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  1. Re:NO on Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash · · Score: 1

    If it's miss calibrated, or spoofed an accident is going to happen. A properly trained pilot does what the instruments tell him, and doesn't trust his eyes with the exception of the instruments that are outside like the 4 red lights near the runway. People who don't fly by instruments are novice ultra light pilots who can get away with it in some weather conditions, or have the unfortunate luck of the instruments breaking mid-flight.

  2. Re:And [not] free it from the clutches of Vivendi on Blizzard Breaks For Independence As Kotick Plans $8.2 Billion Dollar Buyout · · Score: 2

    The alternative was Vivendi using it's leverage to change the board to force Activision to take out a Mega Loan and pay out a huge dividend. 8.2 Billion is also close to the 8.5 billion that the Mega Loan would have given share holders, which would have given Vivendi about 5 billion. This gives Vivendi most of the money, and gets rid of most of it's stock in the company that now has a lot more debt since they only have about half that as Cash on Hand(4.6B). I'm curious with what they are going to do to get the 8.2 billion, but I don't want to wade through the financial lingo to find out.

  3. Re:Unproven on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1

    How about you read the wikipedia entry and get to the "academic urban myth" part.

  4. Re:It's 4.74, not 6 on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 1
    That's only of people on Facebook. If you included someone like me it would jump to infinite because I have exactly 0 facebook friends by not using facebook.

    If you use the Dunbar number of 150 friends as your maximum you can get to 4 if everyone has the maximum and they are all unique associations. In the us we have very few friends per person. If you assume 4 unique friends the "3 hop" query only returns 160-640 results, and with 10 it's between 1000 - 10000. No one is as social as facebook has lead you to believe. Only social whores who think that they actually know thousands of people meet your Kevin Bacon game nonsense.

  5. Unproven on NSA Admits Searching "3 Hops" From Suspects · · Score: 0

    The entire 6 degrees nonsense is just that, nonsense.

  6. Will it work as a heat-sink? on New Thermocell Could Turn 'Waste Heat' Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    If only it could be used to cool off a CPU and generate a bit of excess energy to power misc. devices.

  7. Why is this an Issue? on Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you want to penalize the younger smokers more to try and discourage smoking in the first place. Your older smoker is possible to have gotten addicted before people were aware of the health risk. Otherwise charging them the same penalty is the correct choice, and isn't so much as a bug but what seemed logical to the person writing the code at the time.

  8. Re:Just guessing? on 24,000 Nintendo Site Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Or if all of them happen to be the same Username Password combo from UPlay.

  9. Excitebike? Do your homework. on The Nintendo Sequels We're Still Desperately Missing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look, if you're going to make a claim that they should resurrect old and dusty IP you might actually bother to look to see if they haven't already re-released it on prior systems.
    Excitebike - 1984
    Excitebike 64 - 2000
    Classic NES Series: Excitebike - 2004
    Excitebike - 2007
    Excitebike: World Rally - 2009
    3D Classics: Excitebike - 2011
    1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 1998
    1080 Avalanche - 2003
    1080: TenEighty Snowboarding - 2008

  10. Re:DRM is here to stay on Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief · · Score: 1

    I'd be more happy if it worked in browsers outside of IE more.

  11. Re:Typical Oracle - Enterprise sheds tear on Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle · · Score: 1

    We're not talking about running. We're talking about support. Java 6 will still run.

  12. Apple? Really? on Sony, Microsoft Squabble Over Console Features, But the Real Opponent Is Apple · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The iPad and iPhone gaming market exists, but it's limited. It's a casual gaming device to satisfy you as you wait for your flight. The "hardcore" market is soft for a couple of reasons. Keeping the current gen system around for 7 years was a bad idea. Increasing development cost too rapidly was a bad idea that Nintendo warned Sony and MS about. Now we have good games like Tomb Raider, but Developers and Publishers are spending far too much to make them. The adjustment will be the companies who are bad at business will die. I'd put money on Square dying given how they turned success into failure. Not even stratospheric Kingdom Hearts sales will save them if they keep overspending. Keep in mind not a single KH game has exceeded 6 Million in sales, but I bet they budget for exceeding 6. This is what is killing the market. Not the witches poisoned Apple.

  13. Re:Typical Oracle - Enterprise sheds tear on Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle · · Score: 1

    I bet you your JNI incompatibilities are more likely due to running 64 bit java, and have nothing to do with Java 7. I could be wrong, but that's normally where the issue is.

  14. Re:Typical Oracle - Enterprise sheds tear on Java 6 EOL'd By Oracle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do you have any Idea how old Java 6 is? It's not a question of keeping two version active at once. It's about it's age more than anything. Java 6 was released in 2006. It's not like their EOLing it after 2 year. Support has to end some time, and 7 years is longer than I would have kept it.

  15. What did you expect? on Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: a Comparison · · Score: 2

    C# was the direct result of MS being blocked from using Java, and was their J# product re-branded into .net. The core is nearly identical with the exception that C# has access to things like DirectX, and a few other nice to have APIs from MS

  16. Re:Or on Five predictions for (Bit)coin · · Score: 0

    How about you post as yourself, or are you too busy trying to down vote anyone you disagree with?

  17. So Hydrogen and Florine are in the same "column" on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can see where this "attempts" to make more sense. I'll still be going with Mendeleyev Derivatives. This proposal is just fancy for the sake of being fancy.

  18. Re:Metric should be number of tickets, not revenue on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 1

    That's it keep Gone With The Wind at the top forever.

  19. It's a bit inflated it really only sold about 111M on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 2

    Walmart bought a bunch for pre-sale. Only a bout 2 million of the presale was actually sold over the weekend, but the entire thing is being reported in the 125 million number.

  20. Re:Which one is it? on Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders · · Score: 1

    That entirely depends on what he's lying about. He's most certainly lying about his authorized level of access. This should teach the NSA and CIA that it's a stupid Idea to have Contractors as your network admins, and it's a good way of letting Spy's into your network. IT is not something a spy agency should farm out. However, the power point slides he released are probably a legit document. It's entirely possible for him to be lying, and a traitor.

  21. Re:If you go to hospital on Supreme Court: No Patents For Natural DNA Sequences · · Score: 1

    You're clearly mixed up some of the latest information on epigenetics with genetics. So how about you go back to your half read science articles, and finish them.

  22. Re:well unfortunately on Fake Mt. Gox Pages Aim To Infect Bitcoin Users · · Score: 1

    I was only replying to someone with the naive notion that "bitcoin" users were magically immune.

  23. Re:well unfortunately on Fake Mt. Gox Pages Aim To Infect Bitcoin Users · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, almost all bitcoin users have a persistent internet connection, and are being targeted. There isn't a Security Feature, Anti-Virus, or any other nonsensical "common sense" measure you can take. At some point you're going to slip up, and a virus is going to get in, or a new unpatched vulnerability will get you. Now if only I can find some fool to but these "offline" only bitcoins.

  24. Re:I like my wii-u on Wii Street U Uses Google Maps to Create 'An Immersive Experience' (Video) · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a cute little app that's interesting for all of about 5 min.

  25. Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Three very large USB drives. Probably just SD cards. One is the PAD, One is a Fake Data Structure, and One is a Decoy Pad based on what is stored on the drive and the Fake Data Structure. That way if someone break into my home and steals the computer the USB drive for decoding is the Decoy Pad. They'd have to know there was a fake pad to even look for the real pad. Otherwise they'd look and find something silly. Maybe if I was being funny there would be a file nested somewhere so deep that outlined that they'd been had. But that's because even with the real pad there wouldn't be much of value for them to have, but it's the thought that counts.