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  1. Re:I hear ya.... on Where Are the Joysticks For Retro Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you need to buy a female-to-female adapter. Alternatively, the coaxial plug for energy intake supposedly works as well.

  2. Re:I hear ya.... on Where Are the Joysticks For Retro Gaming? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You should have shipped with one. Look in your pants.

  3. Re:A word on simple experiments... on Study Hints Ambient Radio Waves May Affect Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    There's no reason to doubt that the certain frequencies we consider harmless are in fact slowly destroying delicate parts of our biosphere. We're the same scientists who didn't think lead paint or asbestos were a problem, and discovered germ theory only a short time ago. The article itself is not sensational, and even the DIY scientist is modest in her conclusions.

    There is always reason to doubt. Seriously, learn to science.

  4. Re:Sorta Kinda Maybe on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with that web page? The fact that the design is minimal indicates that they're all about the engineering aspect of programming instead of about how things look, that the project has been around for a long time, and that it possibly has roots in academia. That's exactly the message they should be broadcasting. Not "I've done some PHP programming so project webpage looks awesome and now I found a C tutorial telling me how to write hello world and extended it to mess about with your hardware."

  5. Re:Java isn't really built for the future is it? on Java's Backup Plan If Oracle Fumbles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have an aptly chosen user name. Not only is multi-threaded programming in Java quite easy to use, Java hasn't been interpreted in quite a long time.

  6. Uh... I see (nt) on Spectral Imaging Reveals Jefferson Nixed 'Subjects' for 'Citizens' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nt

  7. Re:isn't that OSs problem? on Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  8. Re:HUD on How Game Gimmicks Break Immersion · · Score: 1

    Mass Effect 2 did it quite nicely though, with the whole blood-shot screen thing when you got hurt. It also had a health bar, but still, you didn't really need to pay as much attention to that.

  9. Re:Why bother? on Buy Your Own Tron Lightcycle For $35,000 · · Score: 1

    1,2 and 3 look old now. Where the studio floor ends and the green-screen begins is quite easily identified if you pay attention to the background.

  10. Re:Optimum 100Mbps on The Fastest ISPs In the US · · Score: 1

    The roll-out of proper internet speeds in the US seem to be in a quite laughable state. I've got an uncapped 100 Mbps internet connection in my apartment, which I pay $20 a month for (the connection, not the apartment). This is as a private citizen, not as an employee of some corporation, or some special university connection. But that's in Sweden.

  11. Re:Yay! on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Uh, if water tastes something, you may want to check into getting a different source of water.

  12. Re:Headline...? on Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome In Mice · · Score: 1

    Written by Yoda it was.

  13. Re:Good. on Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really hope this is the last I ever have to hear about SCO.

    Well, just remember that you can't spell scourge of the earth without SCO

    You can't spell breakfast scones either. Or scotland yard.

  14. Re:Wait, what? on Violent Video Games Only Affect Some People · · Score: 1

    No worry, you can always load an earlier save file if the cops arrest you.

  15. Re:The flip side on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    A lot of the material he leaked was Top Secret. To be classified as Top Secret, the release of that information must cause imminent, serious harm to the United States and/or its allies and assets. Would he have the stones to take personal responsibility when the insurgents find US and Iraqi Government collaborators through that data and start murdering them and their families?

    In an ideal world, only such material would be classified as top secret. But then, we already know that so is not the case, and politically harmful information tends to be classified top secret as well.

  16. Re:You will be assimilated. on Part-Human, Part-Machine Transistor Devised · · Score: 1

    Ah, so it's super-conducting as well? Neat.

  17. Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    I count
    1
    1A
    10
    11
    1AA
    1A0 ...

  18. Re:An apt reminder... on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 1

    Because acupuncture has been poked and prodded so extensively by skeptics (pun not intended), there is now a great deal of evidence for it's effectiveness. Which is very much the scientific way: By resisting new ideas until there is undeniable evidence for them, we get a very strong protection against ideas that are wrong.

  19. Re:I am unimpressed on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Well, we have seen PhDs and Nobel laureates busting their funds (some even twice), so I am not amused. We should be more humble about our "knowledge".

    Well, there is no Nobel prize in mathematics, so they've got to make a living some how.

  20. Re:80m? Quite a hair. on Sony Unveils Flexible OLED Thinner Than a Hair · · Score: 1

    Not true, we have football fields and libraries of congress as well!

    He meant to say it is just under 1 football field.

    Libraries of congress is also an important unit of information quantity. This comment page, for example, is roughly one nanolibrary of congress.

  21. Re:Firefox, eh? on Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Yes it would seem still no native mp3 support.
    The real fundamental question is, however, do we really want to use java for audio?

    mp3 is a patent-encumbered standard. We don't want any of that in your open standards, now do we? Also, javascript is not java; it really has nothing to do with java, except the ill-chosen name.

  22. Hahahahahahaha on TV Networks Don't Want DMCA Protection For YouTube · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hahahahahahahahaha *gasp* I just read the hahahahahahah TFA hahahhahaha *gasp* So there's this lawyer right hahahahahahah, and he argues hahahahahahahhahahahahahah *gasp* that the law should be enforced according to the spirit of the law, instead of the exact word! hahahahahahahhahahaha!

  23. Re:If it fails on Moore's Law Will Die Without GPUs · · Score: 1

    It isn't an "if". It will fail, because nature doesn't provide useful building blocks smaller than an atom.

    Currently we are at 32 nm-scaled technology. The characteristic size of an atom is approximately twice the Bohr radius, or ~ 1 angstrom. So our transistor size is roughly 320 times larger than a hydrogen atom. Now, a hydrogen atom sized transistor is a pipe dream, and things will break down far sooner than that, but it constitutes a boundary beyond which no transistor resembling anything we have today will be created. According to Moore's law, this is 18 months * log2(320) = 6 years away.

  24. Re:Well duh. on Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    Eggcorns constitute another great example of how humans get this wrong.

  25. Signed int on Man Spends 2,200 Hours Defeating Bejeweled 2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah well, 2,147,483,647 points ought to be enough for anyone.