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  1. psychology 101 on Microsoft's 911 Patent · · Score: 1

    The only interface you can figure out how to use when under the duress of an emergency is one you already know how to use. That's why there exist such things as repeated safety training and fire drills.

  2. Re:Skycar - future fuel will be a problem on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    BP brings Thunder Horse online this year, the biggest off-shore field ever. Atlantis comes online next year, which is also quite large. BP has expensive options to drill in offshore areas that the technology to reach won't exist for at least 10 years. Shell and Exxon have placed similar bets.

    I take it you refer to the blue spike here...

    Take a look at the gap between discovery and consumption here

  3. Re:Skycar - future fuel will be a problem on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    At the present rate of oil consumption, which is increasing by the way, the crude oil reserves will be exhausted in about 20 years.

    Too bad the rate of production will decrease, not increase, starting right about now. That brings on a slightly different set of problems, of course. But it does mean that our oil reserves won't get used up within 20 years :-)

  4. Re:Fifteen years is nothing.... on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    well then, show me

  5. Re:Fifteen years is nothing.... on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Mirror?!? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    nope, they're just down the street from me a ways. check it out

  7. Re:Yeah... on A 2nd Core to Keep Windows Chugging Along? · · Score: 1

    Sure, if a two threaded app does that, you're screwed.

    What the hell are you talking about? Linux 2.4 on a dualie handles a loadavg of six with better responsiveness than Linux 2.4 on a single with a loadavg of three.

  8. Re:Not for those who have been blind since birth.. on Ophthalmologists, Physicists Design Bionic Eye · · Score: 1

    drinking too much rubbing alcohol

    That's wood alcohol, CH3OH. The body converts it to formaldehye, CH2O, which is rather reactive and cross-links your retinal proteins, leaving them unable to respond to light. Rubbing alcohol is CH3CHOHCH3, and basically gives you a hangover without making you drunk.

  9. Re:Coke Smugglers. on Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Hmmm.... on Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream · · Score: 1
  11. Re:I've seen it happen on Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker · · Score: 1

    the natural logarithm base e = 2.718281828459...

  12. Re:I've seen it happen on Apple Settles with Tiger Leaker · · Score: 1

    dude, your username is rounded improperly. you should have either included the next digit (8), or rounded the last 2 to a 3. :)

  13. Re:Anyone else worried? on The War on Public Knowledge · · Score: 1

    "sensitive" is a somewhat-meaningless modifier to "unclassified". the basic levels are:

    unclassified
    unclassified + sensitive
    -----
    confidential
    secret
    top secret

    other modifiers exist, including "secret/special compartmentalized information" added on to "top secret" to make TS/SCI, and "special access programs" or SAPs.

    read here for more

  14. Re:Trusted Computing: Both good and bad on BBC on DRM and Trusted Computing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No... trusted computing means that the first person who finds a flaw in that part of the operating system gets to write a virus that Norton/etc IS NOT ALLOWED TO LOOK AT, LET ALONE REMOVE!

  15. Re:Conflict of interests on Orrin Hatch to Lead Senate Panel on Copyright, Patents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    hahahahaha, he's got the MPEG copyright flag turned OFF on those files.

  16. Re:numbers on Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Winamp 5? What's that?

    I don't complain about it because I never bothered to upgrade beyond 2.X :)

  17. Re:Browser cache on Joss Whedon to Write/Direct Wonder Woman · · Score: 1

    In case you didn't notice, I got the original JPEGs and not a printscreen copy. And actually, the server was protectionist enough that the images were not even loading in my browser... my ad blocking something or another must have given the server the wrong impression. If they had loaded, I would have used the browser cache. Since they didn't, I used some wget trickery.

  18. Re:Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon to Write/Direct Wonder Woman · · Score: 1

    Looking her up, one of the main fansites has some "exclusive" photos of her that are "un-copyable in any way", protected using some lame combination of javascript, html, and server checking. That's the sort of thing that pisses me off, so here they are.

  19. Re:What about UML? on Novell To Ship Xen in Next Version of Suse · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I run linux-vserver, and I have not used UML, only looked at it.

    linux-vserver is pretty well hardened against a malicious root user in a guest from doing anything at all to the host, or other guests. Especially if you use grsecurity on it as well. You can't get out via the normal methods, and no /dev/mem exists, and you can disallow the guest from creating a /dev/mem.

    With UML, a malicious root user in a guest can, if they know what they're doing, use that to get access to the user account in the host that the UML is running under.

  20. Re:Understanding risk on Senator Calls on NASA to Service Hubble · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This actually shows up in the movie Contact, although that's not a real reference.

  21. Re:Why rumors? on Apple's Dev. Tools Hint @ Dual-core G5 & Quad Mac · · Score: 1

    Duh, it's human nature to want to find out secrets you know someone is hiding from you.

  22. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives · · Score: 1

    For all intents and purposes, you are running Wine on an Intel processor.

    Well, duh. But IMO it's still a counterexample to "There are solutions for running Windows on PPC, both closed and open source, but Wine is not one of them."

    How well does it perform with more complicated and/or demanding applications?

    Unfortunately, right now the qemu ppc host support is not as advanced as x86 host, and/or wine likes to do lots of crazy stuff, so most win32 programs do not run at all. sol.exe for example crashes out without displaying anything.

  23. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives · · Score: 1

    The profanity is simply unnecessary. I am making an informed statement, but could certainly be wrong. An aggravated emotional response is not required.

    My apologies for the misunderstanding; my use of profanity here does not indicate aggravation.

  24. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. on Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives · · Score: 1

    vanilla wine compiled for x86
    putty.exe from its own website
    gentoo ppc on the laptop
    the latest qemu compiled from source

  25. Re:Why run Linux on a Mac, if you're not Linus? on Torvalds Switches to a Mac · · Score: 1

    The OS is what makes the system so insanely great.

    You left part of that sentence out: "... for me."

    Just because you like the operating system part the best, does not mean that I do, too.