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  1. Re:Quanta? on KDE Developers Discuss Merging Libraries With Qt · · Score: 1

    Good question! I was quite upset by Quanta lagging behind in kde-webdev kde3 and Kubuntu messing further with a kde-webdev kde4 missing quanta and mentioning it in content from the readme. How one can consider Kde seriously with such inconsistencies. By the way, I still enjoy Quanta as it is, despite some of its shortcomings of performance issue when you enter href or load project with thousands of files.

  2. Wil this affect open source drivers on It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are there any deeper changes to come behind the re-brand? ATi involved in producing open source drivers ans specs for their GPU. Will this name change carry some bad news about the current openness?

  3. Surveillance and tracking instead of shut down on Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder why the police did not just add spying logging equipments, kept silent and followed wires (IP addresses ) and money transfers. (obviously, someone paid for the servers, even with stolen cards). Shutting down 2/3rd of C&C is like 2/3rd done job. The organized crime behind this is still runing fine.

  4. Thermal protection on Glass Invisibility Cloak Shields Infrared · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know it is premature speculation on lab technologies but, well Infra-reds invisibility could mean improved heat isolating glasses windows for buildings. Keep visible light enter the building, let infra-reds refract though the other side and keep inside radiating heat bouncing the glass with perfect reflection. Would be a boon for vehicles where most windows face side to side. Would this be more efficient or combinable with athermic design?

  5. Re:How I Learned to Start Thinking and Hate the Je on SVG and the Indexing of Web Standards · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The trouble with mentally ill people is, they think it is legitimate to squat topics in order to dispense dumb hate talk.

  6. Re:Are we smarter or stupider? on NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon · · Score: 1

    Since these flights costs tons of distiled oil per seat from dead biomass rotting and cooking in high pressure during millions of years, this is a dead avenue. Sooner than expected, we will face the reality, that transporting our flesh and bones bodies from places to places is a waste of our precious limited resources. We better hope we develop alternatives with efficient telecommunications and advanced robotics if, we really need to interact with remote environments.

  7. First impression Re:h264 v Theora on Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready · · Score: 1

    The huge size difference here is really the first thing that intuitively comes to mind. It may have good unlisted technical reasons, and it may be possible to reach the good weighted educated true argumentation about it.
    By the way, the first impression will stick for the vast majority. Considering myself a tech aware and open to more in-depth knowledge does not help much here.
    As a show for open source computer graphics, video editing and Creative Commons, the codec/size issue here is a real show stopper.
    I feel so sorry about it!

  8. h264 v Theora on Trailer For Blender Open Movie Sintel Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1080p Trailer:
    Ogg Theora 43M
    Mp4 H.264 15M

  9. Better with diesel piston engine Re:Turbines? on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Turbine without regeneration cycle have approx 30% efficiency and can up 40% efficiency if hot exhaust is returned into the cycle (regeneration). Diesel piston engines actually achieve between 40% and 45% efficiency at optimal constant speed. If you consider turbine systems at optimum efficiency with regeneration and high operating speed are quite large, noisy and need tight maintenance cycles for the finely adjusted and physically resistant blades, this is not suitable for small vehicles. By the way this new gearbox design would be very suited to diesel engines.

  10. Re:Repeat After Me: on Geohot Brings Other OS Support To PS3 With Custom Firmware · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mustang is a horse. :)

  11. Deliberate cripple from wifi extender vendors on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    Shortly after Orange France started selling Wifi extenders and powerline transmitters, they pushed a new firmware for theire Livebox Sagem3202 and Inventel modems that significantly lowered signal power and then quality.
    The all in one box is required if you want to use the services you pay for.
    Guess why they pushed this Wifi power reduction and disabled any access to configuration about the transmission power despite these modems can have it tuned otherwise.

  12. Zombi ULTD on SCO Asked O'Gara To Smear Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the world of Zombi Unlimited!

  13. What about therm interface Re:Thermal conductivity on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Even if 61% of aluminum axed conductivity would have some uses, a heat sink need to have good interfaces with the heat source and with air or other transfer medium. this heat sink example is really inaccurate. Considering if expectations are for moving heat from one place to another, with limited scatter dissipation, the most efficient method is by having a mechanically moving medium (liquid coolant).

