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  1. Re:A selection of robotic counter measures on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 1

    http://images.google.com/images?q=flyswatter

    All that other crud is pointless, you only need the one statement.

  2. Re:Cool but not the smallest RC Plane on Ultra-Light Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 1

    The article isn't talking about mere radio-controlled planes, but full UAVs.

  3. Re:Lazy much? on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I know exactly what you mean - and what I said was directed at the parent, not to you... sorry if that came across wrong!

  4. Re:Lazy much? on Which Open Source Video Apps Use SMP Effectively? · · Score: 1

    It's refreshing to see that, rather than having us all answer questions and think about it, only to THEN find out he doesn't want to do any work.

  5. Re:Encrypted file systems? on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    Most disk cyphers are block ciphers. What this means is, that even if you only lost 1/8 of that block as it was ciphered and written to disk, any data that has a bit in that block is now damaged. Because of the nature of disc encryption, there's no connection between filesystem blocks and cipher blocks used by the algorithm, so you may loose more than one filesystem block as a result of a damaged cipher block.

    Wikipedia has a good article on block ciphers.

  6. Re:Two percent is newsworthy? on Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware" · · Score: 2, Funny

    My % is bigger than your %.

  7. Re:And this is what ZFS looks out for on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 1

    Hmm, have to give it a test-drive. I've been using JFS lately, mostly because of the dynamic inodes.

    Pardon my trollish response earlier, anything that people start randomly sticking in slashdot stories like that immediately flags as suspect (in my mind)

  8. Re:And this is what ZFS looks out for on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's with all the ZFS spam lately? Did I miss something?

  9. Re:Nice PC for the car on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    Something like this is probably better for you, especially with the heatsink-case and special-purpose power supply. The power coming from a car's alternator/battery would be hell on a normal supply.

    Granted this is a bit pricey, but this is just one I've seen from memory - I'm sure there are plenty of other "car PC" systems out there for *nix/BSD/etc, and there's lots of parts available to build it yourself too.

  10. Re:No resurrection? Do your homework. on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    I've done some poking and it looks like Young's Literal is probably the best for me.

    Thanks though!

  11. Re:No resurrection? Do your homework. on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    Well, in which version? From your linked site, I see available several versions. Would you have any recommendation? I'm hoping there is a clearcut one that's more truth and less "edited to keep the serfs happy".

    (versions listed on that site, in English)
    * 21st Century King James Version
    * American Standard Version
    * Amplified Bible
    * Contemporary English Version
    * Darby Translation
    * Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
    * English Standard Version
    * Holman Christian Standard Bible
    * King James Version
    * New American Standard Bible
    * New Century Version
    * New International Reader's Version
    * New International Version
    * New International Version - UK
    * New King James Version
    * New Living Translation
    * The Message
    * Today's New International Version
    * Worldwide English
    * Wycliffe New Testament
    * Young's Literal Translation

  12. Re:No resurrection? Do your homework. on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    As someone who has only read like 4 pages out of a bible... may I ask a favor?

    Can you recommend a bible that isn't full of fluffing/pampering and gives what was actually in the book, rather than what makes you warm-n-fuzzy inside? I only have looked at one, and I assume this was meant to be read to children.

  13. Re:Reminds me of U3... on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 1

    I should mention that U3 was on the drive for all of 5 minutes once in my posession. They have a tool on their website for removal, but remove ALL other USB-storage before using, it wipes the first drive without indication or warning about which drive is going to get the shaft.

    After that, its a perfectly normal flash drive.

  14. Re:SQLite? on Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web · · Score: 1

    Seems like Drizzle will fit between SQLite and MySQL - small and lightweight, but still using a DBMS.

  15. Re:Harm to children on COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if voters elected politicians rather than a select few. (example: Diebold).

  16. Re:Nice PC for the car on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like a completely inappropriate use for this hardware. Unless you happen to have a high-bandwidth link in your car?

  17. Re:floating cities?! wt eff? on Floating Cities On Venus · · Score: 1

    The trick is that the stuff we need to be in to live there, Oxygen, floats VERY well. Just by virtue of having our own atmosphere, we would have a floating bubble at 1:1 pressure of breathable air.

    Where, on the moon or mars: Yes, its stable (on the ground), but it's also pressurized.

  18. Re:Theaters must win on features, not performance. on Consumer 3D Television Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's just the people you live around.

    I just went to see Hancock, and the theater was at full capacity, and it was also the opening night for batman... and I had none of those issues you are talking about. Clean restrooms with no smell. Courteous people. No talking kids.

  19. Re:Craziest idea this year ( so far ) on Floating Cities On Venus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Both of which someone posted solutions to later.

    1. I don't know how we would get the materials there. Moon stopover maybe?
    2. Floating in Sulfuric Acid/CO2: O2 and hydrogen/helium are all much more powerful lifting gasses in Venus' atmosphere, so while letting us breathe they would also serve to lift.
    3. Not corroding in said Acid/CO2: Carbon nanotube mesh or graphene sheeting, or some kind of ceramics or metal sulphites etc (probably some metallurgical thing we haven't really looked for yet?)

  20. Re:Space has no temperature on One of the Coolest Places In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately deep space isn't empty. Theres dust, but it's EXTREMELY rarified.

  21. Re:Obviously... on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    Gaming isn't all either. Basically anything except web browsing will suck ass with the named technologies. If all you want to do is browse the web, I think a modern computer is a wee bit overkill for that.

  22. Re:Why I still have to boot into Windows. on Linux Needs More Haters · · Score: 1

    7zip on linux is command-line only. And it does have some strange syntax. But if you expect to run 7z and get a flashy window like the windows version, unfortunately you will be disappointed.

    The only reason you should need 7z is for 7z archives. Even then, you could just use 'lzma' if you are the one creating archives.

  23. Re:And they beat me up for not wanting to pay taxe on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 1

    Um. They were ordered not to do it. Twice. They then ignored it. (so, in this case, congress was being GOOD!)

    This won't go down well.

  24. Re:Yet another reason on Social Networking Sites Becoming Useful For Lawyers · · Score: 1

    The scary part is when people put stuff up FOR you, like your friends putting pictures up. You might not even know it was done.

  25. Re:What player? on Worm Transcodes MP3s To Infect PCs · · Score: 1

    I know how it happens. This was my way of saying the idea is, to say it bluntly, retarded!