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  1. Re:Jews on Europeans Came From Three Ancestry Groupings · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is somewhat more complicated. http://www.livescience.com/402...

  2. Re:this is all NAT's fault on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    If you are running your IPv6 setup directly connected to the big bad net with no firewall, you are doing it wrong.

  3. Re:this is all NAT's fault on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    You will be running a firewall in any case, IPv4 or IPv6, if you have a modicum of common sense. Opening and remapping a port it is no harder than just opening it. You just fill another box in the GUI, or whatever. Not an oh-so-great difficulty.

  4. Re:We're all really screwed if... on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    Their FAQ says "no one can buy their way to the whitelist". Do you think they are lying?

    BTW you can always change the defaults, that's what your brain is for.

  5. Re:Great on Adware Vendors Buying Chrome Extensions, Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    A virus can get your passwords even if you set up a master password. It's not even moderately difficult.

  6. I have just went through a google account on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 1

    creation process. It doesn't mention "public profile" anywhere. It doesn't join me G+ in a sneaky way like described in the article It does prompt me to "upgrade" though, but I don't have to actively avoid it, like some comments imply.

    My name there is "- -" (dash as the first name, dash as the second name), can you find me on G+?

    TEntireFA doesn't make much sense.

  7. I propsose they take the name "Shminterest". Can swap my rights to it for a modest stash of Queen's portraits.

  8. Rendering is great on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 1

    but how do I interact with the program? Will the new standard include anything like mouse input?

  9. Re:Sure, why not on Cairo 2D Graphics May Become Part of ISO C++ · · Score: 2

    C/C++ is undefined behavior. Don't do that, kids!

  10. Re:db link on "They Are Watching Everyone" · · Score: 2

    It couldn't translate what I've typed in in KOI8-R, so I guess it only understands Windows-1251 (which I can't type). Sigh.
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  11. Re:lack of details on Gas-Powered Shoes? · · Score: 2

    AFAICT you're supposed to run, not walk, with these things...
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  12. Re:I thought of this when I was 10 on Gas-Powered Shoes? · · Score: 2

    Amazingly, when I was 10, I saw a description of exactly this thing in a popular technical magazine (aimed at 10-year-olds, appropriately). The thing was invented by yet another 10-year-old. This was, like, 25 years ago...
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  13. Re:I'm r/g colorblind on GUI Research - Is it Still Being Done? · · Score: 2
    My advice? Never go to a 3D movie using red/green stereoscopy.
    I am vertical/horizontal polarization-blind. Should I avoid conventional (polarization based) stereoscopy?
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  14. Re:Water and sunlight are cheaper on Could The Moon Power Earth? · · Score: 2
    Fuel cells are pretty efficient
    And expensive like hell. The situation may change in the near future though.
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  15. Re:Evil Energy Companies on Could The Moon Power Earth? · · Score: 3
    A car engine can utilize only about 30% of the gas energy. A power plant can do much better (up to 60%). Not many of them currently do, but this is entirely possible with today's technology. Such utilization is much more difficult to achieve with a small car engine.

    Furthermore, electricity production can, in principle, be made ecologically friendly. Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, etc. And, of course, fusion (in the future). Try this with your SUV.

    So while electric cars are not necessarily eco-friendly today, they may well be in the not-so-distant future.

    But I agree that other alternative energy sources must be researched, too.
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  16. Re:1 shuttle load enough for 1 year US energy need on Could The Moon Power Earth? · · Score: 2

    Bombs that are able to wipe out China (and all other countries, 100 times) are already here. No need to go to Moon for it. The trick is to release that energy in a controlled fashion, and we still can't do it.
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  17. Re:Virus.... on Could The Moon Power Earth? · · Score: 2
    You say:
    Once we use up the moon where do we search next?
    The more relevant question is: will we (as in humankind) still be around when Moon's He3 is exhausted? Heck, will we still be around before we can start to mine it?
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  18. Re:Haven't seen any... on Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics · · Score: 2

    Also there is/was a spamfiltering service (I forgot their name) that worked like this. You establish an account with them, they forward you your mail or let you access it with your browser. As soon as new mail arrives, and the sender isn't in your address book, they send a reply with a polite request to go to their randomly-generated web page and click on a specific place in the imagemap. Once this is done, the sender is in your address book, and you got to see the mail. Spambots can't do this, hence you don't see any spam.
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  19. Warning: offtopic below. Moderate down at will. on Michael Abrash On X-Box Graphics · · Score: 2
    Obviously there are many bots posting to this forum right now. If ./ staff wants to get rid of them, there is a very simple method.

    Comment posting software should:

    • Generate a random phrase (about 4 words) or number (about 10 digits)
    • Render it to a PNG/JPEG/GIF (uncompressed, to be sure) using a random font
    • Distort the image slightly, add some noise, whatever
    • Show the resulting image to the user
    • Require the poster to type in that same exact phrase or number
    If your bot can beat this system, its output is probably worth reading.
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  20. Re:Obviously you are not a GPL expert on Making Money With Open Code, APIs, And Docs? · · Score: 2

    d. To procrastinate at work.
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  21. Re:Obviously you are not a GPL expert on Making Money With Open Code, APIs, And Docs? · · Score: 2

    Childish tactic. He said that IF the data generated by gcc is covered by the GPL THEN YOUR data is screwed, because data that is generated by gcc is everywhere. You say "great, now you see that the data generated by gcc is covered by the GPL". Unimpressing. I've seen trolls that are orders of magnitude more consistent than you.
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  22. Re:Obviously you are not a GPL expert on Making Money With Open Code, APIs, And Docs? · · Score: 2

    Any evidence to support your claim? Name names, cite cases.
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  23. Re:Obviously you are not a GPL expert on Making Money With Open Code, APIs, And Docs? · · Score: 2
    Erm. Compiler output is derived from its input, that's for sure. How it is derived from the compiler itself is beyond me. It's like saying your ./ posts are derived from Netscape (it transforms keystrokes to characters) and from Lynx (it transforms HTML markup to terminal escape sequences) and from xterm (it transforms terminal escape sequences to X protocol requests) and from X (it thansforms X protocol requests to pixels). I'm not even talk about the software that's inside modems (they compress, you know).

    Thank you.
    Doh! This is a troll .sig! Why I'm responding to trolls? Must...resist...temptation...
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  24. Re:Why is *BSD screwed? on Making Money With Open Code, APIs, And Docs? · · Score: 2
    Why is *BSD screwed?
    According to the AC with an inept legal department, if you compile something with gcc, your binary must be GPLed, and so must be your source. *BSD people use gcc to compile their wares (not warez) and distribute the compiled binaries. Therefore (again, according to that AC) *BSDs are GPLed. Which would be a major screwup, if only what the aforementioned AC was saying were true.

    Oh wait...you probably are that AC. Must be pretty hard to troll without contradicting yourself, eh?
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  25. Re:Whatever happened to beer? on And The Rockets' Red Glare · · Score: 2

    And you are starting to sound like a man who desperately needs to grab a dictionary and look up "irony". Or is it me who's starting to sound like a man who desperately needs to grab a dictionary and look up "irony"? Man, I'm lost...
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