  14. Is it a crystal polymer? on MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If all polymer molecule strings are all oriented the same, is it a crystal?
    This setup may show interesting optical properties as well. It's amazing research really, with processing matter at that atomic scale control. Being able to buildup matter that precisely will reveal all new dreamed uses. I really hope this will go forward as discovering industrial processes of controlling matter buildup arrangement at an atomic scale in mass-production.

  15. Use water synthesis Re:Water Filters? Hello? on Fertilizer Dump Spoils Intel's Pure Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Use water synthesis:

    1. Buy hydrogen and oxygen.
    2. Burn the pure hydrogen with pure oxygen into a fuel cell.
    3. Get electricity in the process
    4. Get pure water

    Sure, the process would not be cheep.

  16. Re:What doesn't MS consider as a threat? on Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So · · Score: 1

    Corporations are psychopaths by design. Every decisions from a corporation are emotionally disconnected. So very consequently this bring paranoid profiles as well. All this, is completely insane. And when corporation becomes a threat to society and to individual peoples. The only solution is to dismantle. There are no know working therapy nor corporation therapists. Corporations are from the ground up "psychologically" ill.

  17. Re:nerve growth unsuppressed == tumors? on Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sure, side effects of nerve growth unsuppression has to be studied. It may have implication in brain function disorders as well as elevated risks of tumors.or any other. By the way, this lead the path to further researches on proteins and other chemical treatments that may just temporarily inhibit that suppressor. Benefits risks ratio for a time restricted unsuppression could offer hope and an acceptable solution for nerve injured.

  18. Happy birth-day OpenSSH on OpenSSH Going Strong After 10 Years With Release of v5.3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This wonder-full versatile tool shaped the world of remote administration or the other way round.

    Would you ?

    1) Abandon SSH or OpenSSH
    2) Loose an arm
    3) I'm a snake
    4) Telnet everywhere
    5) I live in a data-center

  19. fuel source candidate on Alabama Wages War Against the Perfect Weed · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it can be processed as fuel and ever spread to Michigan.. "Hey GM, fuel comes to you!"

    Alternatively, an army of junk weed smoker could eradicate it better than goats.

  20. Re:My problem on Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points · · Score: 1

    Surely and little colorfull butterfly wanders arond and blue bird sings while the vendor help the customers. In other parts you can see Tux fluffy dancing with big ear mouse and a sexy black and white Betty all around Bill. Then they sing "we are here to serve you dear customer.

    DIIIIG! Oups, it is time to wake up!

  21. Re:It's not a hole on Spammers Use Holes In Democrats.org Security · · Score: 1

    More like: "It's Not A Bug - It's A Feature."

    By the way, It does not even wait between retries and it may as well fail completely in the void after the second one.

    Aug 30 16:30:14 ns1 postfix/smtpd[3774]: connect from mailservices.democrats.org[208.69.4.29]
    Aug 30 16:30:14 ns1 postfix/smtpd[3774]: connect from mail-fallback.democrats.org[208.69.4.31]

  22. Follow the Orange Book on Up To 10% of CD-Rs Fail Within a Few Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    120yers, lets start with archive rated CD-R, and use a decent recorder with a tray. Then write according to the orange book specifications.

  23. Re:laser pointer on Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet · · Score: 1

    Even if the wireless keyboards where encrypted. The reciever would still need to be connected to the computer with USB or the regular PS2 keyboard cables and transmit unencrypted USB HID or PS2 keyboard data.

  24. Science, is that what medicine doctors lacks off? on Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease In Science Class · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Do doctors only rely on pre-mashed medical condition patterns as a rotting knowledge to help patients?

    I often wondered how it look like so difficult as a patient to get proper diagnosis and treatment most of the time. And this look so weired from a computer literate point of view.

    At some point, animals tend to get better medicine.

    Perhaps patients would benefit better treatments if doctors practiced more science than magic art.

  25. Re:Obvious reply on Videogame Places You're Not Supposed To Go · · Score: 5, Informative

    Regarding WoW secret areas (there are several) the obviously omitted the most significant Mont Hyjal as an entire zone area you had to join by trick jumping. The place had nice project site marking and barrier at the end of the long coiling road.
    It was only opened to playable content with the Caverns of Time.