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  1. Re:The most interesting question: WHY? on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From my point of view, he is clearly up to something, some coup we cannot clearly think about.

    He wanted to be 100% sure that Putins party and his favoured
    others (Schirinowski) parties get

    1.) a clear +66 percent in the Duma (russian parliament)
    2.) Putin can show this result like a trophy that the russians fully trust him

    ( they entiteled him to be a leader )

    if you recall his announcement for his past presidential time, he don't want to become
    a Prime Minister, but he wants to stay as an influential adviser for the future devellopment
    of russia, would he install a third position additional to the president or the prime minister,
    this will be interisting how this turns out.

    Well a pupet master who pulls the strings ?

  2. Re:Whoopsie! on Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some years ago, he held a speech in front of the german parliament (the "Bundestag" ) in german
    and you could clearly hear, how even then he tried to cover his accent, while his use of the german language was overall very good.

  3. Re:No big surprise here. on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment · · Score: 1

    A matter of time is now ! .. or some weeks ago

    - I read an article in a newspaper, about a discussion to get the cookie monster off
    the cookies and to carrots, because of worries about dental hygene and diabetes Type2
    induced by too much sweets.

    Well and this took place in germany, I don't know if our(german) adaption of the "Sesame Street"
    features now a carrot eating monster, but it's possible ;)

    Sorry I don't have more information on this, I don't watch Sesame Street as often as I should, but since Kermit wasn't permitted to act as an embedded reporter, because of his insufficient
    camouflage colour, I couldn't support the show ;)

  4. Re:But they'll live in garbage cans! on Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Children learn from experience, so from my point of view it is an experience
    when a five year old tries to smoke a cigarette of his dad, because 23 years ago I experienced
    this, and hell I don't smoke till now ;)

  5. Re:Smartcar + streetcar (+ shopping trolleys) = on MIT Offers City Car for the Masses · · Score: 1

    I can tell you the SMART is popular everywhere ;)

    1.) the SMART started as a total flop with salesrates below the estimated

    2.) the SMART was rediscovered by people who wanted a cheap car, with low space requirement
    and less fuelconsumption*

    3.) it was cheap than because it was a flop

    4.) while it's popularity climbed the prices done that too

    5.) production of the SMART 4-four (a 5-door type Smart) got canceled

    Due to phase 2.) I also thought it wasn't suitable for anything, but when I went
    to Rome (in 1999) (Italy) I saw many of them, compared to were I come from. The smart with his small size is perfect when parking in Rome where parking loots are rare as water in desert.
    One smart was even inhabitated by a homeless guy, so you have a multicar on the road ;)

    But the best argument for anybody to buy a SMART simply is you do really get
    a "mercedes benz" ;) "Daimler Benz" the other part of former daimler-crysler.

    *pls don't use "fuel efficiency" because if you compare weight and
    fuel consumption and different circumstances you will recognize that some bigger
    cars consume more fuel but are more efficient)

  6. Re:By all means lets go ahead and do this... on The Development of Ecologically Sound Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Well, it's rather not that simple, the emmision of CO2 by aircraft takes place
    in the higher atmosphere, it's believed and there are hints that this CO2 emmitted there,
    will take longer to reenter the CO2 cycle of woods or the ocean, than those emmitted at ground level.

  7. Books on Mathematics on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 1

    Author : John Bird -
    Titel : Basic Engineering Mathematics
    4edt.

        - starts low, but increases
        - good and detailed examples
        - online availible ;)

    Navy Courseware
        - good examples
        - from basic to advanced
        - online ;) availible

    for german and german speaking readers

    Author : Lothar Papula
    Titel : Mathematik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler 1,2,3

        - detailed solutions
        - determined for people who want to apply mathematics rather than study mathematics

  8. G.M. - A company with a very specific instinct on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    .. what people don't want, and won't buy, or simply rip-off

    Sorry, but are the company's leaders braindead ?
    At the moment G.M. is hardly recovering from a near Chapter 11 situation, and now this precious move, I hope the land of the free will vote by boycotting this, but I think it will be
    marketed as an anti-theft device, and succeed.

  9. It did very well. on X-Wing Rocket Launches, Disintegrates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Keeping in mind it was only build from mostly wood and some aluminium, I must say it's interesting that the booster rockets haven't ripped it apart through the start, so from my point
    of view I consider the construction itself as usable for further designs.

    I think I can also come up with a possible solution why the construction collapsed.
    The thrusters aren't to be blamed for this.

