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  1. Re:Images on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn you, now I am going to have to read the article.

  2. Re:So what's the word, people. on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    AV only protects against known threats.

  3. Re:So what's the word, people. on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    It is possible. It wouldn't be the first time a wealthy individual spent a ton of cash to lash out at his governments he felt offended by. Just look at Bin Laden.

  4. Re:Meh. Dwarf Fortress did it first. on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes. It uses OpenGL accelerated graphics tiles. The most common tileset is mayday.

    http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Graphics

    http://afteractionreporter.com/2010/04/02/new-version-of-dwarf-fortress-with-mayday-tileset/

  5. Re:Meh. Dwarf Fortress did it first. on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 1

    This isn't much of a limitation for dwarf fortress logic. As long as you have sufficient power an axle can transmit state to any distance on the map. water flow has evaporation and flow rate issues that make it best to use in small units actively pumped from an aquifer. The big thing holding back DF CPU complexity is the massive amount of stuff going on at any one time in a fortress of significant size that will bring the simulation to a crawl.

  6. Meh. Dwarf Fortress did it first. on Minecraft Enterprise and 16-Bit ALU · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is true. Massive block constructions and fluid flow logic were there first.

  7. Re:Is it REALLY that bad? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    heat != temperature.

    It is ~20 quadrillion calories of heat. (assuming 20 megatons = 20 million metric tons).

    On a large scale, there is almost no difference between a 20 megaton impact and a 20 megaton chemical explosion. For a nuclear explosion, the only difference will be that part of the energy is lost to high energy radiation like gamma rays.

  8. Re:Is it REALLY that bad? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    Heat is kinetic energy.

  9. Re:non sequitur on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    Or just a journalist that doesn't know anything about orbits and misunderstood the information he was given.

  10. Re:The moral of this story is: on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    If you wait for there to be a present danger, you drastically reduce your options for preventative action. Even a 50 meter asteroid is MASSIVE compared to anything we have in orbit and it could take decades to design and implement a response capable of deflecting such an orbit.

  11. Re:Is it just me... on AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Gluttons for abuse on AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That question mark at the end of a statement has the same meaning as a quizzical, puzzled or incredulous tone of voice and facial expression.

    Basically, the statement counters or conflicts with the other persons statements or arguments and the other person should explain himself.

  13. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Rebuilding?

    What do drug gangs build?

    Profit.

    but he said rebelling

  14. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Moral equivalence? I was pointing out numerical equivalence.

    In Mexico, both sides are armed as well. Most of the killings are between rival cartels or against the politicians, police and military.

    In Afghanistan, ~half of the dead are civilians, killed by both US and Taliban forces. I don't have any statistics for the distribution of the dead in Mexico, so I can only make assumptions, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a similar ratio.

  15. Re:Here's the controller hack on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    hmm... I can't seem to find the select or start button on my keyboard either, what the hell.

  16. Re:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 1

    I don't often agree with you... But this is absolutely true.

  17. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    The Mexican drug cartels have killed ~28k in the 4 years.

    The Taliban and US military has killed ~67k in the last 9 years in Afghanistan.

    That means the Mexican cartels have a daily kill rate almost equal to the combed kill rate of the US military and Taliban at war in Afghanistan.

  18. Re:As someone whose income depends on the PS3... on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    I hear that drinking pineapple juice helps with the taste.

  19. Re:Here's the controller hack on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is exactly what he typed. unfortunate arrow keys don't display all that well.

  20. Re:Remember kids, UK stole nothing on UK Pursues Tax Evaders Using Stolen Bank Details · · Score: 2, Informative

    10 times? The going rate for copyright infringement is a few thousand times the value of the information. The British government isn't some college student you know, they actually might have that kind of money.

  21. Re:For those who are European on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhh, The Finnish may as well be Russians, Norway is that other country up there nobody cares about and WTF is Denmark? (Im joking everyone)

    Denmark? Well Horatio, it smells kinda rotten.

  22. Re:For those who are American on Swedes Cast Write-In Votes for SQL Injection, Donald Duck · · Score: 1

    I actually kinda like the idea of Swedish women marrying American Women...

  23. Re:How fucking stupid are you? on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 1

    wrong. You do not understand the concept of natural rights. They can not be granted and they can only be taken away by physical force. They can be suppressed by fear of punishment or by removing the tools used in exercising the right. Your rights can not be enforced, because one of your natural rights is the right to choose to not exercise them.

    Laws defending your rights are to some extent a requirement of society, not the other way around.

  24. Re:How fucking stupid are you? on Copyright License Fees Drive Pandora Out of Canada · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The problem with that argument is that killing someone deprives another person of their rights while copying does not. There is no right to natural right to profit.

    Oh, and it is actually widely known as "might makes right".

  25. Re:I can see the viagra now on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    You mean recently?

    You ever heard of Troy?