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  1. Uhhh... on Apple Issues Firmware Upgrade For MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    It's 3 Gb/s, not 3 GB/s. Big difference.

  2. You've bought the rhetoric. on Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because tickets are sent to the wrong people?

    Because tickets are assessed to the owner (not the driver) of the car?

    Because you have no accuser to confront in court?

    Because rear-end collisions increase at intersections with red-light cameras?

    Because yellow lights may be shorter in duration to increase revenue?

    Because government and for-profit private companies collude and share the income from what is normally law enforcement (government-only) fines?

  3. Re:So what shall one use now? on Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is nothing new. Running Windows FF in WINE is faster than using Linux native FF.

  4. Following the UK's lead... on Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure it's not hard to find volunteers for this sort of thing. Anyone who is nosy/power-seeking/voyeuristic would enjoy watching these cams without pay.

    How much more freedom do we have to lose before we do something about it?

  5. Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Reports on How RIAA Case Should Have Played Out · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (Note: We are not a GOP-sters, Republicans or affiliated with any parties, and as George Washington warned against parties We do not believe in parties and, unlike most people, We evaluate every issue on a case by case basis and do not defer to the judgments of politicians who are corrupted and untrustworthy as a group.)

    Obama is controlled by the same people as Bush see The Obama Deception documentary [youtube.com]

    Yuan Forwards Show China May Buy Fewer Treasuries, UBS Says [bloomberg.com]
    Anemic Treasury auction effects felt beyond bonds [reuters.com]
    The Sherminator Kicks Some Wall Street Ass [dailybail.com]
    China Angry That Fed Is Deliberately Destroying The Dollar [bloomberg.com]
    China suggests switch from dollar as reserve currency [bbc.co.uk]
    What are the reserve currencies? [wsj.net]
    Anatomy of a taxpayer giveaway to investors [ml-implode.com]
    Geithner rescue package 'robbery of the American people' [telegraph.co.uk]
    Geithner just put only the rich in Titanics lifeboats [examiner.com]
    Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers [cnbc.com]
    A False Choice [viewfromsi...valley.com]
    Bargain-hunting house buyers wearing on sellers ajc.com [ajc.com]
    Time to Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner's Hands [alternet.org]
    Socialising and Privatising [freeradical.co.nz]
    Fannie, Freddie to pay out bonuses [politico.com]
    Fitch Raises Prime Jumbo Loan Loss Estimates Sharply [researchrecap.com]

    Chinas central bank on Monday proposed replacing the US dollar as the international reserve currency with a new global system controlled by the International Monetary Fund [ft.com]

    - Russia on an new world reserve currency: It is necessary to work out and adopt internationally recognized standards for macroeconomic and budget policy, which are binding for the leading world economies, including the countries issuing reserve currencies - the Kremlin proposals read. [en.rian.ru]

    - President Barack "The Teleprompter" Obama is deeply connected to corruption. Rahm Emanuel, his Chief of Staff, is radical authoritarian statist whose father was part of the murderous civilian-killing Israeli terrorist organization known as IRGUN who is obsessed with gun control and compulsory service to the country in a capacity which he has yet to define. (Think brown-shirts.) Barack is intimately connected to disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Rahm inherited Rod's federal-congress seat). Barack Obama is also connected to William Ayers (who ghost-wrote his books); Ayers is a man who promotes the concept that civilian collateral damage is ok in a war against freedom. Saul Alinsky, a man who made the quote as follows, "From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer," is a man who had much influence on the young Barack Obama. A man who admired Lucifer for gaining his own kingdom in an act of rebellion. Barack also subscribed to Preacher Jeremiah Wright, who is himself a Afro-elitist who wants all the people who largely "pay the freight" to suffer at the hands of angry African-American mobs. There are over 30 million Americans on food stamps, and more blacks are in prison and on food-stamps per capita than anyone else. The problem with Wright is simply this: the facts are "racist." There is no conspiracy against African Americans here by citizens.
    - Obama - AIPAC-bootlicker, corrupted to the bone Chicago-style and a traitor to the US Constitution and a liar whose real "legal" name could very well be Barry Sotero and an Indonesian citizen (The US does not allow plural citizenship) (If you care, not that it matters anymore under a lawless authoritarian totalitarian regime such as Barack Obama's, you can see more here at an aggregator; obamacrimes.info [obamacrimes.info] )
    - Raytheon lobbyist in Pentagon, many lobbyists getting exemptions even though Obama promi

  6. Re:Overtaken by ps3 on The Science of Folding@home · · Score: 1

    Huh? My PS3 makes around 900 points/day on F@H. My 1.87GHz dual core Ubuntu laptop gets about 1700-1800 points/day with SMP folding... on the A2 core, at least.

    SMP folding on a dual-core machine should easily outscore the PS3. Were you using uni-processor clients? I've also heard that Windows SMP machine can't run the A2 core WUs, which run much faster than A1s.

  7. Re:New possibilities in terraforming? on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    The combination of gravitational and magnetic fields required to hold liquids and an atmosphere intact is quite complicated. The two terrestrial bodies in the Solar System with thicker atmospheres than Earth (Venus and Titan) lack any real magnetic field and have weaker gravity than Earth. (0.904 g for Venus and 0.14 g for Titan) Titan has 1.5 times the Earth's surface pressure, while the pressure on Venus is an incredible 92 times greater. Venus is far hotter than Earth, while Titan is far colder... many factors must be involved.

