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  1. Re:First, learn to spell and write properly. on Texting Toddlers, How Young is Too Young? · · Score: 1

    Are you actually writing on paper, or typing on a computer? The former will need translation in 300 years, but the latter will be lost forever by then.

  2. Re:WTF is 2P? on AMD Packs Six-Core Opteron Inside 40 Watts · · Score: 1

    U to P ratio? Is that the nerd's replacement for H to W ratio? I'm all about a 1:1 T to A ratio myself.

  3. Re:How long can they fight it on Swedish Authorities Attempt Pirate Bay Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Opening ports in your router and getting those ports forwarded to the correct LAN IP can be a real pain depending on your hardware Most people connect via DHCP, and some routers will give out different LAN IPs to the same computer on different days, causing a previously correct setup to stop functioning.. My girlfriend and my brother both torrent relentlessly, but they have no clue about this aspect of setting up Bittorrent and rely on my help for problems that occur.

    It really is a bit complicated. IPv6 would make it much more accessible for the average user.

  4. Re:Always loved Pirate Bay on Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    How's that cave treating ya? ;)

    Supposedly the new owners will make use of a different logo so as not to upset the faithful pirates who got tattoos and such of the current logo.

    I myself have a t-shirt. It was a bit pricy, but it's very high quality.

  5. Gang of Four on China Jails Four For Microsoft XP Piracy · · Score: 1

    Gang of Four is a term that goes back to the Maoist Cultural Revolution days. They were a political group opposing him... one of the four was his wife!

    Four is also an unlucky number in several Asian cultures.

  6. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    Those engines all have fantastic torque output relative to their engine size. The S2000 has more peak torque than any other NA 2 liter engine... saying it has "little torque" is just plain wrong.

    The sensation of weak output at low rpm is only in relation to the great output at high rpm. In truth, compared to similar size engines, the S2000 has more torque at all engine speeds.

  7. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    A gasoline engine of the same size could match that power easily without a turbo, and have far more power than that with a turbo.

    It's more of a comparative observation than an absolute one.

  8. Re:Gutless? on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    1970 was a peak year for horsepower... things went down in 1971, down more in '72, and way down after that...

    Things went nowhere but downhill power-wise in the 70s.

  9. Me too! on World's Only Diesel-Electric Honda Insight · · Score: 1

    My father had a 1981 Olds 88 that did the exact same thing... for any speed below 40mph, you just rode the brakes and didn't touch the gas pedal. The car also would often run on after cutting the ignition. I actually took my driver's test in that car using the brake-riding technique!

    That car originally had a diesel, but it had all sorts of problems and never could start well in Nebraska winters. The car had an Olds 307 swapped in by the time I drove it. I'm not sure if it had the same loopy behavior with the diesel or not.

  10. Re:It would be really nice... on Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home · · Score: 1

    I can confirm this. The card reader won't read any card larger than 8MB at all... I've seen 16,32, and 64MB in stores.

  11. It's totally worth it on Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My roommate and I decided to try a no TV policy in our dorm room at the start of my second year of college.

    That was 7 years ago, and I never went back to watching TV.

  12. Re:Outrage calibration on Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent (aka Mainline) was originally open source and written in Python, but when Bittorrent, Inc bought out uTorrent, they converted Bittorrent into a uTorrent clone bundled with the DNA addon. The feature set between the two has diverged a bit in the most recent versions since it seems they have different groups working on each, but it's they are basically the same thing in most ways.

    The original OSS Bittorrent was pretty shitty, to be honest. uTorrent is much better and that's why its code was simply copied to improve Bittorrent... other than the closed source, uTorrent is hard to criticize. I assume uTorrent wasn't killed off in favor of Bittorrent simply because of its much larger prior install base.

    I primarily use Vuze, but I have used uTorrent quite a bit as well. It runs perfectly in Wine.

  13. "thousand trillion"? on Can We Build a Human Brain Into a Microchip? · · Score: 1

    That's not what a nerd would say...it's called a quadrillion. These larger number set aren't that hard to remember... the prefixes are from Latin. Bi-, Tri-, Quad-, Quint-, Hex-... We already use them in name of some of our months.

  14. Folding on Windows Drains MacBook's Battery; Who's To Blame? · · Score: 1

    That would make a MacBook utterly useless for Folding@Home... seems ridiculous.

  15. Re:From a typical web surfer's point of view on Bell Starts Hijacking NX Domain Queries · · Score: 1

    /. users == Linux users

    Didn't you get the memo? :)

  16. Re:What's the issue here? on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    So where do you buy your Xbox games nowadays? How about Playstation or Saturn games?

  17. Re:Hooray on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    FFIV owns.

  18. Bah... on BringIt.com Allows Players to Bet On Console Game Matches · · Score: 1

    The interstate commerce clause is abused to make everything a federal issue anymore... this needs to be changed.

  19. Re:Slooooow news day, huh? on Google CEO Schmidt Leaves Apple Board · · Score: 1

    don't forget the pr0n!

  20. Re:Only in Kansas. on Missouri Car Dealer To Give Away AK-47 With New Truck · · Score: 1

    I can understand the 7.26x39 for the AK as a typo... but where did you get 7.62x33 for the 30-06? Try 7.52x51mm. Basically, a longer cartridge will have longer range and a bigger kick.

  21. Most insightful comment I have ever read on /. on EU May Allow US To Keep Snooping On European Bank Data · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm fairly new here... but I'm being serious.

  22. High water tables in this area on DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" · · Score: 1

    Actually, the presence of the Ogallala aquifer in Nebraska and Kansas means that the water table can be quite close to the surface. In my home town, especially in the southern area, the water table is actually near the level of your average basement. Anything more than an half inch of rain falls, and some people are gonna be pumping water out of their basements.

  23. Apple and Linux, too? on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 3, Insightful

    MS has to do this because of monopoly concerns... Apple certainly won't be doing it anytime soon, since they emphasize integration between programs so much. Linux? Sorry, Opera, but your software isn't open source.

  24. Re:Doesn't this only work in a 1-D universe? on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    Space-time is curved by gravity. It's not important where Jupiter is in its orbit. Objects passing through the Solar System are attracted TOWARDS it.

    Your simplistic example assumes objects are moving in flat space, and they are not.

  25. Re:On a galactic note... on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1

    Jupiter is significantly LESS round than the Earth, due to its rapid rotation. :)