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  1. Re:Only true if you ignore the externalities on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    Why? Because some people don't want to be hypocritical assholes when they bitch and scream at people who don't give a fuck about how our planet might turn out.

  2. Front Panel Sound Bay and 120mm Fan on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    - I have a sound card with a front panel bay with RCA inputs, mic/headphone jacks and volume controls as well as some sound preset buttons which takes up one bay.

    - Three other bays (my case has 7 total) has a 120mm fan enclosure for air intake (cold air in front of the case means i don't recycle warm air from the back)

    - Two bays have a BD-RE/HD-DVD combo drive and a DVD-RW

    - The last bay has a fan speed control bay with four nobs to tune fans in my case.


    Some other interesting things I've seen are water cooling reservoirs with see-through ports; looks cool if you use fluorescent liquid additives. Also, some HUD-like bays that display system status info; I've even seen some with USB connections to get info from within the OS like HDD/RAM/CPU usage and temperature information.

  3. Re:In his defense... on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Oh, I agree. However, I would assume that the Verizon "backdoor" doesn't use the same password as the user login. However, if you remove that firewall exception, it should stop Verizon from accessing your router if you wish to run your own network.

    Also, using Verizon's router means it's their hardware and they probably believe they should have access to it. My parents have FiOS and they have the Verison router; I don't think it'll work without it as it's a modem/router combo. It seems to me that this guy should be more annoyed over that point than over Verizon securing their own property.

  4. Re:Imagine a new heart valve on First Membrane Controlled By Light Developed · · Score: 1

    They said it allows "gas" through; not gigantic blood cells... (yes, compared to gas, blood cells are like continents)

  5. In his defense... on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most routers do not allow remote administration unless you specifically enable it. If it was disabled; he shouldn't have a problem with a bad password. The router "shouldn't" allow anyone to log in remotely.

    Unfortunately, we all know that not enabling something doesn't always mean it can't be accessed and he should be kicked off the internet for being ignorant.

  6. Re:Time travel leads to Parallel universes that ma on The Possibility of Paradox-Free Time Travel · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is the way I always put it aside in my mind until just now when I tried to write out a response.

    The way it comes up to me now is that if that were true and someone killed your grandfather (you or someone else, doesn't matter who did it) then right before he died is a common moment and the moment after that, either he dies, or he doesn't. When you kill him, he doesn't exist anymore and in the others, he survives. Now, before, I always thought that this split made it so it only happened in the universes that you didn't occupy. Unfortunately, there are still a bunch of universes that you were never born in where someone who doesn't exist (you) killed some guy (your grandfather).

    Therefore, even thinking that parallel universes fix your paradox, at the split, you still screw things up.

  7. Re:A rainbow table of "Headlines"? on German Publishers Want Monopoly On Sentences · · Score: 1

    That is the best idea I've ever heard.

    The only problem is that your rainbow tables will undoubtedly infringe on the already in print newspapers. You'll have to be VERY careful not to include any already created headlines.

  8. Re:Interpret it correctly on Publishing Company Puts Warning Label on Constitution · · Score: 1

    It is the responsibility of the people to overthrow their government if/when it becomes oppressive. The founders wholeheartedly believed in this. Because of that, they wanted us to be able to fight for our freedom; the 2nd amendment was meant to protect that right. The day the government takes that right away is the day we know they've gone too far. There would be other reasons, but losing this right must be the last straw. If it isn't, we lost our ability to fight back.

    This is one of the biggest reasons I own guns. I don't trust the government; I don't trust anybody, really. This is a good thing. If everyone trusted everyone else, we would all be dead. However, I also don't want to be defenseless if/when something happens. Being prepared for someone who has decided that they deserve to be in power over me/you/anyone else is, and always should be, an absolute right of everyone.

    Also, target practice is fun!

  9. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's both. Words can sound the same but have different kanji and then kanji can have multiple pronunciations that mean different things.

  10. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 0

    since you're anon and nobody cared to promote this, I posted something similar above. Just wanted to give you credit (no mod points though, sorry)

  11. Re:What about Official English? on Official Kanji Count Increasing Due To Electronics · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite. Yes, kanji have meaning where katakana and hiragana do not. However, each kanji can have multiple meanings and pronunciation which is only known through context or what other characters follow it. For example, the website here (http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html) has a lot of kanji with different meanings and readings. They aren't quite unique words, but they aren't characters only. They're more of a hybrid.

    Also, depending on context, the pronunciation of a word might be the same, but the spelling could be different. For example, the word "kami" can mean "God" or "paper". Both sound the same, but each has its own kanji character. So as for your statement that spelling is unrelated to pronunciation is somewhat incorrect.

  12. Re:Back to the original subject... on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    I love the breadcrumb bar but sometimes it doesn't display the previous folder, only the current folder. So, I have to manually drop down to select something further up. Make it force it to show at least a ".." for the previous folder (if the name is too long for example) and it would be enough for me.