    It's the  X-shaped twin wing, which is the problem in here, with the increasing velocity the wind forces between the twin wings pushed them into opposite directions, resulting in an alteration of the flightvector as you can see in the video, and when it collapsed,
    the wings acted like long arms which applied huge torque onto the vessels body,
    and so breaking it apart.

  10. Re:Russians Are Better... on New Sensor Finds Leaks in Spacecraft · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well in this case the simple solution might not be the best,
    because you will hardly see smoke moving towards the leak,
    and when you see you should run ;)

    Think of the ISS it's constructed from cylindrical elements, and you have a quadratic shaped interior, so the space gap is filled with computers (some Laptops == fan) possible cooled instrument racks which emmit heat (convection) and on the inner layer an insulation.

    If your presure- and ultrasoundsensors detect such a leak you have to generate
    smoke, this smoke will going to follow the airflow which is driven by presure diferences,
    but you also have temperaturdifferences or forced convection nearly everywere,
    even the astronauts moving will disturb the free flow extremly, and you have no
    gravition which helps you to settle the turbulences fast.

    The leak might be so tiny, so the volume flowing through it will not interfere with the inside
    atmosphere in deep.

  11. Re:BitTorrent on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Well before you make such a decission, I should mention that in germany even a bittorrent link is seen as a copyright violation ?

    So a BT-tracker is a utility for copyright infrignment, even if you don't need to log
    your users data, you are simply not allowed to provide such a service in germany.

  12. Re:Correction on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    b.)
    GER Zur Entscheidung von Streitigkeiten über die Verarbeitung von Internet-Nutzungsdaten durch GER eine öffentliche Stelle ist die ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit berufen.

    ENG Anytime a governmental organisation wants to process IP/User-logs,
    ENG a judge has to decide whether or not they are allowed to do so.

  13. Don't mess up with the context. on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 3, Informative

    The context is that the http://www.bmj.bund.de/ ( german version of the DOJ )
    started to log ip-addresses of people who had accessed public information dealing with
    a terrorist group called "millitante Gruppe".

    (
    "Militante Gruppe" / ('militant group')

    - german leftist/communist/(anarchist?)
    - anti-global

    terror group

    till now no human causalties were recorded, terrorist actions mostly targeted unmanned police cars, or cars of right winged politicans in the city of Hamburg, using molotow cocktails,

    The BKA ( german version of the FBI ) is investigating the incidents since 2001,
    and they lack in information.
    )

    The information was placed intended to inform the public about the signs of identification the
    group has been used in the past, to engage whistleblowers who may have recognized suspicious things helping the police to identify the persons behind this terrorist group.

    But in contrast the visitors ip's were logged and further investigation was done by the 'BKA',
    this includes identify the persons which accessed the page using their ip addresses,
    with no further evidence such as visiting a governmental public information site,
    such actions probably are illegal.

    From the judgement were some non-offical guidancelines derived,
    I will try to translate them as properly as I can.

    The judgement deals not with IPs in detail, there is a term
    "Internet-Nutzungsdaten" this can also be a profile of use,
    and the german privacy laws try to protect the people from
    being tracked, and so profiled.

    GER Leitsätze (nicht amtlich):
    ENG guidancelines ( non offical ):

    a.)
    GER Anbieter von Telemedien im Internet dürfen nicht systematisch die Kennungen (IP-Adressen) GER der Nutzer ihrer Dienste protokollieren.

    ENG Provider of internet content and service shall not log signs of identification (ip-addresses)
    ENG of users systematically.

    b.)
    GER Zur Entscheidung von Streitigkeiten über die Verarbeitung von Internet-Nutzungsdaten durch GER eine öffentliche Stelle ist die ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit berufen.

    ENG Anytime an offical judge must decide in disputes concerning the processing of
    ENG  ?InternetUserProfilingData? through a governmental organisation

    c.)
    GER Kann zwar nicht die speichernde Stelle, aber ein Dritter eine Angabe der Person des
    GER Betroffenen zuordnen, so ist das Datum personenbezogen.

    ENG If the Content Provider (logger) is not able to resolve the person of interest through the IP
    ENG but a third person (ISP) is able to do so, the date is also to be recognized as personal data

    NONTRANSLATIONJUSTMYSAYING  .. and so shall not be logged at all.

    GER Die von einem Internet-Zugangsanbieter temporär zugewiesene Internetkennung (dynamische IP-GER Adresse) stellt nicht nur für den Internet-Zugangsanbieter, sondern auch für Anbieter von GER Telemedien im Internet ein personenbezogenes Datum dar.

