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  1. Liability insurance? on Toward Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Technology · · Score: 1

    Gee I wonder what insurance company is handling the liability for when the GPS fails and it crashes into a house and kills someone.

  2. video too? on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    Does this mean that when I'm taking a video with my cell phone that it will click 30 times a second???

  3. In other news... on New TN Law Forces Universities To Patrol For Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    In other news, the RIAA has sent 50 notices of infringement to each and every university in Tennesee.

  4. Re:That's Easy on Google Sorts 1 Petabyte In 6 Hours · · Score: 1

    For it to take minutes to sort two numbers they would have to be identical for the first few gigabytes. If they differed in the first byte, it would only take a microsecond to sort them.

  5. Re:Piracetam & Other Nootropics on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 1

    I'm 56 and have been taking DMAE since I was 50. I can say it's been absolutely amazing for me. Not only does it improve my memory, but makes me more creative and sharp. Although it is not a drug but a nutritive supplement, it is in the class of "smart drugs" (nootropics) and I do seem smarter. As a software engineer I feel I am at the peak of my career and I attribute a part of that to the DMAE. It's very cheap - I buy it in powder form.

    I didn't get much from the Piracetam, but I was already on the DMAE when I tried it.

  6. Re:Like to see this replicated on German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant · · Score: 1

    I've been expecting something like this ever since the discovery of HIV-immune individuals. So yes, the donor can be replicated.

    How large of a sample of people do you need to do a genome comparison and locate the gene that provides the immunity? Can gene therapy be utilized here?

  7. dismiss! on Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win · · Score: 1

    Clearly the judge needs to dismiss this lawsuit as frivolous.

  8. Re:par2 on How To Verify CD-R Data Retention Over Time? · · Score: 1

    My partial solution so far is to make a hidden directory and hard link *every* file on the disk into that directory, then run par2 in that "flat" directory. (I put the inode number in the filenames to make sure there aren't any name collisions. If you use the inode number AS the name, you won't get any dupes on multiply linked files)

    Nice idea. To that I would add making a tar file out of each file. You've only added 512 bytes to the start of each file and that would have all your metadata and original filename in it.

    I'm not quite sure how I'll go about restoring if verify fails, though, since the goal is to keep the same directory structure

    The tar header will have the full path in it.

  9. Re:Hmm on Windows 7 To Be 256-Core Aware · · Score: 1

    Another question is: How many of the features left out of Vista will appear (finally) in Windows 7?

  10. Re:speed isn't that important on Brains Work Best At Age of 39 · · Score: 1

    They said you slow down. They didn't say you don't keep getting better.

  11. Re:one can make a killing on DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video Spying · · Score: 1

    What good is an umbrella when there are ATM cameras, store cameras, red light cameras, etc that the government can switch between in real time at will?

    Maybe we should all start wearing burkas.

  12. Why the whole motherboard? on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems to me a better design would be to mount the CPU(s), and anything else real hot, on the bottom edge of the motherboard. Then you only have to immerse the bottom portion of the board in a pool of oil. The upper portion, where the PCI boards plug in, can be conventional, thus not requiring special boards.

  13. Re:Monochromatic dreams on B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams · · Score: 1

    What I have found that works is holding my dream hand up in front of my face and looking at it. At that point the dream becomes lucid. The trick of course is remembering to do it. I just remembered, but your idea of doing it habitually in the waking state might just work. Lucid dreams can be really amazing when you consciously take control. Quite fun.

  14. yeah right on FBI Warns of Sweeping Global Threat To US Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and we have to monitor the whole Internet to keep you safe.

  15. Re:You can get hard passwords on Elcomsoft Claims WPA/WPA2 Cracking Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    I got my random password here.

  16. Re:Next step on UK Government Says More Spying Needed · · Score: 1

    And you have no doubt caught countless women strapping explosives to their bodies. Thank you, sir, for your service to your country.

  17. Re:Headline on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 1
    Not only more clouds, and possibly more rain (floods?) but what of these clouds now seeded with salt crystals? Might that not make the rain more salty?

    That's ok, I'm sure the scientists have worked out every possible consequence of that.

  18. you call that junk? on Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" · · Score: 1

    ...the evolution of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA."

    Well then, I guess they'll have to change their classification of "junk DNA"

  19. Lesson #1 on Stanford's "Autonomous" Helicopters Learn · · Score: 1

    OK helicopter, watch this and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8t41avFuCc

  20. Re:SATA, not IDE on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1
    You need to do both.

    Print it out in a tiny but readable font using ink and paper that will last. Either dump PPM format, or something simple and obvious like { { 0xFB, 0x83, 0x34 } {...}} (of course I'll assume written instructions, it's not like aliens will decode this). Then pair each printout with the regular photo print so they can verify that they decoded it right.

  21. tit for tat on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    If the Republicans cut off debate on the Democrats and went home for vacation, I can guarantee you that this story would have been about the Republicans censoring the Democrats.

    But they did! Don't you people remember pre-2006 the stuff the Republicans pulled? This kind of thing and worse. The Republicans wouldn't even let the Democrats have a meeting, relegating them to a basement room. Then there's that bizarre voice vote. I'll admit I'm sorry to see the Dems stoop to the Republicans level, but they certainly deserve it.

  22. Re:Just wait ... on Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws · · Score: 1

    Until they just indiscriminately block all packets they can't identify.

    If they do that then by definition they are blocking all SSL packets. If they do that then that is the end of banking over the internet. Will the banks stand for that?

  23. Re:Where would we be today? on Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered · · Score: 1

    The burning of the library at Alexandria?

  24. Re:Disassembly anyone? on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 1

    Why would that help? It's already known that Skype is encrypted. The fact that the government has the keys will not be revealed by disassembly.

  25. look at your "inverse indicator" on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    It may seem counterintuitive, but your exposure goes up as the bars go down. The bars indicate receive signal strength and as that goes down the transmit power must go up.