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  1. Re:Somebody call the waaaambulance on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1

    Probably the cost of entry into this type of business is so high that a programmer cannot afford to start his own company. If his salary would be higher, he might be able to start his own company, but of course his manager is aware of that...

  2. Re:Yes, it could. on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 1

    And google (and/or other search engines) could implement the functionality of compiling a nice overview of what your friends are up to (in semi real time).

  3. Re:centrifugal forces on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 1

    Forces do not exist. They are simply our perception and our way of modeling certain aspects in nature. Centrifigal forces are simply a way of referring to the opposite of centripetal forces (in Newton's third law).

    But that was entirely not the point.

  4. Re:centrifugal forces on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course the centripetal force is the opposite of the (fictitious) centrifugal force in Newton's third law.

  5. centrifugal forces on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 1

    However, if the rubber band is spinning really fast, aren't the centrifugal forces pushing the band outward, compensating the squashing?

    Disclaimer: I didn't RTFA.

  6. Re:Conditions Apply on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except, it's always day on some part of the planet...

  7. strange on AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo · · Score: 1

    Don't they teach students about man-in-the-middle attacks anymore, these days?

  8. Re:Ya forget AT&T, ask the FBI on AT&T Won't Block Black Hat Eavesdropping Demo · · Score: 1

    If you'd run the whole experiment inside a Faraday cage, then it would be legal I suppose. But then, in order to get the point of this experiment proven, AT&T must cooperate (i.e., put one or more of their towers inside the cage).

  9. Re:The only problem with that... on Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement · · Score: 1

    They're going to show their search result in a really narrow strip of screenspace, with a scrollbar next to it. Then they'll measure how long you keep looking at a certain part of the search results.

  10. Re:More magic? on Apple Launches New Magical Trackpad, 12 Core Macs · · Score: 0, Troll

    How long until people will start yelling "abracadabra" at their iPads when they want to get a Flash-based website to properly work?

  11. Re:Uh, steal ideas much? on A New Take On the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    Mod parent funny!

  12. Re:The iPad is not that bad on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    You know, I just moved out of my mom's basement, and bought an iPad. I'm not being commanded by mom anymore, instead I'm now subject to the restrictions of my new iPad. I feel so hip about it.

  13. food on The Scalability of Linus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and still has fire in his belly

    Perhaps he should eat less Mexican food.

  14. ultraviolet on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    as long as they don't encumber it with ultraviolet

  15. knew that! on Author Drops Copyright Case Against Scribd Filter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, I knew that already. My hard-drive contents, including the "diff" program are one big copyright violation monitoring tool.

  16. robots.txt on Driverless Cars Begin 8,000-Mile Trek · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with this, as long as it respects robots.txt

  17. how random is random? on Apple Lays Out Location Collection Policies · · Score: 1

    If i take the phone serial number, and append a few random digits to it, is this considered random? Not in my book, but i doubt that this "privacy policy" contains wording on that.

  18. Re:Bad analogy on IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines · · Score: 1

    yes, but then another `big bang' will happen, or so i've heard...

  19. Re:Bad analogy on IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines · · Score: 1

    the universe itself is a perpetual motion machine, or not?

  20. Re:Just doing their job on UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers · · Score: 1

    "well, you would want that", then say no

    But the question is, if the UK people will actually be given any chance to say anything about this.

  21. Re:I have to say on Open Source Hardware Definition Hits 0.3 · · Score: 1

    One may consider FPGA codes to be also software. Yes, the instructions are a little different, but the concept is quite similar to standard machine code.

  22. Re:What nobody seems to understand on iPhone 4 Reception Recall Ruckus Roundup · · Score: 1

    Fundamentally, antennas are reciprocal devices, meaning that they work equally well as transmitters and receivers. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocity_(electromagnetism)

    Perhaps the asymmetry can be explained by the fact that the base-station can easily increase its power to several orders of magnitude above that of a phone.

  23. Re:Wha? on Mozilla's New JavaScript Engine Coming September 1 · · Score: 1

    But of course we talk funny! All the good product/project names (i.e., which actually make sense) have already been taken, by copyrighting, trademarking, or otherwise.

  24. Re:Not conclusive on Toyota Sudden Acceleration Is Driver Error · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also, if my car would suddenly accelerate, and my brakes didn't work, I'd also try to push the throttle, to see if it was stuck or something...

  25. limits on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 4, Funny

    192GB ought to be enough for anyone...