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Comment Damn (Score 1) 496

by PiAndWhippedCream on Saturday November 13, 2010 @02:13AM (#34213860) Attached to: Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank

And encryption won't help.

Comment Pointers (Score 2, Funny) 227

by PiAndWhippedCream on Saturday November 06, 2010 @04:54PM (#34149028) Attached to: Evaluating Or Testing Utility SCADA Security?

0x00000047, 0x000008C4, and 0x00000A08 All hold awful vulnerabilities, make sure no one has access to them.

Comment For all those who don't know (Score 1) 402

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday November 01, 2010 @11:41PM (#34097844) Attached to: The temperature where I am now is controlled by...

Partial Temp by partial time = partial squared Temp by partial space squared.

$$ \frac{\partial T}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial^{2} T}{\partial x^{2}} $$

Comment Re:You're Bugged (Score 1) 68

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday October 20, 2010 @03:46PM (#33965236) Attached to: Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt

We have those, they are called `insects'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808342.stm

Comment Define Half. (Score -1, Redundant) 237

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday October 18, 2010 @04:24AM (#33930046) Attached to: Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises

41.2% is `less than half', yet 43.6% is `nearly half'. Who thinks samzenpus' threshold between these two phrases is really between these two numbers. Also: Douglass Adams fans, 0.42 == 42% != 42.

Comment Seriously? (Score 3, Insightful) 311

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday October 11, 2010 @03:00PM (#33861882) Attached to: How Should Poll Numerical Increments Be Set?

I have seen polls where there are 2 answers that are essentially the same, but this one has 4 that do not practically differ.

Comment Call me cynical, (Score 2, Insightful) 264

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @11:07PM (#33820108) Attached to: Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover

I suspect that Dido has cut a check to McCandless. This is great, and probably cheap publicity.

Comment Write Your Own (Score 1) 366

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @08:35PM (#33819032) Attached to: Simple Virus For Teaching?

Just code your own virus. You'll know how to remove it. Alternatively, if you are teaching an advanced class as well, have those students write it.

Comment Re:Beware? (Score 2, Interesting) 265

by PiAndWhippedCream on Sunday September 26, 2010 @10:14PM (#33707404) Attached to: Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico

I am afraid of Iris scanning technology, because it MAY give someone an incentive to rip my eyeballs out.

I like my eyeballs.

Comment Did We Screw Up? (Score 1) 116

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday September 20, 2010 @01:01PM (#33638002) Attached to: Europe Proposes International Internet Treaty

Can we at least wait until the US department of commerce significantly screws things up before we go around demanding international treaties?

Comment Re:Manhack (Score 2, Interesting) 124

by PiAndWhippedCream on Monday September 20, 2010 @02:14AM (#33632874) Attached to: U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks

One of the most terrifying things I've seen in a video game. Whenever I hear something that even vaguely sounds like a manhack, I instinctively spin to face it, and attempt to take out the Crowbar/GravGun.

Comment From the Article (Score 3, Informative) 119

by PiAndWhippedCream on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:55PM (#33582674) Attached to: Cell Phones Powered By Conversations

The sound waves produced a mild electrical current of about 50 millivolts. The average cell phone requires a few volts to operate, several times the power this technology can currently produce.

Wrong, so very wrong. Millivolts is not a unit of current, and volts is no unit of power. Nor is power current. I've seen journalists not understanding electrical units before, but never have I seen something quite so wrong as this.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 480

by PiAndWhippedCream on Thursday September 02, 2010 @12:53AM (#33445842) Attached to: I can see X LEDs as I fall asleep. X = __

Still, there is nowhere near one LED per pixel. However with my new co-venture with Negroponte, we can make that a reality, join OLPP today.

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 480

by PiAndWhippedCream on Wednesday September 01, 2010 @05:01PM (#33441276) Attached to: I can see X LEDs as I fall asleep. X = __

Are you absolutely certain you have an LED screen, most are CRT or LCD, if you got a LED screen, you would remember it.

Comment It's a Trap (Score 1) 262

by PiAndWhippedCream on Thursday August 26, 2010 @06:35PM (#33387130) Attached to: MPEG LA Announces Permanent Royalty Moratorium For H264

`Paid' and `Free' subject to future profitable redefinition.

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