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  1. no hard data to support these numbers on $10B Annual Tab for Spreadsheet Errors? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the author plugged a few numbers into a spereadsheet to come up with these results :-)

  2. really a downgrade on Google Upgrades AdSense · · Score: 1

    I consider more ads that you dont want to be a downgrade.

  3. immediate plasure versus longevity on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 1

    One of the "secrets" of being fit is the pleasure exercise confers on everyday day living. Things are a lot easier to do, and you feel and look better. Sport and exercise is a lot of fun too. Many of us "fit" people take these so-called health studies "with a grain of [ unhealthy ] salt".

  4. children developing different kind of intelligence on Email Worse Than Marijuana For Intelligence? · · Score: 1

    Traditonal IQ test measure paper-pushing problems. Kids now grow up in a much more interactive, media-rich environment than their parents. I bet they'd womp their parents on a test of had-eye coordination.

  5. not necessarily a bad thing on Interest in CS as a Major Drops · · Score: 1

    In the 1990s many CS students were more interested in $$$ than the discipline. Many of these "mercenaries" have fled now.

  6. MIT also dropped a third on Interest in CS as a Major Drops · · Score: 1

    The computer major (Course 6) is still the largest at MIT, but has fallen from 35% of undergrads to 22%.

  7. Windows took 9 years to copy Mac OS on Jobs Claims Microsoft Is Shamelessly Copying · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those of us not born yesterday remember Bill Gates vaporware announcement of "Windows" soon after the original Mac came out. The first usable version of Windows was version 3.1 released in 1993, nine years after the original Mac OS. Windows was a shameless imitation of the Mac OS (both copied Xerox OS). MicroSoft had a year headstart in working with the MacOS because it wrot important Apps like Multiplan.

  8. MIT published its complaint IP numbers on Canadian ISP to Name Music Swappers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The MIT student newspaper publish the RIAA complaint today . They listed the IP numbers, dorm address, song titles, but not students names.

  9. not first transplant on First Successful Cell Transplant Cures Diabetes · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe it is the first living doner transplant. There have been successful cadever transplants before. Whole organ pancreas transplants havent lasted. Islet cell extractions inject into the blood or liver (like bone marrow transplants) have been more successful.

  10. HP and Apple in a garage on Google's Impact on the Internet · · Score: 1

    HP was founded in a garage. Its still around and on their web site.

    Apple Computer also manaufactured their first set of computer boards in Job's garage.

    Yahoo was founded in a trailer. About 10% of Stanford was destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, so facilities were moved to "temporary" trailers during reconstruction (still on campus).

    Google also claims to have been founded in a garage.

    P.S. I was in Palo during the Apple and Yahoo foundings so can verify that. I've seen the H.P. garage, since it is a historical site. I cant verify Google's story.

  11. 2000th anniversary of the crucifiction? on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Y2K was correct, but from the wrong end of Christ's life. Perhaps April 13th is the 2000th anniversary of Christ's death.

    (Actually astronmers calulated Passover occurred on a Thursday in A.D. 26, 30, 33, and 36. April 6, 30 A.D. matches best with other Bible chronology.)

  12. Friday the 13th!!!!! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    April 13, 2029 is on a Friday.
    That would be the penultimate Friday the 13th. I wonder if that was a cultural premonition.

  13. internet is freedom for teens on AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex · · Score: 1

    I might have been tempted as teenager where the internet around then. I lived in a very restrictive family and boring small town. The net might have been an escape to the priveleges of adulthood.

    Thats why I suspect there will always be a fresh crop of potential victims on the net.

  14. what driving these entrpeneurs? on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Is there is more capital seeking inventions?
    Is it technologic breakthroughs that make more powerful or efficient engines?
    Is more innovative designs?
    Is it embeedded computers that make formerly balky engines more practical?
    Is it modern virtual companies that allow you to assemble expertise in material, engines, capital, etc. under one or two entrepeneurs in more efficent manner?

  15. typing each numeral into google on Google Search By Number · · Score: 1

    Typing each of the first ten numerals into google gives:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  16. use google "range" to lookup SSN on Google Search By Number · · Score: 1

    Google saves every inquiry made to it. They a screenin their lobby showing random searches. You dont want to be advertising the fact you are looking for a particular 10-digit SSN. Type something like 1234567000...1234568000 to search for the SSN number between that range.

  17. turbotax files not fully encrypted on Tracking Your Taxes · · Score: 1

    Someone could scrunch tax/account info from your computer disk as well as the web. I've been able to decompile some infor out of turbotax files using simple utilities like the UNIX strings and od programs. I dont know how vulnerable other tax programs are.

  18. 20-30% by immediate family members on Offshored Identity Theft · · Score: 1

    Sources say that somewhere between a quarter and third of illegal credit is done by spouses or parents of underage children(*).

    (*) DOB not verified in many credit card applications, so its easy to get cards in children's name.

  19. house "kit" via US mail on The House Building Machine · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the early 1900's the Sears Catalog used to sell build-it-yourself houses for around $2000. A lot of them are still inhabited.

  20. google has been my spell dictionary on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    If I dont remember if its -ibile or -abile etc. I just type into google and it suggests the correct one.

  21. not cheating, but better writing on Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier · · Score: 1

    I would expect someone trying to "beat the program" to churn out much more readible essays. Of course, some hacker could figure out how to submit gibberish to beat the program, but that would take even more work.

  22. our company started doing this 1990 on Linux Distro turns PCs into Night-time Clusters · · Score: 1

    Its not that new. We needed to do lots of scientific number crunching. Consolidated workstations with shell and socket protocols. Better tools now.

  23. compare to the guy he lost too on Al Gore Invents Internet TV · · Score: 1

    The other guy stumbles when he tries to ennuciate a multi-syllable word like InterNet.

  24. moon program was a "hack" on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 1

    A hack means something fairly clever, but you could only do a few times because it wasn't designed for flexibility and re-usuability.

  25. 28 doublings = 17 months on Forty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    The Itanium contains 300,000,000 times the number of devices than the 1965 devices (60). This 2^28 power over 480 months, or 17 months each doubling.