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  1. The Stylish Beard of the Week Club on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    is not going to like this!

  2. State of the Art Fingerprint Scanner on Face Recognition Goes Mainstream For Notebooks · · Score: 1

    Once they put a pulse oximeter in the fingerprint scanner, it will be dual purpose. It will be able to tell you whether you are getting adequate oxygen and it will keep you alive until after the bad guys force you to log on. ~

  3. Re:You're right. on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they should defitinely close the curtains. No one wants to see a naked lunatic.

  4. Odd, or Convenient? on Windows XP SP3 Causing Router Crashes · · Score: 1

    Odd how the summary fails to mention that the problem is only with this obscure model... Maybe specious or suspicious would better describe the article's failure to mention this rather key piece of information.
  5. Someday... on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Humans will be living on the moon and this means they'll probably be living in glass houses.

  6. Been Done on AT&T Embraces BitTorrent, Considers Usage-Based Pricing · · Score: 1

    Isn't that an **AA policy? If you use BitTorrent, YOU WILL PAY!

  7. Re:well duh! on VIA and NVIDIA Working Together For PC Design · · Score: 0

    NVIDIAVIA would be one hell of an ugly name! Is it any worse than NVIADIA or VIANVIDA? One could use this situation to define "lose-lose-proposition" on Wikipedia.
  8. Umm... on VIA and NVIDIA Working Together For PC Design · · Score: 3, Funny

    WTF would you do with a beowolf cluster of mini laptops on wireless? Leak information like a sieve?
  9. Have You Ever Made That Drive? on Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember it as an unending procession of nothing, particularly Barstow. ~

  10. Re: RSA SecurID on Mozilla Experiments With Site Security Policy · · Score: 1

    FWIW, NSA was using this technology in the '80s.

  11. New Curriculum Tool on Sony Gives Educational Access To PS2/PSP SDKs · · Score: 1

    Savy profs will be able to ensure their students have adequately covered the course material by building courseware into PS2/PSP games. Instead of reading law at Oxford, perhaps one can play Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer or Computer Architecture at A&M.

  12. Interesting Route on Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a place where one makes memories with the kids, to a place where one wishes nothing remembered.

  13. Re: "making it actually useful" on Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think they are more concerned with making it actually profitable.

  14. One Acronym: DHL on International Field Engineer Travel Tips? · · Score: 1

    Depending on where you travel, DHL may be a the only option for getting things delivered. Have accounts with both, just in case.

  15. Obligatory on International Field Engineer Travel Tips? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't drink the water. The local wine or beer is probably much better.

  16. Intrusive Robotic Teleconferencing on Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries · · Score: 1

    An idea that's bound for instantaneous obsolescence, as soon as someone sends it to the CEO's office at an inopportune moment. Or maybe the ladies room.

  17. Water Makes Sense on IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks · · Score: 1

    Deionized water is available, cheap and not a problem if there's a spill. No messing with hazardous materials or stringent environmental restrictions. That makes good sense.

    "Welcome to Jiffy-stop. It's time for a power-flush and fill for your supercomputer. That'll be $19.95 with the coupon from Sunday's paper."

  18. Re:One Good Thing on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 1

    Muffle? Don't you mean "ignite?" Why, yes. Yes I have. :o

  19. Re:Not Impressed on How to Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC · · Score: 1

    Dang! Now we'll have to close the YRO section.

  20. Good Old Days at A&M on Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves · · Score: 1

    I remember "Computer Tom" sitting near the back of the class with headphones on, programming in BASIC on a SHARP. When the prof dared ask Tom a question, Tom invariably got it right and often pointed out a mistake earlier in the problem. I wonder if he recalls the "Nun-inverting" amplifier?

    If you read this Tom, hope we didn't take up too much of your valuable programming time and thanks for the VAX account elevation. :)

  21. Think They'll Notice? on Microsoft Denies Call-in 'Save XP' Petition · · Score: 1

    I just ordered another Dell with XP Pro.

  22. One Good Thing on The Greatest Defunct Websites and Dotcom Disasters · · Score: 3, Funny

    The chairs were sweet!

  23. Re: Intel has always been a P.O.S. on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    You forgot the unintuitive (until made standard through pervasiveness), inverted reference scheme. Should one have LSB or MSB first? IMHO, Motorola got that one right as well.

  24. And Have We Learned Our Lesson? on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 2, Interesting

    About the tyranny of backward compatibility? Think how much further we might be in capability without that albatross slowing innovation.

    No "it was necessary" arguments please. I'm not panning reverse compatibility, merely lamenting the unfortunate stagnating side effect it has had.

  25. Re: A Shatner Object on Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star · · Score: 1

    It's large, very dense and overly dramatic in it's introduction. Yup, that's a Shatner object.