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  1. Re:This manufacturer may have changed the numbers. on What's the Carbon Footprint of Bicycling? · · Score: 1

    Nor is there anything on his website to describe that either, after a quick gleaning and reading of the marketing pdf. I therefore blame Wired for a bad article and instead link the homepage of said bikes for further convenience.

  2. Re:Happy FF8 user here on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    I'm currently using Aurora (v.7) for add-on compatibility as a convenience. I've not got much that doesn't work with it. Currently got Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Ghostery, HTTPS everywhere and Noscript working, so I'm happy. Hopefully it'll roll over to 8 soon.

  3. Re:Where? on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 2

    The shark rides shotgun with its head out of the window.

  4. Re:Reality check on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 2

    A fair number of the rioters appear to be working class youths. This idea that it's a class war is a bunch of bullshit.

    FTFY. No such animal as the middle class right now. There's working class that don't, and those that do, and then the rich. Nothing in the middle.

  5. Re:I can't imagine this will be upheld... on Bethesda Tells Minecraft Creator: Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    That would be like saying you can't call a game "Blade" or "Mount" because of "Mount & Blade,"

    I'm gonna have a game called Mountain Blade and Mytan Magic (or possibly He Rose of Mytan Magic).

  6. Re:Heat Sink on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    Pfft, just point a few Delta fans at it. It'll be fine. Anyone within a mile will be deaf, but that's fine too.

  7. Re:Yea, but what happens.... on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    The computer implodes and there's a fire.

  8. Easy... on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    I always thought the best method of getting out of infinite loops was to not have infinite loops. Everybody loves watchdogs and timers but they would be a reactive fix rather than a proactive fix.

  9. Re:Hypocritical decisions on Blizzard Reveals Diablo 3 (Real Money) Auction House · · Score: 1

    No I find it unlikely this will ever move "backwards" (sideways?) into WoW. WoW has too larger of a fanbase, too many players to try something like this so late in the game. On the other hand I do find this a feasible large-scale test of using Gold + Currency trading in a Blizzard game. Yes other people have done it first, but this is Blizzard trying it for themselves. The minor testing was of course, mini-pets in wow and mounts, which confer no in game advantage. I honestly believe they'll stick to that mantra with WoW. This is the next step mind you and I think it is something that may be on the books for Blizzard's next MMO (project Titan). They could feasibly add Currency + Gold auctions to the new MMO without the outrage that they would earn adding it to WoW.

  10. PopCap sells soul for $1.3B on EA Buys Bejeweled-Maker PopCap In Deal Worth Up To $1.3 Billion · · Score: 2

    Cow being prepared for milking.

  11. Re:Huge on Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant · · Score: 1

    Yeah this is massive. I remember watching a Horizon (BBC) episode on growing hearts from scaffold and stem-cell and having them function. It was beyond amazing. This is exactly where the money needs to go. Growing organs, if it beats graft-vs-host is one of the biggest potential ways forward.

  12. Re:Dealbreaker on Microsoft Launches Office 365 Cloud Suite · · Score: 1

    It also, can't play crysis.

  13. Re:How much lower could speeds go? on Nevada Authorizes Development of Driverless Car Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think he means the bunch - spread - bunch - spread of traffic slowing and speeding up that you get with lane changers, idiot drivers, middle lane managers and so on. Breaking, when it's busy can have a mile long knock-on effect on cars behind you. Of course, when there's noone on the road, it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. We as drivers, are fairly bad at being a swarm and acting as one. We're all very selfish. I'll take computer managed driving on motorways any day.

  14. Re:good luck with that... on Tracking Bracelets for Autistic Kids and Senior Citizens · · Score: 1

    Confused older people with screw and fiddle with it until they break it or remove it by any means necessary.

    As someone with a dementia sufferer in the family, I can attest to that. We put key-finder devices on keys, handbag and coat (things that get lost - read: hidden) alot and need to be found. They have all been removed and nearly destroyed, until I discovered hiding them under linings means they don't get found by said person, allowing us to find lost handbags a little easier.

  15. A file within a file... on Trojan Goes After Bitcoins · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Encryption! (Sorry, couldn't resist - and I know it's not)

    But honestly, if you're using this system for any sort of money handling, then leaving it, the equivilent of lying around, is not a good idea. Secure your money properly, use common sense. Also I believe it's even on BitCoin's good practise list of recommendations. Encrypt your wallet and keep a backup elsewhere incase a nasty trojan erases it. Good data retention practise applies to everything.

  16. Re:Time for hardware security. on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    Something similar to a Yubikey then? There are a few guys around here who use one, but not myself currently.

  17. Re:$500,000 in bit coin is almost .... on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 0

    You might be able to afford a PS4 with that.

  18. Re:Cool, but needs more guarding on Australian-Built Hoverbike Prepares For Takeoff · · Score: 1

    if you ducked under it though, you'd be fine, if a little breezy.

  19. Re:Breaking on Australian-Built Hoverbike Prepares For Takeoff · · Score: 2

    Just rev up and give him a hair cut on the way over.

  20. Re:WTF? on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm fairly sure being Sarah Palin is a crime against humanity.

  21. Re:Magical solves everything... on Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes forums are essentially, twitter I guess, just with less publicity. I just mentioned it in that way for the technologies listed (email, camels, cups and string) but your point stands, of course.

  22. Re:Magical solves everything... on Twitter Helps Astronomers Zero-In On M51 Supernova · · Score: 1

    Probably data path propagation, where the former three are mostly one to one (mailing lists are one to a finite number) where as twitter messages are one to many (larger finite number - towards infinity). I don't really know how to describe that further, but you know what I mean. It's not magic, just slightly different.

  23. Re:Blame it on IT on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I find it unlikely this is a system implemented by some teacher. There must be some "IT" involved somewhere.

  24. Re:Collapse? on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also think Collapse is more likely. Some major part of the world will destroy itself, either by having a War on Resources (hm, oil rings a bell), secondary major economic collapse, such as government destabilisation in a major western country or some stupendous natural disaster caused by the human desire to obtain more resources to survive (go drill in Yellowstone or something). War is probably most likely, paired with an economic collapse tied to the cause of the war.

  25. Re:The webcam light... on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Of course, I was just theorising that it could be hardware enforced, such as being ANDed with, I don't know, Data-Bit0 to control a small circuit with a capacitor buffer of a few dt to prevent it flashing. That's just, some random arbitrary way it could be done that meant it was not controlled by anything other than data being transmitted, and not some software toggle. Personally, that sort of implementation should be mandatory for webcams for this reason. Of course it stops nothing, but it does aid informing the user (if they are even informed of the purpose of the light in the first place).