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  1. Re:Alternatives? on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 1

    i don't think that is the point. With the amount of money states/countries have spent renting/licensing these solutions. One of them, or a collection of them could have contracted the work for hire, and stipulated they receive the source code.

  2. Re:To play devil's advocate on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it seams you you lie to say good things about people/corporations, just not bad things.

  3. Re:Bandwidth Hog on Disc-Free Netflix Streaming Arrives For the PS3 and Wii · · Score: 1

    My QoS, is just priority. If I were able to limit max download that would probably work. Perhaps I should see if there is better firmware for my router that can help.

  4. Re:To play devil's advocate on 'Officer Bubbles' Sues YouTube Commenters Over Mockery · · Score: 1

    If a paper could just publish blatant nonsense that was incredibly defamatory

    But they can publish blatant nonsense. Fox news went to court to prove as much.

    http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

    https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Monsanto
    "The decision in Akre's favor was then overturned in 2003 by an appeals court because the whistleblower's statute under which the original case had been filed did not actually apply to the case. The court held that Fox News had no obligation to report truthfully, and the First Amendment protects their right to lie.[56] Therefore, the court held that firing a reporter for refusing to lie is not actionable under the whistleblower statute."

  5. Re:Bandwidth Hog on Disc-Free Netflix Streaming Arrives For the PS3 and Wii · · Score: 1

    The situation isn't that simple. I have QoS to my xbox for things like this, but it doesn't help when my wife uses netflix on her laptop because the system isn't as simple as you envision it. When my bandwidth use hits its cap (4Mb) for more than 1 second my ISP increases my latency. It is there way of punishing me for ... i dunno. Same thing happens when I torrent even on file with a limit of 10 connections (they must do packet inspection).

    Thankfully, my wife goes to bed before me, so I use that time to play any online multiplayer games with friends I've had since HS that now live across the east coast.

    Verizon DSL

  6. Re:Good on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    I think currently the market share stands at 90, 8.9, 1.1, for windows, OSX, linux collected. I don't want or need linux to be the 90, but for the good of software in general, I'd love for windows to be knocked down to around 60, OSX be at 30, and linux be at 10. Then you would see people taking cross platform compatibility a lot more seriously.

  7. Re:Default password security on Home WiFi Network Security Failings Exposed · · Score: 1

    I have verizon DSL, and when I called for help/to complain (my connection was dropping), the tech on the phone couldn't fathom why I'd changed my administrative password. He slowly guided me through typing in a default name/pw (which I'd changed a year ago) and wouldn't deviate from the script when I told him mine was different and to hold on a second.

    Though, as a linux user, I'm used to lying to technical support: "Yes, sir, I can click start->run->'cmd' "

  8. Re:Don't call it ironic! on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    How is it used incorrectly? When an action is the opposite of what would be expected, it is ironic. The newspaper is suing someone, so the last thing I would expect would be then to support them for public office.

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony
    5: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.

  9. Re:Newspapers? Pshaw. on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    I would argue that the rate of speed would really describe the acceleration, so using "rate of speed" to mean km/h is wrong.

  10. Re:Not Odd on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    HAHAHahaha, Way to stick up for what you believe in AC.

  11. Re:Ideally on Newspaper Endorses the Candidate It's Suing Over Copyright · · Score: 1

    Because I'd like to be able to trust a news reporter. If they are obviously partial, then that calls their reporting into suspicion.

  12. Re:A lot of hype... on The Inside Story of Microsoft's 'Project Natal' · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons is that the external hardware required was just a repackaged webcam. So they offered it with both of there flagship eyetoy games ( 'eye play' and 'eye play 2') for the normal cost of the game. The tech to develop it was trivial even though it was novel. They just took a diff of successive frames. This method is cheap and it simple but not without problems. Lighting and backround matters, I had to basically put a light pointing at me if I wanted the game not to make mistakes and miss my hand movements.

  13. Re:NOOOOOOO on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 1

    but this is /., where shortcuts that look like c++ code are accepted (at least by me).

  14. Re:Oh goodie on New CCTV Site In UK Pays People To Watch · · Score: 1

    slow down there buddy. The CCTV vs TV rules are there for your privacy. The idea is that CCTV isn't broadcast so what happens there, stays there (internal security...). If the CCTV, is suddenly broadcast over the internet, you getting caught scratching your ass on camera is now copied to everyone who wants a copy.

  15. Re:It's a sync sequence. on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    i'm with you. The first thing I noticed was they symmetry, which doesn't occur naturally in any coding schemes.

  16. The Math? on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    JPEG is based on DCT, the quality pics the scaling of the resulting matrix, then it is ordered and huffman encoded.
    JPEG-2000 is kinda the same except it uses a completely different transform the naturally supports multiresoltuion: wavelets.
    png/gif is different in that it doesn't use a transform, but just a variation on a loseless encoding called Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW ) named for the paper authors that worked on it in the 70's

    What is the core math behind VP8?

  17. Apples and Organges on Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Laptops experienced precipitous price drops during the past decade. Digital cameras, personal computers, and computer chips all followed similar steep declines in price.

    These things aren't really comparable. These are all gadgets, the internet is a service.

    The range of quality and prices has increased in the gadget market because the cost benefit ratio of getting into that market is extremely different, AND because if you don't like the the most recent laptop you have choices you don't have with ISPs. You have a half dozen other laptops that you can choose instead, in addition to the added choice of, keeping your old one a little longer. That is, you can still have your old camera a little longer and wait for a digital camera you want to come down in price because that decision changed the supply and demand (reduced demand). Choosing NOT to have internet isn't really a choice most people are prepared to make. I guess I could live at my local library, but they don't let me bring my XBOX.

  18. Re:Eh? on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    They should make tech that lets the car (bluetooth microphone/speaker) mute the other person when the jerk* is high enough.

    *derivative of acceleration.

  19. Re:Just one of the necessary features on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    You are right, I should have said it that way.
    I have a 3 core processor, and typically have about 10 pages open.

  20. Re:Why I think it will be rejected on Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad · · Score: 1

    Can you give me an example of what is the jailbroken app doing that you can't do normally if apple let it get past the app store?

  21. Re:Urine? on Is DIY Algae Farming the Future? · · Score: 1

    Why would it be common to have heavy metals in human feces? Heavy metals are dangerous to humans because your body cannot dispose of them so they build up and can cause a problem.

  22. Re:VLC is crap. on Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad · · Score: 1

    linux user? use the mplayer front end "smplayer", best by far IMHO.

  23. Re:Why I think it will be rejected on Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad · · Score: 1

    It isn't a typical sandbox, the sandbox is the apple API. This is why going outside the API is forbidden, and this is why once you can install arbitrary programs (cyndia) you can do just about anything.

  24. Re:Woo! on Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad · · Score: 1

    AC should double check before insulting. If you consider he probably meant "You made [my] day", 'my' is an adjective. So like this south park quote: How would you like to suck my balls?

  25. Re:GPL Violation? on Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad · · Score: 5, Informative

    I have a problem, I answer rhetorical questions even though I know they are.
    My abacus is can represent 13 decimal digits. The binary number required to do that is 44 bits. So my abacus is can store about 5 1/2 bytes.