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  1. Re:A robot on Winning Algorithms For Rock, Paper, Scissors · · Score: 1

    You mean like this?

  2. If this is real... on Yahoo Stops Honoring 'Do-Not-Track' Settings · · Score: 2

    IIRC yahoo is worth less than nothing at the moment. Re: www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-17/is-yahoo-s-business-worth-less-than-nothing

    Why would I listen to a company with such outstanding performance?

  3. Re:But... on Mobile Game Attempts To Diagnose Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your mobile device is a mobile-device.

  4. Re:Universities should have no patents on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    To counter your anecdote my University *does* sell textbooks. I've bought lab manuals the-day-of when I forgot them before my commute.

  5. Re:It's teh googlezzzz!!!! on The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Correct, they are not the same thing.

    Tagging can contain the structure of a folder system with inherant deduplication of data. 1 tag per foldername contained in path. Done. Then you can add the file to another "folder" by adding a tag. Search for your regular foldername and you have your "folder" without browsing an entire hierarchy of foldernames.

    That being said I don't really tag my files - I use folder hierarchies and don't worry about dupes (this is /. after all). I can see the expanded utility of tags though especially from a "searchable data" perspective.

  6. Re:Wordpress is crap on Large DDoS Attack Brings WordPress Pingback Abuse Back Into Spotlight · · Score: 1

    XP is decent for its time and is still sufficient for some purposes(firewalled etc.)

    I think parent wanted (Wordpress==WinME).

  7. Re: model plane != plane on Drone Pilot Wins Case Against FAA · · Score: 2

    This.

    Also: I can go purchase an rc plane/heli complete with cam transmitter and perform the same activity right now in a comparable location. There are TOYS that can accomplish this. Have the FAA complained yet about flying toys with video? Serious question.

  8. mod options on Windows 8 Metro: The Good Kind of Market Segmentation? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where do I mod this article -1 Flamebait? I'd really like to know.

  9. Re:There is another possible black hole's firewall on How the Black Hole Firewall Paradox Was Resolved · · Score: 2

    There is a simple proof to the contrary but the /. comment system is too small a space in which to contain it. There are many, many hours of Susskind videos on Youtube, primarily and most recently "ER=EPR|Leonard Susskind", which deal with exactly this.

  10. Re:Perhaps not on Stephen Hawking: 'There Are No Black Holes' · · Score: 1

    If you were to create a world AND place yourself* in it, then yes you would be subject to its laws.

    *yourself in this context could be a digital brainscan or equivalent representation as long as the representation has what you posess-free will(maybe) consciousness etc ...

  11. Re:Cool science coming... on CERN Antimatter Experiment Produces First Beam of Antihydrogen · · Score: 1

    First off IANAP.
    To throw some variables out there:

    As I understand it the conjecture under review is:
    M(rest)=M(grav)=M(inertia)

    Implicit from Einsteins field equations,
    R_mu_nu - (1/2)g_mu_nu*R + g_mu_nu*GAMMA = (8pi*G/c^4)*T_mu_nu

    somewhat like the next layer beyond E^2=m^4c^4+p^2c^2 (lorentz invarient form iirc?)

    I wont see it in my University courses for a few years but from online lectures and pdfs i have a bare understanding of the implications if the conjecture is false:
    1. The dark matter problem 'could' go away if the conjecture is found to be false. Not too likely imo

    2 If the different masses are NOT equivalent then here there be dragons! i.e. new interesting physics underneath-perheps leading to new propulsion systems.

    I'm sure someone will pipe up and correct me if i'm wrong enough.

  12. Re:I really thought they would never actually fix on Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sounds like you should have rolled the updates into an updated xp iso. Search the MS kb for more info.

  13. Re:9.1 on Windows 9 Already? Apparently, Yes. · · Score: 1

    Just wait for the parallels to be drawn between the Win9(likely rebranded as W9 or somesuch-the new guy has to make a mark somehow) running on top of Metro vs. Win 3.11 on top of DOS 6.22...

  14. Re:The universe is self-organizing, ... on Stormy Alien Atmospheres May Spark Seeds of Life · · Score: 1

    Reply to self: Yep. /code ate the a href=blah blah... good to know.

  15. Re:The universe is self-organizing, ... on Stormy Alien Atmospheres May Spark Seeds of Life · · Score: 1

    I'll just put this here... 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate Plaintext url if /. Eats the link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8

  16. Re:Does it matter? on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    Win 7 ran fine on MY old hardware. (P4 2.8ghz nvidia gofx 5200)Perhaps you chose the wrong system when you bought it years back.

  17. Re:The new layout... WHAT THE FUCK?! on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    Opera on ios has kept my classic layout intact. Mostly...

  18. Re:Doom on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    "Does anyone know what happens if you drop the
    One Ring down a sink?"

    OK, I'll bite. The One Ring (go from the print version here...) seems to follow the same rules detailed in Zalazny's "chronicles of amber" series so it would resize itself (definitely among its powers) and shift its surroundings until it can traverse the sewer lines and be found by its next victim on the path back to Sauron (also within its powers). Or it might just be caught in the u-pipe under the sink if it likes its owner.

  19. Re:What do commercial planes have? on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Aircraft_Certification_for_Bird_Strike_Risk

    Bird strikes are actually rather common on civilian flights.

    Civilian airliners are designed for withstanding all forces by birdstrike at standard cruise speed at sea level(example on the linked page works out to 16 tons of force on a windshield) where military fighters have varying ratings and a MUCH larger max airspeed (remember Kinetic Energy = mass * velocity^2, velocity is the main contributor to KE) along with weight restrictions to maintain accelleration curves and manoeuverability. Most fighter canopies can withstand standard takeoff and landing speeds though.

  20. Re:Metal Mesh? on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    At near-mach speeds embedded metal becomes shrapnel.

  21. Re:I got burned by the font rendering bug last tim on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    My win8 laptop crashes hard with a kernal_security_check_failure when I plug in *any* mouse while it's running. Trade ya!

  22. Re:Speed is good, but what about range? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    Maybe in freefall...

  23. Re:Huh? on New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips · · Score: 1

    Automating the process would be handy, but not revolutionary. Automating it at the system level makes more sense to me but i'm just a power user.

  24. Re:Huh? on New Framework For Programming Unreliable Chips · · Score: 1

    For PC and laptop, yes I can.

    Overclocking utilities can also underclock and near the lower stability threshold of graphics frequency, I often do see a few pixels out of whack. Not enough to crash, but artifacts definitely appear. A mhz or 2 higher clock clears them up though.

    I have a dumb phone so reclocking it isn't necessary.

  25. Re:45 years ago... on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    Dax asked Worf about the smooth foreheads in DS9 the trouble with tribbles revisit. He said,iirc, "I'd rather not talk about it."

    Haven't seen it since original air so i might be wrong.