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  1. Re:isn't it time for on SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices · · Score: 1

    What about one of this ones? They could probably take good advantage of a 6 Gb/sec speed

  2. Re:Vim on What Free IDE Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    The question was about IDEs, not operating systems.

  3. Netbooks on Canonical Demos Early Stage Android-On-Ubuntu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If well are being tested to put Android directly in netbooks, having ubuntu netbook remix (or maybe even Moblin) along with Android applications could be the perfect match

  4. What could possibly go wrong on Virus Tamed To Attack Cancer, Cancer Drugs To Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the cancer patient could be an improvement over other alternatives.

    But if you play with living things there, things that try to survive replicating, mutating, and in the case of virus, finding more hosts.

    Of course, getting rid of that particular virus could be easier than getting rid of cancer, and that is something more to put into consideration.

  5. Easier target candidate on Microsoft Gaming Patents — Where They're Going · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Putting fences all around Imaginationland. They could have no plan to build it, but want to make sure nobody else will.

  6. Re:Perhaps on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 1

    Definately has read it... is following step by step all of "not do" of that book.

  7. Bullets? on Terminator Salvation Opens Well, Scientists Not Impressed · · Score: 1

    For a smart enough AI using bullets, bombs, artillery in general mechanical killing machines is a bad waste of resources.

    The main concern with biological weapons is that it counterattack us, as we are humans too. In general what harms our enemy harms us too, and accident happens. Morality sometimes happens too, we are humans, even in the case that some could not consider the other people fully humans (several examples in wars on the past).

    But machines? You can spray ebola, H1N1, anthrax or whatever you pick at the atmosphere worldwide. You can make rain chemical products or gases that affects life but not machines everywhere or in the areas you are interested on. Heck, you can capture all humans you find and put them to work as living batteries if you want... and still, you wont match the cost of an army of person to person intelligent android killing machines.

  8. Thanks on Microsoft Blocks Messenger In Five Embargoed Countries · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is not like they will avoid them to access the service, or at least a big part of it. There are plenty of places that gives a messenger web gateway.

    But closing it is a good first step. It those countries people used to have something in desktop will have to install other alternatives, maybe going out from the messenger, hotmail or even windows in big numbers, going to alternatives (i.e. google talk, and probably gmail by association).

  9. Re:They should use macs on FBI, US Marshals Hit By Virus · · Score: 1

    "Lower" in this context is like saying that the ocean is wet.

    Mac (and linux, bsd, and probably the rest) are not invulnerable to malware, specially if you count what is run by the user. But the ladder you must climb (both in social and software engineering) is far higher for those cases than for the average windows installation, where the culture teaches you to install/run things from open internet without even worrying if there is a source that could be checked and is pretty documented how easy is to get into, and already there are plenty of "bad boys" doing nasty and complex stuff for it (conficker et al)

  10. Cyberwar on US Army Will Upgrade To Windows Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    The 1st step to cripple enemy networks is convince them that something unsecure is the most secure system of the planet. That is really a subtle plan, but surely will work.

  11. Re:I don't want to be introduced. on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    3) A new dark humor twist. The real name of the movie could be be "(The soon to be ghosts)Busters"

  12. Need to be worried? on Flaw Made Public In OpenSSH Encryption · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Implies man-in-the-middle already, and the odds of figuring 32 bits of a particular packet are somewhat low. The worst case i could think about is when i pass my password or a very specific short data (cc number?). That particular data must be the decripted one, and in the 1/256k odds of happening, IF i have someone in the middle actively trying to get it. With that chances, the attacker well could expend his time playing lotto that have more chances to win.

    Of course, those numbers are regarding a specific distribution/ssh version, could be different for other versions, but still, looks somewhat hard to happen ever.

  13. Hubble 2.0 on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    That new and improved version should be positioned in the interestellar space. Will take years, but will put clear once and forever that good have crosses and evil axis.

    But the big one will be Hubble 3.0, outside our galaxy, sending us the images of the Big Bang that suffered Earth a bit after it got lauched.

  14. Re:No worries on Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives · · Score: 1

    Who ever stole it reformatted and is using it for bit torrent porn downloads now.

    You mean uploads, no?

  15. Ratios on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: 1

    Probably the value/price ratio will be better for Windows 7 than for Vista (or at least, the perception of it). Of course, if you take that into account Mac OS X could have a better ratio, and Linux, well, give math headaches.

    But if you dont count them as alternatives, then you have only one choice, and should pay whatever Microsoft think will be enough for them to survive the recession.

  16. Re:Top so far on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 1

    Has been the promise since, well, centuries ago, from books and movies. From golems to Data, going thru HAL9000 (that had the merit of having a specific, and past already, date attached, very much like flying cars), we should have by now something like that.

    The dissapoinment is because what we have still in artificial intelligence is a bit far from anything, and, of course, the "singularity is around the corner" mantra.

  17. Top so far on Top 10 Disappointing Technologies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Artificial intelligence. We have expert systems, neural networks, etc... but an "human like" artificial intelligence? The singularity that have more odds to happen near us in the future is a black hole.

    The close second, if we include transportation are (antigrav) flying cars, of course.

  18. Re:I've been saying this for... on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 1

    No, they aren't the Mouth of Sauron, because what the Eye of Mordor wanted to be spoken was something like "One OS to rule them all, and in the blueness bind them"... not even that they managed to say right.

  19. Congrats, Gartner on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 1

    At last they manage to say something that were at least half right... But they still have to fix the operating system name in the "prepare to roll out Windows 7" half.

  20. Actions, not words on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    You think internet is bad? Just put out your entire company out of the internet, no website, web store, mail, not even internal network with things like mail or web servers.

    You are right, internet is bad... follow your own word, take those measures, you will be coherent with yourself and everybody* happy.

    * Message sponsored by Sony competing companies

  21. Define "Fun" on When Does It Become OK To Make Games About a War? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its totally subjective. Influenced by cultural issues, maybe, but you can pretty much define what is fun for you. You could ask if is moral, ethic, damage sensibilities, etc... but fun, that goes with each one.

  22. Re:Is anyone else tired of PKD's drivel? on Philip K. Dick's "Flow My Tears" To Be Filmed · · Score: 1

    Things always can be worse. Heroes's Hiro could be Snow Crash's Hiro in a trip to the future in a crossover/remix/reboot between both. Considering the alternatives, is almost as bad as anything else they could do to it.

  23. 1st search on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 1

    "Murphy's Laws". They will find practical cases of them in a way or another.

  24. Problem scaling? on Interview With UIzard Creator Ryu Sunt-tae · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Site getting slashdotted in 3..2..1...

  25. Re:Keyword: Evil on Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms · · Score: 1

    Probably big server farms, like the ones of google, yahoo, amazon, etc are orders of magnitude over that. There are estimates of 200k servers in 2005, or 450k in 2006 (according to Wikipedia). By now could be the order of millons.