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  1. Re:2TB? exFAT? on Panasonic Working On 2-Terabyte SD Cards · · Score: 1

    With regard to your live events comment, it was just posted on the Nine Inch Nails forum that three shows were tapped by non-officials in HD. Almost 400GB of content being offered up over Bittorrent.

    http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?18,378166

  2. Re:My Idea For a Football Field on The Technology Behind the Magic Yellow Line · · Score: 1

    You see the OLED display used by China during the opening games? Just a bit bigger, and they would've been able to implement your idea. You just need a buyer now.

  3. Re:Modern day Indulgences on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or buy renewable energy credits:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificates

    Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), also known as Green tags, Renewable Energy Credits, or Tradable Renewable Certificates (TRCs), are tradable environmental commodities in the United States which represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable energy resource.

    Much less ambiguous then a "carbon credit".

  4. Re:Carbon neutrality is a joke anyway on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You need water to survive. I don't need Al Gore to tell me that you'll drowned in too much water (excess water consumption will cause death).

  5. Re:Get fat and sequester carbon... on The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Think about carbon offsets this way. They let people invest in renewable energy projects (depending on the carbon credit) that otherwise not be able to get funding. Just because wind can't compete with coal at the current per KwH cost doesn't mean wind farms shouldn't be built.

  6. Re:Is this that important ? on Attempt To "Digitalize" Beatles Goes Sour · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm 26 and also live in Chicago. I consider the Beatles classic, classical music classic, and hope that one of my most favorite bands I've traveled the world to see (Nine Inch Nails) will be something my (eventual) children will see as classic because of the style. Deciding if music is "classic" is like deciding if abstract art is "art". It's all up to the viewer/listener.

  7. Re:if the tax agency comes knocking... on How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · · Score: 1

    You could always use an Amazon S3 bucket. Its only 10-20 cents/month per GB.

  8. Re:Alternative to online account access/storage on How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know how many times I've gotten somebody else's mail in my business PO box? Like GP said, physical mail is not secure.

  9. Re:if the tax agency comes knocking... on How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · · Score: 1

    If you have Gmail, just archive it. It'll take you a while to go through 7GB+ of storage provided for free.

  10. Re:Is it just me on Google Over IPv6 Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Comcast isn't able to support IPv6 at the CPE until DOCSIS 3.X is rolled out, which is currently in progress. Once people have IPv6-capable CPE/DOCSIS, they could use either stack (or Comcast could just give them IPv6 and tunnel the IPv4 back).

  11. Re:Good for employment, bad for productivity. on $30B IT Stimulus Will Create Almost 1 Million Jobs · · Score: 1

    We too are a small business. We put off expansion plans as we needed $250K in credit to purchase more Cisco gear, servers, etc. 6 months ago we were eligible for over $1+ million for equipment loans, leases, etc. With the credit crunch, even the most eligible for credit are having hard times getting it.

  12. Re:Is this the "charity" in question? on State Secrets Defense Rejected In Wiretapping Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can't go all "24" on someone just because. Show your cards to a judge, then do whatever is necessary. It's about time some judge bitchsmacked them with the constitution.

  13. Re:Hmmm, do we see a trend coming on? on Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay · · Score: 1

    If you wanted to charge people to view content, you'd use Amazon's DevPay system (a more complicated Paypal).

  14. Re:Whew on Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay · · Score: 1

    We're a hosting company that backs up hundreds of TB of data to Amazon S3. We were using JungleDisk. After they were acquired, we rolled our own replacement. Just like the sun has risen in the east for as long as the Earth has been around, almost all companies go to hell once they've been acquired by a large, shoddy corporation.

  15. Re:Whew on Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay · · Score: 1

    Since Amazon S3 has the native ability to be a torrent for your content stored there, I would think serving the content with Bittorrent would be better then having each person pay to access the data.

    Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3

    http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/index.html?S3Torrent.html

  16. Re:Hm. Great on Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    With the pace biotechnology has been moving in the last 2-4 years (stem cell research, regeneration, etc), I would expect that almost anything in your body (sans brain) will be able to be regenerated in say another 5 years. Not a bad thing in my opinion. I look forward to living forever.

  17. Re:Need more guarantees than that on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 1

    Ironically President Carter, as a Navy nuclear submarine officer, was probably more knowledgeable about nuclear engineering than anyone in the White House not specifically hired to be an expert on that field.

    From a technical perspective, yes. If a reactor was running away, I'd trust him to SCRAM it properly. From a policy perspective, he was unable to understand the ease of nuclear proliferation that would occur in the future, and how his non-proliferation efforts would be for naught.

  18. Re:Need more guarantees than that on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My friend, even if you spread generation out among everyone, how are you going to deal with people charging their vehicles using electricity? Large megawatt datacenters? Steel plants? While I agree wind and solar have a place, there are always going to be large scale electric consumers in the industrial sector that need a reliable base load. Nuclear fills this gap. It's safe (only one incident on US soil, Three Mile Island), it's almost zero-carbon, and the fuel can be recycled/reprocessed if not for idiotic laws put in place by ex-Presidents (Jimmy Carter, I'm looking squarely at you).

  19. Re:99.3% accurate? on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unless of course all three of your compasses are giving you different readings. In that case, you simply yell "Where the hell is my sextant."

  20. Re:99.3% accurate? on New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Run the data among multiple chips for verification. Run amongst enough chips, the errors should be detectable/correctable.

  21. Re:Why so serious? on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1

    All things considered, a 3g handset is a smarter purchase if you are an at&t customer in the US.

    A smarter purchase is going with a provider other then AT&T.

  22. Re:Come to Europe on AT&T 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Signal Strength · · Score: 1

    The problem with 2G->3G is that if you don't run on separate frequencies like T-Mobile does, you run into problems like AT&T is running into. Verizon and other CDMA-based carriers won't run into this problem, as the new CDMA revisions are built to be backward compatible on the same frequencies without an issue.

  23. Re:Amtrak Police!?! on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    If that's the case, I want my god damn money back from that bleeding pig of "for-profit company".

  24. Re:Tough Guy? on Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police · · Score: 1

    Lets be honest dude. Taking pics of some wife's dude taking a squat outside a pizza place? You are pretty pathetic. Note to self: Stay away from tall douchebags in the Great Valley area of California.

  25. Re:Non-profit? on Universities Patenting More Student Ideas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dude, you never go full retard.