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  1. Re: Skynet? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 1

    It is one of those theoretical things like being able to predict the number of a psuedo-random number generator. Apparently they "can" eves drop on you computer by listening to the fluctuation of your power supply. But like predicting the next psuedo-random number relies that you know what every single thing is doing, how many processes, what network traffic is incoming, etc, this relies on the fact that they can filter out with absolutely perfect certainty every other electronic device around the computer.

  2. Stop on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop using your ISP's DNS

  3. Re:Cost? on Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward · · Score: 2

    I can buy a 2TB disk which is rewriteable for $69 including the interface.

    No, you can't. Spot pricing on pricewatch or google shopping or whatever, the lowest prices are $80 for a drive from a company that will hold your order forever as "pending" because they never had any is stock to begin with. You will pay $100 at least after shipping

  4. Re:I have no more sympathy for anyone on The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    They had collector value. Just like old stamps and medieval scrolls have value. You can twist the definition of "value" into anything you want, but you aren't looking as smart as you think you are. The demand of beanie babies far outweighed their supply. When that wasn't true anymore, the value tanked. There is no psychological MBA horseshit here. Like an overpowered Magic The Gathering card, it's value is high, but if you decide to give one away free with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, it will be nothing more than rough toilet paper

  5. Re:I have no more sympathy for anyone on The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions · · Score: 1

    To be fair, beanie babies didn't have a limited production. When they flooded the market to where McDonalds was giving them out with happy meals, that was their demise. If they would have kept or even lowered production instead, they still might have value.

  6. Re:magic on Dinosaurs Done In By... Dark Matter? · · Score: 0

    Matter is just really dense energy. E=MC^2 and all that

  7. Re:Why aren't we using PNG? on New Mozilla Encoder Improves JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    I was told the same about pdfs :(

  8. Re:Why aren't we using PNG? on New Mozilla Encoder Improves JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    But you are still talking about LOOKING at that photographic image. If it needs manipulated, you are doing yourself a large disservice by starting out with a JPEG source. Even as something as simple as scaling/zooming will wreak havoc on the outcome. Need to lighten it? Sharpen or blur some lines? AND THEN resave it? No sir. Not good

  9. Re:Why aren't we using PNG? on New Mozilla Encoder Improves JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    Maybe if it is an 800x600 res photo printed with a bad printer, but JPEG shittyness comes into play when you want to DO something with that image, instead of just looking at it from afar

  10. Re:How do you know what nintendo is doing? on Valve Prepping Source 2 Engine For VR · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I highly doubt it. Nintendo has been a majority about group-in-a-room play. VR takes heavily away from everyone sharing the same point of view

  11. Re:victimless crime on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Have you ever DONE cocaine? Inhibitions go out the window and the chip on ones shoulder becomes the size of an elephant

  12. Like another problem on The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack · · Score: 1

    Like the problem with a functional 5 megawatt laser, it is about a power source

  13. Re:Bad genetic diversity, flaws in resurrected gen on The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Second, all of a species isn't exactly captured in just the DNA. DNA only gets expressed properly in the right cellular environment, it's a 'chicken and egg' problem.

    I asked this question myself and the answer I got was that the first generation wouldn't be genetically pure, but through selective breeding of the first generation down a couple of more generations you will have a pure genetic animal. Similar to how they destroy mice that have been cultured with partial human DNA (growing a human ear on their back, for science!), it is possible if you let them breed you will get something human.

  14. Re:Tell me again... on U.S. Students/Grads Carrying Over $1 Trillion In Debt · · Score: 1

    They don't. I'm can't even fathom how you came up with that conclusion

  15. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    So, um, how do you search for porn on bing exactly? Just enter "porn" into bing.com?

  16. Re:It works well enough, depending on your applica on Broadcom Releases Source For Graphics Stack; Raspberry Pi Sets Bounty For Port · · Score: 1

    A router/firewall? With one ethernet port? Why would you do that?

  17. Eat it on The Spy In Our Living Room · · Score: 1

    It can't do shit if it is unplugged

  18. Re:Could somebody explain wayland, please? on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 1

    You'd have to fathom what it is going to be. When X was engineered they couldn't foresee that we would NEED local hardware overlays to interact with the workspace, and I'm not really sure anyone could. But whatever I can think of right now, wayland is the architecture to handle it

  19. Re:Could somebody explain wayland, please? on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 1

    Because of the client/server architecture. This makes absolutely no sense when you are, say, playing a high FPS game. Right now, the hardware rendering of such, including opengl, simply place a proxy window in place of where the hardware overlay will render. This is a terrible hack and shows that the needs of today's desktops aren't met by the design of X.

  20. Re:Still should be hands free on Using Handheld Phone GPS While Driving Is Legal In California · · Score: 1

    New york

  21. I don't think so on Why We Need To Teach Hacking In High School · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The school admins already have a hard enough time dealing with kids destroying things, both logically and physically. Now you expect them to be on the level enough to be able to stave away actually taught hackers? How much are you willing to pay for this little experiment (both in the admins pay, and the cost of cleaning up the disasters)?

  22. Re:Is MtGox Bitcoin? on Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise · · Score: 3, Informative
  23. Re:Is MtGox Bitcoin? on Mt. Gox Shuts Down: Collapse Should Come As No Surprise · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, the main place to do it is (was) MtGox.
    No it wasn't and hasn't been for a long time

  24. Re:Disingenuous to point of Safari swap on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    ... 98lite. That replaced Win98 shell with Windows 95's. It was no longer Windows 98.

    So which part did I miss, my hostile friend? What bit of information do you have to add aside from baseless insults?

  25. Re:Disingenuous to point of Safari swap on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    It was done, the same as you could replace your windows 7 shell with NT4's. But it won't be Windows 7 anymore. My post addressed this.