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  1. Re:Isn't this going to get expensive? on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently you haven't read our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

    If you have, you most certainly do not understand them.

    Given your high UID, not surprising.

  2. Re:Isn't this going to get expensive? on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 1

    "I can't, as a non-student, demand that I be able to connect to it."

    Yes you can. Leverage your status as a person that pays their damned bills.

  3. Re:Any forms of file-sharing? on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 1

    ANY method of file transfer is PEER TO PEER.

    Peer to peer is the basic nature of the internet - one computer to another.

    Any attempt at a technical distinction is nonsensical.

    "They don't authorize anyone to access their network using P2P file transfer software."

    No, we use protocols, not software. HTTP could easily be considered a peer to peer protocol for web pages. FTP could be considered a peer to peer protocol for things other than web pages.

    This simply shows the absolute incompetence of Valdosta's IT staff.

  4. Re:-40? on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    No, the CPU would slide out of the engine and use the roof for the heat sink! It would then proceed to OC itself 300x with a mere 1V bump and a hellacious multiplier increase and not manage to break a sweat.

  5. Re:30MPG 1952 MG Convertible on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    Efficient and ICE are terms that do not mix!

  6. Re:Prior art? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Right, you don't work at a coal-fired steam power plant which is incapable of suddenly dropping power output, and which directly powers a small town. You probably work at a distributed power station, where you DO have the option of control. Congratulations on being part of 8% of the globe. Now get your head out of that narrow little world and see that just because you have it doesn't mean everyone else does.

    You, sir, are an assumptive and naive ass.

  7. Re:Prior art? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1862830&cid=34191364

    Looks like someone else has a clue. Looks like you don't.

    Again, some generators MUST spin 24/7. Some plants are incapable of stopping power generation on a whim (like coal-fired plants) and thus you need to add load.

    Not everyone is on a smart grid. Lots of Southern California most certainly is not unless you're hooked into the newest HVDC line.

  8. Re:Prior art? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    I just finished attempted negotiations with California to start using my LED lighting in their street lights. They won't move to LED lights, specifically for the reason I just stated, as it was stated to me exactly like that. I would suggest you try actually talking to the people in charge of things like this, instead of clamoring for free information with a minimum of effort on your part to obtain such information.

    Also,coal-powered stations do not have the capability to just be shut down or rapidly brought back up, what are you smoking to think only one type of power generation plant exists?

  9. Re:Hey, congrats on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    Auto-adjustment of lighting to prevent the plants from growing up into the light itself and blocking out the other plants from getting light.

  10. Re:Retrieval? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    It'll be degrading and rusting once that insulator gets compromised! :3

  11. Re:Prior art? on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: -1

    Since I doubt many of India's power systems have things to handle the potential of overload (like street lamps in a majority of the outlying city areas,) I think they'd be happy enough to have the extra draw on the grid to keep the voltage semi-regular.

    That's one reason why the USA has so many streetlights, after all. A great deal of our power stations run unthrottled and so to prevent our lines ending up over 130v and frying everything we put extra draw on the grid. This is also a reason why the government will be slow to adpot LED technology for major road and lot lighting, unless we come out with solutions that are drawing that much power (defeating the whole purpose and adding more light scatter.)

  12. Re:Hey, congrats on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    Depth perception helps a bit when you have to look down long rows of channels.

    I would have much rather had this camera with dual RGB sensors instead of one RGB and a depth/heat sensor for this purpose, however.

  13. Re:Hey, congrats on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for modpoints.

  14. Re:Hey, congrats on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    No, I'm suggesting it for the large horticultural production systems I design for large food production companies.

  15. Re:Summary inaccurate on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    Because of AMD changing the numbering scheme, again.

  16. Re:Hey, congrats on Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won · · Score: 1

    Depth perception.

    I wonder how well it would perform under horticultural LED lighting with no green emissions.

  17. Re:Street lights do NOT waste electricity (yet) on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Thermodynamics would like to disagree with out.

    Especially given the typical HID only emits about 30% of power drawn as light, the rest is heat and non-visible wavelengths. The surface of said bulbs hits almost a thousand degrees.

  18. Re:Overclocking the tree? on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Having tested this on trees just a couple of feet from my balcony, I have caused earlier leafbud formation and much fuller development of early foliage by irradiating the tree with red and blue light.

  19. Re:Fluorescence effect on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    The moon reflects a fair amount of UV back to the earth. Never had a moon tan before?

  20. Re:Oh common.. on Real-Life Gadgets For Real-Life Superheroes · · Score: 1

    Just because I pick up a gun doesn't mean I intend to shoot you with it.

    It might just be the heaviest club handy.

  21. Re:And its been replaced by??? on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    "If something better has replaced Limewire I haven't heard of it."

    Frostwire.

  22. Re:Why on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 1

    "Parts of Napster, like being able to browse each others' music library is still sorely missed IMHO."

    I think soulseek has that part covered

  23. Summary inaccurate on NVIDIA's New Flagship GeForce GTX 580 Tested · · Score: 1

    Looks like HardOCP hasn't been testing AMD's most recent flagship product, the Radeon HD 6xxx series, which a single card alone eats a 480GTX for breakfast.

  24. Re:Nintendo other controller! on Failed Controller-Free Gaming Devices of the Past · · Score: 1

    It's the first freaking image!

  25. Re:Transparency, where does the energy come from on Not Transparent Aluminum, But Conductive Plastic · · Score: 1

    Transparent to our vision doesn't mean transparent to every wavelength.

    Leaded glass will block out radio 'light' quite handily.