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  1. Re:Why do we say 'Leaked'? on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Caused, released is boring, makes it sound like anyone else before you has seen them. Leaked makes it sound like someone just dropped a brown envelope on your desk.

  2. Re:No such thing on Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube · · Score: 1

    Also : "Was National Socialism ever going to end any other way than it did?" Was National Socialism ever going anywhere without Hitler? If Hitler had died anywhere in his early years, despite the ideology being out there and all, nothing would have happened. It's not like an idea was out the box that made people want to kill other people. It always takes a leader, a great man, hence why people and not ideas are dangerous.

  3. Re:No such thing on Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So it was the Nazi ideology that killed people, and not its creators? Let it be my new motto, "People don't kill people, ideas kill people".

  4. Re:Upscaling DVD is good enough.... on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Oh, you've got a PS3 that upscales DVDs? Mine doesn't, so I get a 7 inches image right in the middle of my 30 inches television..

  5. Re:Lobbiest money. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    I still do not see "BIG OIL" as being some evil empire.

    LOL. Oil has run the show ever since the days of Rockerfeller. Do you have any idea how many crises and wars are imputable to oil? People would do anything for oil, really. That's the "evil" thing.

  6. Dangerous videos on Kuwait Issues Order To Block YouTube · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's no such thing as dangerous ideas, only dangerous people.

  7. Re:I want real High Quality on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    Yeah but wait, you're talking about ADCs. When you record it makes sense to use a higher sampling frequency for the reasons you cited, as well as more bits-per-sample as to increase the dynamic range. But we're talking about playback. When it comes to playing back a finished piece, you do not need the 96 kHz, if any filtering is needed you need a windowed sinc FIR no longer than 88 samples to have a roll-off bandwidth of 2 kHz, which is trivial to convolve with (and you can probably get computationally more efficient with an IIR), and you couldn't possibly enjoy anything more than 16-bits per sample no matter what.

  8. Re:Yes, obviously an elitist on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    But.. but.. he was a P.O.W. in Vietnam for 5 years and a half! Don't you think this guy is entitled to having a dozen houses and even more cars and servants?!

  9. Re:Lobbiest money. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    Oh, of course, they are *former* lobbyists, just like Bush and Cheney are *former* oil company CEOs. Not like it would influence their policies a bit, or that they would still have interests there.

  10. Re:Lobbiest money. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 3, Funny

    We can't even be bothered to read the summary, let alone the article, so sourcing our claims is quite a long shot ;-).

  11. Re:Lobbiest money. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, if Harvard and the University of California count as big evil corporations. Refresh my memory, will you please, how many lobbyists work for John McCain again?

  12. Re:Vote with a bullet. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha, but you're forgetting one thing. Well two actually, he can dance and he can jump! If that doesn't make him black, that makes him pretty fly for a rich white guy.

  13. Re:Lobbiest money. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last time I checked he didn't get any from these. But I would be surprised if you checked anything you just claimed either, so let's have it this way until someone can be bothered to check.

  14. Re:Vote with a bullet. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're all rich white men

    You mean, except the one black guy, right?

  15. Re:*cough*Ogg Vorbis*cough*? on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    What is this obsession with this widely unsupported file format OGG? You know, one of these formats that the iPod doesn't play... Yes, not supported by the iPod = widely unsupported. Because the iPod is very very wide, market wise.

  16. Re:Makes perfect sense on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    ZOMG I said liberal instead of labour. So what. You guys still have a pretty fucked up kind of "liberals".

  17. Re:I want real High Quality on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why not include a 24-bit 192 or 96 khz lossless format

    You cannot hear the difference between a 16-bit recording and a 24-bit because in 16-bits per sample the SNR already is 96 dB. There's nothing a sampling frequency higher than 44.1 kHz will bring you since you cannot hear anything above 22 kHz. DVD Audio never took off because its target niche is the same fools who buy gold connectors, $500 wooden volume knobs or even put CDs in freezers to soften the sound (I kid you not).

  18. Re:Makes perfect sense on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    Damn, and to think that it's what you guys get from a "liberal" government... mind blowing.

  19. Re:We Need Self-Driving Vehicles on Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    If VTOLs with the adequate specs are possible, then I'll blame the lack of good automated controls on a lack of research. Probably because people in the 2000s think that if what people in the 1950s predicted for the future didn't happen as of the 2000s, it will never happen. We've become so shortsighted..

  20. Makes perfect sense on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    1. Knife attack epidemic in one country
    2. Videos depicting violence involving knives are viewed in this country just like in other countries
    3. There's no such knife attack epidemic in other countries

    Conclusion : banning these videos will fix the knife epidemic!

    I say, correlation != causation, right? Therefore, no correlation = causation!!

  21. Re:We Need Self-Driving Vehicles on Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    Hallelujah. However I have the feeling that we'll never get a widespread automated driving system before we get flying cars, at which point it'll be ten times easier to make them fully automated and avoid accidents.

    Flying cars are the wave of the future, you heard it here first!

  22. Re:Who chose this title? on EA Patches Spore, Eases DRM · · Score: 1

    Actually it's only now I read your comment that I realised I misread the title.

  23. Re:text of the slashdotted article on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Argh! Damn you for tricking me into reading TFA against my will!

  24. Re:In Dutch... on IAU Names Fifth Dwarf Planet Haumea · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, although that would be awkward if asteroid Haumea/Homo approached Uranus.

  25. Re:Hahaha! on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1

    Which reminds me, how many bubbles in a bar of soap?