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  1. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they could draw and shoot at some point before he got to his twelfth victim?

  2. Re:Look Up on Russian Team Prepares To Penetrate Lake Vostok · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call it an "accomplishment" as in something to strive for, but she has definitely had a larger impact than most of us.

  3. Re:not surprising on Intel Insider DRM Risks Monopoly Investigations · · Score: 1

    I am an AMD fan and user myself, but there are a couple points where Intel matches/slightly exceeded AMD on price/performance at default clocks. The i5 750 and i7 920 are those points.

  4. Re:No surprises on 'SMS of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    I had a cheap virginmobile too at one point. It was a rusted out deathtrap of a ford escort that was given to me for free by my older brother. The passenger door was held shut by a bungee cord, the drivers seat bolts were rusted out making it unattached, it vented thick smoky exhaust directly into the cabin through a gaping hole in the dashboard.

  5. Re:These are the people who run our government on Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov't Agencies · · Score: 1

    No, it is an example of dumb things. She is otherwise very good at her job.

  6. Re:These are the people who run our government on Kneber Botnet Strikes, Targets Gov't Agencies · · Score: 1

    I had a coworker that read an article on this and entered the example malicious url into her browser, a few minutes later IT came in and took her laptop away. She is the lead of our QC department. So yes, even smart and capable people do dumb things occasionally.

  7. Re:My kids are not vaccinated. on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Not really, deep aquifer groundwater can take tens to hundreds of thousands of years to cycle. The human population at the time, especially in north america was insufficient to have done that much pee.

  8. Re:Won't Be Long... on First PlayStation 3 Custom Firmware Created · · Score: 1

    I think the average tv size in the us is 32in with 42in being fairly common as well, that is much bigger than the average computer monitor.

  9. Re:Maybe mobile DEVICES are more vulnerable on Mobile Users More Vulnerable To Phishing Attacks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mobile users are used to having their browser detected as mobile and being shunted off to a simplified and barely functional mobile page.

    It is one of the reason that I use firefox with a user agent fuzzer on my android phone.

  10. Re:What Do You Do When Demand Is Satisfied? on Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low · · Score: 1

    OPEC is not a US corporation.

  11. Re:DDR2? on Oversupply Sends DRAM Prices To One-Year Low · · Score: 1

    Where is this oversupply of DDR3? Only available online? Go to an electronics store and you see racks full of DDR2 and empty racks for DDR3?

  12. Re:I totally forgot about 2012 on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    the sequels to 2001 and 2010 are 2061 and 3001. Neither was adapted into film.

  13. Re:Can't Argue on NASA Names Best & Worst Sci-Fi Movies of All Time · · Score: 1

    Ugh. My little sister liked that movie.

  14. Re:Obviously... on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding me? Nothing threatens the police more than information. That is why it is a crime to record an undercover cop shoving a gun in your faceat a stoplight without identifying himself as an officer or taze a paralyzed man to death for failing to comply with a legal order to stand up.

  15. Re:Wow, this will end useful software! on Researchers Claim 1,000 Core Chip Created · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but to make parallelism painless, you have to restrict the language in ways that make a lot of other things painful.

    A language where every method call is a perfect closure is easily made parallel, the only question left is what granularity of parallelism will produce a gain when considering the overhead of managing threads. It also introduces a lot of overhead for constantly copying data on methods you are not going to be making parallel and rendering it slower for some to many applications when compared to a traditional scope and reference model.

    Here are rules for making code parallel. Use closures if practical, even if you roll your own. If not, you need to know the parallelism syntax and quirks of your language. Finally you need to know when to NOT use synchronization as well as be able to determine if you are making any gains.

  16. Re:Wow, this will end useful software! on Researchers Claim 1,000 Core Chip Created · · Score: 1

    Multi threaded computing is not rocket science. Most bad multi threaded programming is bad because a lot of so called "software developers" just plain suck.

  17. Re:Can't resist ... on Goldman Invests $450m In Facebook · · Score: 2

    They were right. It turns out that throwing the worlds economy into chaos and recession is fantastically profitable. Especially so when you can convince the government to cover your losses with the tax money that you avoided paying thanks to low capital gains taxes and loopholes engineered by high priced tax attorneys.

  18. Re:First Address Targeted Advertising, Then We'll on Wikipedia Meets $16M Budget Goal · · Score: 1

    I don't mind slashdots ads either. I don't disable them, but I don't see them either because I do not allow doubleclick to run cross site scripting. If more sites served good old fashioned jpeg banners, I would not mind seeing them. But more and more sites are turning to js and flash to launch ads.

  19. Re:Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage on Lessons Learned From Skype’s Outage · · Score: 1

    It is certainly better than some. We have 5 8's reliability! That is only 1 less than 5 9's!

  20. Re:Its all for the better on VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China · · Score: 2

    Yes, but what way will it go?

    There is a large and dedicated movement of young Chinese, ultra nationalist, Han racial supremacists who are so radical and agressive that even the powers that be inside the CPC have had a hard time reigning them in.

    China will change, but I would not blindly assume it will be for the better.

  21. Re:Dual core cell phone ? on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    faster battery use is not something to strive for. Its a pain in the ass to keep charging my Epic. It lasts about 3 hours of heavy use, about 6 of light use or less than 30 hours of nothing but standby.

    Besides that, the biggest power sinks on a smartphone are the screen and radio (especially 4g), not the processor.

  22. In Communist China... on VoIP Now Technically Illegal In China · · Score: 2

    In Communist China,
    Competition regulates you!

  23. Re:Verizon iPhone? on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    I am interested in when the hell are they going to put up 4g service nationwide so I can take advantage of the $10 mandatory extra data fee on my Epic on a regular basis instead of the rare occasions I visit New Orleans or Atlanta.

  24. Re:Improved article technology on Most Anticipated Tech Products of 2011 · · Score: 1

    It was actually 12 items on 13 pages, the first page was there to tell you that you had 12 pages more to go.

  25. Re:Time to put PC Pro on a list like this... on The 10 Worst Tech Products of 2010 · · Score: 1

    When the mac mini was less than $600, it would have been something I could see myself buying just to get some experience on a mac. Now? No, it is way over priced.