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  1. Re:toys with molten metal on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was probably wood's alloy. It's got a nice low melting temperature around 80C-90C and would probably have been perfect for those kinds of toys.

  2. Re:Linux PAE on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I believe that you are right, that you could do this, but it would end up requiring a different ABI in all respects. You'd either need far pointers or wide ones on the host which I don't know of any systems supporting easily, aside from DOS.

  3. Re:Why bother? on Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm at about 12GB myself, and that's one of the two big reasons that I keep the mail in maildir format and connect all clients to it via imap. Using a real mail server has kept that from happening to me (again) for years now. The other reason is that it makes it really easy to change clients to play around, or access it from lots of places.

  4. Re:I have problems with this on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    While I can't confirm the Niels Bohr idea, I strongly suspect it rose out of one from Hawking.

    Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

  5. Re:And in the US on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Where I grew up it was even weirder. They would put Ranch Dressing on Pizza. WHAT THE HELL.

  6. Re:Trick Question on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 1

    Wow I didn't know they could go negative!

  7. Re:Area 51 Syndrome on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that by denying the existence of a place known to exist it creates jobs... Someone needs to get on this!

  8. Re:Native GUI app development is a pain on Is SaaS Killing Native Linux App Development? · · Score: 1

    I remember that kdevelop was integrating QT-Creator into it for some of that but I'm unsure of how far that's gotten. Anyone have any idea?

  9. Re:Bring back ability to use plus and quotes... on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 1

    There are times though when I feel like I would pay to be able to do that though.

  10. Re:QT 3.x still required? on KDE 3.5 Fork Trinity Releases First Major Update · · Score: 1

    Last I talked to the Trinity developers, they are working on QT4 but they were currently taking on other larger dependencies. Mostly HAL for doing device stuff. They are actually very nice on the #trinity channel on freenode.

  11. Re:First to repeat it in this story on $25 PC Prototype Gets Award At ARM TechCon · · Score: 1

    Only if you've got an NVIDIA Graphics card. Currently it refuses to support anything but NVIDIA's implementation of VDPAU.

  12. Re:Chrome also runs as root on Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    As far as google-chrome goes only the alpha builds are hard masked.

    As for them not being in stable I can't say I know, but the issue appears to be one similar to not wanting to enable backports in debian and not understanding why you're also still one Firefox (sorry, iceweasel) 3.6.20. It sounds like a non-issue to me.

    You can also specify that you want the "unstable/testing" versions of those packages fairly easily and painlessly.

  13. Re:Chrome also runs as root on Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    Firefox was updated to 7.0 fairly quick after release, same with 6.0 and 5.0. 4.0 has been too long for me to remember how long it took. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/firefox

    Chrome I can't comment on how quickly it stays updated but it is very much in the package manager. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-client/google-chrome

  14. Re:TFA (-2, wrong) on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    Actually Full Speed USB came before Hi-Speed USB. USB 1.1 was renamed to FullSpeed USB so that manufacturers wouldn't look bad in name if they continued to not support HiSpeed USB. It was the second stupidest decision they made.

  15. Re:Who cares? on BT Promises 300Mbps FTTP By 2012 · · Score: 1

    The big problem with "download cap" is that most ISPs also include your upload in it too.

  16. Re:Pay what you want - to open source programmers. on Sony Bringing PSN Pass To All First-Party Games · · Score: 1

    While I'm no good at the main game featured this time, Frozen Synapse, which ironically is why I was interested in the first part, it is very reminiscent of the old game Syndicate. I'd definitely recommend paying more than the average to get a hold of at least Trine. It's an absolutely great platformer with a good story and wonderful balance. I haven't had a chance to check out the others yet still.

  17. Re:A refurbished iPad is $300. on So Far, More Than 50,000 Kindle Fire Pre-Orders Per Day · · Score: 1

    towards that 8.5"x11" factor, I'd personally love one like that with a color e-ink screen. I don't want something for playing games on, but for reading and taking notes. The addition of color e-ink would make for a much nicer comic book reader and a way to do highlighting inside an textbook just like the real thing.

  18. Re:Weightlessness is a Bitch on Vision Problems For Some Returning Astronauts · · Score: 1

    This is why I question why you need to have such a large one in the first place. Instead make it, say, 150m and then just use it ONLY for sleep and resting. I've got to imagine the impact of being able to lie down for 1/3 of the time would make a big difference on things. since it would give your body some time to readjust things like the spinal fluid. It might not be enough for the bones though, which could pose other problems still.

  19. Re:Booring. on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    Motors I'm not sure about (not sure how the coils get wound, never looked into it). But the ICs are automated in manufacturing, so you could probably add that into the whole setup. It would be difficult but I'd say we're really really close to building a factory factory that produces factory factories.

  20. Re:This is what easy over safe design gets ya on New BIOS Exploiting Rootkit Discovered · · Score: 1

    Last time that I *HAD* to flash my bios was when I had an incompatibility with my VooDoo 5 card.

  21. Re:not excited on PostgreSQL 9.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I'd absolutely agree that you can often get close enough that for most practical reasons it does get you all properties. However it is definitely a good idea to understand that while what you have looks like that, underneath it likely doesn't for some short periods of time. The biggest thing here would be that you can get consistency that's very very good while still not being in the academic sense that it is in the theorem (e.g. consistent at all points in time). Understanding those trade-offs is the important part. Much less so than "omg it can't be done". Given that, I think trying to give up consistency for the other two in a project like PostgreSQL would be foolhardy (since you'd end up losing ACID compliance even if you're nominally there).

    That being said, it would be nice to see something as mature as PostgreSQL in the field of CP or AP databases. MySQL does have an advantage here as it can handle multiple storage backends that could get you this on a single database system (I think I even recall someone developing a MongoDB storage engine for MySQL).

  22. Re:not excited on PostgreSQL 9.1 Released · · Score: 2

    The other big thing that I would love to have in a database is ability to scale the database to multiple machines, so have a logical database span multiple disks on multiple machines, have multiple postgres processes running against those multiple disks, but have it all as one scalable database in a way that's transparent to the application. That would be some sort of a breakthrough (SAN or not).

    The big reason you don't find that and it would be a tremendous breakthrough, is that it is currently believed to be actually impossible to get that. Have a look at the CAP Theorem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem

  23. Re:Whose name is the account under? on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    IANAL, etc.

    I do not believe in most states that you are required to cooperate with the police during execution of a search warrant. In fact I know in some cases they will refuse to allow you to cooperate in them in case they are looking for something they feel you could otherwise interfere with the search.

    That being said however, if you do not cooperate in the execution to whatever extent might be reasonable (say unlocking the door), they would be allowed to break the door, lock, door frame, whatever it takes to execute the warrant and you may be better off cooperating in that case just because of the damage they would be allowed to perform.

  24. Re:Bad news bears. on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 2

    Already possible. IPv6 Privacy extension. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4941

  25. Re:I'm just telling you on Stanford AI Class 'Beta' For Commercial Launch? · · Score: 1

    One of the assignments is to make a program to grade assignments for the class. Your grade is the average that everyone's programs gives yours.