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  1. Re:Compass on Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's called reading. It's been in use for like 1000 years.

    (read the summary at least, please? this is doing far more than telling you your orientation.)

  2. good in theory, bad in practice on Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How exactly is one expected to create these maps then? Every time something metallic or magnetic is moved in the vicinity the previous map is now invalid.

  3. Re:Soon to be -1... on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 1

    Indeed - extremes are generally bad when it comes to people. Religious beliefs are not exempt from this.

  4. Re:Soon to be -1... on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 1

    So, for a gay liberal who cheered the recent opinion on Obamacare, remember that when you're up for execution for being homosexual.

    What about us straight people who cheer the opinion?

  5. Re:Step #1 on Cloud Security: What You Need To Know To Lock It Down · · Score: 1

    Step 1: put Step 1 in the body of your message, so people can find it.

  6. Re:Droning on and on on WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails · · Score: 1

    We try really hard to keep them locked up in basements and such, but occasionally the crazy gets out.

  7. Re:tegra 2 on VLC 's Beta For Android Is Ready — Unless You're North American · · Score: 2

    I'm a big fan of VLC, because i seem to get some consistency no matter what system I run it on.

  8. Re:It's briefly touched upon in TFA on Sea Level Rise Can't Be Stopped · · Score: 1

    Yea, well you seem to forget that a 14" rise may well flood at high tide when, 14" earlier, it wouldn't have.

    It's not like we'll stop having tides after the see rises.

  9. Re:Blizzard Casts Arcane Logic! Customer Is Stunne on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 1

    The difference implies a huge difference in scale, and when his point is dependent on this magnitude this means it DIRECTLY influences the argument.

    If you think it doesn't, then that means that you are the one who does not understand.

  10. Re:Blizzard Casts Arcane Logic! Customer Is Stunne on Linux Users Banned From Diablo III Servers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wine isn't emulating anything. It's a wrapper library. There's a significant difference.

  11. Re:Linux on Leap Second Bug Causes Crashes · · Score: 2

    It blew up Virtualbox for me as well. Guests were eating 100% CPU even though they were not aware of it, and after killing them the CPU load transferred to another Virtualbox service. Odd.

    Reboot and it was working normally again.

  12. Re:Military Obsolescence. on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    Oh god, I love that idea. ... and then, in the middle of it, you send the actual attack craft. "Guess which one's real, assholes!"

  13. Re:raindrops are not designed to misdirect observa on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    Jamming only works for so long, and it pretty much says "HERE I AM" after you "burn through" it. Imagine someone shining a super-bright flashlight in your face. Can't see now? That's jamming. However, put on some welding goggles (burn through the jamming) and suddenly that blinding glare is merely a point of light telling you EXACTLY where that person is.

  14. Re:So much for stealth on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    Clarify: i'm looking at the hole in the rain where the object is, not the radar cross-section of the object itself.

    So yea, it might look on the scope like a marble, it's also got a jet-fighter or cruise-missile shaped hole in the rain around it, and they would apparently be able to see this now.

  15. Re:So much for stealth on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I've never heard of any fighters or self-powered munitions being that small.

  16. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    Huge data set? Meet filtering and modern data-processing!

  17. Re:he's screwed on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    You say all this like 9-11 was responsible. 9-11 didn't cause the credit bubble to exist, it just helped it pop.

    I'm not saying it had no effect, I'm just saying that it might just be possible you're overstating it's role?

  18. Re:Scare quotes? on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    OK then, how about I step in? I've not said a word yet, so you can't use that bullshit argument on me.

    So, would it be better to say "rape charges" since the charges are imaginary? This way we still get our quotes and you still get to elevate the word.

    Get off your horse. If you already agree but feel like arguing about the placement of quotes you're just being a grammar trolling pedant. Fuck off. We're talking about Assange, not quote placement.

  19. Re:How does this work? on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Put him in a big sack and call it a diplomatic bag. They can go jerk off, because there isn't anything they can do then.

  20. Re:stopped using it? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I use that, and pinning - so does a lot of the people I know. That said, everyone that I know of uses the All Programs menu to find things they don't often use or forgot the spelling for.

  21. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see. I misread you, my apologies.

    In regards to those "Jesus will find a way" people: As Ron White loves to say... "You can't fix stupid!"

  22. Re:they forgot something on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure he meant as an exchanger. Pull the CO2 out, do something with it (just vent it?) and put O2 in. Pretty much exactly what our lungs do.

  23. Re:Science... on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    They just put em in a nitrogen atmosphere. No CO2 buildup, so no pain. Feels like normal respiration, except unless oxygen is provided in some way, you just pass out and die.

  24. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    What we need is some kind of tool we can shove down their throats and pull out obstructions with. Same basic idea as this (that's meant for toilet clogs).

    Perhaps something smooth with a balloon on the end, like those little things they use to clear arteries?

  25. Re:Beats current techniques on Scientists Keep Rabbits Alive With Oxygen Microparticle Injections · · Score: 1

    So if the brain was nothing but a pulpy mush, or outright destroyed, you wouldn't consider them undeniably dead?