    ENG The dynamic IP address assigned by the ISP, is to be treated as personal data,
    ENG for both the ISP and the content provider,

    ????? it can be seen as a personalised private date/datum.

    From my point of view - I'm not a lawyer - but I understand a.) as if you recognize
    missuse you are allowed to log the data of the missusing parties,
    it's just not allowed to log and store every access over the
    period of use ('.. dürfen nicht systematisch ..')

  14. Re:Serving the diners or the cooks? on Falling Hardware Prices Favor Linux · · Score: 1

    The long lasting "take off" has some more reasons to mention, but in the first
    you're right, and wrong on the other hand.

    You're right on that LinuxNerds are mostly pain in the ass, you know 2.5 years ago
    evertime these nerds answered on the question from beginners which Distro to choose,
    "take Gentoo", well if you think this ended up in a mess, right.
    But they are not responsible in the first place.

    In the last 2.5 years the desktoplinux-devellopment stalled, Novell bought SuSe and made it nearly enterprise only, the desktopuser was feed with the community edition, and the strong position Suse had in the market, as a distribution that cared what Desktop-Users thought,
    nearly vanished, even at the same time Ubuntu took off and got much attention with
    it's usercentric devellopment.

    Coincedently Mandrake got into financial trouble and changed their system
    of a 2-3 months delayed free-iso-download after the sale start, into a
    system of a free community edition and commercial edition,

    when this happend it also come along with a drop in product qualitiy,
    I can only speak for the CE, before I was a FreeMDKuser in the first place (and freebsd in second) and while I cannot remember the problems which occured in detail, I just remember I
    stoped using it.

    Today I'm fine with my aging win2k and freebsd. ;)

    So my conclusion is, the stepback in DestopLinuxDevellopment is and was an accumulation of
    Novell-Suse-Takeover, MandrakesDecission, LinuxNerds and not to forget
    the being-not-suitable-for-Joey's-Desktop, because of many problems in detail.

    But hey, with the Vista and WinXP-Warez-InActivation DE-Linux still has all chances,
    and Microsoft can destroy them by shutting down the need for activating their products.

  15. Re:Not just to be used in cars..maybe on Mutant Algae to Fuel Cars of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    In theory this is possible, but Algae do only grow well under certian conditions,
    the reactor environment and all material must be sterilized before planting algae.
    In Space you must provide a nearly 100% reuse of the material,
    to sustian this artificial circle of life, and you must controll the feeding.

    here are the cons
    cg - Algae need Water
    cs - in Space the Temperature must not fall beyond 0°C (freeze)

    cg - Algae need light and often they have an inner clock
    cs - Satelites travel the orbit not in a 12/12 day/night cycle

    cg - Algae need warm Water, but not too warm
    cs1 - you must heat the water when you are in the night
    cs2 - you must cool the water when you are in the day
    cs3 - you must do it very frequent

    cg - bioreactors can collapse by infection
    cs - you energy source is gone and you just cannot repair it

    cg - Algae are robust against radiation, but what about mutation
    cg - when you produce gm plants you turn things by your own and not as the DNA intended
    them to be,
    cs - these algae can mutate the way you don´t want
    cs - these algae can die cause of high radition (solar bursts, gamma-, x-ray,HE-particles)
    cs - the tank must provide presure, if it got damaged by micrometereotes the presure is gone.

    cs - this means you must provide mechanical and optical protection while providing access to certian parts of the suns spectrum,

    btw. you have also to apply an UV-filter, like you do on your own.

    so I would say, not usefull for satelites, but perhaps space stations.

  16. Re:R250 on AMD Releases Register Specs For R5xx And R6xx · · Score: 1

    Well the Radeon9k kernel-DRI-driver, which is open source of course, I use for my R9000 card does very well on my System even through nearly all Q3-TD´s 5 fps faster than running under win2k, I´d just like to have an OS driver for my newly and very cheap aquired Radeon9800pro ;)

  17. You should focus on energy efficiency. on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    While your question deals with network and entertainment technology,
    I will give you some points, why you should save some money on the entertainment part and
    spend money into a "green-house"-upgrade, and present some pro/cons of the availible
    solutions

    a.)
    Prices for energy were on the rise other the past few years,
    it´s unlikly that they will drop, and with the /. typical
    computerdensity you will pay much ;)

    b.)
    At the moment you are in a good financial position, as the economy shows a cyclic
    behaviour this can turn upside down, then it would be good when your energy paymentsis are no concern to you.

