Comment Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... (Score 1) 1128
Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in /. mod's? If only the mod threshold was <= not >=, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
Comment Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... (Score 0) 1128
Just now noticing the infantile lefty bias in /. mod's?
If only the mod threshold was =, the moderation filter would be more useful on topics like this.
Comment Re:Hmmmm. (Score 1) 427
How about this: Windows 7 isn't bad, asterisk*
*as long as you don't compare it to XP or Win2k
*as long as you don't compare it to XP or Win2k
Comment Re:OXYMORON ALERT (Score 0) 999
Have not met a democrat with an altar to any human being at all.
You forgot the
The nightly news turned into a BHO worship service for many during the campaign. Chris Matthews Obsession culminated into an Orgasm on a live news show while speaking of Him. Thank God he kept his clothes on and his willy in his pants while his leg was tingling.
Praise be to Obama.
Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score 1) 749
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip. I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
Fuck my Karma, its funny b/c its true. Stereotypes save time. You know you have seen someone like this at a stoplight downtown, blaring NPR on their way to a Yoga class
Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score -1, Flamebait) 749
I have experienced 0-60 in half a sec in a Prius when I was rear ended by a Hummer when i pulled out in front of him. The airbag deployed and knocked off my beret, and my latte scalded my lips and soul patch, as I was about to take a sip.
I am dead now but that is better for the planet because now my carbon foot print will be nil. Sadly though it destroyed my Obama/Biden '08 bumper sticker.
Adobe Chided For Insecure Acrobat Reader 179
The Register covers security firm Secunia calling out Adobe for its insecure distribution practices with regard to Adobe Reader. (Here is Secunia's note.) The accusation is that the way Adobe provides Reader extends the software's window of vulnerability once an exploit has begun to circulate. Version 9.1 of Reader, which is what you get when you visit the official download site, contains 10 vulnerabilities that were patched by later releases. "Adobe Systems has been taken to task for offering outdated software on its downloads page that contains dozens of security vulnerabilities, several of which are already being exploited in the wild... Visitors who obtain Adobe Reader from the company's official downloads page will find that it installs version 9.1 of the program on their computers, even though the most recent version was 9.1.2 at time of writing. That could put users at considerable peril given the number of vulnerabilities fixed in the two iterations that have come since 9.1, complains Secunia..."
Comment Re:Is this such a good idea? (Score 1) 279
body
Law of Armed Conflict To Apply To Cyberwar 242
charter6 writes "Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won't rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks. This means that we consider state-supported 'hackers' to be subject to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law, including the rules of proportionality and distinction (i.e. if we catch them, we can try them for war crimes). Incidentally, it also means we consider non-state cyber-attackers to be illegal enemy combatants, which means we can do all kinds of nasty stuff to them."
Comment Re:!Anti-war protesters (Score 1) 433
Thanks, I never understood that before, I guess because I always heard it on the radio where you can't see hyphens. I also sure as hell didn't know what a compound adjective was.
Comment !Anti-war protesters (Score 2, Informative) 433
"Seven anti-war protesters were arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday during a protest rally and march which targeted the Army Experience Center, a high-tech recruitment center which uses PC and Xbox games and simulations to attract potential recruits...
It looks like they meant anti-war ralliers or war protesters, not anti-war protesters. The media in general constantly seems to repeat this phrase incorrectly.
Comment Re:Mighty-Mouse (Score 1) 202
It might have four buttons but its impossible to use them. Do you have one? I had to take my wife's back and get a logitech laser mouse.
This new Apple product has a whole keyboard in one wheel. I can't wait to get one.
Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share 414
je ne sais quoi writes "The April data is out for the Net Applications 'market share' survey of operating systems (more accurately referred to as a usage share). For the first time, Linux has reached 1%. This past month the Linux share increased by 0.12% which is well above the average monthly increase of 0.02%. Historically, the Net Applications estimate of market share has been lower than that of other organizations who measure this, but the abnormally large increase reported this month brings it closer to the median estimate of 1.11%. For other operating systems, Windows XP continued its slow decline by 0.64% to 62.21%, whereas Vista use is still increasing to 23.90%, but its rate of adoption is slowing. That is, this month's increase of 0.48% is well below the 12-month average increase of 0.78% and down from the peak rate of increase of 1.00% per month on average in January-February 2008. The total Windows share dropped to 87.90%. Mac OS use decreased slightly to 9.73% from 9.77%, but usage share of the iPhone and iPod Touch combined increased by 0.1%."
Comment Ingenious! (Score 1) 202
Now they can design a special chip enabling their mouse to have more than one button. This multi-button mouse would be useful AND aesthetically pleasing! Just what will that Steve Jobs think of next?
Comment Re:Can lithium really power all cars? (Score 1) 291
Just a note.
Hydrogen does not equal Fuel Cell. Sure, you can use a Hydrogen fuel cell... but that is not the only way to use Hydrogen.
Did you know...
You can power a gasoline engine on straight hydrogen, if you advance the timing enough? Hydrogen gas fed into the cylinder... works wonders.
You get hydrogen by running a DC current through water. It is that simple. Drop a 9volt battery in a glass of water. Watch bubbles form at each terminal. One side, the bubbles are Oxygen. The other side, Hydrogen.
There are improved electrolysis techniques which are making the possibility of hydrogen production on-the-fly feasible. This means that it is not only conceivable, but attainable to have a personal transportation vehicle, with an internal combustion that used to run on gasoline, that now runs on water.
Did you know it requires more energy to convert water to hydrogen than you get out of the hydrogen it produces? I know thats a smartass question and you knew this already and are just being silly with this idea right?
Yep
Yep.
Put water (or urine, or any H20 based liquid) into the gas tank, the water is converted on the fly to Oxygen and Hydrogen, the Oxygen is bled off into the atmosphere and the Hydrogen is burned as fuel. Not only would your exhaust be free Oxygen and water vapor, but you would CLEAN the air as you drove through it... because if the way that Hydrogen burns.
No Fuel Cell involved. Just thought you should know.
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