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  1. Re:So far so good. on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    ...who use the Computers, because the bible says that computers are the BEAST! ...and listen to that heathen rap music by Marylin Manson!

  2. Re:GPS tracking may be off limits all together. on Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    GPS tracking is more akin to wiretapping or planting bugs. It also requires probable cause and a warrant.

  3. Re:TrueCrypt? on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    You don't have to download and install it, you can run it off a thumb drive.

  4. Use a home server on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    Run a server out of your house. Use linux with truecrypt and SELinux enabled. Access it through ssh if you need to from a remote site.

  5. Re:KGB it! on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure that in base Pi, the first, last and only digit of Pi would be 1.

  6. Re:never going to happen on Building the Zero-Fatality Car · · Score: 1

    The problem is the driver. The real safety solution is to remove the driver from the equation. If every vehicle on the road was networked together and every one of them controlled automatically in a coordinated fashion, accidents could be almost non-existent.

  7. Re:At first I thought Wikileaks was doing good on Pentagon Demands Return of Leaked Afghanistan Documents · · Score: 1

    Spelling may be off: Julian Asange, thin, unkempt short gray hair with an "I'm better than you" smirk.

  8. Re:well.. on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: 1

    You may have misunderstood. The teacher was an older Vietnamese guy who didn't speak English.

    One of my classmates was the cute Vietnamese girl who spoke both languages fluently.

    I also now realize that it could be misinterpreted another way that is even funnier/perverse, but unfortunately I am not a Vietnamese programming teacher with English difficulties.

  9. Re:well.. on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: 2, Funny

    It could be worse, you could have an intelligent teacher who knows and loves the subject, but only speaks Vietnamese. Fortunately there was a cute little Vietnamese girl in class. I would have passed just on doing the homework, but there were other advantages to be had.

  10. Re:In 10 years... on Gamers Beat Algorithms At Finding Protein Structures · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am pretty sure I already do this.

    On the plus side, if I can just plug in, it could reduce the eye strain from staring at a monitor all day.

  11. Re:So what does it mean for us? on FTC Introduces New Orders For Intel; No Bundling · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to support my assertion that Intels only advantage in the mid range is efficiency in regards to power consumption? or contradict it? I really can not tell if you misunderstood me or I am misunderstanding you.

    You just picked Intel's best price/performance CPU of the generation and compared it to arguably AMD's worst CPU of the generation in price/performance.

    You also failed to note that the benchmarks that the 750 beats the 1090 on are all minimally parallel and the AMD PhII 955/965 falls in the same range of performance on those benchmarks.

    Both the i5 750 and the 1090T were also released after my last CPU hunt, so I suppose I can add the i5 750 next to the i7 920 on the list of Intel processors close the the price/performance of AMD.

  12. Re:Interesting, but... on Rethinking Computer Design For an Optical World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not exactly what you had in mind, but I've already seen a lego like modular computer in the embedded hobbyist market.

    It is mostly networking and user interface elements that can be stacked, not gpu's or cpu's.

    http://www.buglabs.net/products

  13. Re:LightPeak on Rethinking Computer Design For an Optical World · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is the current trend of using GPU's to process physics simulations in games as well as the images. Modern usage gets a lot of value from the ability of graphics cards returning non-entirely-graphics-related data.

  14. Re:So what does it mean for us? on FTC Introduces New Orders For Intel; No Bundling · · Score: 1

    AMD is not competitive with Intel in the low end. AMD utterly defeats Intel in the low end, the only thing keeping Intel in the low end market is brand recognition. AMD is competitive with Intel will into the mid range market and even the start of the high end market (if you don't place much value on energy efficiency). Price/performance AMD curb stomps every Intel processor except the i7 920. But AMD does not compete, at all, above that performance point.

  15. Re:The dog... on Dog Eats Man's Toe and Saves His Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's what the cat said.

  16. Re:Huh?! on Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Corporations are first class citizens in America because it is a violation of human free speech rights for non-humans to have limited ability to bribe..., I mean donate to the campaign of, politicians.

    Corporations can't donate to political campaigns but why let the truth get in the way of your talking points?

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june10/supremecourt_01-21.html

    Don't let checking the facts of your statements get in the way of what you think is the truth. Its ok, sometimes I do that myself.

  17. Re:End of violence? on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    You don't get my point.

  18. Re:Huh?! on Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People are second class citizens in America because the amount of money and votes they can contribute to a politician is severely limited.

    Corporations are first class citizens in America because it is a violation of human free speech rights for non-humans to have limited ability to bribe..., I mean donate to the campaign of, politicians.

    Welcome to Feudal Corporatist America.

  19. Re:End of violence? on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    Its a civil war, it doesn't matter who wins, everyone still looses.

  20. Re:Wheels on New Mars Rover Rolls For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I was sorely disappointed by the lack of floppy ears and cotton tails.

  21. Re:In defense of football on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    As a scholar - employee working 50+ hours a week to put food on my table and biking 14 to 20 miles a day?

    yes. Yes I can imagine that. That is how I earned my first degree.

  22. Re:That it's required for most employment these da on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Software design, scientific computing, algorithmic analysis, etc.

    A university education is very important if you want to do much more than configure routers and hack code together.

  23. Re:Paid repositories on Linux? on An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control · · Score: 1

    No I have not, but it wouldn't be hard to do if you really wanted to.

    In fact, Steam is on its way to native linux support sometime in the next year.

  24. Re:a little OT but didnt verizon.... on An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control · · Score: 1

    I've been downloading apps|software from an app_store|package_manager for a very long time on linux as well.

  25. Re:Hey, Dell & HP! on Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That is just how ridiculous their service was. It was an outright and unquestionable lie.