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  1. Re:taxes on The Fresca Rebellion · · Score: 1

    oh please.
    it's a known carcinogen and it hasn't been taken off the market yet because of $$$ pressure. Diet soda isn't exactly on the same realm in any way.

  2. Re:Good. on G20 Protesters Blasted By "Sound Cannon" · · Score: 1

    that's the point.

  3. Re:Screw calculator binaries; how about x64 driver on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Just saying..."?

    wow.. just.. wow...
    Here I thought that some dizzy bitch on some newscast saying that would be enough to make everyone realize how stupid it sounds.
    I stand corrected.

  4. Re:No HP??? on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    I that they so shortsighted would be can't believe!

    uhhh.. what?

  5. Re:Microsoft BOB ... enough said on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there's kids forced to use it somewhere...

  6. Re:ME on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    That *alone* makes me not want to go to any medical facility...

  7. Re:No moral fibre on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    Makes me glad to be in Arizona where instead of scolding you for protecting your abode, they scold you for aiming anywhere but the chest. :)

  8. Re:No moral fibre on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    In most american properties, you are within the law to use whatever force necessary to protect your life, and to move that person outside of your premise.
    He didn't carve them up, he used a weapon with a strike (or two since he was fearing and acting out of adrenaline spike). Just being backed into a corner is enough to provoke a shot to the head in that situation, much less a sword swing.
    Yeah it's Maryland, but they haven't illegalized ALL protections there... yet.

  9. Re:No moral fibre on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    And considering it's baltimore, it's better to kill a person than let them live and strike back when your back is turned later.

  10. Re:No moral fibre on Mafia Sinks Ships Containing Toxic Waste · · Score: 1

    Oh noes!@$ don't do anything to them just back away and let them take your car!!$#!

  11. Re:Power? on Google Getting Into the Solar Mirror Business · · Score: 1

    Right, and the primary positive of a nuclear submarine is not it's tech coolness but it's ability to be underwater for weeks on end without requiring exhaust release on the surface of the water. Also, not requring recharging as frequently.
    In the end, it is a glorified steam engine.

  12. Re:Kilowatt hours per mile on First Algae Car Attempts To Cross the US On 25 Gallons of Fuel · · Score: 1

    Probably because it doesn't make it terribly easy to compare MPG with KW/hr.
    We're comparing with a fuel-powered vehicle, so we stay within the realm of comparatives.

  13. Re:To whoever tagged story as uk on Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion · · Score: 1

    This can go around for millennia until someone looks at the maps and realizes that there is a tectonic & political division of North and South America.
    People can say that water is purple and it's still translucent.

    To me it sounds like a throw back to when the Spanish were busy slicing away populations in South America, when it was referred to as "the Americas".
    There has been evolution since then of a couple hundred years, and a couple of governments.

  14. Re:To whoever tagged story as uk on Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion · · Score: 1

    Ever referring to an American as a Unitedstation or a USian is about as intelligent as calling a German or Chinese a Republikan.

    It's only a description of the political make up... much like the Republic of Congo. United States means simply that. You might notice the "of" between which refers to the country in question posted afterwards.

  15. Re:To whoever tagged story as uk on Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion · · Score: 1

    Thank you for pointing that out. America is in the Americas as much as Sudan or Germany is in Africa-Eurasia.
    There seems to be some emotional need to try and disqualify American sovereignty and it's quite entertaining sometimes. In today's world since warfare isn't an option any longer, it's amounted to "your on the same continent as 3rd world nations!!! so there!!!"
    For those lazy individuals that feel no need to read, here's a quick tutorial in picture form. (from the same pink as the parent provided, just straight to an image on it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Continental_models.gif

  16. Re:To whoever tagged story as uk on Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion · · Score: 1

    WhOOSH!!!

    and just to throw clarification in, we aren't talking continents, we're talking countries.

    kthxbai

  17. Re:What is the advantage... on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1

    it's not more heat energy being beamed down, it's energy, but not heat energy.
    Just like fire isn't microwave :D

  18. Re:seriously? on Japan Plans $21B Space Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Slowly deafen anyone within a kilometer? What the hell have you been exposed to?
    Jesus... a wind farm is anything but loud... (experience tells me this)

  19. Re:Dock/Taskbar design on OS Performance — Snow Leopard, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.10 · · Score: 1

    Just because you use them for a period of time doesn't mean the price goes up.
    Value != amount of time used
    Value == Quality

  20. Re:Thats possible in america! on Treasured "Moon Rock" Is Petrified Wood · · Score: 1

    So in rare but densely populated micro-regions? ;)

  21. Re:Secure protocols for home wifi? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    600 Mbit/s is the net throughput which even before converting to gross throughput only equates to 75MBytes/s. Most harddisks can push 75MBytes/s.
    Of course the real world kicks in and the gross throughput always comes in, which will definitely be less than 75MBytes/s.
    It is hard to compare wired to wireless since the very transmission methods hamper the ability to run apples to apples. Large compression over wireless doesn't run as well as large compression over wired since the back-end seems to compress on some modules of routers as well. I've ran into this on several occasions. .11G is slow, let's just admit it and move on... 11n is much faster (double faster) as you said. But, the nice thing is that both have a purpose, and can exist together in harmony. There is no "omg, liek we s000 need to liek get rid of wireless" or any such thing. People are just tired of other's trying to say that "the end is neigh" for wired networks. Kind of like saying "the end is neigh" for food since we have pills with the same nutrition.

  22. Re:How Long? on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Dear god man... it's nearly idiot proof if you can read.
    It took me an hour to know how to use it, and that was the first time I knew about it.
    I'm not a crypto expert either, but your not making the application, your stress testing a wireless network.
    Or cracking it.. whichever :)
    Burn the cd, boot off of it, and run a couple of the apps with --help. Man them, or whatever.
    I did it, forgot about it, and the next time I need to use it I'll do the same...

  23. Re:Cool on WPA Encryption Cracked In 60 Seconds · · Score: 1

    I did the same but I had people connecting and saturating the line with torrents. Meh, that got old fast, so with one swoop I locked it down, mac and all.

  24. Re:ipv6experiment.com on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it failed ;)

  25. Re:IpV6 reality check on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    Since in my area I have approximately 3 providers of high speed internet, all of which are IPV4 (thankfully...), it's nice to not even worry about something that monstrously undocumented (and readable without a goddamned math degree).
    What would have been nice about IPV6 is if it was initially just an elongation of the IPV4. At least THEN it'd be number that we actually count instead of HEX. Could have used aged and proven logic with it too instead of relearning the innards of yet another layer logic.
    Also, since there's no upside from the end-users perspective (aside from "omg, d00d look at my interface IP!!!!") other than being able to IP their vaseline container to Walgreens when it's empty, I honestly think this is about akin to the Bush administration in the history of the US :) A small blip we need to live through to expand out to something worth having and fixing the stagnancy that occurs during IPV6.