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  1. Re:Way too high on Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books · · Score: 1

    If you're looking for gaming books, check out http://eclipsephase.com/

    Its CC so you can find the PDF on torrents if you don't want to support them.

  2. Re:M&Ms reach parity with the dollar on Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity · · Score: 1

    Your exchange volume would be incredibly low.

    Mtgox's current volume is 38492
    http://www.mtgox.com/trade/history

  3. Re:Here you see what two people can do! on Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The exchange volume on the mtgox exchange is currently 57239. So a bit more than 2 people.

    See ref: http://www.mtgox.com/trade/history

  4. Re:Why optical over single-copper? on Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear · · Score: 1

    both a wire and a piece of copper are antennas. maybe not good ones, but still it'll pick up much more EM waves than a strand of fibre.

  5. Re:Creepy on 'u' — the First Authentic Klingon Opera On Earth · · Score: 1

    All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
    Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
    And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
    And shining morning face, creeping like snail
    Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
    Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
    Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
    Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
    Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
    Seeking the bubble reputation
    Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
    In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
    With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
    Full of wise saws and modern instances;
    And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
    Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
    With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
    His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
    For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
    Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
    And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
    That ends this strange eventful history,
    Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
    Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

  6. Portableapps.com on Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? · · Score: 1

    you should definitely check out portableapps.com Lots of OSS that can be ran from a thumb drive.

  7. Re:SD card? on New Handheld Computer Is 100% Open Source · · Score: 1

    If your company is planning to manufacture or have manufactured SD host products...

    Looks like it only applies to manufacturing. I see nothing in what you posted that would prevent a complete IP release.

  8. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    Then there's no value in the internet/socialnets unless you can make your data private?

  9. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    I absolutely agree that we need an open standard, but from an end user standpoint it is integrated. I have a single point of entry that percolates data across my social net.

    I really hope jabber is the future of social networking. Also of interest, facebook just recently set up their IM service to use jabber.

  10. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    I'm renovating a house, setting up my own aluminum forge, hardware hacking at my local hackerspace, following of my friends who're trying to make it with their bands, building a campground, working full time...

    I don't know why being on top of social media precludes having a life.

  11. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    And my daughter was born via immaculate conception.

  12. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    I have a life. I just have no time to deal with multiple websites.

    In total that took me maybe 4 hours to set up spread across the launches of various platforms.

  13. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I only have the twitter app installed on facebook because I'm old school like that. I don't *believe* that my friends apps can access my feed data, though I could be wrong.

    And as far as them relaying/repeating info that I post... How is that different from a normal conversation with my friends?

    I rarely post stuff to facebook that isn't public. When I do its usually locked down to a select group of friends and is about a party or something.

  14. Re:Facebook Will Not Acknowledge the New Guy on Spam Hits Google Buzz Already · · Score: 1

    My twitter account updates my buzz feed via google's built in functionality.

    It also updates my facebook status via the twitter app for facebook. (although @replies stay on twitter, which I like)

    It also updates my away message for AIM/ICQ/MSN/Jabber/gtalk/FBChat/IRC via a twitter plugin for Adium (there's probably one out there for Pidgin too).

    It also updates my personal website via a little php-rss script.

    It also updates my myspace status via a myspace app for twitter. (although again, @replies stay on twitter)

    I can post to twitter via the standard web interface, instant message, a tiny python script I wrote (useful for liveblogging robotics projects), my cellphone (via swift twit).

    I can post pictures using twitpic, or songs using blip.fm.

    This is my giant social networking machine. It's been working pretty well thus far, as new things come out, I integrate them. I have my public feed (twitter), private feed (facebook+privacy settings w/ friend groups), and super private feed (livejournal, which isn't connected to anything).

    I really can't see any added value that buzz gives my machine, but I've integrated it anyway.

  15. Re:At last... on Human Males Evolve At a Faster Pace Than Females · · Score: 1

    Could you cite a source on that?

  16. Re:Why run the code? on English Shell Code Could Make Security Harder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its a stenographic method. It requires some executing code (malware, software vunerability, w/e) to jump to the ASCII text and begin executing it. Its like camouflaging the battering ram to look like the countryside. You still need someone on the inside to lower the drawbridge.

  17. Re:Summary is dead wrong on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are correct. The droid marketing-droid at verizon told me that the device itself has no 5GB cap, however any tethering/mifi/usb-modem plan has a 5GB cap. Furthermore, my

  18. Re:Uh huh on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 1

    I don't know any way to get around this problem...

    How about private space flight? They'll take risks so long as there's profit involved. Only problem is we gotta figure out how to convince them that space, the moon, and mars are profitable.

  19. Re:The real reason on Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    How do I speak into my ipod touch? Last I checked it didn't have a microphone.

  20. Re:Wow on Rocket Hobbyists Prevail Over Feds In Court Case · · Score: 1

    Except that this is a court case and courts don't legislate regulation. There'll probably be a regulatory bill in congress here shortly.

  21. Re:One way to get more registered voters on Iowa Seeks To Remove Electoral College · · Score: 1

    If I live in a state that goes 49% for party X, and 51% for party Y, you can't even argue that giving 100% of our states votes to party Y makes the least bit of sense.

    Good thing they're not arguing that then. They're assigning delegates based on the majority of the National popular vote, not the state's popular vote. And it does make sense on the national level.

  22. Re:Phelps poll on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    the point is that it is not a real social benefit to be able to swim fast

    Entertainment has immense social benefit. The lives of everyone that enjoyed watching Phelps swim were made better.

  23. Re:not a bionic hand at all on Guitarist Hopes To Play Again With The Help of Bionic Hand · · Score: 4, Informative
    Dictionary.com says:

    bionic
    -adjective
    1.utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body

    And this uses mechanical parts to assist a human in doing things.

  24. Re:and then there are the exceptions. on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    Then you'd have to assume that we wouldn't have an appendix or any other vestigial organs. Evolution optimizes for efficiency only when it matters to survival or reproduction. It's not a path to perfection.

  25. Re:Why this is important on Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly · · Score: 1

    I find this to be a good explaination, thanks.

    the best definition of god that I know is "the umoved mover."

    People explain it by drawing a line and saying Event A caused Event B which caused Event C, so either you have to say that the universe is infinate and has always been, or that at some point you draw the line and say X caused itself, in which case X is god.

    I don't beleive there are any contradictions in that... also occam's razor is of no use because you need to choose between the infinate and God, each of which is equally complicated.