    Why better insulating your house ?

    (+) less energy/money for heating in the winter
    (+) less energy/money for cooling in the summer
    (o) higher resale price in future when energy prices are climbing
    (-) higher investment costs

    Why solar electric power ?

    (-) higher investment costs
    (o) efficiency depending on the availiability of direct sunlight
    (+) *can be* independent while power outages
    (o) perhaps it´s sponsored by the goverment where you live
    (o) higher resale price, if you sell to green people or if prices will rise
    (+) could power your AC in summer, while the AC not flooding your electricity bill
    (+) **could power your AC in summer, while the powerlines are offline

    **can be -
    if your DC to AC converter is netcontrolled it will go offline if the electricity network
    goes down, an alternative: battery buffered solutions.

    Why solar thermal heating ?
    Why geothermal heating ?

    (+) low price for heating
    (+) constant availiable
    (-) power for the heatpump
    (-) higher investment costs
    (o) *solar* efficiency depending on the availiability of direct sunlight

  18. Re:The Beauty Of Closed Systems on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well the mainproblem is that using hydrogen is only a way to store energy, if you use electrolysis.

    But electrolysis for it self has a bad  efficiency (if you combine
    input output 0.5*0.5 = 25%) , that´s why 90-95% of the Worlds hydrogen needs are satisfied by reforming natural gas (methan) to hydrogen, so nower days hydrogen is a fossil fuel,

    the good point, the hydrogen is not stored under preasure,

    another example metalhydrid storage is used in the modern german submarine U212-A[1]

    in my oppinion hydrogen is for storing energy within

    a.) isolated electrical networks, (island-networks) (if energy is avaible and its not used, it´s lost, than you can live with 25% efficiency )
    b.) on space stations    ( less weight and less space is used in contrast to batteries )
    c.) military submarines  ( safety, heat, silent )

    except when nuclear fusion is working, than making hydrogen by hydrolysis might by viable.

    [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Boot-Klasse_212_A

  19. Win32thread vs PosixThread on Pthreads vs Win32 threads · · Score: 1

    Which one is better ?

    Perhaps it´s the same discussion that language A is better than language B ?

    perhaps it´s the same answer, the one that you prefer and fits your style.

    You will find posix implementations on much more plattforms, so if you want to write portable
    code, you should know you shouldn´t try win32thread ;)

    so if somebody of the operating Buzzwordfollowers heared "Linux" and now prays "Linux", ,you should have used Posix ;)

  20. Re:Fair and balanced on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    FOX news doing their job not well, perhaps the white house will
    air some J.A.G. sequels :)

  21. Re:Make sure you account for everything on Near Light Speed Travel Possible After All? · · Score: 1

    There is also another problem, while travelling at the speed of light,
    every photon which would be headed on the front of your ship would not
    be a "friendly" photon from the spectrum of visible light, it would be a gamma ray and I don´t speak of a single photon, so when you travel at the speed of light, it will be an unique experience, you would die of radiation sickness,
    or instantly on serve damages on your nerves.

    (Doppler Effect - extreme version of blueshift)

    even when the "free" space has a materdensitity of 1 particle in a 1 [m^3] (cubic meter) these particles would hit your ship, at the near speed of light,
    with an extreme high energy, your ships front would turn into a nice glowing plasma,

    and last but not least, youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu wouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuld beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeee
    sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooowwwwwwwwwww

    relativistical time elongation

    gamma ray -> "Then I need a ship build of lead" - this would result in a huge mass of the ship, so your engines have "some" work to do.

  22. Standardization in APIs and commented Interfaces on Does Company-Wide Language "Standardization" Work? · · Score: 1

    From my point of view it is more important to get the programmers working together, than forcing them together to choose the one and the only language,
    which is a totally non flexible decission,

    for example, if you are in the possesion of a haskel (functional programming) guy, use his skill, use his rapid devellopment skills, but get him to let other
    languages/programmers easily interface with his programs through an API
    there it is to use standards, but they should be documented well.

