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  1. cost over life on Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge · · Score: 1

    As long as the new bulbs cost more than the old ones + their total consumption in electricity over their lifespan this is a net loss.

  2. Re:Umm on Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape · · Score: 3, Funny

    He looks at how well they spell and use grammar.

  3. Re:age discrimination on Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't bother getting hired, do your own thing and show them how it's done.

  4. Re:Which is It? on HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials · · Score: 1

    having unprotected sex willy-nilly with or without aids is dangerous anyway and should be avoided.

    There are more STDs out there than you can count on the fingers of your two hands and toes and
    some of them have very serious effects.

  5. Re:That the guy's an idiot? on Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios · · Score: 1

    ideas are bulletproof. V.

  6. Re:Hehe he ain't seen nothing yet... on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    http://images.google.com/images?q=portable%208%20track%20player\&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

    google says you're wrong...

  7. Re:Hehe he ain't seen nothing yet... on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    it would, but only on fresh tapes, older tapes tend to copy from one layer of wound tape to another. reel-to-reel had this as well but the tape was quite a bit thicker so it was less of a problem. digital is far from perfect but the errors are constant, it does not degrade over time which is the big killer in magnetic media.

    (comparing apples to oranges here, 'digital' is not a storage medium, but since you can move it from one medium to another without loss it might as well be)

  8. Re:Good... although on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 1

    madoff did not really get 'caught', his sons ratted him out (good for them). If not for that he would be doing it today.

  9. Re:So this implies... on Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal · · Score: 1

    the trade imbalance is there because America wants chinese goods more than China wants american goods, not because they don't want to trade dollar-for-dollar but simply because there is no need to.

    What can Americans produce cheaper than the Chinese could produce for themselves ?

  10. Re:Two things on Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet · · Score: 1

    I think you're wrong about the plane not going to stall at that altitude at even half of the cruise speed, a link above points to 'the coffin corner'.

  11. Re:Suspect?.... on Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet · · Score: 1

    no, that's why that airbus A320 had a pilot on board...

  12. this is a fundamental flaw in some current law on Another Question Of Search Engine Legality and Infringement · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In many countries it is now illegal to link to infringing content, it will take the likes of google to be sued before we'll get a real precedent because only they have enough money to take it all the way to the highest courts.

    Linking should be ok, no matter what the content, after all, if you link to one of my sites I can replace the contents of that site after the fact by something that is copyrighted, in no way should an action by me make you liable. This will decide the future of the web.

  13. Re:Science is already open source on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Well, you've succeeding in taking a (mostly) accurate statement used to make a general point, and drug it through several layers of unnecessary quibbling.

    Isn't that what universities are all about ?

  14. Re:DIY, meet DEA on DIY Biologists To Open Source Research · · Score: 1

    I think 'untouchable' does not mean what you think it means.

    Your reluctance to post your address below is proof positive of this, if you're 'untouchable' for real I can't see what the problem is.

    All the above is nonsense with the qualifiers you put in this post, and for 'ordinary' citizens who would like to have access to some regular household chemicals there should not be a reason to fear the authorities. As a kid I had a chemistry set that I could have used to do fairly bad stuff with, but being a responsible kid I did not. Today, ordering those exact same chemicals in the same quantity outside of having a 'valid' reason would almost certainly constitute a red flag somewhere and that should not be the case.

  15. Re:I know I'll be labeled as flamebait for this bu on $1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions · · Score: 1

    and after 10 hours it drops suddenly ?

  16. Re:The obvious question. on EFF Busts Illegitimate Subdomain Patent · · Score: 1

    There are probably plenty of examples of prior art, but IÂll submit mine here, camarades.com, the forerunner of ww.com did this in march 1998.

  17. Re:More Giant Circles on 6000-Year-Old Tomb Complex Discovered · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Not surprising -- browsers are basically OSes on Researchers Build a Browser-Based Darknet · · Score: 1

    the 'concept' of java goes back to UCSD pascal.

