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  1. Re:The sad part? on Human Rights Groups Join Criticism of WikiLeaks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Pentagon had a clear choice and they clearly made it. This choice was whether to help Assange remove sensitive information from documents to be released, and in the process save innocent lives, or to be childish and refuse to help, knowing full well that their refusal would not prevent the release of those documents. Clearly and without hesitation the Pentagon made their choice.

    It is because the Pentagon makes decisions like this that Assange's service is so dearly needed.

  2. Re:Hybirds are half-assed. on Just One Out of 16 Hybrids Pays Back In Gas Savings · · Score: 1

    Teslamotors.com lists the Model S as "Base Price: $49,000*", who knows what will happen in the future. I don't think your request is quite as unrealistic as people seem to think it is.

  3. Re:Not true on Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That may be a realistic figure, but that doesn't make it reasonable.

  4. Re:Another way of thinking about this. on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As far as I can tell, by simply redefining "solved" any state should be reachable from any other in 20. There's nothing particularly special about all the colours being on the same sides.

    1) start from any scrambled state, call it "solved"
    2) scramble the cube
    3) "solve" in 20 moves.

  5. Re:The Net is no Substitution for University on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 1

    Regardless of the reasons, having a degree demonstratively has value. That is what he was denying, and that is what I was refuting.

    I think you are a tad confused yourself.

  6. Re:The Net is no Substitution for University on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah, but there most certainly is! People with degrees in their field make, on average, more money than people who do not.

    Unless you don't know the first thing about saving money you'll pay off your student loans in no time and quickly come out ahead. As for social conditioning? Some of us are not so weak of willed that we have to avoid educational institutions to avoid being "corrupted".

  7. Re:kdawson - off topic on 100-Sq.-Mile Ice Island Breaks Off Greenland Glacier · · Score: 2, Interesting

    can I filter him out through my prefs?

    Yes, you can. The ability to do so was added back during the Jon Katz nonsense as I recall, so it's not like this is anything new.

  8. Re:under 60 seconds? on Intel's Superchilled Test Rig · · Score: 1

    It most certainly is multithreaded, I have it using 16 cores at once on one of the machines I have access to.

    In fact, if you look at the code you might not see at first how exactly it's threaded. That's because it's using OpenMP, which it turns out is an absurdly easy and concise way of parallelizing code. Check out this for more info on using OpenMP with gcc, it is really slick stuff.

  9. Re:under 60 seconds? on Intel's Superchilled Test Rig · · Score: 1

    [user@system] ~ $ time ./smallpt 5000
    Rendering (5000 spp) 100.00%
    real 16m28.799s
    user 262m48.590s
    sys 0m2.280s :)

  10. Re:lulz on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 1

    Transcribed by myself, because I'm bored ;) Think I got it pretty correct, you'll probably want to watch the video later still though.

    Coburn: If I wanted to sponsor a bill, and it said: "Americans, you have to eat 3 vegetables and 3 fruits every day.", and I got it through congress, and it's now the law of the land. [pause] got to do it. [pause] Does that violate the commerce clause?

    Kagan: Sounds like a dumb law.

    Coburn: Yeah, I've got one that's real similar to it, I think it is equally dumb. I'm not going to mention which it is.

    Kagan: But I think that the question of whether it's a dumb law is different from whether the question of whether it's constitutional. And I think that the courts would be wrong to strike down the laws that they think are senseless, just because they are senseless.

    Coburn: well I guess the question I'm asking you is: "do we have the power to tell people what they have to eat every day.

    Kagan: Senator Coburn, I think that-[interrupted]

    Coburn: I mean, what is the extent of the commerce clause? We have this wide embrace of the commerce clause, that these guys that wrote this [holds up book], never ever fathomed that we'd be stupid enough to take our liberties away by expanding the commerce clause this way.

    [clip ends]

  11. Re:lulz on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSoWGlyugTo

    Source, as requested. I'll leave deciding the significance of that little exchange up to you.

  12. Re:nor would I accept it on More Than 10% of Mozilla Bug Finders Refuse Cash · · Score: 1

    When you start discussing the finer points of the ethics of killing puppies, you can be pretty sure that your analogy has become unwieldy.

    Seeing as you are not BadAnalogyGuy (or are you??), I advise that you just let it die...

  13. Re:Here's an explanation for you: on Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Believe it or not, I'm not sure that explains these weird robot trades at all.

  14. Re:Very well done? REALLY? on Artist Photoshops Scenes From WWII Into Present Day · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Spoken like someone who has never created a work of art. There is more value there than the technical expertise require to create it, just like there is more value to a painting than the technical expertise of the paint strokes.

    Content is everything.

  15. Re:too late on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 1

    bedmison writes

    "In an op-ed in the Washington Post titled 'WikiLeaks must be stopped,' Marc A. Thiessen writes that 'WikiLeaks represents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States,' and that the US has the authority to arrest its spokesman, Julian Assange, even if it has to contravene international law to do so. Thiessen also suggests that the new USCYBERCOM be unleashed to destroy WikiLeaks as an internet presence."

    Reader praps tips an interview with another WikiLeaks spokesman, Daniel Schmitt, who says they have no regrets about releasing the Afghanistan documents, and says WikiLeaks is "changing the game." Several other readers have pointed out that WikiLeaks posted a mysterious, encrypted "insurance" file on Thursday, which sent the media into a speculative frenzy over what it could possibly contain.

    I know, I know... reading is hard.

  16. Re:too late on WikiLeaks 'a Clear and Present Danger,' Says WaPo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hence the insurance file. Presumably that encrypted file would contain information that the government would want to remain secret more than they would want wikileaks in general silenced.

  17. Re:of course on Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sush. We've always been at war with Eastasia.

  18. Re:More Changes on Verizon Changing Users Router Passwords · · Score: 1

    Just stop...

  19. Re:Who cares? on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How does your post advance humanity, or even technology, in a meaningful way?

    Practice what you preach asshole.

  20. Re:What it doesn't say on Silent, Easily Made Android Rootkit Released At DefCon · · Score: 1

    The purpose of rootkits is to allow you to keep root access after you've gotten it, not to give it to you in the first place. Getting it in the first place is outside the scope of this software.

  21. Re:what on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1
  22. Re:what on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. The BASIC dialect on the Nspire series of calculators is extremely limited, to the point of being useless.

    TI's other calculator offerings (the 83/84 series for instance) allow assembly explicitly, and have a far more powerful BASIC. The point that testing isn't really the cause of this is a good one though, there really isn't any reason for TI to do this other than they are being dicks.

  23. Re:github is a trap on Perl 6, Early, With Rakudo Star · · Score: 1

    Github most certainly has free accounts. What paid accounts gets you is the ability to make private repos. Why would anyone interested in Freedom need that?

    Great part of Git is that it's distributed. Even if github was a trap, you could escape with exactly zero effort.

  24. Re:hmmm on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    If you had to go in and check some configs to see if it was doing 720p or 1080p, then why does it even matter?

  25. Re:I fail to see what is newsworthy on Man Wants to Donate His Heart Before He Dies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And yet you would no doubt take a donated organ if you needed one.

    You are the worst sort of person.