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  1. Re:Huh? on Soyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched · · Score: 1

    Too bad the the ISS is in a decaying orbit.

  2. Re:Another Republican "Victory" on National Debt Clock Overflowed, Extended By a Digit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Republican" faction of the American Party:
    Borrow and Spend

    "Democrat" faction of the American Party:
    Tax and Spend

  3. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    The direction of the torque?

    Agreed that it is very slight, and I engine brake all the time. I even sold an auto Jeep for a manual Subaru just so that would work (better).

  4. Re:What works: on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    - downhill coast and turn engine off (you gotta know what you are doing - PS fails and break booster as well after a while)

    And while you are at it, tune your carburetor.

    Modern ECUs already turn off the engine when you are coasting down a hill. Fuel injectors don't have to inject something every time the intake valve opens.

    I had a Subaru that wouldn't start putting fuel into the engine quick enough, so every time it the engine was really cold and I pushed in the clutch after going down a hill, it would stall.

  5. Re:Not to be a pedant, but... on Artificial Gecko Adhesive, Now In Experimental Glue · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they mean you have to apply it in a reverse peeling motion instead of simply slamming it straight down....

    So, "lay on" or "roll on"?

  6. Re:They need another study on 20 Hours a Month Reading Privacy Policies · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not even congress reads the laws.

  7. Re:Copyright infringement != Theft on Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures · · Score: 1

    Call it what you will, plenty of people have lost jobs due to copyright infringement.

    I said nothing in relation to whether that is true or not. It might be true.

    I am complaining about grouping copyrights, patents, and trademarks into the ambiguous term "intellectual property", and then attributing losses to the "theft" of that. If they mean copyright infringement, why don't they say that?

    Or could I blame a patent troll with IP theft as well?
    Are people using "Xerox" to refer to a photocopier also guilty if IP theft?

  8. Copyright infringement != Theft on Ars Examines Outlandish "Lost To Piracy" Claims and Figures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft

    I would estimate the number of jobs lost to intellectual property theft to be very little, and probably mostly due to patents.

    Please stop grouping trademarks, patents, and copyrights together.

  9. Re:2^32 ips on No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But not enough for everybody.

  10. Re:Goodbye MySQL on David Axmark Resigns From Sun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or use a better DB: PostgreSQL

  11. Re:But what happens when... on Brainwave Controlled Game From Square Enix · · Score: 1

    Blue Screen of Death.

  12. Re:above top secret? on Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You seem to be under the impression that the government cares about what is "legal".

    You haven't learned anything in the last... 100 years?

    Just look at (what is left) of the Constitution.

  13. Re:99.8 chance of what?! on Asteroid Explodes Over Sudan · · Score: 1

    [doublypedantic]Some of it did hit the earth. It just didn't hit the earth intact, or in any large pieces[/doublypedantic]

    Are you saying it all evaporated, and left the atmosphere? Because if any of it landed on the earth, then it did hit the Earth.

  14. Re:My exemption on DMCA Exemption Time · · Score: 1

    You already have that one.

    What is needed is "distribution of software for circumvention of encryption of a copyrighted file for fair use shall be legal" exemption.

  15. Re:Why these routers? on Buffalo Tech Gets New Trial On Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I only have 1 Buffalo router, a WHR-G54S, and it is mounted to a pole, outside in the sun, rain, snow and ice (it is in Colorado, so that isn't a mutually exclusive list). It is fed a little bit too much voltage over 100' of sprinkler cable, in a telcom case. At this point it has been there for over a year.

    Current uptime: 123 days

    The only issues I ever have with the router is antenna misalignment from my other 19 dBi antennas being accidentally moved.

  16. Re:Where are the Republicans? on New Bill To Rein In DHS Laptop Seizures · · Score: 3, Informative

    ... fiscal conservatism and a strong stance on freedom.

    That party got renamed to the "Libertarian" party?

  17. Re:I can't see them stopping cheating. on Using Money As Incentive For Competition On Consoles? · · Score: 1

    Yep, and some kind of cheating rely on packet sniffing, so there is nothing that they could get from the "system ram" to show that the person is cheating.

    Imagine a second computer with a radar screen in a FPS, etc.

  18. Re:For those who didn't get the joke... on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 1

    That is one of those jokes where if you have to explain it, it is worthless, but the specific episode I was referring to is Failsafe

  19. Re:Bomb Sudan!!! on Small Asteroid On Collision Course With Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure the US has been waiting for a chance to bomb Sudan. Now they don't have to do anything!!!

    And in other news, the asteroid was found to have large amounts of Naquadah in it.

  20. Re:Games and Homebrew on Hands-On With the PSP-3000 · · Score: 1

    If you really want to do homebrew, look at the Pandora which is more powerful than the PSP, and is very open source friendly. (It isn't completely open source because the 3d driver is currently a binary-blob, but the rest is Open Source)

  21. OpenGL ES for Open Pandora on OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide · · Score: 1

    I have this book sitting in my Amazon cart, because I might get it for developing 3D stuff on the Pandora.

    I preordered the Pandora, and should get it by Christmas, so I haven't gotten this book yet.

  22. Re:Human computation on Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting · · Score: 1

    virtual credit to be used on the net

    You mean "porn", right?

    OCR documents for porn, that could work.

  23. Re:Seriously it is quite an achievement on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1) strangling it in the bathtub. There cannot be any socialist expansion during Obama because there simply is no way to finance it either with direct revenue or borrowing.

    What if the government starts to print lots of money to fund that stuff, creating a large invisible tax on everyone through inflation?

  24. Re:Since when did Slashdot get so anti-Microsoft? on Maine To Skip Vista, Go Directly To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Unless it is evil-twin Spock.

  25. Re:pretty cool on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spawns Real-Life Car · · Score: 1

    I would be happy with being able to buy a P90 or a Glock 18.