  19. Re:One idea... on Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls · · Score: 1

    'for a limited time', that bit keeps cropping up in places when permanent features are introduced. I'm not a fan of publically supported commercial entities either...

    Why should newspapers get that money ? Why not:

    - writers that haven't sold books since '96 (after all their income went down the tubes because of the web revolution)
    - musicians
    - record company executives
    - composers
    - various other artists
    - people that lost money in the .com bust

    and so on. I know that sounds extreme, but for each of those groups you could make the case that their
    economic position has been affected by the move to onlline media.

    It makes no sense to single out a single group that can't seem to make ends meet without colluding.

    This is simply a game of newspaper chicken, first one to blink loses all their online viewers to the
    competition. It's not like pay per view has not been tried before (see the porn industry), and in
    a highly competitive marketplace the only way that will work is by offering absolutely stellar
    content that you own exclusively. So that's the route newspapers should go.

    Or die out... it's tough I know, my dad worked for a paper when I was a kid and I visited a
    couple of times and it felt like that place was really in touch with the world, nowadays it is
    all 90% fluff and 10% news.

  20. Re:Baah on French Fusion Experiment Delayed Until 2025 or Beyond · · Score: 1

    I think it's important to realize as well that Chernobyl was not as bad as it easily could have been. So, the fact that '*only*' 56 people were killed directly does not mean that a larger scale accident should be ruled out. It's one of the few datapoints we've got on nuclear power station accidents with direct fatalities, so it could be good news, it could be bad news. More data = more knowledge.

     

  21. Re:College Project on Developer Creates DIY 8-Bit CPU · · Score: 1

    errmmm. pics or ... ;)

    a 68020 !! That's a pretty impressive feat. What kind of chips did you build it from ? Regular series ttl or cmos or something at a higher level of integration ? Did it work ?

    Given the fact that the chip was originally named (the 68000) for it's transistor count even if you were using fairly large 'blocks' it would likely have spanned many boards.

    What clock speed did you get it to run on ?

  22. Re:Color Me Unsuprised on Quebec Says 'Non' To English-Only Video Games · · Score: 1

    Spanish ? Mandarin or Cantonese ?

    The best thing English has going for it right now is the amazing amount of content on the web, but that is being offset very quickly. The Spanish volume of www content is *huge* and growing very rapidly.

    French is irrelevant and making itself more so.

  23. Re:many questions on Quebec Says 'Non' To English-Only Video Games · · Score: 0, Troll

    as 'hard' as their stance is, it hasn't done them much good. France makes itself the laughing stock of the rest of Europe every couple of years by trying very hard to force French upon the rest of us, the Quebecois do the same thing in Canada.

    If your language needs 'protection' what you're really saying is you are about to become irrelevant.

    A language should have a low barrier to entry, and a population willing to forgive foreigners their mistakes and applaud them for their efforts. French has neither.

    Couple a provincial attitude to anything foreign with protectionist laws pushing your no-longer-so-important language and sooner or later you'll find you're the only person left still speaking it. The rest of the world will continue to evolve, with or without you.

  24. Re:If only on Google Bans Tethering App From Android Market · · Score: 1

    more so when you realize that those messages ride for free on the back of status info that was going to be sent anyway... The only cost there was was to implement the software in the switch to route the messages the first time.

  25. Re:This is M$ double speak for "Finding Free Sofwa on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 1

    If you don't connect your computer to the net it does not count :)

    Alternatively, it's a bit like a poker game, if you don't know who the idiot is, it's you. In other words, the chances are big that you were at some point virused, trojanned or malwared but you did not detect it.

    When adaware first came out I ran it on the machines of some friends and it was quite surprising how much crap there was on these so-called clean machines.

    Probably you install very little software on your machines, that alone would be a big factor in your favour. If you have kids around the house browsing the net with those pc's then kudos to whoever set up your AV.