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  1. Bad link on Electric Cars and Their Discontents · · Score: 1

    Tesla roadster article.

  2. Outrage? on Paul Thurrott Bitten by WGA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "So you think my money is counterfeit? I'm a counterfeiter as well?? You are sending me to jail for 40 years? Ah well."

  3. Obligatory Demolition Man quote on The Future of Crime - Biometric Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    Lenina Huxley: That is correct, money is out-moded. All transactions are through code.
    John Spartan: All right, so he can't buy food or a place to stay for the night. And, it would be a waste of time to mug somebody. Unless he rips off somebody's hand, and let's hope he doesn't figure that one out.

  4. Re:Better on Talking Mirror, Pirate Skull Security System · · Score: 1

    I would just gank the mirror. But that's just me.

  5. Re:DRM is not evil on The History of Hacking DRM · · Score: 1
    Even with my recent T-Mobile re-contracting, I made sure to make changes to their contract, which I had their customer retention and sales department approve.
    I sure hope you didn't miss the part where they say "reserves the right to change terms and conditions at any time". Oops?
  6. One word.. on Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns · · Score: 5, Informative

    DeBeers. They have the world's monopoly on diamonds and are quick to buyoff any new mines and ventures to control the supply. They are shitting bricks(diamonds?) and spending millions into detecting the ever more sophisticated synthetic diamonds. With all the effort they force on you to make the "perfect" diamond it will cost more than just buying one from them.

  7. Re:You know... on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 1

    I didn't think so either, but then I went to winki. In my search I ended up rollyoing and swicking. Sure it's not like lexxing but it sure beats having to clusty. But then again nothing beats a good old-fashioned google.

  8. Re:I say! on Search 2.0 vs. Traditional Search · · Score: 1

    Tell that to this guy.

  9. Re:But of course you can on Teachers Union Opposes Virtual K-8 Charter School · · Score: 1

    Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

  10. Re:Intel's Core 2 need programmer do morething on Intel's Core 2 Desktop Processors Tested · · Score: 1

    Well he is right. To leverage the multiple cores you have to write concurrent programs. Soon there will be 4, 8, 16 cores on a cpu. And who will be doing the hard work? That's right the programmers. Writing a concurrent program is anything but simple. You have to worry about a whole new range of problems like livelocks, deadlocks, etc. And it's harder to test as well. You can test the crap out of your program and still find unexplained behaviour when you deploy.

  11. Re:Sadly.... on Intel's Core 2 Desktop Processors Tested · · Score: 1
    I'd like to see MIPC as in Millions of Instructions per Cycle the processor is capable of.
    Fine, since you asked. The Intel Core 2 has 0.000004 MIPC.
  12. Re:Doesn't solve the wider problem on Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown · · Score: 1
    A better solution might be some kind of fingerprint reader that generates digitally signed "proof of life" which can be demanded by remote sites
    The random confirmation images seem to do a good job, although they are a nightmare for usability. Imagine a blind person having to enter the contents of an image... Also don't forget that unlike passwords, fingerprints are not very easily changed.
  13. Re:why do they care? on Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Or they might sue, which I think is the real incentive.

  14. Re:Can we please go a day w/o Google vs. Net Neutr on Net Neutrality a Threat to Online OSes? · · Score: 1

    Hey Google isn't a frickin truck with frickin series of tubes attached to its head..

  15. Dont show to wife on Geographic Mapping of Emotions · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Honey, what is this redlight district?"

  16. Re:Replicants on DARPA's Cortically-Coupled Computer Vision System · · Score: 1

    You're reading /. and you happen to come to an article that is mostly correct. However, it is missing a crucial piece of information without which the context of the post makes no sense. You mod it up because you watched these other shows by this Ridley Scott but have no clue what this article has to do with Blade Runner. You have just been Voight-Kampffed.

  17. Imagine... on Computer Control, by Bug and by Brain · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...crickets with frickin lasers attached to their heads!

  18. Re:Has there ever been... on Astronauts Pull Off Risky Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    see moonwalk.

  19. Re:wmplayer alternatives? on Adware Spreads Through Myspace · · Score: 1

    I use mplayer-plugin on my nix box. Don't think they have a windows port though.

  20. Technical aspects on Battle Lines Drawn Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Lets say the ISPs decide to start degrading performance of servers that aren't willing to pay up. How exactly do they accomplish this? Isn't the core idea of TCP to not let anyone use bandwidth of a node more than anyone else? Or are they thinking on the level of peering agreements? (any BGP experts around?)

  21. Re:If they can move... on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1

    It is called a cruise missile.

  22. Re:What's next? Electric chair stories? on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1
    such, any technology that aids in either of these objectives is moral, or at least amoral
    If murder is immoral, how can any step that leads toward it be moral, whether in self-defense or otherwise?
  23. Re:Hoppers! on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1

    Mines already can distinguish between the two. Combatants know better than go where they are deployed. Good luck telling that to your children.

  24. Re:if the records exist, RIAA or anyone can subpoe on Microsoft Denies the Windows Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    "The only safe windows box is one that has no connection to the internet."

    Sorry, under USC 195843 sec. 398 this is illegal.

  25. Re:Come again? on Dropping Linux Helped Restore Corel Profitability · · Score: 1

    There is a review of it back in 2000: "Rather well, as it ends up: better than any Linux to date, including Red Hat Linux." I personally never heard of it back then or since then.