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  1. Re:If I don't vote I can't complain? on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    It's different because it can be counted. It means you went to the polls and deliberately voted for no-one, while there's any number of reasons someone might not go out and vote at all. I don't know if blank ballots are counted in the US, though.

  2. Re:If I don't vote I can't complain? on Discuss the US Presidential Election & Education · · Score: 1

    What about a blank ballot?

  3. Re:From the article on Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function · · Score: 1

    That information property of the blog is cancelled out by it being TFA, which no-one can read.

  4. Re:if you mean iPhone it's because it gets crappy on Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make any sense. Poor reception means the phone will transmit with more power in order to get through whatever's between you and the antenna.

  5. Re:US vs. China on Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project · · Score: 1

    Pride and prejudice.

  6. Re:I would really like to understand this. on Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, the cause was that it caught the wind too well, but that made it vibrate and resonate over the center span. Looking at videos of it, it's certainly not inharmonic resonance, since there's a fairly stable node right in the middle.

  7. Re:so we get cheaper, better antennas? on Distributed.net Finds Optimal 25-Mark Golomb Ruler · · Score: 1
    No.
    A GOLOMB ruler has no duplicated distances between any two pairs of marks.
    A PERFECT ruler can measure every possible distance up to its length.
    An OPTIMAL ruler is the shortest possible for its order (number of marks).

    The 4-order ruler 0, 100, 400, 600 is neither optimal (there is a shorter one in a previous comment) nor perfect (can't measure e.g. the distance 4), but it is a Golomb ruler.

  8. Re:Unfortunately, they have to. on Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos · · Score: 1

    Care can smooth recovery though, and it doesn't work without the visit and/or placebo. It's not a useless service, at least sometimes.

  9. Re:I'd go iPhone: on Which Phone To Develop For? · · Score: 1

    That kind of stuff would probably drain the battery before you'd get back home.

  10. Re:I'd go iPhone: on Which Phone To Develop For? · · Score: 1

    Who's buying anything here? The original submitter is developing for his own home, as far as I can see.

  11. Re:I'd go iPhone: on Which Phone To Develop For? · · Score: 1

    I don't see Symbian dropping J2ME support, there's a whole lot of rather popular apps that run on that platform. Native is faster, but Java makes it easy to support a whole bunch of phones in one go, or at least with a little tweaking. I can see it being supplemented with full Java support on high-end phones, though. I don't know how feasible it is, but it would steal some glory from Android.

  12. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1
    I was using the second sense, denial of existence, i.e. "active" atheism if you will. Kortahl used the first sense of the word, which is simply not believing anything in the first place, which isn't really far from agnosticism, I'd say.

    Anyway, my point is, with or without religion, nobody can be sure whether supernatural god(s) exist.

  13. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    That's a different way of defining atheism, both are valid.

  14. Re:Useless on Microsoft Patents the Censoring of Speech · · Score: 1

    "Government", haha. Yeah, stick it to the man.

  15. Re:Idiotic on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    In fact, McDonald's isn't doing that well in Finland, it seems. Almost every mcjoint has closed in my city.

  16. Re:A lot of my "liberal" friends seem to agree on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1

    WTF, ignore that quote tag I mistakenly put in there, should be italics.

  17. Re:A lot of my "liberal" friends seem to agree on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 1
    Capitalism is

    regulated

    economic anarchy. Freedom is also regulated anarchy.

  18. Re:How long before it became corrupt? on Linux As a Model For a New Government? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything becomes corrupt quickly. The trick is, how quickly can corruption be routed around?

  19. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hardcore atheists define themselves by opposition to religion. Without religion, there would be only agnostics.

  20. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    I think there's quite a few people who would be willing to carry out such sentences, if it weren't for the law prohibiting it.

  21. Re:It's just the opposite for me on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 2

    The about box should show the accurate internal version, subversion, build, and everything else pertinent, but none of that has to show up in the product name.

  22. Re:Overdrive on Watching Tonight's Presidential Debate Online · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, the conspiracy theories some people think up just because they're theoretically possible, assuming perfect collaboration and unity among the conspirators.

  23. Re:It's just the opposite for me on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first version shouldn't have any version number at all, it's just the product itself, not an iteration of it. This way nobody will focus on the number, and when the next version comes along you can put that magic 2.0 there. If it sounds too plain with just the product name, you can put some meaningless and nonsequential characters there, e.g. 'EV' (Enterprisey Version), 'XP', 'NT' ... you get the idea.

  24. Re:Taking pictures of the sun? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    Be careful with film. Some films are OK if fully exposed and developed, silver b/w film for example. Exposed color film on the other hand is not.

  25. Re:Taking pictures of the sun? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    The trouble with home-grown solutions is that they don't necessarily filter UV or IR as much, which can damage the retina just as well without any warning at all, i.e. you'll be watching a comfortably dim sun, all the while IR is slowly melting your photoreceptors. Even the smoked glass trick - though it gives good filtering - isn't all that good, because the soot has to be even. Eclipse glasses that are more than adequate cost practically nothing, they're a good investment.