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  1. Re:Losing Battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Performance Bugs, 'the Dark Matter of Programming Bugs', Are Out There Lurking and Unseen (forwardscattering.org)

    Yes, clearly no optimization at all.

  2. Re:Big Data by lucm · · Score: 1 · on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship?

    I have 20+ year old network diagrams with a "cloud" that represents the server farm in a client-server environment. "The cloud" has been around ever since Visio shipped with a cloud graphic

    You are rewriting history. The cloud symbol was not used back then to represent servers, it was used to represent a network location (usually internet).

    I won't spend forever trying to prove an obvious point but see this example:

    http://www.tech-archive.net/Ar...

  3. Re:This was the best quote by one of the Mercury 7 by Tim+the+Gecko · · Score: 1 · on NASA Hedges Their Bets On Return To Moon

    When asked by a reporter[who], if anything about space flight scared him, one astronaut[who] responded[citation needed]

    Here's a reference: http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.space.history/2005-07/msg00891.html
    The GP has missed out quotation marks. It looks like "When NASA cuts costs, the safety margins go down." comes from p51d007 rather than the original joking astronaut.

  4. Re:Peace through mini nukes! by samgeribo · · Score: 1 · on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer?

    "16,000 tons of uranium per year (a fraction of what we now use for light water reactors). "

    Wrong!!!

    We only use 670 tons of uranium fuel each year - the rest is stored. From
    http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.energy/2007-05/msg00141.html
    "Worldwide, we 'use' about 67,000 tons of uranium per year, 670 tons of which is actually used (the rest is stored)."

    You do know we can look this stuff up now with google and all, don't you?

  5. Re:Windows does not fork by metalhed77 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Chrome Vs. IE 8

    Cool, but according to this discussion: http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Development/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel/2008-04/msg00272.html

    It looks like it would be a huge PITA to get it to work like fork on unix. It sounds like even if you can get windows to fork, microsoft seems hell bent on you not doing it, otherwise why would it be so hard?

  6. Re:Ulterior motive? by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 1 · on US To Shoot Down Dying Satellite

    That, or there's some technology on the satellite that they don't want to risk falling (literally) into the hands of another country.

    Who cares? Wasn't the damn thing broken to begin with?

  7. Ok, so I'm irritated by rueger · · Score: 1 · on Adobe Acrobat Toolbar Worse than Malware?

    Geez, the first link from the article is to a visio problem that really is only obliquely related to Acrobat. The second does make reference to problems in disabling the Toolbar.

    But to call this malware is really rather much. Can't posters and editors make a little more effort to do more than whine?