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  1. Fuck BBC on BBC To Dispose of Douglas Adams Website · · Score: 0

    I'll chip in a few bucks to keep that site up. I KNOW I'm only one among a humongous bucketload. Someone get this sorted out and put it up.

    Adams was a tall ugly dude with a nasty English accent, but the only one I would pay money for tribute. Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Mo, FSM, they all can kiss my ass.

  2. Proof on Genghis Khan, History's Greenest Conqueror · · Score: 2

    It's a proof that the carbon craze has gone insane.

  3. Re:Joke Time on Terrorists Bomb Moscow Airport · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Give it a rest, if only in respect for the victims.

    This is an ethnic issue between Russia and North Caucasus.

  4. A queston for the young people on The Fall of Traditional Entertainment Conglomerates · · Score: 1

    Where do you get your new music? Back in my days, it was the radio - top40, alternative, rock+pop+R&B, etc. And MTV came up and actually played music videos then, instead of whatever they have on now.

  5. No Wikileaks on British ISPs Embracing Two-Tier Internet · · Score: 1

    Any and all subversives will be zapped out. Like in the good old days.

  6. Slashdot on MicroHP — the New IT Giant? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You know, slashdot isn't much different from gawkers or all the other gossip site, eh.

  7. Simple solution? on The Companies Who Support Censoring the Internet · · Score: 1

    I looked up the company names, and they are a motley crew, presumably attempting to preserve their corporate image.

    Perhaps a new TLD for official corporations might be in order.

  8. Re:Mcdonalds on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Sharks are pretty tasty, actually. Meaty, not like flakey fish.

  9. Re:What about the SEC? on Comcast-NBC Merger Approved By FCC · · Score: 1

    FTC and DOJ deal with anti-trust issues. And FCC because it's com industry. SEC deals with security/financial market bizwax.

    It's all theoretical, though. Bribed appropriately, they will be induced to jump in for turf fight.

  10. Synergy on Music Really Is Intoxicating, After All · · Score: 1

    Also, intoxication makes music intoxicating. Some women, too. And hangover can be pretty nasty.

  11. Re:Typical applications? on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    "(the only one in the lab who has professional DBA experience ...)"

    See, imagine all other teams without a person like you...

  12. Re:Typical applications? on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    I've been in the business for more than two decades, and I have never ever encountered a situation where I need 256(!) columns. True, I have worked mostly in tech/business sectors, and that's why I asked the question: what sorta application need so many columns.

  13. Re:Oh Yeah! on Xfce 4.8 Released · · Score: 0

    God damn. Mod me up. I like X fecce. It's been my WM for a god damn decade now.

  14. Oh Yeah! on Xfce 4.8 Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    X fecce is the shit!

    No, really, it's a good shit.

  15. Re:Typical applications? on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    Bio-informatics... OK, I see now. Hook this sucka up with some massive Perl codebase cooked up by postdocs and grad students, and you've got yourself the mother of all "hammer time".

    Oh Yeah.

  16. Typical applications? on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What sorta applications need so many columns? Curious.

  17. Re:I live in Russia. This article is sensationalis on Russia Moves To Universal ID Card · · Score: 1

    Do you get a separate passport for international travel? I assume the internal passport accepted for travel to some former USSR countries?

  18. Re:were there any advantages to Russia... on Russia Moves To Universal ID Card · · Score: 1

    Russia fucked up the transition - Herculean task anyways - and we "helped" out with our HBS and McKinsey aholes. Russians hate us for the Yeltsin years, with some good reasons.

    Still, after dissolving USSR, they don't need to send their army to Tzechs, Hungary, etc., only to the Caucaus these days. Saved them a mint. Also nice bit of business selling oil and gas to the West.

    It's too bad we couldn't send all the HBS and McKinsey geniuses and keep them in Russia. We could pay Ruskies to keep them in Siberian gulags - that's what I call win-win-win.

  19. Re:And For The Record... on Bastardi's Wager · · Score: 1

    True. Chemists should stick to chemistry, instead of trying to mow physics lawn.

  20. Re:What about AltaVista? on Google vs. Bing — a Quasi-Empirical Study · · Score: 1

    Say hi to Olsen for me, would ya. How much you pay for the 'net there?

  21. Re:You can have a cake and eat it too. on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    They already do regardless.

  22. iAppStore on Microsoft Fights Apple Trademark On 'App Store' · · Score: 1

    MS should trademark "iAppStore".

  23. Re:Ballmer job security program on Microsoft Server and Tools Head Muglia To Step Down · · Score: 1

    Ha! I, never, ever, in a million years, would have thought I might root for Billy boy.

  24. Re:Ok, some clarification. on Twitter Fights US Court For WikiLeaks Details · · Score: 1

    Just to be clear, in case CIA is listening:

    oldhack is for the children. The children. For.

    No, no, no. Not in that way.

    Thank you.

  25. Re:Can't wait on Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case? · · Score: 1

    But there's one flaw with this argument -- we haven't observed the Internet long enough to be able to make definite conclusions about how on-line companies evolve.

    Yes, we've seen plenty online ops, and most of them go under.