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  1. Re:Linux makes money on Linux For Navy Drone Ground Stations · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't your enemy's weapons be pointed at you? *shrugs* depends upon the nature of the "malfunction" i guess.

  2. Re:Crappy AMD drivers?! on AMD/ATI Video Drivers: Unsafe At Any Speed · · Score: 1

    Their graphics drivers are great! Network is painful : /

  3. Re:Confiscated the Passport for an Hour on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 1

    Welp, to each there own. I regain full mobility and at most have tingles. It's not painful, but odd feeling. When someone has to pry/pull the prongs from my body, that can be uncomfortable. But mace is far worse.

    But you are right that the heart usually pumps more but i would not say it races. I also don't spasm or convulse (nor other people i see). I lose control and fall/collapse.

  4. Re:Confiscated the Passport for an Hour on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, i have been maced (and not that baby stuff the police use) and tazered.

    If you have to choose, always take the taze. It will only last for as long as a charge is being sent. The very moment the charge stops you have nearly full function again and there is no pain. You don't fall unconscious like they show in the movies. It merely makes you lose control of your body and you collapse.. it is an odd feeling.

    Chemicals in the face suck and are designed to stick around. You can't just splash some water on your face and call it good. In fact, splashing water on your face will make it far far worse.

  5. Re:User key management on Red Hat Clarifies Doubts Over UEFI Secure Boot Solution · · Score: 1

    I think he meant that the logic is circular. When the key is breached, everyone will have to update. The update will be signed with the breached key. Totally secure : )

  6. Re:So what? on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 2

    You generate hashes until you match the target hash. It's possible that your original value is different than the actual password. But they hash the same so it doesn't matter : )

  7. Re:Just in time for the post-PC era. on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    You must be lost. Have you ever seen what runs over 90% of the world's super computers?

  8. Re:Sorry on Steam For Linux Will Launch In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Stop writing a new rendering engine for each game!

  9. Re:NASA Has 2 Hubbles on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the SRBs exploded because they were made in tiny sections in another state and shipped to the launch site. A gap between sections caused the explosion.

  10. Re:Satellites still need to be launched on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1

    And the army doesn't need camouflage.

  11. Re:Any engine technicians around to translate? on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    it isn't just pressure though? I worked around diesel trucks and they used "glow plugs" and are very similar to spark plugs. Only they get super hot when turned on and don't emit any sparks.

  12. Re:What's missing? on Iran Threatens Legal Action Against Google For Not Labeling Gulf 'Persian' · · Score: 2

    Who defined correct?

  13. Re:The decision the simple on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    Neat! Thanks for the info

  14. Re:I've done some analysis of Google vs Facebook a on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    You would probably be a hero if you wrote up an article with graphs of your data. Obviously not submitting the story to slashdot until a week after other sites though.

  15. Re:NPR Looked at Pizza Delicious on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    Could you explain your business process more thoroughly? Which knee should we aim for? I'd like to pitch this to sales.

  16. Re:Whaaaa???? Mostly wasted anyway on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    I saw something on here: https://xkcd.com/980/
    That said Coke could buy everyone in the world a coke with their advertising budget. That's a lot of cokes!

  17. Re:The decision the simple on Moving From CouchDB To MySQL · · Score: 1

    The default engine, MyISAM, is by design a non-transactional engine. BY DESIGN. If you want transactions you have to use InnoDB. It has always supported booleans, that i've seen. bool/boolean is the same as tinyint(1). 0==false, anything non-zero is true.

    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/other-vendor-data-types.html
    https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/storage-engines.html

  18. Re:Protocol encryption? on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    Swarms center around files. The attack swarm would up-vote each other but the existing swarm wouldn't. You'd end up with two swarms centered around the file.

    Building trust is pretty easy. Each downloaded part should resolve into a correct part of the whole download. If the part is garbage, throw out not only that peer but all recommendations by that peer. If a good peer is giving recommendations that are crap. Use the peer and ignore recommendations.

