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  1. Relationship? on Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads · · Score: 1

    I don't think that word means what you think it means. Gosling's "Relationship" with the Oracle is not that of a once loving relationship where one of them has gotten fat. It's more of the Oracle is the guy who stole his wife from him with big bags of money. They are lucky Gosling had such kind words. There Relationship calls for the spitting blood vulgarity kind of honesty.

  2. Re:Security Counsel Veto on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    That's a good thing though. I don't want our NSA getting nonsense "Cyberwar" funding ether. It's all crazy talk.

  3. Re:Wait... on Marvell Launches First Triple-Core Hybrid ARM Chip · · Score: 1

    I'll admit I'm probably more then a little confused on timing. My primary experience with timing is my old friends from HS 15 years ago who always wanted to mess with their cars timing belts to improve the horse power on their old 57 Chevy classics.

  4. Re:Wait... on Marvell Launches First Triple-Core Hybrid ARM Chip · · Score: 1

    It's like designing a car engine. You can build it for high horse power or you can build it for low horsepower to improve the mileage. It is very hard to get the highest horse power and th best gas mileage using the same design and even if possible you'd have to redo the timing when you wanted to change from one to the other and that's not something you do while it's running. They decided that they can put two different engines in this chip. One designed for performance with a duel core and one designed to work only on the most basic tasks when the system is idle so its more like a hybrid car now where you switch to electricity when you're stopped at a light.

  5. Security Counsel Veto on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is a nonsense issue. Last I heard the US and Britain were on the Security counsel and would veto any attempt to get it though. This is just a way for those countries to say "we don't censor people, we protect them from attacks"

  6. Evil on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    Evil is good right?

  7. Good Way to Compare on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The problem Wikipedia has is comparing it to other digital encyclopedias. Ether this will prove to be a better academic way to source work, or it will be a bureaucratic nightmare and die due to the lack of information. I don't see why it would work if they think they'll only get 1200 articles though. What makes any encyclopedia good is a high volume of content not just quality.

  8. Re:It's always refreshing on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if he is an Atheist though and I'm not sure if he even understand evolution ether. If you're pro evolution then humans are a result of it and the death of other lifeforms is just a result of out competition. Then if we are somehow aliens or the result of a crazy god then maybe he would have a point in being anti-human and pro-nature, but I don't want to stoke the crazy fire any more then it has been.

  9. Bill of Attainder on Newspapers Cut Wikileaks Out of Shield Law · · Score: 1

    I do believe that this would be unconstitutional since it would be singling out Wikileaks.

  10. How? on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    Given the internet in the US isn't exactly centralized how would you shut it down? Build a remote kill command into all routers? Sounds like something a hacker would love to find. You could start pulling backbone routers but that won't work if you route around... sure you've caused me to take the long way to Google but I'll just be irritated by 50ms vs 200ms latency. Anything that could be implemented to do so ether won't work or would expose everyone to some unauthorized person pulling the plug just for fun.

  11. Re:I hate SQL and Databases in General... on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 1
    This reminds me of a quote I have at my desk.

    Normalization is not just some plot by database programmer to annoy application programmers (That is merely a satisfying side effect!)

  12. Serial Killers on A Conference For Malware Writers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But isn't what you say true. Serial Killers are better murders, and they result in specialized training and expertise on the side of the police, FBI, Scotland Yard.

  13. Re:Not really the main issue is it? on Ray Kurzweil Responds To PZ Myers · · Score: 1

    I'd be more worried about concurrency issues. If you have to treat each neuron as its own processor in order to simulate it correctly to get a mind even if computers are fast enough to do it they might not be able to with out deadlocking.

  14. It's Spin for the Public on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 1

    The only way to keep the prices of eBooks high is to create a false sense of diminished profits from the new media. If anything the margin on eBooks is far better then on traditional media. If they do not maintain this Illusion then prices will fall back and they will end up with the same low margin they have on traditional media. It's in their best interest to maintain the lie.

  15. Nice Straw-man Anonymous Coward on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    Just because the mod chip may appeal to the poor, cheap ass, and people of differing views doesn't mean that it doesn't appeal to the morally corrupt. People who sell an xbox loaded with a hundred games as "legit" would be morally questionable and possibly morally corrupt.

