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  1. Re:In anticipation... on Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper · · Score: 2, Funny

    US paper size, 8.5" x 11"

    That's 215.9mm x 279.4mm for those of you living in the civilized world. Slightly wider and not quite as long as an A4, but generally comparable.

  2. Re:About time on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    I will leave it as an excercise to the reader to work out who this was.

    Quit the bullshit. This isn't school and you aren't our professor. It was Jill Stein of the Green party.

  3. Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 1

    that is reserved by definition for couples that can, under normal circumstances, conceive children for the survival of the human race.

    So, since my wife is sterile, and we knew this when we got married, my marriage is illigitimate in your world view?

  4. Re:Math is math on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    It's not meaningless. It's a rate of change, just like m/s^2. As such, the car should pop the breaker somewhere around 108 or 144 minutes of charging, depending on whether the outlet is a 15A or 20A outlet, and assuming the line voltage is a solid 120V. 108 minutes is the point when the power draw would reach 1800W and at 144 minutes, it should hit 2400W, which, at 120V are 15A and 20A respectively, assuming that there is no reactive power involved.

  5. Re:Apple All Over Again on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Yes, I could. Unfortulately, adapters tend to add one more place where things can go wrong, and they increase the stress on the ports where they are used. I just want to end the proliferation of new styles of USB connectors. So it won't go in both ways? Turn it over! This isn't rocket science.

  6. Re:Doesn't Apple have a patent on this? on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    If we used that same plug here in the US, we'd probably rate it at ten times the current*! We have 50A 240V plugs that are very definiately a lot flimsier, with prongs

    (*The UK plugs, for the uninitiated, are rated 13A at 240V and have solid brass prongs that are about 4mm thick and 7mm wide. They are a beauty of engineering.)

  7. Re:Apple All Over Again on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 2

    Maybe not as bad as that, but a new USB connector does mean yet another USB cable to carry in your go-bag. I already carry four different kinds.

  8. Re:OTA via Satellite in Australia on Final Days For Australia's Analog TV · · Score: 1

    That doesn't surprise me.

    Australia is a fairly big country with large expanses of nothing where free-to-air satellite makes perfect sense. On the other hand, here in the US . . . oh, wait . . .

  9. Re:Retailer on User Alleges LG TVs Phone Home With Your Viewing Habits · · Score: 1

    Blackwater is actually a perfect example. Their reputation is so bad that they've changed their name twice in the last ten years (to Xe, then to Academie) presumably to dodge it.

  10. Re:Capitalistic Internet Kill Switch on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 1

    No. Obamacare is crony capitalism.

    This is Socialism.

  11. Re:I doubt it on Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' · · Score: 2

    Who owns the satellites? Where are they (the owners, not the satellites) located? Can the US Government successfully pressure the owners to cause the satellites to be shut down? If so, then no, no raids will be necessary.

  12. Re:***FEAR*** as a very powerful tool on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares about you not caring about his captcha.

  13. Re:Government hates competition... on Rental Business Aaron's Admits Role In Spying On Customers · · Score: 1

    Prolly wanna turn down the squelch setting on your sarcasm detector a little . . . .

  14. Re:"We believed we knew better what customers need on How BlackBerry Blew It · · Score: 1

    Apple put a reasonable user interface into place. Blackberry did not. The only thing BB has going for them, in my view, is the presence of a keyboard, but the UI just really, really sucks.

  15. Re:VoIP? on No Upper Bound On Phone Record Collection, Says NSA · · Score: 2

    I am not sure why you would think it might be . . . .

  16. Re:Again, the ends justify the means? on California School District Hires Firm To Monitor Students' Social Media · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Irrelevant. Everything that is on facebook was put there by somebody who chose to put it there. If they put it on public display, then they chose to put it on public display. It's published, therefore it is public. This public information is available to anybody and everybody. As long as the school does not require the students to friend them or turn over passwords, what's the issue?

    That said, this could teach students two very important things: reputation management and subterfuge. These are good things to know in an emergent surveillance state.

  17. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 1

    I don't really need the graphics capability beyond enough to run a GUI. I use that machine to DJ. As long as it can keep the waveform displays on screen reasonably up to date, it's good enough.

  18. Re:Isn't it time we take back our own country ? on Are the NIST Standard Elliptic Curves Back-doored? · · Score: 1

    10) don't profit because you can't really take lobbying bribes for a distributed lawmaking system.

    Not all profit is monetary. If we gain though building a better system, that's profit.

  19. Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM on AMD Reveals Roadmap For ARM and X86 SoCs · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually have one of those Atoms. It's on a D945GCLF2 MoBo. The CPU is passively cooled, but there's a more-or-less-standard 40mm CPU fan on the Northbridge.

    Despite being dual-core, the performance is not very good. I have a similarly-clocked AMD Athlon II single-core that runs circles around it. The Athlon II machine uses less power in toto (i.e. monitor included) than the Atom desktop, just the computer (i.e. monitor excluded).

  20. Re:Don't fly period. on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I agree about their randomness. I suspect that they mean random in the same sense as "random access memory". What the computer does with RAM is not random.

    I got "randomly selected" for five legs of a six-leg trip once. Then I stopped flying if I could avoid it.

  21. Re:SPOILERS on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    This led to him getting an enhanced pat-down with an explosive swab test on his pants which came back positive for some unknown reason, and everything snowballed from there like some kind of comedy skit, where everything he did and said was interpreted as matching the profile of a terrorist.

    I was thinking it is something more like a Kafka novel.

  22. Re:NHTSA pushed a 5 star rating on NHTSA Gives the Model S Best Safety Rating of Any Car In History · · Score: 1

    Actually, my Nissan has red blinkers.

  23. Re:Play it their way on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    I tried that. They never got back to me. I didn't, however, try filing a FOIA request . . . that might have worked.

  24. Re:NSA has cribs? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    That makes sense in an email context, where the objective is to reduce the computational overhead by using a fast algorithm (symmetric key) to encrypt the message, and then you only have to worry about encrypting the key with the much slower asymmetric algorithm. As a side-effect, it also lets you encrypt a message to multiple specific recipients by adding a copy of the symmetric key encrypted with different public keys for each intended recipient, also a nice touch for email.

    In this case, hoever, where the idea is to be able to disclose the whole shooting match to everyone, there is no benefit in using asymmetric encryption, in any capacity that I can see.

  25. Re:349GB? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 2

    That would still leave him, at most, 292 GiB, which will not fit 400 GiB of files. Interesting idea, though!