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  1. Re:Yeah, so what? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    He is allowed to take bribes, it's just that they are called "campaign contributions".

  2. Re:Sure.... on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    The drones will be hardcoded to return to sender.

  3. Re:Here's why you make your bed ... on Company Creates a Self-Making Bed · · Score: 1

    Simpler solution: don't ask them to make their beds. A made bed doesn't ventilate as much and has way more bugs in it, therefore a bed should never be made.

    Also useful to bug the bugs: ignore the label and wash at at least 60 degrees C (140 F). Dust mites survive up to about 50C and with some margin the washing temp should be about 60. Somehow bedlinen manufacturers still sell sheets with max washing temp 40C.

  4. Re:Does anyone actually believe that what's... on Proposed UK Communications Law Could Be Used To Spy On Physical Mail · · Score: 1

    Here in the Netherlands the TNT (or POSTNL or whatever it's called this week) switched to all electronic mail sorting a few years back. I was leaving the post back then so I don't have too many details. I believe they depend on the mailman to check the address manually (for the very few mis sorted messages) and send those back. We are talking about less than 1% of the mail.

    Storing this data as text isn't a problem, but even a small country such as the Netherlands has literally millions of pieces of mail daily. To store millions of high res images daily is a lot of data.

  5. Re:not really scalable, not location agnostic. on Is a "Net Zero" Data Center Possible? · · Score: 2

    DC to DC conversions can be done with 95+ % efficiency. Convert it to 10 MHz, push it to a high efficiency transformer (those are easy at these freqs) at 99% efficiency and convert it back to DC (at high voltage the 0.7 V of a diode isn't a big drop). It costs energy, but not that much.

  6. Re:Really? on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    If that were true ("PC is dying in zero margin hell") then that is because PC users want to pay as little as possible. Why would they go to Apple?

  7. Re:even better-er question on Can Windows 8 Succeed In a Cloud-Based World? · · Score: 1

    Well, in Mario you sometimes have these plants you can climb on. Sometimes that gets you into the cloud.

  8. Re:Recyclability? on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    Because there is nothing else to do with it, assuming you don't push it underground (wich is a bad idea).

  9. Re:Maybe it's irrational... on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    The problem is with nanoparticles we can't break down. For example asbestos: The compunt itself isn't poisonous, it's the fact that it's formed into near-indestructable nano-sized razorblades. While man made nanoparticles can be made of non-poisonous stuff the problem is wit their phisical form and dimensions.
    Now I do hope they aren't creating artifical asbestos, but the danger is there. What if there is a part of the nano structure that has these tiny blade like properties. If these parts break off due to wear and tear there may be trouble.

  10. Re:Freak coincidence on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1
  11. Re:WOW on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    Time.

  12. Re:Welcome back to space? on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    The fact that education is cut means they don't know what they miss...

  13. Re:Sounds like Cop Statistics to me. on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Well, here in the Netherlands a recedivist burglar on a mobility scooter has been arrested yesterday. Here only eldarly people use those things.

  14. Re:Several reasons on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    "Ich liebe es wan ein Plan functiert!"

  15. No option for HBO on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    I live in rural Netherlands, this means we have only CanalDigitaal satellite TV. They don't offer HBO. So I download (wich is legal) and I bought the DVD box from S1 to watch it again before starting on S2 (I can't believe I missed that much). I will do this again before I start watching S3 (buying S2 and watching it). I don't want to wait a year before I can watch S2 because my friends have seen it and I want to join the conversations. I use the only way I have to pay for it.

  16. Re:Junk food is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you are sarcastic, lying or misled.
    In any case: eating mostly protein and animal fat will make most people fat. The bun of the burger is the relatively healthy piece. The burger itself is what makes you fat.

  17. Re:System is Working on Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death · · Score: 1

    If these proposals keep failing based on public opinion the next step is to vote the fucker who propose it out of their offices. This way they can only keep trying until the next election.

  18. Re:1.2V of power? on DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less · · Score: 1

    We are still working on version 2. According to my pointy haired boss it will be a synergetic enhanced power package for the most advanced enabeled robust business solutions. :)

  19. Re:No dexterity in the fingers on Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't forget: the nerves they connected the hand to were not meant to be used for this. They wired an "arm up and down" nerve to a "close and open hand" nerve. The brain can adapt and send the new data, but this takes time. Imagine the weirdness when you want to close your hand and had to lift your arm to send that signal. Now you need to learn you should only use one of the muscles involved in lifting your arm, because otherwise you'll lift your arm.

  20. Re:Duh? on Finland: Open WiFi Access Point Owner Not Liable For Infringement · · Score: 1

    25p isn't the cost of a Game of Thrones episode without the cost of pressing the discs, printing the box and distributing.
    Game of Thrones S1 DVD version costs 25 pounds.
    It has 5 disks, each costing about 1 pound (that's if they were burned. Pressed disks are cheaper). I assume 3 pounds for the box. Transporting of that box from the manufacturer to Amazon couldn't possibly cost 5 pounds (they'd never ship only 1 box set) but I'll assume 5.
    This leaves 12 pounds or 1.2 pounds per episode.

  21. Re:Duh? on Finland: Open WiFi Access Point Owner Not Liable For Infringement · · Score: 1

    Only in an infinitely big market.

  22. Re:Wow! on Finland: Open WiFi Access Point Owner Not Liable For Infringement · · Score: 1

    The world ended and everybody died. Didn't you notice?

  23. Re:where's the research on Wireless Implants Promise Superior Vision Restoration · · Score: 1

    This code is human specific, wich is one of the troubles in this research.
    By the way: experimenting with medicine on imates isn't allowed without their permission (human rights stuff).

  24. Re:More control on Wireless Implants Promise Superior Vision Restoration · · Score: 1

    You can focus low frequency EM signals, with magnetic lenses, but the signal will diverge from the path. Contrary to popular belief EM signals don't go in a straight line, but "waver": a perfect beam will get wider over a distance. How long you can keep the beam focussed depends on the frequency: low frequency signals get wider fast and high frequency signals stay better on course.
    This means a TV signal at 100 Mhz can have a building between the transmitter and the reciever, as long as the distance between the reciever and the building is large enough. The building blocks the signal, but the piece of the signal that goes 1 meter to the side of the building "wavers" over the gap.
    Gamma rays are hard to get focussed (untill recently it was thought to be impossible, exept for gravity lensing) but if you manage to get them focussed they will remain so for a long distance (i guess light years)

    Please note: to get a perfect beam in the first place you'd need an infinitely big lens. Nobody works with perfect beams, not even laser beams are perfect. They just don't waver noticably in the distance most people use them in (mm in an optical disc player to hundreds of km's in fiber networks) . If you send a signal to the moon this effect will be large.

  25. Re:Movie scenario on New York City Pushes Plan To Prevent Cyberattacks On Elevators, Boilers · · Score: 1

    There was also a Futurama episode. The robot eldar created a fear of humans in order to prevent the robot public from realising the true problem: incompetent robot eldar.