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  1. MS must be open on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Microsoft interoperability is no problem. Judges ordered Microsoft to open their protocols years ago. So of course by now all the protocols are crystal clear.

    /me ducks...into an undisclosed secure location

  2. Re:Power Failure Resistant: on Quality Open Source Calendaring / Scheduling? · · Score: 2, Funny

    1a) The Slackware fans will make their own paper from tree seeds.

  3. Re:Can Venus be made habitable? on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 1

    I would think the first step would be to boost the planet to an orbit further away from the sun. Speeding up it's orbit would do that, but I wonder if anyone conceived of a method of doing so?

    Yes. Flyby with an asteroid. You put the asteroid on a path which makes it approach Venus many times in the direction of its orbital motion. Many many repetitions are needed and the path of the asteroid has to be adjusted due to amplified calculation errors due to each approach. Budget for several asteroids. You might also want to budget for some impacts for other adjustments (cometary water), and biological changes of atmospheric chemistry (sequester the carbon).

  4. Re:And in other news... on New Results From Venus Express · · Score: 1

    It'd have to be one hell of a news paper.

    On Venus, everything has to be one hell.

  5. Re:Yay for something everyone hear already knows! on Everyday Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    As I am listening to you where I am: "Hear here!"

  6. Re:with great power comes great responsibility on Google Crowdsources Map Editing · · Score: 1

    You just have to go to the "Build" pulldown menu and choose "Hog farm". Place it next to your competitor. Then move your competitor. There you go, glad to help.

  7. Re:Where Will It Be, And When? on Riding Shotgun With the Google Street View Beetle · · Score: 1

    Is there a way to find out where and when the Googlemobile will be driving past my house so that I can be standing outside dressed as a pirate?

    Next Monday, 3-4 PM for your neighborhood.

  8. Cookie sheet on Lap Desks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Institutional cookie sheet. Large heat-dissipating aluminum tray with raised edges. Enough extra room for a compact mouse or other stuff.

  9. Re:Which only shows on Cooling Challenges an Issue In Rackspace Outage · · Score: 1

    Or instead of depending so much on chillers which draw a lot of power, buffer the cooling by having a large amount of chilled water as part of the system. Design it so if the chillers aren't working, the server room is still somewhat cooled by the pre-chilled water; circulation of water and air requires less power than refrigeration systems. I doubt most sites can store enough ice/chilled water to operate for hours. If that were the case, server rooms could be operating off of cold which was stored during cheaper evening electric rates.

  10. Re:Babelfish Doesn't Translate Hebrew on Babelfish Sparks Minor Diplomatic Row · · Score: 1

    As others have pointed out the widespread use of English, perhaps the journalists began with an English message. Helloh bud, enclosed welcome our babbling overlords.

  11. Re:A Tremendous Achievement... on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 1

    A lamentable tragedy that we are doing this in the year 2007.
    Well, the legislation did not require the Moon to begin providing HD video until 2007. The USA will be available in HD video in five more years.
  12. And it looks so pretty on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    The Borg just aren't building like they used to. Maybe they should replace the colorful paint with the standard black sealant layer.

  13. Re:Likely result on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    Mod parent funny, because he is insightful.

  14. Re:Celebration/Mourning on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 4, Informative

    The New York Times is wrong again. He did not retract the entire paper. He retracted "two brief passages". Besides, there is recent evidence that water existed early in the Earth's formation so his assumptions about the Hadean environment might be obsolete.

  15. Re:Another explanation on Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold · · Score: 1

    It's his brother, the Gold Surfer. He usually hangs out at a gold farm.

  16. Comet, comet, go away, don't come back other day on Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the comet reaches Earth it is a WMD.

  17. Re:we need a comet, a big one on Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold · · Score: 1

    Seems like that 1910 appearance didn't stop that World War I thing...

  18. Re:Grain of NaCl on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    Gee, you're right. Thanks for pointing you out to us.

  19. Re:They are being advertised on TV on Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied · · Score: 1

    FlyTech Dragonfly. I'd have linked to the manufacturer's site, but it is Flash-hindered so I can't get in to it (all I see are ignored instructions to webmaster to put non-Flash access on the site).

  20. Re:I for one... on Scientists Develop Cyborg Interface Algorithm · · Score: 1

    That should be "beep blorp blorp sqeeeamblat!"

  21. Minnesota eHealth on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1

    Minneota eHealth is intending to share records. I just hope it won't require Microsoft technology. That would be sickening.

  22. Re:Inaccurate... on Help To Map Light Pollution · · Score: 1

    You're also being encouraged to fail to find many stars, so you can help the cause of finding light pollution.

  23. Listable on Klingons to Take on Furries in Bowling Match · · Score: 1

    I just want to see the bowling league's list of team names.

  24. Re:Let me be the first to say... on Klingons to Take on Furries in Bowling Match · · Score: 1
  25. Re:What about manned? on New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed · · Score: 1

    That's why you put shear pins on the damper, so when it tries to yank on the main structure instead the damper falls away.