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  1. Re:no such thing as perfection on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    Its not humans, its feedback in general.

    Computers, robots, ants, elephants and fish would all do the same based upon feedback.

  2. no such thing as perfection on Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as perfection.

    If they had set up an experiment with robots driving in a perfect circle, flow breakdown would not have occurred.

    If they had done this, there would have either been a big pile up as the combined error causes one car to go into the back of another, or if they put a feedback loop altering speed then they would have also had these jams.

  3. Netcraft has prior art? on Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't there prior art in this case?

    Netcraft certainly have a business model that would appear to pre-date this government declaring things dead situation.

  4. Re:Problem solved.. on Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries · · Score: 3, Informative

    What effect does decoding a hidef movie have on the power consumption for your laptop cpu and memory?
    This problem is not limited to illuminating the laser.

  5. Cautionary Note on University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is a cautionary note based upon experience i have seen in the movies:

    When you find a new super weapon and decide to use it to help the people, it almost always backfires.

    We are cheering the fact that MORE lawyers are being created.
    What will happen when they finish with the RIAA?

    "It won't stop at anything, and it will never stop hunting you until you are dead."

  6. Re:he is quite right on McNealy Says Telcos Falling Behind in Net Race · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can quite easily see a fleet of ships around each country connected with a super speed wireless link and plenty of 802.xx pringles cans pointing inland.
    incidentally, the linked article talks about sending 16.4 tpbs(pirate bays per second) so its gotta be good.

  7. Re:what about DX10/game performance? on Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    Do we wait for service pack 2 or 3 nowadays?

  8. You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy on Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? · · Score: 1, Funny

    You might enjoy dying in normal games, but imagine if http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1803224/'>this spreads to your local LAN game.

  9. We need a free version on "GiFi" — Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you use the proprietary GiFi protocol you may end up getting into patent trouble.
    We should create our own standard which does what we need and is not covered by existing patents.

    I suggest we call this protocol PnGi.

  10. Re:NOT SP1 on Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read the article next time.
    The release next month is for general public, that does not mean it is not available.

    Vista SP1 is already available to subscribers to the Microsoft Developer Network but won't receive a formal public release until mid-March.

    That certainly looks to me like there were people able to install and run SP1.
    They now cannot install SP1 even if they wanted to.

  11. Re:NOT SP1 on Microsoft Pulls Vista SP1 Update · · Score: 1

    so...

    If you cannot install this update because MS has pulled it, how can you install SP1?
    Whether they pulled this package or directly SP1 means the same thing:

    SP1 is stopped for now.

  12. Re:Is this legal? on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 3, Informative
  13. Re:short answer on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not going to get sued by my local Catholic Diocese if I print nasty bits from the Bible or some part of the latest Papal encyclical.

    Different religions have different takes on things.
    Sure you won't get sued, you may however get imprisoned, lashed, deported or worse for naming a teddy bear or drawing a cartoon.

  14. Re:PS3! on Major Advance In Understanding Cell Reprogramming · · Score: 1

    No you aren't.
    I was expecting some kind of compiler upgrade or language extension.

  15. Re:OR, just keep your silver account. on Xbox DRM and the Red Ring of Death · · Score: 1

    You are right (I think), in that you can redownload the content and play on any console with you logged in.
    The problem comes when you are offline, or when one of his other family members are using the original console at home.

    In the first case, when not logged in the roaming rights vanish and his content will not play because it is not the original machine.

    In the second case, the family members cannot view the content stored on the drive because the content thinks it is not the original purchasers machine so disables viewing.

  16. They mailed a list of names... on University Bows to RIAAs Demands for Student Names · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They might have mailed a list of names, but the important thing here is, are they the right names and were these the people actually sitting at the terminals requested at the time?

  17. Re:Ummmm on UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression other people in other countries in the world had internet access?

    (having said that with all the cable cuts recently you may be right...)

  18. Re:It will soon be the Age of Darknets on UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access · · Score: 1

    Nahhh, theres a simpler way.
    Just remove the ISPs.
    There are enough wireless routers around that a decent mesh net wouldn't be too difficult.
    Sure, the TTL would go to hell, but you could do it.

  19. Re:Ummmm on UK Government To Terminate File Sharers' Net Access · · Score: 3, Funny

    So all that would be required is a virus or trojan to make random connection to the top 10 list of piratebay on random computers and the remaining bandwidth will be mine after everyone else is kicked off?

  20. Re:custom message id on Domain Key Identified Mail vs Phishing · · Score: 1

    At this moment I don't want to fix it.
    Its quirky enough and happens infrequently enough that I laugh everytime I get one. :)

  21. Re:Useless.... on Domain Key Identified Mail vs Phishing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get spam sent from myself offering around 75% off viagra products.
    I cannot mark myself as spam so it continues.

    Just this morning I found out I was offering an unprecidented 78% off!

  22. Re:jessica_biel_naked_in_my_bed.c ? on Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats because you are compiling it with the wrong target.

    You need to include justin_timberlake.h and link it with the millionaires library.

  23. Re:* Stops download of newest Firefox * on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why stop downloading it?
    I cannot work out from the article whether older versions of Firefox are vulnerable or not.
    If its an unfixed bug from previous versions you should continue to download.
    Which would you rather:
    have 20 known vulns in the wild (stay as you are),
    have 1 known vuln wild (latest update).

    Until we can be certain though, just click pause ;)

  24. bullshit detectors on TSA Changes Screening Based on Blog Suggestion · · Score: -1, Troll

    The baggie gives us two benefits: A) It serves as a visually identifiable, easy way to limit quantity. Even if they wanted to bring multiple bottles to mix, we limit the quantity of their total liquids as well (bottles "hidden" in the carry-on bag stick out). B) The baggie serves to concentrate the vapor - substances used to create liquid explosives are very volatile and emit fumes even through sealed bottles. (We have tested.) We have liquid explosives detectors that take advantage of the vapor concentration factor in the baggie. This way, we do not have to examine what's inside every bottle, regardless of what the label says.

    I bet if I put a baggie over a TSA persons head that would mist over as well because of the sheer amount of bullshit coming from him.

  25. Re:It's the people, not the planes. on Birds Give a Lesson to Plane Designers · · Score: 1

    How would you know whether you had the optimum design though?
    Doing random actions is good within a constrained system as long as you get a good representitive sample.