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  1. Re:More Flexibility? on Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer · · Score: 1

    That's not an unmitigated good however, especially if you want to make edits but not commit them until you're done. Unix gets it mostly right in that I can send a NOHUP to tell the other process to reload. What would be nice is if there's a deamon running that would allow the admin to register processes and config files and that would watch the config files and auto-nohup if the admin so desires. Then again, that's probably already been built. Doesn't seem to difficult to write, but I haven't seriously looked into it.

  2. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 2

    You have that exactly backwards. Non-Coms are people like sergeants and corporals. Commissioned offers are 1st lieutenant and above. I.E. it applies to the people that aren't peons.

  3. Re:Constitution is NOT a living document on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    And now I realize I clearly misunderstood whay you were saying. Mea culpa. If only I had used the preview button in a more intelligent manner.

  4. Re:Constitution is NOT a living document on Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case · · Score: 1

    The contradiction in your mind is resolved readily if you recall that that consitution doesn't "grant" any rights to the people at all, as the people are innate posessors of all rights. The constitution is structured to place limits on the government, not the people. In fact, a major argument at the time against the "Bill of Rights" was that people would intepret it as an exhaustive list.

  5. Re:Mytbusters episode on Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The important things to remember, are
    1) No matter how big your plane is, it's tiny in comparison to the air;
    2) There is a mind-blowingly huge amount of energy in the atmosphere, especially around thunderstorms and changes in the land. It can be beneficial (see gliders and updrafts) or detrimental (low level wind shear & downdrafts), and you must pay constant attention to it.

  6. Re:Fuel Saving on Air Force Lab Test Out "Aircraft Surfing" Technique To Save Fuel · · Score: 1

    The effect can be really pronounced, easily in the double digit percents. If you're curious look up "True Air Speed" and "Density Altitude" and then take a look at the runway lengths of a place like Denver, and San Francisco.

  7. Re:wifi forward error correction on Linux 3.3: Making a Dent In Bufferbloat? · · Score: 1

    DHCP isn't sent via TCP. It uses UDP broadcast.

  8. Re:Morality on Researchers Grow a Brain In a Dish · · Score: 1

    Your restriction of 'right' to only apply government actors is too restrictive, and is not the commonly used meaning. A right, as the word is defined, is in essence, something you have a just claim to. E.G. I have a "right" to my property. Similarly, I have a "right" to the components of my body, hence other people acting on my body without my consent is a violation of my rights. Hence, whether or the actor is the government is largely irrelevant.

  9. Re:Texas Budget Deficit on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    You are mistaken. Sales taxes are not added because of Article I section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.

  10. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    They could do speech synth a bit earlier than that. Dedicated hardware was required though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4A

  11. Re:Couldn't agree more on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    Huh, learn something new every day. I stand corrected. As far as compiled vs interpreted, I'd have to respectfully disagree, to an extent (in general I consider your points are valid). A critically important part of any shell or Command Language Interface is user binding of names/late-binding/re-binding, which can't be done at compile time.

  12. Re:Couldn't agree more on Take This GUI and Shove It · · Score: 1

    The L in CLI stands for line:) Command Line Interface. What you're talking about is an interpreter.

  13. Re:Android, iOS, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone 7? on Microsoft Releases Final Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools · · Score: 1

    GSM old style uses time division, code division is used in more recent versions

  14. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    Which other Tokyo are you refering to? Todai is a pet name for Tokyo Daigaku (Tokyo University). The third might be Waseda?

  15. Re:Good stuff on Finance, Scientific Users Get ActivePython Updates · · Score: 2, Informative

    2 things 1) If random internet poster makes you not want to evaluate a tech you seriously need to grow a thicker skin 2) Auto indenting in python after the code is written is not particularly safe. In python Indentation serves the same function as { } in PHP or c, etc. That being said, Emacs works reasonably well. 3) You would have found this out if you had googled python indentation:)

  16. Re:wiki on Aphid's Color Comes From a Fungus Gene · · Score: 1

    Your math is way off on the 25% figure. Any sequence with 4 letters in the alphabet and of length x will have probability 1/4^x of being identical to any other randomly chosen sequence of length x.

  17. Re:One possible explanation... on The Mystery of the Mega-Selling Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    How about a USB 3.5 floppy drive? They are about 14$

  18. Re:"Living Constitution" on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    Amendments are not necessarily additions. They are changes, see amendment 21

  19. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Because you can netcat a .ps file to the thing from the command line (or plane old cat if it's locally connected). Your only "driver" required is the ability to generate postscript files.

  20. Re:Nice of them to change the color on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death" · · Score: 1

    I used to get that a lot with bad ram. You might want to check that.

  21. Re:One Thing I Miss on Modern Tech Versus the Past · · Score: 1

    I've not encountered that word before, and searches at m-w.com and dictionary.com are coming up dry. Hence, what's it mean?

  22. Re:One word.. on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Try editing C or C++ in VI or emacs. Very fast, very efficient, and horizontal scroll _is_ the devil. Even the web 2.0 people think so. Ben

  23. Re:Bug free software would be insanely expensive! on Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    Formal proofs, with corresponding formal specifications. See Dijkstra.

  24. Re:Doncha think? on Teen Killed At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Go read the dictionary. Ironic does not mean what Alanis Morisette says it means.

  25. Re:contrary on Palm Kills Community Before It Begins · · Score: 1

    Not on any smart compiler. It'll be optimized into an infinite loop