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Comment Social Problem (Score 4, Insightful) 309

You're doing it wrong. If there's anything I've learned in dealing with people, it is never try to create a technical solution to a social problem. If someone wants to make a copy of some secret document, they will quickly learn that the copiers have this software installed and will use a different machine. You need to figure out why they would want to make copies of something you don't want them to, and solve that problem. I could see this being marginally useful for preventing accidental release of information, however the article seems to state that they are trying to stop deliberate users.

A determined user who has guessed the prohibited keyword could get around it by simply substituting numbers or other characters for letters, such as z00 instead of zoo, representatives for Canon conceded.

Comment Re:Sophisticated credit card fraud (Score 2, Insightful) 73

I recently ordered a netbook for my brother off an online website. The next day I got a call from my credit card company asking me if it was actually me making the purchase. I said yes it was, and THANK YOU for calling me. I feel the same way when I go to use my credit card and they ask for ID. Sure it inconveniences me, but I'd rather have false positives that only require me to say OK when I do something unusual, then someone making fraudulent purchases with my card. I know in the end my credit card company will be footing the bill, not me, but it still is a large waste of time.

I can see how a local pizza hut being flagged as unusual would be an issue, but that is a flaw in the implementation, not the algorithm.

Comment Re:8800Ultra (Score 2, Interesting) 715

Assuming that you are equally satisfied with your food quality, then your economic gain solely depends on how much value you place in your time. Assuming you cook for one hour per day, for 30 days, that means that your break even point is $12/hour ($375/30hours ~ $12/hour). For a busy person, who is financially secure, they may rather not spend the time. If you have lots of free time, and maybe not as much money, cooking is a better option.

Once again, logic agrees with intuition. horray

PS.. Wait, what the hell, this story was about a video card...

Comment Re:Could use the CO2 to generate electricity, too (Score 1) 102

Well for one, that's not a huge pressure head to generate electricity on a large scale. When you see dams they are so tall to generate enough pressure to make large scale energy harvesting feasible. It's also possible that by trying to harvest the energy, you'll disrupt the siphon's flow; although I don't have any backup for that claim, it's just a guess.

Secondly, I'd wager that if they're pulling the methane out of the lake and burning it that you remove most of the source for the dissolved CO2 anyway.

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