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  1. Re:There are times on GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology · · Score: 1

    Bogus statements like this "the most popular lamp type used by consumers today are what annoy me. The reality is the cheapest light bulb is actually the most popular and that just happens to be the incandescent, which is why Australian has the ban. The only way to get people to swap is to obliterate the short term price advantage which is all the average pea brain can appreciate.They can do the simple comparison but not use the price as a factor in an equation.

  2. Re:Let's test it out.... on Bloggers Immune From Suits Against Commenters · · Score: 1

    It would seem fair to me on moderated sites that if you could prove that the moderators looked at a comment and knew it to be libelous to hold them accountable and through that the company. I suspect that is a different case possibly yet to come.

  3. Re:Renting for businesses on Microsoft Testing "Pay-As-You-Go" Software · · Score: 1

    The world of Microsoft software is almost if no actually pay as you go anyway. I don't see any other way of describing paying for something you don't actually own then paying again later to keep using it (upgrade) i some form?

  4. Re:More likely on Fermi Paradox Predicting Humankind's Future? · · Score: 1

    The problem is the theory when separated from statistical likelihood. The obvious support for what you say is that there has to have been or be a first race to do the spreading to the galaxy. The probability side says it would be very very unlikely to be us therefore if it hasn't been done it either can't be or we are the first. The theoretical probability argument is valid it just over looks the simple reality that some race would have to be first.

  5. Re:Better link on UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition · · Score: 1

    They would use more IDs of course but the system is capped to allow only up to 50 at a time!

  6. the idiots damn their own case on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: 1
    Somewhere in it Microsoft says

    "In XML-based file formats, which can easily interoperate through translators and be implemented side by side" If this from Microsoft is so true why do they need their standard at all? Why not just adopt the one that already exists.
  7. conversation on Google News Found Guilty of Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    I find it difficult to reconcile because I think of the internet far more as a conversation than a transmission. And so passing on links and summaries is more like repeating in abbreviated form something you overheard (or were in the audience for) in your own words but with enough extra info they can go and look for themselves.

  8. pump and dump on EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs · · Score: 1

    Wonder if it covers interested parties saying great things about companies they then want to sell shares in? Have to go and read it I suppose.

  9. Re:Huh? on Sun Looks To GPL3 For Java, Solaris · · Score: 1

    Make it difficult to interact with existing GPL 2 linux you mean.

  10. Re:Please... on New Universes Will be Born from Ours · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it was a James Blish story. And didn't he do the book compilation versions of the Kirk series?

  11. Easy! A lottery on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1
    And Virgin's work on bidding for running the UK national lottery can be reused to save him money. But I'll get around to the use of the lottery at the end. First how to save the world.

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    Execute 2 billion people and shut down all the industry needed to support them (and that they aren't around to run anymore). A good way to dispose of them is to have them dig their own deep underground grave in various robust geologically stable regions and carry a small amount of nuclear waste down with them too.

    Naturally the lottery is an international lottery to see who heroically saves us all.

  12. large hands on Upside Down Phone Patent · · Score: 1

    I have two friends with large hands (they are both 6' 4" tall, but in particular have long hands) and have both always texted and dialed with their phones upside down because of the greater comfort it gives them.

  13. expect not hope I hope on Bitlocker No Real Threat To Decryption? · · Score: 1
    Hoping criminal masterminds know how to use top encryption sounds like support for them. Expect someone smart enough to be a criminal mastermind is a lot better.

    Or was it a deliberate endorsement of the world of extreme crime?

  14. Re:Not to take potshots, but on Why Software is Hard · · Score: 1
    There are a few simple things that make more than one work. They can all be summed up as "when there is more than one persons work".

    Simply for one example where Bill and Ben can work on two parts that both take longer to complete by one person than the time it takes to fasten them together afterwards.

    We know also that one experienced ace can probably write three, ten maybe twenty such parts per one done by Mr Just_about_average. Plus because ace knows what he has done he can probably stitch it all ten or so parts as quickly as it takes to add each part done by Mr Jaa.

    Like so many things, reality is a lot more complex.

  15. too complex to work on Finding New Code · · Score: 1
    It all just seems to task intensive.

    I'm committed to the better solution being better languages. The likes of python, ruby, boo (no lisp related debates please) add better features making coding denser and faster. Better tools and to some extent in the areas of GUI widgets components mean there is less re-work.

    The big gain is not having to search for what has been done already, learn it, tailor it.

  16. only two things on How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    1/ you ask more questions to find out what the problem is. Are they just expecting everything to work exactly like Windows? If so there is only one solution and that is taking a bit of time to learn.

    2/ they have to take a bit of time to learn?