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  1. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 1

    Just because the rest of the world can't keep it's shit together doesn't mean our problems should be ignored. Fuck off.

  2. Re:Paywalled Standards?? WTF??!!! on IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard · · Score: 1

    The amount is not the point of contention, and you know it. It's the principle of the thing. The internet is supposed to be built on open standards.

  3. Re:When We Learned an AC Posted, Did Anyone Care? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 1

    I will agree with that.

    That said, it would be nice if AC's had some kind of identifier - like a hash function of their IP or something - so you could tell if two posts were from the same IP but not divulge what it is.

    I've actually seen someone screw up an attempt to reply to themselves as an AC to try and make their original post look valid.

  4. Re:don't leave the defense mechanism off too long. on Scientists 'Switch Off' Brain Cell Death In Mice · · Score: 1

    The trouble is those damn prions are exponential breeders. Unless shutting off the cell death stops the prions from interacting with the normal proteins, you are going to eventually have a brain swimming in the damn things.

  5. Re:Life in Syria sucks all around on How the Syrian Games Industry Crumbled Under Sanctions and Violence · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, if 99% of the population likes it...

    That would be a hell of a large S&M population, I'd say.

  6. Re:Ultrasonic? on Microsoft Creates Kinect-Like System Using Laptop Speaker & Microphone · · Score: 1

    It's not always the transformer. Sometimes it's the coil windings that steer the beam that vibrate.

  7. Re:Ultrasonic? on Microsoft Creates Kinect-Like System Using Laptop Speaker & Microphone · · Score: 1

    Never ask for whom the CRT squeals. It squeals for thee.

  8. Re:When We Learned an AC Posted, Did Anyone Care? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 1

    And why all the hate for A/C? Maybe they were moderating and didn't want to lose their mods?

    Then they shouldn't be posting. There's a reason you're prevented from posting and moderating in the same story.

  9. Re:OMG! 500 years ago??? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 2

    Hell, there might have been a tanner down the street. I'm sure he wouldn't have known if there was shit on his nose, what with that overpowering odor prevailing.

  10. Re:OMG! 500 years ago??? on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 1

    Vivisection is such an interesting word, isn't it?

  11. Re:Impressive. on How Accurate Were Leonardo Da Vinci's Anatomy Drawings? · · Score: 1

    This is assuming it's actually being run by them, and not by someone who for some reason wants to kill them off via this exact reaction. (disclaimer: I know nothing about this "gamemaker", so I could be horribly wrong).

  12. Re:Does this apply to all cases? on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    No, you don't understand.

    You don't need timing on 30 different streams, only one to a small handful.

  13. Re:Does this apply to all cases? on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    You're not understanding the scope of what I'm talking about. I'm talking about TCP/UDP streams, the contained protocol does not matter.

    The route you take to Peer A for one chunk is, most of the time, going to be the exact same for further chunks from Peer A.

    I said nothing about subsequent communications to different hosts.

  14. Re:Does this apply to all cases? on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 2

    since most packets will probably take at least several hops, often via different routes, before getting to you.

    Really? Perhaps back in the 90s, or if one of the intermediate networks has some serious problem.

    The internet just doesn't work like that these days. Most often, once established, the connection will continue along the same route before termination. Even subsequent connections within a reasonable timeframe will follow the same path.

  15. Re:Smells like money on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 2

    Shut up and take my money!

  16. Re:That's great and all but... on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 1

    You can't, but the "moderators" (game masters or whatever) should be able to.

  17. Re:Just hope... on Bethesda Announces Elder Scrolls MMO · · Score: 1

    I was trying to take an arrow to the knee, but it seems that I took one in the knee instead.

  18. Re:Annuals on Electric Airplane Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    ... and you expect the electric motor and the... (don't know, going with "transmission") transmission that allows inputs from either source is going to be cheap to maintain? The end result is probably the same or more in maintenance costs, as opposed to the "just a combustion engine" design. You know, added complexity and all that.

  19. Re:7000 Ports? on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    No, GP was implying that his dishwasher was a rare architecture that most if not all of the 7000 available ports would not run on.

  20. Re:Is he superstitious? on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 1

    That would imply he isn't already.

  21. Re:32 years to the day after Mt. St. Helens on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 2

    What's your point? Do you have one?

    If you start putting dates into Wikipedia you'll find lots if interesting things happen on various days, and they mean exactly nothing to things happening on same day, now.

  22. Re:Facebook going IPO is NOT interesting on Facebook To Go Public On Friday, May 18 · · Score: 1

    Anyone can open a brokerage account. The problem is that you have to have a brain and/or some education to actually make any good use of it.

    (seriously, I opened an account with NOTHING. later, the guy who called to check in asked if all was OK, and it came up that he recommended I put $50 to $200 "within about 4 months" to prevent them from auto-closing it as an inactive/unused account. that's hardly a burden.)

  23. Re:Annuals on Electric Airplane Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    No, not in real life. No way I could afford even getting my license, let alone a plane.

    I do like simulators though, but I should mention I tend to play with experimental/fanciful/military craft, not general aviation or airliners (those, to me, are yawn. probably not in person, but in a simulator?) (I use x-plane)

  24. Re:7000 Ports? on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    I know what a port in BSD is, thanks. So does the original poster. Mirix didn't think so, and I pointed out why it should be obvious to one who knows the difference.

  25. Re:One benefit planes have over cars on Electric Airplane Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    Nowhere. You can spin those fans all you want, but without combustion in those things it's not going to produce any useful thrust.