  19. Re:The other problem on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 1

    I judge in your favor and award you this point.

  20. Re:Can't stop crims, can fix holes on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 1

    mmm, i read the second link and some of the sub-links. It's some way out there conspiracy theory stuff. The cia (always former or rogue) seems to popup all the time to keep the story moving along.

  21. Re:Never? on Government Asks When It Can Shut Down Wireless Communications · · Score: 1

    going to nit-pick, sorry! But Iraq (and probably Afghanistan) doesn't use cell phone plans. Everyone uses pre-paid cards. Also, it is common to find a phone used to detonate an ied. I took one apart that was a hybrid timer and radio device by using a washing machine timer and a 900mhz cordless phone. Lastly, there are money men pushing every cause. Iraq was no different. Catching the guy who detonated the bomb is a small victory.. catching the guy who paid that man to do it is fantastic and newspaper worthy (though it would never make it into the news). Don't think that every law or safety measure is just government evil, I was in the marketplace on 28 feb 2005.

  22. Re:Wonderful idea, hope it works and takes off on Nearly 150 Companies Show Interest in the Tech Love Boat · · Score: 1

    roman_mir is crazy and you shouldn't argue with him. Unless it makes you feel better, of course : ) Just skip past the comment next time you see his name. Even in the face of facts, I have never seen him change his point or agree that he was wrong.

    I just lol'd when he said women weren't working and that's why they couldn't (and shouldn't) vote. Does he think they sat on the couch staring at the walls all day or what? hah

  23. Re:Excellent! on Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman · · Score: 1

    This sounds like a good discussion :) It's difficult to hand-wave away the first 18 years though.

    Is the company Mother and Father? Kids aren't property but their parents are responsible for them. Obviously there are already companies that raise kids (orphanages) so it is more than possible. But the difficulty lies in where the kids come from and the purpose in raising them. Is it acceptable to "brain wash" kids to worship the company? It happens everyday with normal parents and religion. Kids are products of their upbringing and normally it is acceptable for parents to raise their kids any way they please as long as it adheres to the current laws. Racism mostly persists today because it is passed from parent to child. It just seems like a difficult thing to have kids born into a company without parents who are raised (and schooled) completely within the confines of that company. The kid can leave just like any kid in the world can run away. What percentage do? Only the brave and the stupid. We're completely sidestepping genetic manipulation and experimentation too.

    So while yes, you are right that people are not property. They are certainly managed by someone until grown. Parents can withhold giving their kids shots or inject any acceptable drug. Typically that is done by the parents for the benefit of the child. A company typically exists not for the benefit of it's employees or "property".

  24. Re:Excellent! on Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman · · Score: 1

    Way to be a dick. In this case cloning is the act of artificially creating a person.

    Also, lol! So a natural birth with identifiable mother and father is the same as a child born via a research institute? In that case, you wouldn't mind if the US gov phased out the volunteer army and gets darpa to fill the ranks via clones.

    The problem isn't just the cloning. The problem is also ownership and property. You can own a research mouse but can you do the same with a human? If every experiment results in a (hopefully physically normal) person that has to be supported until adulthood then it would get extremely expensive for a company. The kid is also "working" for the company since birth. Or can a company abandon a clone to society? How many research clones would get adopted each year? Can the company kill a clone (or abort if it is still unborn)? Probably not since companies are typically not moral.

    Was your intention to add something to the conversation or just barge in and act like a ass?

  25. Re:Excellent! on Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman · · Score: 1

    mmm, i wouldn't say "they" are against cloning people because of stupidity. It's more like they are against unregulated cloning specifically. What rights does a clone have? Trying to build sane regulation for cloning would be a nightmare that no politician could navigate successfully.

    Also, it's a popular viewpoint that anything sub-human is ok to experiment with. I am not ok with it, but many are. But i think cloning of people SHOULD be pursued with oversight and transparency. No clone slave armies and all that :)