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  1. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Does that not function more or less like a hash? I was using it as an analogy.
    You can't tell your hair colour or any other specific details from it, just like a hash.

  2. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 2

    Erm they do essentially take a hash.

    Do you really think when you do a police DNA check that they sequence your entire genome?
    That costs tens of thousands of dollars. No they do a much simpler test.

    It is simply a human barcode.

  3. Re:Interesting on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    Yeah except most people forget that DNA is utterly useless to us.

    Think about it like a barcode on a box of breakfast cereal. Completely useless to everyone unless you want to accurately determine the product and price.
    No one gives a damn about barcodes.

  4. Re:Is it really a 'cheap' system to produce? on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    Its a tablet without a brain. It is a fancy remote control which makes it somewhat cheaper.

    They made a profit on day one with the Wii. This should be similar.
    Its certainly nothing like the Xbox or PS where every device loses the company hundreds of dollars each time.

  5. Re:Yes and no... on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    Yep just like the 730mhz wimpy processor in the Wii made it a commercial failure.

    Oh wait...it didn't. It was more successful than either of the competitors.

  6. Re:Yes and no... on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    I believe the GPU and CPU share the memory. The GPU doesn't have its own separate memory.

  7. Re:Let me know when it's open to homebrew on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 2

    It uses Wifi 802.11n for both controls and video to the new pad. Some cool software hacks, but standard 802.11n for the base.
    Bluetooth still for the regular Wiimote.

  8. Re:It's clearly no 360/PS3 on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    Err the comparison was against the Wii not the 360 and PS3.

    And saying the Wii U is at least 2x more powerful than the Wii is a pretty safe statement.

  9. Re:PS3 on Nintendo Wii U Teardown Reveals Simple Design · · Score: 1

    If the Xbox 360's hard drive was faster then the Wii U's ram, then you did something horribly wrong when measuring it.

  10. Re:Corporate use on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 2

    Choice is a illusion. Get me the number of people who actively choose to use IE over Chrome and Firefox.
    Not the people who use it because it was pre-installed on their computer.

  11. Re:Unlikely request on Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code · · Score: 2

    Have you seen the mobile phone lawsuits recently?

  12. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    In addition to what other posters have posted, Apple's contract with Google still had a year left on it.
    They are still paying for Google Maps even though they aren't using it.

  13. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 5, Informative

    Err wrong. Google was more than happy to provide navigation. All they wanted was a little more credit for it and Apple wasn't going to have any of that.

  14. Re:Registry Editor on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    You assume they wouldn't do something equally stupid with this tablet?

  15. Re:Its windows on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    A full version of Ubuntu including OpenOffice tips the scales around 2gig. You were saying?

  16. Re:Registry Editor on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 0

    Have you seen Explorer.exe? Microsoft can make a very very big file browser.

  17. Re:Almost half on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    As opposed to a 64gig Android tablet where approx 3.1% is OS.

    20% vs 3%? Thats bloody bloat.

  18. Re:Holy Mailing Ads on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 2

    Hey I'm Aussie. I just took the opportunity.

    If they do that with donated money, what do they do with tax money?

  19. Re:Holy Mailing Ads on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 1

    But they always get low scores.

  20. Re:Holy Mailing Ads on Presidential Campaigns Leak Supporters' Info To Tracking Firms · · Score: 1

    How do you think the US debt clock got so high?

    Politicians think it is a game and the debt clock is showing their score.

  21. Re:Cleveland, not Cleavland on Watson Goes To Medical School · · Score: 2

    No one. Duh.

  22. Re:Add to that, NYI... on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    I'm not entirely sure why they can't shunt generator power to the elevators.
    Fill the cargo elevator with diesel and your bucket brigade just became an awful lot more efficient.

  23. Re:no more donuts for Gabe... on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 1

    Err are you saying they never optimised their DirectX engine?

    Optimised DirectX = 100%
    Optimised OpenGL on Linux = 120%.

    Guess which one wins.

  24. Re:Sounds like a plan on Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event · · Score: 1

    Say 100,000 use Ubuntu, and Ubuntu has 1,000 programs.

    Only 1% of people would have to glance at one single program each to look for anything obvious.
    99,000 people could do absolutely nothing.

    Of course its not a full security audit, but a lot of software doesn't need a full audit, it just needs to make sure there is nothing specifically malicious to it.

  25. Re:CRT's on A Proposal To Fix the Full-Screen X11 Window Mess · · Score: 1

    You missed the point. LCDs don't have different resolutions, they have one resolution and only one resolution.