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  1. The real reason Jamie & Adam were invited by P on Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy · · Score: 1

    So now we learn the real reason Jamie & Adam visited the White House recently...

    >> 24 Launch “myth-busters” education campaign

  2. Prior Art! on Amazon Seeks 1-Nod Ordering Patent · · Score: 1
  3. not a DC on GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    Then there are tens of switches...

    That's not a Data Center, it's a wiring closet.

    Come back when you have hundreds or thousands of switches.

  4. Re:Two things I noticed on Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source · · Score: 1

    Maybe thats just me, but does anyone see any system requirements on anywhere? I read the press release, looked all over the company website and still could not find anything even remotely looking like system requirements anywhere.

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster to run this!

  5. re: Gas Wants To Kill the Wind on Gas Wants To Kill the Wind · · Score: 1

    With a title like that, I expected some kind of
    gastro / fart joke...

     

  6. re: Uniforms For the Help Desk? on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Uniforms For the Help Desk?

    Nehru Jackets, maybe?

  7. Can I sue Microsoft too? on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Can I sue Microsoft too? They seem to always claim it's 'My Computer'.

  8. Plama device on Plasma Device Kills Bacteria On Skin In Seconds · · Score: 1

    BBC reports that researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have demonstrated a plasma device that can rid hands, feet, or even underarms of bacteria, including the hospital superbug MRSA

    Don't taz me Bro!!!

  9. Re:'Pew Pew' noises uttered by people with PHDs on Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC · · Score: 1

    I suspect it was more along the lines of a NASCAR/Indy/Forumula 1 doppler effect...

    That, or a light saber hum.

  10. First DUP prediction on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    "Less than four months from now, India's first stealth fighter will fly for the first time.

    I foresee a /. DUP article in less than four months time...

  11. ESA Sent Takedown Notices... on ESA Sent Takedown Notices For 45 Million Infringements In Fiscal 2009 · · Score: 3, Funny

    the European Space Agency did what!?!?

  12. Re:Typical Bad Title on Big Bang Could Be Recreated Inside a Metamaterial · · Score: 1

    This article's title is badly in need of an accuracy correction.

    You're new around here, aren't you?

  13. PCI stands for... on Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... Pay Cash Instead!

  14. Re:I don't get it on Transformers Special Edition Chevy Camaro Unveiled · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone explain it to me with a robot analogy?

    Bite my shiny metal ass!

  15. Re:Failover Planning (and this broke FiOS too) on Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce · · Score: 1

    Best: Eliminate single points of failure...

    Earth is a single point of failure.

  16. Re:Speculation on Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet · · Score: 1

    Without having the black box how can the NTSB be making speculations as to the cause of the downed flight?

    FTFA-

    "Based on initial physical evidence and information from automatic maintenance messages sent by the aircraft..."

  17. oBFuturama on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1

    It's about tourists in a future a thousand years from now.

    Tourists, and restoration sticklers...

  18. Re:I see... on Illusion Cloak Makes One Object Look Like Another · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their idea is to create the illusion that a wall has a hole in it

    BIG DEAL... Wile E. Coyote was doing this (courtesy of A.C.M.E. Corp.) since
    the 1960's.

  19. Re:Of course, the next Google killer-app... on Time For Voice-Mail To Throw In the Towel · · Score: 1

    ... will be a text-to-voice service that will read your Google Voice mail to you...

    I, for one, would kinda enjoy having Stephen Hawking calling all the time!

  20. Re:Story overhyped by Media on Giant Spiders Invade Australian Outback Town · · Score: 1

    As in "scores of 'bird-eating humans' descended upon a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet..."

    Where there's plenty of cockroaches for them to feed upon...

  21. Elon Musk... on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 1

    ... should buy it. And start an east coast presence for Tesla.

    Elon Musk's latest gig

  22. There's more info here, too on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 1
  23. oh sure, entice the /. crowd to RTFA on Microsoft Shoots Own Foot In Iceland · · Score: 1

    (Warning: link contains strong language and vivid imagery.)

    Although, I'm not sure it'll work...

  24. shipping off workers on IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries · · Score: 1

    IBM has always stood for "I've Been Moved". This is just a creative (but crappy) implementation...

  25. Here's a few standards on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
    By Douglas R. Hofstadter
    Pulitzer winner

    The Art of Electronics
    By Paul Horowitz & Winfield Hill

    The Soul of a New Machine
    By Tracy Kidder
    another Pulitzer winner