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  1. Re:Wow. on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What, you didn't bother downloading the TORRENT and READING THE EMAILS FOR YOURSELF?

    I'm on ~3200th e-mail right now. This man is GOING DOWN HARD.

  2. Re:Wow. - Extortion vs Coercion on UK Anti-Piracy Firm E-mails Reveal Cavalier Attitude Toward Legal Threats · · Score: 1

    In the UK, it's called "Monies by Menace."

  3. The USB lockdown screwed me over on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have multiple 3rd party controllers that no longer work with the PS3.

    So lawyers that like cases they're guaranteed to win - who wants to join me in a class action against Sony?

    We're gong for full-out charges of fraud, bait and switch, deceptive and misleading advertising, and theft of services.

    I think the dollar amount sufficient enough to garner media attention will be 100 BILLION dollars.

    Oh, and we need to let the EU know that Sony committed massive fraud against them, as well.

  4. Re:I bet "The Industry" loves it.... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "until the stylus starts wearing down and the grooves start smoothing out"

    Not a problem if you'd keep Moh's hardness scale in mind.

    Got old 60s vinyls that still sound great because I use a softer-than-vinyl stylus. Yea it does futz with the sound just a bit but I prefer my happy vinyls.

  5. Re:The real reason... on US ISP Adopts Three-Strikes Policy · · Score: 1

    "heavy downloaders=pirates after all"

    Yep, lemme tell you, I'm pirating those HD videos off of Vimeo, OFFERED FREELY FOR DOWNLOAD.

  6. Re:m.facebook.com on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    I would but of course this is my conversation.

    And on top of that, really, facebook is not for me, while mycity is (as a business owner, this is like the facebook for business, so I'll roll with that, and it's gotten me business.)

  7. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    Oh? Well, I guess those hundreds of gardeners buying my stuff and finding out it works better aren't friends.

    Hate to tell ya, but your best customers are friends.

    And when I make easily four grand in sales from mostly people I meet on a DAILY basis, you think they're not my friend when I show them how much money they save and how much extra money they gain on top of savings?

    You are DELUDED.

  8. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    Mafia Wars. :(

    That was the majority of my post-clogging front-page.

  9. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    "Or you could set up an event on Facebook, send an invite to everyone, and then you're done."

    Yep, lemme tell you, it's SO HARD to look at the SMS you receive, which happens to be labeled for the person you assigned the name for the number, and read the response.

    In the meantime, I'd have to wait for the rest of that to load when my hacked phone can simply display the SMS in order of reception.

    Yea, no thanks. I left facebook because it was slower than most of my own personally-designed systems. And it had more spam and bullshit than my system. Yay, no farm-fucking-ville clogging up my screen! Just the RAW INFORMATION I'm looking for.

  10. Re:Next up on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've already cracked their master-copy machines (own one myself for my own music recordings, and the data trace protection is WEAK,) so as it stands right now, unless they CAN modify the universe or come out with a new technology that I (or my company) can't purchase and bypass, they're SOL.

    I made it a lifelong goal to screw the assholes screwing us, and I'm pretty close to having enough money and power to do it.

    I will become the lobbyist you always dreamed of - one that actually cared about humanity instead of profit.

  11. Re:Next up on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Single-atom DRM?

    Guess we'll need nuclear reactors to crack that.

    But, then again, I don't think the **AA will exist by the time that comes around. I would really think by then independent artists might actually rule the scene as they show their unique talent versus the cultured BS of the other industries.

  12. Re:This MS I Fnd in a Lbry... on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Well, my big theory involves using quantum distances as a quantification of binary/trinary data. I don't think it will work with quaternary but trinary should not be too hard to do and allow enough error-correction space to differentiate between the 'bits.'

  13. Re:And by Moore's Law... on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Single proton? How about throughout the entire valence shell, on every level, with every electron?

    Granted, for more dense stuff with the one-off addition against the electron shells, protons would likely be the better way to go, though we haven't been able to measure the delta spin of protons or neutrons (As far as my weak knowledge can recall,) but we have it for electrons.

