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  1. Re:Still, where theres a will, theres a way... on China Employs Campus Internet Overseers · · Score: 1

    RPG's man. They cost $100-$1,000 for a good one. They take down a $2,500,000 hellicopter. Guess who ends up ahead. Jane's is full of cheap guns that people have designed for simplicity and ease of manufacture. AK-47's are still around. The problem is the citizens have few hard targets, while the goverment can indiscriminantly kill. Goverment can use WMD's, while citizens cannot. The Goverment forces depend on a large amount of infastructure, while the citizens do not. The solution:take it away. Sabotage. If the goverment lose the tanks and heli's and bombers, the rest is a massacare. Or just storm the palace like it's 1917.

  2. The Russians at my high school on Alcohol Powered Muscles · · Score: 1

    drink Vodka. and are in 9th grade.

  3. Re:The thing is... on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    High explosives were inside the Lusitania. So the metaphor: If you are determaned to blow yourself up, nothing will stop you.

  4. Macs on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Mac users have had one ever since OS X. It's called Mach. Darwin is a port along with some userspace tools to x86.

  5. Re:A false dichotomy on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Mach. Darwin and hence Mac OS X are built on top of it. It works very well. An app can be frozen due to a bottleneck and iTunes won't miss a beat in the background due to some clever engineering.

  6. Re:nah on Chip Power Breakthrough Reported by Startup · · Score: 1

    The problem is the inductor is to small to give you any gain and the positive rail-negative rail drop remains constant. What you really need is a triangle wave power supply so that the waste heat is lowered on chip, and an inductor recovers some energy at the power supply. The chip is just to small. Unless they have created a material with better magnetic specs then ferrite I call BS.

  7. Re:I call BS on Chip Power Breakthrough Reported by Startup · · Score: 1

    Richard Feynman created this. You use the power supply as the clock so the amount of voltage drop is minimized and put a big-ass inductor at the supply to regain some energy. Doing it on the chip won't work.

  8. Re:Rewrite it as a microkernel!! on 2.6 Linux Kernel in Need of an Overhaul? · · Score: 1

    Mac OS X uses Darwin for the kernel. The main issues are with additional hardware, for which Linux has drivers.

  9. Re:The Physics of Brick Out on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    Tresspasser had a very bad physics engine. It didn't use a very good method for handling collisions. That was where a lot of the problems stemed from.

  10. Re:I Can Hardly Wait ... on Would You Wear Video Glasses? · · Score: 1

    Was it crunchy, and good with ketchup?



    (It's a joke. I don't eat squirrels. Really.)

  11. Re:Original article on New Disclaimer for the Internet · · Score: 1

    The original disclamer is necessary. A lot of people do not understand that a park like Nelson Rock's is not like Centeral Park. You can get killed by stupidity. One of the reasons I quit Boy Scouts was their inability to preform equipment checks in dangerous situations.

  12. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    I guess underscores are important.

  13. Re:Rewrite it as a microkernel!! on 2.6 Linux Kernel in Need of an Overhaul? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or use Darwin/x86. It's a microkernel that's already ready for prime time.

  14. Re:100 of these babies strapped to a Volkswagon? on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 1

    From the wiki:

    Meals Rejected By Ethiopians
    Meals Refusing to Exit
    Meals Resembling Edibles

    it doesn't look it.

  15. Re:Multi-Proc on Comparing PC Game Physics · · Score: 1

    More important then multithreading is using efficent code. Don't duplicate LINPACK, use it and get a massive preformance benifit. The guys working on LINPACK are smarter then you are.

  16. Re:Stay in your cage, DoJ. on Judges Challenge IP Wiretap Rules · · Score: 1

    It's more a social stability issue then anything else. Drugs change people by making them more connected. This results in, well, I don't have to explain Stranger in a Strange Land to Slashdotters.

  17. Re:Message for Captain Obvious on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    For those to dumb to google: Wiki article

  18. Re:I can't stand MySpace... but... on MA Attorney General Seeks Myspace Changes · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't about protecting the kids, it's about allowing parents to try to drag civilization back to the stone age. The less opinion your kid sees, the longer he remains an obedient machine of the Combine. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, not HL2).

  19. Re:Voice Scramblers? on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1

    No. Courts are reluctant to extend laws by analogy. IANAL, but I am fairly certian that this is the case.

  20. Re:Zfone isn't secure on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1

    Suit B is strong. Sorry for the ambiguity.

  21. Zfone isn't secure on FCC Affirms VoIP Must Allow Snooping · · Score: 1

    A man-in-the-middle attack works very well. Before jumping on the crypto bandwagon let's make sure the goverment can't break it without significant effort. Like the algorithms they themselves use.

  22. Re:Future issues with issues on Captain America vs. The Patriot Act? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they have rights. Like food, medical attention, and no waterboarding. And you release them after the war is over.

  23. Re:Rickets is not an infectious disease... on Vintage Diseases Making a Comeback · · Score: 2, Informative

    They mean rickasseti. I know I misspeled it. They cause Typhoid, Rocky Mountian Spotted Fever, and are intracellar parisites. Chalydima is one.

  24. Re:What I love about Halo on IGN Claims Halo 3 At E3 · · Score: 1

    The controls were acceptable. What wasn't were the number of bugs. Cameras would disapper into the walls in third person mode (Halo 1) and there are not a lot of good multiplayer maps in either.

  25. Re:None on Ideal EULA for Custom Software? · · Score: 1

    That's a negotiated contract, not an EULA. A EULA defines the terms under which the software can be used, and can be exited from at any time by destroying the software. It doesn't get signed. Acceptance is indecated by use, and the penalties are usually limited. IANAL, but what you described looks like a signed contract covering the work.