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  1. Re:There's got to be a way... on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    Aluminum Oxide, AKA Sapphire, is transparent aluminum.

  2. Re:srsly on Ask Slashdot: Transitioning From 'Hacker' To 'Engineer'? · · Score: 1

    Linux used in any critical task would probably require at least some review by any organization relying it (probably including NASA, DoD, Google, Red Hat, IBM, etc).

    Organizations of that size often also get to review closed source code before using the product in question.

  3. Re:Not Surprise for MegaUpload on Megaupload Drops Lawsuit Against Universal Music · · Score: 1

    Why can't the US simply cancel his passport if he's a US citizen?

  4. Re:"Freedom" on Will Secure Boot Cripple Linux Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    How is the efforts of a non-player in the market in anyway anti-competitive? If you want to go after someone go after Apple, they are currently the dominant force in the market and they lock their platform down.

  5. Re:Watch out Indonesia on Totally Drug-Resistant TB Emerges In India · · Score: 1

    In the USA accused people don't go to prison, not sure about Russia, but maybe that's what Americans see when they read statements like that.

  6. Re:Because it's easy on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Wish I was modding today, you said it so well. Licensing should be much stricter and should cost a lot more.

  7. Re:Another security theater excess... on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Any professional driver worth a damn will tell you that fixating on the car ahead is a recipe for disaster, a good driver absolutely has to look down the road and see what's coming up. Tapdancing around doesn't change the fact that someone entrusted with driving a mass transit vehicle should know this.

  8. Re:Tablet apps, Tegra on First Quad-Core Android Tablet Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The 2D acceleration of GDI stuff in Windows has been around since 3.1 or 3.11 times at least, and was pretty common by the Windows 95 timeframe. It was a big deal at the time and allowed things like showing window contents while dragging (whoooo) which was a super duper deal at the time. Now get off my lawn junior. ;)

  9. Re:Well it turns out those actually DO exist on Making a Learning Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the thermostat needs a better control algorithm.

  10. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Modern compilers warn on this for C and C++, so it shouldn't be a common cause of bugs.

  11. Re:Apple is a tech company? on IBM Unseats Microsoft As Second Most Valued Tech Company · · Score: 1

    Actually buying all the parts would make it a lot more expensive for the car example. Try going to M-B and buying an E-class from the parts dept. and you will soon see.

  12. Re:Time for the Feds to step in on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    This whole conversation is silly. The Federal government needs to step in and settle this. Amazon and every internet retailer should have to collect taxes and remit them to the state. Amazon has a "presence" in every single state that has internet connected computers. Right now they are exploiting loopholes in laws that have not caught up to the internet age.

    Ever hear of Sears Roebuck & Co.? They've been in the mail order business since just a BIT before the Internet, if memory serves.

  13. Re:No kidding on Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire · · Score: 1

    Get a domain. Have an email redirector on that domain. Point it where you like.

  14. Re:You misread something on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure he's saying the new number of affiliates is zero, down from some number greater than zero yesterday.

  15. Re:Why are Libs so enamored with taxes? on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    Amazon wants access to the Californian market. In exchange for that they have to abide by Californian law when operating there, both in terms of things like consumer protection laws and in terms of taxation.

    The SCOTUS seems to disagree with you so far.

  16. Don't misunderstand ,.. on Amazon Drops California Associates to Avoid Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    They can still SELL in CA, they are just dropping their affiliates like a used rubber. Good one CA lawmakers! That will boost the economy.

  17. Re:The Gold Limitation Sux on World of Warcraft Goes Free With Starter Edition · · Score: 1

    If you can't interact economically with others all you need gold for is the in-game money sinks. For that 10g is a lot under level 20.

  18. Re:Should be easy to prove innocence on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    But to exonerate himself he doesn't have to release the source-code to the world; he simply needs to arrange for the source code to be shown to the expert panel.

    "All but your four fastest you mean." An expert panel composed of his top competitors. Hmmm. What could go wrong?

  19. Re:Couldn't be worse on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    Back in my day we refused to use MySpace because it looked like someone had vomited on the Internet. We used LiveJournal to write notes that no one ever read instead.

  20. Re:Metric Time on The Future of Time: UTC and the Leap Second · · Score: 1

    Better to stop using decimal and convert everything to base 12. It's a wonderfully evenly divisible number.

  21. Re:Verizon's LTE speeds on Eight Major 3G & 4G Networks Tested Nationwide · · Score: 1

    If I recall correctly movement can mess up the quadrature modulation scheme that such systems use.

  22. Re:Wrong way to look at range. on GM Patents Data Mining Method For Refining the Chevy Volt · · Score: 1

    Not trying to brag, just trying to make my use cases clear. A lot of people I know could commute several days on an electric/hybrid-in-electric-mode, although my case of going a week is extreme. The hybrid exists (for me) so I could drive the same car wherever I want in exceptional cases. I suspect others would have similar use cases.

  23. Re:No fly-by-wire? on Record-Seeking Bloodhound SSC Goes Partially Open Source · · Score: 1

    Last I checked most if not all race cars and motorcycles were also "fly-by-human", a lot of the anti-this and control-that we have on commercial cars are so unskilled or inattentive operators can get decent results, not to improve the results of experts.

  24. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Nope, but if nobody resets the clock, the day/night cycles might break.

    So your theory here is that if some traffic semaphore system has no maintenance done for a decade, the worst problem it will have is being off it's pattern schedule by 5 minutes? Subscribe me to your newsletter please.

  25. Google What? on Two More Google Software Dogs Go To Heaven · · Score: 2

    If I'd even heard of this product i would have tried it, Google.