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  1. Modem? on Comcast CEO Shows Off Superfast Modem · · Score: 1

    Does it actually modulate or demodulate anything?

  2. Re:I must be living in a story book.. on India Hopes to Make $10 Laptops a Reality · · Score: 1

    Brazil is surely in the running.

  3. Re:Hammers? on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    More apropos might be 'Maxwell Silverhammer'

  4. Re:aerodynamics and rolling friction, not engine t on Japanese Mileage Maniacs · · Score: 1

    Regenerative braking comes in handy even in a real world highway mileage scenario.

  5. Cross verify against multiple roots? on DHS Wants Master Key for DNS · · Score: 1

    Would it be too much trouble to have all clients cross verify against multiple root servers?

  6. Re:duh on Electrically Conductive Plastic Polymer · · Score: 1

    Was that an "out of this world" reference?

  7. Re:Gallium arsenide "exotic?" on IBM Debuts Optical Transceiver Chipset · · Score: 1

    At approximately 1,000,000 metric tons production per year of semiconductor grade silicon vs. approximately 60 metric tons per year production of Gallium Arsenide, I think GaA could be considered exotic.

  8. Re:Automation on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 1

    I heard Dell stopped burn in testing about 6 or 7 years ago, or at least switched from 3 day burn in tests to ones that last a few hours at best.
    http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/88/dell.html

  9. Re:Rebuild the Internet on Researchers Scheming to Rebuild Internet From Scratch · · Score: 1

    I thought Cisco researchers contributed something like a quarter to a third of the Internet RFCs?

  10. Re:What the net is bringing back.. on Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website · · Score: 1

    Except most people cant seem to figure out that it is the ratio of bad to good sales that you need to look at, not bad sales in total

  11. Re:Imagine if people actually had a choice! on Vista Sales Expectations Too High, Office Doing Well · · Score: 1

    HP and Lenovo are still offering XPSP2 on some models. Shop around.

  12. Re:Similar products that have been out for a while on MultiSwitch, the First USB Sharing Hub · · Score: 1

    See also: Keyspan USB Server

  13. Re:This is why Solar isn't taking off! on Solar Power Becoming More Affordable · · Score: 1

    They don't have to get solar outlawed, just buy up the occasional start-up company with promising patents/research, and then kill said research. This has been done before by the auto industry with the electric car. It may not have been intentional, but the effect is the same. But generally I agree with your statement that it has been too expensive to be practical ( except maybe staying on grid, in states with 95%+ sunny days. )

  14. Distributed redundant online p2p backup? on Unplugging Your Backups · · Score: 1

    I always wondered if it would someday be possible to set up a free online p2p backup solution (with encryption obviously). The scheme I envision is one where you are graded by the system on your availability for restores, and the more available you are the more often you can backup to the system. Also, the more of your HDD you set aside for other people to backup to, the more volume of data you can backup to the system.

  15. Re:and do nothing in return on A Concrete Solution To Pollution · · Score: 1

    Except that you've established a total cap on pollution output, and turned an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalitiesexternal ity into an internality. (is this a word? You know what I mean)

  16. Re:Cultish Landmark Education sues Google on Google Video Sued For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    I worked across the hall from a Landmark Forum office, and it was pretty weird to come out at 10PM to find a bunch of people sitting around in the hallway listening to tapes of themselves repeating affirmations over and over and over. It was easily recognizable as the ego rebuild half of the classic cult brainwashing technique. It was years later that I recognized the ego tear down half in my sister's experience with the cult^H^H^H^H Landmark Forum. She went to one of their introductory sessions, and they tried to get her to admit to some massive childhood trauma that had made her into a dysfunctional person. She kept saying her childhood was great, and she liked what kind of person she was, and they kept coming back at her to admit her childhood was traumatic, and she was abused as a child.

  17. Re:Englsh translation? on Judge OKs Challenge To RIAA's $750-Per-Song Claim · · Score: 1

    Sure airplane was racist, but it was funny racist, not hateful racist.

  18. Re:Carefull! on How To Sue the Auto Dialers · · Score: 1
  19. First Oracle Bug Fix on Oracle Linux Explored · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oracle just announced a security patch to fix the "DB2 optimization malware" on Unbreakable.

  20. Re:Better idea on Paypal Co-Founder Backs Anti-Aging Research Prize · · Score: 1

    Your statement is either oxymoronic or does not parse. Research into disease that affects people at a young age does keep people alive longer than nature intends.

    Additionally, what nature intends is not that laudable a goal. Feel free to throw away your shelter and air-conditioning, live a peripatetic existence walking around gathering fruit and nuts, and avoid health care if you like.

  21. Re:Old Hat on Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    I made the mistake of putting the BSOD screensaver on a development server once. My boss panicked and kept resetting the machine every time the screen saver came on until finally she called me and asked me to fix it. I felt pretty stupid.

  22. Re:Dumbest Article I have ever read on The Ad-Supported Operating System · · Score: 1

    Why not an ad-supported Linux for newbies with free installation/support. For intermediate users, an ad supported version which pays some of the hardware costs.

  23. Re:What The F!CK on Enron's Kenneth Lay Dies · · Score: 1

    Money IS life. Do you think Dialysis is free? That medical care/ nursing homes are affordable for retirees who have lost their entire retirement? If something has enough financial impact, statistically it'll be the equivalent to mass murder.

  24. Re:Water + salt through filter clogs system? on New Nano Desalinization Method · · Score: 1

    Probably requires that filters be periodically back-flushed.

  25. Re:That's unfortunate... on SF Wifi More Than Flipping a Switch · · Score: 1

    Also, those railroad tracks would probably not be derelict if the government had continued to subsidize railroad at the same rate it has roads, and airlines. A lot of the reason rail died in this country was not inefficiency, but oil lobbying.