    The main problem when stuck to the common managed environments is, you are mostly bound to only one distributor,

    java  - java - sun
    C#,.. - .net - ms

    (please do not comment on mono as the solution for every problem, or kaffee, or .gnu, or else, sun and ms are simply the main distributors, they make the API- and language standards, the free projects are getting close, but ever will be a step behind the distributors, and unfortunatly they do not have the money for getting certified, and this certification is which most customers eye on)

    But for standardization :

    javas doc tools are good for automaticly generating interface Docs,
    with first hand develloper comments (if he/she made some)

    ( ok I left out Smalltalk ;) )

    So you see if you say, "I only need c-something coders" or say to existing
    "programmers stick to XYZ-lang", they probably will learn the XYZ language
    but they won´t feel comfortable,

    while it is a wonderfull idea to standardize on languages, it should remain a beautifull dream, because it would turn out to be a horrible reality, for the programmers, and programmers who don´t feel liked or apreatiated for their work and their skills they used for, they simply won´t give their 100% ( DO NOT SPEAK OF 100+X % please :) )

  23. pure marketing on Are Vertical Mice The Next Ergonomic Trend? · · Score: 1

    As a FPS-gamer I ask you one thing, how do you move your mouse ?
    with the arm, or holding the mouse with in the fist ?

    it´s different and sequenced, for not so fine movement, you engage your arm,
    this is even different wether you are a high sensitiviy or a low sensitiviy player,

    but when locking onto the target you use your wrist in combination with your fingers, it´s the natural fine motor movement, now think how would you
    use a "vertical mice" I don´t think it will work with the fine motor movement,

    simply because the "normal" mouse is a device dedicated to fine motor manipulations,

    what can be done is to try to make the optical mice smaller so it would fit into
    a pen-shaped form, so the "*Pinzettengriff"(ger) "tweezers griff"(transbloated ;) ) would be used to track the target which is part of our physical abilities
    dedicated for fine motor manipulations.

    So my conclusion simply identifies this as a marketing trick to sell more mice,
    because since the first mice back in the days when IT pioneers invented things,

    it had a ball, then the CCD-technology and embeded system got such good so
    they could be used to track the motion of a mice, Hoorray no more mouse cleaning

    the DPIs was pushed, this was the natural way of technical devellopment,
    after that, not so long ago we got the laser/optical mice, with
    such high resolution and sensitivity that noone except online gamers
    would pay the prices,

    so here we are, but the firms want to sell mices, so what you need for this :

    - a Pro Gamer (a living, running organism, which is near to the common Web-AD)
    who will say I play with it, I like it (I can buy me food for this)

    - a designer he will sketch something, and will say it´s the best
    ergonomic design, it will keep you from getting pain.

    - a marketing man, a living sleezy something, a dangerous lifeform,
    if you come to close in his range he will buzzword you and turn you into
    a zombie, then he lay his egs into your carcass, you won´t die, but your money
    is their ambrosia  :)

    *Pinzettengriff - "put your thumb and his neighbour together like a tweezers",
    this is it ;)

  24. Re:You're not the first one.... on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 1

    Yes, hm.. I wanted to say the same, so I follow up here instead of starting
    a seperate thread ;)

    He(null_functor) can still use java and the feature-rich api on
    the one side, and C++ on the other side, with the Java Native Interface,
    it´s both way possible,

    you(null_functor) can call the VM+Javaprogram from inside a C++ Program,
    and the other way around, calling a C/C++ Program from a Javaprogram
    inside the virtual machine
    - sun has a good easy-to-start-tutorial http://java.sun.com, with code samples
    - google("JNI Java";"Java Native Interface")

    I´ve tried out the code samples and everything works fine, ongoing from this I´ve started interfacing with the ncurses-lib for example, because java and the unicode-centric-api-functions are the easy way to create multilanguage unicode menus from XML templates, it´s just fun from my point of view ;)

    Communicating over JavaVM and native world borders shouldn´t be a big thing,
    running Java on a linux-system you have the same access than a native program,
    Pipes, Socket, ..

    RPC ;) sun-rpc :D

    jdbc for database access,

    Speed :
    it´s not 100%, but 80% mostly are enough.

    naturally I divide the programming tasks into two categories,
    soft/well-with-the-object-model and hard/bad-with-the-object-model,

    so where OOP is needfull, I use java, I´ve a dislike against object-like
    programming in C, so where a classic structured programming language
    is needed I use C,

    so you can see, Java and C for me are symbiotic lifeforms ;)

    solving the complex things with java, I´ve also the feature, that porting
    this application to other operating systems just involves some
    JNI-code alteration.

    closing words,
    read this assuming that I like java and that I´m not a neutral person, so I promote what I like and what works for me, ;) generally I use Java and C,
    and interface both sides when needed using JNI.

  25. Re:Simple Question Simple answer on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 1

    sorry

    not unsecure, I wanted to say "endangered".