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  1. Re:Good on Nanowires of Unlimited Length · · Score: 1

    They're made out of sugar or potassium hydroxide, so good luck with that.

  2. Re:Make the law firm pay Novell. on Trial Set To Determine What SCO Owes Novell · · Score: 3, Informative

    The law firm is a partnership, but SCO is not: SCO is probably a limited liability corporation, which would limit any investors' liability.

  3. Re:Could it be cultural differences in the precinc on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1
    I quote from above:

    The data being published at Black Box Voting show that the differences exist even when accounting for the size of the population centers.
  4. Re:Lisp Re:PostScript on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    No, that doesn't make any sense at all. The key thing about NeWS and AJAX is that you can use whatever language you want on the server, but the client that actually does all the drawing has its own, different language (PostScript and JavaScript, respectively).

  5. Re:Let's get the preliminary stuff out of the way. on XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained · · Score: 1

    That is unless the application using the network card just blindly read in data without sanitizing it, in which case you are back to square one.


    Or unless it DMAs stuff over, right on top of the kernel...
  6. Re:speed of sound on Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    The medium is, in fact, the solar wind.

  7. Re:Cash them in!!! on Even the Masseuse is a Multimillionaire at Google · · Score: 1

    Well, the general knowledge really is "it is at the right price." If everyone thought it cost too much, then they would all be selling or shorting it.

  8. Re:Bullshit... on ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver · · Score: 4, Informative

    You seem to be a bit confused. ATI has not released the source to fglrx, and they haven't yet released the spec for doing 3D.

  9. Re:Data Theft on Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data · · Score: 1

    Paypal seems to be doing just that. Now, we just have the problem of trusting Paypal's servers.

  10. Re:Why Blu-Ray? on HD Recorder Can Use Standard DVDs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It could be made, but it couldn't store nearly as much at nearly as high a quality as they can with a Blu-ray. Consider that a Blu-ray disc can store 50GB of MPEG-4 AVC (which I expect is a pretty common format), as opposed to 8.5GB of MPEG-4 AVC with this idea.

  11. Re:Raises the question on A Mathematical Answer To the Parallel Universe Question · · Score: 1

    That is in fact the point of the Many Worlds interpretation. You only observe the universe you're in, because you're only in the universe you're in. Why would you expect to be able to determine anything about a universe that you're not in, even if it had, at some point, branched off of yours?

  12. Re:Need to clarify dual-licensing on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    You could rewrite the license, but then the original author would not be giving you permission to distribute it, as you're not following the BSD license. However, nothing is preventing you from adding additional terms. Additionally, if it's dual-licensed and you're going to be distributing it under the terms of the GPL, nothing prevents you from modifying or removing the terms of the BSD license, because nothing at all says it has to stay intact. The license you have was from the person who gave you the code to you; your ability to redistribute the code in any form that you want is only affected by the terms of that original license that you agreed with.

  13. Great on AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They've actually done it. It's time to buy an ATI card.

  14. Re:Wire up the IDS on Chinese Military Hacked Into Pentagon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Make sure you tell the enemy first, or they won't know to avoid triggering your doomsday device.

  15. Re:Am I the Only One... on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    Shotguns? How déclassé - they would definitely use katanas.

  16. Re:Bull on Space Hotel to Open in 2012 · · Score: 1

    "Fly me to the moon" is just the headline of the story and the name of a song; it does not, in fact, have anything to do with the location of the hotel. The hotel would probably be built in low earth orbit.

  17. Re:Why reinvent the wheel? on New 'Stellarator' Design for Fusion Reactors · · Score: 1

    Not all radiation is made of photons. Specifically, alpha rays are made of helium nuclei (and are therefore positive) and beta rays are made of electrons (and are therefore negative).

  18. Re:confused.... on MythTV Scheduling Service Reveals Pricing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if they're providing the data to someone who's using mythtv, it's quite possible that that person won't be watching the advertising.

  19. Re:Good on Charging the Unhealthy More For Insurance · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, health insurance isn't supposed to be protecting against the risk of risk. You don't get health insurance to protect against the risk that you start smoking and have to deal with the likely consequence, you get health insurance to protect against the likely consequences of smoking (e.g. cancer).

    The reason a healthy person should get health insurance is to protect against the risk that he will randomly become unhealthy (because once you have health problems, it's much harder to get insurance that covers them). As such, nonrandom effects (choices) should not be protected against - doing so reduces any incentive to do what's best overall.

  20. Re:So what's this mean for Terri Schiavo's doctors on Brain Electrodes Help Injured Man To Speak Again · · Score: 4, Informative
    This means absolutely nothing for Terry Schiavo, as they tried this technique (or at least one very similar to it) and it didn't work.

    He noted that a similar treatment did not help Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman in a vegetative state whose care triggered national controversy before her death in 2005. That's the typical outcome for electrical brain stimulation in vegetative states, he said.


    Please read the article next time.
  21. Re:Why DRM? on The DRM Scorecard · · Score: 1

    Oh, since you said "Remember people, locks [...a]re about making you FEEL secure," and you apparently don't feel secure because of them, you had no use for them. My mistake. I suppose you meant "Remember people, locks aren't about making you secure, they're about making you more secure than you were previously (and maybe they'll make you feel more secure too)." In which case, they might be a valid technique.

  22. Kill switch? on First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq · · Score: 5, Funny

    In this case, it might be better to call it a "do not kill" switch.

  23. Re:Why DRM? on The DRM Scorecard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember people, locks aren't about making you secure, they're about making you FEEL secure.

    So you never lock your car, or your house, or anything you own?

  24. Re:Intel was never the choice for Quad Cores, sinc on AMD Quad-Core Opteron (Barcelona) Tech Report · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "True" QC, "fake" QC, what does it really matter? The only things that really matter in the end are performance and price (and possibly power dissipation). From the standpoint of a consumer, the internal technology has no importance at all.

    Now, if you said that "true" quad core was going to make the chips be twice as fast as Intel's, at half the price, then that would be interesting. Of course, you could say that the chips would twice as fast at half the price, and that would be just as interesting - the technology has nothing to do with it.

  25. Re:Yawn on Making Old Sound Recordings Audible Again · · Score: 1

    Apparently it's more effective than the other system I heard about that does that.