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  1. A ton on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Or four if you happen to be from the US.

  2. Re:d'oh. on Nano-Scale Robot Arm Moves Atoms With 100% Accuracy · · Score: 1

    I also don't see where one could fit any kind on program at all inside it. From the article explanation (I didn't read the original article, is it already published?) it reacts to what it encounters on the environment, making it unable to work inside us

    Now, for fitting some memory and processing time, so taht it becomes dangerous, it will probably need to increase some 10 times in size. That makes what... Just under a milion inside a blood cell. Nanotech is disturbing. As small thing, energy storage will probably be the limiting factor.

  3. Re:The Part I don't Get. on France Tells Its Citizens To Abandon IE, Others Disagree · · Score: 1

    Ok, Microsoft didn't get everything they wanted from IE (that was descomoditize the web), but they surely slowed things down. MS is running in self-destruct mode for a few years now, they will get irrelevant, but they want to make sure they get the most possible amount of money before that, and that means they want to delay things.

  4. Re:And another thing on Bing Gaining Market Share Faster · · Score: 1

    Your result / market share of bing = NAN.

    My computer doesn't know how to calculate 0/0.

  5. Re:"Those who've never studied history are doomed. on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    Divinding number of infected by the number of deaths on the WHO site, while the infection was still in Mexico. I don't know if they publish numbers by date, but you can get snapshots on earlier /. discussion.

  6. Re:Not A Nerd? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Ext3 can do that, it is just that applications don't support it.

  7. Re:I agree with /. on Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots · · Score: 1

    What is to be solved here?

    (A1) "Programs are formal (syntactic)."

    (A2) "Minds have mental contents (semantics)."

    (A3) "Syntax by itself is neither constitutive of nor sufficient for semantics."

    (A4) Brains cause minds.

    Therefore: (C4) The way that human brains actually produce mental phenomena cannot be solely by virtue of running a computer program.

    (Intermediate concluions omited to brevity.)

    Of course, A3 is the only postulated that may be wrong, but if it is right we will never have a computer that acts as our mind, and if it is wrong the main conclusion is wrong. I fail to see a problem asking to be solved.

  8. Re:"Friendly Evolution" on Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots · · Score: 1

    No need for a milion years. A robot squadron getting ride of all humans (granted that those robots are able to operate a robot factory) is evolution enough.

    On a second tough, that wouldn't change human nature either...

  9. Re:And on Robotics Prof Fears Rise of Military Robots · · Score: 1

    "Is there any recorded evidence of taking over a significant piece of military firepower by hacking?"

    Is there recorded evidence of some as automated and powerfull target as an army of robots? Even nukes have humans somewhere at the control loop (ok I don't know about doomsday machines, do they?).

  10. Re:"Those who've never studied history are doomed. on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    Some strains are way more likely to mutate into something lethal than others. Also, that strain was killing more than 7% of the infected victims when it was fist spoted.

    Anyway, do somebody know why it stoped killing that much when it spread out of Mexico? Was it a sampling error?

  11. Re:This made my day on WHO To Investigate Handling of Swine Flu Information, Vaccine Orders · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't, because it didn't appear to be a normal flu earlier in the game. Only when it become widespread it become apparent that there wasn't a big problem, by that time the hype machine was already working full power.

  12. Re:Applaud the man. on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    Except for Koules (I finished it just to see what will be written before the next level), what that hell is the point with narratives in games? Games are not movies.

  13. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    I'm still to meet somebody from your "majority".

  14. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    "Or am I just restating the '640k' thing?"

    Yes, but you are doing it the right way. 640k is really more than enough for single task, command line, slow processing computers*. What went wrong with that quote is that computers changed, and the way we interacted with them also changed. Audio won't change, neither will video (but here I disagree, HD video is just not economical now, it is not enough).

    * Computers simulating nuclear explosions, and whatever banks had by the time already used more than 640kB.

  15. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    "While Doom could look nice on a phone screen, they look terrible on 19" displays."

    Oh, came on! Just go buy a 386 and stop complaining!

  16. Re:It makes sense really on Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon · · Score: 1

    "Wii? It's a child's toy. It's a child's toy that my child doesn't even play because it's a poor and expensive experience."

    Thanks for proving the point. Why, again, should Nintendo make Wii a better experience for you if it will still be below what you get from your PC?

  17. Re:They're remapping something else on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    "Notice how "print screen" doesn't cause ink to get committed to paper in either Windows or GNOME."

    I dunno... On my KDE isntall is does create a png file at my home dir. Keeping in mind that technology changed sinse the key was named, that is not literal "print", but is close enough for me.

  18. Re:World War III - The Cyber War on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    What? Make everything the same, but start addresses with 10? People inside the network will just use the 10/8 addresses as real, and to connect outside they just need to bypass the NAT/firewall. That is the exact same situation they have today, except that they won't have the 10/8 addresses available for NAT inside China, and will have quite a lot less space than now.

    If anybody thinks that NAT adds security (any kind of security), please, take another look at the issue.

  19. Re:Synthetic Snot on The Worst Products of CES 2010 · · Score: 1

    Yet the presets use to work better than my timing. I don't know what they change (they work better even when I set the same time and power), but adapting them to other kinds of food could be nice.

  20. Re:applications on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    Well, I carry my ssh home key and some Windows software (Portable Putty, WinSCP) for accessing it on a flash driver. Synchroniztion tools only work if you know beforehand what computer you want to sichronyze with.

  21. Re:thwarting of malware and piracy by Google brain on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    That's quite easy to do, so they probably do it. Might lead to some "oh, look, everybody is receving that email" funny moments.

  22. Re:About split on Google Docs To Host Any File Type · · Score: 1

    Why the hell are you people using tar if it is a single file anyway? It is not going into a serial device, is it?

  23. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1

    And emacs will run elinks flawlesly!

  24. Re:Bad math... on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Yep, you are right. That was a mistake. And, as somebody already noticed, it is O(a^(n^(1/b))), where b > 1.

  25. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Well, 768 was never a standard length for RSA. Everything smaler than 1024 bits was considered broken long ago (512 was broken a few years ago). What this really means is that we should stop using 1024 bits already, and standardize on 2048. By the way, 2048 bits RSA is expected to never be broken on Earth (if we ever go to space and start gathering the majority of the power released by a star, things change), but nobody is really certain.