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  1. Re:Great tool for insurance companies, too on New Test Could Reveal Every Virus That's Ever Infected You · · Score: 1

    Except for the part where it only detects families - so norovirus would come up only once no matter how many variants of the flu you have.

  2. Re:Linux rootkit on Proof-of-Concept Linux Rootkit Leverages GPUs For Stealth · · Score: 1

    Except for Android...

  3. Re:Then ID would be required on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    There's already procedures in place to record that someone voted - even when voting ID's aren't required. Just tie a $200 tax credit to that and you'll see voting percentages sky-rocket with no voter ID needed unless the state already has voter ID requirements. Let the State handle the tax credit with the Federal Government reimbursing the states 100%.

  4. Re:megadrought theory old on Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jehovah's Witness != Mormon.

    Two different religions who knock on your door. Please don't confuse them.

  5. The C family is more than C/C++/Objective-C/C# on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 2

    There's also OpenCL which is far closer to C than the rest of them, and that is a language that is still up and coming.

  6. Re:Total War: Rome 2 on Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed · · Score: 1

    Dragon Age: Inquisition. Honestly that's the reason this hit so hard - they blew it pretty hard when BioWare nailed it on the head.

  7. Re:Yes, it could be much cheaper on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    Not only that but wireless is optical, just different wavelengths. Photons are the carriers for both and they move at around the same speed through air as they do through glass.

  8. Re:Yes, it could be much cheaper on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 2

    IR scatters in the atmosphere fairly quickly. You don't have as much range with an IR laser as you would with an optical one or even just a microwave beam.

    That said this system uses multiple types (radio and laser) because when one doesn't work well the other will work fine and visa-versa.

  9. Re:Yes, it could be much cheaper on Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable · · Score: 1

    Not really. Sure you need to splice it and put a relay in but that's all known technology and well within reach of any entity that really wants to do it. On the other hand an over-the-air signal will be encrypted fairly heavily and thus will actually be harder to tap.

  10. Re:A highly relevant comment from the previous pos on Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen the A-series chips have you? AMD is very common on laptops now because the A series has a far better performance/watt than an intel CPU + nvidia GPU

  11. Re:Awesome quote on Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area · · Score: 1

    More importantly split the content providers from the carriers and classify them as common carriers.

  12. Re:Awesome quote on Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area · · Score: 1

    Xfinity, Cox, Time Warner and Charter already serve the area. It's not like there's no competition.

  13. Sure, and you run into one very important problem: This thing is nuclear. That means that as soon as he shows enough profit for the power company to complain the NRC will shut him down without even bothering to verify simply because he can't explain how the energy is made, there's scientific papers claiming it's nuclear, and someone used the 'N' word (in this case nuclear).

  14. Obamacare means >7m people have health insurance that didn't. That's 7m people who are far more likely to seek medical attention when it's early enough to track everyone they've come into comtact with since they started showing symptoms. Not nothing to worry about, but it helps some.

  15. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    It's voxel raycasting. That means that lighting is trivial. Physics gets easier too as you don't have to deal with single sided triangles and can trivially subdivide objects. ... animation however. That's the killer with voxels. I'm curious to see what happens with them.

  16. Re:"Photorealistic" on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    More GPU ram actually, but close enough.

  17. Re:Spoilers on The FCC Net Neutrality Comment Deadline Has Arrived: What Now? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't fast vs. slow - it's content creators vs. bandwidth providors... and the vertical monopolies that arise when they merge.

  18. Re: Send in the drones! on Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine · · Score: 1

    It's not about Crimea. We did let Crimea go. It's now about the rest of southern and eastern Ukraine. If this were just Crimea then it wouldn't be in the news again.

  19. Re:"An anonymous reader" on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Blasts Off From Florida · · Score: 1

    No, what's relevant here is that it launched from Kennedy. It's the first SpaceX launch from that location. That and they're going to try to recover the booster. That's new too, but you covered that under 'launch technology'.

  20. Re:Seven crew? on SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule · · Score: 1

    Seven crew means it can be used as an escape capsule for the ISS.

  21. Re:nVidia Being nVidia on AMD and NVIDIA Trade Allegations, Denials Over Shady Tactics · · Score: 1

    As a note this just bit us in the ass here where I work. There's a 20x difference in speed between single precision and double instead of the expected 2x-4x.

  22. Re:nVidia Being nVidia on AMD and NVIDIA Trade Allegations, Denials Over Shady Tactics · · Score: 1

    The last major OpenGL game was RAGE by id Software

    I suggest you look at the Steam Linux store for a laundry list of them.

  23. Re:So what about the current consoles? on AMD and NVIDIA Trade Allegations, Denials Over Shady Tactics · · Score: 1

    It's not always that easy to do - you still need the headers and those can be under the 'do not disclose' clause.

  24. Re:Interesting? on Watch the FCC Vote On Net Neutrality Live At 10:30am Eastern · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a market without government enforced contracts. Therefore without government there is no market.

    Ergo there is no such thing as a free market. Period.

  25. Re:Exports for a struggling economy on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 2

    The RD-180 is used by ULA for all their heavy lift rockets.

    ULA has a stockpile of them that will last at least a few years but until the SLS with the F1-B or the Falcon Heavy with the Merlin fly the RD-180 is the only heavy lift engine we have.

    The closest second is the Falcon 9 which is already using Merlin engines but it is running about 40% of the lift capiability of the largest ULA rockets. If the Falcon Heavy is ever launched then SpaceX will have a launch vehicle that can finally put the RD-180 to rest. Likewise when the SLS launches it could replace the heavy lift rockets from ULA but it's not being designed for LEO operations.