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  1. Re:Maybe replace with on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 2

    Saphires are made off aluminum oxides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire and they are already used in helicopter windows.

  2. Give me a break! on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 1

    Being a web dev myself, I do appreciate the importance of optimization but static files are definitely not the cause of such performance issues.

    Usually, it's either application load or database load.

    These "experts" are giving really "obvious" comments. The point of architecture problems is most likely the culprit, or simply, they've just haven't planned very well for the amount of data transfer that the system would have to handle.

  3. Re:Obvious post on Researchers Create Mid-Air Haptic Feedback System For Touch Displays · · Score: 2

    First thing that crossed my mind as well. Especially the way he was grabbing that tiny nob. :) Blinkin form Robinhood Man in Tights is going to be so happy.

  4. I see opportunity here on No US College In Top 10 For ACM International Programming Contest 2013 · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is a matter of lazy or stupid. There are smart people all over the world. Finding them is the problem. Also, the US thrives because of smart people, so why not give incentive to the special ones to come over?

  5. Small sample size on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 1

    The sample size is truly ridiculously small. I would expect some rigor from people before publishing these results.

  6. Did he know he was recorded? on How Can Linux Gain (Even) More Enterprise Acceptance? (Video) · · Score: 1

    I bet this guy had no idea he was being recorded. He looks like he just woke up. I kept staring at his beard thinking that a bird would come out of it, like in Family Guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnyEiXFyK10

  7. Amazing Performance on "Dance Your Ph.D." Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    I thoroughly enjoyed it. Really cool performance.

  8. Re:Never amazed on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 1

    And we found the grammar Nazi.

  9. Never amazed on Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gentlemen we found Magneto's cousin, ElectroMangeto. His powers are retarded though.

  10. Crappy article! on Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains · · Score: 1

    Correlation and causality are not the same. Also, I really would like people to stop publishing articles on "Scientists say", a study found, etc without publishing a link to the peer reviewed article so we can understand what is going on. If we don't have such reasons we can make this sort of reasoning too: "Northern latitudes are have less light during winters, and people have bigger brains to deal with the depression that is associated with lack of light." Of course I just pulled that out of my behind, and it's only meant to indicate that any yahoo can come up with some theory behind correlation. So, you have to control for all sorts of variables before making such conclusions, but heck, we just care about the 2 line summary, eh?

  11. Sounds like Watchmen inspired someone on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 1

    It looks like "Watchmen" inspired someone, to make toys and become the richest person on earth. Hail George Lucas!

  12. Well, I liked it on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    I watched the movie while coding on a project and I remember liking it. I have found out that bad movies are not as bad if you code while watching them. This allows one to only allocate to the move a very small fraction of brain power. You'll feel happy because you actually did something, and that you did two things at the same time.

  13. Well, how about mbr rootkits on Write Bits Directly Onto a Hard Drive Platter? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I was thinking of how Mebroot installs itself in the MBR of the drive. Maybe looking at that code might help you. :) However, I don't think one has to deal with firmware. I think writing a simple filesystem that writes or seeks sequentially only might be a better way of dealing with this issue. I think there are a couple such file systems for NAND flash that pretty much work this way. Then, you can put all your directory structures at one end and all files on the other end of the drives.

  14. Heard the music and it sucked! on Triumph of the Cyborg Composer · · Score: 1

    Heard the music and it sucked!

  15. Oh, come one. If anyone is ever the first .... on Was This the First Denial of Service Attack? · · Score: 1

    I once (well okay twice) used the "net send /domain" command to just creep everyone in my college of 1,500. The funny thing is that, I don't think the admins would have figured out it was me because they didn't track MAC addresses at the time. Was I the first? PS: probably not!

  16. Where is the paper? on Researchers Claim "Effectively Perfect" Spam Blocking Discovery · · Score: 1

    I can't find the paper anywhere. This is just hype! Templates are relatively similar, however, the trick is in figuring out what the polymorphic engine that injects the content does. Currently, there's quite a bit of research being done uses machine learning techniques. I guess this paper is supposed to do the same thing, learn from some training data and filter other spam. So, there's a learning phase and a testing phase. Current research shows that for the short term these techniques are quite successful having really low false positives 0.002 (AutoRE at Microsoft). However, when looking at spam say 6 months down the road unless you keep learning from labeled emails spam/not-spam, you won't be able to make good decisions because of the volatile characteristics of spam. Also, you've got to be concerned with the Real-Time implications of these learning methodologies and noise. Most campaigns last around 5 days, however, will a user have to wait for 5 days to receive an email? Probably not, so this technique may yield low positives in a longer period than the short term.

  17. It's the .NET way: Quirks on Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards · · Score: 1

    It's written in .NET which throws out all sorts of standards: W3C and WAI, and keeps only one: Quirks. I think this site was launched way too early.

  18. hmm on Balancing Performance and Convention · · Score: 1

    I don't quite see how using django solves your problems. If you want to use a particular vesion of rails and not upgrade, there's of course: rake rails:freeze:gems No updates means that your software will be out of date eventually. That's like saying, I have an ActiveX plugin that works only in IE7. What can I do to make it work with IE8 without doing anything?

  19. Hmm.. on DHS To Grab Biometric Data From Green Card Holders · · Score: 1

    It's quite strange that prisons are filled with mostly citizens! I think this is part of their stupid initiatives that yield no results.

  20. Cool on Graphene Transistors Clocked At 26GHz · · Score: 1

    My pencil will be finally worth something.

  21. Finally! on FTC Kills Scareware Scam That Duped Over 1M Users · · Score: 1

    They should have done this earlier.

  22. Yuck! on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 1

    I've always felt that the Asian standard of beauty is that of a 14 year old girl. It's disgusting. \ If you need a sexual partner, just buy an inflatable doll moron!

  23. It happens on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    This happens when the college hires too many dumb IT people, who have a stick up their ass.

  24. Yep on Maryland Court Weighs Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Yep. He's an asshole!

  25. Paradox? on "FOSS Business Model Broken" — Former OSDL CEO · · Score: 1

    The article says that the "open source" model is broken because the software is great, but closed source is successful because the software is crappy. That's an interesting paradox!