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Comment Re:Just when I thought (Score 4, Informative) 103

That 3D printing couldnt get any more awesome, something like this comes out of nowhere an proves that, yes, it can!

What implications does this hold for humans?aube we could get 3D printe false teeth with A faster turn-around than current moulding techniques.

I actually have such a tooth. I went into the dentist's office. He scanned my mouth with a 3d scanner, then used software to model the missing tooth. Then, the software sent the output to a milling machine, with a ceramic-on-metal blank. Total time, less than an hour from scanning my mouth to implanted tooth. I already had an implant grafted to my jawbone, so this was just the crown, but still, I was very impressed.

Comment Re:Diophantine textbook... (Score 1) 102

I find these titbits about number theory absolutely fascinating... I followed a few courses at undergraduate level that touched on this material - without giving me a solid grounding. What I'd like to know is this: Is there a good textbook that would bring me up to speed with this material? I like Wikipedia articles - but I find them disjointed.. what I'd like from a textbook is something that leads me through the subject from undergraduate level onwards. Can anyone make any recommendations?

I've had pretty good success with Wolfram MathWorld.

Comment Re:OLVWM (Score 1) 654

OLVWM was the GUI on my first linux workstation, back in 1995. Once I got graphics working at all that is. (Yay slackware 0.(somethingorother), had do download a half-tonne of floppy disk images, and install it with a lot of disk-swapping, and even then I still had to compile almost everything myself, including kernel drivers for my video card, network card, and mouse.)

Hear, Hear! I always loved olvwm.

Comment Re:The NYSE shouldn't reverse trades. (Score 1) 223

Nope nope nope.

The ONLY safe thing are treasury bills. You won't make much, but you CAN'T lose money. It doesn't pay out much, but then again your investment is truly safe.

Anything else, absolutely anything at all, runs the risk of loss.

However, if you are making less than inflation, you *are* losing money.

Comment Re:One could, and one would be wrong (Score 1) 307

And when driving on ice, I'm not likely to get past second gear anyway, making the question of engine braking mostly moot. I think the fastest I've ever run on mixed snow and ice was maybe thirty or thirty-five on an interstate-grade four-lane highway with essentially nobody else on the road. My experience was similar there—steer, do not touch the brakes under any circumstances, and let the engine slow you down over the course of hundreds of feet, and remember that you will not be able to steer quickly. Pretend you're steering a boat, or perhaps a ballistic missile....

I have had similar experiences. However, I've had ABS save my butt a few times.

Comment Re:change to port 80 and 443 (Score 1) 134

Run your VPN over port 80 and 443 let them block those as well. They may as well just switch it all off at the mains and be done with it.

Well, as other posters have pointed out, Iran is using Deep Packet Inspection, so they don't care about port numbers, just about the type of data that's being sent. I'm kind of surprised that according to some posters, they aren't blocking ssh.

Comment Re:Use OpenVPN (Score 1) 134

you can also use ssh to provide a generic SOCKS proxy:

ssh -D 1234 some.host.example.com

then just tell your apps to use a SOCKS proxy of localhost, port 1234

There are plenty of SOCKS wrappers for apps that don't have SOCKS code built in.

Comment Re:I would ask them why only 3 days (Score 1) 211

... KOTOR series on consoles, they come out with this PC-only MMO....

Up until reading your comment, I literally had no idea it was on consoles. I only ever knew about it on PC. I haven't played it though. I had a roommate who was hugely into PC gaming and Star Wars, so KOTOR was his idea of the perfect game.

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