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  1. Re:see how powerful the disconnect is? on Radioactive Water Found In Two Reactor Buildings · · Score: 1

    To offer an outside perspective, you both come off as douchebags.

    There's a bit of truth on both sides of this argument. People, in general, are idiots. It's been that way since we started recording history, and I suspect it will be a long time yet before we can change that. What you are highlighting here, is simply that the idiocy is not limited to a particular segment of the population. We all exhibit it from time to time, though some more than others (and yet others less so).

  2. Re:CB vs Ham on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    CVT is the compromise you'd be looking for - the goods of the automatic without that almost 2 second pause as the AT figures out WTF you are trying to do.

  3. Re:That's just unfair on SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio · · Score: 1

    Clearly you don't know what you're talking about. The 10-meter band is 28000 to 29700 kHz ham radio. It's called wavelength and bandwidth.

    Watts? Gee, perhaps they might be referring to the transmit power? You know, where you put X number of watts into the air?

  4. Re:Just took phone out of my pants pocket. on Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones · · Score: 1

    No, it's not more stressful. But it's fucking annoying.

  5. Re:More advertising masquerading as news on Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you want shorter patent terms and non-ridiculous licensing costs.

    Yell at the government regarding the former, and yell at the sellers regarding the latter.

  6. Re:A sheet of plastic is not "foil". on The First Plastic Computer Processor · · Score: 1

    I think they are speaking of "plastic" in the sense of the material having a high degree of plasticity, not that it's actually made from plastic.

  7. Re:Unexpected benefits on Google Won't Pull Checkpoint Evasion App · · Score: 1

    Or that using your highbeams because one headlight is out is fucking rude and dangerous to other people. Or just to turn the high-beams off altogether.

  8. Re:Major privacy issues on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    ... and on that, how do they intend to separate the miles you put on your car between public and private?

  9. Re:They get paid ~75 cents per home. on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    ... and litigation is not the fucking way to do it. That's not what it's for.

  10. Re:Calibration? on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    You're supposed lack of emotional response would likely fit the same profile that someone suffering shock would. So long as they took the "in shock" possibility into account, and it did put you there, you'd probably be raised to the higher priorities.

    Think about it.

    Legitimate calls would sound stressed or null.
    Fake calls would sound excited/nervous/amused.

    Incidentally, hypochondriacs would also sound stressed.... so I don't see the help there.

  11. Re:Yeah right on DirectX 'Getting In the Way' of PC Game Graphics, Says AMD · · Score: 1

    Native games. Emulating (dont go into semantics about what emulating is, i dont care) is not native.

    You should care, because wrapping API calls is not fucking emulating, PERIOD.

  12. Re:Yeah right on DirectX 'Getting In the Way' of PC Game Graphics, Says AMD · · Score: 1

    The person? The?

    I think it's a bit more involved than that. And even if it isn't, that's one person - who's probably mad about something.

  13. Re:He's still right in pointing it out on Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus? · · Score: 1

    The time that I registered (on this account!) has no bearing on how long I've been visiting this site.

  14. Re:He's still right in pointing it out on Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus? · · Score: 1

    Had you been around here terribly long, you'd know that it is intended to be that way. If people could edit comments, they could backtrack and do other trollish things. It supposedly outweighs the detriments.

  15. Re:Microsoft helps the internet on Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action · · Score: 1

    Even ignoring the training... there's a large portion of users who just don't give a shit and wouldn't care anyway.

  16. Re:I believe they mean sonic booms on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    So, you're inviting us all to take potshots at you with .22 subsonics then, since it's so harmless?

  17. Re:"supersonic sound waves" on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Only at ranges where the muzzle report has died out before it reaches you. But in all cases, you'll hear the shockfront from the bullet before the muzzle report.

    Though, the bullet still hits the mark before you hear anything. Better make those shots count, Tewwowwists!

  18. Re:"supersonic sound waves" on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Ah, but the shock front is. And the waves breaking off from said front make a very characteristic sound...

  19. Re:fireworks on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Not all .45 is subsonic, only specific lower-powered loads.

    (speed of sound at sea level is 1116 f/s (or 340 m/s)

  20. Re:fireworks on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    Regular soldiers/insurgents/whatever are probably not going to use subsonic ammo if they have a choice, especially because the body armor and helmets worn these days do pretty well against them - they are intended to protect from shrapnel and rifle rounds!

  21. Re:fireworks on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 1

    ... then they wedge an AK into the rocks with a string noose around the trigger and grip? Yank the cord and the authentic-sounding (because it is) AK rocks-n-rolls and makes a hell of a lot of noise.

    Replace said AK with just about any weapon that fires. Automatic for the most "bang" for your buck, but even a single shot decoy would be enough to give you more advantage than you had without it.

  22. Re:I doubt it on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 2

    It doesn't need to open. See, there's this miraculous property called sound transduction. Vibrations on one side of a membrane or other surface can, if the materials are correct, transduce to the other side.

  23. Re:A GPU by any other name would render as slowly on Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you set the quality to low.

    Unacceptable. If it cannot handle mid to high settings, do not want.

  24. Re:And the advantage is...? on Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011 · · Score: 1

    It's just those integrated graphics are in the CPU rather than the northbridge.

    You say this like it's such a tiny thing. Being that 'close' to the MMU and RAM, and CPU, has got to help things.

    Even if the output still looks like crap, at least it will output said crap more efficiently.

  25. Re:wintersports and motorcycles on Canadian Researchers Develop Permanent Anti-Fog Coating · · Score: 1

    It's got nothing to do with the temperature, it's just that as the temp gets lower the carrying capacity of air gets lower

    So it has everything to do with the temperature then?