    Mars (at 0.376 g) would be able to maintain quite a bit more of an atmosphere if it were protected from the solar wind. Surface pressure is less than 1% of Earth's.

  8. Re:Just last night... on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    I also saw this. They were focusing on an area in the South Atlantic where the magnetic field is weakening. This seems to be indicative of a coming reversal of the Earth's magnetic field. The actual reversal probably occurs over at least 1000 years, so we won't get to experience it.

    The field reversal being a common reoccuring event has evidence everywhere you look, from the ocean floor to the rocks near your house. Most of us accept the fact that dinosaurs existed, and this phenomenon has left way more physical evidence laying about than they ever did.

    The oceans of Earth seem large to a human being, but they are quite tiny compared to the volume of the inner and outer core of the Earth... the idea that they "create" the magnetic field is ridiculous. Do they have some local effect on it? Certainly.

  9. Re:I may be wrong, Im not an astrologer on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    What you learned about Mercury in elementary school was wrong... it is not locked gravitationally with the sun, and the far side is certainly colder than the day side, but not to the extend we were told in grade school.

    Mercury has 1.5 days per year... a 3:2 resonance. Early Earth-based observation always saw the same face of Mercury because it is easily observable only during specific parts of its orbit, which can give the appearance that the year and day are of the same length.

  10. Re:My personal anecdote with Bing on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    (e.g. Where do I find xxx?)

    Freudian slip or intentional double meaning? :)

  11. Re:Even worse than you can imagine on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I knew of the story, but hadn't seen the logo.

    It does look very similar to Nazi military insignia.

  12. Re:Another win for OSS community on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Menstrual flow makes a pretty damn poor lubricant compared to vaginal secretions... and like LizardKing mentioned, it's got solids in it. It's a bit awkward compared to "normal" sex.

    You have the towels and shower part right, though.

  13. Re:A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away... on Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected · · Score: 2, Informative

    M31 and the Milky Way seem to be on a collision course.

    From Wikipedia:

    "The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Sun at about 300 kilometers per second (186 miles/s.), so it is one of the few blue shifted galaxies. Given the motion of the Solar System inside the Milky Way, one finds that the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are approaching one another at a speed of 100 to 140 kilometers per second (62â"87 miles/s.; 223,200â"313,200mph). The collision is predicted to occur in about 2.5 billion years. In that case the two galaxies will likely merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.[citation needed] However, Andromeda's tangential velocity with respect to the Milky Way is only known to within about a factor of two, which creates uncertainty about the details of when the collision will take place and how it will proceed. Such events are frequent among the galaxies in galaxy groups. At least one scientist believes the collision could destroy the earth or hurl the Solar System out into inter galactic space."

  14. Re:KILL HFS+ WITH FIRE on Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS · · Score: 1

    I prefer them like this:

    ( . )( . )

  15. Re:Seems pretty clear: on 26 Desktop Processors Compared · · Score: 2, Informative

    A quick glance through some magazine tables shows the ZR1 with more grip (1.05 g or more) on a skidpad than any Ferrari, as well. Only the Viper ACR has done better.

    Rednecks don't drive cars that cost more than 100K USD.

  16. Re:Seems pretty clear: on 26 Desktop Processors Compared · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Corvette ZR1 has more horsepower and is less expensive than any current Ferrari.

    I love Ferrari... but the Corvette needs no apologies at all!

  17. Re:Meh... on Fedora 11 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    Don't worry... I'll get off your lawn. :)

  18. Re:This will probably become RHEL6 on Fedora 11 Is Now Available · · Score: 1

    I believe that VMWare doesn't officially support Ubuntu.

  19. Re:Duh. on Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India · · Score: 1

    It's sechs... of "Gruppe Sechs" GTAIII securicar fame.

  20. Re:How many times have you bought the same cd? on The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die · · Score: 1

    Time to bust out the pipe organ... one old enough not to have any electrical parts anyway.

    I'm a metal head, but I have to agree that the organ is nicknamed the "King of Instruments" for a good reason.

  21. Re:But there's no AdBlock Plus... on First Beta of Opera 10 Released · · Score: 1

    Awesome! Thanks for the link.

  22. Re:Thank goodness on Cloud Computing, Music Lockers, and the Supreme Court · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    War Games?

  23. Re:Productivity? on More Americans Play Video Games Than Go To Movies · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a true American.

    There is more to life than squeezing the most "productivity" out of your time.

  24. I can access codes on my car without any tool. on Right-to-Repair Law To Get DRM Out of Your Car · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting, numerous Cadillac models built after the start of OBD1 have the ability for the owner to both access and clear diagnostic codes by him/herself. My 1993 Cadillac Seville is one such car... I hold down two buttons on the dash, and I can access all of this information via the dash display.

    In-dash text displays were rare in 1993, but now all most all cars have them... so this functionality really ought to be in all new vehicles.

    It's YOUR car, isn't it? Then again, BMW has build a few models that have no dipstick and no oil cap (visible, anyway)... :(

  25. Re:Figures on Toshiba Sues Over DVD Patents · · Score: 1

    An informative link... thank you.