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  1. mod parent up on Beck and Andres on Extreme Programming · · Score: 1

    That was the most sensible post I've seen here so far.

  2. New method of torture on US Air Force to Test Hi-Tech Weapons on Americans? · · Score: 1

    Can you imaging if this gets in the hands of the standard issue cop?

    I predict lots of confessions!

    (These things are extremely dangerous to society -- very painful, leave no traces etc... Abuse will be endemic)

  3. Re:What I'm really curious about is.... on Faster Global Warming From Permafrost Melt · · Score: 1
  4. Reading between the lines... on Wi-Fi Fingerprints -- the End of MAC Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    95%, no false positives -- == 5% false negatives. It also doesn't clearly define positive and negative in this context. Does this mean that 1 time in 20 when a valid card attempts a connection, it is refused? or that 1 time in 20, a spoofer gets in?

  5. solution is simple. on Identity Thieves Steal Homes · · Score: 1

    1: Fraudlently registered title is invalid and reverts to he previous owner.

    2: Mortgage on property affected by title fraud (or loan acquired through title fraud either directly or indirectly) is not enforcable.

    Onus is on the buyer and lender is to protect themselves with diligence and title insurance. Current owner has no onus under the law to protect himself from this sort of fraud -- that's what the law is for.

    Minimum sentence of 10 years, no parole for real-estate fraud. Prohibited for a further 10 years from owning any real estate, or being involved in real estate transactions of any kind. (Other than renting 1 apartment as their principal residence.)

  6. Re:I didn't believe it... on Star Trek PhD Thesis Wins Academic Prize · · Score: 1

    Yep.

    She's smokin hot, and has a PhD. in Nerdology.

    which makes her way out of the league of pretty much every slashdotter. :-)

  7. Burning man on Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing · · Score: 1

    Burning man and burners will be the largest consumers of this product. Just as they are curntly the largest group of users of LiveWire.

    (Burning man rocks -- I wish I could go this year, but I can't make it.)

  8. A company called SSI has exactly what you need... on Storage System for Thousands of CDs and DVDs? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A company called SSI has exactly what you need.

    See: http://www.ssiworld.com/products/products3-en.htm

    They even have impressive videos of their products in action. They can handle almost any input format you can imagine. CDs, DVDs -- they'll even handle Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs.

  9. Re:Black and white??? on Microsoft Zune MP3 Player Interface Revealed · · Score: 1

    Cool,

    So If I want one of those 150 fired, I just have to get me some pictures, use my photoshop-fu skills and shift the colors over to match those of the "person of interest" (to abuse the euphamism so popular amongst police), and presto, Steve B. is throwing chairs in their general direction.

  10. Re:Not sure if that's a joke. on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    If I was serious, it I would have used "verbify" :-)

    However, don't let that discourage you -- verbificate is a perfectly cromulent word.

    I just wish people would stop cromulizing the language. :-)

  11. Re:Painful to read on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    oops I meant "an incentive", not "motivation" in that post. Apologies for typing too fast.

  12. Re:Painful to read on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    So the desire not to be beaten with a stick (possibly painted orange to look like a carrot :-) is not motivation?

  13. Who cares? on Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games · · Score: 1

    Obviously the poster I was responding to who wanted to port linux cares. People who want to explore how the system really works care. And people who want to make games that compete with native running games will care too.

    But me? I don't care -- I'm not likely to be using it.

  14. Re:My game will be called... on Microsoft To Enable User-Created Xbox 360 Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They're probably going to make your game run under .net as managed code. Good luck doing anything worthwhile from a low level or systems point of view under that framework.

  15. Re:Can it be "lossy" compression? on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 1

    That is definitely a needlessly large compressor. I can losslesly compress 100meg of wikipedia down to 1 bit, and my compressor program is only a small handful of bytes. My *decompressor*, on the other hand is large. (but conveniently automatically generated by the compressor program :-)

  16. Re:Painful to read on Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed -- why can they not MOTIVATE us instead?

    No, they need to verbize another noun when there was a perfectly good word in the language that means *exactly* what they want. feh.

  17. Re:They never learn on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 1

    I never claimed it wasn't a word. I may, however, have implied that it *shouldn't* be a word :-)

    I think you will find that if you pause for a moment and think, you will see that very many nouns which have had the suffix "ize" inappropriately glued onto their ends to make new verbs can be easily replaced with another, usually shorter, semantically identical word.

    Let me demonstrate with a few easy ones;

    Utilize = use
    verbalize = say (or speak)
    visualize = see (or imagine)

    Some of my new favorites;
    monetize = sell (either as a product or service)
    incentivize = motivate

    Of course if you want to sound like some clueless pointy-haired boss freshly escaped from a Dilbert comic strip, by all means use "ize" at every opportunity. It will give the rest of us good advance warning. Afterall, forewarned is forearmed.

    Cheers...

  18. Re:They never learn on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    /flame ON. (and sorry for the meta discussion)

    What would it take to MOTIVATE you not to use the word "incentivise" ever again? Do you think that using (not utilizing!) large words makes you sound more intelligent?

    It makes you sound like a blathering idiot who doesn't know the language.

    Ok -- there -- I feel better now. My co-workers thank you for diverting my flames from them for the rest of the day. :-)

    P.S. I'm waiting for someone to post that incentivise is a perfectly cromulent word.

  19. Re:Subliterate Legislators on How The Internet Works - With Tubes · · Score: 1

    The tubes are clogged up alright -- but what he neglected to tell the rest of the senators present is that the tubes are cloged up with porn.

  20. Re:What will their NEXT version be? on The People Behind DirectX 10 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Re Closed GL...

    David Blythe used to be an architect in the advanced systems division of SGI. Very sharp guy. (If I recall, he even fixed a couple of gl bugs I found on the (now old) infinite reality engine.)

  21. Re:Its inevitable on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    so how long will it take to jit 25 million lines of code?

  22. Negligable performance hit my ass! on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1

    For numeric intensive code it's more like a 3x hit for .NET. And yes, I have test cases that measure that.

  23. Re:Trend #1 on Tech Trendspotting For The Future · · Score: 1

    That's crazy talk man.

  24. Re:A good electric Car. on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 1

    I'm also imagining the size of the explosion when you short it out with a sufficiently beefy bar of metal. /don't want to be anywhere near it when that happens.

  25. Re:Or if it causes them...Ooops on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    Those numbers include hijackings/bombings etc.

    To accurately represent the safety of the aircraft, they would need to eliminate those incidents. If you do so, the numbers work out quite differently.