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  1. Re:Are You Kidding Me? on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 1

    My comment was obviously referring to a hypotetical US invasion of NK, as the parent post was drawing a parallel to Iraq.

  2. Re:Are You Kidding Me? on Korea Tensions Lead To Delay Of Minuteman III Test Flight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to underestimate 60+ years of uninterrupted regime propaganda.

  3. Re:How many? on Nokia Officially Lists Patents Google's VP8 Allegedly Infringes · · Score: 1

    Method to display a video... ON A PHONE!

  4. Re:Who is behind these Finns? on Nokia Officially Lists Patents Google's VP8 Allegedly Infringes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nokia is now, by all extents, a Microsoft proxy.

  5. Re:On-die thermal sensors on AMD Unveils Elite A-Series APUs With Enhanced Performance, Improved Efficiency · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not exactly, AMD had single-core power boosts since quite some time now. This is a refined version that calculates the boost based on real-time sensor data, instead of using conservative assumptions. So basically: the better you dissipate heat, the faster it goes.

  6. Re:Iran cut off from the Internet... on Iran Blocks 'Illegal' VPNs, Google, and Yahoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    You fail at history.

  7. Re:Pizza Analogy on How the First Bitcoin Hedge Fund Approaches Security · · Score: 2

    A pizza is split in 3 parts, and kept in 3 different banks in 3 countries. Bank robbers never get a full pizza.

  8. *spoiler* Walktrhough ending on Crysis 3 Review: Amazing Graphics, Still a Benchmark Buster, Boring Gameplay · · Score: 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BeZneKBIVI
    "I can take double anything you can!" Gotta love the quality of the dialogues, with lines that you'd expect to hear in some particularly competitive porn movie, rather than in a game about nanotechnological beefcakes vs. north korean aliens.

  9. Re:why not just submit more patents? on FOSS Communities Key To Managing Patent Risk · · Score: 1

    Sure, try to crowdsource 10k for any git commit of the linux kernel...

  10. Re:too complex on FOSS Communities Key To Managing Patent Risk · · Score: 1

    Honestly, no. The product might still be used, but the technology is obsolete.
    It might be interesting for learning purposes, but for those trying to create innovative software (those who need patents), they're hardly relevant.

  11. Re:why not just submit more patents? on FOSS Communities Key To Managing Patent Risk · · Score: 2

    Submitting a patent has a considerable cost.

  12. Re:too complex on FOSS Communities Key To Managing Patent Risk · · Score: 1

    5 - 10 years is ages in IT. By the time they expire, they're obsolete.

  13. Re:Ironic on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 1

    Repying to myself just to add the full link to the paper: http://www.tullettprebon.com/Documents/strategyinsights/TPSI_009_Perfect_Storm_009.pdf

  14. Re:Ironic on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually I recently read a paper from Tim Morgan, a researcher at Tullett Prebon, that claims that the economy is basically just a dynamic balance between produced energy and consumed energy, and currency is just an intermediary state that loses meaning if there's no energy to buy with it (every product is as valuable as the energy used to craft it). This basically associated the economy to physics, and not to finance, and defines debt as a bet on future energy.

    You can read the full paper here http://www.tullettprebon.com/strategyinsights/media_resources.aspx

  15. Re:here we go on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Iran has never been a Western colony, if you exclude Alexandre the Great.

  16. Re:We need a skype alternative on Privacy Advocates Demand Transparency From Skype · · Score: 3, Interesting
  17. Re:The wrong way around on Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status · · Score: 2

    fuse-exfat is also an userspace driver like ntfs-3g. If US-based distros like Fedora ar able to ship with ntfs-3g installed by default, they might be able to do the same with fuse-exfat, unless Microsoft closed the legal loophole used for ntfs-3g.

  18. DKMS? on Open Source ExFAT File System Reaches 1.0 Status · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As the name clearly states, this is a FUSE implementation of exFAT, i.e. userspace. In which case DKMS is as useful as a fork for soup.

    So not only we get the news two days after Phoronix [1], but the poster has no idea on what he's talking about.

    [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI3OTQ

  19. Re:Anything that screws monsanto on Hidden Viral Gene Discovered In GMO Crops · · Score: 1

    Where are my mod points when I need them?

    +1 Funny, you deserve it.

  20. Re:Actually on How Much Beef Is In Your Burger? · · Score: 2

    Hmm not really, here in Italy horse meat is available off the shelf, and in North-East there are even dedicated butcheries. One of Verona's typical dishes is horse stew with polenta, and it's readily available in all local traditional restaurants.
    I think the problem in finding horse meat has more to do with eating habits than with EU regulations.

  21. Re:and ive gone and given there lawyers.... on GM CIO Says HP Hiring Probe "Not the Best Use Our Legal System" · · Score: 0

    I for sure don't.

  22. Re:Damn Microsoft on Nokia N9: the World's Most Underrated Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    I assume you belong to the Anonymous Trollers...

  23. Hands-on on Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXWnMTm7We8

    Pretty laggy, but it's still in alpha...
    For the rest, I didn't see any feature that would make me switch from Android, but I wait to see it on actual phones before judging.

  24. Re:So much for democracy on European Commission Support of FRAND Licenses Hurts Open Standards · · Score: 1

    That will last til we pretend that the European Commission is a "technical" institution and, as such, doesn't need to be voted.

  25. Re:Extra safety on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 1

    Humans are still better at detecting sensor glitches.