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  1. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    You were doing it wrong. Your engine nor car will really warm up before you are on the road, and it is bad for the environment too. Don't your neighbors hate you?

    You should have a heater installed. Clever ones store and reuse the heat of the last trip.

  2. chemical signals too on New Imaging Method Reveals Brain Connections · · Score: 1

    The summary only mentions electrical pulses, it should have mentioned that the local chemical environment is part of the information exchange.

  3. Re:What? on Nasty Data-Stealing Bug Haunts Internet Explorer 8 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Users of Microsoft software always remind me of the first little pig, the one that builds a house of straw.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Little_Pigs

  4. blind could feel the environment on Textured Tactile Touchscreens · · Score: 1

    This is a way to make a panoramic view touchable.

    Imagine a thin suit that has this on the inside, and that projects a processed presentation of the environment on the body of the wearer. You would feel the car coming from behind before it hit you. :)

    (Yes, I wrote on this before.)

  5. multiple axes on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 1

    I always look for communication skills, business sense, math skills, and yes, of course technical skills too.

    And at least 5 years of experience, which I agree is not very community friendly.

  6. Brainsessions on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1
  7. Bars on a n iPhone? on Poor Vision? There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    Bars? On an iPhone? I thought we already gave up on that.

  8. And how about the "next" and "up" button? on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    Has the "next" button already been defined? Or even patented?

    I like to see a standard [back/up\next] interface that is easy to set from HTML, so you never have to look for it again when a set of pages is structured that way.

    For example, I don't like interfaces like the one this has: http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/

  9. not solar panels on Europe To Import Sahara Solar Power Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    This is not about solar panels. Solar panels are stupid for anything else but places far from the "mains".

    This is about mirrors reflecting sunlight on water containers. Very effective. Much more environmentally friendly than solar panels.

  10. chargeback on Spamhaus Fine Reduced From $11.7M To $27K · · Score: 1

    I think this ruling is great. Now we can start charging back the spammers for the work they cause us, and of course send 1% of what we receive to SpamHaus.

  11. logo on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 1


    . . . . M
    . S c r a b b l e
    . . . . t
    . . . . t


    etc.

  12. fork and merge on USPTO Grants Google a Patent On MapReduce · · Score: 1

    I call this "fork and merge" and we have been doing it since forever (1993 at least, but we surely didn't invent it).

    The general technique is to have multiple processors work on part of the data set, in a potentially wasteful/redundant way, and then when the results are coming in, perform a merge step to arrive at a clean result.

    Multi-threading must die. Forking is your past, present and future.

    Processing chunks is also more effective, because you give other processes a chance to do some work too.

    (" and in one sentence-alert :)

  13. Re:I want multithreading! on Firefox 3.7 Dropped In Favor of Feature Updates · · Score: 1

    You don't want multithreading, you want forking.

  14. Wind Mills and Electric Solar Panels are Alchemy on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Wind Mills and Electric Solar Panels are the Alchemy of our Age.

    Don't let their green image fool you, the "hidden costs" are big.
    Even in the few cases where their appliances are somewhat practical, we have real alternatives available.

    Why take energy from moving Air, when you have moving Water?
    Why use the thin rays from above (Fire), when you have a molten core (Earth) below?

    Let's build (clean) geothermal systems.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geothermal_hotspots.JPG

    Photovoltaics can do some:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_land_area.png
    but Solar Thermal Power Plants already do it better:
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andasol_1
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Solar_One

    Let's let them move the water:
    http://www.livescience.com/animals/090729-jellyfish-mixers.html ;)

  15. Multi-Threading is evil on New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released · · Score: 1

    Multi-threading is insecure in itself. Stop sharing, start merging.

  16. Re:Goo on Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go" · · Score: 1

    I suggest: gloo

    (Perl is my glue)

  17. sea container on Google Getting Into the Solar Mirror Business · · Score: 1

    And then put such a construction in a standard sea container sized box, that you unfold on any sunny location.

    It should provide electricity for a guaranteed time window every day, so add a smart stove.

  18. Re:But you already have it... on Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch · · Score: 1

    Well, threading is a thing of the past. Parallel processing is much more predictable when done with independent processes that partly do double work and get merged at the end. Not very green indeed, but still much closer to what we need.

  19. medieval plagues and HIV on Prehistoric Gene Reawakened To Battle HIV · · Score: 1

    google: hiv plague

    google: CCR5-D32

  20. Re:So close... on Laser Ignition May Replace the Spark Plug · · Score: 1

    Let's get rid of the windscreenwiper.

  21. CPAN on Volunteer Programming For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Hi, also take a look at http://search.cpan.org/.

    Much is already there, but new good stuff can be, and is, added every day.

  22. human beings are just ... on Hawking Says Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution · · Score: 1

    Basically, human beings are just means of transport and habitats for bacteria.
    These bacteria have been injecting us with their genetics for ever.
    If this view changes your idea of 'self', then that must be what they want.

  23. Lemmings on Vintage Games · · Score: 1

    Huh, no Lemmings?

  24. Only for Windows on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    AFAICS only for Windows.

  25. Tulip Pocket Books on A Look Back At the World's First Netbook · · Score: 1

    The Tulip PB subnotebooks were already 248 x 155 x 46 mm (like 9.5 x 6") in 1993.
    http://www.tulipgv.nl/tpb.html