  16. Re:What does this mean for cheats/aimbots? on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not that people weren't interested in hacking the PS3 for piracy. It's just he people with the skill and money to do it have little interest if they have a legit method like OtherOS. Sony locked them out of the GPU functions in otherOS so they were constantly trying to figure out how. When they did Sony took OtherOS away with the firmware updated. This made those people who are very skilled move down the path of a mod chip which has the added benefit of all the morally corrupt people who want to use the chip to pirate will be able to use it to pirate or home brew. OtherOS ultimately was an anti-piracy measure as shown by how long it has taken to crack since it was taken away.

  17. Null Pointer Exception on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 4, Funny

    So they don't understand NULL. That's acceptable. 70% of people saw the equation had a memory leak and carried data over into the null that just happened to be the last equation they saw. That happens all the time to a computer program that's not properly debugged. I'm more worried about the 30% of people who saw null and created X. Who are they to just randomly initialize variables to catch an exception that they didn't know was going to come there way any time soon.

  18. Choices? on The Case Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    So I'm one of the few who bought a Nexus One from Google, and paid 500$ because I'm one of those people who hate contracts and like the idea of canceling survive and turning my phone into a brick with no cell service if I'm particularly mad. My service provider choice is AT&T or TMobil. No one else if I want to choose Verizon then I have buy a new phone. Some choice. If I have dialup modem I can actually choose (or at least in the past) one of dozens of local ISPs if I didn't like them. So do I really have a choice. Yes, If i'm made of money then I do.

  19. Android Stats not Surprising on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1
    Given that the android average hits right in the middle for the average partners for men and average partners for women over their life time I'm not too surprised. All these numbers tell me is that the IPhone appeals to a group outside of the average. Having a high volume of partners doesn't mean that you have more sex. For all we know the people who have fewer partners have sex more often since they are staying in a relationship for longer then the person who changes partners every other week.

    1 sex act per day with one partner is greater than 1 sex act per week with a different partner each week.

  20. Re:HOLY AMAZING! on King Tut's Chariot a Marvel of Ancient Engineering · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. As nice as the cart is it's a simple cart and the tech isn't beyond what they could do and would just require the rite ingenuity. The Pyramids and the Sphinx are just a bit more on the complicated side of possible and yet they were done. It would be like those crazy people going and building their Space Scraper. Sure it's possible but the economic, material, and tech would push us to our limit and you'd still have to convince enough people to go along with it to pull it off. There's nice hypothesis about how the pyramids were built but no one knows exactly what they did.

  21. Re:Chet Uber? on 'Project Vigilant' Recruits At Defcon To Track You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The guy is one of the Cyber War nuts 2002 he was running with the business name of Security Posture trying to cater to the conspiracy theory nuts. Everyone already knows that Game Boys emit pilot killing rays.

  22. I don't get it on Commission Affirms NVIDIA Violated Rambus Patents · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can the US Patent office find that the Rambus patents are groundless http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1588351/nvidia-us-import-ban, and yet the ITC finds that some how NVIDIA violated 3 patents. This is the circus that never ends.

  23. Re:Suggestion: Skip to page 21 on Java IO Faster Than NIO · · Score: 1

    As funny as it looks it does say not to compare them against each other. They are probably different machines using different hardware, hence the disclaimer on the top. Even though I'd like to believe that Linux 2.6 was 1200% faster then Windows XP I can't bring myself to believe it.

  24. Re:NIO != lower latency on Java IO Faster Than NIO · · Score: 2, Informative

    However, the article and the presentation the article links to point out that IO has better concurrency than NIO. NIO has a Blocking algorithm in it for concurrency and IO has none implemented for Concurrency. The presentation went on to explain what happened because years ago in Java 1.1 and 1.2 it was nasty having to write for concurrency on servers using IO so you'd switch to NIO and be happy. Things have changed because of OS kernel improvements IO is using Non-Blocking algorithms for concurrency without having to be rewritten from scratch. The benchmarks proved it and now NIO has no use if you're using a modern OS with Multicore CPU because IO has better concurrency and throughput then NIO.

  25. Re:Legality vs. Ability on Jailbreaking iPhone Now Legal · · Score: 1

    True but now there is a question of legality if Apple decided to try and brick all jail-broken phones. Before this there would have been no question about Apple bricking the devices since they would have been illegally modified iPhones.