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  1. Re:To what end? on A Billion-Color Display · · Score: 1

    If you're doing graphics, you often have to make edits on tiny things that aren't perceptually different unless you're zoomed really far in but have an impact on things as a whole. Which is important if you're making a movie on an eight-figure budget.

  2. Also distracting: on Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    Driving while having an MRI.

  3. Re:We're sorry on Iron Sky Trailer · · Score: 1
  4. We're sorry on Iron Sky Trailer · · Score: 1

    This video is no longer available.

  5. Re:Energy = heat on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    Other anti-radar paints do this too. I doubt the hottest point of the airplane would be different if it "glowed" or not. Its exhaust is almost certainly hotter.

  6. Re:Uses on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    Jamming means broadcasting static, etc. on certain frequencies that you don't have a license for, but it's not illegal to block them. Insulating your house with tinfoil isn't illegal; it's just not a very good insulator.

  7. Well done, dude on MiniOn ARM Microcontroller Programming System · · Score: 1

    Seriously, that's some pretty awesome stuff. :D

  8. Re:SuddenOutbreakOfMoralSense on AT&T Accidentally Provides Free Wi-Fi To All · · Score: 1

    And how isn't this defrauding someone?

  9. Re:Wouldn't it be nice... on Spammers Hijacking IP Space · · Score: 1

    So what? There's enough internet to go around – do we really need any of the stuff that ARIN doesn't have control over?

  10. Re:US jury system does it again on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not if you know when to shut up.

  11. Re:We tried that on Focused Microwaves Could Enable Wireless Power Transfer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He didn't say "died".

  12. Re:C/C++ is dying! on Are C and C++ Losing Ground? · · Score: 1

    Everyone benefits from not having to reload all the sidebars, etc. on a page when they click a link. It's less bandwidth too.

  13. Re:The way things are going on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 0

    That's not necessarily too bad. Without precluding myself from caring about other people as individuals, the world's poorest will start to die out from overpopulation and subsequent famine, poverty may become less of a problem as there's more to go around per person.

    Extrapolating even further, these neo-poor populations may have enough money to pull themselves out of poverty over the course of a few generations.

    Remember, the less of us there are, the more each of us has. Let's shoot for less than two children per family (combined average), worldwide, so our kids will lead better lives than we do and so on.

  14. Well, I'm sure impressed... on Storing Data For the Next 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Wow. It's a really big RAID hooked up to a flash drive filled with metadata and deferred writes. Good job guys, you just invented a hybrid hard drive. Oh, wait...

    Of course, this has a pretty cool real-world application in that hybridizing storage systems, that is adding a flash drive to defer disk writes and store metadata and such, appears to reduce MTTFs in any real-world archive, be it a 3-disk RAID for a home office or an incremental backup of the entire internet.

  15. Re:Ummm..freezing is now 0 F? on Extreme Linux Server Available to North America · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not to mention it's suited better to everyday life.

    the metric system for distance is pansy BS. if i'm going 100 of something, i want it to be legitimately fast. the metric(type) system for temperature is also BS. When it is hot, the temp should be in triple digits, not at 38C. the metric system just isn't scaled for awesome, and that's why the US doesn't use it. -Drew Heyman
  16. Pretty simple here people. on British Police Use Facebook to Gather Evidence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You add the application, and you give it a bunch of permissions. You don't like that? Don't add it. End of story, now shut up.

  17. Obligatory conspiracy theory on The Inside Story of the Armed Robot Pullout Rumor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe the story is just a way for Qinetiq and Foster-Miller to get more attention and attract more investors to a previously less-known-about company?

  18. Re:Unix 1 - Humanity 0 on Schoolboy Corrects NASA's Math On Killer Asteroid · · Score: 1

    What if this is his doing? I bet it is... let's kill him and see what that does for his precious "probability"!

  19. Re:OH WOW on Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg · · Score: 1

    Your 1963 car also has 30 horsepower. Modern cars put out 80+ hp while giving similar figures (e.g. Ford Fiesta). (Diesels are even better, but they're not necessarily any more cost-effective due to price fluctuations)

  20. Re:hmmm... $18k isn't that much for a Home Theater on What an $18,000 Home Theater Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but is your system going to sell any... what are these guys selling again?

  21. Re:Not "every moment" on MyLifeBits to Store Every Moment of Your Life · · Score: 1

    At least for now... imagine Facebook in 40 years.

  22. Re:Bottom line...Not quite on Users Know Advertisers Watch Them, and Hate It · · Score: 1

    What is it?

  23. Re:Are they kidding? on T-Mobile Claims Trademark In the Color Magenta · · Score: 1

    Engadget Mobile is a blog about cell phones that uses pink in their title (this is their normal logo). It could, in theory, be confusing to some people looking for T-Mobile. Which is apparently a big enough "could be" for Deutsche Telekom (T-Mo's parent company) and their lawyers.

  24. Re:from the king-is-a-fink dept. on Wireshark 1.0 Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    let yOUR conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there. Sounds like a random snippet of text that goes at the end of spam.
  25. Dear RIAA, on Why the RIAA Really Hates Downloads · · Score: 3, Funny

    We win. You lose. Hugs and kisses, Everyone