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  1. Re:Firefox Download Day - no time on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    Even the Firefox world record page doesn't specify the start time, much less whether it's PDT or PST. Do they think we have nothing better to do than refresh their pages, wondering which page we should be looking at?

  2. Re:Download DAY, Justin on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 1

    It's not like we all have to sprint to our computers and start it on the minute.
    There's nothing in the announcements which say we do not have to. Maybe we do have to sprint. Just in case it does matter how quickly we download, we'd better do it right away. After all, it is best to apply the precautionary principle, isn't it? There is a chance that IE might affect more people if Firefox is not popular, and that could cause great harm to the public.
  3. This planet is occupied on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Everything on the North American continent is owned by someone. You can't go to a random point unless it happens to be on government-owned land which is open to you. The geohashers need to adjust their rules.

  4. Re:Overreactions on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just use good fencing instead of shooting the wolves?
    Because space is big. Really big. And wolves live outdoors and they have to cross obstacles which are taller than you city folk are used to.
  5. Re:Bacon fixin's on Geohashing Meets an Angry Rancher With Firearms · · Score: 1

    Lousy? What size buckshot do you use for lice?

  6. Bring out your dead! on Of Late, Fewer Sunspots Than Usual · · Score: 1
  7. Give it a beer! on Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries · · Score: 1

    Put a beer dispenser in it. Then people will be more happy to have it roll up to their cubicle and chat with it.

  8. Re:Glad it's in a reputable media source on How To Frame a Printer For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    It's saying that your letter is not Politically Correct.
    To print the letter you have to fix your thinking process and produce a Politically Correct letter.

  9. Online solution on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    The next generation just needs to get on eBay and buy another assembled unit.

  10. Re:anyone know? on Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... starting almost 42 years ago.

  11. Re:For those that can't seem to find it on Details Emerging On Tunguska Impact Crater · · Score: 1

    According to Wikipedia, the lake is at 60.964 N and 101.86 E. Might make it easier to find in Google earth.
    Particularly if you look at the Wikipedia article and click on the coordinates in the upper right corner, then click on the link to locate in Google Earth.
  12. Why? Money. on Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? · · Score: 1
    You're considering only the option of changing the DB server permissions and the effects.

    What you should consider are ways to provide the service or information, and the costs of each option. If the solution is to give them their own DB server with a copy of their data (so they can screw up its usage as much as they want), then tell them how much that will cost (include the cost of resources to transfer the data to the DB server). If there are less hardware-intensive solutions then find a price for each option. Let the customer choose how much they want to pay for the various services; you won't care too much because you'll profit from any of their options...unless you underestimate the cost of what they chose.

  13. Attend? Administer! on Changing a School's Tech Disposal Policy? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You attend the school and are asking us how things work? Go to the Administration building (you went there once when you enrolled) and ask anyone there what is the procedure for old equipment. You'll be directed to someone who actually knows the procedure.

    What probably happens is the old equipment is put on a school list and offered to other departments. What they don't want is sent to the state (removed from the school's inventory but still on the state's inventory because they paid for it). The state offers the stuff to state agencies. What state agencies don't want gets auctioned off, so as to get maximum value back from the taxpayer's investment. Depending upon the stuff, it might get bought by a company for its own use, a store for resale, or a recycling company for whatever value is in the parts. Whatever won't sell will get to experience the state's garbage procedure (for computers it's probably a recycling process).

  14. Re:Fastest /. effect ever ! on Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD · · Score: 1

    We're talking about Columbia; Challenger didn't reach microgravity so no experiment was done. Maybe the file name refers to the drive challenging the recovery team.

  15. Careless design of experiment on Self-Healing Robots of Doom From UPenn · · Score: 1

    cluster robots re-assembling itself after being kicked apart
    The next logical action is to disable the kicker so as to prevent future events. Maybe they should use a different disassembly protocol.
  16. Wikinews version on Wikipedia Blocks Suspicious Edits From DoJ · · Score: 1

    ...and the Wikinews article on the same story.

  17. Ada on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ada Lovelace had little facial hair. Although her software is not popular, the difference engine has a certain theoretical popularity.

  18. Ask elsewhere too on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other route I had in mind was a complete career change; take something I really enjoy doing outside of work now and try to make a career out of it.
    Don't know if /. can answer that. All of the replies are always strictly on topic and accurate about technological issues.
  19. Safe even upside down? on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's interesting that it reentered safely without using the heat shield. What part of the design helped that?

  20. Re:Pixels Are Your Friend on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 5, Funny

    So would I, but the conductor of the commuter train I ride got really upset when I used up a whole row on my sound system alone.
    The market should take care of that. Just ride a different company's train which supports your sound system configuration, or which offers rental of suitable sound systems.
  21. Cool on Physicist John A. Wheeler is Dead at 96 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wheeler's entropy is now increasing. His temporary reversal of entropy has ended.

  22. Re:Yeah, sure on Emergency Alerts Via Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    They become jammed AFTER awareness reached the masses.
    That's about two seconds after simultaneous notifications are sent to the masses.
  23. Re:Bubble memory on IBM Creates Working "Racetrack Memory" · · Score: 1

    Hit me with some logic
    DL, RTL, DTL, or TTL?
  24. Re:IRC rip-off? on Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints [Warning] · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I switch between several computers and have been intending to use or code a "persistent web chat" anyway. Are you implying there aren't already fifty web to IRC tools or services?

  25. Re:biotic origin on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 1

    Actually there are many possible ways for biological material to have been created in the Arctic Ocean region. As recently as 55 million years ago the water became 10-20 degrees C, with tropical creatures in it.