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  1. Re:The sheer volume! on Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam · · Score: 1

    Cuba won't magically become awesome 20 seconds after the embargo ends. The embargo is simply one symptom of a larger problem within the country.

    Their leadership has put them through 60 years of suffering, regardless of what is 'right' or 'wrong', they leadership COULD have actually ended the embargo, but didn't and instead refused to accept that under Castro (original, brother, son, whatever), Cuba will never be anything.

    Take the Mozilla CEO thing as an example. Doesn't matter if it was right, wrong, legal or illegal for him to (be forced to) step down, he had to, otherwise Mozilla would have suffered. He sacrificed himself in exchange for allowing Mozilla to flourish (or at least end the retarded fucking OKcupid bullshit).

    They don't care about the country, they care more about their own selfishness than anything else. Ending the embargo wouldn't make that go away, Cuba would still be a shit hole because its leaders are utterly selfish pricks who use the country for their own benefit and NOTHING else.

    I'm all for ending the embargo on Cuba, it clearly isn't doing anything useful, but ending the embargo won't do shit for Cuba just like NAFTA didn't do shit for Mexico.

    As for South Florida ... you do realize 99% of the people you are referring to are dead now right? Most of the ones you're thinking of would be at least 80 years old, some well over 100. The Cuban exiles really don't matter any more either.

    You're living in the 1960s and seem to have missed the evidence of the last 60 years.

  2. Re:Poor poor bigot on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    Of course its okay when YOU do it ... just not when the other guy does it.

    Fact: 52% of the state agrees with him. As such, thats how we decide things in this country, remember?

    Its funny how you'll use the word bigot for anything that is in disagreement with you, but its okay and even Greeeeat! when you do it yourself.

    You're a hypocrite, regardless of how politically correct you think yourself to be.

  3. Re:IANA Physicist, So... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Which requires oxygen to do anything useful.

    Seriously, look at the reaction process for what you're talking about ... you'll notice there is no reaction without adding oxygen ... in the form of water.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    But hey, don't let basic chemistry stand in your way of looking silly.

    YOU CAN NOT OXIDIZE WITHOUT OXYGEN. LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF OXIDIZE.

  4. Re:IANA Physicist, So... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Oxygen doesn't do shit without fuel, unless you get to the fusion stage, but being that we can't do that with even hydrogen, we're certainly not fusing oxygen on purpose.

    Oxygen under pressures lower than required for fusion won't burn, by definition, it can't. You can't oxidize oxygen any more than it already is.

  5. Re:IANA Physicist, So... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    No they don't.

    Only oxygen can oxidize something, by definition.

    Converting or catalyzing something to oxygen doesn't mean the original component oxidizes, it just means you don't understand chemical reactions.

  6. Re:IANA Physicist, So... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    No. Oxygen does not oxidize more oxygen.

  7. Re:IANA Physicist, So... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Brilliantly written papers are ones that explain the subject matter in an understandable way to the target audience.

    You don't send the same paper to theoretical physicist as you send to a senator.

    If you don't realize that, you're not anywhere near as smart and clever as you think you are. Do you expect a guy who's job is politics to REALLY ALSO know all the same shit as the guy who spends his entire life working on the physics of it? Are you really that unaware of the people in the world around you not all knowing what you know?

    You should correct your sig to just say 'I'm an idiot' so its appropriate instead of trying to show everyone else how clever you aren't.

  8. Re:No jetpacks yet... on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    You will definitely stick on the landing ... smear might be more appropriate, but you'll stick to whatever you land on as the mist of what you once where settles back down.

  9. Re:Glitterboyz on the way on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should watch few HBO TV shows. Oz wasn't real, only in your homoerotic fantasies.

  10. Re:Implications for the Standard Model on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 2

    It means we're one step closer to confirming theoretical constructs such as wormholes as we're rapidly approaching the stage where exotic matter is no longer theoretical, and things such as negative mass start to look achievable.

    Not that this observation makes all of that actually true, but we're still moving in the right direction to maybe eventually one day confirm and observe things such as stable wormholes.

  11. Re:How dumb. on In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy · · Score: 1

    Are you a secretary at an ISP? You haven't provided any actual REAL reasons to use traffic shapers at all. There are reasons, but you clearly don't know what they are.

  12. Re:The feds can have the data from my last flight. on In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy · · Score: 2

    Yes, protected from a few hops ... at which point it then turns around and goes right back out on the public internet ... which can be easily monitored/manipulated by anybody with physical, virtual, remote or local access to it.

  13. Re:if i was in charge of an island nation on Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam · · Score: 2

    Filtered... nice.

    North Korea, Iran, Syria ... is that you guys?

  14. Re:Snowden on Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that people seem to think the US is the only one doing this. The US isn't unique, its just the one that most recently got caught.

    Cuba tries the same thing ... they just kind of such at it, relative to the US.

    All countries do, except maybe the Scandinavian countries, but lets face it, they're still trying to figure out why they haven't moved to somewhere with a sane climate.

  15. Re:The amusing thing is... on Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam · · Score: 1

    That time is rapidly disappearing, all the old Cubans who Castor ousted and fled to the US are dying or dead, just like Castro. The money to politicians from them is also dying. As such, our giving a shit about Cuba ... rapidly dying as well.

  16. Re:It's not the thing... on Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers · · Score: 1

    Arduino is a different kind of board. Your program an Arduino in the Time Domain - that is, there isn't really interrupts like you have on a traditional computer, they're there but it's more like programming a DSP than a CPU.

