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  1. Re:.mil only on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    "As I understand it, they want to use air during launch to allow them to carry a bigger payload in an SSTO, not to save money."

    it can still save money and resources.

    if very least, cary more into space and make less trips.

    In any case it will still do more with less. which is good from all perspectives concerned.

    Its like saying the burn rate in modern auto engines is higher because they want more horsepower to weight rather than fuel economy, while they get both.

  2. Re:You're confused about who he's representing. on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    " He's there to represent the people who elected him,"
    you mean the RIAA, MPAA, BSA(and not the fine purveryors of british motorcycles)

  3. Re:To Be Fair, He's Replacing Texan Ralph Hall on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    he's the man who introduced SOPA this year.

  4. Re:Great on Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is the internet

    there are no girls

    you need to give up your ovarys when you login

  5. The same Lamar Smith of SOPA/PIPA fame? on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/sopa-withdrawn-lamar-smith_n_1219250.html

    Is that the same lamar smith?

  6. Re:1st! on US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws · · Score: 1

    while techinically true, a deal can be made to have a morratorium of talk of internet regulation for two years.

    Of course it'd be a non-binding agreement. Any theorhetical law that would come up could say "and the law banning internet laws is herby repealled", and it'd be done.

  7. Re:Battery life on Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue · · Score: 1

    not neccarily. There are smart phones purpose built for the task, I know boeing is working on one.

  8. Re:Nothing new here on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    same with ubuntu. Now for someone with no tech skills. Most people simply can't/don't want to do it, either way.

    Then fix it for the next 2 years. Most people do not have the tech skills to fix a computer for the initial two years

  9. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    today's sockets are held in place, not by friction, but by a locking lever, and force of a leaf spring.

    The spring adds some flexibility to push the socket back in if it comes out.

  10. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    "Most "enthusiasts" want the latest shinies: latest USB, lasest SATA, PCI flavor, etc"

    that do more for real world performance than the CPU does.

  11. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    your not putting anything in that chip socket but an intel chip anyway.

    if anyone remembers, PCs x86 didn't USE TO HAVE removable CPUs as a standard. This started with the advent of the modern performance market around the pentium 1 era.

    from a business perspective, a removable CPU is a win for intel. Someone buys one CPU for the mobo when its new, and they could then try and sell them another faster CPU somewhere down the line, thus making two or more sales on one motherboard. Intel doesn't make motherboards though.

    more likely its for electrical reasons.

  12. Re:Get a signature PC on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 1

    windows is not an "open" platform.

    I'd like if they released full specs on the win32/64 api, and directx 10/11, and I couldn't give a damn if they didn't release a line of code.

    that is all.

  13. Re:Nothing new here on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    most people are NOT DIY'ers

    to build your own, you need to keep tabs on computer hardware, install your own OS, and keep track of warantee on a dozen or so parts.

    Then you have to fix it when it breaks.

    Fine for me. I know far far far more, than anyone who works at level 1 help desk would ever learn in his life, this isn't everyone. Most people WANT that help desk.(part of the cost).

    You also get one point of contact for warrantee. If ANYTHING breaks, they fix it. How the fuck would a n00b know a CPU/motherboard problem from a HD problem?

    Then there is OS installs. Most people want to plug it in, and have it work. A prior generation preffered laptops to desktops because they couldn't figure out which holes to plug things in. Expect them to navigate a windows installer?

    Fuck no. After making the mistake of building PCs for friends and family, I tell anyone who's not tech savy to just buy a computer that comes assembled, with warrantee, and tech support.(those guys don't get paid enough for doing that, an extra $200 on the tag to answer stupid n00b questions for two years), If anyone wants me to build them a PC, today its $50 on top of parts for assemble and test, and another $200, for 2 years of being able to call me on the phone and answer your stupid n00b questions.

    when you buy a PC in the store, your not paying for the parts, your paying for the service.

  14. Re:Even if this was true... on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    ARM also don't have standarized sockets, and I don't know if any ARM chips even have sockets.

    ARM doesn't have a standard bootload/bios like x86, and with that, installing operating systems on ARM systems outside manufacture time, is pretty tricky.

    the x86 is operating system agnostic, and probably why it makes the best power use platform.

