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  1. Re:Google TV on What Are Google and Verizon Up To? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [Citation for your stupid opinion regarding Akamai being "leaps and bounds" behind needed]

  2. Re:Lick my nuts on 'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!' v2.0 · · Score: 1

    I'm sad that the article left out Quietus. Definitely the best aged-care option.

  3. Re:Wait...does this mean on Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're talking about thermal imaging. That's not how IR used for night-vision works. Your IR remote control doesn't shoot a jet of warmth at the TV. It's just a spectrum of light slightly outside of what we see.

    Actual IR cameras work so well for finding people because of what's REFLECTING the IR light. Synthetic materials reflect differently to the sorts of things you find in the wild. Additionally IR is useful for marking friendlies in such a way that people without IR gear can't see.

    Modern night-vision goggles use a combination of low-light sensitive cameras, IR imagery and image processing to enhance the image. I'm not actually sure if you'll find thermal imaging in use at all for combat situations.

    Keeping that in mind, because the images are often of such low quality the concept of bending light around an object- even with large distortion errors - works very well. You're merely adapting the entire cloak to suit the surrounds, which is exactly what modern techniques for hiding from IR cams involves, except you disguise yourself with the surrounding foliage/debris/whatever. Same materials, same colour, same IR reflectivity. Fooling our eyes in daylight is going to be a little harder.

  4. Re:First Post? on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 1

    Mnemosyne says hi and also you're welcome.

  5. Re:FR0$T P&$$ on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You make an excellent point.

    For my part, I'd like to point out that if Google wanted to read your email, they wouldn't bother collecting wifi data. They'd just read yer fucking email.

  6. Re:We've had that for years! on North Korea Develops Anti-Aging "Super Drink" · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It's not like products from the US don't make these sorts of outlandish claims every day. The US is even WORSE for bogus science claims, thanks to your large tinfoil hat legion. Our little NK is growing up.

  7. Re:stupid on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    Maybe the plot should be repoed.

    Jude Law could start in THAT, too. It'd be like Gattaca but different which is just like all his other movies. The man knows how to milk a theme.

  8. Re:Oh god.. on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    I got 32 and I want your job.

  9. Re:Oh god.. on Students Show a Dramatic Drop In Empathy · · Score: 1

    I stopped caring as soon as you mentioned star trek.

  10. Re:Green or BW? on OLED Film Could Provide Cheap Night Vision For Cars · · Score: 1

    If you have an OLED overlay, you also have a dynamic brightness blocker that can tint itself to dim blinding objects.

    What they don't mention is how they'll introduce focus to the system. I suspect we'll see see another filter layer of millions of tiny tubes or tiny lenses.

  11. Re:Who cares? on Cox Discontinues Usenet, Starting In June · · Score: 1

    > Putting resources to work where they are most urgently demanded: That is "capitalism in action."

    Well, no. Try this:

    Putting someone else's resources to work where they are most urgently needed: communism
    Putting someone else's resources to work where they will return the greatest profit: capitalism

    Seems to me need would indicate you as being some kind of commie red. Which I fully support. Always put people before business.

  12. Re:None! on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sometimes you just have too many flags to really want to be hammering things haphazardly into a single line. In that case guided scripts seem like a fine solution, too. Any simple frameworks out there to save reinventing the wheel?

  13. Re:Isn't that called an... on Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's much more professional to call it "an iypervisor". Or something like that. Y is nature's spare vowel.

  14. Calm down, fanboys on Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wasn't an Autobot.

  15. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Activision Blizzard's legal department would like to talk to you regarding this "new" dimension you've discovered.

  16. Re:string theory on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ha ha Christianity is only a hypothesis.

  17. Re:Moondust-From Wikipedia on 3-D Printer Creates Buildings From Dust and Glue · · Score: 1

    You must be fucking terrified of interior concrete walls then.

  18. Re:Uh...Avast? on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    It was in 4.8. In version 5 they've changed the voice to female. Boing.

  19. Re:Bigger scam for 1-eyed viewers on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    > Just as an FYI, that *Does* mater, and quite a lot.

    What does your mother have to do with this?

  20. Re:"Library of Congresses"? on Cisco Introduces a 322 Tbit/sec. Router · · Score: 1

    Remotely rendered panoramic server-side gaming.

    Seriously, that's what this router is for.

  21. Re:First on Window Pain · · Score: 1

    Four, check the definition of illegal, assbags. Just because it annoys you doesn't mean that it's illegal.

  22. Old photos on Google Enhances Street View With User Photos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My neighbour has photos of our street from when he was a kid. I'm planning to scan them and put them up. Quite the change over the years.

  23. Pah on 70,000 Carats of Gemstones On a Honda · · Score: 1

    How is this any different from a $50 candyapple coat?

  24. Re:Guys, I need this ASAP on Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills · · Score: 1

    Speaking of hums, I've been seeing a laser dentist.

    I absolutely hate injections and drills, but he was able to do my fillings with no pain, no discomfort, no injections or painkillers. I highly recommend them. I'd never go back to a tooth-grinder again.

  25. Re:Pet peeve: "public domain" on Symbian Completes Transition To Open Source · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the coming war between Open Source and Public Domain, no man will be free as in beer.