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  1. Re:Finally! on Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux · · Score: 1

    Some sort of chimeric Linux, Windows and Mac botnet. Would hate to be the one who has to sit down and give it a clever name.

  2. Re:Who needs to hunt down textbooks in Finland? on Copyright Lobby Targets "Pirate Bay For Books" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Who goes to the library anymore. I download 80% of the textbooks I need from Piratebay. Saves me 1000's a year.

  3. Re:Already there on F-Secure Suggests Ditching Adobe Reader For Free PDF Viewers · · Score: 1

    Adobe routinely takes 1.5x the amount of memory that foxxit needs to open the same set of documents. Even with 8 gigs of memory that makes a difference when you are dealing with dozens of documents opened at once.

  4. Re:Outdoor or indoor? on Should Network Cables Be Replaced? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you install cables outside in pipe with good insulation they should last 10-15 years with few problems.

  5. Re:Seems kinda obvious. on Game Retailers Hurting Themselves With Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Borders advertises their online presence in their stores. I personally stopped buying paper books about 3 years ago.

  6. I enjoy Quine and Popper on Philosophies and Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I would go with Lisp for them.

  7. Re:De-facto benchmark on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought all your hippy orgies in your communes would keep you warm you socailists.

  8. Re:Actually, it would take 6 windmills on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 2, Informative

    SoCal, Phoenix and Vegas. They use an insane amount of electricity per year with A/C mandatory or people start dying of heatstroke.

  9. For those with ebook readers on J.G. Ballard Dies at Age 78 · · Score: 3, Informative

    All of his works are on Piratebay and since copyrights should be nullified upon death, enjoy.

  10. Re:Slow as usual... on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    That will not hide your geographical location though.

  11. Re:AVI codecs are patented too on Why There's No iTunes For Movies · · Score: 1

    And 10's of millions of people choose to break the law. Doesn't sound like much of a law to me.

  12. Re:Hooray! on Pirate Bay Court Loss Won't Stop the Flow of Files · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lol, they used the same line of reasoning when TV came out. There were scare campaigns that there would never be any more media because TV would allow people to watch things for free.

  13. Re:non-tech Chief Technology Officer on Obama Appoints Non-Tech Guy As CTO · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is not fallacy in his thinking it is ambition. O'Reilly is putting himself out there as someone who can be trusted by this new CTO for calming down the hordes of geeks out there who have experience dealing with CTO folk who do not know an IP packet from a ZIP drive. Seriously as someone who has been in multiple startups with good and bad CTO folk the best ones imho are always those who retired from a tech job and than got an MBA later in life not the MBA who learns tech on the job.

  14. Re:A lot of geeks are libertarian leaning on Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, so go beat up a priest with a baseball bat, wham 10-15 years free medical care.

  15. Re:Gotta upgrade to 8.10 first on Ubuntu 9.04 RC Released · · Score: 1

    Lol, who cares? All my computers at home hibernate after no use for 2 hours. It has saved me 30-40 bucks a month in electricity costs that is a new 24" monitor every year or 2 sushi dinners a month. I don't think I have a single computer that is on 24 hours a day anymore at home and I love it.

  16. Re:Heat energy on Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if you put it in a freezer and wait 20 minutes it will still melt in your mouth all over again.

  17. Re:Read through his posts... on Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies · · Score: 1

    Yeah and when they do that you may or may not be able to xfer your prescriptions from the pharmacy to another pharmacy. One of my mates got his account canceled for "abusing" the return policy when he brought in and exchanged the same 60" television 3 times in less than a month because the caps they used in the LCD were so cheap one of them blew after only being on for 5 minutes.

      BTW, if you have an LCD that won't turn on that is the most likely cause. I replaced some of the cheap caps on an old blown LCD with some solid caps I had laying around and it is one of my favorite monitors now.

  18. Re:You canadians need a regulator with some teeth on Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing · · Score: 1

    So do banks. Some banks live off overdraft fees and ATM surcharges, wait all of them do.

  19. Re:Academics To Predict Future! on Academics To Predict Next Twitter and Its Pitfalls · · Score: 1

    At least they are not calling themselves futurists.

  20. Re:economics and variability on Computer-Controlled Cargo Sailing Vessels Go Slow, Frugal · · Score: 1

    It would take over 24 hours to dismantle a nuclear reactor to get to the fuel rods, that is if they have the proper tools, techs and a dry dock. More than enough time for a SEAL team to respond.

  21. Re:sure it is on College Police Think Using Linux Is Suspicious Behavior · · Score: 1

    Ok, enough of the anecdotes.

    Domestic Violence in Police Families

    Sadism from police officers in dealing with children

    Racism in police forces across the US

    Sorry, don't have those problems with my engineering peers. Do you think anyone else could get away with this sort of shit, like pinning down 8 year old/54 lb girl and handcuffing her for wearing a hoodie with cow ears to class? We would never tolerate such individuals but it seems police departments are rife with them. I think they should be required to wear video and audio monitoring while on the job in all situations and be unable to arrest anyone unless they had those devices functioning. We will see very quickly what kind of people we are dealing with who choose to wear or hide behind the badge.

  22. Re:Marketing fail on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    It is at least some sort of future ethnography of southern cal.

  23. Eh, I already quit on World of Warcraft 3.1 Patch Brings Dual-Specs, New Raid · · Score: 1

    Maybe I am just getting too old but it was becoming more and more a chore to do anything in that game. Dual spec should of been released years ago, the RPG element needs expansion and for fuck's sake fix all the old 60's and 70's end game content so people actually want to play it. 30-40% of the game no one even plays anymore because you can get better gear questing in the 60+ or 70+ zones than doing old end game stuff. In other words heroic difficulty dungeons and raid instances need to have their loot tables redone in respect of the new expansions.

  24. Re:I have a feeling.... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, behind a Squid proxy on OpenBSD knock yourself out.

  25. Re:My advice to string theory on Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this would be much more easily explained using the concepts of topological string theory. I'm sure a 200 page paper on it is something most of us read in our spare time, lol. How many of you even got beyond Linear Algebra and Discrete Math?

    IMHO, the shadow analogy is fine for layman. I have used something similar in trying to explain Hilbert spaces to undergrads and to my knowledge the analogy is used in textbooks on the subject.