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  1. Apparently Dell doesn't know on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  2. From TFA on Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms · · Score: 2, Informative

    Netcraft has developed a technique for identifying the number of computers (rather than IP addresses) acting as web servers on the internet, and attributes these computers to hosting locations through reverse DNS lookups."

    Apparently it's not just the number of webservers (just IP addresses), but the number of physical boxes these guys are running. If Netcraft's technique is valid, then it could be helpful in determining the 'true' penetration of FOSS based server installs on the Internet. This could severely impact the ranking of sites that are hosted on certain proprietary OSes.

  3. Dilithium? on Ultra-Dense Deuterium Produced · · Score: 1

    Bah! You want Deutronium!

  4. Re:Cupcake on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's not to like about cupcakes?

  5. Biggest problem on Lenovo On the Future of the Netbook · · Score: 1

    "Now, people are asking for more functions, so as we move into the next generation, we are starting to see things like integrated 3G and bigger screens.

    Current 1st and 2nd generation netbooks are too small and 'underpowered' for the 'average user'. 'Average user'(AU) wants an inexpensive laptop/portable with a big screen and decent computing power -and AU wants it to run something familiar, like MS Windows. Unfortunately, AU doesn't realize that it can only choose two of the three, bigger and faster, cheap, comes with Windows. Personally, -for the work I do- I would prefer small and cheap that runs anything that gives me a shell prompt over big, fast, and runs MS Windows.

  6. Re:Is this it? on Tesla's New York Laboratory Up For Sale · · Score: 2, Informative

    My grandfather used to have a farm on the south shore of Long Island, almost due south from Wardenclyffe. He took us there a couple of times when I was a kid. The site was a photo processing plant at the time, but we could peer through the south gate and see the pad where the tower was. The concrete octagon was the site of the tower that was demolished in 1917.

  7. Re:CMO vs. CDO vs. CDS on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He doesn't take the credit for the math behind the securitization of these debt-based securites. What he feels responsible for is the fact that he wrote the code that made the whole process 'pushbutton' for the greedy traders who duped the people 'dumber than they are' into buying those securities. He is akin to the man who installs the bombsight in a bomber feeling partially responsible for all the people killed by the bombs dropped from the plane.

  8. Bang! on Bill Would Declare Your Blog a Weapon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, sorry. I didn't know it was loaded.

  9. The root of science on Classic Books of Science? · · Score: 1

    Alchemy.
    Coelum Philosophorum by Paracelsus
    The Treasure of Treasures for Alchemists by Paracelsus
    The Aurora of the Philosophers by Paracelsus
    Turba Philosophorum by Arisleus
    The Hermetic Arcanum
    The Golden Tractate of Hermes Trismegistus
    The Stone of the Philosophers by Edward Kelly
    Tract on the Tincture and Oil of Antimony by Roger Bacon

  10. So this means... on Lithium In Water "Curbs Suicide" · · Score: 5, Funny
  11. Re:Pardon me... on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Mac OS is a niche market. In the Windows market, reality has a way of kicking you in the balls."

    Obviously you've never been Rochambeaued by Steve Jobs.

  12. What it doesn't do on Analyzing (All of) Star Trek With Face Recognition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is recognize the faces of actors in makeup that may change their facial features. It doesn't recognize Vina when she appears in the 'non-illusion' state, although to real people she is still easily recognizable as Vina. So they have a 'ways to go' with their capabilities.

  13. Re:I've had lost games.. on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another solution...plain brown envelope with a USB flash drive inside that is encrypted with a key that is e-mailed to you. Nothing to break. Useless without the key.

  14. The simple solution on Gamefly Complains of Poor Treatment From USPS · · Score: 1

    Insured mail. Customers opt for insured delivery of the merchandise and are charged an extra $1.00 a month. If the game is 'lost in the mail', USPS pays for the game. Once it starts to cost the USPS real money, there will never be a 'lost' game again.

  15. Re:RIP on Yahoo Pulls the Plug On GeoCities · · Score: 1

    Earthlink? AOL? "...the late '90s"? Where the fuck were you in 1990 when I was downloading pr0n from a Usenet dialup BBS? Huh?

  16. Let me be the first on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To thank the scumbags in the Bush administration and the cadre of Wall Street sycophants in Congress who've leveraged our futures to bankrupt the American nation so that I will not live to see humans walk on the Moon again in my lifetime.

  17. Oh, yeh. on Record-Breaking Model Rocket Launch Set For April 25 · · Score: 2, Funny

    There will be a KABOOM!

  18. What the bill doesn't outlaw on Louisiana Rep. Preps State Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Is Mutant Atomic Supermen, so I'm okay with the rest.

  19. Silly Users on Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack · · Score: 1

    W4r3Z are for hackers!

  20. Mmmm... on Strings Link the Ultra-Cold With the Super-Hot · · Score: 1

    Perfect Holographic Liquid...Auuugghhh...

  21. The first rule on Tyler Bell On Yahoo's Open Location API · · Score: 1

    About Yahoo's Open Location API, is not to talk about the embarrassing mistakes that you made because you failed both Geography AND History.

  22. Alll that fuss on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Over a few extra 'esses'.

  23. What books would they ban? on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 1

    'The Bonfire of the Vanities'?
    'Atlas Shrugged'?
    The collective works of Jacqueline Susann?
    After all, this isn't 19th Century Boston.

  24. In all seriousness on The Low-Intensity, Brute-Force Zombies Are Back · · Score: 4, Informative

    This has been going on for years. Really. I've been seeing this crap in my logs since we started running an Internet-facing SSH host nearly ten years ago. It's always the same password based login attempts with the same dictionary/script used in the attacks. This is probably just some training exercise for Chinese hackers at some state-run school to see who can break into the running-dog Yankee Imperialist's computers the fastest.

  25. Great Idea... on Better Living Through Nukes? · · Score: 1

    But...KABOOM!

    Now look what you've done.