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  1. Beats marrying using common sense on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Amazing how all these women pick guys like Hans Reiser over and over again. Money & success through men is still king even if it means a shortened life span.

  2. Floating point dreams on Data Center In a Shoe Box · · Score: 1

    Someday, hopefully floating point will become popular for networking. Then they'll start putting the FPUs on these ARM chips.

  3. What if it was GPS augmentation on Second Galileo Test Satellite Now in Orbit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Instead of starting a new system from scratch, they could have made it an extension to GPS. Imagine better altitude detection, less ionosphere interference. Good thing those farm subsidies went to good use.

  4. Bloat vanished since 2003 on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 1

    More interesting than the headline is that the word "bloat" disappeared from the lexicon. We really need those Web 2.0 dissolves.

  5. Neglecting the obvious on Is Google Neglecting Blogger? · · Score: 1

    U ever notice they never allowed embedded Youtube videos & Picasso images in GMail? Maybe it's too obvious a feature to get headlines in a time when the only thing getting hits is "Turtle synchronicity".

  6. Heroines throwing men on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 1

    They've never shown heroines throwing men around, but it would be one of the great moments in space.

  7. keep it simple stupid on Further Details From Soyuz Mishap · · Score: 1

    Always thought that business of 3 interconnecting modules would be the weak spot & it is. That's malfunction #3 with it. They could swap one disposable module for a more robust docking mechanism & a bigger crew capsule but they won't.

  8. smarter characters than pan? on Guillermo del Toro Will Direct "The Hobbit" · · Score: 1

    Hopefully he'll make the characters smarter than the monkeys in Pan's Labyrinth. Characters need to be at least smart enough to be believable.

  9. The Big Thing & the Big Language on Are C and C++ Losing Ground? · · Score: 1

    Transparent garbage collection sure is nifty but it's not the real world. Start talking to the physical world & you have to think in terms of addresses & memory again. Most of today's software doesn't talk to the physical world. It's database management, document formatting, user interface design. If the big thing changes to talk to the real world, the language ratings could change real fast.

  10. Who wants games when U can have a standard on NASA Responds To MMO Concerns · · Score: 1

    Don't you read the news & the job descriptions these days? No-one wants software. They want standards documents for software. Bring on the SNMP, J2EE, J2SE, JavaBeans, JavaMail, JCP, JDBC, JTA, ICE, MIDlet, Portlet, RTSJ....

  11. 900 standards to go on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    With the audio & SNMP standards just around the corner, that gives them 900 more standards to go before the implementations actually do what the language is defined to do.

  12. Stick with the group on Sony To Launch PS3 Video Download Service · · Score: 1

    Got to keep these rogue corporate divisions from deviating from the path. Except for Apple. Apple can do its own thing.

  13. PlaysForSure engineers burn in hell on MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September · · Score: 1

    Know a lot of people who worked like crazy to get PlaysForSure to work on the BluRay stack. That was a huge project. When these huge standards go out of business, years of work & 14 hour days vaporizes. That's the reality standards.

  14. Why not commercialize it within 5-100 years? on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Still waiting for last year's $1/watt solar panels.

  15. Hasselblads vs Nikon Jellybeans vs. duct tape on How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy · · Score: 1

    The Hasselblads they had in the old days sure beat the crummy Nikons they use now.

    Would be funny to see if duct tape was on the payload manifest or if someone swapped their jelly bean allocation for it.

  16. More Web 2.0 anachronisms on Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well they're certainly photos of buildings, just not realistic photos of buildings.

    Well, they certainly have free models on 3D warehouse. They're just all in a format Google Earth can't read without a plugin for a commercial operating system.

    They certainly have 3D graphics, just not the 5 lines of code that it would take to support 3D anaglyphs. Everyone's killing themselves stacking screen shots to work without this simple feature.

  17. Standards based robots on The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee · · Score: 1

    But is the Java bot compliant with personal Java spec revision 123342.432687 from RFC 5 Robotlabs certificate B?

  18. Java integration on Sun Developing Open Media Stack · · Score: 1

    Wonder if Sun is firstly, actually implementing something or just traveling to meetings & specing it, and secondly, trying to write Java support for all its efforts or just acting like a standard, dysfunctional corporation. Having said that, does anyone still care about codecs?

  19. Apple fanboys on Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question · · Score: 1

    With Apple fanboys, predictions R accurate 6 months in the future.

  20. An obvious black eye for old Obi one. on Obama Would Redirect NASA Funding to Education · · Score: 1

    This story was well known on the space blogs months ago. The fact that it didn't break slashdot until now & the mass media has avoided it like a third rail should settle any debate over whether it's a good thing. Obi should put it away and just lie so we can still vote for him.

  21. Goo Tube rules on Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos · · Score: 1

    Of course, qualifying videos must be handheld, shaking, out of focus, and pointing in the opposite direction of the subject.

  22. late fees for a movie download on Blockbuster Working on Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    If anyone can charge late fees on movie downloads, BallBu$ter can. Well, if they're making vapor press releases like this, it only means they'll be out of business soon enough.

  23. Microsoft's open source staff on Microsoft Gets a New Open Source Chief · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good to see Ratatouille got a job after the restaurant gig failed.

  24. Right idea, wrong pitch on Flickr Adds Video Capabilities to Service · · Score: 1

    Good idea: low quality, unedited, raw video clips matching high quality photos. People don't like & don't know how to edit video & the photo ties make it easier to organize.

    Bad idea: selling the social networking angle more than the real value.

  25. pushing NAS/SAN like it's 2000 again on Configuring Juniper NetScreen & SSG Firewalls · · Score: 1

    Why does it feel like the NAS/SAN startups are going to be the next round of layoffs, following AMD & Freescale.