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  1. Re:Who did this experiment? on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Funny

    He even made the common bar graph mistake (more) of not starting the scale from zero, instead starting from 4v, which makes the 4.1-4.4v flat solar panel appear as if it puts out less than half of the 5.25 volt from the solar tree.

    Mistake? That kid's management material!

  2. Re:Damn straight! on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    During the "peak times" for his model, the flat arrangement was maxed out on production. Lots of lost energy. His "extended time of collection" is the sole basis for his supposed power-collection increases on the tree-like setup. If you were to do the same experiment with PV cells that didn't max out, you'd find far superior collection from that arrangement. His "power gain" is an artifact of clipping, nothing more.

    And you'd pay more for it too. While we have cheap, poor performing PV cells, might as well arrange them more efficiently.

  3. Re:HP should have got on board w/ android on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Eventually, though, they got fast enough, and recognizable UNIX implementations began to show up; besides a number of small outfits and hobbyist ports to WinCE hardware, got in the game. Sharp was first, with their Zaurus, and Nokia followed with the 770.

    And HP/Compaq even dedicated money to a lab for a Linux distro for their iPaq handhelds, complete with a compile farm for ordinary users to ssh into.

  4. Re:Software? on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Same here. They *are* a hardware company. Printers, desktop computers, laptops, servers. Hopefully they mean that they'll rebrand all the hardware as compaq and spin it off or something.

  5. Re:WHERE ARE THE PRIVATE INVESTORS? on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    They're building duplicate rings in secluded islands while living in 0G conditions.

  6. Re:FTFY on DARPA To Sponsor R&D For Interstellar Travel · · Score: 1

    Breakfast is immediately useful this is more like saying "why don't I skip putting pocket change into my great great grandchild's college fund?"

  7. Insider Trading on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    Not blind luck: Insider Trading. If Twitter's not a news source and is instead a "social medium" then you're getting hot tips from insiders somewhere in that mess.

  8. Re:Percieved value. on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    Lower volume of sales, so they jacked up the price.

  9. Re:Sandbox on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    Sandbox translates into "great, you've finished the 4 fucking hours of crapass story we decided to make. Now go shoot some people, fuck some hookers, beat them up after, kill all the cops you can find, and generally make an ass of yourself in GTA 4 till we make GTA 5."

    Or "great, you've finished the version of Spiderman2 that was better than the movie, now finally patrol NYC like Spiderman is supposed to until you're bored, then come back in a year to six months to beat up some muggers or rescue a kid's balloon."

  10. Re:Two things on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    Mounting /home and /tmp as noexec is done for two reasons: on a corporate system to help prevent people from running their own home brew stuff on the system, and on any system to help mitigate potential malware from living permanently in a user's home directory. I could see someone setting up a secure box for themselves and complaining about the restrictions later.

  11. Re:Two things on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    Because your sysadmin doesn't mount these as noexec?

  12. Re:Two things on Why PCs Trump iPads For User Innovation · · Score: 1

    so install it in your home directory? I fail to see how lack of system-wide installation stops you running programs from you home directory

    That would be because /home and /tmp are mounted noexec.

  13. Re:Mods on Notch Asks For Trial By Combat · · Score: 2

    And the people would call it Scrolls anyway, to the chagrin of Bethesda.

  14. Re:Riiight... on Paul Ceglia: Facebook Is Doing the Forgery, Not Me · · Score: 3, Funny

    and that's from the very first Google hit, dumbass.

    it doesn't show up in Facebook search?

  15. Score one for moderate OCD on How To Steal ATM PINs With a Thermal Camera · · Score: 1

    I can't stand to touch those PIN pads. Keys or gloves (in winter).

  16. Re:Intriguing on GPGPU Bitcoin Mining Trojan · · Score: 2

    An article about mining bitcoins with an iPhone would net twice the eyes!

  17. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Referencing a popular book doesn't make a post insightful. It was trite and pretentious, I'm guessing the person who wrote it is 16.

    I'm guessing with an ID# of 137, the person is 30 or older.

  18. Re:Only as "free" as your ability to defend it on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    A Troll and Overrated mod? Was no one else forced to read Lord of the Flies and can see its relation to this topic?

  19. Re:subcrtical won't always stay that way on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Extremely unlikely to. Never say never unless you're talking to investors or consumers.

  20. Re:This law was supposedly to "protect your privac on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    Sure, on the 15 year old. Strange how all three of my responders think I'm 100% serious.

  21. Re:This law was supposedly to "protect your privac on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    When you don't clearly evaluate the repercussions of a new law, you end up with crap like 18 year-olds with 10 year prison sentences for having sex with 15 year-olds.

    When a highschool senior boy is dating your highschool freshman daughter, that shotgun ain't for a wedding. When shooting highschool seniors full of rocksalt is frowned upon, you make sure the law says that the wrong thing the 18 year old did is a crime, then there's no need for violence.

  22. Re:Did the Gnome guys take over Mozilla or somethi on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Posts like Parent are perfect examples of why people shouldn't ignore funny modded posts. It's pure insight.

  23. Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Even worse then. IE has no excuse to corrupt zip files. I can slightly understand a text file (attempting to render it or something during download). Thanks for the correction.

  24. Re:Are they -trying- to kill Firefox? on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    use Seamonkey if you're fed up with Mozilla.org

    That's like saying use staroffice if you're tired of openoffice.org (hint, it's made by the same people).

  25. Re:Are they -trying- to kill Firefox? on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    If you're buying a car every 2.5 years, you really are a wasteful asshole, you know that?

    He didn't say he ran the engine without oil and filled his gas tank with sand every 2.5 years. I'm sure someone got a good used car out of the deal.