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  1. Re:I'm with Verizon on Verizon Charged Marine's Widow an Early Termination Fee · · Score: 1

    isn't it somewhat verison's fault that they don't provide coverage at her new location? What if she had been told by her work "move here or loose your job"? I would say that moving outside of coverage area is a valid reason to terminate the contract, if it's an issue of hardware costs, ask her to return the phone, so they could recoup the losses by selling it used.

  2. Re:The request itself is suspicious. on China Bans Military Personnel From Blogging · · Score: 1

    and we would have to be completely dense not to be doing the same.

  3. Re:AMD on Intel, NVIDIA Take Shots At CPU vs. GPU Performance · · Score: 1

    look at the X6 BE chip, 6 cores, better performance than anything intel has at the same price. It doesn't compete with Intels 12 "core" in 12 thead applications, but apart from video encodes(even thats iffy) you'll be hard pressed to find a 12 thread app that doesn't end up IO bound, as a home user.

  4. Re:You lazy fuckers on Intel, NVIDIA Take Shots At CPU vs. GPU Performance · · Score: 1

    sed has the same syntax as well.

  5. Re:Weight limit? on Flying Cars Hop Slightly Closer With FAA Weight Waiver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    you sir speak the truth, the problem isn't the bike/small car, but the guy on his phone in his 2.5 ton SUV, drinking his coffee. I vote the limit for a drivers license be 2000 LB, and that it must be a stick, unless you apply for an exemtion from the state for physical disability to drive a stick. You try driving a stick in rush hour while on the phone, eating a bagel, drinking coffee. Bet it sorts it's self out after a few weeks.

  6. Re:Duck. on Flying Cars Hop Slightly Closer With FAA Weight Waiver · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but there is a lot more space, and make an annoying blinking beeping light if they are too close... They should do that on road cars now that i think of it. use the speedo and the radar range finder, to figure out the "safe minimum distance" granted it wouldn't know about things like cold wet brakes, or black ice... but it would be helpful as a "you are way too fucking close" sort of light.

  7. Re:I hate the idea of flying cars on Flying Cars Hop Slightly Closer With FAA Weight Waiver · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that most of the "driver aids" in cars today actually hindered performance of the car in skilled hands, as an example, F1 cars have no TCS, no ABS, no anti skid, minimal automatic engine management, etc. Same goes for World Rally Cars, and motoGP bikes, seems like humans still have the edge there.

  8. Re:How much is each visitor worth? on UK Gov't To Review Hundreds of Websites, Axe Many of Them · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that the number of sites is the problem, simple that they are each being bought and paid for and run sepperatly, why not keep most(that are useful) and host them jointly?

  9. Re:Bidding against each other? on UK Gov't To Review Hundreds of Websites, Axe Many of Them · · Score: 1

    if branch X said i'm bidding on term "FOOBAR", then branch Y would have known about it, or better yet, they could jointly buy it and another simmilar term and point to both sites.

  10. Re:YRO? on UK Gov't To Review Hundreds of Websites, Axe Many of Them · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i think "site" and "server cluster + infrastructure + bandwidth" are getting a bit mixed up here. I see no issue with have large numbers of sites as you suggest, but does a site that gets 28k people per month need a whole data center? could it be combined with a few other low traffice sites and save on costs?

  11. Re:Two man-months? on Hemisphere Games Reveals Osmos Linux Sales Numbers · · Score: 1

    auth, moving all of the DX code, etc.

  12. Re:One game? on Hemisphere Games Reveals Osmos Linux Sales Numbers · · Score: 1

    get it to work on non binary distros, and you have a winner. not all of us run distros from 3 years ago...

  13. Re:The cure is in the case on Experts Explain iPhone 4 Antenna Problem · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) buy some broccolii from the store
    2) remove and dry off the rubber band
    3) place rubberband on iPhone
    4) ???
    5) PROFIT!(and save like $27, and get some iron)

  14. Re:Brilliant on BP Robot Seriously Hampers Oil Spill Containment · · Score: 1

    really? i'm not sure they can afford the damagess even if they operate for the next 200 years.

  15. Re:Open the floodgates.... on ICANN Likely Finally To Approve .xxx For Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    a few "extreme" examples for illustration, Nuns, Vickers, Police officers, whippings, beatings, children, M/s, blueberries, feet, chocolate, etc.
    You get the idea, your "to arouse one sexually" isn't the same for everyone, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism exists, and it's rather interesting if you look into it from a psychological point of view, but who gets to say "that photo of a nun at mass is porn"?

  16. Re:Wow. Just... WOW! on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1

    you have the wrong idea, for behind the action, how about behind Jessica Alba, Drew Berrymore, or Rose McGowan during an "action" scene

  17. Re:Flash ... on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    i hope slow ads impact the sites rating, as for flash load time, meh either way.

  18. Re:Ajax Libraries on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    100KB at 4KB/sec = 25 seconds. Yes lots of the US still has dial up, you load a 100KB JS lib + 200KB of flash ads + 300KB of real content at 4KB/sec, you are looking at 600KB/(4KB/sec) you are talking 2.5 minutes(150 seconds) to load your page, so they can click the link they really want, and then move on. no I hove no issue with sites like flicker have a huge picture, thats what they are about, or youtube needing bandwidth, but WTF does "MY RANDOMS BALG KJEHUEHUEHEUIH SITE OF AWESOME" need to be 600k per load?

  19. Re:I feel happier with NoScript on Google Shares Insights On Accelerating Web Sites · · Score: 1

    I'd love to do that but so many sites have ads with sound, or that cause flash to consume 50% of one core... 2300+X2(65W)

  20. Re:lithium chloride or sodium chloride? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 1

    To pose a question, why not just stick R60 everywhere? although your windows are not going to be R60 even if they are new. You are also probably far better off installing a ground source heat pump and putting 95% eff. reheat on it(for really cold days) than you are to tack the AC on as an afterthought. Then again, Air is a pretty bad heat transfer medium anyways, maybe in floor radiant heat would be a better idea. Salt water, or mineral oil would be good choices fro the fluid as they have a large thermal mass.

    There are also a large number of homes that were built over 100 years go, and are in historical districts that have codes on the type of construction allowed. so how do you propose to upgrade those houses in place to >R30

  21. Re:Good for server farms? on New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90% · · Score: 1

    don't worry that filter isn't 100%, even if it was once installed the monkey responsible for changing it ever 2 weeks read it as every 2 months, and won't change it until people complain it smells like fish in the building.

  22. Re:So? on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    data wouldn't be a problem if they had encrypted the traffic. I'm not sure which level WPA2 is on, but it may also be hiding mac addresses.

  23. Re:Privacy? on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You do, ensure that it's broadcast power is low enough so as not to escape the walls of your dwelling, and encrypt the traffic (WPA2 preferably).
    No privacy was violated, it's not like the guy in van drove up the to the house, and shoved an antenna though the mail slot. I mean this is like complaining the guy making a movie in his backyard recorded your shouting over his fence, don't shout then!

  24. Re:Punch in the eyeball on Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    If python is an option, look at Reportlab. I have no affiliation, but i have used to generate recipe cards from a web based app after fetching the data from a DB.

  25. Re:My experience: on Best Browser For Using Complex Web Applications? · · Score: 1

    That was my thought too, soon as you want something to print from the web best to just make a pdf. The format is well supported (on all platforms, cant even an iPhone view them?) and the layout is stable and it prints well.

    If someone knows how to make chrome scale a webpage to width when printing that would mean i could use chrome just about full time.