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  1. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    The problem is that Shanghai has very different working hours than Europe. So if someone from Europe calls during business hours, it will always be in the night of Shanghai. This was one of the main selling points of Ireland beside the low corporate taxes.

  2. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 2, Informative

    During the Clinton years, the U.S. was actually repaying its debts.

  3. Re:No. on Pluto Might Be Bigger Than Eris · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The argument was as arbitrary as any others. It was basicly "which property is common to both Pluto and Eris, but not found in the other objects traditionally considered planets?".

    Pluto always was a weird object to be called a planet, with his density somewhere in the nowhere between the earthlike planets and the gas giants, and being pretty similar to the large moons of the gas giants.

    But only when Eris was found, there was a second objekt thought to be similar enough to Pluto to define a new class of "plutolike objects", which allowed Pluto to be demoted from planet status.

    So yes, the classification of Pluto in the class of "plutolike objects" (pardon, "Dwarf planets") seems to be on pretty firm ground, considering there are now more objects known in that class (Makemake for instance), though Eris now seems to be a weirdo within this class.

  4. Re:Uh... on Mob-Sourcing — the Prejudice of Crowds · · Score: 1

    And then he wrote a comment on craigslist explaining how a non business can accept credit cards, and this article did get deleted.

  5. Re:Article was ridiculously bad on Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Windows XP was descendet from Windows NT which in turn has its roots in VMS and BSD.

  6. Re:How about holding them to one qualifcations std on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    Whenever two entities in non-english speaking countries have a business relation with each other, they will settle sooner or later on one of their respective languages, because it just skips one translation step and thus one source of misunderstandings. And then profiency in at least one of both languages is a necessity.

  7. Re:Amazing failsafe on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 1

    It needs more genetic code to prepare for both situations, and thus it creates more situations where something might go wrong.

    It's the same reason amphibians have a comparatively large genome - they have to code for the body functions at different temperature levels. Warm-blooded animals like birds and mammals need only one code path for that.

  8. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 2

    But the winner got the Will of the People. All people who didn't vote were essentially saying: "I don't care who wins", which is nothing else than silently agreeing with the majority of those who voted.

    You might by not voting mean something different, but you weren't actually saying it.

  9. Re:What is the point? on New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued · · Score: 1

    He was for rejecting the case because it could be argued that the accident alone wasn't sufficient for the death of the victim. My grand father broke his hip when he turned, and he died a few weeks later after surgery. So if someone was calling him at the moment and he was turning his head and breaking his hip, would you consider calling a name reason enough to pursuit a lawsuit?

  10. Re:More restrictive spec could have averted this on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    This won't work if at the moment the user's connection breaks, times out or whatever causes the transfer to fail and he's trying to restart the transaction. And it is susceptible to replay attacks.

  11. Re:More restrictive spec could have averted this on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    Then describe those "other means".

  12. Re:It's not like the DNA was already functioning on US Says Genes Should Not Be Patentable · · Score: 1

    There are genuine inventions. For instance the real numbers and specifically the completeness axiom is invented, not discovered. There are several ways to define completeness (Cauchy-series, Bolzano-Weierstrass, Dirichlet), and all of them are invented. The discovery is, that all of them are equivalent - if you set one of them as axiomatically true, you can prove the others.

  13. Re:I'd be happy if we could declare valid cookies on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    You could actually implement that in your server. Throw away any cookies you are not interested in.

  14. Re:More restrictive spec could have averted this on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It was created to allow a site to dispatch some functionality within a session to dedicated computers, let's say a catalog server, a shopping cart server and a cashier server.

  15. Re:Cookies should be replaced on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    But then you run into problems if sessions are to be detached to different servers, because not a single computer answers your requests, but a large server farm, maybe geographically distributed worldwide.

  16. Re:HTML5 on Microsoft's Silverlight Strategy 'Has Shifted' · · Score: 1

    Actually, USB is an Intel designed standard and came with the ATX board design and the BX430 chipset, also from Intel.

  17. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But you know that it depends on the actual structure of the silicon crystal how much X silicon atoms weigh?

  18. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    And it depends on their respective type of forming a solid object how much they actually weigh. A crystal of n atoms is a little lighter than n atoms of the same isotope as a fluid or a gas.

  19. Re:What do you expect? on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    Main Problem being: What if the hardware of your XP box dies and new hardware is not supported by XP? You are running XP virtualized anyway then.

  20. Re:What do you expect? on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    We actually have some old Win98 boxes running because of old administration software which only runs on IE 5.5...

  21. Re:What do you expect? on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    People are willing to put in the money and effort to try and virtualize IE 6 but the same amount could probably have gone in to upgrading their web applications to run on IE8.

    Not necessarily. If the web application you are running within IE 6 is for instance the management interface of some machine (lets say a large telephony switch or a CAD/CAM system), you are not in a position to ever replace that web application and roll your own.

    You are stuck with either supporting IE 6 on at least some machines necessary to maintain the machine, or you replace your machine with a new one - which might get much more expensive than keeping IE 6 virtualized somewhere.

  22. Re:Figures on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    Damn!

  23. Re:There is still long way to go on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Then you should stop exporting all your grain to England, as it was in Ireland, and feed your population.

  24. Re:Figures on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 2

    What happened to an empty ballot and a pen to mark the choosen candidate?

  25. Re:Misconceptions fueled by misconceptions... on Global Warming's Silver Lining For the Arctic Rim · · Score: 1

    That's why I wrote "common knowledge" and not "scientific consensus". There is also the common knowledge, that "summa cum laude" means "with highest praise", while to a philologist it means "everything with praise".