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  1. Re:dumb way to explain on Embarrassing Stories Shed Light On US Officials' Technological Ignorance · · Score: 2

    No terminology is perfect, but using RAM/ROM would end all confusion on this topic permanently.

    At the cost of introducing a different confusion. "How come I can write to read-only memory?"

  2. Re:Rewritable? on Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    This isn't going to be for you. This is basically a replacement for Ultra Density Optical.

  3. Re:Why not go whole hog and make pancreatic cells? on Researchers Hope To Grow Human Ears From Fat Tissue · · Score: 1

    Simply regrowing the pancreas won't fix things. Replacing the pancreas would just tether them to worse bottles of pills (immunosuppressives) to prevent them from getting trashed again by their immune system.

    Unless we figure out some one-shot "stop attacking the pancreas" switch, they'll be on medication of some kind for their entire lives.

  4. Re:MPAA lawyer runs US Solicitor General on Feds Now Oppose Aereo, Rejecting Cloud Apocalypse Argument · · Score: 1

    RIAA also. He's the lawyer from Capitol v. Thomas.

  5. Re:You can't make tech safe from malice on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 2

    Autonomous cars: oh, lordy lord lord, what a colossal fuck-up that will be; hubris on a scale undreamed of heretofore. Absolute perfection required of billions of kilos of metal racing around at high speed - and the designers assume bad people won't try to break it - will break it - for revenge or to make a point or just 'cause they are psychopaths.

    Malice schmalice. Fucking up driving even more than humans already do would be pretty difficult.

  6. Re:think different, man on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 2

    just keep piling more fuel on it until it gets hot enough to melt rock, it melts down to, errr, China

    Actually, reactor melting down from Japan would end up in the south Atlantic, near the coast of Uruguay.

  7. Re:Evil on UK Government Proposes Rules To Allow 'Three-Parent Embryos' · · Score: 1

    What if this leaves the child diseased or crippled with some kind of birth defect? Or that child's children?

    That's what this will prevent.

    This isn't "Hey, let's try this for no particular reason". This is a means of (at least hypothetically) preventing heritable mitocondrial disorders, such as Leigh syndrome.

  8. Re:"the aging reactor fleet" on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, "fleet" is the usual term for a power company's collection of power generation equipment. It's what it gets called here anyway.

  9. Re:The problem? Not poisonous by design. on Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening" · · Score: 1

    I've never seen 100mg naproxen. Up here, OTC naproxen is 220mg and says take 1 every 12 hours, though you'll realistically want one every 8-10 hours.

  10. Re:The problem? Not poisonous by design. on Doctors Say New Pain Pill Is "Genuinely Frightening" · · Score: 1

    For naproxen...Don't take more than 300mg/day.

    Huh? The typical prescription naproxen dosing I see is 500mg every 12 hours or 325mg every 8.

  11. Re:Ooh Scary! on Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That line only applies to the cesium. The radium contamination is more relevant, as it means the building will have radon problems that will require dealing with.

  12. Re:Why do people use online wallets? on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    No, the Gox thing is a separate issue from an online wallet (though online wallets remain a bad idea). With an online wallet, your bitcoin balance actually exists on the chain, only someone else is holding the private key. With Gox, the bitcoins your balance represents don't actually exist. They're just a claim on Gox's overall stock of bitcoins.

    There's a reason why people started using the term "Gox bitcoins".

  13. Re: Vive le Galt! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    RBC Bank isn't connected to the Royal Bank of Canada anymore. They bailed on the US market and sold it off to PNC Financial a few years ago.

  14. Re:Why Copyright Trolling In Canada Doesn't Pay on Why Copyright Trolling In Canada Doesn't Pay · · Score: 1

    Nope, a Canadian dollar is worth 100 Canadian cents. Or 100 maple leaves. Or 20 beavers. Or 10 Bluenose. Or 4 caribou. Or 2 Canadian coat of arms. Or one loon. Or half a polar bear.

    Or between 1/5th and 1/50th of a Maple Leaf, if you go by the face value.

  15. Re:Net Neutrality laws? on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 1

    There's really no reason for ISPs to wrangle with Netflix

    Verizon has two reasons to wrangle with Netflix.

  16. Re:opensource firmwares not perfect either on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The important difference being that bug was fixed, as opposed to being left wide open forevermore.

  17. Re:The US has nothing to worry about but... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The United States has enough IP addresses in our pool to carry us through to the end of say... 2018.

    Actually, ARIN is on course to run down to their last /8 this year.

  18. Re:IPv6 has this tiny problem on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Because going to 40 bits would break things just as much as going to 128 bits, and 40 bits wouldn't last all that long, whereas 128 bits should be sufficient for approximately forever.

    And doing a IPv6 address in octets would give you 123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123.123, which is about as problematic as the hex format.

  19. Re:Statute of limitations on South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago · · Score: 5, Informative

    In your rush to leap the defense of foreclosure, you missed the fact that none of what you're talking about has anything to do with what MickyTheIdiot was talking about, which is shit like being foreclosed on even if you've paid up or being foreclosed on, even though you don't have a mortgage.

  20. Re:Timely... sat a lecture on exoplanets last nigh on The Search for Life On Habitable Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    XKCD #1298 is considerably more interesting for this discussion.

  21. Re:Is this the begining of the end for BTC on More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    My understanding of the problem is that exchange's use custom wallet software that can be fooled before enough confirmations come through potentially allowing an attacker to sell coins that don't exist for dollars. This has temporarily made bitcoin less liquid (as far as exchanging for country backed currencies) which has driven the price down.

    That's only Gox. AFAICT, the other exchanges do it the right way (look at address/amount/timestamp rather than transaction id), but because the former is more resource-intensive than the latter (this is presumably why Gox did it in the latter way), they're getting overwhelmed by the dust spam.

  22. Re:They're probably mixing up Astronomy and Astrol on Majority of Young American Adults Think Astrology Is a Science · · Score: 1

    So we may have a literacy/language problem rather than a scientific knowledge problem.

    I'm not entirely sure which is worse.

  23. Re:T.H. Bell warned us... on South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards · · Score: 1

    Actually, the federal House of Representatives is being run by the class of '75 (average age of 57 years) and the federal Senate by the class of '70 (average age of 62 years).

  24. Re:Sorry, it's horribly insecure, on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    That's a law problem, not a technology problem.

  25. Re:Sorry, it's horribly insecure, on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    But forgery isn't easy, and a hard to forge signature is almost impossible to duplicate.

    Hard to forge, my ass. You don't need to fool an FBI handwriting lab. You need to fool the 16 year old at the checkout counter who glances at the receipt for half a second.