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  1. Re:No Problem. on DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Cars as a sevice. Because putting just your data at the could isn't enough.

  2. Re:Dallas? on Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger LHC · · Score: 1

    ...cavities fabricated from Beryllium, filled with high pressure hydrogen, with megawatt high energy

    Yeah, I can imagine why a few failure modes... And I did not even think about nuclear reactions yet.

  3. Re:Two questions on 1.21 PetaFLOPS (RPeak) Supercomputer Created With EC2 · · Score: 1

    1) Did they FIND any exceptional and useful photovoltaic behavior in the compounds tested?

    The NSA certainly knows, and can tell any company they like.

    2) How much will this sort of crunch make up of the revenue lost to the rest of the world's migration away from US-based cloud services, in the wake of Snowden's revelations?

    If you are concerned about your competitors knowing about your internal research... I guess my answer to your first question also answers this one.

  4. Re:Old silent SIM firmware on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    Nope. It's either a redundancy, or the GP wanted his farraday cage to survive gun shots.

  5. Re:Firmware on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    It's not just drawing. We also throw gases at the rocks, in high temperature.

  6. Re:Recurring theme? on Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Vanishes, Taking £2.5m of Coins With It · · Score: 0

    The exchanges only add any value when converting the bitcoins into other kind of money, or the inverse. They add nothing for trading.

    Looks like a lot of people wanted a no-setup wallet where they wouldn't need to worry about backups and all that cloud stuff. Thus somebody offered it to them.

  7. Re:Just ignore it. on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wine is in a far better state.

    You know that both projects share a lot of code, right? Wine is in a better state because it's solving a smaller problem, and everybody (including ReactOS) is focusing on that smaller problem.

    We may need ReactOS in the future for the same reason we need DosBox now. There is a huge amount of code that targets Win7 or lower, and won't be ported to the braindead, sorry, NEWER versions.

  8. Re:Wine and ReactOS are casualties on The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stupidity is a entropy-like quantity, not energy-like. It isn't conserved, but it can not decrease.

  9. Re:Root access? on International Space Station Infected With Malware Carried By Russian Astronauts · · Score: 0

    Despite the fact that the article seems to be a complete fabrication... Where is "foreign" for the International Space Station?

  10. Re:Fuel cells on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    That. Carbon fuel cells are much cheaper, much more efficient and much more reliable than hydrogen fuel cells. But the cars will fare better on diesel, not methanol.

    It's still a net gain if it improves the efficiency of the engine.

  11. Re:Gasoline is FAR safer on Third Tesla Fire Means Feds To Begin Review · · Score: 1

    Ever see a car burn?

    Yes, more than once. A couple of times the people inside took several minutes to notice that there was something wrong and stop the car.

    After a certain point, yes, a fire will spread fast. Also, if there is any gasoline leak, that becomes a huge problem. But most fires are easily controled and hurt nobody.

  12. Re:edit on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    Fewer pores, less porosity.

  13. Re:recruiting a Captain for the Titanic on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1

    1) MS made a bet. For several reasons, it was an stupid bet, but those several reasons weren't completely obvious by the time, although they were evident to several people. It was a nearly perfect paralell to Windows 8.

    2) MS missed the boat on search because they weren't even in the game when the boat sailed. After they missed the boat, they tried to mimic a failling company (Yahoo), and when they couldn't, they tried to mimic the leader.

  14. Re:Slashdot is cheering for,,,, on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1

    To take over Microsoft? Hell yes!

  15. Re:Elop needs to broker a deal with Apple on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1

    If he does not get the job, somebody nees to start a criminal investigation of his work at Nokia too.

  16. Re:Those that know ... on Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix · · Score: 1

    if they can find one

    They certainly can find one. What's open to question is if they'll accept one.

  17. Re:Dystopia on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There should be organization at a national level to produce nicely packaged placebos in important looking boxes. They could even change the name every few months so people don't figure it out.

    It's called homeopathy, and they didn't need to change the name in centuries.

  18. Re:Encrypting passwords is "outdated?" on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    If you need the password to decrypt the password, you have a hashing algorithm.

    It's an interesting idea, and could be adapted to be no less secure than standard hashed passwords, but it will only add any security if either you have a lot of users (as in 2^64 many users), or you don't need to know who your users are.

  19. Re:Brazil spies on us? on Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Should I change the gender of the world "president" in english too?

  20. Re:Encrypting passwords is "outdated?" on Stolen Adobe Passwords Were Encrypted, Not Hashed · · Score: 1

    That's a hasing algorithm, not encryption. The difference is:

    Hash -> data -> value, where everything is deterministic
    Encryption -> key -> data -> coded_data, where exist decryption -> key -> coded_data -> data

    Your algorithm has the first signature, not the second. I don't know if it is secure, it is certainly not fit for passwords, but it is a hash.

  21. Re: Great... on 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight · · Score: 1

    Yes, H2 is bigger than He in any dimension (even the dimension where the atoms are aligned).

    But hydrogen atoms have a huge tendency of losing all of their electrons at once, what makes them tiny by any measure. No other atom loses the entire electrosphere that easily, for obvious reasons.

  22. Re:What's a mile? on The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless · · Score: 1

    There was once an inherent advantage to the meter (a defined fration of the Earth's curve) to the mile (a badly define multiple of step sizes). That advantage did go away once we defined the mile as a multiple of the meter, but it lasted for long enough to assure that anybody that cared about it used the metric system.

  23. Re:What's a mile? on The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless · · Score: 1

    Oh, the romans used all kinds of impractical systems, and I don't think anybody can ever disagree with that... Just look at their numbers.

    After them, our tech advanced a bit, we started using those things called arabic algarisms, positional notation and decimal base numbers. And on the context of a civ that uses that tech, yes, the meter is a more reasonable measurement unit than the mile.

  24. Re:free power on Magma Reservoir Under Yellowstone Is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    What is indeed true during nearly the entire lifetime of the baloon.

  25. Re:My Pebble does what I want out of a smartwatch. on Leak: Almost a Third of Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatches Are Being Returned · · Score: 1

    And since when was it considered rude to pull your phone out of your pocket to check the time?

    Since the times of pocket clocks. It was always rude.