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  1. Slacker. on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    Most people only GOTO 10, but, the special amongst us go all the way to 11!

  2. Stop saying this! on Google to Open Source the VP8 Codec · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is no such thing as "Hardware Decoders". There are DSP's that support various large int/large float matrix calculations etc (ala GPU's) and firmware written for them to do the decoding. Such firmware can be written for any codec.

  3. If I am ever a victim of ID theft. on Why Lenders Overlook Warning Signs of ID Theft · · Score: 1

    I will send a letter to all the credit reporting agencies and the supposed creditors demanding that they immediately remove any offending references. If they do not, I will sue them for slander, defamation of character, and fraud. That is how it should be handled. They better be 100% sure that what they are reporting about me is in fact about me. Otherwise, it is a lie. That is slander and libel. It is also fraud because they are publishing something as the truth that they are unable to verify. It is causing me financial harm. I think I'd have a pretty good case.

  4. Re:WHATWG: The worst thing to happen to the Web. on Google Funds Ogg Theora For Mobile · · Score: 1

    Completely over ridding developer control.

    Yes, that's the point. It is a good thing. I, as a browser of the web, do not want you as the developer to have complete control over my experience.

  5. Not exactly... on HP Reports Memory Resistor Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ....isn't more along the lines of "Solid State Physics"?

  6. Re:I hate to be condecending... on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    It is more accurate to say that mass affects space by bending it.

    Well, that depends doesn't it? Is space-time really being "bent" or is that just a convenient interpretation of the model? I don't believe that point is completely settled. Also, it may not make a difference.

  7. Re:Not at all condescending... on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    change m=E/c2 to m=E/c^2

  8. Not at all condescending... on Man-Made Atomic Clocks the Best In the Universe · · Score: 1

    Gravity affects light (electro-magnetic radiation in discrete quanta called photons) in the exact same way it affects mass: F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2 where m1 and m2 are the masses of the respective bodies. G is the universal gravitation constant. r is the distance between the bodies. A photon of light has mass: m = E/c2 (where c is the velocity of light in a vacuum) and E is the energy of the photon (which is determined by the frequency). CAVEAT: The above uses the classical Newtonian formula for gravity. At the velocity of light, it isn't 100% correct. To have the exact correct value one must use the general theory of relativity (which the newtonian formula is an approximation of at normal velocities and energy levels). Regardlesss, the point is that mass and light are affecte the same by gravity.

  9. No. on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: 1

    Do the speed limit. Don't climb up my ass. I had my share of speeding tickets. Now I always do the speed limit. Don't like it, change the law. My state DOES NOT dictate that left-lane is for passing only (except on Turnpike). Only if move less than speed limit.

  10. Re:First Post? on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 1

    I think you may have missed my tongue in my cheek!

  11. Re:Even more reason on Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem · · Score: 1

    I never said the root server did answer recursive queries. I just defined what it would be like if they did.

  12. Please! on White House Issues New Gas Mileage Standards · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    SHUT THE FUCK UP! I am so fucking sick of this bull-shit. You live in a society on a world where resources are becoming scarce. There isn't going to be enough of everything (and never was) for everyone to have whatever the fuck they want. If you don't want to be regulated by society than you're on your own. If so, I'll kill you and take all your shit! Dumb-Ass!

  13. Huh? on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you even seen "Going Postal"? AWE-FUCKING-SOME!

  14. Oh, yeah? on Magnetism Can Sway Man's Moral Compass · · Score: 1

    I TRIPLE-DOG-DARE ya!

  15. Can we please stop calling it... on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    ...the "God" particle. WTF, does "GOD" have to do with it? It is the "Higgs Boson" and is theorized to be the Quanta of the Gravitational Force. Why it would be termed the "GOD" particle is beyond me. If you believe in "God" then every particle is the "God" particle.

  16. Bullshit! on How To Build Roads To Control How Fast You Drive · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You're not worried or inconvenienced by Grandma in the "FAST LANE" (which there is no such thing in the U.S. - there is one speed limit. PERIOD). You're upset that someone is doing 70 mph in the left lane when there are bunches of exits and entrance ramps and you want to do 85 mph. FUCK OFF!

  17. Talking about funny misreadings... on How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? · · Score: 1

    his hers tits

  18. Re:Even more reason on Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem · · Score: 1

    Next, your local DNS server (the one your computer asked) recursively asks ns1.google.com for the IP number of "www.google.com".

    Please don't misuse "recursively" like this. It makes the rest of your otherwise intelligent post sound stupid. I think you meant "iteratively" rather than "recursively". A recursive DNS quey goes like this: 1) You ask your local DNS, 2) Your local DNS asks another root (or possibly non-root) DNS, 3) the other DNS asks another 4) the "another" asks "another" 5) Finally, somewhere in the chain, it returns an answer "recursively" through the chain of requests from DNS server to another to you. Normally, DNS looku-up works the way you describe, "iteratively". The "recursive" way is special and requires a DNS server to be configured for "recursive resolution".

  19. Being someone who does A LOT of medical records... on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1

    ...in what way do they not map to the relational model? If you say "unstructured data", that is not an answer.

  20. Missed in PostgreSQL? on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that at least as of 8.4 PostgreSQL supports XML fairly robustly.

  21. Yes, it does. on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Each transaction of those 200,000,000 for WalMart is a fairly significant source of revenue. Averaging on the order of $50.00 to $100.00 per transaction. That same 200,000,000 transactions for a web application would average like $ 0.03 (yes, 3 cents). Now, if the cost per transaction using tradition RDBMS is something like $ 0.25 (25 cents), how is that going to work for the Web case? What if the cost is $ 0.01? Still epic fail for the web case.

  22. Ummm.... on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1

    ...and those OLAP systems are most likely ROLAP or perhaps ROLAP with MOLAP support also. In any case, the underlying non-aggregated data is probably in an SQL database that supports materialized views and auto-aggregate tables. The OLAP is simply a multi-dimensional aggregate cache that sits in front of it.

  23. Are you so sure about that? on Major 'Net Players Mulling IPv6 Whitelist · · Score: 1

    How does multicase require intelligence in the network? Multi-Cast works like this:

    1. My computer tells my router, "Hey there, I'd like to get packets destined for the Multi-Cast Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or in IPv5 XX:XX:XX..."
    2. My router tells routers it is talking to, "Hey I'd like to get packets destined for Multi-Case Address: ...."
    3. A Multi-Caster sends a packet to all it's routers
    4. Those routers check if any routers it talks to requested that traffic, if so, it sends it
    5. Eventually the traffic gets to routers where one or more endpoints requested it
    6. The routers send it to the end-points

    How is this any more intelligence than that already built into the network?

  24. First Post? on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability · · Score: 2

    I'm starting to think that all the Hoopla over Patents, Copyright, and Trademarks is misplaced. Maybe we should all just work within the system?

  25. I say, friend... on The Mono Mystery That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    ...WOOSH!