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  1. Re:Yes, there is on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    That leaves an extra space after slashdot. I wouldn't mention it, but look where we are...

  2. It's important to understand extra-galactic life on New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    because beings light decades away are now beginning to receive early Open University Broadcasts. So presumably OU should start seeing applicants soon, attracted by a desire to wear a kipper tie and discuss differential calculus after coming home late from the pub.

  3. It's time for apple to step in on ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold · · Score: 1

    They have supported non-Intel before.

  4. It faces the wrong way on Ford's New Radar Technology Based On Open Source · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there should be unmarked trucks with rear-facing radars, that slam on the brakes when they detect tailgating.

  5. Well at least on Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day · · Score: 1

    we should be able to get it onto every electronic calendar system in the world.

  6. so they can identify 87% of me on Why Anonymized Data Isn't · · Score: 1

    I don't care, it's the remaining 13% of me that's special.

  7. it's the future on Windows 7 Hits RTM At Build 7600.16385 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "'6.1.7600.16385.090713-1255,' which indicates that the final build was compiled over a week ago: July 13, 2009, at 12:45pm."

    Does this mean that they run the clock 10 minutes fast on the build machine to make them feel like they are ahead of the game ?

  8. 100hours, 1000A on MIT Electric Car May Outperform Rival Gas Models · · Score: 1

    Does nobody else find the mixture of undergraduates, sleep deprivation and huge amounts of electricity troublesome. Time to move well off-campus.

  9. I'm going to patent on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: -1, Redundant

    filing patent claims in East texas

  10. Re:It's so very odd..... on Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    Holding humanity back seems like a great idea to me. This constant progress idea is making many people's lives suck if they can't keep up. I'm not at all convinced that progress is making lives more fulfilling.
    And I like ot think that I'm an atheist and a geek.

  11. judgement on Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Someone in possession of the full facts needs to exercise some judgment and if this behavior is unbecoming of a police officer, the officers should be disciplined. I would be surprised if the officers involved did not have some contractual requirement to maintain at least an appearance of impartiality.

  12. Re:I need a car analogy... on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    OK - here's my car analogy (even if you were just kidding)...
    A company owned by GM publishes some preliminary results that a new fuel additive looks like it might turn an ordinary SUV gas guzzler into a 250-mile-per-gallon ecologist dream. The additive shows promise in early tests but is not ready for market yet.
    It's not necessary that it work, it is only necessary that enough people beleive that it could work to drive a spike in SUV sales and revive GM's fortunes.

  13. Re:Wrong Title, Wrong summary on German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key · · Score: 1

    In that case, why were they stupid enough to rely on an external CA ? They should have signed their own cards and kept the responsibility to themselves.

  14. without the wrapping on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    Then I suppose the weight of the data would depend on what is stored. If the info stored is regarded as Brillouin's negentropy with an entropy rate of 1.0 and Szilard is right, then presumably it could potentially be expanded into energy and that converted, courtesy of Einstein and the creator, into mass.

    However, that calculation would have to be done by someone who knew what they were doing and had not simply pulled all of this out of his arse / Wikipedia like me :)

  15. if you could see me on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 1

    You would see an overweight guy. Pushing 250 pounds.

    I wish there was some easy way to tell if I am getting the right dose of common OTC drugs. I suspect that the safe dose for me for Acetaminophen is pretty much the same as it is for anyone else. But is it the same for other drugs, like Loratadine or Ibuprofen or Naproxen ? The FDA should publish better information as well as the black box warnings.

    presumably the dose is calculated based on some "average human" but there must be some smaller people that are ODing without knowing it.

  16. only banned on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 2, Funny

    in teenager's underwear

  17. Microsoft will Nurture SoftMaker on SoftMaker Office 2008 vs. OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 1

    If they have any sense. Not only does it shield them a little from euro trust-busting legislation, but it also propagates MS proprietary file formats and breeds developers that are familiar with them. None of these things is bad for MS in the long run. A near toothless competitor is a godsend to MS.

  18. Re:correct on In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net · · Score: 1

    We will also need his home address and email information, not just the second persona that he keeps for work purposes, don't forget contact details for every member of his family.

  19. And the lesson is... on Out of Business, Clear May Sell Customer Data · · Score: 1

    This was a bad idea from the start and people should be doubly wary of handing over so much personal information in the future to any organization that has no good reason to exist.

  20. why not just rebuild it on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    1:25.4 scale and find tiny astronauts.

  21. aren't there already on Researcher Implants Laser-Activated Brain Cells · · Score: 1

    wasps that can do this to ants ?

  22. Re:Horses Asses on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1
    BS

    There were conscious decisions made on rail gauges, for economic and technical reasons that were debated at the time

    the time is come now for metric units and the problem I have with this story is that I simply don't believe that the conversion to metric is as costly as it is made out to be or that the financial benefits of converting to metric (eg. savings from not launching a mixed metric/imperial fuck-up into space) have been properly factored.

    Besides, any imperial space ship will be shot down by the rebels, it's a well-known fact

  23. I did not think that on Hospital Confirms Steve Jobs's Liver Transplant · · Score: 5, Funny

    third party upgrades were approved

  24. I'm going back to film on Kodak Kills Kodachrome · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My canon point+shoot digitla is great and I still carry it, but it's rare that I take the time to get a good photo, they are mostly snapshots. I now have a cheap 6x6 TLR that shoots on roll film. There's something about the 6x6 film format, with all its impracticality, that helps me enjoy the moment of shooting the picture and enjoy the resulting photo more. Even if I still am a lousy photographer.

  25. CNR on DHCP Management Across a Diversified Network? · · Score: 1

    Cisco make (or at least did make some time ago) a DHCP server (Cisco Network Registrar) based on Windows that does handle option 82. So you do not have to run DHCP on IOS, you can relay back to a central server. I have even been able to "script" CNR by sending command line commands to administer scopes (yes, thank god it has a command line). But in all honesty, it's far easier to automate the configuration of a standard linux or *BSD dhcpd.