    There are multiple OSes for the arduino (well, most atmega chips actually, not specific to arduino). I know, I've written one myself. It most certainly does have interrupts.

    Do you know what an Arduino actually is? I don't think you do because what you're saying doesn't make any sense, I don't think you understand how the hardware works.

  17. Re:Am I getting old? on Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers · · Score: 1

    Horrible idea. I've done this already myself. In the end, the frustration with the Pi's USB stack and asstasitic traces for USB power handling (they are hardly big enough to handle its own power demands, let alone something in the USB port that draws more than 10 or 20ma and the fact that an Intel Atom board is only $80 or so, and RAM is dirt cheap just makes the RaspberryPI cost effective if your time has little value.

    Use a beagle bone black. The extra $10 you spend will be so ridiculously worth it that its utterly stupid for you not to do so. Or any other raspberry pi alternative just about, for that matter.

  18. Re:It's not the thing... on Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: How We're Turning Everyone Into DIY Hackers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its really not hard to be faster than the RaspberryPi if you do anything over USB, in which case the RaspberryPi is so horribly broken that you'll spend a decade just trying to get reliable networking thanks to its broken USB implementation and the fact that the network port is built into the USB bridge.

    The RaspberryPi is crap and needs to fucking die.

    Here's your starting point:

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=raspberry...

    The first link is the beagle bone black, which does not meet the requirement of being cheaper, its $10 more actually, but in every other way its superior since ... Keep looking at the results list if you want a comparably price but not broken alternative.

  19. Jealousy is a bitch on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That and fear of change are the only reason to make such statements.

    I cherish the thought of killing deaf culture, just like I cherish the thought of killing the smallpox and malaria culture. I get that some are proud of what they've accomplished while deaf, but that's a selfish reason to hold against someone who chooses not to have a disability.

    Suddenly starting to hear does not detract from the accomplishments of the deaf, it just opens doors to accomplish new things and new possibilities. It doesn't make their art any less valuable or beautiful, it doesn't make their language any less valuable. My 11 month old son knows som sign language! He can hear fine, but kids can sign before they can talk! My family now knows a bit of American sign just for that alone.

    Sure, it's not going to be as common, but implants don't fix every reason for being deaf either.

    Simple fear of change is all it is.

    I understand the fear, all of us have it to some extent in some form. I fear rapid changes in technology that make me out dated and behind younger software engineers, but that's just my fears, not the end of something great. As a result, though I still fear those changes, I adapt and take on a different roll from that 20 something, code for 72 hours straight until I can't see straight age to leading those 20 something's and guiding them with my experience so that they can be more effective.

    I don't know what that means for the deaf, but I'm certain those that remain have other things of value ... Being deaf didn't make them worthless, neither will implants. The fact that they can create culture without the ability to hear is proof enough of their alternative skills.

  20. Re:... with a RaspberryPi on Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device · · Score: 1

    Just don't use a USB mic ... unless you want the RaspberryPi's awesome USB hardware to randomly drop words on you.

    For the life of my I can't understand why people think using the RaspberryPi is a good idea. Its shit hardware, its not the cheapest, at best its one of many in its price range and its a steaming pile of shit hardware wise. For fucks sake, they can make a god damn camera add on but can't make freaking revision of the board that has FUNCTIONAL USB.

  21. Re:Another project using sphinx isn't impressive on Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device · · Score: 2

    No, I don't magically know what they mean given no context. Thats the point. It won't run on any device, hell, it won't even run on any RaspberryPi since ... some of the licenses for those libraries themselves are potentially conflicting.

    I'm not sure what magical fairy world 'any' device belongs to, but not a single one I can think of applies here.

    But hey, why let reality cloud your inner fanboy, eh?

  22. Another project using sphinx isn't impressive on Princeton Students Develop Open Source Voice Control Platform For Any Device · · Score: -1, Troll

    There are tens of these sort of projects and this one won't run on 'any' hardware as it uses some heavy libraries that certainly aren't going to work on ANY of the embedded systems I use.

    Try again.

  23. Re:So? on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 2

    Because its not your choice. My sister in law thinks we need to bring America's great technology and advancements ... and teachers (since she's a teacher) to 3rd world nations so they can become modern countries.

    Did you ever stop and think that maybe, JUST MAYBE, these people are happy and all we're going to do is ruin their lives?

    Many of my most intelligent and accomplished friends are also the same people who would love to cut the cord and find themselves in a rural setting living off nature.

    Once you get to a certain point in your life, you realize all this modern technology really doesn't make you any happier. Modern medicine is really the one thats most important. Personally, I like knowledge too much and I simply can't disconnect from the Internet just yet, but that and medicine to make sure my young son is safe are really the only thing that keeps me from finding a nice little island in the tropics to live out my days without technology.

  24. Re:Gee, that's worse than no encryption isn't it? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 1

    So basically ... you want to use some other language ... that itself was written in C ...

  25. Re:ASLR anyone? hype? on OpenSSL Bug Allows Attackers To Read Memory In 64k Chunks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read or write overruns will only throw an exception if they go beyond the bounds of the applications total allocated memory so they hit an unallocated page. (page fault)

    If you simply read into some memory that has been allocated by some other component, no exception will be thrown.

    Reading outside the bounds of the application application pages is unlikely as you'd have to be the last or close to the last allocated block (when the application space has to be grown, doesn't work if its a realloc of a previously allocated page, so lower in the address space and not near the end of allocated pages) and/or have a large overrun so you went through all the other allocated blocks.