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  1. Pointless. on The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source
    Until you realise the source is in a rural area 50 miles past the first camera to see it.

    "Anti-terrorism" cameras will not stop suicide bombers, nor will they even deter them. They're completely and utterly useless for their stated purpose, which means the government probably has no intention of using them for their stated purpose.

  2. Re:Validation for the website on A Free XML-Based Operating System · · Score: 1

    Have you looked at the HTML code on Google's front page? It's not built to be valid, it's built to load fast.

  3. Re:Only for younger kids on Schools Banning Homework? · · Score: 1

    Toward the end of my A levels I got a strong impression that the school couldn't care less about the kids as long as the statistics portrayed the school in a good light.

    I gave up somewhere in the middle of year 13, got a bunch of shitty grades but just enough to get into a computing course at a local college. The first thing I noticed is that they don't run it like a battery farm.

  4. One question: on Mass Market DS Homebrew Cart Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Did the homebrew writers get a fair deal when Datel took their work and sold it at a profit?

  5. Re:Donkey kong country on Ten DS Games That Should Be Made · · Score: 1

    They took a huge step backwards when they went from 44/48kHz procedural sound to what sounds like 11kHz 8-bit samples. What I don't get is, with all this processing power available, why they couldn't have bundled something similar to CSound in the devkits.

  6. Re:You're right. It WAS a stupid question on NASA's Future Inflatable Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    Indeed, where do you draw the line at?

    "Who cares about the moon/mars, it's just a bunch of dust with no air that costs money."
    "Why bother going to other countries, they're just the same as here."
    "No point going outside for a walk, cause it just makes me tired."
    "Why do I bother breathing? I'm going to die eventually either way."

    etc.

  7. Re:200-in-1 kit, link and review on 500-in-1 Electronics Kits? · · Score: 1

    Wow, I had no idea that thing was so common. I had one when I was about 9, though I didn't really know what I was doing so I ended up frying all the LEDs :(

  8. Re:Microsoft vs. the Law on Microsoft Threatened With Fines By EU Again · · Score: 1

    If they carry on refusing to pay the fines, what is the EU going to do? I'm hoping for an outright sales ban.

  9. Re:Will it survive next year? on PS3's New Back-Compat Limit Outlined · · Score: 1

    Well when my PS2 breaks again (I got it second hand for free, since it already had a "broken" disc drive), I'll just move on to using my other back compatible console - Wii.

  10. Re:Configurable click behaviour of title bars?? on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    The irony in that is that Gnome's GConf already looks worse than xconfig - it's a regedit clone.

  11. Fine with me. on PS3's New Back-Compat Limit Outlined · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll just stick to the console I bought last year, which plays my last-gen games just fine.

  12. Only PCI-E? on Where Can You Find Cheap DVI Video Cards? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's a shame, I'd recommend my Radeon 9250 which was dirt cheap, fanless and even has a pretty clear VGA output, but it's AGP.

  13. How is it unauthorised on MPAA Fires Back at AACS Decryption Utility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...When the copyright owner has given the user both the encrypted data and the key to decrypt it with? Surely if they don't want people decrypting their secret content they wouldn't do something as stupid as that, would they?

  14. Re:Nothing has changed on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be honest, if you've got kids that age who know how to get into your 4WD, start it up, have the strength to pull the handbrake off, and can drive stick... they should really be in a circus.

  15. Re:Bottom line on A Bad Month for Firefox · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons MS shoves everything into the second Tuesday of the month is so system admins know when to start panicking and do something, before blackhats start reverse-engineering the patches for holes.
    This security through obscurity is pointless for Mozilla, for fairly obvious reasons.

  16. Re:Hardware sucks. on For Unlucky 360 Owner Seventh Time's the Charm · · Score: 1

    Only cheap, poor build quality hardware sucks.

    My ~15 year old Sega CD's still going fine after all these years. About the only thing that's ever happened to it is a blown fuse.

  17. Re:Caching is the answer on Does the Internet Need a Major Capacity Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    The problem with caching is that most of the sites out there use dynamic content. There's two ways to do it then: violate the spec and return locally stored pages (which is probably the 70% case you're seeing), or follow the spec and send the right HTTP headers all the time.
    The second option only works if you support it on the source server, and speaking from experience on a tiny system (about 20 php files) it's a HUGE pain in the ass to get right.

  18. Re:This will never work. on New Details on Xerox Inkless Printer · · Score: 1

    Correction: The GP is thinking in terms of printer manufacturers. Xerox also makes the paper.

  19. How about reasons not to use XML? on Ten Predictions for XML in 2007 · · Score: 1

    There's one reason I like JSON way more than XML, and its name is RSI.

  20. Just wondering... on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    What would be the "recommended" RAM for a Beryl+KDE desktop? 'cause I'm getting damn good performance with only half a gig here...

  21. Re:Funny. on Game Development Conditions Could Drive Devs East · · Score: 2, Funny

    Japan's work week + work conditions = 10 x worse than the West's.

    Japanese game programmers work 800 hour weeks?
  22. Re:Gnome developers aren't idiots on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    How naive you are. Things don't work like that for 90% of the users, sorry.

    Well, maybe that's something to do with the fact 90% of the users use neither Gnome nor OS X.
  23. Re:Best of luck on Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup · · Score: 1

    "100 times better" is perfectly feasible, if your average dataset is 100 (arbritary units), your old algorithm is O(n^2) and the new one is O(n).

  24. Re:Questions from the Peanut Gallery on Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" · · Score: 1

    The LHC cannot produce a dangerous black hole. To do that they'd need to recreate the conditions at the centre of a red giant - a few orders of magnitude more energy than the entire planet can output, and gravity measured in km/s^2.

  25. Re:Well, I'm AMP'd on Sun Offering Optimized AMP Stack On Solaris · · Score: 2, Funny

    An optimised SPAM stack! Just what we need!