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  1. Exhausting happens at both parties on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    If party A would send (all - 1) their conventional weapons, imagine what happens if the rocket launch would indeed destroy everything foreign because the foreign missile defense is exhausted. Now think of what happens with the forces that are actually on route, how should the country be defended against them? This is an optimization problem is both cases: taking causalities because of potential worse problems, or exhausting everything and no defense.

  2. Overcapacity warrants for searching new excuse on Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor · · Score: 1

    Is it the current overcapacity in production that warrants a better look at the labor done for Apple? As the demand is lower, it sounds like a perfect excuse to ditch a factory, which otherwise would have been unreasonable.

  3. Re:Why do drivers need to be free? on Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Its quite simple. I have a very nice Mac Snowball. Updates for OSX PowerPC are not flying in anymore, even Safari crashes on Google.com. So it is a good time to switch to a better maintained operation system. For PowerPC there are not many choices, but lets pick Linux. The motherboard has an onboard NV04, if this was an x86 I might be able to use the nvidia legacy drivers, for PowerPC: architecture not supported. So why is open source important: it can be compiled on your architecture of choice and gives proper hardware a few extra years (see below: "Great news for ARM"). Another interesting thing is that improvements won't limit themselves to the latest, greatest (and most expensive) flagship.

  4. Re:who is doing this? on Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" · · Score: 1

    Most likely your offline backup script that rsyncs your changes over every night with you sleeping tight.

  5. Re:Women in control? on EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    I guess compliments always get wrongly interpreted. Totally reminds me of Anglo - Dutch translation guide.

  6. Women in control? on EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet · · Score: 0

    When I saw the list of names, I was positively surprised about the high number of women protecting our civil freedoms.

  7. Elphel did a similar thing a year ago... on Google Street View Heads Into the Grand Canyon · · Score: 1

    Using their previous Eyesis camera Elphel did the backpack thing last year. Now since wikipedia already states they are the original designer of the high resolution hardware Google used in Europe, it is not really surprising Elphel is already ahead with development of new stuff. While last year a 360 camera + Inertial measurement unit + backpack was offered, the current development offers a 120Mpix 4pi camera where the resolution is equal in every direction, so no fisheye on the top! ...and this is all done with open hardware.
    While the camera of Google is indeed a new one, I wonder how it compares :-)

  8. Re:They are the good guys on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 2

    And this is was these guys do. "Guide their client to a completed transaction." And each following transaction and so on, your are a new client being guided through the transaction. This made me wonder about the 5 million for consultancy from GS, given that would imply something like financial council. As counsel one would expect to share the reasons why GS did not do anything with L&H theirselves. I agree with the Bakers, on the unethical part of the banking business, its difficult to explain to offer the same 'independent' services to three (not two!) competitors.

  9. Re:Easier said than done on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    Now isn't exactly this kind of reasoning some system could be always prepared for, while the driver has need to make these kind of decisions in split seconds. Multiply this split second by not breaking, the number of choices for all parties to be safe is reduced. It would be even more interesting what would happen if two cars with this system could cooperatively "crash". Hereby saving a third party. A more complex choice would be preventing a lethal accident for multiple drivers, while in any other case all drivers would be lethally injured... now compute those chances.

  10. You mean he actually bought the European Court?! on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is this guy actually saying that the lobby has bought into the European Court system? And democracy doesn't count anymore?

  11. Re:Single domain? on SPDY Not As Speedy As Hyped? · · Score: 1

    Like the CDN had to be redone for the opendns stuff (non-geographic queries). And the HTTPS stuff had to be redone because Google thought FalseStart was a great idea :)

  12. Go CompuServe on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this all remind us at the CompuServe times where typing just one word was enough to do exactly what is being sold now at a much higher price?

  13. Stack overflow? on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe there is just a tippingpoint where the genius part of the brain has expanded that far that gets often out of bounds. Where the actual creativity is actually not a random set of neurons, but neurons primed for another task maintaining our common accepted singular personality.

  14. Public Domain / FOIA? on Protecting State Secrets Through Copyright · · Score: 2

    So how can they, if all government produced works actually fall in the public domain under the Freedom of Information Act?

  15. Re:GTFS Realtime != Realtime on How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    They write on vehicle positions here: https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/vehicle-positions Now just wonder how polling a staticly generated file is going to help here.

  16. GTFS Realtime != Realtime on How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    Unless what any /. reader observes as realtime data, GTFS Realtime is just not realtime transit data. GTFS Realtime updates a GTFS feed with current information if a planned trip was canceled. It is in its current form not telling the actual positions of busses, their punctuality etc. If you want to look more into why realtime is not realtime, go to their usergroup and search for wave. A nice thread on why Google Wave (aka ProtoBuf combined with XMPP) does make sense here - but too complex for Google and their partners. Next to that its great that an inferior defacto presentation standard is send into the world as 'cool and amazing' but the only reason Google is pushing this is because it is simple. It is not like SIRI, NeTEx, Transmodel, etc. that every operator out there has running in their management systems. What Google did with GTFS was: lets materialize all possible data. Tell operators that their timetable generation is wrong. Let them fix timetable generation. Use timetable and a networkgraph to do some routing *advise*, not do trip planning.

  17. TPC-H on Oracle Claims Dramatic MySQL Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    So if Oracle is so happy with MySQL. Give us a TPC-H benchmark. Scalefactor: 100.

  18. Re:Microsoft should have let Apple go Bankrupt on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Isn't it common law practice to file a counter claim, instead of starting a new courtcase?

  19. Microsoft should have let Apple go Bankrupt on Apple Seeks Court Permission To Sue Kodak For Patent Infringement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is the reason of this kind of behavior? Do they want to make a claim on the patentportfolio of Kodak? I wonder what Apple executives would have thought when someone would have started to sue Apple at this point in their past.

  20. Those audiotechies killed dynamic range on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The loudnesswar has killed virtually anything on a digital medium, resulting in a worse quality masters. Far worse than compressed phonogram recordings in the past. Sadly this seems to be the new standard for every commercial publication. So first give us back the -12dB, then complain about our rooms.

  21. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could have Googled why this matters over long distances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_power_cable

  22. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 0

    Also the above statements is FUD. Please read were DC is currently used, one example is deep sea lines. Using AC in the sea is basically impossible. In and around the house: what about the solar panels on the roof, all DC, relatively low voltage (24V), not wasted at all. For some application the AC out of the outlet isn't stable enough, and is first made kinectic and then converted back. There are good uses for AC, there are also for DC.

  23. Re:Bullshit on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    Transistors were not invented when Tesla proposed AC. Hence at that time it was -by far- more efficient.

  24. ASP __VIEWSTATE on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 1

    The abuse of __VIEWSTATE in certain pages makes the actual viewstate bigger that the site itself, per click, growing and growing. Which basically must count for something. I have always wondered how Microsoft hould have thought this out, or maybe the lack of education of its "developers".

  25. School +Teachers -IT staff on Does Open Source Software Cost Jobs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obviously if less IT staff is required, the school can get more certified teachers. If you studied C.S. you might apply for a job as math teacher.