  14. Re:Organic solar cells? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    They're talking about using this technology for plant-based (structure-wise) solar panel designs. Plants have a rather unique solar-powered system with quantum effects through the different types of chlorophyll that we don't fully understand, although we've made some breakthroughs with red and blue wavelengths and chlorophyll a and b (the others are found primarily in marine plant life, or cyanobacteria, and are useless for us to target.)

  15. Re:Just One Bit? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    That is what I was thinking. Why couldn't we encode on the electron levels instead? Granted, we'd need serious computational power to figure out which atom would remain the most stable while we screw with the valence shells, but this shouldn't be TOO much of a problem.

  16. Re:How many atoms in the sensor? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    Considering one uses electrons to sense atoms in this technique because electrons are smaller than protons and neutrons, you could have a fifty atom-wide sensor and still get the required resolution.

    Come on, now, you should know better.

  17. Re:Quantum effects? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    I would bet more on tunnel-scanning versus anything else for the inner workings. It would be far easier to measure the blank spaces between atoms instead of the atom itself.

  18. Re:Quantum effects? on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Seriously, I don't think this has much potential for engineering, as much as it may be clever science.'

    Too bad your high UID pretty much guarantees your ignorance in this field, I've got several workable applications already in mind for this. Hello, 300+ irradiant lumens per watt output capability, good-bye HID lamps.

    I think you need to study more quantum sciences before talking any further.

    ~Director of Research, EcogroLED USA.

  19. Re:Not anywhere near ready for prime time on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    "vacuum cooled"

    Umm, no, Vacuums make damned good insulators and space has no place to radiate out heat unless there is another physical object VERY NEAR the heat-emitting equipment.

  20. Re:Not anywhere near ready for prime time on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 1

    "However, it has no meaningful direct link to ANY deployable technology."

    At least, as far as your poorly-educated mind can fathom. I've already got about seven different product ideas that this technology could be applied to, starting with atomic-level light emission.

    Maybe if you actually worked in the industry, you could think of uses. It's pretty apparent that you don't work in this field, however, with your statement.

  21. Re:So.. Much as it seems like it, this does not qu on IBM Demos Single-Atom DRAM · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that single atom in a RAM cell doesn't count as a transistor?

    If it performs the same functions, there is no reason to not apply the same law.

    Oh, hey, look, we've got Transistors with THREE atoms.

    ONE atom shouldn't be a problem. If it acts like a transistor, it's a transistor.

    A transistor either acts as an amplifier or an electrical signal switch.

    Therefore, a single-atom DRAM cell would be using single-atom transistors.

    Want to try making this argument against someone *NOT* deeply involved in this industry?

  22. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 1

    "Right. Because it's so much easier to call everyone you want to invite to a large event and then make a note of everyone who is going to show."

    Mass SMS, anybody? Duh? It's not like that hasn't been around for ages.

  23. Re: Facebook Is Down on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My phone works better and I don't have to wait for a response most of the time.

  24. Re:Luddites on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    I'd tell that Jersey fuck to go back to huffing gas fumes.

  25. Re:Luddites on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    Anecdote time:

    Was in OR this past summer, some nimrod starts pumping PREMIUM gasoline into my tank without asking me what fuel the car takes.

    I step out and smack the pump straight from his hands, and switch over to the proper fuel myself.

    "You can't do that!" he shouts.

    "You just started pumping the WRONG FUEL into my vehicle, asshole. Can't you tell I drive a diesel? It's written bigger than shit right on the fucking gas cap! You want to pay for a new fucking car? No? Get a brain, and get the fuck out of my way."

    The manager comes out, and I go "This is my property. You don't fucking touch it without getting my full written permission and understanding how my property operates/is to be maintained. You were about to be stuck paying for a new fucking car because of your incompetent employee."

    "Have a good day, sir, no charge."

    Damn right.

    I will never visit a gas station that is not a self-serve station.