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  1. Uh-oh, here we go.... on US Federal Government Launches Data.gov · · Score: 2, Funny

    www.data.gov gets slashdotted in 3...2...1...

  2. Re:Installing Ubuntu isn't the hard part on Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User · · Score: 1

    If I had a dollar for every time my girlfriend emailed/IMed me an Office document asking for a PDF (and I subsequently opened and exported through OpenOffice) I'd be....well, a little bit more rich.

  3. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    Nanny statism is getting under my skin.

    If you live in Australia/the UK, then it should have been there for quite some time....

  4. Re:GPS speeds are inaccurate on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    My personal GPS jumps from 0 to 10MPH while I drive, and I'm not in a particularly fast car (hyundai elantra).

  5. Re:All I have to say is... on Australia, UK To Test Vehicle Speed-Limiting Devices · · Score: 1

    you can blame the car

    and subsequently, the Government (as we aussies like to do).

  6. Re:Skype isn't known for being forthcoming... on Skype Billing Gone Haywire For Some Users · · Score: 1

    They released a 64bit build as a .deb a while ago. It wasn't a production build but I've had no problems with it in 8.10, even with webcam.

  7. Well, since we're all wondering.... on Hosting a Highly Inflammatory Document? · · Score: 2

    ...I can think of a few interesting ways. they all start with cleaning the document of any metadata which points to you, then:

    1. drop it on many small thumbdrives around your city/county & watch just about everyone get arrested.
    2. buy a fax machine, find a landline no one's watching & fax to everywhere for which you can find a fax number.
    3. zip it, label it as the latest Britney single and put it on limewire or rapidshare

  8. Re:Dell's Mistake on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Women are like Linux distros.

    Not to mention some have better interfaces than others...

  9. Re:Stereotypes are true for everybody else except on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Indeed. The aspects that womens' stereotypes address are generally not the aspects that make them unique (though when I think back about previous girlfriends, the differences definitely come to mind first :P )

  10. *Punches fist in air* on AMD Breaks 1GHz GPU Barrier With Radeon HD 4890 · · Score: 2

    I can finally get a 5.0 on the Vista Experience Index!

  11. Re:Now with even MORE surprising! on Apple and Microsoft Release Critical Patches · · Score: 0

    Probably the most surprising element ... is the overall size of it

    That's what she said!

  12. Re:It's obvious on Microsoft Raises $3.8B in Bond Sale · · Score: 1

    Probably better marketing than that Mojave Experiment.

  13. 1nm...feasibility? on "Spin Battery" Effect Discovered · · Score: 1

    The next step would be to determine how this could be made more dense and mass-produced. GaAs is already a common semiconductor substrate, but how difficult is it to deposit all those layers? 1nm = 10 angstroms is pretty thin to try to make consistenly if I'm not mistaken...

  14. Re:"Easy"? on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    the extra cost often ends up paying off.

    Yes, for the insurance company. Otherwise, there'd be no profit in insuring them!

  15. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    my g/f once got away with a 750mL bottle of contact lens cleaner fluid...

  16. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    you think you can take a screwdriver on a plane?

    or a laptop that doesn't power on? they make me prove it turns on every time i fly!

  17. Re:This is why I use linux... on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox with >150 tabs (using Tree Style Tabs for nesting)

    multiple VLC video players

    That is a lot of porn!

  18. Uhhhh.....free? on Ruckus Closes Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ruckus was notable for its poorly-designed client software and .wma-only DRM-laden catalog of 3,000,000 tracks, somewhat less than half the size of the iTunes catalog.

    I think it was far more notable for that fact that it gave away almost half the size of the itunes catalog for free.

  19. Re:Switching Power Supply Design, Abraham I. Press on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't call that computer science

    It's electrical engineering. The title of the article asked for Tech/engineering/CS books.

  20. Re:Price on Toshiba To Launch First 512GB Solid State Drive · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    more than a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks? I would imagine so....

  21. VNC! on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    I would install VNC then uninstall it when they graduate. Problems solved!

  22. Re:Batteries for the US car industry? on US Corps Want $1B From Gov't For Battery Factory · · Score: 1
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battery_EV_vs._Hydrogen_EV.png

    This image explains why hydrogen cells are not viable for any large scale deployment. Combine this with their extraordinary cost, and you have a big myth which car companies have used to bait us for years...

  23. irs.portforward.com on IRS Doesn't Check Cyberaudit Logs · · Score: 3, Insightful

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  24. I think we all learned our lesson here..... on Followup To "When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux" · · Score: 1

    ....when the teacher asks you what you're looking at, act cool and just say "My linux desktops. Nothing to see here...."

  25. Re:in-situ resource utilization field test in Hawa on Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was just a single click to view the photo gallery (2 clicks to get to individual photos) and you couldn't even bother to do that. If /. had membership cards, I'd ask for yours.

    I thought the test area resembled the surface of the moon to a large degree.