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  1. Re:Really? on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of stuff getting in the engines or catching on airspeed probes or something. Aside from that, yeah, the typical consumer drone will get brushed aside pretty handily

  2. Re:Really? on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    birds hear better and dodge better

  3. Re:"Other types of electromagnetic radiation" on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    yes, as long as the mirrors aren't backed with silver.

  4. Re:No support for dynamic address assignment?!? on IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 · · Score: 2

    It doesn't; it's capable of picking out an address that doesn't conflict with anything else on the same segment. But then you don't know which address is Bob's phone and which is Fred's, so you can't tell who to fire for downloading cat videos.

  5. Re:Makes sense on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 1

    I had never heard of Lush when I lived on the east coast, but they're in a number of malls in the SF bay area, so it may just be regional.

  6. Re:When it's quite inconvenient... on When Will Your Hard Drive Fail? · · Score: 2

    most failures aren't enough to qualify as really destroying the drive. Unless it catches on fire, I suppose, but then you have other issues to worry about.

  7. Re:IMAX is a brand? on IMAX Tries To Censor Ars Technica Over SteamVR Comparison · · Score: 1

    Is there a theater with a big ass multi story curved screen that is not an IMAX? I haven't heard of anyone else doing that.

  8. Re:No Story Here on IMAX Tries To Censor Ars Technica Over SteamVR Comparison · · Score: 1

    it's good until someone else makes an mp3 player, puts "iPod" on the box, and Apple loses the suit because the term has become generic. After that it's bad for Apple because their name gets associated with cheap crap.

  9. Re:choose what standard to violate on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 2

    one of the links from that page talks about how using custom timezone files you can use non-leap seconds and still translate to accurate real-world values. I'm not terribly familiar with time keeping protocols; installing ntp and pointing it at a server is about as far as I can manage. Do you see a problem with the approach laid out at "Correct precision handling of leap seconds using code already on POSIX systems "?

  10. Does anyone want their div by zero errors to result in anything other than zero?

    Yes.

    No.

    File not found.

  11. Re:The ruling is pretty scary (IANAL) on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    so they have to screen comments enough to evaluate whether they're illegal. ("easily distinguished" still requires _some_ effort.) And that's not pre-moderation how exactly?

  12. Re:There is a balance between article 8 and 10 on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    So they're saying "we're not saying you have to moderate, just that Estonia is allowed to tell you that you have to moderate."

  13. Re:Bizarro world on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie

  14. Re:Dear EU Courts, on European Court: Websites Are Responsible For Users' Comments · · Score: 1

    nah, just start with food libel laws and then extend them a bit to protect some other segment from commentary, and then a bit more, and then...

  15. Re:Back Doors Are Like Anal Sex on US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack · · Score: 1

    there goes jpegs in email, I guess (they don't compress well, and can have data embedded using steganography). That ought to go over well. Also video files.

  16. Re:Back Doors Are Like Anal Sex on US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack · · Score: 1

    yeah, but then folks will just send cat pictures with steganographically embedded data.

  17. Re:Linus isn't blunt. on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 1

    can you provide a pointer to that quote?

  18. Re:Well, yes... on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 1

    The list of six styles I could find (wikipedia, of course) doesn't mention coercive. Do you have a pointer to a different list?

  19. Re:...the company refused to pay royalties... on Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet · · Score: 1

    Apple can afford defense lawyers.

    And they actually show up to court instead of allowing a default judgement, but mostly the money.

  20. totally pedantic nit: I think you mean "pay", not "reimburse".

  21. Re:Sony - are you listening? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    Emulating a PPC is a lot easier than emulating a Cell system, unfortunately. I'll cross my fingers but not hold my breath.

  22. Re:What? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    You're (partly) right, I found out some more last night. MS can wrap the game in a 360 emulator blob and run the whole shebang as an xbone application. It would not surprise me if there's some low level translation stuff going on and the emulation is more about the environment than the cpu, but MS is the one doing the work.

  23. Re:Compatibility List on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    after finding out more, MS will do the "port", which is primarily wrapping the software in a 360 emulator. Pretty cool, actually :)

  24. Re:Restautantosaur on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    I bet I can guess what next year's Hells Kitchen intro is going to look like

  25. Re:What? on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's more of "if the publisher has a port, we'll let you download it for free if we can tell you already have the old version". How hard it is to port I don't know. Could just be a recompile and relink, if MS makes compatible drivers etc available.