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  1. Re:Google opened at $98 a share... on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 1

    Actually, gmail, google maps, and google earth all existed in 2004. Docs, chrome, and android did not yet.

  2. Re:Uh, yeah on China Reveals Its Space Plans Up To 2016 · · Score: 2

    4 probes. Pioneer's 10,11 and Voyager 1, 2.

  3. Re:Food for thought on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    Well, Duh! The point is that we are spending countless billions of dollars on health care that does not change the end result. Instead, many whose outcomes could be positive and lasting, are denied care because there is no money left.

    So, let me restate what I said earlier, over half of our health care spending is going to waste as it does not change the end result, and simply causes people to suffer longer than they would have otherwise.

  4. Food for thought on How Doctors Die · · Score: 4, Informative

    Over 50% of health care spending goes to pay for the last two weeks of life.

  5. I look forward to the day... on Russia, Europe Seek Divorce From U.S. Tech Vendors · · Score: 2

    we once more have a broad set of different processors and architectures to choose from. Competition will stimulate more creative designs and solutions.

  6. The article barely scratches the surface on How the Tevatron Influenced Computing · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll rattle off a half dozen from the top of my head:

    According to Robert Young, one of the founders of Red Hat, Fermilab's adoption of Linux was one of the seminal events in the acceptance of Linux as a real operating system.

    IBM's SP series of computers was inspired by the IBM RS6000 compute farms at Fermilab.

    The original Linux CD driver was written by an experimenter at the DZero group at Fermilab.

    Many parallel programming techniques were pioneered on the ACP/MAPS system designed, engineered, and built at Fermilab.

    The term "compute farm" was coined at Fermilab.

    Fermilab was the world's third web site, after CERN and SLAC.

  7. Re:Software radios on Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Software works well for the back-end of the radio, ie. detector. The front-end and antenna are another story.

  8. He who lives by the sword... on German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    dies by the sword.

    Apple will soon learn.

    Ever wonder why you see so few patent lawsuits from IBM relative to their portfolio? IBM uses their portfolio like a scalpel. Apple has uses theirs like a shotgun.

  9. Will the US Military ever... on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 5, Interesting

    find that Mark 15 H-Bomb they misplaced somewhere near the coast of Georgia?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision

  10. Brawndo will take care of that on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 5, Funny

    After all, it has Electrolytes!

  11. Pretty crappy return on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    3% yield on dividend is relatively poor. But there are worse places to put one's money.

  12. Re:LOL, fucked by "Free Trade" once again! on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 1

    Do note that some Fords have so many parts not made in the US that they qualify as foreign cars.

  13. Re:Mr? on Open Hardware Journal · · Score: 1

    Following on in the grand tradition of open hardware in the Amateur Radio community, I see.

    Best wishes in the road ahead!

    73

    KC9KBP

  14. Contributor to the tor project on US Government Seizes Email of WikiLeaks Volunteer · · Score: 1

    Jacob is a contributor to the tor project, I am sure he is extremely aware of the privacy issues of using an email provider.

  15. Re:uhh... on Sprint Details Shift To LTE · · Score: 1

    LTE is derived from CDMA technologies, not GSM.

  16. Only if you had Yahoo's spam protection enabled on Yahoo Blocked Emails About Wall Street Protests · · Score: 4, Informative

    Accounts which did not have Yahoo's spam protection enabled did not have this blocked.

  17. RCA's CDP-1802 did that 30+ years ago on Intel Experimental Processor Runs On Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Glad to see Intel finally catching up.

  18. Of course... on Thermal Imaging Lie Detector In Development · · Score: 2

    It will be illegal to use this on politicians.

  19. Re:SETI ! on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what we used to burn in the first SGI Origin 2000, and later the first few thousand nodes of a Linux cluster at Fermilab.

  20. Re:How To Win Friends And Influence People - Carna on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 0

    Clue #1 that a poster has not read the book they are touting: The author's name is misspelled.

  21. Getting a clue on Hurricane Irene Prompts Unprecedented Evacuation of NYC · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What Category the storm is when it hits NYC is NOT the big issue. Wind damage is not what they are worried about. The size of the storm surge is the issue. NYC has an enormous amount of underground infrastructure. If water starts spilling into the subway system in quantity, the results would be catastrophic. See Chicago Flood, multiply by 1000.

  22. Congratulations Troy! on Scientific Linux's Troy Dawson Leaves FermiLabs For Red Hat · · Score: 2

    I remember when Troy stated work at Fermilab. It doesn't seem like that long ago.

    It is gratifying to see how successful SL has become over the years. I know Connie and Troy have poured their guts into it.

    Best of wishes in the adventure ahead. I hope you don't end up taking Connie with you.

    Coincidence that he is leaving the same day as Commander Taco and Steve Jobs? I think not!

  23. 40+ years of experience on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to see where virtualization is going, check out where VM370 was in 1977 or so. That is about as far as the current virtualization technology has gotten. Bare metal has its place, as does virtualization.

  24. Re:IBM/Microsoft set back IT 20 years at least. on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    We already had all of those things prior to the release of the PC. Expensive as all hell at the time, though.

  25. Re:I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0 on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    The jump was from PC/DOS 1.1 to 2.0. 1.0 was very short lived.