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  1. Re:Matlab on Ask Slashdot: Best Language To Learn For Scientific Computing? · · Score: 1

    matlab has an open source + free version called octave if you just want to learn the language. You might need to purchase matlab if you want one of their speciliazed "tool boxes"

    I used matlab for about 7 years.

  2. Re:PROTIPS on Dataland: the Emerging Dystopia · · Score: 1

    Sometimes when people suggest behaviour, I think of: "what happens when everyone does that?"
    Just like if everyone ran ad-block, whole cool parts of the internet would soon go dark; if everyone only turned on their phone 3 times a day, we'ld never really be able to call anyone in the way some of us have come to appreciate / expect today.

  3. Re:Trading term on Oil Traders Misread Tweet, Oil Prices Spike · · Score: 1

    "Adjusting for inflation", sure, but you have to compare that to my savings account adjusted for inflation always seems to go down.

  4. Re:Cockroach rights? on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    He is truely living the life.

  5. unplug it :-) on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it, when they unplug the thing and it still stays on, and all they have to do is keep adding fuel ( where this fuel is not electricity).

  6. Re: Shoot first on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    His opinion is dangerous. ANY argument based on the concept "it's good for the whole of society for this individual to cede his rights" is just plain evil. If that end justifies the means, then you are a short way away from handing the authorities a police state.

    I strongly disagee with your assertion. Carried to it's conclusion you'd have to prefer anarachy. The very definition of government at all, even in it's most limited form, requires indivuduals to give up certain freedoms for the good of socierty, even if those freedoms are murder/assault/steal/lie

  7. Re:I have a game for them on How DirecTV Overhauled Its 800-Person IT Group With a Game · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Like the reporter has a clue... on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    but where in the spectrum? 200Hz PWM isn't 200 HZ, your transition edges in an attempts to make square waves use frequencies as high as you can generate (look at the Fourier series of a square wave) - EMI is by frequency, and I don't know of a need for a GPS to use PWM.

  9. Re:Hilarious... on How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them · · Score: 2

    I might not care as much about performance as I care about battery life, and a rating of that is performance/Watt.

  10. Re:Awesome. on New Solar Cell Sets Record For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Its a good thing the Chinese have been practicing cloud killing technology [reference the Olympics]

  11. Re:Moo on Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know you are joking aroud, but out of curiousity I looked this up. The bible was written in Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic, all of which actually have less than 26 letters.
    The Hebrew/aramaic alphabet has 22 letters, and the greek alphabet has 24 letters.

  12. Re:as it turns out... on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 1

    People draw their violence lines in different places. It isn't too hard for me to see the difference between killing demons in doom, the mutants in quake, and the police/people of GTA.

  13. Re:Private Aircraft? It's Their Rules. on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Can. But shouldn't on Xbox One's HDMI Pass-Through Can Connect PS4, PCs and More · · Score: 4, Informative

    Input lag has been non-trivial for a while now. One of those non-marketable numbers so not all TV manufacturers spent time on them.

    I remember it was impossible to play certain fast paced games on 1st Gen DLPs ( Car racing games).

  15. Re:slight correction. on Visionary Nintendo President Yamauchi Dies · · Score: 1

    one of my favorite games ever

  16. Re:This is what Ronald Regan protected us from on Abandoned UK National Health Service IT System Has Cost $16bn... So Far · · Score: 3, Informative

    I agree, but it has been mostly fact free because the law that was passed only dictates that the regulations need to be written, that is, we haven't really seen what the end result of the ACA passage will be.

  17. Re:How is this news? on How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business · · Score: 1

    He's not supposed to have sex with his mother.

    I'm so happy that this is rated 70% Funny and 30% Informative.

  18. Re:Your Fingerprint isn't ever stored in flash on German Data Protection Expert Warns Against Using iPhone5S Fingerprint Function · · Score: 1

    Lets pretend the figerprint hash takes up 1KB of space.
    So, on the WRITE_NEW_PASSWORD function, the api sets a 0 on the multiplex line that address the first KB of space, and then it saves it.
    Now you need to authenticate
    So, you write a 1, on the multiplex line, that addresses the second KB of space, and then a hardware comparitor writes a 0 for == and 1 for != on the output line.

  19. Re:Video game levels on The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty aweful at that game; I knew I was playing it wrong.

  20. Re:Safety? on Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius · · Score: 1

    A litre of water has extremely good heat conductivity, so the whole thing heats up evenly. Your body is more insulative- so with enough [focused] power ( yes the 2KW a wall outlet can deliver is enough) you could burn yourself badly.

  21. Re:no ghettos pre-internet? on Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'? · · Score: 1

    Extremely poor example. It is quite common for people in ghettos to be even more obsessed with status symbols like expensive shoes. And spending disproportionate amounts of their income on these things for the perceived respect.
    http://business.time.com/2013/01/16/how-dr-dre-made-300-headphones-a-must-have-accessory/
    "And the car that you drive cost more than your house" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJdJ5aZMiI)

  22. Re:I disagree on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    Stop & frisk,
    It was an abuse of the nebulous "reasonable suspicion" copout for forth amendment violations. They looked purely at crime statistics, and said we are going to stop and frisk in these high crime areas to try and catch the crime in action

    While you and I probably don't agree with this, at no point has any racist decision been made.

    But, the problem is, even if rich white people do exactly as many illegal drugs as poor black people, because they lived in a "high risk/high crime" area, they are getting caught 100X (made up number) as often.

    The real problem is the war on drugs in general in this case. We spend all this money to put people in jail, and we aren't really helping them in anyways. Instead we've removed people from the work force, and effectively made it impossible for them to get normal jobs after that, basically encouraging them to go back to a life involving drugs.

  23. Re:It doesn't pay to be the first on Jonathon Fletcher: The Forgotten Father of the Search Engine · · Score: 1

    The big win for google, if I recall, was that it was a lot faster.

  24. Re:Just a thought on Taking the Battle Against Patent Trolls To the Public · · Score: 1

    I thought about this-
        You'd do what a lot of startups do- take your patent, and solitic investor money for your startup company. I mean, you do care about your invention don't you? Do you want to actually try to bring it to market? So that means you need venture capital. Or in old school terms, you go to a bank, and pitch them your idea, and get a small business loan.

    Disclosure, I don't really know how difficult this is to do these days; I work for a medium sized company.

  25. Re:We should invade on Online Law Banning Discussion of Current Affairs Comes Into Force In Vietnam · · Score: 1

    You are wrong, do some research or substantiate your claims.

    The US has been involved in the politics of Vietnam since the end of world war 2. Paranoia and fear of [the spread of] communism are the reason the US went into Vietnam.

    If you were correct, why don't we actully get any oil from there? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/19/where-the-u-s-gets-its-oil-imports-in-one-map/