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  1. Re:Future? on Triple Monitor Gaming: Dual GPU GeForce Vs. Radeon · · Score: 1

    What about edge blending projectors with these cards? I have a triple projector setup but there are no cheap blendint solutions.

  2. Re:Bureaucrats on Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Well obviously if 41% of the FBI's resources are devoted to tracking down people looking at pictures of naked kids... then there is no incentive to catch the people making it. Prosecuting the producers would put 1/2 the FBI out of a job...

  3. Re:and where's heisenberg? on Speed Tickets Challenged Based On Timestamped Photos · · Score: 1

    Of course it's added after. However, let's assume that the manufacturer of the hardware knows it's performance characteristics. (Pulling these numbers out of thin air now) Let's assume the ccd captures the image and tosses it into ram. The time in transit from the image sensor to ram is .036 seconds. Wouldn't it be logical to assume, that the image processing software that adds the time stamp would take current_time - .036 = actual time the image was captured and write THAT time to the time stamp encoded into the image?

    After that happens, you have all day (or until memory is full) to process the raw image and write the processed image to the file system.

    Either way, the images were taken .363 seconds apart. Even if it took 2 minutes to process, the timestamps would still be .363 seconds difference from one image to the next.

    I would think they would take that into account in something with 1/1000 of a second accuracy.

    Either way, the guy is using the images to refute the accuracy of the measurement take by the radar. Sounds pretty solid to me.

  4. Re:having their cake and eat it too on Using Kinect With Your PS3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, we put flash support on the PSP after Sony stated that they would never add it. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/03/psp-flash-swf-player-sour.html

    Shortly after that, Sony added official flash support.

  5. Re:Lessee here ... on The Car Faster Than a Speeding Bullet · · Score: 1

    Look at the gp's username a little more closely...

    Brix will be shat :)

  6. Re:Short Version for the Lazy on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I would have liked to have seen him install something like wordperfect for dos and/or PFS First choice and see how well that lasted over the upgrades...

  7. Re:Careful what you wish for on Contents of Leaked HBGary Emails Reveal Wrongdoing · · Score: 1

    I always thought that it would be a good idea to not pay politicians until AFTER their term was finished. Provide them with a car and driver, a fully stocked apartment/house, sets of suits or clothes that will be needed in the course of their work, and basically make it so they do not need cash while they are in office. Also, do not allow them to receive any gifts over a certain amount (like $100) from any one entity (person or corporation) for the duration of their term in office.

    They work for us, and if they expect to reap the benefits of being a public employee, they would have to do a good job.

    Then, at the end of their term, the people whom they represent will vote on what percentage of their "back pay" they are entitled to based on their performance in office.

    I think that would help keep things in check. This includes the POTUS as well. Right now, getting voted into congress is almost an instant way to become a millionaire.

  8. Re:linux and windows app store on What Would You Do With Open.org? · · Score: 1

    Hmm.. I wonder how much I could get for owh.net :)

  9. Re:I love Debian on Why Debian Matters More Than Ever · · Score: 1

    nice sig...

    "Get out of my CHAIR!"

  10. Re:DEAR SONY on Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PS3 Hack · · Score: 1

    How about you take their licence agreement, cross out the parts you don't like, sign and date it, then place it, with a copy of your own EULA stating your preferred terms for use of the console, into an envelope and send it via registered mail to SCEA. Don't forget to include something along the lines of "by opening this envelope, you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA..." :)

  11. Re:The big mistake was not making mobiles IPv6 on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    Yes, exactly.

    Also, they need to call it something trendy like iPV6 (small i) or i6Network and get some solid marketing behind it. Something about there being no (legacy) viruses on the new i6Network or something... Oh, and make all the packets shiny white in the commercials.

    </sarcasm> ;)

  12. Re:ISP on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    Check out www.mikrotik.com. Large models of routers that are cheap and powerful. Most take mini-pci cards so you can put what you like in them and they all support ipv6 out of the box. You can also used a wine compatible gui to configure them if you are afraid of the command line.

  13. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    Can't agree more. I drove a car for 15 years before I got my first motorcycle. Ended up driving the motorcycle 29km to work and back every day. After doing that for a month, I have never driven a car the same way since. I check my mirrors and blind spots more often looking for bikes and such since I wouldn't want someone to kill me when I was on a bike.

    Almost thinking that a motorcycle licence should be a prerequisite to getting a normal vehicle license...

  14. Re:My toy, not yours. on Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub · · Score: 1

    I've never seen an option that lets you install a game to the hard disk on a PS3. Care to share where that option is? Thought not.

  15. Re:jeans outlet on Sony Sends DMCA Takedown Notice To GitHub · · Score: 1

    oblig: you must be new here.

  16. Re:No surprise on Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the post you are responding to is making a not so subtle jab at the **AA's interpretation of the word "steal".

  17. Re:Just wondering on Sony Files Lawsuit Against PS3 Hacker GeoHot · · Score: 1

    So basically, if you never connected your PS3 to the internet and signed up for a PSN account, you can do as you please?

  18. Re:Common Knowledge on Black Holes May Mature Early In Galaxy Evolution · · Score: 0

    "That's what I like about them high school girls man. I get older.. they stay the same age... Yes they do."

    - Dazed and Confused

  19. Re:Both are growing, however on Android Passes iPhone In US Market Share · · Score: 1

    People still use word perfect?!? :)

  20. Re:Burden of proof. on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1

    Wait what? Are you saying Leonard Nimoy should be tossed in jail because he narrated a TV show?

  21. Re:No doubt the "black hats"... on Google Ready To Rule NFC-Based Mobile Payments? · · Score: 1

    My au IS03 android 2.1 phone here in Japan already supports this. They just call it Saifu Keitai (wallet phone). It supports Felica, Edy, and several others here just as most every other phone in the country has supported for the last 5+ years. Nothing new here.

  22. Re:No great surprise.. on Most Android Tablets Fail At GPL Compliance · · Score: 1

    Or you just call Boss Hog and he'll call the judge and take care of it for ya'll.

  23. Re:What's so new about single line queue? on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 1

    Here in Japan, right before they open a new register, the new checkout person goes to an existing queue and notifies the next person waiting. This way, you get the benefit of a new register opening but none of the line jumping.

  24. Re:mobile platform on Why Android Is the New Windows · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but Google made the OS and made it open source. Complaining that this is Google's fault is like complaining that I can't use dpkg or apt on Gentoo or Redhat right out of the box.

    The point is choice. The OS is free. You don't like it? Compile a rom for your device and flash it yourself. That is a choice you have. That is also a choice the carriers or phone manufacturers have.

  25. Meanwhile, in Japan on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 5, Informative

    We have 1Gb fiber to the home. :)