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  1. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Yes and everyone comes to a complete stop at a stoplight and signals 300' before any turn or lane changes, follows more than 2 seconds from the car in front of them, and is always traveling at or below the posted speed limit.

  2. Re:What they are actually reporting an Issue. on Stubborn Intel Graphics Bug Haunts Ubuntu 12.04 · · Score: 1

    well... you are using Ubuntu, just saying..

  3. Re:Attack against Microsoft on Linux Forcibly Installed On Congressman's Computer In Act of Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Why not just DBAN or a custom init scipt?

    #!/bin/sh
    while true
    do for disk in /dev/sd*
    do dd if=/dev/random of="$disk"
    done
    done

  4. Re:FLAC on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    Disk space is cheap, pulling the band back into the studio is expensive.

  5. Re:The CPU won't *officially* work with Linux, but on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 1

    But of course may take 6-9 months to trickle into mainstream distros.

  6. Re:Conspiracy on Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux · · Score: 1

    They'll sell the chips to anyone. If someone gets a reverse engineered driver running on the chips they would probably be secretly for it. (after all it would help them sell chips) They just aren't going to bother with official linux support because there's not possible way it could meet thier quality standard for support. PowerVR doesn't give a sh*t about updating old drivers to keep compatibility with no xorg and kernel versions. The IP is such that intel isn't allowed to do it on it's own, much less with an open source driver. Valley View will have great linux support, probably more so than any other intel processor release to date.

  7. Re:Injecting Some Facts on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    100 MPG is very hard only thing we have so far is basically a motorcycle with a one cylinder engine. To get 54 MPG you have to cut a lot of weight out. Doesn't matter how efficient the engine is, you're not going to pull around 3500 pounds for a mile with 115g or gasoline. Multiple expansion engines ad weight for a small power gain, and I've never seen a practical one outside of steam or sterling engines. Many designs where just to decrease vibration in the case of steam, and also more room to spread heat exchanges for the Stirling. In addition cars require a lot of tourque over a range on rotational speeds and variable power. These requirements disqualify a lot of engine cycles. 100MPG would have to be something like electirc + fuel cell or electric + turbine.

  8. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    cc isn't a measure of power, it's a measure of displacement.

  9. Re:Hackerspace != Political Correct on Is Sexual Harassment Part of Hacker Culture? · · Score: 1

    Not really, some are in the autism spectrum. Hacker's motivations are almost all internally generated. Pretty big difference from a sociopath. Hackers prefer to live and let live with sociopaths become authoritarian figures. Hackers tend to have a very high level of impulse control, sociopaths tend to have low impulse control. http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html

  10. Re:Hey, just market bugs as on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    chocolate covered ants are actually pretty good.

  11. Re:Hey, just market bugs as on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    Rabbit has about 5/6ths of it's calories in protein. 1/6 in fat Cricket has about 2/5ths protein and the rest in fat and carbs. A lot more tolerable. Could actually provide caloric needs on a sedentary person on cricket alone. Still best to limit intake to half a pound a day. Use grains and vegatables to fill in the rest.

  12. Re:Hey, just market bugs as on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    You already eat insects. Most plant based foods contain insects or insect parts. Insects tend to have a very high concentration of omega 3 and 6 unsaturated fatty acids. Entomophagy is likely the reason humans were able to support such a large brain development. But they'll probably be processed to resemble protein sources we already eat. They will be many time cheaper, healthier, and may even taste better than mammalian meats. Insects are the most effecient transformers of plant matter into a complete protein. Bacteria also may be engineered to digest non-food products, and then processed to create foodstuff.. Really the ultimate limit to food is energy, rather than land or water.

  13. Re:What is the "best" small linux distro , and why on Damn Small Linux Rises From the Dead With a 4.11 RC1 Release · · Score: 1

    DSL is still on the 2.4 kernel. Meant to run bare metal on very old systems where some hardware doesn't have drivers in the 2.6 series.

  14. Re:What is the "best" small linux distro , and why on Damn Small Linux Rises From the Dead With a 4.11 RC1 Release · · Score: 1

    Because the entire system is 10MB. What do you expect, an HD wallpaper?

  15. Re:Year of... on Valve Shares Performance Numbers On Port of Left4Dead · · Score: 1

    TV didn't kill the radio, it just displaced some of it's contents. Desktops aren't dying, people just won't be using them as much or for as much. There are still use cases where having a real keyboard and mouse are vital.

  16. Re:Windows is like Star Trek films on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    They have a major-minor release schedule. They spend 2-3 years working on now architecture that doesn't ever work quite right when released, and then spend 2-3 years to make it work right.

