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  1. Re:In between. on Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded · · Score: 1

    except the NBN co is a pubkic-private partnership.

    and almost all of what you said is wrong.

    nice modpointage though.

  2. Re:So the Dirty Bomb was more Media FUD on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    gonna need a citation for that.

  3. Re:Googlers = morally bankrupt. on Google Is Testing a Program That Tracks Your Purchases In the Real World · · Score: 1

    ... and that's all in 1 night!

  4. usefullness... on Google Is Testing a Program That Tracks Your Purchases In the Real World · · Score: 1

    if it can track my frigging receipts i'll take it come tax time, NSA or no NSA.

  5. The Universe... on When Does the Universe Compute? · · Score: 1

    does not compute.

  6. Re:Then where will we fix everything?!?!?!!! on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    bollocks! they'll have overlays in camera. the 1st AD will look and say "AY! your eyeline is off! take 2!"

  7. Re:Then where will we fix everything?!?!?!!! on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    they're talking about offloading post to pre...

    the work will all still be there, only now there's even more for the poor assistant editor to wrangle, because files wont be nicely named if they're done in a rush on set. forget about shot numbers, reel numbers, timecode, etc etc.

    more to do means more to forget, fuck up your shot, and have to fix in post.

  8. Re:Well, yea? on LucasFilm Combines Video Games and Movies To Eliminate Post-Production · · Score: 1

    cinematographers like it choppy.

    change it and the film changes.

    not saying it's good, just that frame-rates aren't everything to consider in a movie, as you're not whipping your virtual head all over the place. a camera isn't the same as a player's head in an FPS, and there's a whole language of how to move that camera around and how best to point it at things (and how to cast light on that thing in the best way possible to produce a certain effect).

    besides, most of post is editing. something george lucas is quite familiar with given how many times he's revisited his little trilogy. editing will not go away until we get one-take actors (and more importantly one-take directors!).

    *disclaimer - i work in post, but mercifully not VFX.

  9. Re:Austrailians as stupid as Americans? on Australia Elects Libertarian-Leaning Senator (By Accident) · · Score: 1

    greens preferences are actually pretty on-message. no nasty surprises there. in fact, i should have just voted above the line because i didn't do hours of research but they did, so some of my manual preferences will have been fudged.

  10. Re:Austrailians as stupid as Americans? on Australia Elects Libertarian-Leaning Senator (By Accident) · · Score: 2

    not entirely. the flow on of preferences is fiendishly complicated, even if you only vote above the line.

    the below-the-line votes haven't even been counted yet. in my state there were 97 boxes that you had to put a number in. one number wrong and the vote doesn't count.

    add to that the fact that most people still don't know how preferential voting works.

    tl;dr: i drew a 4 foot long dick on my senate ballot, after meticulously numbering 97 candidates in ascending order of my hatred of the candidate.

    non-australians: our Liberal party is basically the opposite of liberal.

  11. Re:If by "looking good", you mean "looking like iO on Inside OS X Mavericks · · Score: 1

    that's cute - posting AC and still concerned enough about how people see you to disclaim yourself :)

    (Disclaimer: i'm not such a cunt in real life)

  12. Re:Fuel cell - storage device or generator? on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1

    the cell part, yes. the fuel part, no.

    think of it as like a battery that doesn't carry the electrochemical stuff with it, but takes it from fuel.

  13. Re:Is the municipal power plant on the way out?" on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1

    it'll take natural gas. RTFA. it'll take that horrible e85 stuff too. hell, you could probably feed it on corn syrup if you're going down that route.

  14. Re:More ripping off the taxpayer on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1

    this man needs the mods.

  15. Re:why don't they on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 1

    i love mixed metaphors. a chain of Jenga blocks :)

  16. Re:African parent vs autism on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 1

    you either overstate the risks or overstate the population...

  17. Re:Most Africans are pretty sensible people on Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality · · Score: 1

    0 - insightful.

    makes sense :)

    and yeah, circumcision is just a way of saying "i don't trust you enough to keep your dick clean without help".

  18. Re:So basically one roll of film? on Billion-Pixel View of Mars Snapped By Curiosity · · Score: 1

    look up MTFs. film ain't so flash anymore.

    besides, i wonder how the film would look after going through radiation belts for months?

  19. Re:Our Children's Children's Children Will Save Us on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 1

    how do you get all that from the link you posted?

    - it's also fission.
    - it's somewhat safer, but all next-gen designs are somewhat safer
    - decommissioning will be much the same as the same thing is going on in there.
    - it has the inherent (and hard to "design out") ability to produce pure (like 100%) U233, which is a tremendous proliferation hazard.

    i still think they're a good idea, but i just don't like magical utopian thinking or misinformation.

  20. Re: Our Children's Children's Children Will Save on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 1

    you missed the bit about the heat exchanger. my god, you think all nuclear plants release radioactive steam as a matter of design? that perhaps radioactive water can transfer it's heat to clean running water without touching or mixing with it?

  21. Re:This is against current food movements. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    this.

    it's a convenient delivery method, and the design allows cheaper components to reach higher pressures, thus giving a better crema.

    sealing them off this way also keeps the coffee fresh longer, and the doses are measured and calibrated for the machine in question - it's idiot proof, at least until the machine fails.

    the only thing making it "not great" is the coffee used, and there's plenty to choose from.

    snobs will be snobs, but the pod system has clear advantages. overpackaging is a problem.

    me, i roast my own because i like getting chaff all over the house, and i like the eerily "cinema foyer from the 80s" smell you get. but i can't say the results are perfect, or even approaching consistent. i do it because i want to get good at it. if i just want good coffee i get it elsewhere.

  22. Re:This is against current food movements. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    (of course, food that's insufficiently sterilized stands a good chance of spoiling on you... it's never good to find that 50kg bag of spices is now so completely mouldy that it's unfit for consumption... and also infected with an exotic mould that's a possible biosecurity hazard, so you have to burn it all).

  23. Re:This is against current food movements. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    you jest, but a lot of food that is traded internationally gets a good dose of gamma rays in order to clear quarantine.

    though i'm not completely against this, it is enough to disqualify a food from being "organic", and hence reduces it's possible retail value.

    only steam is good enough for organic foods - at least they've somewhat made it into the industrial age :)

  24. Re:This is against current food movements. on 3-D Printable Food Gets Funding From NASA · · Score: 1

    foreveralone.jpg

  25. Re:Can't detect an A-bomb this way on Cell Phones As a Dirty Bomb Detection Network · · Score: 1

    duality be damned!