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  1. So light the pipe up and blow the source on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    Send an army of robots shaped like catapillars that use wheels and gas as fuel and send them with lots of C4 down the pipe for 1000s of miles.

  2. iPod not so sweet either... on iPod Casualties Offer New-In-Box Bargains · · Score: 1

    Dont get me wrong, I dont hate it, but there are 'features' that are just plain either anoying, or "duh stupid bug".
    (4th G here)
    1. Cannot play/listen to tracks while charging over USB. Stupid charging icon.
    2. After a recharge/sync, it looses the last song played position, so if I just turn it on and hit play, it does so from #1 of nnnn
    3. PodCasts dont auto play next, while songs do.
    4. with orig battery, battery warning was too late, rather than earlier, as it should say "1 hour left, not 60seconds left"
          new battery is much better long lasting btw too.

  3. And Antarctica??? Missing dudes on NASA To Release Landsat 7 Data On the Web · · Score: 1

    Why is higher detail of antarctica not being published, it should at least compress real well , but its still very poor.

    There should be lots of data from nasa, its not like they can miss the south pole.

    Judging from the bad rendering on a sphere, i notice lots of math errors/scewing around the pole. A pole is the same everywhere, this is a static
    render.

    Is it (C)?

    Same as below ocean views, we have good undersea maps, so that would be good too even if its is of much lower resolution.

  4. Or you could.... on Ethanol Demand Is Boosting Food Prices Worldwide · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A) Get rid of tax if you earn under $100,000 which reduces demand for government evil tax employees and accountants
    B) Get rid of more govt employees that are operating slower than a 486 (10% of workforce)
    C) Use presidential power to overule and force through lots of modern designed smaller reactors (greenies begone you have no solution)
    D) throw out 10m illegal aliens that do nothing but undermine jobs and produce crimes and send billions back to mexico.

    But of course economists never see a ceiling on the earths ability to sustain human life, just infinite inflation based increasing profits, that never end.

    Increasing yearly population + inefficiently built/designed housing is responsible for the bulk of GDP growth. How about give dome housing a go, it takes 24hrs to build a house for a fraction, but
    that means that all those illegals wont have jobs.

  5. VC++ Express isnt that great.... on Piracy Economics · · Score: 1

    I mean, it works like gcc, but it still has no GUI resource editor built in, which limits it to nothing more than a glorified
    text editor / compiler. Eclispe can out do it.

  6. So did the Jetsons on USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Somehow I guess the IT geeks that write the patents forget that they got their ideas as 5 year olds watching the Jetsons and seeing
    them buy stuff on a 200inch plasma screen using voice recognition to the virtual shopping channel.

    A TV show can be prior art as it showcases the concept and idea perfectly so that even a 5 year old can understand it let alone a CEO earning $6m dollars.

  7. I thought... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    that lawyers were like the mafia in that they never work FOR YOU, they do outsourcing/contract work. Surely a lawyer knows
    he can earn the $1500/hr to him self & partner, rather than a 30% cut and 70% to 'agency'

  8. Thats why Jobs did LSD..... on The Shape of the Future · · Score: 1

    To gain an insight... to speed this 'assentian' just like the ancients.

  9. and why did aliens come here? on The Human Mutation · · Score: 1

    Dude, this is why aliens came here to make us humans.

    This is a 60000 yr training session, now we will make 120,000,000 spaceships for them in 2050. And a whole modern planet built nicely.

    All they have to do is activate the 'do not reproduce gene'

  10. use google to search their site on Super-Fast RDF Search Engine Developed · · Score: 1

    put this request into google

    site:www.deri.ie technical report 2007 4 20

  11. Send in Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton too on NASA Tackles Ethics of Deep-Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Throw those two into the space ship, that will keep the guys happy, and choose only
    lesbian female space girls.

  12. I blame yahoo/freehosting companies on Exposing Bots In Big Companies · · Score: 1

    And soon to be myspace.

