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  1. Re:Good. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    There's an ancient roman proverb, "Old age bends the knee."

  2. Re:Good. on ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF · · Score: 1

    There's the problem: Goods. Copyrighted works are not goods. They are ideas.

  3. Re:This won't stop... on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    You ingest mercury daily. It's a significant portion of the earth's crust, and is impossible to avoid. The dose makes the poison, and the amount of mercury in a single vaccine dose with thimerosal is microscopic compared to whats already in the air and your food.

  4. Re:This won't stop... on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    I believe you are confusing correlation with causation.

  5. Re:Nor will it balance out the recent news on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    For some reason, this does not apply to Andrew Wakefield.

  6. Re:Litigious society on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    You need to do more reading up on measles, mumps, rubella and the other diseases children are vaccinated against. Mortality isn't the only issue. They can cause severe disability and sterility.

  7. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    I know, I missed the threading:)

  8. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    I didn't notice the line showing the threading. I still have my doubts about using the two cables as a 100 ohm differential connection. You're talking about using them as a balanced transmission line, I'd be worried about crosstalk between the shields of adjacent cables.

  9. Re:Use the Coax to pull CAT 5e cable on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    It's not theoretically possible, I'm sorry. The characteristics of the coax are completely and totally wrong. This get complicated when you're dealing with high-frequency digital and analog signals. The capacitance is wrong, the impedance is wrong... It's just wrong, wrong wrong.

  10. Re:Twisted pair, man on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    My mind has been boggling at how bad an idea his plan is. The conductor and shield in coax have capacitance between them, it's an unbalanced transmission line. There'd be noise and cross talk and impedance mismatches causing reflections.... It's like running the poor signal through a meat grinder.

  11. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1, Informative

    It won't, no way, no how. The capacitance of the coax cable will screw the whole thing up. You'll get relfections and crosstalk *everywhere*. What you need is an old fashioned 10Base2 card designed for coax, you need terminators and you need to make sure the cable is of the right impedance.

  12. Re:Nothing is unbreakable. on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    I wager a 100 ton hydraulic press would make short work of it.

  13. Re:The Fate of Coffee on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    Honestly, there's not a lot of value in cutting off the coffee anyway. On a per cup basis it's one of the cheapest beverages going. Some gas stations make more off the coffee than they do the gasoline.

  14. Oh, this is a big incentive... on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    This'll encourage all kinds of talented people to stay in IT, that's for sure. This combined with the bad pay and near infinite stress, and being woken up at 3AM become some developer was fiddling where he shouldn't be... Yeah, who wouldn't want to work in this field?

  15. Expensive Lock, Cheap Casing on Encryption Cracked On NIST-Certified Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    This is like having a bank vault, and investing thousands in an expensive lock - then placing that lock on the outside of the vault in a tin box. All they have to do is smash off the box and turn the knob behind it. There's a word for this: incompetence. I'm not sure why companies still put up with this kind of stupidity. Seriously, if a doctor pulled this kind of stunt he'd lose his license.

  16. Why? on Kurzweil Takes On Kindle With "Blio" E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Of what possible value is this? What is wrong with PDF, DVI, PostScript, djvu and the other hundreds of technologies that do the same damn thing?

  17. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    I would be satisfied with him halting the decay.

  18. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Asking for a citation makes me a douchebag how? Statements need to be backed up by references, it's as simple as that.

  19. Re:Amazing. on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Wait... if you "aggregate small particles into large ones", wouldn't that make the fluid more viscous, not less?

  20. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    You know, in the late 80s and early 90s you could buy a cheap non-hybrid car that got 40+ MPG easily. And today a hybrid Camry gets, what, 33 MPG?

    And which car would that be? I notice you don't cite any name for it. Without citations, you can say anything and it could just as easily be completely false.

  21. Re:Not to mention the cost of it all.... on Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers · · Score: 1

    You people should definitely stay away from jobs in marketing.

    If for no other reason than your eternal soul.

    You know, I never could manage to lie enough to succeed in that business...

  22. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    I always buy ASUS. It's not worth the trouble to buy cheap motherboards.

  23. Re:How disappointing. on "Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct · · Score: 1

    You don't get around much online, do you? There's a lot of crazy out there, and they have a whole community surrounding this. Look up KeelyNet for starters.

  24. Re:Fraud... on "Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct · · Score: 1

    Point (a), "cold" is relative.

    Point (b), everything does burn at one temperature or another, or it dissociates.

  25. Re:Metropolis was distributed with a piano score on Lost Footage of "Metropolis" Found · · Score: 1

    Hitler was a vegetarian, and didn't drink. Food for thought as well! :p