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  1. Re:That's exactly how Terminator got started on Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn · · Score: 1

    Who FORGOT the skynet tag? Slackers!

  2. Re:I can just see the courtroom in 2010 on CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Judges are lawyers and that is forced by law. You can't be one without being a lawyer.

  3. The won't be missed. on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    The assholes at Abit had to be sued to fix the motherboards where they used capacitors made with a stolen formula.

    http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7591_102-0.html?forumID=26&threadID=59483&messageID=706271

  4. Barcode on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    How much data? I'd suggest printing a mask onto a good quality stainless steel and etching a image a digital camera can capture and a computer can decode onto it. The same method used for PC board making will do. There are several very good techniques to convert the data to something similar to a bar code.

  5. Re:It would have been more fun on Examining Portal's Teleportation Code · · Score: 1

    One is the stuff of myth, the other is the stuff of trademarks, lawsuits and RIAA thugs.

    Choose.

  6. Re:Capture all aspects Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    So we store it at 16billion bit resolution! We'll destroy the universe to preserve MUSIC! :)

  7. Capture all aspects Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Then the purists should invent a way to digitally record all of the information. All the 3D characteristics of the record.

  8. Re:Solution: Opera on Google Using DoubleClick Tracking Cookies · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So if you allow google and then google places an evil cookie that is not identified as a tracking cookie what then?

  9. Re:What's the fuss? on USAF Violates DMCA, Escapes Unscathed · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He's an idiot. He created something then offered it to his boss who let him install it. That gave them their license. By putting in a timer he was in effect installing a defect which if it impacted the performance of his unit could be construed as conduct unbecoming, dereliction of duty or deliberate sabotage. He needs to be booted for conduct unbecoming if nothing else, given a general discharge and told to walk. The Air Force needs to recover all the data this third party has to their software.

  10. They're fixing themselves all else is incidental. on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: 0

    I won't touch their product because I will never know if they'll deliberately break it with some future revision when someone pads their pockets. In this instance they got caught doing something dirty and now are scrambling to cover it up.

    If they issue a press release on why this happened and state a commitment to ethical business practices along with their fixed production release I will be mollified.

    If they were to release the source code to both version I will be appeased.

  11. Deliberate sabotage appologized for on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    move along, nothing to see here, here kiddies *candy* now go away.

    Not forgiven.

  12. Re:The Judge is an Idiot! on Judge Trips Up Settlement In Hot Coffee Class-Action · · Score: 1

    A class action suit can be of benefit to the person or corp being sued. Would you rather have one case to win or lose or 30,000 cases in various courts across the country.

  13. Re:The really nasty ones on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    You could not save and you could not make one stinking error. Then you had to suffer the cut scenes with no way of skipping therm. There were some intriguing puzzles. There was one but I'm blanking on what it was I just remember it being tedious and boring.

  14. Re:[Citation-Needed] on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 1

    Nextel did make an effort to give a real world "QOS" indicator with it's bars. They sometimes didn't work well but in most cases they gave a better indication than a standards cell phone.

    The fact that the spent millions to have a cell-walkie-talkie that sounds exactly like a Vietnam era military radio is amusing. The voice channel quality was not much better either.

  15. Re:wtf on Wikileaks Releases ACTA Negotiations As "0-Day" · · Score: 1

    It's not required for antiques (1899 or earlier), face to face transactions with your favorite ATF agent in drag, if you have a ATF F 8A (5310.17) designating you as some type of FFL. For a collector license it costs $30.00 for a three year license to have specifically listed or 50+ year old firearms (curios or relics) shipped to your door. It's worth it especially this year as I've seen about a 300 percent increase in the value of even poor quality collectible imports.

  16. The really nasty ones on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 1

    are pukezels. They are pointless, boring tedious and lame. Do you remember 7th Guest or some of the narrow walkways or peg jumping idiocy in Doom/Quake?

  17. Re:for want of a nail ... on Amazon Explains Why S3 Went Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    1 million code monkeys typing out Aleister Crowley?

  18. Every large monolithic organization needs it's Wiz on SF Not an Exception In Giving IT Too Much Control · · Score: 1

    But we now call them technomages.

  19. Re:Sorry to say but... on Thirst For Coltan Fueling African Conflict · · Score: 1

    It's not only real estate but the feature of tantalum capacitors that make them desirable. We might be at the threshold of nanotech capacitors that will replace them but I've not seen anything marketable yet.
     

  20. Re:The Big Problem on Most Bank Websites Are Insecure · · Score: 1

    This is a fabulous troll. It's sucking them in in droves. I hope for good articles on openvpn for clueless droolers, encrypted ethernet over IP, GNU privacy guard for dummies and real time hardrive encryption for the blithering idiot!
     

  21. Re:The end of one-handed surfing? on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why they did that on older ones other than reliability unless it was a retrofit. The new ones suck because they go out of calibration from exposure to the elements. So you'll go to one that's an inch off in some random direction.

  22. Re:Irony! on Scientists Solve Riddle of Toxic Algae Blooms · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.assabetriver.org/nutrient/DishwashingDetergentBillS.536.htm

    It hasn't all been banned though it should soon be. This looks like a state to state deal which can be a good thing since those companies have thousands of polytics to bribe rather than a handful.

  23. Re:Toxicity? on Liquid Metal CPU Heatsink Beats Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    I missed that, good catch. If they're using that then it should do well.

    Do not get it wet. ;)

    For the tinfoil hat folks this is most excellent. Dump water into the cooling system and set off a spark.

    I couldn't find the /. story
    http://pontotriplo.org/quickpicks/2007/05/generating_hydrogen_with_a_liquid_aluminum-gallium_alloy.html

  24. Re:Can someone code up a clock? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Cool, thanks that will do just fine.

  25. Re:Can someone code up a clock? on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1