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Comment Hell No (Score 1) 619

Commercial airplanes built for shuttling around the general public is one thing. Automobiles to be sold to individuals is another. There is no good reason for this. I will not buy one. I will complain loudly to the manufactures and dealers that I would purchase the car but the black box is a 'deal killer'. This is the insurance industry's and law enforcement's wet dream. I don't care. I do not exist to make their jobs easier (actually the opposite). Hell no.

Comment Final Product? (Score 1) 490

If the puzzles it solves meant cpu cycles farmed out, that had a demand, in an open market place, then yes, I could see this having some value. But the abstract is to abstract. What are these puzzles? A better idea would be.. if I could become a bitcoin affiliate and make money by getting others to sell bitcoin! Now you are talking!
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An IP Address For Every Light Bulb 457

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday NXP and Green Wave Reality announced to the world that they plan to give every lightbulb an IPV6 address. Hot on the heels of Google's 900 mhz announcement, Green Wave Reality already has iPhone / Android / and Web-based support. Looks like the lighting wars have started."

Comment the issue is where he was born (Score 1) 869

I don't think anyone believes he's not actually a US citizen. The point of conflict is that the US President is required to be a natural-born citizen. That means that if you immigrate and become a US citizen, you can become a citizen with all rights and privileges, except for one, becoming President. Like many things, the Constitution stipulates that, but doesn't really define the term in complete detail.

Natural Born is quite clear to me. You must have been born in the US. Naturally. So this would mean John Adams would qualify for President, and Alexander Hamilton would not (for sake of example ignoring the “or a citizen of the United States, at the time of adoption of this Constitution" clause). After that generation passed on, it would be impossible for anyone to immigrate to the US and then become President. I don't understand how this has become a gray area for so many lately.

Comment Bad move for Ubuntu One Music (Score 1) 266

The default music player in Ubuntu 11.04 is no longer Rhythmbox. Instead Banshee is now the default music player.

If they seriously wanted Ubuntu One Music to be relevant, it was already a bad idea to require linux/Rhythmbox, but now the default player wont even support One Music without installing a plugin.

Comment Restore original CD from FLAC (Score 1) 550

I recently came into an album that was one long .flac file plus a .cue file. I prefer individual song files so I took a few steps to break it up. Basically using ImgBurn and MadFLAC, I was able to recreate the original CD via the .cue file and then re-rip the cd in the manner of my choosing. I didn't realize the power of the CUE file allowed me to create that cd again that was even recognized by a gracenote lookup. Fantastic.

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