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  1. Re:Hell of a fruedian slip on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 1

    I hope, they included a backspace key. ^^

  2. What happens... on Fair Use Affirmed In Turnitin Case · · Score: 1

    ...with false positives?

    You know, when the topic lets two people in the same country write something that is similar enough, for the teacher to suspect that it is the same work? Or when the raw text pretty much is the same text. It is unlikely, sure. But if you know anything about probability mathematics, you know that you should never expect that the theoretical probability has to match the real probability.

    The question then is: Does "innocent, until proven guilty" count then, or will it be more the Gitmo style? Will they take a number of differences below a certain level alone as sufficient proof? I hope not.

  3. Re:8 characters a minute is excellent. on Sending Messages With Your Brain Via EEG · · Score: 1

    Didn't you know? He is the star of the new show "Ow! My balls!"
    He's expected to talk like this, or they will call him a fag.

  4. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    Nope. That's a misunderstanding. With my comment, I said that it depends on the environment. (Mostly its climate and the properties of the surface).

    Surface debris that does not have a exceptionally pointy form (Assuming you've got your natural protective sole.), or is made out of some special skin-penetrating toxic substance (Which is pretty hard. Ask phama scientists.), does not matter by the way. ^^

  5. I hate to be the grammar Nazi here... on Ballmer, IBM Surprised By Oracle-Sun Deal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But... I have seen my share of retarded "their"s, where "they're"s should be used. But...

    > Larry Ellison want's to create...
    > Now with Sun, their getting an OS,...
    > ...I had time to think about it, I couldn't think of a much better buyer of Sun.
    > Here you have two CEO's that hate MS...
    > While I don't hate Linux, the linux fanbois on here have been getting on my nerves so let me throw in this barb.
    > When the opportunity to buy Sun, Oracle chose them over RedHat.
    > (Ignoring typo in last line.)

    Please tell me, that English is not your first language. Because it's my third. And while I do my share of errors, I got the logic of the apostrophe hammered into my brain. Partially, because it's pointed out in every third comment on /. ^^
    You got the vocabulary, so I guess it could be first language. Which would really be a shame. :)

  6. Re:Bad user experience, piracy or Linux will win o on Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Chrome count as one task per "tab"?
    And doesn't IE do this too?

  7. Re:Correct technique is more important than shoes on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    Why learn a technique, when your body already is perfected for thousands of years?
    Just kick off the shoes. You will start to intuitively use the right technique. :)

    Yeah. The concrete part sucks. I wish we could have grass pavements only. Even mud would be fun. :D

  8. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    But you don't need them. You know what else perfectly balances your foot, provides perfect cooling / sweat protection, and tons of space?
    Your foot!

    If we needed shoes, we would have been born with them.
    Same as with clothes. Just that we now live in areas where we actually need them.
    And we live in areas where we might actually need shoes too (eg very rocky places).

    But I think we all still prefer the places where we can run around barefoot and completely naked. :D

  9. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Running on the balls of your foot means that the shock is being absorbed in your calf muscles. Running on your heels means it's being absorbed in the cartilage of your knees, which can very quickly wear out.

    Not exactly. Running on the balls of your foot means that the shock is being absorbed in all your leg and back muscles. While runnin on your heels removes the calf muscles from the equation, and creates shock waves in your bones. Not very healthy.

  10. Re:Hmm, no... on Do We Need Running Shoes To Run? · · Score: 1

    That's why we have eyes. And a brain connected to them. (At least most of us.)

    Sure, you can hurt yourself if you do not pay attention. Run on the street without looking, and you can die. Does that stop you? ^^

    Shoes, like gloves, are utilities, made to handle things that are beyond our design specifications. They were not intended for 24/7. And why would they? We humans are made for running. We don't need special stuff for that.
    Did you know that humans were once the most enduring runners on the planet? Much of our hunting abilities came from being able to follow them until they drop dead or are unable to keep the distance. ^^

    So that girl just made an error, by not looking where she walked. Perhaps she never learned to pay attention to the ground because she never had to.

    But I always prefer some poke in my foot for 1-2 days, to being a hobbling cripple when I'm old. :)

  11. Re:Sipping From a Firehose on How to Charge Your Cellphone Using Wasted Heat · · Score: 1

    About 1.21 gigalols.

