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  1. Re:Google just fell prey to a common phenomenon on When Google Got Flu Wrong · · Score: 1

    I think you need to RTFA, because this has nothing to do with what you're talking about (i'm not entirely sure what point you're making, because what you appear to be saying is complete nonsense, and i'd hold you to a higher standard than that).

    google has most likely fallen prey to "man flu" syndrome, where a sniffle and a headache is confused with actually having the flu, which can kill.

  2. Re:Fascinating on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    TFA says this one was modified for disability. so i presume it's an auto, and god knows what sort of drive-by-wire was in it.

    apparently it had locked up before... i'm not sure how believable this all is. i wonder if the results of Renault's investigation will make it to the front page?

    perhaps the on-board computer needs a few assert calls?

  3. Re:Awesome on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    i'm pretty sure it wont and they wont.

  4. Re:Awesome on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    yes, this is a very good question, as i've not heard of epileptics being allowed to drive anywhere else.

  5. Re:Awesome on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 1

    two seizures? like those two times he went for the brake and missed?

  6. Re:Because: Patents. on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 1

    nah, in the case of fuel cells it's scalability. fitting one big enough to run a car into a car requires them to run at such high temperatures that they become a little dangerous.

    soon though. they have systems that will power a house that don't also burn the house down. there's lots of people working on it, as it's fossil fuel friendly and fracked-gas friendly, so fuel cells get a little more Big Company support.

  7. Re:Pathetic. on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1

    the evidence he presented was a defence, not an attack. he can't help if the evidence leads to not-so-flattering implications for the journalist.

    journalist was too dumb to realise that a car full of so much technology might possibly have logging capabilities...

  8. mind the power supplies on Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server · · Score: 1

    those buggers may be redundant, but if one goes you're still up shit creek.

    also, one of them went splodey in my old boss' face one time. i can't say i was too upset about it.

  9. market opportunity on Raytheon's Riot Program Mines Social Network Data For Intelligence Agencies · · Score: 1

    there's an opportunity for anybody with some capital behind them to make an absolute killing selling phones that have no paper trail. cash or bitcoin. kind of like a legal black market.

    kim dotcom? he's got reason to want to anonymize people again.

    dissident activity requires anonymity. intel agencies should be worried that the path they are taking is going to force protest into a state that simply cannot be traced back to individuals. it's not too difficult to achieve, and if people follow simple rules they can not even be traced using heuristics.

    imagine a large population of mobile devices with no names attached to them, no GPS location data, all speaking to each other through nonsensical names on a secure chat, talking in code and euphemism. it's not perfect, but it could arise while the three letter agencies are looking in the other direction (mining facebook for lolcats).

  10. Re:GiB on When 1 GB Is Really 0.9313 Gigabytes · · Score: 1

    suffixes*

  11. Re:And I should give a rat's ass... on Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device' · · Score: 1

    nothing to take notes for still. we should have been taking notes with the original iPod, but now Apple can very safely trade on their name and nothing more.

    so taking notes will only be useful if you're already Apple.

  12. Re:It's not Linux, it's the tablets and smartphone on Microsoft May Be Seeking Protection From Linux With Dell Loan · · Score: 1

    yeah. i think the later crops of Toshibas are pretty cheaply made, sadly. i have fond memories of a pentium 100 tecra that i couldn't kill no matter how much abuse it received.

    i've no unique data on this machine, funnily enough.

  13. Re:From the Gimp to Lightroom on The Book of GIMP · · Score: 1

    +1 darktable.

    very active development, very sophisticated tools, a UI that is familiar to lightroom users, and new builds have lightroom import (tags, some filters, crop/rotate, exposure. not perfect but good enough to aid migration). it's database driven so you can search by tag or rating or colour, or even image similarity.

    my only gripe is that it relies too heavily on luma-only processing and so a lot of contrast adjustments can look bleached in the highlights and shadows. i really wish for an RGB/Lab toggle switch or similar. this can be worked around with some twiddling.

  14. Re:Happened already here. on Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    you quite possibly caught Anonymous' latest ddos weapon...

  15. Re:It's not Linux, it's the tablets and smartphone on Microsoft May Be Seeking Protection From Linux With Dell Loan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there's a whole lot of netbooks out there using some kind of celeron thing. i have a toshiba that runs win7 very well. by "well", i mean the experience is good but the stability is not so and i get ~2 hourly BSODs. that's as well as you're likely to get out of a mac to be honest (i just bought one, and i've gotta say, linux is easier and faster to get to a point where it's useful).

    there's a lot of assumption out there about OS's that's actually quite wrong.
    - windows is unstable
    - linux requires a comp-sci degree to use
    - osx is stable and easy to use

    since buying my mac, i've realized that OSX is less stable than winXP and more difficult to set up than ubuntu (by a lot!). maybe it's because it was a fresh install of snow leopard, which is quite old now... but then winXP is very VERY old now, so apple have no excuse to offer less support to 10.6 than MS does for something they EOL'd long ago.

  16. Re:Economy is not a science. on Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin · · Score: 1

    thing that gets me is... Australia is doing better than almost all the world, and by quite a lot.

    given how retarded politics is here, I can only conclude that we are, indeed, The Lucky Country.

    that, or Gina Rinehart is holding us all up with her magnificent girth.

  17. Re:Economy is not a science. on Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin · · Score: 4, Funny

    this post needs all of the mods

  18. Re:Killed by DRM and licensing on Sony To Make Its Last MiniDisc System Next Month · · Score: 5, Informative

    you could install the sony shit and use GraphEdit to wrangle it to your will, but generally it was never worth having to real-time play everything like the analog days.

    great hardware, terrible software. this is how sony roll.

  19. Re:They r the 1s causing violence & disease w on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    care to elucidate further on that thought?

  20. Re:Asimov was here on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    well known by stock market types. which makes me wonder what the purpose of financial reporting is.

  21. Re:Past performance... on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 3, Informative

    jokes typically place consistency with reality a little further down in the list of priorities than whatever you were expecting as a first post.

  22. Re:Past performance... on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 1

    yes, because Microsoft built all those fake Apple stores in China.

  23. i hope i never need to use a program you've worked on.

  24. Re:Good for them. on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 1

    your spelt "fascists" wrong...

  25. Re:Good for them. on Apple Angers Mac Users With Silent Shutdown of Java 7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    i love the Hurd logo - representing all 4 of it's users.