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  1. Re:That's impossible! on Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, because it's incredibly fucking nerdy. And annoying.

  2. Re:Bullshit propaganda on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article? It's completely devoid of content, and full of propaganda tactics.

  3. Re:Power over Ethernet Could Help on IEEE Seeks For Ethernet To 'Go Green' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Running power over tiny 24 gauge wires is very inefficient too. Try again.

  4. Re:Different than a discount? on Dell's Intel Bias Caused By Under the Table Cash? · · Score: 1

    Because you can inflate both companies revenues.

    Suppose I pay you 1 billion dollars a year and you pay me 1 billion dollars a year. Nothing changes, but both our companies look better because our revenues are 1 billion dollars higher. Looking better means stock price goes up, stock price goes up means the scammers, aka CEOs and board, get to cash out.

  5. Re:other issues are more important to me... on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1

    Did I say Republicans are any better? Republicans are more socialist in a lot of ways. Look at all the corporate welfare being given to defense contractors lately.

    If you want liberty, you have to vote libertarian.

  6. Re:Hmm on How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions · · Score: 1

    Ebay could fix that easily by making second chance offers fixed to whatever you actually bid. It's silly to offer something to someone at a price you know they aren't willing to pay.

  7. Re:RFI? Electromigration? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    They only upgraded a few parts of it in 90. Just like the rest of the shuttle, it's a mix of obselete materials and components, with newer stuff band-aided on where possible. It's a junkpile.

    Core memory wasn't used until the late 50s BTW. They used stuff like delay lines in the 40s and early 50s.

  8. Re:RFI? Electromigration? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    G3 class PowerPCs can be flown, that's 300Mhz or so.

  9. Re:other issues are more important to me... on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wouldn't understand anyone voting for a Democrat if they wanted civil liberties. More corporate welfare, more socialist wealth transfer to the corporations. No thanks.

  10. Re:Privacy isn't the only issue on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1

    She's against free trade, it even says so right there. She's pro "fair trade" which means anti free trade.

    That's why she got such a poor rating from the Cato institute.

    You are assuming slashdotters are for damaging protectionist trade policies, I think you would be surprised.

  11. Re:RFI? Electromigration? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    That's why they replaced some of the most obselete parts of it (like the hand woven magnetic core memory) in 1990, right?

    It's crap. Everyone knows it's crap. It would have been shelved a very long time ago if it weren't for politics.

    Do you refuse to use any bank that doesn't use a Univac? You realize Univac came out 10 years before the shuttle computer was designed, right? That's how obselete the shuttle computer is.

  12. Re:RFI? Electromigration? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The shuttle used hand woven magnetic core memory until 1990.

    It's obselete crap, even after the 1990 upgrade. It was designed in the 60s and the only reason it wasn't decomissioned 3 decades ago was political, no one wanted to admit they dumped billions of dollars down the toilet.

  13. Re:RFI? Electromigration? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    The shuttle internal systems run on obselete crap. That's why they send up laptops.

  14. Re:Actual Ownership Input on Will Low Lamp Lifetime Spell Trouble for DLP TVs? · · Score: 1

    That works out to twenty cents an hour or FORTY CENTS per average movie.

    My CRT TV is from 1986. That CRT must have 20,000 hours on it. That works out to... 1-2 cent an hour or so, inflation adjusted. So there.

    Most CRTs easily last 15,000 hours these days.

  15. Re:Google and racism on Google Defuses Googlebombs · · Score: 1

    8-10 million affluent Jews that have the ear of the president of the USA vs a bunch of people in the desert with no running water... Fair fight there.

    I don't hate Jews, I only hate interventionist foreign policy driving by a small special interest group. We have no business invading the middle east and fighting these Jew's holy war for them.

  16. Re:Ironically on Google Defuses Googlebombs · · Score: 1

    Hah, that's probably because enough people call it that in casual conversation, not intending to bomb the site really.

  17. Re:The SCO search still works on Google Defuses Googlebombs · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it doesn't. The links are all to sites about the googlebomb, not to sco.com. That's how he said this fix works, you search for the bomb and you find metadiscussion about the bomb, but the bomb itself no longer links to the target.

  18. Re:Looks like a High Yield Investment Program on Financial Analyst Calls Second Life a Pyramid Scheme · · Score: 1

    There's 10 million sitting on the limit buy side of the spread. A market sell of up to $36,000 USD wouldn't move the market at all.

    Not even one point.

  19. Re:Not a closed system. on Financial Analyst Calls Second Life a Pyramid Scheme · · Score: 1

    If you joined SL thinking you were "playing a game", it's no wonder you quit after an hour. It's not a game, as you found out. It's more like a 3D web. If that doesn't appeal to you then so be it.

  20. Re:Looks like a High Yield Investment Program on Financial Analyst Calls Second Life a Pyramid Scheme · · Score: 1

    Daily volume is more like $185,000 USD per day on LindeX. That's only one exchange, the other exchanges do at least $10,000 a day too.

    Selling $10,000 USD in Lindens... I can do that in an hour or two if you want competitive rates, or immediate if you are ok selling against the market buys (on the other side of the spread). It wouldn't even cause a breakout, there's generally about 20 million lindens within 10 of the spread... at most it would move the market a point or two.

    In short, you are completely wrong.

  21. Re:COMPARISONISTICS! on Scientists Unveil Most Dense Memory Circuit Ever Made · · Score: 1

    No. It's Libraries of Congress per 747 when measuring information density.

  22. Re:Nintendo's Speakers on Shigeru Miyamoto to Keynote Game Developer's Conference · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do Nintendo games have a weakspot you can hit for MASSIVE DAMAGE, though? I didn't think so. I'll stick to Sony keynote speeches thank-you-very-much.

  23. Re:Bullshit propaganda on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with nationality. It has to do with the implication that these algorithms are broken in any serious way that matters.

    So far it's still impossible to generate a collision without control of both files. That is all that matters for the vast majority of applications.

    I am sick of people telling me that MD5 or SHA-1 is broken every time they see it in my code. These propaganda stories are the source of that ignorance.

  24. Re:Employers? on Engineering School Grads - Tradesmen or Thinkers? · · Score: 1


    Goodluck, though. Methinks you flunked math in school?

    No, not really. I had a time with multivariable calculus, but prior to that I got generally As or Bs in the math courses. I think a lot of the trouble I had with multivariable calculus was that I was coming around to the realization that this had absolutly nothign to do with modern programming. I changed majors shortly after.

  25. Re:Exposure? on Researchers Developing Single-Pixel Camera · · Score: 1

    It's hard to see it as a "technology" as such, when it's a simple photographic technique that has been used since the very early days of chemical photography

    How? Masking off parts of the image? This algorithm combined each pixel in the image to get greater depth. It is not some simple cut and paste photoshop trick.

    when it could just as easily be applied to pixel arrays?

    I don't think easily would be the right word. You would have to turn of some pixels before others, to get varying exposure on the same image. The only other way to do it would be the way it was demonstrated, by taking 3 distinct images, which doesn't work so well on a moving target.