  12. Re:So... on E-Merlin "Super-Telescope" Switched On · · Score: 2, Informative

    But he didn't say "inflatable"... ^^

  13. Thank you Captain Obvious! on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 1

    Of course it's your inner approach that counts. And no "sensory suckery" (as I call it) from the outside.
    But why make it hard on your? So I tend do need the following:
    - Variation = Inspiration: I can't come up with new ideas, when I always loop trough the same neural pathways. You know people who brag about all the places they had sex? Brag about all the places you coded at. :)
    - Perfectly comfortable: I do not feel anything negative or distracting. The only stuff I want to feel is what's inspiring me. Smell of plants. A little wind. A little bit of music.
    - Pauses: We coders tend to brag about long coding sessions, but the hard fact is: You are getting more done in the same total time, when you do pauses (eg. every 45-90 min, like in school). Often I came up with the greatest and most powerful ideas right after a small break.
    - Something else* in my life: Has something to do with the variation. I can't work, when I did not have a good party or some other crazy action in my life. It's what fuels my ideas more than anything else.
    - Most important: Do what I want to do! Every 5-10 years, I somewhat reset my life. I then ask the thinks I take for granted the most. Delete all taboos, likes and dislikes to find them again. Realigning myself with what I really want. And then adjust what I do to that. The last time I moved to another city and got from web development to game design because of it. And what can I say? I'm up to full power and creativity again!

    * How do you translate the German word "Ausgleich" in that context?

  14. Re:Funny but true.... on Microsoft Asks Open Source Not to Focus On Price · · Score: 1

    He meant emotional support. What madman would think otherwise? ^^
    Oh, and a bucket with a broom. For your tears and lost hair.

  15. Re:Thanks an effn lot on Ridley Scott's Forever War In 3D · · Score: 1

    What are you talking of? With the digital projectors of today, all you need to do, is replace the projector. That's all. Of course it's not cheap. But you're doing it only once. The data can still come from the same HDDs as before. (Only old cinemas still use real film, and they need to replace the projector soon anyway.)

    Then you give people some of those light cheap glasses, and are good.

  16. Re:Thanks an effn lot on Ridley Scott's Forever War In 3D · · Score: 1

    Well, if you put on 3D glasses anyway, you should only see one of the two perspectives, and be good with it. You could probably even switch between them how you like. :)

  17. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    Oh, just the best IDE for the most important and most used programming language for commercial (aka. "enterprise") environments. (Except for maybe C/C++, depending on your definition on "enterprise".) ;)

  18. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    Well, there are two possibilities:
    Either the combination of the Oracle DB uberbloat and MySQL's lack of functionality results in one reasonable DB.
    Or in a DB with 5GB empty databases, maxing out all cores on your system, and no functionality at all. ^^
    Something like: "We created a VM inside of the Oracle engine, where you can install and boot your Java OS, and on that, run MySQL."

  19. Re:I2P vs TOR on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    How does that help? Sure I can paste something with it. But I still have to copy and pas...snore....

  20. Re:Units? on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    Yes. I have properly calculated those values.

    And: Yes. I had too much time on my hands. ^^

  21. Re:Units? on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which does not matter, because you can get that energy from other solar panels. :D
    So in the end, you only need the power the production of the first panel with anything other than solar power. And you can use that panel, to gain energy back for another process that would normally need another plant.

  22. Re:Units? on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    Weak. I can give you 1.21 Gigawatts for 0.8 seconds (enough for a Delorean), if you burn all my body fat in that time. Sure, I might turn into a flash of lightning, but hey, I'll definitely be... uum... "thin" afterwards.

    Hey, how about solving our energy problems by powering everything with our body fat? I take that over a conventional power plant any day. ^^

  23. Re:Slow as usual... on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    You think physically moving to another geographical location does not hide his geographical location?

    When was the last time you went out.
    No, I mean really leave your chair. And your room. And your house. No. Not the one in your online game. The real one! ^^

    (I know what you meant, but I think driving to another city does a pretty well job. :) Just be sure to not leave any genetic / fingerprint / etc. traces on that computer desk.

  24. Re:Slow as usual... on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    It has been some years since I last submitted or received an unencrypted e-mail. Unfortunately only the part to my provider or my own server are encrypted (IMAPS/SSMTP), but hey, It certainly adds to the noise. :)

  25. Re:Slow as usual... on Anonymous Network I2P 0.7.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, my little home server could certainly have the normal network and that thing as a VPN, and allow one to toggle the routing with a little web-, ssh-, or desktop applet interface.