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  1. Re:Exascale is not a word. on IBM Discovery May Lead To Exascale Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Whatever, so long as it brings back the TURBO button I'm buying one!

  2. Re:TSA Security Theater on TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't really need a weapon at all. Just turn on any electrical device that gives off an RF signal while the plane ascends. Then watch that fucker go up in a firey fireball of death!

  3. Re:Android is what you want on Open Source-Friendly Smartphones For the Small Office? · · Score: 1

    The Google business-class apps are encrypted, private and sync with Android out of the box. And the best part - since Google says you can trust them, it means you have nothing to fear! Of course, you would have to stop using your desktops and switch to Google Apps for your calendaring and email.

  4. Re:Accelerometers in phones? on Could Anti-Texting Laws Make Roads More Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Since we know that gravity = acceleration, we should make the phone work only in zero gravity. Problem solved. NEXT!

  5. Re:Duo on Dell's 'Dual Personality' Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't know any details it's OK to say nothing.

  6. Nice press release on The Big Promise of 'Big Data' · · Score: 1

    Looks like somebody got their PR spin piece relayed as a news story again. Bravo!

  7. Re:The Nook already does this in the US. on Sony Breathes New Life Into Library Books · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can remove the DRM from EPUB, PDF and PRC (Amazon's flavor of Mobi DRM), but it's not easy enough for the general public to do. Google Mobidedrm and ineptpdf.pyw.

    I do this for everything I've bought on my Kindle just on principal. Kindle doesn't support ePub, most likely so they can lock you into their evil monopoly plans. If I had it to do over again I'd get a device that supports ePub, just to avoid the hassle. In this case I don't mind the DRM too much.

  8. Re:This is painfully obvious. on Researchers Say Happiness Costs $75K · · Score: 1

    I think the prophet Jeff Spicoli said it best when he decreed, ""All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, an' I'm fine."

  9. Re:Introducing the... on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 5, Funny

    He could have used the money to buy a Macbook Pro. If you max out the specs they come out pretty close to $150k.

  10. Re:So? on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's the Internet in microcosm. Engineers first used the Internet to pass technical information. Noise was kept to a minimum so work could get done. Then the engineers were surprised to find that the general public had an intense interest in fluff and chatter.

    So it's the same thing with Twitter. We mostly ignore it, unless we're using it for geek thing we find important.

  11. Re:Prohibition on Long Odds For Online Gaming Legislation In US · · Score: 1

    There is no way it will pass. It is critically important that our lawmakers project an appearance of conservatism, piety and wholesomeness in order to maintain a critical voting mass to get re-elected. Meanwhile they can go back to their full-time job of skirt chasing and boozing when they think nobody is looking.

  12. Used laptop on Asus Budget Ultraportable Notebook Sold Sans OS · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I just bought a used Thinkpad T42 for $150 and put Ubuntu on it. It has an actual screen, keyboard, wifi and 40gb hard drive. It even has a supported 3d card so I can do the whizzy 3d desktop thing.

    There are lots of offloaded business class laptops out there that run Linux great. They're usually very well built and full of Intel parts, which have solid Linux drivers.

  13. Re:Hypocrisy on Rockstar Ships Max Payne 2 Cracked By Pirates · · Score: 3, Informative

    But if you steal your car back from an impound lot, that is definitely a crime. Don't ask how I know.

  14. Re:Wow. on Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone · · Score: 1

    With all the free press they're getting, I'd say they're scheduled to lose one every 30 days or so.

  15. Re:I need a new computer on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It gives us VM's - lots and lots of VM's. I can reproduce a production app environment entirely on one quiet little box, including the load-balancer, firewall and name servers. It used to take a half a rack of loud, expensive servers all with disks and other stuff that breaks and needs monitoring and replacing. I can't wait for the 8-core chips to become affordable.

  16. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    What about this: the SSD Ram Disk (SSDRD). It's exactly like a normal RAM disk, but it simulates an SSD. It would be supremely faster to write to an imaginary SSD rather than an imaginary HD.

    Patent!

  17. Re:It's a heavy burden, to save an entire industry on How I Saved the Gaming Industry · · Score: 1

    It's like a motorcycle. Why get a new motorcycle every year? It's a lot cheaper just to keep using the same one, with the same engine. Just replace the oil, tires, brakes and other things that can be replaced. Maybe when you get really bored of it, you can paint it.

    You can do exactly the same thing with your girlfriend or significant other, except for the oil, tires, brakes and other mechanical things. The paint too. Otherwise: exactly the same.

  18. Re:Many eyes = problem? on Source Code To Google Authentication System Stolen · · Score: 3, Informative

    They found Google's secret sauce.

        If Request.Form("password") = "JOSHUA" Then
        Response.Write("Greetings, Professor Falken")
        Set Godmode=1

  19. Re:No. its YOUR job. on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oracle is free to conclude that closed-source software makes them way more money. So they shouldn't be surprised in "X" years when open-source databases that are just as good as Oracle are available for free. I think they call this "being SCO'd." How many more companies will hamstring themselves by not looking more than 2 or 3 quarters into the future?

  20. Re:Kin dle? on Microsoft Unveils 'Pink' Phones As Kin One and Two · · Score: 1

    Two things. And I call them
    Kin One and Kin Two.
    These Things will not bite you.
    They want to have fun."
    Then, out of the box
    Came Kin Two and Kin One

    And Sally and I
    Did not know what to do.
    So we had to take hand
    Of Kin One and Kin Two.
    We took them in our hand.
    But our fish said, "No! No!
    Those Things should not be
    In this house! Make them go!
    "They should not be here
    When your mother is not!
    Put them out! Put them out!"
    Said the fish in the pot.

  21. Re:Good on Google on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until Page and Brin lose control of Google by selling off their shares. Afterwords it'll be in control of the board. Does anyone think an executive board would turn down the potential business in China for something as trivial as free speech?

  22. Re:walled garden on Apple Removes Wi-Fi Finders From App Store · · Score: 1

    Common sense needs no citation. And your meme button is stuck.

  23. Re:Stupidity of leadership... on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    You got it. Just as our Grandparents rose up to fight the tyranny of the Nazis and to free Europe and Asia from the Axis powers, we shall take up arms with our servers, firewalls and steady supply of caffeinated beverages! To battle my brothers!

  24. Re:Kindle on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    I have the Kindle 1.0. I read it practically every night, have been doing so for close to two years.

    I can read e-ink for hours and hours. The battery life is outstanding. Both can load up all the free books you want. The Sony and Kindle have virtually the same experience except -

    - Kindle has the Amazon store at your fingertips. I have to admit, it's pretty convenient. I have bought maybe 4 or 5 books.

    - Sony can check out library books - ePup and PDF.

    Now there are tons of competitors but these are still the key deciding factors.

  25. Re:But what did Apple want? on IdeaPad U1, What We Wanted the iPad To Be · · Score: 1

    My wife wants one. It can be used anywhere in the house for -

    - Facebook
    - Email
    - IM
    - Light browsing
    - Looking up recipes
    - Light reading

    And it's easy to use.

    I don't want one, but that doesn't mean I'm dense enough to think *nobody* wants one. I think Apple's biggest obstacle is that a lot of people already own phones or Touches that can do all of this.