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  1. Applications? on The World's First Flexible Organic Microprocessor · · Score: 2

    Microprocessors have become small enough that flexibility isn't necessary for the applications cited in the summary. I can't really think of any situations where a flexible microprocessor would be more appropriate than a suitably small one...

  2. Re:This is important? on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    Discovery tends to stay on target.

    Maybe, if their target is a heap of heavily edited 'reality' shows...

  3. Re:whores. on House Passes Amendment To Block Funds For Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Is "freedom dollars" what they call francs in the US?

  4. Re:Vandalized? on Attacked By Anonymous, HBGary Pulls Out of RSA · · Score: 1

    the sign potentially serves as a last warning: Let Anonymous ravage whatever they want, or die.

    No, the sign means that some kid on 4-chan saw that he was coming to his area and decided it would be funny. People who portray anonymous as some sort of sinister agency just don't understand what it is. There is no anonymous. There are no leaders or plans. There is only an anonymous forum where random strangers occasionally post suggestions. If enough people think they are funny they happen.

  5. Re:Maybe you should have an editor read this one, on The Seven Types of Hackers · · Score: 2

    The buffer overflow is there to offset the adjacent buffer underrun. It is a very delicate system.

  6. Re:Terrible Article, Serious Issue on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    Evolution is driven by natural selection. If your environment causes you to lose bone mass that does not change your genes. Any children conceived would start out just like children here.

  7. Re:/. News Network on Leaked Cables Reveal US Thinks Saudi Oil Reserves May Be Overstated · · Score: 1

    In related news, NIMBY groups are opposing the construction of everything other than oil and coal plants on the basis that everything else is ugly and might even let the poor have enough electricity to survive the weather conditions of the coming years.

    Are you really suggesting that that opposing everything but the cheapest options is somehow a conspiracy against the poor? I'm all for sustainability but replacing oil and coal with renewable energy won't be doing the nation's downtrodden any favors...

  8. Re:Slightly Misleading on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 1

    Or you just hit the Print Screen button to fill your clipboard with what is displayed on the screen sans watermark.

  9. Re:What does this say... on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that when he promised to close Gitmo he was knowingly making a promise he couldn't possibly fulfill in order to drum up some short term support?

  10. As opposed to... on Android Tablets Were Born Too Soon · · Score: 1

    Even though it's fast, well-designed, and comes with a decent Android implementation, its functionality is limited to that of an Android smartphone.

    It's kind of hard to take that seriously when the metric they are comparing against is essentially a scaled up iPhone...

  11. Re:I love it! on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    If you fall into the first category and you haven't tried Arch yet I can't recommend it enough. Arch is intensely customizable but is still backed by a solid package manager and a huge repository of user submitted packages. It is probably a little too bleeding edge for a production machine but if you want to try the latest releases on your personal desktop Arch is fantastic.

  12. Re:Porn star profiles on 'Dating' Site Imports 250k Facebook Profiles · · Score: 1

    Be that as it may I think you should continue researching the physical attributes of famous porn stars. Just in case.

  13. Re:Time to Godwin on Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Explain Domain Seizures · · Score: 2

    I hate to point this out, But isn't "homeland security" going down the same path those guys in brown shirts tried some 80 years ago?

    Homeland Security may have its issues, but comparing them to UPS is uncalled for.

  14. Re:A Closed Model Can Only Take You So Far on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, Jobs' ego will not allow this and they'll most likely end up in the same realm as Microsoft -- financially great but viewed as a 'has been' and opportunist by the community.

    I imagine most corporations would consider that scenario a huge success.

  15. Re:5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 on Amazon Flaw Lets Password Variants Through · · Score: 1

    Don't you know that md5 isn't safe? You should use sha256 instead: 5e884898da28047151d0e56f8dc6292773603d0d6aabbdd62a11ef721d1542d8

  16. Re:So? on Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer For Solicitor General · · Score: 1

    It isn't so much who you work for but what you do for them. Working for an asshole doesn't necessarily make you an asshole, but working at a puppy punching factory might.

  17. Really? on Does Google Pin Copyright Violations On the ASF? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another "anonymous" submission linking to this troll's blog? You know better than to feed the trolls slashdot...

  18. Re:First Jobs, now Schmidt on Eric Schmidt Out, Larry Page In As Google CEO · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that wouldn't generate a single message box as 1 is false in vb6. -1 is true as it is based on basic. Of course, a glaring bug like that might just make it more Microsofty...

  19. Re:Dumbfounded...... Can anyone explain? on Motorola Sticks To Guns On Locking Down Android · · Score: 5, Insightful

    e-fuse doesn't stop you from rooting your phone and installing wireless-tether. e-fuse is there so that Motorola can stop releasing kernel updates when the droid 3 comes out so that you are forced to buy a new phone if you want the latest version of android.

  20. Re:Has to be a mistake on Microsoft Seeks Do-Let-The-Bed-Bugs-Bite Patent · · Score: 1

    I suspect this is related to the Bill and melinda Gates Foundation.

  21. Re:RTA on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    I'd rather see Microsoft offer these guys jobs than serve them subpoenas.

  22. Re:Evil commenting on evil on Why Sony Cannot Stop PS3 Pirates · · Score: 1

    If you can remove disc checks then you can also rig the function that calculates the executables hash to return the original hash instead.

  23. Re:Is C++ ever the right tool for the job? on An Interview With C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you don't like operator overloading then don't use it. I don't see how that has any effect on C++'s usefulness as a low level language. C++ can use inline assembly the same way C can. C++ has all the power of C with the convenience of classes.

    There is no mandate that you must use templates or operator overloading in C++. If you are going to complain that it gives you the option then why aren't you complaining about C having goto?

    In my experience when someone wants to use C over C++ for a new project it is generally because they don't know C++.

  24. That works? on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 1

    Google is the 900-pound gorilla of search, with around 90% of the market (excluding China and Russia)

    You can do that? Well, in that case I'm the 900-pound gorilla of getting laid (excluding people who don't live in their mom's basement)

  25. Re:race to the bottom on Why Published Research Findings Are Often False · · Score: 1

    How exactly is reproducing experiments in an attempt to validate their conclusions "against education and critical thinking?" I would argue that the opposite is true. Choosing not to put faith in conclusions that have not been sufficiently proven is supporting science. If we believed every hunch or intuition that somebody with a phd regurgitated the world would be a very different place.