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  1. Re:Meh, Good start... on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    It sounds geekier my way. maybe the slashdot readers will finally understand.

  2. Re:Meh, Good start... on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know I am sick of people saying the Egyptians had us beat. Sure the data was there but they didn't leave any way to read the data. A lucky find hundreds of miles away called the rosetta stone is what allowed us to crack their encryptian.

    Format matters little if you don't leave a method of retrivial. I have tons of programs written back in the early 80's. However since they are all for a TI 99/4a on 5 1/2" floppies I can't use them anymore.

  3. I always thought the difference on Should We Just Call Dog Breeds a Different Species? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    between race and species was species can't interbreed and produce viable offspring. So while small dogs and large dogs may be able to be divided, the line gets a lot fuzzier after that. So many years of cross breeding and inbreeding I don't think you can separate them beyond that.

  4. Re:HP Printers and Windows are a No Go on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    speaking of HP printers, especially the networked ones, why is it that the network driver is 350 megs in size? I had to download two of those damn things, even after using a custom install option, to remove as much of the cruft as possible I still installed some 700 megs of drivers for two printers, and a scanner.

    Guess what happens when the drivers get corrupted. you have to manually uninstall the registry settings and deleted all files manually in order to reinstall the drivers or they won't work.

    HP decent printers, Software coded by monkey banging on keyboards.

  5. Re:Why would an intelligent lifeform get violent? on Terminator Salvation Opens Well, Scientists Not Impressed · · Score: 1

    while I talk to my dogs and cats I don't think they are sentient. However i do know for a fact that they do have self preservation As when they do something they shouldn't and then run away. Most animals when confronted with a superior predator that they have learned they will lose against will fight only as long as necessary to run away.

    So Self-preservation comes before one gains sentience.

  6. Re:Value Engineering & Built-in obsolescense on Russia To Save Its ISS Modules · · Score: 4, Funny

    While you can't box up a satellite you can return it to the manufacturer. Burning through the atmosphere will void the warrenty but it leaves such a mark on the company.

    The really hard part is targeting.

  7. Re:summarizing the article for you... on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The only Extras on board the Enterprise's bridge during the movie was the chief engineer, and the chief medical officer. There were a couple of security guards. ad everyone else was at duty stations. Something that wasn't done in previous versions. You had one person at communications monitoring all channels, while in the new movie you had three people on the bridge, and a group of cadets in another room sorting out traffic.

    The vessel I stated was what I know of the new Virginia class subs. They have a bit more room in CIC as the periscope has been replaced with video cameras on a mast that doesn't need to extend downwards(as far). They also don't have hot bunking either.

  8. Re:summarizing the article for you... on Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek · · Score: 1

    While your right about ship layout your wrong about "extras". There could be 12-20 people on the bridge of a ship each doing different jobs. The new Virginia class has at least 9 workstations plus navagation and command. There should be lots of people on the bridge.

    As for layout, star trek bridges tend to forget important jobs and people. Star wars are better.

  9. Re:I can see it now on Mozilla Preparing To Scrap Tabbed Browsing? · · Score: 2, Informative

    while you did admit it. As a point of refrence I load up all my news, and web comics first thing in the morning. I click three buttons and 30 odd tabs begin to load. I read and close each tab.

    Given the amount of images,flash and javascript in the average webpage 30 second load and render times with even 15mbs connection isn't abnormal. By loading many tabs at the same time I can read the webpage instead of waiting for it

  10. Re:Warning! This is a False Sense of Security! on Letting Time Solve the Online News Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Here is the trick you need source material to begin with. You can't have opinion pieces if there isn't any news to begin with.

    While the newspaper it's is going to evolve or die, Journalism biggest change is that it will move away from publishers, and writers working together(typical news station, newspaper) to each being a separate entity. the one who masters this first will make it big. There is so much content that in order to get an idea of what is happening in any one region I have to go to 3-4 different sources, and sift out the identical stories. while the newspaper itself shrinks and cable tv source s go to national news first flufff second and maybe if we have time some local news. to find out what is happening in just your area you already have to go beyond normal.

    The choices the publishers make in choosing stories will decide either they live or die.

