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  1. Re:Come to Verizon! on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 1, Informative

    Granted, queue can make sense in a CS-type queuing up the theme...

    also in the UK theme... any line of people is a "queue", and entering that line is "queuing up".

    didn't they invent the english language?

  2. Re:Is This Secure? on Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds? · · Score: 1
    if a single imaged host OS is exploited, couldn't they man in the middle the network stream from PXE to the imaging servers to continually protect other servers and have them protect itself?

    i'm not saying it's easy, but this whole discussion steps from the worry of VMWare exploits that no one has proof exist.

    like it or not, some of this financial trading data is surely already transmitted over the internet in some encrypted form... renting out the idle number crunching machines shouldn't be a problem as long as sensitive data is physically removed from the system before the customers are let in.

  3. Re:Is This Secure? on Wall St. Trading Servers To Power Off-Hour Clouds? · · Score: 1

    With just an automated imaging job, there is no reason for the "host OS" to be constant.

    the imaged host OS could be exploited to exploit the local network to alter the automated imaging jobs...

  4. Re:alien-made clocks ? on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    why would they need to?

  5. science journal DUH! on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter if pulsars are more accurate... you'd have to be so far away to observe it, that the photons can get warped by gaseous lenses in between the observation point and the star.

  6. Re:TIOBE methodology is so flawed it's pointless on C Programming Language Back At Number 1 · · Score: 1

    Anyway, if you want to know how popular a particular language/technology is, the simplest - and much more accurate! - way of doing so is to check any popular job search web site. Just keep in mind that preferences vary in different regions, so if you are making career choices, stick to local/national postings, and if you want to see an overall worldwide trend, you have to aggregate data from enough sources.

    how is talking about those numbers any less completely pointless? there could be more jobs for a language because past marketing caused project managers to make bad decisions and systems were built using bad languages that for whatever reason make switching the system to be implemented in another language platform nearly impossible.

    i'd almost always expect the least efficient language to have the most available jobs, because, by definition, they require more resources to get the same job done which ends up leading to more people required to get the same job done.

  7. Re:Beware the key term there: on Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% · · Score: 1

    so from the aspect of the part manager (the user program), there is no change in process (no need for rewrite).... they just send their pilot out who comes back a lot sooner than they thought he would.

  8. Re:Beware the key term there: on Memory Management Technique Speeds Apps By 20% · · Score: 1
    imagine a dynamic construction project on mars... there has to be a process if a part is needed from earth... either the people who need parts will have their own ships, or have make a request for someone else's ship to bring the part to them. depending on the volume of part requests, different approaches become ideal, and any approach will fall victim to a worst case scenario.

    this new approach streamlines a problem of construction managers implementing a process to immediately dispatch a ship to earth every time they need a single screw, and they never keep a supply on hand. this process will put a screw store, with a supply to last far longer than the time between necessary ship trips to earth with free cargo space to lease, right in the ship dock, and flag down pilots before they leave for earth.

    you might wonder how the pilot or part manager never looked around to realize the waste of their process.... but mars doesn't even have an atmosphere yet, WE'RE TOO BUSY!

  9. devils advocate on James Lovelock Suggests Suspending Democracy To Save the World · · Score: 1

    perhaps we need to suspend james lovelock to save democracy

  10. it's about disabling support, not software on Hacker Will Try To Restore Linux Support On PS3 · · Score: 1

    It's unbelievable you would go and flip one, not just on new boxes you are shipping, but on tens of millions already in the field.

    they aren't flipping the switch on the boxes in the field... they are flipping the switch internally on the support... disabling the software in the field is an unfortunate side effect.

  11. sigh.... on Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    and the bloat begins...

  12. Re:How does this work? on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1
    don't you watch dateline? believing you are about to commit an act that is deemed objectionable is the same thing as committing it.

    buy guns.

  13. Re:STFU on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    remember subsection != application

  14. Re:Your rights OFFLINE! on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i think more freudian slip... he could be the bully because it's all in his head.

  15. more excuses from bad coders on The Economics of Perfect Software · · Score: 1

    there are NO excuse for software that offers features that don't function properly.... who implemented the feature? they didn't test it first?

  16. 2 things... on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 1
    i use a tivo HD XL for merging online video streams into my existing dvr playlist, and a mac mini for web browsing, dvds, photos, videos, music. i use the small mac IR remote for controlling dvds, movies, slideshows. i use the microsoft 5000 wiresless desktop keyboard and mouse.

    i keep the mac mini set at 720p most of the time, but switch to 1080p for photos. the tivo can upconvert everything to 1080p, but i keep everything at native. the connections are both HDMI.

  17. Re:great.... on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 1

    why is that funny to you?

  18. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    you are NOTHING.

  19. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    What are you, 13?

    i am 13 in infinitely many unit measurements as i am not 13.

    what.... are you.......... A RETARD?

    WHY ELSE WOULD YOU CARE, RETARD. IRRELEVANT. unless you want to go upstairs and tell mom that a 13 year old just bested you.

    GO BACK TO YOUR CAVE.

  20. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    First, be nice. It's unlikely you were raised by a pack of wolves, so you should have learned that name calling isn't exactly adult behavior.

    FIRST, BE INTELLIGENT.

    i made a statement of opinion, you make statement of command, based on ignorant, provably wrong assumptions.

    you are a RETARD. calling a rose by any other name, and such. go be a retard somewhere else, retard.

  21. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    You're a real prick.

    said the retard...

  22. Re:You need a disc? on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 2, Informative

    netflix made an exclusivity deal with the xbox 360 that expires next year or soon after... i dont have a link, but someone with the wii netflix team already said that once the deal expires, there will be a downloadable app made available.

  23. great.... on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 4, Funny
    now if my tivo HD XL, mac mini, and xbox 360 all crap out, i can still watch streaming netflix in my living room.

    i can finally sleep at night.

  24. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1

    Someday, while you're driving down the road in the fast lane, and you're in my way, I'm going to press that secret button under my dash. The one that sends your car a signal to let it know that a car to the right of it is swerving to the left hard. And when you end up in the ditch, I will drive by laughing, because your silly car just trusts everyone else's.

    first, i believe your drivers license should be revoked for mental instability. second, i never said the cars should blindly trust the other signals... i suggested a trusted mesh network... many signals, combined with the cars own sensors, requiring conspiracy to manipulate. third, i never suggested that cars would steer themselves out of their lane... they would just suggest to the other car that it shouldn't be changing lanes and the other car could choose what to do next... perhaps just a signal on the dashboard similar to "door ajar". decreasing the accelerator is something rev limiters already do.

    if someone was in the left lane and had their right turn signal on, would you fly by them on the right, or trust that they intended to change into that lane? choosing to trust nothing is far worse than choosing to trust something designed with saving lives in mind.

    i'm suggesting making more data available to the electronic hardware that already controls are cars, and more ways to confirm the new data with existing data coupled with human interaction. i am not talking about the video card that broke your 486DX in your mom's basement because your motherboard manufacturer implemented an obscure spec incorrectly.

    retard.

  25. Re:closer to what i'd like in car electronics on GM Unveils Networked Electric Mini Cars · · Score: 1
    RETARD, WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT A PERSONAL COMPUTER. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A CAR WITH A PERSON INSIDE OF IT.

    the standards of implementation are different... just like they are with airplanes THAT ALREADY IMPLEMENT THE FEATURE I'M SUGGESTING.

    you can already press a secret button on your dash to run me off the road... it's the steering wheel. my solution already assumed your car also detected the proximity threshold was being exceeded, and the confirmation signal from the other car is just another piece of data the decision engine can ultimately use.

    go back to your cave.