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  1. Re:Quick on Japan To Standardize Electric Vehicle Chargers · · Score: 1

    How many cars are driven in both Japan and the USA, it's not a big problem, If Japan can handle half the country at 50hz and half the country at 60hz I'm sure the 3 or 4 cars made for the US standard will be able to get an adapter to handle Japanese recharging stations.

  2. Re:Hmmm... on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    You do know that all special ops are trained on how to handle this. It's simply a matter of not panicking.

  3. Re:Refuting the imaginary article in your head on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    Lets say I write a piece of malware that is unknown and it attaches itself to any program that is used regularly. You move my program over to the HD and I don't hide, you don't see me in ram. The program I infected is not common so you don't have a way to verify it so I pass the HD scan too. Every time my host program runs I check for my zero day command. My zero day comes pwnd!

  4. Re:Refuting the imaginary article in your head on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    While that make work in a tightly controlled environment being able to verify every program that has been installed on every computer would be impossible.

  5. Re:At least one byte on How To Guarantee Malware Detection · · Score: 1

    1) move all contents in ram to HD the program would be at the kernel level and could direct memory mapping.
    2) anything still in ram needs to be looked at closer and eliminated if it is a true threat
    3) scan everything since the malware is not in ram it can not mask itself and can be detected
    4) Profit!
    There are a few weakness one being that critical system programs (BIOS) may not be able to be moved to the HD and could have malware attached thus being able to mask itself.While this isn't the perfect solution it is another good tool.

  6. Re:Hmmm... on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Listening to Michael Bolton isn't torture but I still would want to.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sources please and and for the record water-boarding is not torture which is why no body has been prosecuted for it.

  8. Re:Hmmm... on US Intelligence Planned To Destroy WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    It's nonsense both ways, should troop movements be made public, nuclear missile codes, weapons technology, ... Sure there are many things that should be public but not everything needs to be or should be public. If a document is classified it should only be so if dissemination of that information poses a risk, marking documents classified that are not is a crime, Fraud Waste and Abuse will handle most problems there is no grand government cover-up, they will seek to fix these problems while keeping the person anonymous. The DoD should go after leaks of classified info I still don't understand why wiki leaks and other news outlets (NYT) have not been prosecuted for spying, knowingly dissemination classified information is a crime. If editors start going to jail for this kind of thing the problem will clear itself up quickly.

  9. Re:What about the genitals? on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 1

    Millimeter waves might not be small enough for some

  10. Re:Bath, famous for Rugby Football, to ID on NOSES on Nose Scanners — the New Face of Biometrics? · · Score: 1

    In case they want to do ears, rugby players used to have them ripped off before they started taping them to their heads them, now cauliflower ear is a more common injury.

  11. Re:Wow on Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    For the record, it's away from the wall, you savages.

    Your the savage I have a stream of cold water shoot up my ass followed by a nice breeze since there is no wiping I don't even have to wipe my hands. High 5 anyone.

  12. Re:It's time to play... Name That Person! on Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Because there is a higher probability that a girl will rent 16 candles on her 16th birthday.

  13. Re:Oranges vs. Tangerines? on NY To Replace IT Vendors With State Workers · · Score: 1

    This isn't about saving actual money only being able to say that you cut IT wages and saved thousands. Typical wrap rates built into contracting employees are between 2 and 3. Most small companies have a wrap rate in the low 2's but large companies or the government personnel are typically 3 or above so that $55/hour becomes more like $165/hour in actual costs, but how can you expect a lifetime politician to understand something as simple as that.

  14. Re:Emi on EMI Cannot Unbundle Pink Floyd Songs · · Score: 1

    How many bands release albums where the whole album is good not just a few songs. This was the point the GP was making.

  15. Re:Good examples are there... on Improving Education Through Better Teachers · · Score: 2, Informative

    That was my point if public schools could remove the unmotivated students that slow down the classroom and the bad teachers they would do better. It would cost much less per student to educate 95% of the population and not force the 5% to go then to try to educate 100%.

  16. Re:Good examples are there... on Improving Education Through Better Teachers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The US educational problem come from two sources bad teachers, and bad students. Unions protect bad teachers and parents create bad students, both of these elements need to be fixed the simplest way is to remove the bad students and only keep the top teachers to teach the good students. Wasting money in an effort to educate the people who don't want to be educated is the standard lets stop letting the morons bring everyone else down. This is the main reason private schools do a much better job at educating no unions to protect bad teachers and disruptive students get the boot leaving good students and good teachers.

  17. Re:Fitting, so it will match the economy on Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? · · Score: 1

    It's not me you need to tell that too

  18. Re:Fitting, so it will match the economy on Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So how long until the current administration will be accountable for their actions unemployment has only risen since Obama has been in office.

  19. Re:Mod Parent Up! on Could the Tumbleweed Rover Dominate Mars? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fox news is simply the opposite of CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and ABC news the difference is that liberals have many places to get their propaganda while conservatives have 1 and since 40% of the population consider themselves conservatives to 20% liberal a single network that caters to these beliefs will do much better(see Oberman's ratings).

  20. Re:What's the problem? on Sony Patents Game Demos With Feature Erosion · · Score: 1

    Let's try this with a car analogy. Do you want a car that works fine for several days then suddenly won't start, or one that will lose features over time? Which one is more humane?

    They all ready have cars like that they're called Hondas.

  21. Re:Better reason is that Govt Jobs are a job progr on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am a government worker.

    I never liked the term government worker it implies they actually do something.

  22. Re:Possibly another reason on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 1

    1) no argument there
    2) I find it funny that the government is forcing all hospitals to keep records online while totaly ignoring how much it will cost them and how much time will be spent acheiving this. Yet they will undoubtly make sure that there is a loophole granted to government institutions so they don't have to upgrade. The governemnt waists billions of dollars on "economic redevelopment" yet they refuse to spend the necessiary money to make them more effective.
    3)Most of the staff will be let go/given early retirement because the tasks will be automated, they will no longer need someone to "phyiscally take the specs from the customer to the engineers"
    4)If it doesn't further their political agendia politians are not interested.
    5)All new systems have problems but saying that moving from printing out a document just to type in back in in another format will be faster is foolish.

  23. Re:A challenge... on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 1

    How would you know if the center car struck the front first or if the rear car caused the accident. Such a thing would be very difficult to decern.

  24. Re:This guy sounds out of touch on There Is No Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    The current administration is out of touch with the threat of cyberwar. When Russia invaded Georgia to control natural gas supplies Georgia's communications were shut down and mobilization efforts were hindered cyber war is an effictive tool and should not be dismissed so easily. The curent attacks on the US infrastructure are simply finding our many weaknesses and no matter of sticking our heads in the sand will stop it. The only way to stop it is to start taking a proactive approach, shoring up our weaknesses, and start doing the same to our enemies.

  25. Re:What a tool on There Is No Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Well after the "CYBER SHOCKWAVE" exercise proved to be a failure, Schmidt must feel its time to go French on the cyber war front.