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  1. Re:Irrelevant comparison on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 1

    jewelry

    That's still a store of value.

    superb conductor

    Gold has 45% higher resistivity than copper at over 6000 times the cost.

    You probably saw a few gold plated connectors and erroneously assumed that gold was used due to it's lower resistivity.

  2. Re:Irrelevant comparison on Is Bitcoin Mining a Real-World Environmental Problem? · · Score: 2

    The type of people who evangelize bitcoin are the same type of people who thinks the 79th element is magical.

    Demand for bitcoins displaces demand for gold; lower demand drives the price of gold down; lower prices means lower profit margins and thus less gold mining.

  3. Re:Only thing about Atom proccessors on HP Launches Moonshot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nazi is a proper noun and thus must be capitalized.

  4. Re:Sorry if I sound dumb on USPS Discriminates Against 'Atheist' Merchandise · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your shoes have no sole you need to return them ASAP for a refund.

  5. Re:Why London? on Drone Swarm Creates Star Trek Logo In London Sky · · Score: 2

    They probably tried and the FAA probably told them to fuck off.

    It's impossible to get a commercial UAS license for urban areas currently. Not to mention the airframe needs to be certified too.

  6. Read the question, please.

    The only thing that is missing are the digital/analog in/out pins. So why not flip it around and make a USB or bluetooth peripheral board with just the pins?

  7. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn't. It was written in assembly language and was converted into machine code by an assembler.

  8. Re:It's just a contract on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 1

    That's how it works in Canada. No difference tax-wise between a married couple and a common-law couple. A few European countries probably have the same setup, but I'm too lazy to look them up.

    What I don't get is why "civil union" needs to appear in the tax code at all.

  9. Re:not evolution on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 2

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution:
    Evolution by natural selection is a process that is inferred from three facts about populations:
    1) more offspring are produced than can possibly survive
    2) traits vary among individuals, leading to different rates of survival and reproduction
    3) trait differences are heritable.

  10. Slowpoke on New Technology Produces Cheaper Tantalum and Titanium · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    From Wikipedia:

    The FFC Cambridge process was developed by George Z. Chen, Derek J. Fray and Tom W. Farthing between 1996 and 1997 in the University of Cambridge.

    I realize /. is a little behind the times, but 17 years behind?

    Are we going to have stories about Wright brother's magical flying machines next?

  11. Re:Where should we start? on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    CAs are always connected to the internet (or intranet). Motherboard BIOS aren't.

  12. Re:Break Their Legs and Put Them in the Everglades on 'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what we do to spammers.

    In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

  13. Re:What can we DO? on Monsanto Takes Home $23m From Small Farmers According To Report · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What can we do about it?

    Invalidate all genetic patents?

    I don't get how /. can be so united against software patents and yet don't see the simple yet effective solution over GMOs.

  14. Re:Here is just one example, check this out... on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 1

    8GB for FREE?!? I'll take it!

    What is that anyways?

    Nevermind, even if it's an 8GB anal vibrator I'll still take it.

  15. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 5, Informative
    From The Attorney General's regulation, 8 CFR 287.1:

    (a)(1) External boundary. The term external boundary, as used in section 287(a)(3) of the Act, means the land boundaries and the territorial sea of the United States extending 12 nautical miles from the baselines of the United States determined in accordance with international law. (2) Reasonable distance. The term reasonable distance, as used in section 287(a) (3) of the Act, means within 100 air miles from any external boundary of the United States or any shorter distance which may be fixed by the chief patrol agent for CBP, or the special agent in charge for ICE, or, so far as the power to board and search aircraft is concerned any distance fixed pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section.

    No, international airports does not count as an external boundary.

    And no, embassies does not count as an external boundary because contrary to common misconception embassies are not foreign soil.

    And no, Indian Reservations does not count as an external boundary because they are not external.

    I am correcting all these misconceptions because there is no need to twist the truth when it's on our side. There's no need to make up imaginary international boundaries within our country in order to inflate the numbers; even if only 1% of the population is living in the constitution-free zone that would be far too high. The truth is on our side and we just need to present it as it is; sugarcoating it or even tempering with it simply undermine our own argument and our own credibility.

    I brought up the constitution-free zone map in an argument once and my opponent immediately pointed out that the international borders cut across the middle the of great lakes. In a single stroke both ACLU and myself lost our credibility in that argument.

  16. Re:near future on Dell Going Private In $24.4 Billion Agreement · · Score: 5, Funny

    This must be some bizarro alternate universe, because I'm thinking to myself: "We need to start porting crapware to Linux".

  17. Re:300 mhz and up? on Group Kickstarting a High-Bandwidth Software Defined Radio (SDR) Peripheral · · Score: 1

    How hard can it be? Whenever I'm in meetings the clock always seems to run at half speed. That's 500 millihertz right there.

  18. Re:iPhone 5 is faster.. for a few minutes maybe. on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Did you even read the article you linked?

    Cosmic rays go straight through the earths atmosphere.

    No, it doesn't. If that were true we'd be all dead. Comic radiation in interplanetary space is 400 to 900 mSv annually, which is 1000 to 2200 times stronger than dosage at sea level on Earth (0.4 mSv). Earth's atmosphere blocks most radiation below 1 GeV.

    Off the shelf computer hardware does indeed work just fine in space. You can watch people on the ISS using normal laptops and cameras all the time.

    That's because ISS is in LEO and thus is still protected by the thermosphere and Earth's magnetic field. On a trip to Mars neither of those protections would be available.

  19. Re:Interconnectivity is both opportunity and dange on Wall Street Journal Hit By Chinese Hackers, Too · · Score: 1

    Woosh!

  20. Re:Iceland? How hard could it be? on Trojanized SSH Daemon In the Wild, Sending Passwords To Iceland · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just because the server is in Iceland doesn't mean the perpetrator is.

    In all likelihood the server is just another compromised machine.

  21. Re:France on strike on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    Kinda hard to compete with 0%.

  22. Re:Batteries on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    From Wikipedia:

    Meaning 1: An original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, manufactures products or components that are purchased by another company and retailed under that purchasing company's brand name.[1] OEM refers to the company that originally manufactured the product.

    Meaning 2: The term OEM may also, somewhat counter-intuitively, refer to a company that purchases for use in its own products a component made by a second company.[3] Under this definition, if Apple purchases optical drives from Toshiba to put in its computers, Apple is the OEM, and Toshiba would classify the transaction as an "OEM sale".

    GP is using meaning #2 and you're using meaning #1; thus both of you are correct at the same time.

    Plenty of English words have this fucked up opposite meaning problem, to wit, terrific: "9/11 was terrific" vs "this pie is terrific".

  23. Re:Koreans have done one better on Swedish School Makes Minecraft Lessons Compulsory · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lies! All Koreans mastered Starcraft during their second trimester.

  24. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    Gotta love déjà vu.

  25. Re:US Metric System on Petition For Metric In US Halfway To Requiring Response From the White House · · Score: 1

    10^-9