    Also, the back button on your mouse returns you to the last directory you were in, not necessarily the current directories' parent; I'd assume this is why people want an up button. Personally, parent directory is much more useful than the last directory visited.

  13. Great description on Studies Prove BPA Can Cross Placenta To Fetuses · · Score: 3, Funny
    I love it when the description actually explains why something it good or bad.

    BPA! It cures cancer! Now it can cure your unborn fetus' cancer, too!

  14. Re:Can't... on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 2, Insightful

    speeding is not a crime that I agree with. if I don't agree with it, it must be wrong.

    There, fixed that for you...


    As I see it, if you don't like it, work to change it. Until it's changed, however, it is still a law.

  15. Re:Still a long way to orbit on USAF Scramjet Hits Mach 6, Sets Record · · Score: 5, Informative

    No it isn't. Mach is the speed sound travels in a medium (the atmosphere). As there is no atmosphere in orbit, you can't associate a mach speed value to orbital velocities.

  16. non-native libraries? on Theora Development Continues Apace, VP8 Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    At work, we've been looking for a non-native, open source encoding library for a week or so now and can't really find anything. Do any of these have a non-native library available? (preferably Java. If not, we might port it). Even FMJ and fobs4jmf only seem to have decoders and even so, there are no examples on how to set it up without using JMStudio or a derivative of a manual setup or installation package.

    We can't seem to find any useful examples of anything anywhere. It's great to hear about new encoding plugins etc, but if nobody can find a way to use them as standalone libraries (multi-platform is best. aka Java for us) then it's difficult to back. And not having examples on how to implement make a lot of these packages almost useless as they never seem to be user friendly...

  17. Frame Sync on AMD Multi-Display Tech Has Problems, Potential · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem I see with these cards is that they do not support frame sync between displays. At work, we run two 4K projectors behind a 15' piece of glass. There are workstation variations on this card coming out that support frame sync, but they're not available yet. With the bezel on normal monitors it's not an issue but if you want to do anything exotic, you'll have to wait, unfortunately.

  18. Re:Fuel economy on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    The difference between a 20mpg car and a 50mpg car is 360 gallons/year. We don't necessarily need uber-250mpg cars but hopping form 20-30 to 50+ is definitely worthwhile. Why stop at 30+ when 50+ is easily attainable?

    I know you didn't really say that 50+ was a waste, but why focus on 30+ when 50+ isn't that much further and not that difficult to attain?

  19. Re:ZFS on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    I did something similar. I made a 4U machine, 4GB ram, basic cpu, gigE, 6x1TB HDDs and an old 60GB system drive. No RAID (as I wasn't going to mirror and didn't want to lose storage) but set up samba and access my drives from my windows box.

  20. Re:Unintended consequences... on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 1

    I always thought about this in regards to geothermal. What if we cool down the planet enough to stop the core from spinning or solidify it? I've heard numerous "guesses" at the amount of energy available in geothermal, one of which was 9000 years. That is a lot, but in 9000 years we could be out of a magnetic field? Doesn't seem worthwhile to me...

    We got into all this mess with oil because we didn't think ahead at all; It seems we're doing it all over again, just not as an immediate issue as oil is.

  21. Re:roaming on HotelChatter's Annual Hotel Wi-Fi Report 2010 · · Score: 1

    I use tethering to my android phone while on travel where there isn't free wi-fi. Of course, if I go out of the country I wouldn't as roaming would kill me. However, staying in the US (free domestic roaming as another stated) makes it not so bad.

  22. Re:Price has gone up... on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    I have a 275T+ and it's awesome. Component in, DVI in. The only thing I wish it had was 2560x1600. It's native/max resolution is 1920x1200 which is great, but my 30" Dell 3008's at work do 2560x1600 and it's awesome.

    However, we also have a 4K 56" panel and a 15' 7680x2160 rear projected display. I get spoiled at work...

  23. Re:Of course on Still Little To Do About a Bad ISP · · Score: 1

    Either have the government buy up all the lines and lease access to anyone who wants it at the same price across the board or split up ISPs who own lines into two companies, the line controlling entity and the generic ISP. The only problem here is that the companies who own the lines don't want anyone else using them because it cuts into their business. If they were free to sell access to anyone/everyone then they would want to do everything in their power to get as much business as possible. We would just have to force then to sell access to everyone equally. No giving one company a lower rate than another.

  24. Re:Not so bad, compared to: on The 1 Terabyte SSD Arrives · · Score: 1

    I'm not all that old (26) but I remember when I bought my first hard drive (2.1gb. Not my first HDD but the first I paid for myself) out of a catalog, the most expensive ones in there were SCSI 27GB for like $25000. I couldn't imagine what I'd do with 27GB at whatever age I was (11-12 or something)

    Now I have a file server with 6TB and it doesn't seem endless anymore...

  25. Re:5th year? on Chicago Mayor Calls For "Brainiac High" · · Score: 1

    However, the Mayor isn't saying it should be done for everyone; he is suggesting to do it for the top 10%. This is feasible in those specialized schools but in every public school just for 5-10% of the student body? No.