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  1. Re:is a / has a test on Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Brazilian brazilian = new Brazilian();

    How many is that?

  2. Re:Rio de Janeiro on AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City · · Score: 1

    Well, if they'd keep those pipes full of water and sewage then there wouldn't be gas explosions. For safety's sake they'd better keep them full to overflowing. Surely it's better to have some sewage running in the streets than to have an explosion. Better safe than smelling good. Oh, this is New York. Better safe, then.

  3. Re:escalators too on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 1

    This seems to imply an extremely wide walkway. If these things are supposed to go where sidewalks go, then they're not going to be more than a few feet wide or so.

    Two-dimensional thinking. Have the fast lane also run up to a second level of slidewalks, which are moving faster. Just watch out for the railing when you're moving left.

  4. The city has an agreement on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1
    The city has some sort of agreement with Comcast. Comcast probably is being allowed to do certain things if they provide certain services to the city. Or else the city is just buying service from Comcast. You need to find out what the terms are, not what you feel.

    If all those TVs need to show all the channels, then you'll either have to add a converter box or replace the TVs with ones which can handle Comcast's signals. If you don't like Comcast's signals, advise the city to require that Comcast use other signals the next time the agreement is negotiated.

  5. Re:Batteries on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 1

    There's no info on how the chemical energy might be released. Iron shows significantly different behavior when electron flow is being used to galvanically protect a fence, versus when iron is participating in a thermite reaction. Both reactions are useful, but for different types of activities. Not that I wouldn't find a thermite-powered watch to be interesting.

  6. GeoServer? on Open Source Geographic Tracking? · · Score: 2, Informative

    How about GeoServer? Several types of interfaces are available.

  7. Comet detector? on X-Ray Noise From Comets Leads To Space Weather Signal · · Score: 1

    If we start regularly scanning the X-ray sky, might we detect an incoming comet by its faint tail emitting X-rays?

  8. Re:Storm chasers say they have as much right to wa on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 1

    Given that the amateurs are just there for kicks, they should know and accept that they are willingly putting themselves into a risky situation.

    Amateurs: When you find your tornado, let everyone else escape first. You put yourself in the situation so let those more intelligent save themselves first. After this, you'll have a little more experience and you are allowed to escape in the next to the last group. Incidentally, your widow won't get your insurance money because it's not an act of God when you're jumping in.

  9. Re:Storm chasers say they have as much right to wa on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the thing to do would be to use an off-road motorcycle and go for the big score - a dozen cars with nowhere to go getting scooped up and chucked.

    I'd like to introduce your motorcycle to the fence. It's so new that it hasn't been discussed on /.

  10. rbackup? on Volume Shadow Copy For Linux? · · Score: 1

    Maybe rbackup would be useful? You can retrieve individual files, and data transfer/storage are reduced so you can back up more often.

  11. Old news on Methane-Eating Bacteria May Presage ET Life · · Score: 1

    But are you referring to the hot or cold biosphere as being hostile? Ever hear of the deep, hot biosphere? (PDF)

  12. Re:Well done. on Prosecuting DDoS Attacks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No link tn the article. Smart move.

    Wouldn't want to trigger a DDoS attack on some innocent web server.

  13. Re:Here's a better idea on Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons · · Score: 1

    [insert deus ex machina]

  14. Re:Seriously? on US Navy Considering Wii Fit and DDR For Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    Surely soldiers should start with left, right. I didn't try to figure out what that would look like on the parade ground.

  15. Re:The official utility, perhaps? on Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You missed the point. He has shatty hardware. Best advice is to buy another one.

    Best advice is to buy a bunch of them, plug them into a sufficiently large USB hub, put it in a waterproof box, and configure it as a RAID USB device.

  16. Re:Seriously? on US Navy Considering Wii Fit and DDR For Boot Camp · · Score: 1

    You kidding? Those guys will be able to make every step in the right direction.

    Left, right, left, right, up, down, left, up, up, down, left, right, left, right.

  17. Re:Easy and Obvious answer on Are We Ready For a True Data Disaster? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think more accurately, if we were prepared for it, it wouldn't be a disaster.

    I'm ready. I have a very large stock of data dispersion chemicals.

  18. Re:live stream on Flash Destroyer Tests Limit of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    The webcam destroyer has only been running for 3 days so far. Keep an eye on it.

  19. Re:Great step forward on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are no plans to recover the flight test vehicle

    They can't recover it because it already came back yesterday.
    So the test flight will be a resounding, albeit puzzling, success.

  20. Re:And what's in it for me? on Air Force Wants Reusable Fly-Back Rockets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we had flying cars, we'd be humiliating various countries constantly by thousands of tourists flying over or past them on the way to all the good tourist destinations. Because a flying car probably won't have the range to cross the Atlantic easily, but it will be able to fly from Alaska to Russia. Tourists going all over the place. Oh.. sorry about that, Hawaii.

  21. Charting? Gnuplot on Testing and Mapping a Cellular Data Network? · · Score: 1

    You can use Gnuplot to chart data such as signal strength or error rates by location. For example, if you time sync GPS data and your statistics you can emit surface and contour maps (such as the second glass.dat example near the bottom).

  22. Off, damned Roach Tube! on Using Augmented Reality To Treat Cockroach Phobia · · Score: 1

    All their work will be undone by ORKIN commercials and six-foot-tall roaches.

  23. Re:Say what? on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    I read it before it appeared here, and tried several of their links too. Move along, non-IP troll.

  24. Say what? on Amiga Demonstration Helps Win Against Patent Troll · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The success is all very nice and all, but what was the disputed issue?

  25. Isn't it obvious? on US Needs Secure Coding Office · · Score: 1

    The Duke Nukem Forever crewe knows how to keep code under wraps.