    All these bots use common resources like yahoo/geocities for either mailing out or storing online content/payloads.

    Seriously, yahoo etc... should have an active role with at least 10-30 people constantly scanning their networks/servers for bot hosters/emailers.

    Is it that hard?

  13. Antarctica is poorly mapped... on How Google Earth Images Are Made · · Score: 1

    Antarctia is really badly mapped, I know its no amazon, but it would show of its beauty more.

    Hasnt Nasa mapped it well? Buy it google.

  14. add it your self.... on How Google Earth Images Are Made · · Score: 1

    You can add place points, and attach net based jpegs as overlays, you can adjust the size/angle/alpha.
    JUst split your images up and place them in the correct order, then publish the placeholders and any client will see your photos overlayed
    at the right location, if you did it right. I did this to one ski field that was mapped poorly, so I added a plane based aerial photo of it on top. Looks real good
    and great res, and png is not too large.

  15. url dude on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 1

    You mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#IMAX_3D

    Yes, but only 96hz, so each eye sees 48fps, so its basically a 24fps film run at 2x speed and done with two views at the same time. 4x the data rate.

    I used to use the amiga to fake the screen FPS on the CRT to go above 60/80/100hz but it also did an auto widescreen effect, so 100hz screen would be a 2:1 ratio.
    You would loose resolution as the screen is still 15khz full bandwidth, but you caused the gun to jump back up so each frame would be 1/100th, but only 1/2 the amount
    of vertical height. The computer would just keep feeding data from the top 0,0 and it would still take same amount of memory bandwith. It looked real good at 100-120fps.
    So natural. and brighter because the gun going over the same area.

  16. Re:Explanation on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 1

    That must get real real hot with that bright light what is it, 7000-12000 watts going through a 2 inch space, must require lots of cold air being blown way fast
    for that to work.

    Or...

    Do they split the light in two halfs on each polar angle, and then use a 100% on/off opposite LCD see through screen that cycles at 72fps, that way its much
    simpler technology, ie a prism , and two lcd shutters which is trivial, still needs cooling i figure.

    Just had a thought, this cant be retrofitted on a current DLP, because each 1/24th of a second is one full complete frame, in that 41ms, you only see one image on the DLP.
    How is it going to show the other image, you need a frame buffer to hold two frames, and cut between them every 6.9ms . You can only do this if you have TWO DLPs you swap from, or
    a damn fast 144fps DLP circuit, or a wierd ass DLP that has every odd line be opposite polarity.

    THis cannot be retrofitted on current DLPs, no way.... your source media is in a fixed format, either 24fps film, or 24fps MPEG2/MPEG4 data. At most it would be 60/50fps DLP. To get 144/150
    requires three image changes in 1/50th of a second, the DLP/LCD hardware doesnt change that fast, sure you can flash on/off the same image against nothing but thats useless. Unless you
    have magic lens to hold 20ms of light data and phase delay it by 10ms, it sounds like it needs a special DLP/LCD hardware chip or two standard ones showing each odd/even frame from
    the source video/data.

  17. Its another medium, give it a shot or chance... on The Future of Cinema - 'Real' 3D · · Score: 1

    I know, but give it a chance, let it feel its way out to find a home.

    Even if its only at themeparks and IMAX documentaries which are good, i wish they released more documentaries in 3d, especially on dvd, and give
    people those odd/even shutter glasses to sync to show 60fps as 30/30. This requires CRTs or 60hz LCDs, with 60fps video files.

    You need the compelling content to be created first, give it sum buzz, and get the producers interested because of the larger number of audience willing to
    try it. Because its so new, there is less competition to try something new that might be a huge it if done right that no one has tried really before. Kind of
    like film in the 30s when color first came about.

    Though try this company, ddd.com They have some 3d technology system. For professional quality 3d polarized format viewing.

  18. Re:Fuck DVB-T on BBC White Paper Claims HD Over Low Bandwidth Signal · · Score: 1

    Maybe its just CH9, they are a cheap ass station that puts barely any effort into high quality, all they care is maximum profits.

