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  1. Re:Curious... on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope. ANY superconductor has zero resistance. That's actually a part of definition for a superconductor.

    Even high-temperature ones (with some caveats near critical temperature and in strong magnetic fields) have zero resistance.

  2. Re:Curious... on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. Superconductors generate exactly ZERO ohmic heating when current passes through them.

    Not "some", but absolutely ZERO heating.

  3. Re:Move to CVS on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's svndumpfilter - it can completely obliterate selected files. A complete dump/load cycle requires a bit of time, though.

    See: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=516

    Frankly, that's a pretty stupid reason to chose CVS over SVN.

  4. Re:CFL Color on Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perceptions.

    Direct unfiltered sunlight indoors doesn't look yellow, it's almost pure white.

    Sun's spectrum is very close to the ideal black-body spectrum with the color temperature is about 5000K. So 5000K CFL will look almost exactly like the real sunlight.

  5. Re:CACert on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 1

    They can be, of course. But it is much harder now - they learned from that mistake.

  6. Re:CACert on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's much more stricter now. For one thing, they don't sell certs to individual, only to companies. And they also physically mail you a USB signing device for driver signing, not just a certificate.

  7. Re:Tax revenue? on Flaws In a BSA Software Piracy Report? · · Score: 3, Informative

    They can. And the do.

    It has happened with the parent company of my own company. It turned out that BSA needs proof-of-purchase and original media with license numbers printed on disks IS NOT a proof-of-purchase.

  8. Re:CACert on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried to buy, say, Microsoft code signing certificate?

    Well, try it.

  9. Re:Heh, heh, heh. on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 1

    A quick question: how do you think people lived before the invention of cellphones?

  10. Re:Heh, heh, heh. on GPS Tracking Device Beats Radar Gun in Court · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I was allowed to do almost anything when I was 9.

    Both my parents had a job and I was free to do almost anything after the school. Also, we had no phone and there was so way to check me during daytime. More than a half of my classmates also were in a similar situation.

  11. Re:Phobos Grunt = Doom guy on Russia To Study Martian Moons Once Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are mostly synonyms.

    "Pochva" means a part of Earth's crust on which plants can grow.

    "Grunt" means any soil.

    PS: Russian is my native language.

  12. Re:Not feasible on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Stress from Moon's gravity assist is negligible and in any case can be worked around by slowly matching Moon's orbit.

  13. Re:Problems... on Send the ISS To the Moon · · Score: 1

    It'll have to pass radiation belts regularly.

    It was possible for Apollo to quickly travel through the least dangerous parts of radiation belts. It's also should be possible to move ISS through radiation belts without crew.

    But I can't imagine an orbit which won't have to pass through dense radiation belts and be able to pass close to the Earth.

  14. Re:Better definition than real life. on World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here · · Score: 1

    Fairly close at about 150 millions of textured triangles/second :)

    However, lighting, shadows and REAL textures cut that down to about 10-20 millions.

  15. Re:Thank god! on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Try to use a _small_ reading device: PDA or mobile phone. Works wonders for me...

  16. Re:Thank god! on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Do you like carsickness?

    ???
     

    Do trains go to the mountains?

    Sure.
     

    Do they let you feel the wind in you hair and hear the radio up?

    A lot of trains have windows which can be opened.
     

    DO they leave when you want go go, and go where you want to go? No? Not comparable then.

    Cars also do not allow you to leave and go there you want to go. They allow you to go there the roads are present. Sorry, but this is just pathetic.

    If you REALLY want to enjoy nature - then pack a knapsack, take a tent and go on foot.

    Also, you can always rent a car for a day or two.

    If you do that even twice a month for a decent distance, there goes your cost savings from the bus

    Then choose a bar nearby.

  17. Re:Thank god! on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    I've never had a fun bus ride.

    Have you ever tried, you know, to read a book on a bus?
     
     

    On top of that- cars, to a large portion of the population, are freedom. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. Freedom to live where you want. Freedom to just say "fuck it" one day and go on a road trip.

    So why not hop on a train and ride for a couple of hours in a random direction?

     

    Freedom from the clock- I don't have to leave the bar with my friends to make that last 10:30 pm bus, I can stay til closing time (assume I'm sober for this one). There is no substitute for this.

    Ever heard of such thing as a 'taxi'? It also has an added bonus: you don't need to be sober.

  18. Re:Let the DJBing begin! on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Until recently DJB-ware had a very, shall we say, peculiar license (i.e. no license at all). The grandparent was referring to this fact.

  19. Re:Let the DJBing begin! on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uhm...

    DJB-ware is now in _public_ _domain_. That's even more liberal than the BSD license.

    So, update your /etc/hate file with newer facts...

  20. Re:Choose them all under one. on Same Dev Tools/Language/Framework For Everyone? · · Score: 1

    It has several 'killer features':
    1) "Duplicate session" from context menu.
    2) More terminal settings and EASY configuration.
    3) Ability to save different configuration for each host.

    BTW: Putty works just fine in Linux. There's also GTK2 port of Putty for which I'm creating Ubuntu package.

  21. Re:Hum interesting on Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment · · Score: 1

    Good point!

    IMHO, _UNCONDITIONAL_ immunity is too much.

    Conditional immunity under controlled conditions with proper checks is fine.j

  22. Re:Don't expect any radical shift on Five Ways Microsoft Could Change After Gates · · Score: 1

    So? I don't understand how 'scale' correlates with 'quality'.

    MS support is downright mediocre. It took as several days to get to the engineer responsible for a bug that we encountered (incorrect handling of certain IPX/SPX packets).

    However, RedHat offers THE best support I've ever seen. Novell is also pretty good.

  23. Re:Scala on Scaling Large Projects With Erlang · · Score: 3, Informative

    Scala has actors, which are allow you to do something _like_ green threads: http://lamp.epfl.ch/~phaller/doc/ActorsTutorial.html

  24. Re:Forget one month... on Finding Fault With Google's Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    I use several computers (at home and at work). Of course, I can use online bookmark synchronization service (I'm too lazy to setup my own bookmark server) but this kinda defeats the whole idea of privacy.

  25. Re:Separation isn't strictly necessary on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Denmark, Sweden and other European countries the official religion is more or less just a tradition.

    Church used to be a powerful force there. But not anymore. Now it's just a shadow of former self.

    So it's just easier to let it die peacefully.