Comment Re:Time to get off the oil addiction (Score 1) 124

by doubleyou on Monday July 02, 2012 @10:54PM (#40523633) Attached to: US Energy Transportation Network Gets Multibillion-Dollar Revamp

We have it. It's called Thorium.

There, I fixed that for you.

Comment SLEEP and USENIX both at Boston Sheraton this week (Score 1) 70

by doubleyou on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @03:49PM (#40299927) Attached to: Stroke Risk Spikes In Healthy Adults Who Don't Get Enough Sleep

Is someone from Usenix sneaking into the Sleep panels? Come-on, fess up... ;-)

Comment WikiCert? (Score 1) 91

by doubleyou on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @03:01PM (#38217310) Attached to: Google Researchers Propose Plan To Fix CA System

Wikified certificates, anyone?

Comment Taiwan or mainland China - which one? (Score 0) 148

by doubleyou on Monday September 26, 2011 @03:51PM (#37519312) Attached to: Is Apple Moving iPad Production to Brazil?

Let's not forget having to trust the Chinese government.

To which Chinese government do you refer? The PRC or the ROC?

Comment fake license (Score 0) 212

by doubleyou on Wednesday August 17, 2011 @07:37PM (#37124564) Attached to: Moon Younger Than Previously Thought

So, the moon lied about its birthday?

Comment ...altogether now (Score 1) 289

by doubleyou on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @01:25PM (#36531344) Attached to: An Entirely New Class of Aircraft Arrives

It's an entirely different kind of flying...

Comment time range looks a little less arbitrary in GMT (Score 1) 243

by doubleyou on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @11:56AM (#36375924) Attached to: World IPv6 Day: Most-watched Tech Event Since Y2K

Hey NetworkWorld, way to advertise that you're on the east coast of the US. Want to re-state that time-range in GMT now, so it actually makes sense?

Comment GPU x86 mapping feasible? (Score 1) 55

by doubleyou on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @10:26AM (#36227716) Attached to: AMD Releases FirePro V5900 and V7900 Workstation GPUs

How soon until you can emulate an x86 instruction set on one of these? Sure, architectural differences make it an apples and oranges comparison, but I wonder how far such a project could go...

Comment How Orwellian (Score 1) 151

by doubleyou on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @10:22AM (#36227672) Attached to: US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language

Comment Re:someone had to say it (Score 1) 177

by doubleyou on Friday March 04, 2011 @04:16PM (#35383420) Attached to: Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human

What about our new COUGAR overlords?

I welcome them too!

Comment someone had to say it (Score 1) 177

by doubleyou on Friday March 04, 2011 @03:51PM (#35383118) Attached to: Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human

I, for one, welcome our CHEETAH overlords...

Comment avoiding the real issue (Score 1) 118

by doubleyou on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @12:26PM (#35221846) Attached to: Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering

How about solving the real problem first: bufferbloat

Comment Re:you can always use time travel to be right (Score 1) 189

by doubleyou on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @11:07AM (#34994142) Attached to: BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website

oops: s/the Wikipedia/Wikipedia/

Comment you can always use time travel to be right (Score 1) 189

by doubleyou on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @10:47AM (#34993872) Attached to: BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website

Perhaps they had the good fortune to find an edition of the Wikipedia that fell through a time warp from a thousand years in the future.

Comment Re:Sosumi (Score 1) 551

by doubleyou on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @04:57PM (#34247628) Attached to: The Beatles On iTunes

And yet there's the trademark dispute over the Apple brand, the Beatles owning Apple Corps, and Jobs having Apple Computer.

Apple Corps? So now they have an army? I guess now we know where Sgt. Pepper got his start...