    Yes, I too hate pixelization, but the decode box should really have options to smooth that out/filter process it.

    One thing they could do is perhaps offer a SD-HI mode on the HD channel like 7 does. If there is no HD content, then just offer
    a 576p SD version at HD bandwidth rates on the HD channel, rathern than just upscaling an SD signal to HD format.

    They should also do proper HD formated titles/logos too in HD mode, but they usually are SD level.

  19. Why not use more channels per station ..... duh on BBC White Paper Claims HD Over Low Bandwidth Signal · · Score: 1

    There are more than 60 channels available in the spectrum, but there are NOT ever 60 TV stations.

    Give every tv station 3 channels each so they can have a HD channel, SD channel, Repeat Channel. Along with that there are sub channels for each of those, but
    thats like a much easier solution, which costs zero dollars.

    But I forget, in this world, no one likes solutions that cost $0, because then no one can feed of the system and make more money out of it.

  20. If everyone had guns.... on Student Attempting To Improve School Security Suspended · · Score: 1

    They would have gunned down that Korean dude.

    Either way, there are ways to attack someone who has a gun without a gun, and actually WIN.

    1. Find a fire hose, and spray the whole floor so its slippery when running, you can even spray it directly on him to make him fall.
    2. Get a fire extinguisher and spray him/hall way/room like hell so its so foggy you cannot see anything, and breathing those chemicals in is
          not nice either.

  21. Never help a corporate, NEVER on Student Attempting To Improve School Security Suspended · · Score: 1

    They have enough money and power and shares....

    If any thing, give the info to a smaller competitor so they can exploit it in marketing.

    Unless you know the IT admin or department head personally, dont go being a hero and make them look bad.

    If they arent your friend, they are your enemy

  22. and 90% of it is too slow? or in java? on Next-Gen Processor Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Theres only a few things that need 10-500x increase in speed.

    Video transcoding.
    Rendering farms - need a $500 solution that can out do a $35,000 solution. ie, 10 x $35 chips on a $20 card + profit margin and yearly software licence.
    Folding type apps.
    Nuclear/Sci sims.

  23. You mean IE and Firefox and MSPaint? on Digital Camera Vs. Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Yes, you firefox, you cannot resize and show a 2000x2000 image nicely in a 1024 window. Is it that hard? Google for proper interpolated resizing code.
    Its no more than a few pages of code, if you're real lazy, use GDI+ on windows.

    Same for you IE6. Lazy.

    I cannot imagine any serious or basic program being crap at resize, unless its a demo source or ms paint, but everything else does it fine.

  24. I bet its a black ops PSY OP fake story..... 100% on Nuclear Training Software Downloaded To Iran · · Score: 1

    Look, the cia/pentagon etc.. spend $25b/year on news/media fake reporting.

    They pay reporters 250k+ to be on their payroll to fake stories.

    Whats one thing that changes peoples minds and decides what they like or not? The media.... If you can get 1000 fake stories a day, you
    are going to skew peoples minds/factors.

    You're living in the matrix, the physical world may be real and not virtual, but the information is virtual, and not real.
    Instead of sucking your electricity, they suck your pay checks, ie 40+ through 2 levels of illegal income taxes and legal state taxes, and also
    5-12% inflation (monetory inflation, go read shadowstats).

    Face it people.... the corporations have taken over, there is no govt, its a puppet of the trillion dollar elite corporate world that owns the
    planet, and we are just like their sheep/cattle.

  25. Was that a joke? on Operation Dice Drop for Zigggurat Con in Iraq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Muwhahahaaah

    10x more people die yearly from car fatalities caused by illegal immigrants in USA than of 911.

    Is maths that hard to comprehend?

    Those countries at war, never threatened usa, and never cared what you did at home, but your USA govt did, it cares, so much that it regulates it, checks it, makes sure you
    obey the law. Unless you make millions, you have no freedoms really.