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  1. If its shiny on Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they will come...
    I think Shuttleworth might be on to something there.

  2. Re:Why humanoid? on NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    see sig-

  3. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Since when does a gasoline engine run on Iron and Aluminum?

  4. Re:Obligatory Futurama quote on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 1

    Thanks to our handsomest politicians who came up with a half-assed last minute solution.

  5. Re:Cloud computing is.. on Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing" · · Score: 1

    Indeed, but its still quite fluffy I hear.

  6. HW Encryption - the only way on Schneier, UW Team Show Flaw In TrueCrypt Deniability · · Score: 1

    I have no particular beef with any of the software options for encryption, but if you want encryption worth its mustard - I say there is nothing besides Hardware encryption. Get one of the Full disc encryption drives with HW encryption if you need security. If you ask me, every laptop with any degree of sensitive information should use an FDE drive.
    A little more on topic - can you recover old autosaves from disc after a save? can you recover old autosaves after the program is quit? what about after reboot?

  7. Re:Applause Well Deserved, but Starkly Absent on American Solar Challenge Racers Head For Canada · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have a great point. 1000's will show up to watch regular cars drive around in a circle. Real innovation somehow doesn't draw such a crowd. I think if we got enough hot chicks in racing T's, set up some bar-be-que and encouraged the liberal administration of fermented beverages they could probably gather an audience.

    On another note, I have an idea as to why electric cars (even ridiculously fast ones like the tesla) don't get the "hotness" factor that other race cars get - they don't make loud noise. I think the visceral reaction to a loud muffler is what draws the "speed" emotion from folks. (Incidentally it also explains why every honda civic down the block has a muffler the size of a cantelope).

  8. I see the future.... on AOL In Talks With Microsoft to Merge Online Divisions, Says WSJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    AOL Account cancellation policy for MS' new subscription based access to Office.

  9. Re:Liberate the Spectrum. on HD Radio Recording In the US? · · Score: 1

    The submitter is referring to public radio. Hey I don't like pledge drives either, but they hardly count as commercials.

  10. Re:EULA w/ full force of law on Apple Suit Demands That Psystar Recall OpenMacs · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field is strong, but it does not enable time travel.

    Yet... Or has it already?....

  11. Re:An offshoot of the penny stock spam? on Spammers Announce World War III · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On a serious note i saw a cool article at physorg yesterday about speculation in the oil market. From the article it would appear there is a major oil bubble about to burst. Though I'm certainly no expert in the matter.
    I suspect they just figured a way around some spam filters for a little while. Most anything novel should get by for a while, once it starts getting flagged it should dissipate.

  12. Re:Original research? on Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the database you mention comes with a really bad ass set of tools for analyzing and downloading various datasets. Used it for a little project in school (trying to find the start of introns using Renyi entropy, it didn't work). You can get access to the database directly from the command line, or from Matlab. Which makes it much more useful than a wiki.

  13. Thank Goodness on Referee Recommends Disbarment For Jack Thompson · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least the US Gov. managed to do one thing right today.

  14. Re:I'd have less problem with this... on Senate Scrutinizes Privacy Issues of ISP User Tracking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not necessarily - what if you could opt in for a little discount. You get 5 bucks off your monthly internet bill, and in exchange they have permission to keep a cookie on your machine to track what your doing. On the other hand, as a government backed monopoly I suspect that the ISP's are going to come out of this whistling the tune of the free market.

  15. Re:What are you so worried about? on Telecom Immunity Bill Hides Spying Provisions · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO: Nixon hated MS-DOS.

    21 is clearly the best.
    On another note, This is America - where presidents make lists of American citizens to spy on, the House will hold hearings on who is unamerican and vilify whoever they have to to maintain control over the people through constant fear mongering. Its the American way!

  16. Re:Chinese on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Chinese have no shortage of engineers. There's tons of them. They need people who speak English and Chinese and are engineers so the Chinese Engineers can talk to their English speaking counterparts and management. Generally speaking, the Chinese engineers ive met have known English, so I haven't had to learn any Mandrin at all to work with them.

  17. Re:I'm no expert but on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 1

    Thanks for clarifying, and you are right, 300W is out of control for a graphics card. On the upside, maybe I won't game so much anymore because of the electricity bill.

  18. I'm no expert but on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 4, Funny

    The card features one 150W power connector, as well as a 75W connector. Heise deduces that this results in a total power consumption of 300W,

    Um, that just doesn't seem to quite add up to me.

  19. Re:Don't review it! on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 4, Funny

    hot female electrical engineer

    you sir have clearly not been to the engineering building on a college campus. The hot female EE you speak of is a mythical creature, like bigfoot, or a unicorn.

  20. Re:no i was wrong :( on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nothing, but just as with the oil and gas companies, it is much less expensive to lease land from the BLM. Also, you can get a lease on a vast expanse of land which you might not be able to buy contiguously through other channels.

  21. Re:Backup early, Backup often on Latest PS3 Firmware Update Requires Hard Disk Wipe to Fix · · Score: 1

    dd
    I don't see why that wouldn't work for a PS3 HDD. Though I have not tested - anyone actually know?

  22. Re:law of unintended consequences... on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 4, Informative
    FTFA -

    Some people are born with a mutation on their CCR5 gene and therefore do not have a working CCR5 receptor on the surface of their T cells. These rare individuals are immune to HIV infection and seemingly are not affected by the non-functional CCR5 protein. The zinc finger approach aims to mimic this natural immunity.

    It would appear that these surface proteins are "superfluous", or at least not really necessary.

  23. Thats sick on Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant · · Score: 2, Funny

    sorry. I had to.

  24. Re:Quantum State on Discovery of a "Flat" Atom Hailed as Quantum Computing Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Informative

    qubits have 3 possible states 1 0 and indeterminate. Thus it is a breakthrough in quantum computing and not just regular computing. The indeterminate state is defined as a superposition of the two other states. And indeed it is a real, though not particularly well defined state for the electron to be in.

  25. Re:How far can we take AI? on Using AI With GCC to Speed Up Mobile Design · · Score: 1

    I've often thought AI should be recruited for the interrupt controller. Though I'm not an expert, it would seem like a good idea.