    What strikes me as hillarious, is that AMD is not mentioned as an alternative

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFXGwHsD_A
    relivent?

  15. Re:Are you trying to say... on Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets · · Score: 1

    someone else already has a patent on that though

  16. Re:Unity? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 2

    they actually did usability testing and came back with something like Unity?

    Did this involve actual computer usage?

  17. Unity? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 3, Insightful

    who do we blame for the Unity UI?

  18. Re:Freedom of speech is more important on Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas · · Score: 1

    yes

  19. Re:Nowhere fast on FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom · · Score: 1

    or the FBI will probably refuse to stand trial stating there is no jurisdiction.

    I hope at least new zealand tries, and the resulting non-cooperation results in copyright enforcement ties being smashed.

  20. Re:Are we still dragging this out? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 1

    because she was found not guilty in a court of law, and she had no special attournies, nor privledge, and nothing to save her.

    Its also about, why is the media lynching HER in particular.

  21. Re:Got news for you on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 1

    your just as stupid as he is.

  22. Re:What Amazing Techniques? on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 1

    using the massive amount of personal information they can dig up on people through google, and other online tracking schemes to personally pitch their political advertisement, bordlining on custom misinformation to get people even slightly receptive to their causes to come out for the dems at all costs, by figuring out how to pitch information better. Thus taking away their ability to respond in a non-partisan fasion.

    Tell me, is any of this campaign software Free/Open Source?, available to the public, for public good.

    Or is it the private disinformation system used to further build a partisan army, with people from microsoft, google, and other large tech companies that have otherwise been bankrolling/buy favors with the democratic party.

    Does this really help "democracy", were we debate opinions, and vote our concencious, or is it an enforcement tool, to empower a single party that reminds us every time that its a private invite only club, were we are all invited to help out, but not invited to participate in policy or leaership.

  23. Are we still dragging this out? on Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She was found innocent, and a bunch of big media dipshits, and powerful figures are still trying to lynch her. Why? She's poor, and in all this rubble, they want one big poor villian to crucify, so they can shift the focus away.

    Part of the assault on her character includes the fact that case was concieved out of rape, something that would have every major neo-liberal "feminist" group up in arms if it was someone the system was protecting.

    I'll tell you something else. I'll contrast this to another femme fatale who got out of prison around the same time. "Amanda Knox"

    http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/print-edition/2011/10/21/seattle-pr-firm-reveals-efforts-to.html?page=all

    Looks like the media industry wasted no time revealing if you got money to spend on a PR campaign they could fix your broken character flaws and get murder raps thrown out.

    if its any more proof of just how biased the system is, and the system is run by hoardes of PR/advertising goons and lawyers, who seem to want nothing more than to shake you down for verbal and character protection money.

    Of course the real enemies of this system are those who can't raise enough money to pay for their services.

    Its sick, its real sick.

  24. Re:Got news for you on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 1

    "Obamacare", you mean when everyone is forced to buy insurance because if we all buy it, the companies should theoretically lower rates.(Supply side economics).

    But its here to help people.

    But if you really take the time to criticize it, its pointed out that its really an old republican plan from the 1990s.(which it is).

    If your not going to vote third party stay home.(Rocky Anderson, Jill Stien, ftw).

  25. Re:Got news for you on Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if you seriously think that our government or any government the democratic party would reasonbly instate represents public intrest, you gotta be shitting me.

    The democratic party is just as corporate sponsored as the republican party, if only exceptions being to make government a private non-corporate entity that responds of a few with connections instead of money.

    Where were they on SOPA and PIPA?

    What about with monsanto's little debacle?

    I am sure its "public intrest" where they completely ignored there campaign promises to stop the world wide war on civil liberties with the stated goal of fighting terrorism, and scale back domestic spying and unconstitutional policing.

    By "popular intrest" you mean worship to whatever celebrities who normally tell people what products they should buy told them, so a few leaders can sit around paying $20 for drinks and not face consequences of insane social mores.

    Or mabey you still believe in privlidege for a stated upper class.