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  1. Re:Protecting privacy on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 1

    Thats some crazy shit. Either way in general thats how it works here too, but if the librarian freely gave up the records without requiring a subpoena it would be legal. It would only be illegal if they searched the records themselves without permission.

  2. Re:Works in Safari directly on More PDF Blackout Follies · · Score: 1

    QED

  3. Re:No different than Dell/McAfee on AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers · · Score: 1

    A simple interactive captcha would work much better.

  4. Re:Temperature issues on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    What I'm looking for is an easy to use manual throttle, IE the ability to simply set maxiumum Ghz to eliminate the need for fan cooling, and expect it to not go over that even on load. Sure one can do that is bios or with these controls but only if they understand voltage and multiplier settings (yes they can look them up, but thats no the point).

  5. Re:Temperature issues on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, great idea give someone who knows nothing about the damaging effects of different voltages direct control of the voltage. As I said at the beginning why isn't there a simple throttle that can make the multiplier and voltage corrections itself... Seems like the geeks want to create complicated mechanisms, and the non geeks don't even consider that it can be done.

  6. Re:Temperature issues on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    No, max-battery life simple turns down the lcd brightness, turns off unessesary devices (unused network cards for example) and turns on SpeedStep (process of changing the clock dynamically). I believe SpeedStep is on in most settings besides Max Performace. By SpeedStep I mean the process of dynamically changing the speed. I know of no way besides bios (and possibly some third party software) to lock the speed below a threshold.

  7. Re:Temperature issues on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    SpeedStep and max battery life will still use most of the processing power possible when you throw an application at it that wants it, it just scales back down when now nessesary, and saves power in the brightness and other settings. What I'm talking about it slowing it down so your applications actually run slower in order to have the laptop run with no fans if nessesary.

  8. Re:Temperature issues on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's see some better cooling. Personally, I think a laptop with one big (4 to 6 inches), slowly rotating fan in the middle of the bottom, plus exhaust vents on the sides and back, would actually look nice, keep the laptop much cooler (no more "hot spots" on the keyboard), and run quietly.

    Or just underclock it, most people don't want or need that much horsepower on the road. They should have a human adjustable clock (instead of the tech adjustable multiplier etc) so that the average user can keep their laptop cool. Then if they need to run heavy stuff, they can crank it up and take it off their lap.

  9. Re:ICE quirk on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    Morons.
    Though I have to admit I pulse and glide a lot in my real car. Slam on it at green lights then when I know there is a readlight ahead I let go of the gas far in advance and glide to the redlight. Sometimes this annoys other motorist, though if they would just follow along they would save a lot of gas too.

  10. Re:So... on Physicists Watch Individual Electrons Flow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you read this is simply a device that channels electrons into a single file channel then measures the movement through the channel. Akin to putting a dam in water then putting a very small pipe in the dam and putting a meter on that. What you are ultimatly changing is the amount of electrons that get through, so I'm guessing to measure a current of any size you would have to have millions or more of these???

  11. Re:Grinding your eyeball? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    Thats per year as well, I stated over your lifetime. So lets take 30 years of wear, 2000/30=66.66 so that gives you almost a 1 in 66. Though that doesn't sound right, any math wizards out there?

  12. Re:Grinding your eyeball? on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 3, Informative

    I too would rather keep wearing corrective lens (contacts in my case) rather than risk loosing site for life.

    You do realize that statistically over the course of your life contacts are a greater risk to your eyes than one quick surgery.

  13. Re:Vandals on A Look at the Editorial Changes on Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Problem is a simple one of ratios and not eyes. The amount of people willing to fix a page is probably less than 1% of viewers. Amazingly it still works, untill that page becomes a target of a specific group of vandles then the percentage of people willing to combat falls while the percentage willing to vandalize goes up. And unwinable game if you can't lock the content.

    What simply amazes me is that the 4 day lock works, seems like a vandle would have no problem waiting 4 simple days. I guess the problem is creating a user account in the first place for vandles.

