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  1. Re:Google+ Is neither Cathedral nor Bazaar. on Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar? · · Score: 2

    Y'know, it's comparisons like that that make me think there's a few generations now that just haven't learned from the history channel that comparisons like that aren't even close to apt. There's no way at all that anything about a free online social interactive service is anything like a concentration camp.

    That's besides the fact that the only thing Google+ ever asked was for you to identify yourself before letting you run free in its sandbox (or, in a few cases, after, to their embarassment), so there really is nothing negative you can say about how Google+ is governing the social network it's constructing.

    But back to my point: because people don't understand actual horror, and are steeped in fake, that-looks-like-it-hurts-pass-the-popcorn horror, they're starting to lose sight of why certain things are important. And that's going to end up with actual horror at some point.

  2. It's Downtown on Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar? · · Score: 1

    It's downtown. Overbuilt and underpopulated. Especially outside work hours.

  3. Re:And of course on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    Your typical 100 kW transmitter has been putting that kind of power into its neighbors for a century.

  4. There's prior art for this. on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    250 years ago, in France, Voltaire got rich.

    Not from his massively popular plays and books, but by joining in with a lottery pool. They combined their cash, bought every number, and took advantage of the fact that the French national lottery was structured to pay out at greater than even odds.

  5. Re:Not too functional on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    That was my second guess, after "oh, it's chrome".

  6. Re:Tailfins on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but having one does not mean you're going to convince Peggy Sue to accompany you up to the lake to see the submarine races.

  7. Re:The Next Firefox UI on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    Chromefox®.

  8. Re:The Next Firefox UI on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    I had to go through several of the images at that second link to convince myself that they hadn't just gotten some Chrome screenshots and misinterpreted them.

    As for the home-tab thing being unique to Firefox... it's hard to think what to say. Chrome definitely has that.

  9. Re:when it's not broken, do not fix it. on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    Define "not broken", vis-a-vis a web browser.

    It can't be done.

    Hence the moving target.

  10. Re:This isn't for consumers, afaik... on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    No. Transmitters in that band are not expensive. The only expense at this point is developing the data processing to the standard.

    This whole thing, in a couple of years, will be buildable and loadable from open-source IP for a couple of hundred dollars, max.

    And commercial, mass-produced, warrantied units should cost about what a hefty Wi-Fi router costs now, if not less.

  11. Re:You know what it would produce on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go on spec and believe you just didn't equate Darjeeling to Earl Grey.

    I'm also going to lament the death of SpecialTeas.Com, which Teavana (ptui!) bought out and turfed for its mailing list. Monopolistic tisane-pushing motherfuckers.

  12. Re:stock up on bullets EMP don't work on them on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    I have more bullets, and they cost me pennies in bulk. How many multi-kW lasers are you sporting.

  13. Re:And of course on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    If I have a $500 phone in my pocket, a $1000 extension to my $4k worth of home networking and computing equipment is not a major outlay. And how much money has Apple put in the bank selling $500 phones?

    There's no cause to underestimate the market for this based on what its likely cost is. Its likely price, however, given its utility, could be several thousand dollars if we leave it to the usual suspects to develop and market it.

  14. Re:Virus on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1
  15. Re:You know what it would produce on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    I was gonna say.

    Call me when it can actually make: tea, Earl Grey, hot.

    Actually, Earl Grey is vile and pussified. I'll have the Assam.

  16. Re:stock up on bullets EMP don't work on them on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    A powerful enough bullet could end a laser.

  17. It should really be a law. on Chrome Extension Helps Find Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1

    No default play of audio or video without explicit opt-in. That should be a law.

  18. Re:This isn't for consumers, afaik... on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    Haha. Try and stop me.

  19. Re:And of course on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did Broadcast Television make you sterile? Because it transmitted at power levels 100X as great as this needs, on dozens of channels at a time in the same frequency band as this.

  20. Re:And of course on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    power of the transmitter

    This thing reaches 100 km on less than 100 watts.

    And it's in a frequency band that's been in use for decades on transmitters up to 100 kilowatts.

    Standing one of these up will cost a few hundred bucks, max. Which isn't to say that people selling them won't ask for kilobucks, but that's Laissez-Faire for you.

  21. Re:I've got an even better idea on MIT Unveils Sun-Free Photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    Very large data centers already scavenge heat to improve their electrical efficiency.

    But none of them is able to detach from The Grid and run in a regenerative loop.

    This is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics at work.

  22. Re:And of course on WiFi 802.22 Can Cover 12,000 Square Miles · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need widespread adoption.

    Just an access point in my house and a dongle on my notebook.

    And if those are open-source HW, all the better.

  23. Re:Don't Use Labels Like 'Alarmist' and 'Denialist on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've done a meta-analysis and found that since the number of people using the word "denier" outnumbers the number of people using the word "alarmist" by a significant factor (p<0.05), the deniers must be touching a nerve, and therefore are right (p<pi/e).

  24. Re:Well, duh on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes.

  25. Re:Obviously McCain doesn't understand the story on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 1

    I don't have maniacs in my family, and don't consider idiots my friends.

    Seventy-two percent support raising taxes on income above $250,000

    What you have seen with your own eyes is called "anecdotal evidence", and is not probative. That the Tea Party includes people who believe they created it is their own cognitive dissonance. The facts are clear. It's paid for by people who would sell you for cattle feed.