  11. Re:1. Reject Technology 2. Criminalize Customer 3. on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hulu doesn't work out of the USA, and content on HULu randomly disappears. You never know exactly when then shows you want to watch will become unavailable. It differs by lots of factors.

    Hulu's interface is functionally no different than youtube. it just looks a little prettier. Also you have to have a net connection for HULU. If your out of wifi range of 300' your not going to be watching hulu.

  12. Re:Driving Blind on Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected · · Score: 1

    what part of turning Canada and Siberia into giant fertile plains didn't you understand?
    Like most you only see the destruction. Not what gets created by it. So NYC is flooded? Land available for growing food will double. Nature can have it if that is all nature wants as nature unlike lazy humans doesn't let any go to waste.

  13. Re:Remember, this is on the Android G1 phone ... on Measuring the User For CPU Frequency Scaling · · Score: 1

    There is a reason why apple has stupid limits on background apps, and push notifications, and etc, etc.

    Now if they could only allow user replaceable batteries. though still I get ~2 days between charges with moderate 3g and wifi browsing and turning off the wifi and bluetooth when not in use.

  14. Re:Not Exactly for Taking a Photo on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 0

    oooh I just took a photo of the locking mechanism of a bank vault.
    And you don't think that is suspicious in anyway?

    While I am with the guy as I too would be curious, I am smart enough to know that when photographing a vault that someone might think it is for a bad purpose. Legally an ATM is a Bank vault and he just took a picture of the inner locking mechanism. While he shouldn't be arrested why is this news? It sounds like the cops did their job perfectly.

  15. Re:Police state UK on The Electronic Police State · · Score: 1

    A one terabyte drive would last about a month for me, because i rarely call people.

    And it isn't just data retention it is also all the real time processing power needed to process and convert that stuff. Let alone transmit it to a required location. And if ISP hold it separately then you can be pouring through logs of random databases trying to find something useful with front ends made not to work right.

  16. What the heck do they expect? on Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Given the fact that a non jail broken iPhone/touch has no file handling abilities. Is this a suprise?

    Sometimes I think people aren't that stupid. Then stuff like this comes up.

    If the iPhone had a mass storage drive that was readily accessble from the interface with a file manger I would complain, but since it doesn't just what are you complaining about. The limted functionality of a functionally limited device?

  17. Re:Photocopying on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    However not all blueray discs are cracked.

    DVD's will be around for another decade however blue ray is already here and limiting opportunities.

  18. Re:This just in: on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize that is because of blue-ray right? The Vista DRM is necessary in order to comply with the blue ray specs and HDCP which requires end to end Drive to display hardware/software copy protection.

    That is why i am glad apple and linux doesn't have blue ray in there stuff. Teachers should be able to use clips of dvd's and other media for teaching. DRM is preventing that.

  19. Re:Two words, one of which is two words. on Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if you can't remember short details like a phone number you should try some memory practices.

  20. Re:Look to newcomers? on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: 4, Funny

    problem is they will most likely want to deliver it themselves.

  21. Re:deserts move all the time on Bacteria Could Help Stop Desertification · · Score: 1

    Says the group that anthropomorphizes a fictional being who's sole purpose is to prevent us from seeing his works while seeing his works.

    Just call nature God and be done. they are one and the same anyways.

  22. Re:Simple on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 2, Interesting

    er you do know you can't actually see faster than light travel as it is traveling faster than the light you re using to see it.

    the best you can hope for is setting two atomic clocks that are synced exactly the same several light years apart and use that as your testing ground.

  23. Re:Browser is the OS on First Look At Windows 7 On an Entry-Level Netbook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    take a look at the crunchpad. It hasn't been released yetbut it will be a tablet and a modified Linux that boots into a browser only. No shells just a browser.

    Personally I can't wait. No bqckground apps means decent betterylife.

  24. Re:Difficult to Define a "Good" Teacher on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    quite right it is quick buck, my kids aren't responsible for anything group that rejects learning.

    unfortunately that group breeds like jack rabbits.

  25. Re:Nuclear submarines on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 2, Funny

    yes dual core. It is how they operate their underwater 30MW lasers. On their submarines