  14. Re:Just needs Stability, on Dry Ice Made into Super-tough Glass · · Score: 1

    This isn't compressed carbon its compressed carbon and oxygen molecules. Either way creating a diamond currently is difficult process and yeilds small products as they have to be "grown" from a seed diamond. If you could create entire large sheets of this in a quick manor it would have a huge advantage for commercial use over diamond.

  15. Random? on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    They used a magnetic force microscope to map even the smallest magnetic domains on the surface of an erased disk drive to ensure that the patterns found there were completely random.

    So after they passed the test drive through a very strong magnetic field the data was random? Wouldn't it be in a pattern to match the field??

  16. Re:I missed hot coffee on GTAIV to use Engine from Table Tennis · · Score: 1

    Duh, I think his point was that Rockstar didn't create the hotcoffee mod. (though yes they did create much its content). Either way parent was being sarcastic.

  17. Crush your buisness on Amazon Asks Congress to Curb Patent Abusers · · Score: 1

    Amazons reponce was
    "We only exercised the patent against someone who at the time...had publicly announced intention to crush our business," he said. "This wasn't some scheme to hit up small users."


    I didn't know that fierce competition was an appropriate reason to abuse the legal system. Its not that their Barnes and Noble was winning BECAUSE they had copied your one-click-system. Oddly BN is losing now but I doupt it was the removal of the one-click system that did them in (legal fees probably did have some effect though).

  18. Re:The debate will never end on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/forums/index.php?sho wtopic=1427
    is a nice map. Either way as I stated yes in CO2 levels the US is overproducing, but Asia and now South Africa are starting to compete with us very well. Either way we were creating much more partical pollution in the 80's and 90's than we are today most of these reductions are due to technology and knowledge something many developing nations don't have the time to worry about.

  19. Re:The debate will never end on Scientists Respond to Gore on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I don't know why we can't just clean up our acts just for the sake of the health of those living today. Because not polluting is a luxery that only wealthy countries have. The developing nations are creating a large amount of pollution (while maybe lower in the CO2). There is plenty of hope that in the next hundred years we may have the technology to eliminate pollution completly. But destroying the economy (which many proposals would do) would only push us further away from this goal.

    Of course on the other hands people need to stop being morons and try to conserve, and invest in environmentally friendly technologies.

  20. Re:flash??? on Flock, the Web 2.0 Browser? · · Score: 1

    hell there are still 16bit installer programs that run in XP.

  21. Re:OH NOES!!!1!!! on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    http://chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-04/29/content_ 579968.htm
    Seems state workers make about $630 a quarter which is $210 a month, while rural residents make about $140 a quarter which is 46.66 a month. This is both before food and housing. So seems like this income is right on for rural residents. Obviously this all depends upon the location. But the markets are still semi free, meaning people are CHOOSING to work and live at this apple factory so their pay has to be competative to the area or noone would work.

  22. Re:Security costs CPU cycles on Fast File Encryption for Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there is a huge difference between unencrypting the entire file to read one bit or something that intelligently breaks the file up so you can randomly read bits of it without having to deal with the entire file. With modern computing processing speeds you can achieve decent encryption in almost the time that the average HardDrive can read with only a slighly delay.

  23. Re:How is this news? on Chipmakers Admit Your Power May Vary · · Score: 1

    Umm, average watts for several usage senerios. Obviously your milage will differ based upon your usage, but its still and always will be an estimate.

  24. Re:$4250 ? on Duke Nukem Forever Due This Year? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm sure they will get a cut of game sales too. This and the promisary note is just a bonus for completion.

  25. Re:Trend will turn on Techies Asked To Train Foreign Replacements · · Score: 1

    Technically while an indian worker may be paid 1/10th of an American worker currently outsourcing saves about 50% at BEST. This is because of taxes and many middlemen. It won't be long at all till you will be paying the same at all.