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  1. Re:Why does Iceland the country care? on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd think differently if you went to a supermarket to buy a frozen turkey, and instead booked a flight to a Nordic island instead. Worst of all, they didn't even have any turkey, just putrescent shark meat.

  2. Re:Understandable, but foolish on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still better than the alternative.

  3. Depends what they're serving. Only my NAS uses HDDs though.

  4. Re:time to invade england on UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

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  5. Re:USB-A must go to the history's garbage bin on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No you don't. Plugging in USB can be done without checking: It's a three-step process.

    1. Try plugging it in, and find it doesn't work.
    2. Turn it around, and try it the other way. You'll find it doesn't work that way either.
    3. Turn it around a second time. It'll now go in. You had it right the first time.

  6. Re:What a dumb-ass on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You could have said your piece in a less offensive way, too.

    Hello, and welcome to the internet.

  7. I remember some people having issue with a particular release driver. I didn't notice anything wrong with it myself, but used an interim beta driver, as per nVidia's instructions, until they made another release version. Otherwise, I've personally had no problems with nVidia's drivers. A lot of the driver updates seem to just add optimized code-paths for the latest big games, so there's often no reason to upgrade.

  8. Re:In exchange for the astronomical recognition on An Asteroid Has Been Named After Freddie Mercury (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  9. If I can potentially restore data from it, it's backup!

  10. Re:Aging is a degenerative disease on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Easier just to wait around until you get reincarnated as a Boltzmann brain.

  11. Re:As a C programmer on C Top Programming Language For 2016, Finds IEEE's Study (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Not sure I could do that off the top of my head. I'd look up the greater-than and less-than operators and how they work with pointers. Not even sure if that's the right approach.

  12. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My preference is

    /*
            this type of comment
    */

    // or this

  13. Re: 78% of Crapdot stories are worse now on Study: 78% of Resold Drives Still Contain Readable Personal or Business Data (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    The best secure deletion method appears to be a claw hammer, some goggles, and a few spare minutes.

    But if you do that with your HDD, you might damage the shiny coffee mug coasters inside.

  14. Re:Yeah, Right on GE Considers Scrapping The Annual Raise (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if the executives also get rated.

  15. Re:Bullshit conclusion on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Choice is a conscious process, otherwise you're not making the decision (or not aware of the "illusion"). If you're not conscious, there's no way to prove consciousness exists. To prove someone doesn't have free will you'd have to explain that all the processes involved don't involve consciousness. Which is difficult at the moment as we can't explain consciousness.

  16. Re:Child abuse on Language Creation Society Says Klingon Language Isn't Covered By Copyright · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've obviously not read it in the original Klingon.

  17. Position is the first derivative of velocity, defined as lim(h->0) (v(t+h)+v(t))/h. As h approaches 0, this equation blows up to plus or minus infinity.

    It can do that, but physical derivatives are usually well-behaved. Even General Relativity is mostly well-behaved except for the singularities inside black holes, and maybe the ones outside (toroidal) black holes. Take v(t) = 0 as a trivial example. lim(h->0) (0 + 0)/h. As h approaches 0, this equation is equal to 0. Scientists accept the "odd" behaviors of quantum mechanics because they agree with experiment. A deterministic theory would have "odd" behaviors too. If you want to see why, here might be a good starting point.

  18. If it can use parallelism, then the time per frame is set by making the film in a timely manner while spending as little money as possible. So the ratio of computer time to actual film time will be about 10k on average. Whereas 30-40 hours/frame is about 5,000k! I'm guessing that rate was per computer, and that's why they needed thousands of them. Was the entire film animated?

  19. Re:As if... on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK it requires a penis too.

  20. Just note that Grave Of The Fireflies is unrelentingly depressing. It's still a great film, it's just very depressing in comparison to any other Ghibli films. Don't expect more of the same if you've only seen My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, etc...

  21. Re:Photo in front of the camera on Amazon Wants To Replace Passwords With Selfies and Videos (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Presumably it won't work because it couldn't perform whatever action was demanded for authentication. So you'd need a 3D model to map it on, and a library of potential actions for it to perform.

  22. Re:Missing ingredients on Dutch Researchers Grow Crops In Simulated Lunar and Martian Soil (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I think they science'd the shit out of it.

  23. Re:Digital certs don't make your software secure on Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can probably make that back from the ransom payments...

  24. Re:No sympathy on Transmission BitTorrent App Contained Malware (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol can be used to transfer files from one peer to another. And... err... Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor, therefore coping files is stealing, we've always been at war with Eastasia, and you have to compensate people for their work, because... they've not lost anything?

  25. The spear has already been done, but that was to stop the enemy throwing it back.