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  1. Re:Stand drill on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    In theory you could pull the platters and read them I would think. Drilling the platters then applying power to make them shatter though....

  2. I am from the government and I am here to help on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 1

    The government owns GM, the government wants electric cars to be bought, the government determines a method to calculate mileage for a grid power assisted car. The calculation is not easily verified but don't worry the government would never lie.

  3. fail rate is what? on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 1

    So what is the rate of false positives? Tests are not 100% accurate despite what the creator would like to put forth.

  4. Re:100% worthless on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    As was illustrated when people found mistakes in NASA data about a year ago. This resulted in the calculations being fixed, how is that bad?

  5. Re:Secretly... on Microsoft Exec Says, "You'll Miss Vista" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OK Bob

  6. Re:And what Bedrock is doing *IS* professional?? on Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies · · Score: 1

    Always reply professionally. In this case he comes across as someone that is fairly clueless. If he had responded in a professional manner he might have gotten some free "good" publicity

  7. Re:No matter how bad things get on First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track · · Score: 0

    So do we since we have air conditioned houses. Of course this year we have been consistently BELOW average so have wanted less A/C. Of course that is also why the people spreading scary stories like yourself have started calling it climate change.

  8. Re:They can stop it: Installs locked to hardware. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 1

    All true but like most DRM I have seen the implementation craps on your PAYING customers harder than those you are trying to stop.

  9. Re:Tax Funded GPS...why the hell should we pay? on Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo · · Score: 1

    Yet another reason to pay for dedicated h/w. The Zumo series is waterproof and supposed to be made to resist the extra vibrations present on a motorcycle. Yes I have used it in pouring rain (the remnents of a hurricane for 200 miles) with no ill effects.

  10. Re:Tax Funded GPS...why the hell should we pay? on Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You pay for the significant effort expended to create the maps. You pay for the receiving hardware. You pay for the support and R&D in the prior mentioned items. If they also had to provide the sats then it would be beyond the means of many of the people that use the system today. So vote on, I did I have a standalone unit that I use on my motorcycle all the time.

  11. Re:Macbook pro on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    Like Vista can be used on computers...

  12. Re:Too late on Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient · · Score: 1

    IF only LEDs emitted a omnidirectional light

  13. Re:You just defined smartass on Man Arrested For Taking Photo of Open ATM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Or use your iPhone to phone the police for the armed man issuing threats of violence.

  14. Re:Wow... just wow. on MS Releases Open Source Alternative To BigTable · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or this is Microsoft trying to hurt Google because they fear them more than open source

  15. Not a solution on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the tracking and cost to correct the issue are more than the actual 'waste'. In pretty much every area of government there is out right fraud, THAT is where the focus should be. Or how many billions have been given out by Congress to buy votes from us with our own money? This guy is a loon.

  16. Like Crack on Windows 7 Will Be Free For a Year · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The first hit is free

  17. Mom's basement on Unpaid Contributors Provide Corporate Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Not getting paid will suck the day he moves out of Mom's basement

  18. Re:silly muppet on The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would assume he was found not guilty due to mental defect. If not I would be very afraid as his sentence reaks of the thought police. Sadly there is instances now of people's sentences being sent to "fix" their way of thinking.

  19. Re:EDS on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    Only place I have ever worked that I would recommend to absolutely no one. I tell them run, run far, run fast. Flipping burgers is better work.

  20. Re:Makes me wonder about cabling on Offshore Windpower To Potentially Exceed US Demand · · Score: 2

    How many years later? Now shutdown all coal and we can go green energy as soon as the windmills come online. Oh and the coastal transmission lines need to be larger if you are going to transmit all the way to Kansas. Yep I can see all the cooperation from the liberal coasts. Matter of fact it is on a sign behind that flying car driven by a pig

  21. How dare they! on Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro · · Score: 1

    How dare a company actually attempt to be profitable. Don't they know you make bad decisions for years they get billions from the taxpayer ????

  22. Re:contractor position? on How To Handle Corporate Blackmail? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ask them for the email so you have an agreement that this is what it takes to get a fair assessment after your departure. Then take that and leave immediately.

  23. Re:Power struggle. on Accused Rogue Admin Terry Childs Makes His Case · · Score: 1

    Yep what if he had stated that he forgot them or ala Clinton I cannot recall. The fact that more than one person did not have them is the real problem. Any business (or agency) that trusts the keys to its entire system to only one person fails the beer truck test. Thus needs to be fixed. This was obviously a bad employee who had a intimidating confrontation (by design) and made the wrong choice. Then over zealous bureaucrats got stupid. Sadly only one of the people that were acting like children is in jail.

  24. Re:A somewhat Conspiracy-Theory-ish observation on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    So you are saying that in the past there has been rapid swings in extremes in temperature and this validates the green madness? How does that work? Seems we have had a run up of temperatures which peaked to years ago and are now declining, yet this time no swing will occur due to global warming ???? Do these great models that predict global warming accurately predict the great frost and little ice age while containing no data from those times?

    Sorry things have been warmer but I will continue to deny the theories of the green madness crowd as they generally seem to contain bad science in the name of fund raising and government control.

  25. Easy to find on Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth" · · Score: 2, Funny

    No problem look for the glow of video game screens coming from mom's basement and you will find the culprit.