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  1. EEStor on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is this another factor of 2 on top of EEStor's still-unproven claims? How many more breakthroughs is it gonna take before something actually happens?

  2. Re:Multicast on IPv6 and the Business-Case Skeptics · · Score: 1

    But at least multicast is guaranteed to be available to the local Ethernet link. You can't resolve addresses without it.

  3. Re:Hide on Questioning Google's Privacy Reform · · Score: 1

    Your comment makes no sense at all. It's equivalent to saying "I'm on IPv4, so I hide behind 127.0.0.1/32"

  4. Re:I agree with Parent. on Which Vendors Do You Trust For PC Parts? · · Score: 1

    As far as cables are concerned, Monoprice is better than Newegg, mainly because of their cheap shipping:

    http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10301

  5. Re:Interesting feat on Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record · · Score: 1

    Well that's not very nice.

  6. Re:Why can't the whole web be HTTPS? on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 1

    Once IPv6 rolls around, it will be practical to give every site its own unique IP again.

    IPv6: solving every problem, since 1998.

  7. Provide a way to pay on Game Developer Asks To Hear From Pirates · · Score: 1

    I think music, movies, games, etc. should all have a "pay here" button on their website. That way, pirates have a convenient way of paying if they ever do decide the product is worth it.

    Being forced to buy physical media or download another file just makes paying more annoying.

  8. Re:SSH and SSL protected on DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web · · Score: 1

    So, every time you log in, you audit the page source and verify that your password is still being submitted to the correct URL?

  9. Re:In other words on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article doesn't even contain the word "Phoenix". WTF? If they're gonna talk about one of the landers, they should at least mention its name.

  10. Re:Comfi on Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network? · · Score: 1

    Never mind, looks like it's already taken by Communications Fidelity: http://www.comfi.com/

  11. Comfi on Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network? · · Score: 1

    Comfi, for Community Fiber

  12. Q6600 on Rubik's Cube Proof Cut To 25 Moves · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, the Q6600 ran at 2.4GHz, not 1.6GHz...

  13. Re:At least you can get FiOS... on Verizon, Fiber Or Die? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't feel bad, I live in the Silicon Valley of the West coast and can't get FiOS either.

  14. Heap? on Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

  15. Re:The problem is with the docs on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, please do tell me how to use iptables or iproute2 to set my ip address, or to enable/disable a network adaptor. ip link set eth0 up
    ip addr add 192.168.1.2/24 dev eth0
    ip link set eth0 down

    etc. etc.
  16. Re:what's next? on Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An ISP would just have to filter any DNS packet which contains a banned hostname. It doesn't really matter which DNS server you're using. As far as I know, encrypting a DNS request isn't very feasible.

  17. Hydrogen on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 1

    I've heard arguments that the Hindenburg blew up because of the paint and not the hydrogen, so maybe we should re-evaluate whether or not hydrogen is actually safe for this application? On Earth, it's certainly much easier to get hydrogen than helium.

  18. 248 dimensions? on A New Theory of Everything? · · Score: 1

    I knew my name had to mean something.

  19. Re:TorrentFS? on Encrypted Torrents Growing Fast In the UK · · Score: 1
  20. Re:He didn't say hypersphere, etc on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    Saying "5 dimensional sphere" implies a hypersphere. Just like saying "2 dimensional sphere" implies a circle.

  21. Re:Five dimensional sphere? on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, a red fuzzy sphere is NOTHING like a 5-dimensional hypersphere. Even a sphere of 4 spatial dimensions would blow your fucking mind. If we lived in a universe with 4 dimensions of space, then planets would be 4D spheres with a 3D surface. You would be able to walk around, and "turn" up and down without ever leaving the ground, just like you can turn left and right in our universe. It would be impossible to tie a knot. Imagine, if you will, people living on the surface of a circular planet in a 2D universe, then imagine how incredibly different it would be from our 3D universe. If you aren't utterly shocked by thinking about what it would be like to live in 4 spatial dimensions, let alone 5, then you haven't been thinking hard enough.

  22. Re:Can someone explain the joke please? on Web Creators Call Internet Outdated · · Score: 1
  23. Is that bad? on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 1, Informative

    So, in the future, it will be easier for people to communicate globally. Who cares about the old cruft?

  24. [vV].+ on Intel To Rebrand Processors In 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, it's not like anybody ever knew what vPro and VIIV were for in the first place.

  25. Draco's Wand on Deathly Hallows / OOTP Movie Discussion · · Score: 1

    I don't have book 6 on hand to search through, so I might as well ask here...

    What exactly did Draco do in book 6 that gave him ownership of the Elder Wand?