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  1. Re:The best combination on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 1

    Don't japaneese students kill themselves with high frequency after exam days?

  2. Re:Did they look at other habits too? on Excess Coffee May Be Linked To Early Death · · Score: 1

    They looked at smoking. When they controlled for smoking the risk went down some.

  3. Re:Wrong number series on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    Most laws and judicial orders don't have an experation date. So they should be prusumed to be permanent.

  4. Re:How is this supposed to work? on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    No when an ISP, hosting provider, or search engine gets a order telling them to block access to a website they would use this error code when people request the page.

  5. Re:Old News on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I suppose it is news that Open Rights Group is now supporting the code because of UK censorship. Sad that code is needed more and more.

  6. Old News on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1
  7. More Math on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 2

    diameter of dipole: .000178cm
    radius: .000089cm
    length: 1.78cm
    volume of each wire: pi * r^2 * h = 4.42 * 10^-8 cm^3
    number of wires: 4.8 * 10^8
    volume of all wire: 4.8 * 4.42 = 21.216 cm^3
    density of copper: 8.96 gcm^3
    mass of all wire used in 1963: 190.095 grams

  8. The Math on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    circumference of the earth: 40,075 Km
    diameter of the earth: 12756 Km
    orbit distance: 3650 km
    New diameter: 20056(157.22% bigger)
    New circumference: pi * D = 63007.78(157.22% bigger)
    Number of dipoles released in 1963: 480000000
    Number of dipoles per Km: 7618
    Number of dipoles per meter: 7.618
    The experiment worked untill the dipoles started to drift east and west away from the perfect circle. This increased the distance between the dipoles.

  9. Buisness Package on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does Google offer a business package? If so what is the cost?

  10. Re:Cost-benefit analysis on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 1

    Pro: orbital junk will funk with alien spacecraft

  11. Re:Sooo.... on Cold War Plan Tried To Put a Copper Ring Around the Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Close. If we were to launch ALL of the copper found on the earth, every last scrap of it, we could do what they wanted, problem is there would be no copper left to make radios to transmit or receive with. This was the problem, Yes it "worked" but the scale needed would have required global strip mining and launching every ounce of copper that this planet has in it's crust.

    Citation needed. From what I read it seams they did a succussfull test that formed a belt. I think your thinking of an actual unbroken wire going around the earth. Instead they launched short segments of wire. There was some distance between each bit.

    Early in May, 1963 a package containing 4.8×108copper dipoles, each 0.00178 cm in diameter and 1.78 cm in length, was placed into a nearly circular, nearly polar orbit at a mean altitude of 3650 km

    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=1444922&isnumber=31060

  12. Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    30 minutes max... 400 pounds.... starting at $150,000

    I think this guy has a skewed idea of practical.

  13. Purpose on 3 Reasons Why Microsoft Needs 3 Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    Microsoft needs to discover a reason to exist. It needs to find problems and then work to deliver products that solve those problems. These Windows Tablets don't need to exist. They don't bring something to the market that is not there. Microsoft should exit the phone and tablet market.

  14. Re:YAAAWN on Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay · · Score: 1

    it may be a gimmick but it is a gimmick with value. Prices for a capture card range from 25$ to 150$ on Amazon.

  15. Re:What a clusterf**k. on Obamacare Exchanges Months Behind In Testing IT Data Security · · Score: 1

    Local, federal, and state goverments have forced people to sell their land. Federal goverment has forced men to quit their jobs,join the military and die over seas. A bit more extreme than making someone purchase health insurance.

  16. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    spammers are lazy

    I think this is a bad assumption. People who use bots to scalp tickets have the financial motivation to answer 10 questions everyday. Organized crime that rents out botnets to spammers have the financial motivation to answer 10 to 100 questions everyday. Plus there are plenty of people who do if for the lols and then share it with the spammer community.

  17. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    person sees a word

    How would these work when used by a blind person? They will be using a screen reader. When it hits the typos it is going to either spell things out, autocorrect, or say something odd. If the substitution is easy enough for the screen reader application then it will be easy enough for bots.

  18. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    In order for websites to use your system you would have to share the source code and the dictionary. Even if you closed sourced the project they would have a complete list of questions 24 hours after you went live. These types of things are not easy to do. If they were people would be doing them and we would not have spam.

  19. Re:much better out there on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Blind people can navigate the web if the website is built correctly. The blind use screen reading applications. They read the text portion of a site out load. They then use keyboard commands to select links. Images are described using their alt text.

  20. Re:This is a very hard problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    Simple things like image processing

    Are off limits and would be banned by this campaign. They are looking for test that can be solved by blind people.

    That is a pretty simplified example, but you can find these all over the place and they are fairly easy to create.

    How are these easy to create? To create these questions a program would need to start out with an answer. In this case white. It would then need to randomly generate a unique question that has never been asked before whose answer is white. This question would need to be easy for humans to solve. But it would need to be impossible to solve by the program that just generated the question. Ohh and you need to generate millions of these question answer pairs everyday. It also needs to be done quickly. People don't want to wait longer than a second for the CAPTCHA to load.

  21. Re:much better out there on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    A blind person can not solve any of those captchas. This campaign would ban those captchas as well.

  22. Re:sounds like a wetware problem on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    math is a terrible example. a spambot can do addition better than a human can.

  23. Re:Not at all on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    You need problems that are generated by computer that are hard for a computer to answer. In your example the computer program rendering the image must understand perspective, english grammer, and handiness.

  24. Re:Not impressed on 10 Wearable Habitats To Shelter You From the Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Your 3D printer works when the power is out? It uses all natural resins for "ink".

  25. What are they going to call it? on Microsoft Will Have To Rename SkyDrive · · Score: 3, Funny
    Anything without the word Sky in it. So not "DriveSky"

    Synonyms: blast, breath, breeze, draft, heavens, ozone, puff, sky, stratosphere, troposphere, ventilation, waft, whiff, wind, zephyr

    ZephyrDrive, PuffDrive, BreezeDrive