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  1. So... on Researchers Create Glass Just 3 Atoms Thick · · Score: 1

    How long before they broke it?

  2. Re:SCADA are not PLC's on Researchers Find Slew of Flaws In SCADA Hardware, Software · · Score: 1

    I'm somewhat lost as to this "difficulty" finding AV software that won't interfere with the scada system. The only problem I've experienced was when I was supplied with a "security suite" instead of an AV package.

  3. Re:Oh good. on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 1

    which you can make out of old newspapers or shredded documents (we have alot of those here in the United States). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110825105024.htm

  4. Re:Oh good. on Engineered Stomach Microbe Converts Seaweed Into Ethanol · · Score: 2

    Ethanol's old school, Butanol is the answer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanol_fuel

  5. Re:I trust my life to Boeing every time I fly on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 1

    The FAA is all over it. There are specifications for the thread tape used on the wiring conduits. Different conduits are required to use difference types and brands of thread tape. The flashlight batteries have to have a certificate of airworthiness in every case. The paint pens for touching up the exterior paint have a 90 day shelf life. The flip-down trays on the back of the seat are inspected by the same people that inspect the engine components. The FAA also requires that the "stores" where the airlines keep the parts are always manned. Mechanics are not allowed in the "stores".

  6. Re:It's not surprising a lawyer has a defective he on Lawyer Demands Pacemaker Vendor Supply Source Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The MBA lobotomy is a very precise operation, they only remove the parts of the brain that remember to pay taxes and how to truthfully report corp. earnings.

  7. Re:Good, good. on Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood · · Score: 1

    Actually, he specifically mentioned the use of new or young blood to reverse disease and aging. It's about the same point in the book Lazarus talks to President (something with an F I think).

  8. not linux enough that if linux was a microsoft patent they wouldn't get sued?

  9. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) defines the main directories and their contents in Linux operating systems. For the most part, it is a formalization and extension of the traditional BSD filesystem hierarchy. The FHS is maintained by the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization consisting of major software and hardware vendors, such as HP, Red Hat, IBM and Dell. Ok, so anyone can, but do they? Before this is dismissed as an indicator can anyone cite a non-linux or BSD OS that uses this standard maintained by the Linux Foundation?

  10. Re:Java ME is not an OS on Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS · · Score: 1

    but it's a system that operates the computer right? I mean regardless of where the pieces came from it's an entire system, correct?

  11. Re:Java ME is not an OS on Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS · · Score: 1

    spurious logic, kinda nice though but the primary agruement is going to be that the same standard would discredit all linux distros as merely platforms. So is Ubuntu an OS?

  12. linux based does not mean they used a full distro on it. the LG rumor/script series used a linux based os either way I'm still sticking with java not being an OS at the very least the presence of /dev and /etc folder in the filesystems of most CDMA feature phones makes me think they are linux based, since I doubt anyone had the balls to try the license minefield Unix has become. also BitPim will let you view the filesystem on a wide variety of CDMA qualcomm based phones.

  13. the vast majority of LG non-smartphones use a linux based OS.

  14. You guys need to take a good hard look at the file systems on those phones. Not to mention that the apps available for s40 would make the phones more smart than feature. They had an RDP client. Calling Symbian a feature phone OS isn't accurate at all, but might have something to do with Nokia running off to join the windows phone vendor ship.

  15. Feature phones normally run a customized variant of Linux. when did clueless n00bs start writing slashdot articles?

  16. Not western my butt! on Stuxnet Authors Made Key Errors · · Score: 1

    Oh my government employees rushed to produce results? Government workers produced a less than perfect product? It surely couldn't have come from the country that coined the Phrase "Good enough for government work."

  17. Re:As a creative open source developer... on Long Live Closed-Source Software? · · Score: 1

    http://www.jaronlanier.com/general.html Dude may be wack but he's a productive wack.