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  1. won't want ANY preroll ads on A Bike Taillight that Goes Beyond Mere Taillighting (Video) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sorry, Dice. Suck on a chode.

  2. Re:Are you kidding me? on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I know of several large retailers who have had no qualms about doing exactly that.

    (in a past life, I worked in processing industry)

  3. Re:It's a software bug, hardware unrelated on Bug In DOS-Based Voting Machines Disrupts Belgian Election · · Score: 1

    With DOS, in the old days, you could just cut the power to the computer without any warning, and it would be fine.

    I know, right? Who needs buffers, or disk cache, or any of that other fluff...

    Apparently you don't need line breaks, either.

  4. Re:Are you kidding me? on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    VFI's "Point" would be right up your alley.

    You talk to the device to tell it to do things, and it tells you results. POS however never touches the card data - that is handled in the device and a remote gateway.

  5. Re:Are you kidding me? on Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP · · Score: 1

    ... or offload SSL to the proxy, or use distinct SSL sessions between both sides. Client and Proxy trust each others certs, Proxy and upstream Server trust theirs.

  6. fuck ibtimes on Torrentz.eu Domain Name Suspended · · Score: 1

    Random video auto-plays with sound, nattering about some cellphone bullshit.

  7. Re:Does it give you a position on the globe? on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    That's a computer using the output from a GPS.

  8. Re:Does it give you a position on the globe? on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    No, the GPS "system" gives you coordinates. It has nothing to do with a map and the map is entirely optional.

    For navigational purposes, it's a necessary option, but it's not a component of the system. The system is the satellite constellation, radio protocols, and associated algorithms. The system's output is your coordinate information - which as I said on it's own means nothing. You need a map to coordinate with, or another set of coordinates to do relational comparisons.

  9. Re:Not GPS on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    However, military aircraft have all sorts of other sensors and are generally not worn on a person's wrist. They also sit on the runway for 15 minutes spinning up gyros and aligning said INS systems... and they still have drift and need external correction from GPS systems or the like during flight.

  10. Re:Does it give you a position on the globe? on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    If I dump you in an arbitrary spot with just a GPS, you'll be equally screwed. You need a map to correlate the GPS' output with, to have any use of it.

  11. Re:Does it give you a position on the globe? on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    Indeed all a GPS does is give you some numbers and the time.

    You need a map marked with the correct coordinate system to give any real meaning to the numbers.

  12. Re:Does it give you a position on the globe? on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    It's a little hard to circumnavigate most towns without some rather serious tunneling equipment...

  13. Re:Well ... on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    That would be difficult, what with the light-years of delay skewing apparent positions...

  14. Re:Well ... on Is It Really GPS If It Doesn't Use Satellites? · · Score: 1

    You can (fairly accurately) determine the time from sun/moon azimuth and the calendar.

    Hell, the Vikings had sun stones to help them do it through the clouds!

  15. Re:Good. (ish) on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    Good would be using appropriate charges. Copyright infringement? Really? How is that even remotely appropriate?

  16. Re:Am i the onyl one who hates cheaters ingame? on Blizzard Sues Starcraft II Cheat Creators · · Score: 1

    No, but I fail to see how bypassing Warden or whatever it is to do DLL injection could possibly be construed as copyright anything.

  17. Re:"NOAA's *worst case scenario*" on Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk · · Score: 1

    Blue is pretty vague, yes - but it does define a perceived color. This suggests a particular peak of spectrum. "Wet" actually means something very specific.

  18. Re:Note to myself: on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1

    It is when said policy is so painfully ridiculous.

  19. Re:86 years on Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk · · Score: 1

    Go ahead. Let's see you move a hot reactor, safely, any appreciable distance - along with any other auxiliary equipment required to keep it safe and non-melty.

  20. Re:So, where is the problem ? on Controversial TSA Nudie X-Ray Machines Sent To Prisons · · Score: 1

    Because they weren't already getting worse than that doing routine searches/bangups?

  21. Re:Health Concerns on Controversial TSA Nudie X-Ray Machines Sent To Prisons · · Score: 1

    You need context for that.

    Sure, it's safer without an x-ray cathode. That's some high-voltage stuff.

  22. Re:When you go to prison on Controversial TSA Nudie X-Ray Machines Sent To Prisons · · Score: 1

    Indeed. You have people stabbing each other with sharpened toothbrushes... some proper form or search is necessary and metal-detection is not enough.

  23. Re:Mod parent up! on Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) · · Score: 1

    #4 really needs to be addressed. They need to stop doing that. It made sense when the server room was a closet, or in someone's house... it doesn't make sense in hosting environments.

  24. Re:Wrong concern on Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) · · Score: 1

    Yea, just don't tell anyone that it's not doing anything and it's still there because nobody knows anything about it.

  25. Re:Wrong concern on Don't Be a Server Hugger! (Video) · · Score: 1

    Or you could investigate stuff like this.