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  1. Re:Did the OP even read the NIST doc? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    The point is to find a method for creating kilogram objects without needing a reference prototype at hand so no matter what happens to the existing prototypes you can always build a new one.

  2. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Low is not low enough. We're talking about something that needs to be accurate down to the microgram level.

  3. Re:Social games on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 1

    Natural selection: It works!

  4. Re:Imagine that! on Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's not unreasonable but it's ineffective. When a bunch of friends come together to play games that's the best possible atmosphere you can have for introducing a new game to them and if your game requires each of them to own a copy they'll probably just fall back to something everybody already has and played to death.

  5. Re:Imagine that! on Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates · · Score: 1

    with the exception of poor quality and/or poor service.

    Sega can attest that they will overlook even that.

  6. Re:I've never given money to a web site before on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 1

    Before we talk about the casualties like that we should find out how high the regular murder rates and stuff are in that region. Many countries are extremely unsafe in that regard so that death toll might just be a blip on the radar in a country where murder is a daily business.

  7. Re:Physicists on Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    It's not just a simple flattening, the projection formula is probably pretty damn complicated (and I hate complicated math). The simplification tells you what it roughly means, the details obviously require in-depth knowledge.

  8. Re:Physicists on Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    The "holographic universe" theory does not talk about a computer simulation, it's about the universe being a hollow bubble that has everything happen on its surface while it appears to happen inside the bubble (you know, just like holograms appear 3D despite being encoded on a 2D surface). The jitter they're measuring has to do with the Planck distance affecting the bubble surface and causing a much larger jitter inside the projection (i.e. the minimum distance in the projection is significantly larger than the Planck distance).

  9. Re:Missing from the summary on Sony Gets Nasty With PSBreak Buyers · · Score: 1

    AFAIK customs can check back with manufacturers to make sure the imported goods aren't counterfeit. I guess they expanded that to cover EUCD violating devices.

  10. Re:Way to prove their point! on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's complaining about China, not the US. There's just no way to compete with somebody who will destroy himself just to beat you.

  11. Re:Way to prove their point! on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    To be fair agriculture is pretty damn critical as a lack of agricultural products will lead to famine, not just inconvenience. Making sure the country can feed itself is a pretty high concern for maintaining sovereignty and with the standards of living being as they are a free market would quickly destroy most of the agriculture in richer nations which would lead to a critical dependence on imported food. A country that can be forced into famine with a trade embargo isn't really a sovereign country anymore.

  12. Re:Way to prove their point! on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 1

    Replacing the government with one that is more "friendly" (as in fuck friend) to the US would make it much easer for US companies to make money in China.

  13. Re:Something I find interesting on Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call missing out on music you like "suffering".

  14. Re:Something I find interesting on Gene Simmons Threatens Anonymous Again and Gets DDoS'd · · Score: 1

    The big musicians get paid a lot. I guess that's necessary to keep "rock star" popular as a dream job and bring in the masses of desperate musicians that will work for table scraps because they hope to be one of the big ones one day.

  15. Re:Effectiveness is not beside the point on Square Enix Attempting Final Fantasy XIV Damage Control · · Score: 1

    I think the cheating they mean is botting. They're still idiots though.

  16. Re:Probably not. Sorry. on Square Enix Attempting Final Fantasy XIV Damage Control · · Score: 1

    To be fair ArmA 2, a PC-only game, also allows separate 3D rendering and output resolutions. Lets you overlay a higher resolution HUD on the scene if your PC can't render the game at your screen's resolution.

  17. Re:Probably not. Sorry. on Square Enix Attempting Final Fantasy XIV Damage Control · · Score: 1

    Square used the Unreal Engine for some other games IIRC but it's not designed for MMOs, you can shoehorn it but I don't think that would be a neat fit either.

  18. Re:Moral authority on Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since this exodus was caused by gay bashing it looks more like the morality the church preaches is no longer suitable for the modern times.

  19. Re:Icefrog on Valve Announces Dota 2 · · Score: 1

    But if DotA2 is identical to DotA, why would you need DotA2?

  20. Re:407e6 on Cyber-criminals Targeting Online Gaming Websites · · Score: 1

    He's talking about WoW subscribers, those are definitely online gamers or they wouldn't pay 15$ a month for a specific online game.

  21. Re:Survey Shows How Stupid People Are on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    Still unlikely to be bruteforced, especially since the attacker doesn't know your pattern and won't gain much of an advantage from its systematic nature.

  22. Re:Funny in summary on Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt · · Score: 1

    So what were the artificial barriers to entry there? The power lines?

  23. Re:Well shit on Final Fantasy XIV Launches To Scathing Reviews · · Score: 1

    The appeal of MMORPGs is 90% psychology so they should pay attention to that.

  24. Re:London on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 1

    The thing with the Stasi was that it wasn't just cameras. Many regular people were actually informants. Even your best friends could have been spies for the Stasi and you wouldn't know until you told them something the state didn't like.

  25. Re:Revenue Collection on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 1

    Then maybe you should pressure your representative to legislate that yellow light times MUST be significantly longer than the expected time to brake/pass.