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  1. Re:1995 called... on GPRS Can Be Hacked Easily, Claims German Researcher · · Score: 1

    GPRS != GSM.

  2. Re:I'd just like to interject... on GPRS Can Be Hacked Easily, Claims German Researcher · · Score: 1

    Yea, you go ahead and explain that to the NYT. We'll wait here for ya.

  3. Re:Powered USB on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the userbase here.

    It's a point of sale, usually manned by bottom-of-the-barrel folks. They think anything that resembles an RJ45 is a "phone plug", and before you even get the call that their barcode scanner isn't working they've already gone and plugged anything that can into everything else. The magic smoke has already been released.

  4. Re:I'm curious on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend a pastebin service for such things. Not only do they not eat your code at random, but they keep things nice and not blobbed up, and even support syntax highlighting!

  5. Re:Only Safari?? on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    Oh really? You might want to explain that to the general-purpose CPU inside of it attached to a clock source, RAM, storage, and various other peripherals...

  6. Re:Usefulness on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    So? He may not WANT to be bothered with those customers.

    He has a right to choose who he sells to, I believe.

  7. Re:Too Bad on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    Who said it ended? You think they are just goint to toss their papers in the trash and say "Well, we gave it a shot!"

  8. Re:Anything can carry nuclear warheads on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 2

    LGBs are ballistic as well, and yet they can guide themselves well enough...

  9. Re:Glide Phase or "Drop like a Rock Phase" on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    At mach 20, something doesn't drop like a rock... it's a lot like re-entry. eg: boom

  10. Re:No wonder it's such a difficult project. on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    Likewise, it could NOT be in trillions of little pieces, and just cannot transmit the telemetry for some reason.

  11. Re:Powered USB on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    No, someone needs to be stabbed over sending DC power over such a serial link using an RJ45, because I've seen plenty of devices get fried by that, supporting the POS POS-es that use just such an arrangement. Ignoring that, it's still silly to use such a connector, because it's so easy to short (the pins are too close and it's too easy to get something conductive to bridge them).

  12. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    So I take it you got to "And PC's are in the same sort of categories" and stopped to reply? Had you gone on, you would have noticed your PCs are the exclusions.

    Hundreds at work? That's business. Gaming? Yea, that's niche. Netbook, iPad, iPhone, etc? Not PCs. Not by the definition being used here anyway.

  13. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    I'm going to reply to you without even reading your comment, so I have no idea what you said, or what I should be saying.

    Wheee!

  14. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    A study in schadenfreude.

  15. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    Well, so do solid-state transistors...

    Tubes just sound a little nicer when they do!

  16. Re:There are other treatments available! on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 2

    That post was so bad it gave me cancer!

    Though maybe the cancer really came from that neck crick I got from smashing my head into my desk...

  17. Re:I blame Counterstrike on The Case For Surrealism In Games · · Score: 1

    It's much more fun than it looks, really.

  18. Re:The important question is: on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Cytokine Storm was what I was thinking of specifically, but being a non-expert I was including something more general like sepsis in my thoughts.

  19. Re:Hz != Power on A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator · · Score: 1

    I think maybe I'm just confused and should shut my mouth. I'll be doing that now. Apologies.

  20. Re:The important question is: on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a difference between the "slow and steady" rate during the normal process and "all at once" that you would see with this?

  21. Re:In related news ... on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    Gah! I meant it is supposed to be able to handle up to 24 ampers. The next smallest wire only reaches 19.

    Stupid brain. It's late in the day.

    linky to where I got the number.

  22. Re:In related news ... on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    #8 AWG is the smallest diameter wire you are supposed to use for power transmission. You apparently can go smaller for in-chassis wiring. I pulled that number from some marketting materials that credit the chart to "Handbook of Electronic Tables and Formulas"

    Given that 'power transmission' implies long cable lengths, this might explain my confusion.

  23. Re:The important question is: on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    That's similar, yes, but I thought there was something less specific.

    Wouldn't you experience something anyways, due to the "uncontrolled" release of the cellular contents, including the chemicals used for apoptis? I wish I could remember the name what I'm thinking of. Looking for it is failing me.

    Something you might describe as 'runaway autophagy'. Bleh. Can't find it.

  24. Re:The important question is: on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    You'll get really sick as all the dead cells and/or pathogens release toxic nastiness all at once, and provided you survive that you'll get better.

    I forget what this is called, but it's actually a problem when killing off a large infection with antibiotics or such.

  25. Re:What's a virus? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    It sounds like it only kills cells where the virus is actually replicating