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  1. Re:How is that startling? on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    Says teh anonymous coward. Each party gerrymanders to try and preserve their power. Look at what happened in California when the Dems used their experts to bias the supposedly "non-partisan" redistricting committee, or Illinois, for that matter: http://www.csmonitor.com/Comme...

  2. Re:"Still in use by the US military" on U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX · · Score: 2

    NASA flies them as research planes: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ar...

  3. Honestly, that's not what it does. Rather than tracing your actual ancestry, it's looking at the geographic distribution of the various genes in it. Thus, it can't tell you the names of your ancestors, but it can certainly tell you where they probably came from.

  4. Not quite right. on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1

    Your blood doesn't contain stem cells. The stem cells are in your bone marrow. They stay there, creating blood cells for you. Blood cells do not divide or reproduce. (I don't know why...)

  5. Re:She was 115 on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry, sire. Shall I peel you another grape?

  6. Re:Bank them on Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life · · Score: 1

    Possibly - but what are the health consequences of stripping the body of a percentage of your stem cells when you're younger?

  7. Let me know how it goes on Apple Fixes Major SSL Bug In OS X, iOS · · Score: 1

    when you try to put windows 8.1 on a 7 year old computer.

  8. Errr... on Apple Fixes Major SSL Bug In OS X, iOS · · Score: 1

    Heartbleed affects clients, too. Android phones running 4.1.1, for example. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

  9. Re:Also time to stop on Author Says It's Time To Stop Glorifying Hackers · · Score: 1

    Excuse me?

  10. Helmets are getting better on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Old ipod Shuffle cable... on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    The cost of replacement parts is a different issue. Most of the cost for spare parts comes from the company having to sit on a huge pile of them for years taking up space in their inventory. Compare the cost of your car when it was new with the cost of all the replacement parts you would need to build a replica of it.

  12. Re:Okay, stupid question. on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    Thanks! The fact that the court case occurred certainly adds a lot of credence to the blog post, although I still wonder why Apple - which has replaced 1,000s of logic boards like his - decided to give him trouble over this particular one.

  13. Okay, stupid question. on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    I asked this on reddit, and got no answer. All this hoopla is based on an anonymous blog. I've googled around and I can't find anyone reporting this story who isn't just pasting details from the blog. No one knows the guys name. No one knows the court docket #, the date the case was heard or even what court heard the case. Do we have any evidence that this incident actually occurred?

  14. Re:Cash Flow... on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 1

    They might be "making millions" but they're certainly not turning a profit.

  15. Re:Cash Flow... on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 1

    Not so much.

    In a Guardian interview in May 2008, Mark Shuttleworth said that the Canonical business model was service provision and explained that Canonical was not yet close to profitability.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.#Business_plans

  16. Yup. on Is Canonical the Next Apple? · · Score: 0

    I use linux professionally but I use OS X personally, simply because I got tired of having to manually hack/bash/configure everything to work with whatever hardware I was using.

    Of course, I inevitably put MacPorts, Fink or Brew on my machines so I can put all the missing packages on..... ;-)

  17. Re:Good, but on Reviews: Star Trek · · Score: 1

    That was Voyager.

  18. Re:I don't get it on A Real Bill Gates Rant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > It's the law of unintended consequences. The vision at Microsoft has always been to try and reduce complexity. Whenever there has been a tradeoff between control and simplicity.

    Have you ever actually compared Windows to MacOS? Microsoft most definitely did NOT choose simplicity, rather they have always chosen flexibility - the ability to configure and reconfigure the system to run on different hardware and to do different things.

  19. Re:LinkedIn -yes, Facebook - no on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't linkedin directly, but accidentally providing information that can tie you to non-work activities.

    I hadn't done a vanity search in years because I had long ago discovered there were a number of people who were more interesting than me but had the same name I do - but after looking this over, I did it again and discovered that two of the top 5 hits are me. Fortunately, neither of them pointed to /.....

  20. Re:Drat you Steve! on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While new devices that use firewire might be rare, I have no intention of replacing my camcorder just because Apple says I should.

  21. I have to admit this the first thing I thought of on Users Rage Over Missing FireWire On New MacBooks · · Score: 1

    The moment I realized there was no firewire on the new MacBooks, I knew I couldn't upgrade.

    I had been planning on giving my wife my Blackbook and buying a new one - but how can I? I'd have no way to transfer my videos, no way to connect my firewire-based external HD.

  22. Re:In my day, we had to hand format disks on PC Historian Finds Puzzling Game Diskette Image · · Score: 5, Funny

    You had magnets!?!

    We had rub our fingers against piece of sheepskin really fast to build up a static charge and then touch the bits to flip them!

  23. Re:The story keeps changing. on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    I've never worked on big routers, but every router I've have worked on automatically flushes its configuration when it's reset.

    Like I said, maybe the big ones are different.

  24. Right. on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    In a report filed before the city disclosed the hidden router, a court-appointed expert witness for the defense wrote that DTIS could easily prevent Childs from accessing the networks. "I have seen no evidence that Mr. Childs is a 'computer hacker,' and by taking a number of simple steps, DTIS could block access by Mr. Childs to San Francisco networks," wrote Doug Tygar, a University of California, Berkeley computer science professor.

    In other words, a vindictive city is looking for excuses to keep Childs in prison.

  25. Re:The story keeps changing. on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Indeed. That article is a joke, too. "The routers had been rigged so that they'd lose their configuration data if they were reset." ... What does this guy think "reset" means, exactly?

    Actually, I'm also wondering if Mr. McMillian ever changed the password on his home WiFi router...