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  1. GASP and SHOCK! on ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Spam from China? GASP!

  2. Re:What next? on Five Days Locked in a Room With GTA IV · · Score: 1

    So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next? Looking forward to this one. Grand Theft Music: RIAA
    Grand Theft Source Code: SCO
  3. Re:Not a hoax, not a joke. on IBM Suspended From US Federal Contracts · · Score: 1

    I wonder how this will change how American government uses the Blue Gene supercomputers. No more 'Top 5' supercomputers for the EPA?

  4. GSOC on Practical Experience As a Beginning Programmer? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google summer of code is pretty good for practical experience, but the application period closes tomorrow :(

  5. Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor · · Score: 1

    ... in alaska?

    old joke I know, but I just cant resist.

  6. When I read the title... on Japan IDs All Its Citizens · · Score: 3, Funny

    My first thought was 'how could a country intelligently design all of its citizens'

  7. Re:This is old news on Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth · · Score: 1

    So what if there is a new calculation, does 7 billion years away really matter? Pfft, that's what they said about Y2K.
  8. Re:What country? on Kimchi in Space · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you insightful....

  9. Re:You know what would be even better? on Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU · · Score: 5, Informative

    But very few programs can handle 3 cores. That's because for programmers, tasks and data and everything really just doesn't divide very well by uneven numbers like 3. So most programs will use 2 of the 3 cores. I have a feeling that you don't understand how cpu scheduling works.
  10. Old news on Tool Use Is Just a Trick of the Mind · · Score: 1

    Didn't marshal mcluhan say something like this 3 decades ago?

  11. Re:"Assumes"? on Qtrax — Ad-Supported Music With iPod Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    From the article: "We've had a technical breakthrough which enables us to put songs on an iPod without any interference from FairPlay," said Allan Klepfisz, Qtrax's president and chief executive. Seems pretty damn clear to me.
    And that break-through was: Lawyer(tm) Let Lawyer(tm) solve all of your every day problems, from DRM licensing, to 'taking care' of people you just don't like, Lawyer(tm) does it all.
  12. Injection on Copyright Lobbies Threaten Federal College Funding · · Score: 1

    regarding provisions injected into a bill But was it an SQL injection?
  13. Possibly the worst idea... ever on Startup Building Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    This idea is akin to the kind popular in the late '90s, I honestly hope no venture capitalists are stupid enough to be sponsoring these guys. How could they possibly have a tangible backbone connection? what happens when the ship has to leave dock and they don't have any internet lest a satellite connection. I'm sure their customers will absolutely love the 5sec latency.

  14. Pfft on Chinese Worm Creator Gets High-Paying Job Offer In Prison · · Score: 1

    <blockquote>can prevent infected computers from operating anti-virus software</blockquote>
    Don't all viruses do that nowadays, seems like a standard practice to me.

    <blockquote>and all programs using the "exe" suffix.</blockquote>
    so.... how did windows boot?

  15. Re:procedural generation anyone? on Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore · · Score: 4, Funny
    From TFA:

    So why can't this be used in games like spore? Well in games with so many options, the IF/THEN list becomes so long it becomes scrambled. Several calls to previous points in the list are made and the whole thing gets disorganized
    Its not just the title, the entire article is written like that.
  16. Re:What do you suppose would happen... on Microholography Could Lead to 500 GB Discs · · Score: 1

    Hell set it to 50 percent and you can pretty much guarantee the disc will be recoverable however badly you scratch it.
    Even if you systematically scratch every sector? Ha! defeat that logic.
  17. Re:This is the exact definition of the Mafia on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    The internet needs Sheriff Buford Pusser!

  18. TMNT on Natural Gas to Offer Breakthrough in Suspended Animation? · · Score: 1

    "The BBC is reporting that American scientists are claiming that sewer gas may be successful at inducing suspended animation." Must be why the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles never became Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles