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  1. Re:yay! on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1

    I'de say it was anti-militarianism, which is much easier to justify.

  2. Re:Traffic Lights on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    In Wagga Wagga, Australia all the lights down the main street turn _red_ late at night.
    This is intended to lower the speed of drunk/hormonally imbalanced young men.

  3. Analog synths on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 1

    If you listen to contemporary electronic music, you'll here a strong commitment to vintage analog synthesisers. www.synthmuseum.com provides details on these beasts, including past and present players.

    Indeed, this trend is so well established that many musicians are rejecting it and moving to early digital equipment, like the Yamaha DX7. This makes sense, given that the DX7 was released in 1993 and the standard "window" for retro is twenty years.

  4. Re:Exposure on Nintendo DS To Allow Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    I think that a Bluetooth headset is a transmitter in the order of 1mW, and that 802.11 is often around 100mW.

    2 Orders of magnitude more power. No comparison.

  5. Exposure on Nintendo DS To Allow Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The headset is encouraging.
    Holding a 2.4GHz emitter against the side of your skull does not sound like a good idea.

  6. MS Toolmakers on Paul Graham On 'Great Hackers' · · Score: 1

    "If Microsoft used this approach [in-house toolmakers], their software wouldn't be so full of security holes, because the less smart people writing the actual applications wouldn't be doing low-level stuff like allocating memory. Instead of writing Word directly in C, they'd be plugging together big Lego blocks of Word-language."

    One would think that '.NET' embodied this idea fairly well.

  7. Re:So do they hand you your headphones... on 3D Sound by Creator of MP3 · · Score: 1

    Binaural sound systems suffer from differences between the shape of the listeners ears and the shape of the dummy head used to make the recording (or the filter used to simulate the shape of the ear).

    "...everyone's ears are shaped differently and so everyone has slightly different associations between comb-filter pattern and corresponding source direction. This makes it virtually impossible for any system generating artificial comb-filtering artefacts -- such as RSS and Q Sound -- to produce reliable and repeatable 3D positional impressions for more than one person.".

    http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul04/articles/qa0 704-5.htm?session=c5a914ec7bd10ebc7e45df0a17c0cb30

  8. Secure erase program on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale · · Score: 1

    cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda

  9. Re:Low adoption: AutoAuto == sunday driver on Automobiles Evolve to Live Up to Their Name · · Score: 1

    This reminds of something I did recently...

    Oh yeah! Catching the train.

    Where does this obcession with cars come from?

  10. Re:Yes, but .. on Matrix-Style Brain Interface Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    No. But "of course you [can] run NetBSD".

  11. Who needs it? on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    According to CNN, you can already download a DVD in 15 minutes. Thats 4.7*1024=4812.8 Meg (for a single-layer disc) in 15 minutes, or 320 Meg/min. I want that connection!

  12. Re:some other interesting software DSP amps.. on New Developments in Music Technology · · Score: 1

    Yes, with Amplitube you store the dry sound and process during monitoring. It's just amazing to be able to say: "Hmmm... I think that part should have been recorded with harsher distortion on a thinner speaker"... click, click. It's not as good as having 8 or so top of-the-line amps, but it's significantly cheaper. It's good for synths too!