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  1. Re:Confused. on Oracle Responds To Java Security Critics With Massive 50 Flaw Patch Update · · Score: 2

    The finance software I can understand, but they really should take that out of applets and give you full applications.

    Why your VOIP software needs to both be Java and run in a browser puzzles me. Not your fault of course, but that sounds... poorly designed.

    What countless open source utilities ONLY run via an applet?

  2. Re:I can see it now... on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    These days it's only occasional that I want to play a "game" in your sense of the word. Usually I want an interactive story, instead.

    It's not a -bad- thing just because you don't prefer it, you know.

  3. Re:Their godawful logo on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 1

    Steam is a product, Valve is the company.

    That said, he's still wrong, because this is Valve's logo.

  4. Re:Their godawful logo on Gabe Newell: Steam Box's Biggest Threat Isn't Consoles, It's Apple · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it's not. THIS is the Valve logo.

  5. so long winded on US Energy Secretary Resigns · · Score: 1

    It's difficult to nail down a particular point.

    Is he just resigning because he doesn't want to do it anymore? Or is there a statement buried in that "novel of resignation?"

  6. Re:Once we can film human thoughts on Amazing Video of a Brain Perceiving the External World · · Score: 1

    Machine learning will be incredibly important, since each user's pathways will be different. Not to mention brain plasticity means they are subject to change.

  7. after filming the giant squid too! on Amazing Video of a Brain Perceiving the External World · · Score: 1

    Japan is on a roll! Keep it coming!

  8. Re:More importantly on Details of Chinese Spacecraft's Asteroid Encounter · · Score: 0

    No, but there has been some concern as the point of your post has yet to be discovered.

  9. Re:I call bull on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Improve the electronics all you want, it's not going to make the fuel any lighter or more energetic.

  10. Re:Blending vs stirring or shaking... on Interviews: Ask Blendtec Founder Tom Dickson What Won't Blend? · · Score: 1

    Please try to shake or stir a solid food item into another or a liquid.

    I'll be waiting to find out how well that goes for you...

  11. morality of the products aside... on Online Narcotics Store 'Silk Road' Is Showing Cracks · · Score: 1

    It just seems to me that obtaining goods/services physically is just naturally more open to observation/interception. I would think this was obvious.

  12. Re:Navy Fire Control Computers Know Math on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    Same video but not split into parts

    Thank you for the share, this is excellent. Consider that these can compute (within the limits of friction and material strength) infinitely fast. Digital computation (seems) to have a hard speed limit.

  13. Re:The other real enemy: logic on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if you can't build a system > 90% effective, you shouldn't bother?

    Sure.

  14. Re:Simply put... No. on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 2

    Missiles with that capability are expensive and heavy.

  15. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    Well, oops. Didn't see that.

  16. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 0

    Why should main() return anything but an int?

  17. Re:Brogramming??? on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that beer was a culture or that drinking it included you in some special group.

  18. Re:Yanno on Air Quality Apps and Bottled Air Thrive On Beijing's Pollution · · Score: 1

    Lead makes you aggressive, not stupid. I thought.

  19. Re:Yanno on Air Quality Apps and Bottled Air Thrive On Beijing's Pollution · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that an oil company ran my local nuclear plant.

  20. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Phases Out XNA and DirectX? · · Score: 2

    For all we know, it -is- the equivalent of a numbers station.

    You've seen the random shit post that each story gets at least one of, right? Looks like segments of random sentences strung together? I would put money down that those are not just garbage.

  21. Re:Call the Waaaahmbulance? on Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain? · · Score: 1

    Ah, but your paycheck is money owed to you. That does not work the same way.

  22. Re:Hmm... on Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain? · · Score: 1

    Not enough superfluous zeroes for that to be true.

  23. Re:space heater have temp and tip over switches on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 1

    Relays can and do handle current like that. There's no reason other than cost that this could not be made with a high current rating.

  24. Re:space heater have temp and tip over switches on Turning the Belkin WeMo Into a Deathtrap · · Score: 2

    Both (well, the tip switch anyways) are mechanical and can fail. They certainly help but should not be depended on.

  25. Re:Looking around me... on Walk or Run: Are We Built To Be Lazy? · · Score: 1

    Huh, sure is some fattening tap water, tea, and occasional coffee with a teaspoon of agave nectar.

    I certainly try to avoid liquids like you mention. As you say, most people don't realize exactly how much is in there.

    Granted, I put quotes around obese because I meet the medical definition of the term. I probably do not fall under what most think of when the word is used. (5'10" 260lb, 42" belt)