Mac when I last looked there. Probably gnomemeeting would via fink.

  25. Re:[OT]: Re:Skype Banned on An Analysis of the Skype Protocol · · Score: 1

    No, it can't: BitTorrent already ate the Internet.