Plus waterboarding is copyrighted...

And no real heat from the Liberal party either. They played it safe with their "town hall meetings" during the Bill C-61 fiasco, but never committed to any side of the debate at all.
I'm sure they would cave to big media pressure (cough cash, wine and dine, free trips) if they thought it would help them win the next election.

The point is that the PC squeaks & squawks will hide quite well inside the digital squeaks & squawks of the aforementioned author of said electronic music. Nothing wrong with that.

It won't hide well in a clean recording of an acoustic guitar.

I thought the Twin Peaks sound track was good stuff, for the reference, and I also like a beautifully recorded acoustic guitar track.

There's lots of good and bad music of all sorts being recorded, it's all a good thing.

Two points -
1. Just by pluggin my elcheapo earbuds into my work PC without anything actually playing and I hear a virtual jungle of digital crickets, that squawk and chirp with every mouse movement, and every task that's running. Same thing on the PC I have wired into my home recording studio. The proof is in the pudding.

2. I do electronics engineering as my day job and know full well what it takes to reach 16 bits of silence in an audio design, it's almost impossible inside the case of a PC, and the requirements for PC audio is to be "good enough for gamers" - not to satisfy audiofiles.

Hell, even my prosumer Yamaha dedicated recording workstation (AW16G) has audible crosstalk and hiss on the input channels, which isn't a serious problem, but is surprising in a box designed for audio recording. (Not enough care and attention in isolating the power supply of the input mosfet channel switches would be my guess as to the source of the crosstalk).

You can't always assume that everyone on slashdot is a clueless moron.

Exactly, linux or not, the build in sound card on almost all PC's is utter crap, filled with buzzing squeaks from the internal PC switching power supplies.
This guy wouldn't notice. Try recording a nice acoustic guitar sound with a good mic..

This alone means you need some decent quiet soundcard, and it then has to talk with linux audio drivers..

Interesting point.
In the early days of Windows audio, people found that their gaming graphics card was grabbing the PCI bus for incredibly long stretches at a time, as a side effect of the graphics card driver trying to max out performance and show great benchmark results. This would totally mess up any audio latency.

I wonder if the linux graphics drivers are doing similar games, causing all sorts of latency hiccups?

(As I'm typing this on a windows box the hard drive is causing seconds long delays as I try to type this!)

Linux audio is definitely not yet what it should be..

I do - find it disgusting that is!

Don't assume.

And spend $100,000 plus per pound to put it in space, never mind set up and maintenance.
This idea is so costly compared to a big "boring" solar array in the desert near - say the Hoover Dam - that it shows how bad some geeks are at reality.
Sure it's "cool", but in no way does it make any financial sense, by several orders of magnitude.

It can be directly measured - look at the claimed output of the electrical generators attached.

If it was a trivial amount of energy, it would not be worth doing in the first place, ignoring the fact that the energy is being drained from inefficient gas engines in the first place.

This scheme wastes more oil than not doing it. Using a car as a gasoline to kinetic energy to plate pusher to electric generator is insanely less efficient than just buying electricity from your local power grid.

This "technique" is touted as "being green" when it is exactly the opposite. At best it's a pointless distraction, at worst it's a backwards rat hole that causes more CO2 emissions.

Since when is informing you of the laws of thermodynamics "trolling"?

If you put your car in neutral, then when you hit said plates, your car would slow down a bit, loosing energy.

You would then use energy to speed back up after the fact.

But - you may say they should have used brakes anyway? Sure, but a hybrid or electric car wanted that energy back via regenerative braking.

But speed bumps are a deterrent, not a direct method for physically slowing down your car.
If you are coasting thru a parking lot without putting on the brakes, then the speed bumps will slow you a tiny bit, but not substantially (unless they are a couple meters high). As many people have mentioned, most of the speed lost climbing the speed bump is returned as you roll back down the other side.
A little bit of loss went into compressing your shocks (and minor amounts of stress in your springs etc).

The deterrent comes in when it makes your car shake like hell when you hit one too fast, so you both hit the brakes, and slow down in the first place.

If you change the speed bump into a plunger that drives a generator then you will find you can hit them faster than a stationary one, and it won't be as effective a speed bump.

Exactly! Try jogging on a path beside a peat bog. The ground moves up and down with your foot by a couple centimeters, and you really feel the net drain on your legs. Much more work than jogging on blacktop.

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Save the doublespeak for the politicians.

This is a guilty until proven - nah never mind you're all guilty, so pay Celine Dion for the crime of backing up your bank statements on blank CDs.

Welfare for an obsolete business model. And yes, you can guess I'm against another blank "Levy" on internet usage. No reason the Media conglomerates should get free welfare from anyone.