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Comment Re:Well, (Score 1) 338

Yes. Revolution is an extension of evolution.

That's just plain butchery of Latin word, because they mean complete opposite.

evolution as in to unwind, to unroll, to unfold, to undo what's done.
revolution as in to change, to mutate in progression.

Either word cannot be related in context by an author with an intent to use it as an extension of the other.

Comment Re:Drugs over a border anyone? (Score 1) 87

> you lose a cheap plane and some cargo, but that's all.

Contrarily smugglers are not as valuable as single kilo of coke. To drug cartels, humans are replaceable, but time and effort put in to produce narcotics and committed delivery agreements are not. If UAV crashed while smuggling a kilo across the border, there has to be a backup standing by to retrieve that cargo at all cost. Also distributing small amount of narcotics using massive numbers of undetectable UAV has to account for more inherent failures (strong wind, mechanical failure, signal disruption, greater chance of detection by border patrols, difficulty of retrieval) than single large payload delivery using shortest path from point A to point B; for example, submarine, bribing border guards, etc. I think, this makes small UAV as a drug smuggling device impractical.

Comment Re:Won't quiet the racists (Score 1) 406

this finding was in X chromosome, not mitochondria. so this could have easily been the other way around (neanderthal fucking sapien). logically i do not think (i ain't no expert in this field) even a strongest male sapien could have overpowered a young female neanderthal. only way i could see this plausible (again, i am no expert in this field), an intercourse through multiple male co-operative dominance (simply put, a gang rape). even then, i doubt, as an healthy neanderthal can overpower a strongest h. sapien arm wrestler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELavgk1_9L4

Now, there is another vector which i do not want to entertain even as a thought, a band of female Amazonian like Neanderthals running about Middle East raping Homo Spiens.

Comment TSA and Terrorist - Predictable and Not Effective (Score 1) 388

I think, these guys aren't original at all. It's like watching Rocky movie sequels. Every plot (revenge) is same, methods (bomb/hostage) are same, entry of attacks are same (exploiting gaps), and subplots (demands) are same. At this point, I'm not really sure if it should be even categorically filed under "terror" or "TSA" anymore. Perhaps categorized under "Trial-and-Error"...

What would be original though is if a terror act so original, nothing is blown, only our minds. Like "WOW, I am impressed and terrorized at the same time by the display of originality". For instance, terrorist abducts Snooki and "Situation", and force them to learn method acting. Then the terrorist returns them as greatest method actors ever known. Later, the terrorist's plot unfolds as Snooki and "Situation" win the Oscar nomination, upsetting the balance of Universe.

TSA in turn can implement new security policy called "Water Fall" which provides all passengers with mandatory 1 liter drink beverages and alcohol 1 hour before boarding the plane and force passengers to listen to the sound of heavy water fall in the waiting area. Then if the passenger needs to go bathroom before boarding, the bathroom will be fitted with body scanner.

Obviously things like this will never happen because of their lack of understanding and originality.

Comment why not boot image instead of BOOTREC.exe? (Score 1) 203

according to numerous Windows MBR disassembled reverse engineered blogs states first 300 bytes is the bootstrap executable code pushed into memory by Windows (000h through 012Bh). so in theory, can Microsoft just provide boot image to just boot off USB thumb drive to restore system files (embedded bootstrap files only) and just overwrite first 300 bytes bootstrap code from mbr and call it a day?

I mean, this is chicken and the egg. You can't download BOOTREC.exe on a computer which seldom comes with installation DVD these days. And you can't restore system files from recovery partition (most likely infected). And you can't just copy clean system files from other clean computer over to your computer because of different Windows digital signature on bootstrap. So what the hell.

So why can't Microsoft just issue a recovery boot image to begin with instead of just handing out useless BOOTREC.exe and leave customers like a chicken with its head cut off?

Comment Re:Who uses Thunderbird? (Score 1) 154

1. Expended threaded message flow view
2. Viewing messages more than 100 message per page (some folders i have more than 2k)
3. Native execution clients allow better viewing customization (folder/label structure, panel layout, structured view, etc)
4. Automatic viewing message by selection within single viewable screen along with structured message layout view
5. Scheduled message sending (ie. 9AM morning release message prep'd a day before)
6. Client API hook to various other native applications (desktop notification, automatic imported todo notes)
7. Localized backup/restore and brick level restore by account, not the whole thing
8. Bandwidth consumption when dealing with messages with large attachments
9. Isolating messaging application process from browser application process (two heavy ajax on two browser tabs just kills my machine) ...
I don't want to write anymore... too tired...

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