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  1. Re:ANSWER THE QUESTION MR. TORVALDS!!! on Gates Elaborates on IP Communists · · Score: 1

    WARNING: THIS IMAGE WILL CRASH FIREFOX/MOZILLA
    http://userpages.umbc.edu/~perdomo2/587.jpg


    Um... No it doesn't. Maybe you need more memory.

  2. Re:Haven't these people heard of NetFlix? on MPAA to Sue BitTorrent Tracker Servers · · Score: 1

    "What I can't get is TV episodes. If I knew where to buy them, I would (Invader Zim, anyone?) but I can't find any."

    Ahem. http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=600375 72

  3. Re:Flaw with in-game property being worth real mon on Virtual Island Sells For $26,500 · · Score: 1

    Yep. The authors can instantly devalue or increase the value of game "property" by manipulating the scarcity of the items.

    "Who-hoo! I won the auction for the island, I can rent-out beaches, lease mineral and timber rights..."

    (10 new, even richer islands rise up from the ocean...)

    "DOH!!!!"

    (Damn, pwn3d by formatting and not using preview...)

  4. Re:Flaw with in-game property being worth real mon on Virtual Island Sells For $26,500 · · Score: 1

    Yep. The authors can instantly devalue or increase the value of game "property" by manipulating the scarcity of the items. "Who-hoo! I won the auction for the island, I can rent-out beaches, lease mineral and timber rights..." "DOH!!!!"

  5. Re:Excellent on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    If they were truly identical (and broken into the same chunk size) then they should generate the same hash...

  6. Re:Not high def? on Get Your Broadcast TV Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's WMV9 needs about 3-4 mbps for 720p. Presumably mpeg4 would be in that same ballpark. You'd probably want to be able to burst to at least 8mbps for complex content without macroblocking (strobe lights, explosions, fast motion...)

  7. Re:Dont they already do this? on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1
    http://departments.weber.edu/physics/schroeder/phs x2010/ps9.pdf

    Please complete question 7 of the problem set, then get back to me.

    7. For this exercise you need an inexpensive tire pressure gauge, which you should always carry
    with you anyway if you drive a car. If you don't have one, please borrow one. Then find a
    parked car (either your own or a friend's), and measure the tire pressure. Also measure the
    approximate area of each tire that is in contact with the road surface. Use this information to
    estimate the weight of the car, explaining your reasoning completely. You might as well work
    in English units (force in pounds and area in square inches). If possible, check your answer
    against the number printed in the owner's manual. Otherwise, record the make and model of
    the vehicle so you can check later whether your answer is reasonable.


    For bonus points, answer question 8 too.
  8. Re:Dont they already do this? on California Considers Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    If both the Prius and the Hummer's tires are filled with 35psi of air, they'll put nearly identical pressures on the road. "Nearly" because tires aren't perfectly elastic. Call it maybe a 5% difference.

    Of course, the Hummer will exert its 35 lbs on a lot more square inches at once.

  9. Re:Be careful... on Car Hacks & Mods for Dummies · · Score: 1

    Engines are considered "wear items" like brake pads and tires.

    If you can't afford to replace shortblocks, you can't afford to mod it.

  10. Re:huh? on BBC to Trial Worldwide Multicast Streaming? · · Score: 1
    If you spend 6 hours at it, you *might* find an anonymous proxy that doesn't include headers that the great folks at the BBC could recognize to find that you are in the good old "bastion of freedom" US of A.

    Actually, the second proxy I tried worked...
  11. Ringworld in 4 hours. on Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries · · Score: 1

    Hmmmmm... Quite a bit happens, and there is quite a bit of exposition needed to not completely confuse someone who hasn't read the book. 4 hours is going to be a bit cramped.

    Wouldn't adapting one of his Known-Space short stories or novellas make for a better start? One of the Gil the ARM stories? Or maybe Protector or World of Ptavvs? (sp?)

  12. Re:NY Times REALLY needs more informed writers. on Hack Your Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    "More gas" taken to excessive levels can also wash the oil off the cylinder walls, leading to premature piston ring wear. It also dilutes the oil, causing a decrease in viscosity that can destroy the crank and rod bearings, camshafts, lifters and valve-stem guides.

    The slower burn of an overly rich mixture also causes high exhaust temperatures which is hard on exhaust valves and their valve seats.

    Finally, it cokes up the head and piston tops something fierce, which causes hot-spotting and leads to pre-ignition.

    Too rich is just as damaging as too lean. It just takes longer for the damage to become apparent.

  13. Re:Making ethanol uses fossil fuels on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    Right-click on peon, click on "Build farm."

    Peasants. They're not just for mining gold any more.

  14. Re:Instant on on What's the Point of Building a Home Theater PC? · · Score: 1

    Moot point. If you're using it as a PVR, it never gets turned off.

  15. Scroll Wheel Prior Art on Dcube: Portable Audio With Ogg And A Scroll Wheel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any Roland/Akai/EMU rack-mount synth or sampler.

  16. Re:who cares about ie blocking popups, still insec on Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    At which point, you go to Google and find what you're looking for at some other site that doesn't do that crap, just like many of us do today with 100% flash sites.

    And if the 100% Javascript site sees its traffic nosedive and goes out of business, well, that's their problem, isn't it?

    1. Create a great website but make it too annoying to use.
    2. Watch your page-views plummet.
    3. ....
    4. Pro^H^H^HSee your site's obituary on fuckedcompany...

  17. Re:Expose! on Mac OS X Panther 10.3 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Right-click on a blank spot on your Windows application bar, click on "Tile Windows Horizontally" (or vertically.) Look familiar?

    Face it, they've had 1/2 of Expose for years, it's just a matter of putting the other windows back to their old size and maximizing the clicked window to match the feature.

  18. Re:Seems easy to remove on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    Replace them with an interpolation of the previous and next frames.

    Actually, there is already a virtualdub filter that does this. The temporal noise reduction filter.

  19. Re:edit the frames? on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your average film is 125,000 to 175,000 frames. Get busy.

  20. Cute: See their rules on firewalls on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AUP Policy

    On page 3...

    Don't most modern operating systems include at least basic firewalling functionality?

  21. SOCKS Proxy, anyone? on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    Yes, all my P2P traffic appears to originate from an open SOCKS proxy server in China.

    I may have an abnormal amount of traffic on port 1080, but it's really some research for my thesis, I swear...

  22. Re:Friction on Ion Engine Propels Probe to Moon · · Score: 1

    In the novels that came after the movie, it was explained that this was accomplished by "Etheric Rudders."

    Lame cop-out, I know.

  23. Re:Choice on Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules · · Score: 1

    Well, there's them and NPR your state, NPR bordering state, NPR other bordering state...

  24. Re:Fallible argument on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    On any tax except a sales tax Florida certainly does see revenue from out-of-state sales. In fact these "use" taxes are one way to ensure that governments can generate revenue from people outside of their juristiction.

    Businesses don't pay taxes, they just collect them from customers. When businesses sell exclusively to the government that relationship gets weird...

  25. From the tinfoil-hat crowd: on New Kazaa Lite Protects Identity · · Score: 1

    Your tires will have embedded RFID tags. They'll know who to charge, don't worry...