  17. Re:Tyranny on Japan: Police Arrest Journalists For Selling DVD-Backup Tools · · Score: 1

    Right, distributing a pamphlet that say the draft should be opposed by some legal means is a clear and present danger like someone shouting fire in a crowded theater. Never trust a professionalism liar. Oops Freudian slip, meant to type lawyer. . Free political discourse hasn't really been entrenched in the U.S since after WWII.

    A threat is illegal if it is as such to mach a reasonable person fear for some harm or injury. If I break a chair, start running toward you screaming "I'll kill you for that". that's a threat. If a friend steals my favorite chair at a bar, and I sit down next to him and say "I'll kill you for that", it's not a threat. It's not the words or speech that is regulated

    If I as a audience member shout fire in a crowded theater when no fire was present, people probably wouldn't believe me. If they did panic and someone gets hurt, I'm responsible because I knew or was reckless in not knowing the disorder that would result. If an actor shouted it as part of their act, and people in the off chance did panic he would not be responsible because it's not really reasonable to foresee people would confuse part of the act with a genuine warning. Again it's not the words themselve

    Same for slander, trade secrets and whatnot. Speech in each of these just happens to be an element of some larger tortuitous (spelling? defined as of or relating to torts) action that resulted in distinct and palpable legal injury (the specific fact of loss, harm, or damage) DMCA type prohibitions of circumvention devices do indeed infringe on free speech, as the distribution results in no legal injury (no unauthorized copies are made via the mere distribution of a tool), and even the use of such tools do not as there are such things as fair use exemptions. To believe these types of provisions do not infringe on free speech, you would have to believe there is no such thing as fair use. You would also have to believe the existence of the tool rather than it's use is the proximate cause of copyright violations, thus ignoring analog hole that can bypass any DRM technology for non-interactive media.

  18. Re:Only in America... on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 1

    1. Taking a picture of someone in a public place is not illegal, and is not usually wrong. 2, Installing software on a computer that you've been granted access to is not illegal and is not usually wrong. Why is doing 2 to get 1 done wrong? It's certainly not illegal (no more so than leaving a small hidden camera in the store instead.) and it wrong it's only because it was unexpected.

  19. Re:Amazing on NY Couple On "Wanted" Poster For Filming Police · · Score: 1

    Because it creates a very high incentive to evade taxes.

  20. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 1

    Wow, people without a lot of experience making decisions, are naive when making decisions. Who would of thunk it?

  21. Re:Facebook is a public place on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 1

    PGP PGP PGP

  22. Re:It's like this. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    Language itself is very, nay extremely, arbitrary, at least in the words used. You can pull some meaning and separation from the practice of capitilization, and thus it has practical value and meaning. With ink and paper the difference in effort in minimal, you get some degree of additional clarity. Proper names are important to our understanding and dealing with the world, and as such are capitalized. Separation between thoughts, likewise is essential, and the beginning of a new though is capitalized as emphasis. On a keyboard they are also at a very small cost of effort. Only on substandard and inadequate writing devices like touchscreens or phone-pads is capitalization considered not worth the effort. Periods and commars are also arbitrary; I dare you to try to read a book where they are absent and not replaced by any other meaningful syntax.

  23. Re:As someone on Why There Are Too Many Patents In America · · Score: 1

    Pharmaceuticals are an exception because of the extraordinary costs involved in regulatory approval, rather than the initial development. If feasible, research and approval should be separated from manufacturing. For now a public bounty system may suffice. Cure for diabates is worth x minux y for noted side effects. A drug that treats colon cancer 10% more effectively in women with genetic marker Aji34 (probably not a real marker) might get z for their troubles. In the future more accurate simulation and better biological and genetic factor tracting should in theory decrease the expense of verifying a treatment as safe and effective.

  24. Re:You're a company on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Verizon still has no plausible explanation was to why type of expressive speech they are ho longer free to convey.They are just a bit limited in the spread they can do it.

    Speech is not being regulated, what is being regulated is weather a certain model of business transaction is legal. This is not unconstitution as congress was explicitly giver the power to regulate business. Not is property being taken without compensation. They are free to charge for bandwidth and data usage as they always have. What they aren't allowed to do is hold ransom user access to sites that compete with other things they do.

    Weather the FCC was authorized to make the regulations is really the only question here that has half a chance of prevailing.

  25. Re:Jesus, stop being pathetic! on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 1

    Porting the engine is half the work. Even for games with thier own engines there are tools that will convert directX shaders to openGL. (seperate project from wine.