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  1. Re:Fuck you AT&T on AT&T Says Net Rules Must Allow 'Paid Prioritization' · · Score: 1

    The issue here is that the company that owns the roads can also own a taxi service. They then decide to not charge themselves for taxi vehicle licences, while charging all other taxi providers.

    This is unfair to all other taxi providers, since it means that the road owner is effectively subsidizing their own taxi service. This then reduces competition in providing taxi services since the road owner has an unfair advantage.

  2. userspace hotpatching is possible as well. on No More Need To Reboot Fedora w/ Ksplice · · Score: 1

    When your kernel needs an update, you use ksplice. If libc needs an update, you hot-patch libc in the same way. "But there's no way to do that!", you say? Actually, there is--it's just proprietary. The place I work at has implemented userspace hotpatching on linux for several architectures.

  3. *they are going to be destroyed no matter what* on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 1

    The extra embryos are made because it's cheap insurance to do so. The choice you want (which is "implant all the embryos that are created") isn't going to happen.

    Once you have the extra embryos that are no longer needed, you have two choices: 1) throw them away, 2) do science on them and then throw them away.

    How is option 1 better than option 2?

  4. You misread his comment. on Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The OP was talking about the authors of TrueType, not FreeType.

  5. actually, it wouldn't trip your breaker(s) on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    You'll notice they specified two 120v outlets of 13A each. You could easily run that on two standard home outlets, as long as they were on different circuits.

  6. I've got a Samsung laser printer that rocks on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    Rated for over 50K pages/month. So far I've only gone through one toner cartridge, the replacement is good for 6000 pages.

  7. only if the pedestrians are crossing properly on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    If the pedestrians are jaywalking, vehicles don't need to yield to them...

  8. '92 Civic hatch is *way* smaller than a Prius on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    If you're going to compare against a Prius, you should be looking at something with equivalent interior space, hauling capacity, comfort, etc.

    The Prius fits somewhere between the Matrix and the Camry. There isn't really any non-hybrid that is directly comparable.

  9. Where I live, we don't do DST on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 1

    I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada. We don't do DST...clocks stay the same year round. It's great, except that I telework to a place where they do use DST, so I have to adjust all my work calendar appointments twice a year.

  10. they wouldn't need to on The Many Faces of 3G · · Score: 1

    Obviously the ISP can't guarantee 500kbps to arbitrary websites.

    However, they should be able to guarantee 500kbps to arbitrary high-bandwidth sites. (kernel.org, or microsoft.com, or various university sites)

    Of course they don't *want* to do this because that would require them to advertise real speeds, which would force them to actually spend money to upgrade their infrastructure.

  11. you didn't do it right on Root Privileges Through Linux Kernel Bug · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you really want to get a fix in, the correct procedure is to keep pestering the maintainer for that area until they accept your patch. If you can't get them to accept it, you go up the chain.

    Yes, in an ideal world all maintainers would be perfectly organized. In the real world things get lost, they get distracted, other issues pop up, and the patch doesn' t make it in.

    If you care about it...make some noise.

  12. not a fair comparison on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    2 hr flight, 2 hrs at the airport going through security and waiting, 1/2 hr waiting to take off

    compared with

    get on the train in the evening, sleep through the trip in a bunk, arrive in the morning

  13. Baker, 1770 on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    'This Word is most commonly used in speaking of a Number; where I should think Fewer would do better. "No Fewer than a Hundred" appears to me, not only more elegant than "No less than a Hundred," but more strictly proper.'

  14. "Because some dude made up a rule that says so." on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    Really, what is grammar but a bunch of rules that we've agreed to use?

  15. I paid more on Gamer Plays Doom For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I paid about $450 for my first cd burner, and it wasn't top of the line. The "good" blank CDs (Mitsui Gold) were about $3 each.

    I was curious so I just checked...Mitsui Gold are still available, and they're still over $2 each.

  16. not FUD if I can halt your car on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    If I can shut your car off by sending it low-powered radio signals, that's a problem.

  17. antennae are cheap, cameras are expensive on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    It's a lot cheaper to embed RFID readers in the roads as they get repaved then to install cameras at the same number of locations.

  18. some clarifications on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    Actually, ABS doesn't always stop in a shorter distance. In gravel, sand, deep snow, and ice, ABS tends to increase stopping distance because locked wheels dig in and stop more quickly.

    Studies were done in Munich comparing ABS and non-ABS taxicabs, and they found that accident rates were similar. It appears that the drivers with ABS took more risks. (http://psyc.queensu.ca/target/chapter07.html)

    In 1996 the IIHS found that vehicles with ABS were less likely to be in accidents causing fatalities in other cars, and more likely to be in accidents causing fatalities in the car with ABS.

    Electronic Stability Control on the other hand has been found to be effective at reducing accidents.

  19. ABS doesn't, but traction control does on The Shoddy State of Automotive Wireless Security · · Score: 1

    While it's true that ABS doesn't help, electronic traction control does indeed help significantly. It's also more expensive of course...

  20. expensive yes, complicated no on Gasoline From Thin Air · · Score: 1

    Diesel engines need to be physically stronger than gasoline engines, which is why they're heavier and more expensive. However they're actually simpler since you don't need to time the spark for each cylinder.

  21. they only deny conversations about *paying* on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 1

    There could very well be discussions regarding other forms of compensation--refusal to rock the boat when Verizon does bad stuff to others, for instance.

  22. light speed lag leads to higher latency on Rethinking Computer Design For an Optical World · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Without factoring in speed of light drops due to index of refraction changes, at a distance of 1 meter you're looking at latencies of 7 nanoseconds just for travel time. The bandwidth may be decent but the latency is going to be an issue for any significant distance.

  23. supposed to be instead of traditional pat down on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    My understanding was that this was instead of a pat down, so you have the option of the manual pat down (presumably by someone of the same sex) instead.

  24. Re:it's more expensive on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 1

    Did you not read the original article? They're not resisting it because it's new, they're resisting the execs that want to rake in the extra money that 3D movies currently make because it's new and shiny technology.

    I'd hazard a guess that Joss Whedan would make a 3D movie if he had a script that actually made effective use of it.

  25. it's more expensive on Filmmakers Resisting Hollywood's 3-D Push · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the story doesn't need 3D to be effective, why force people to pay the extra money?