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  1. Re:ok... on Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus · · Score: 1

    Lag is not the same thing as resync time. Once your TV has finished switching from one source to the other, do events onscreen happen a measurable time *after* they occur in the source?

    That would be lag.

  2. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    From the Light Peak page:

    Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible

    This is the opposite of what I thought I knew about fiber optics. Can anyone explain in detail? How can an optical cable be made more flexible(and still work) than a copper one?

  3. Re:good. on Working Toward a Universal Power Brick For Laptops · · Score: 1

    I play games on an HDMI-connected monitor, and I can assure you that this is not the case.

  4. Re:So... on Microsoft Spurned Researchers Release 0-Day · · Score: 1

    The creator of the jigsaw puzzle probably hasn't made all that many public claims about the puzzle's robustness or fitness to a particular task.

  5. Re:Hmmm... on Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System · · Score: 1

    the state's ticket revenues from traffic violations greatly exceed the state's ticket revenues from pedestrian violations. Therefore, they care a lot more about enforcing one than the other.

    This might be true, but it's awfully cynical. If we were more charitable we could say "The public safety benefit in enforcing traffic violations greatly exceeds that of pedestrian violations."

  6. Re:They may not talk about it on Symbian, the Biggest Mobile OS No One Talks About · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Next best thing: The racism is dereferenced onto the free market, so all they've gotta do is price it just out of reach of that Minority Section on the economic bell-curve.

  7. Re:Why it was made big on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sometimes links won't open in a new tab because they're implemented with some Flash and/or Javascript fuckery. When this happens, I just regular-click on the link and then middle-click on the 'back' button - thereby opening up the previous page in a new tab instead.

  8. particularly on skyscrapers on Boy Builds Wall-Climbing Machine Using Recycled Vacuums · · Score: 2, Informative

    Window washers may also want to carry around a UPS on their backs.

  9. Re:Great News for Companies Scarred by IE6 on IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    Does the Windows permission scheme permit you to block execution of any user-writable code?

  10. Re:UFS. on Best Format For OS X and Linux HDD? · · Score: 1

    I've converted 6 non-geeks in the past year (4 of those since Lucid). Are you doing your part?

  11. Re:Encryption on Russian Spy Ring Needed Some Serious IT Help · · Score: 1

    Three layers? And this obfuscates sufficiently?

    How odd!

  12. Re:Ethanol?! on Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste · · Score: 1

    You can have the wood-chip vodka. I'm sticking with gin.

  13. Re: Detroit's history of corruption - shakedown on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    Also, gun nuts.

  14. Re:It's not a 0-day anymore.... on Adobe Finally Fixes Remote Launch 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Nah, 0-day remains 0-day throughout the first ("zeroth") day in which it's released. So if the devs can get a patch out the door the same day that the exploit is first disclosed in public, it counts.

  15. Re:It's not a 0-day anymore.... on Adobe Finally Fixes Remote Launch 0-Day · · Score: 1

    I logged in to ask exactly this.

    If a company patches 0-day exploits, their dev team is really on top of shit.

  16. Re:Stock price already increased on Tesla IPO Raises $226 Million · · Score: 1

    One of the oldest ways to initiate a threesome is to not have quite enough seating.

  17. Re:The untimely war on filesharing. on Why Google, Bing, Yahoo Should Fear ACTA · · Score: 1

    Simplified your logic for ya:

    You need to have the new Lady Gaga record in order to be happy.

  18. Re:More money than brains? on iPhone 3G vs. Solar Death Ray · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your idea sucks. "iPhone 3G successfully unloaded on Craigslist" would make a terrible Idle video.

  19. Re:Just think before you share on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    you can tag them with a name, but since it's not associated with a Facebook account, the name is just a text string rather than a whole tangle of metadata. So Facebook has no particular way of knowing that two "Tom Smith"s tagged in different albums are the same guy, and you can't get to the other Tom Smith photos by clicking through that one.

  20. Re:Just think before you share on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    So the real lesson is, don't do stupid shit that could be construed as stupid by any of the people in your present or future life in the first place.

    FTFY

  21. Re:Err what? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 1

    Because access to your cellphone is restricted by the physical possession of that cellphone. This MSN thing is more like if your wife was able to see your missed calls on her cellphone.

  22. Re:Before you do it on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    How is a tat going to help you get laid? I find tats on women a turn off. Not necessarily a deal breaker, but certainly a negative.

    See what you did there? Someone who understood subjectivity would not do that.

    So, what's logical about wanting to cover a scar? Do you have some sort of sentimental or aesthetic investment in distracting people from your past injuries? Next you'll be telling me that chicks don't dig them either, since you don't dig them on said chicks.

  23. Someone funded this? on Programmable Origami · · Score: 1

    What a silly-looking "invention". The actuators they've developed may indeed be useful but this video makes it hard to imagine a single real application. Dynamically-resizing folding cups? I can't wait!

  24. Re:Err what? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hang on a second here. Did you just point out that MSN works kind of like Facebook, and then insinuate that this means the privacy is fine?

  25. Re:Open communication? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing *you* haven't.

    (Where "real woman" means something roughly analagous to "real man", as opposed to the more usual /. definition, "not a blow up doll")