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  1. Re:I can see it now... on Facebook Agrees To Make New Privacy Changes Opt-In · · Score: 1

    When you do try the new look, it is replaced with a popup asking for feedback.

  2. Re:Another non-story. on Android Malware Using Blog As C&C Server · · Score: 1

    I have. Every last app from google.

  3. Already on it on BerliOS Software Repository Will Close At Year's End · · Score: 3, Informative

    I started researching tools and writing scripts to split up a repository and move to github yesterday.
    If you have a complicated non-standard svn layout, you should look into the svn2git on gitorious (there are many tools with that name).

  4. Re:Laws of Thermodynamics... on Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, a softer (energy-absorbing) surface is more comfortable to walk on, provided it doesn't absorb excessive amounts.

    The plastic tracks in stadiums are softer than asphalt, which again is softer than concrete. Guess which one people like to run on best?
    Some athletes from poor countries practice on alphalt and find they run slower in a stadium. Concrete would be even faster, but it tends to wreck your knees unless you have good shoes, which, again, absorb energy.

  5. Re:What ultra-caps could possibly power a train? on Tapping Subway Trains For Energy · · Score: 1

    How about these? They're 3 kF, 2.7 V and can supply hundreds of amps depending on how long you're going to draw it. (2200 for one second)

    So, that's about 11 kJ that it can store or release in a matter of seconds.

  6. Re:What is with this... on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nah, the problem is how we describe it.

  7. Re:Fair use when it suits them on Warner Bros. Forced To Fight For Fair Use · · Score: 1
  8. Re:I don't understand on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    Actually, the technique of creating a hole with a bunker buster and then destroying anything left in the crater with a normal bomb was used quite a bit in Iraq. It allows for the destruction of the contents of a building with minimal (perhaps the neighbours' houses) collateral damage.
    In this case, the compound's walls might have contained the blast.

  9. Re:Can't lift, too heavy ... on Inside Google's Secret Employee Hackerspace · · Score: 1

    I'm sitting 2 meters away from a scope that cost about 8k. Sure, cheap scopes don't cost much, but you can add a LOT of features the concept.

  10. Re:Ok, but. on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 1

    You can automate the trust, or rather, make it implicit.

    Whenever you favorite a torrent, you place some trust in both it and the publisher. That gets propagated.

    I don't know the specifics, but I do know that people at my university have worked on this for years. (tribler isn't new, this is just a new release that has the P2P search)

  11. Re:What on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that they *did*, but slashdot ate it.

  12. Re:Permanently modified? on Windows Phone Permanently Modifies MicroSD Cards, Warns Samsung · · Score: 1

    Because the phone manufacturers stipulated that they would include microSD readers in their phones.
    Microsoft doesn't want removable storage (I'll let you figure out why), so it uses a microSD feature to lock the card to the phone and refuses to let the phone work without the card, effectively making it permanent storage.

  13. Re:Power required to charge? on Electric Car Goes 375 Miles On One 6-Minute Charge · · Score: 1

    Oxidizer is heavy. Also, explosives need to dump all their energy in a very short timespan.

    I believe the stoichiometric ratio for air:gasoline is 13.7 by mass. Of course, that's with only 21% oxygen, but 21% of 13.7 is still 2.87.
    So, a more fair comparison would be 10 pounds of TNT versus 1 pound of gasoline plus 2.87 pounds of oxygen.

  14. Re:original source on How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks · · Score: 1

    I've read this stuff in my probability&statistics textbooks. It wasn't even news in 2006.

  15. Re:Cool on Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ceramic (or metal) plates are only used when you need to go up against rifle rounds. Standard vests that can protect against handguns typically consist of many layers of kevlar bonded together with resin to provide stiffness. (so it actually stops the bullet, rather than being dragged along with it into your body)

  16. Re:Reason on Special Master Appointed In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    Of course, none of the articles actually mentioned reasonableness either, that's the work of the submitter.
    The summary also links to an article that is just one sentence long and contains no new information.

  17. Re:Backups on 10 Tips For Boosting Network Performance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not /dev/null, that's a deleted file. /dev/null does *nothing* with anything written into it and attempting to read from it yields 0 characters read: source, around line 618.

    When however, you create a file, open, and delete it, then as long as your handle exists, the refcount of the inode won't reach zero and it won't be collected by the filesystem. This is a rather common practice.

  18. Re:Kill them! on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 1

    I've done something similar with a Samsung D900. I dropped it out of a (probably 4 to 5 meter high) window in the middle of a conversation.
    Apparently, the closing slide took the brunt of the impact, as the phone was in the closed position (with my call disconnected) with a scratch mark on one of the corners.
    I slid it back open and redialed. It worked fine.

  19. Re:Two to Ten Years and Up To Ten Grand on Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law · · Score: 1

    Like this one? I still can't believe that one either.

  20. Re:3 times in a row on "Gigantic Jets" Blast Electricity Into the Ionosphere · · Score: 1

    But was he in the same place every time?

  21. Re:smoke and mirrors... on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't worry! We have recently invented a vehicle that allows you to drive without sight!

  22. Re:What timing [PDF stinks] on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    It is not difficult to copy and paste from. I probably do this on a daily basis. The only time you can't copy and paste is if the document author was an idiot and blocked the copy/paste/print functions, or if the source content for the PDF was a scan of an older printed document.

    The page navigation system is no different than word processors or web browsers. In fact, it's a little more optimized. Using Adobe's reader, you can even turn on thumbnails and skim through a document like you're using microfilm.

    KPDF can also show thumbnails of the pages. Additionally, you can choose to ignore DRM so you can copy/paste and print, just like just about every PDF reader out there that is not Adobe's.

  23. Re:Recollection on Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA · · Score: 1

    But they can at least be expected to know the law and are also required to write down their reasoning in the verdict. This means that courts at least have to keep up a pretense of sanity.

  24. Re:Recollection on Usenet Group Sues Dutch RIAA · · Score: 1

    It is important to remember that a trial is always a HUGE uncertainty because juries can be wild or stupid.

    Which is why we don't have juries in the Netherlands, we have judges.

  25. Re:Yes, why post this? on Researchers Show How To Take Control of Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    A three-tier architecture?