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  1. Re:Finally! on EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I was excited to try it, and I will now.

  2. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Or the mysterious hashing algorithm the NSA suggested and we all decided was a good improvement without any explanation from the NSA on why.

  3. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    Deeper, if you have any plans of getting under it.

  4. Re:A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Publ on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Aside from Global Warming, and by association those that work with it, being ridiculous; please note that the greatest contributor to the greenhouse effect is water vapor. This is ignored frequently, since it isn't a gas coupled with the popularity of the phrase "greenhouse gases."

    So yes, he can use water to cool down some mass (which will heat up the water, you know the whole conservation of energy thing) but will end up trapping more heat from the sun...

    This guy simply has his facts wrong.

  5. Re:This Sounds Like a Great Idea on Student Invention May Significantly Extend Mobile Device Battery Life · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, he'd basically short-range broadcasting his long range broadcast. If you got within several feet of him and used the right equipment, you might be able to listen in on everything he's broadcasting!

  6. Re:Join the club on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    Flip burgers by day, put on your opensource pro bono cape and mask and code the worlds troubles away by night.

  7. Re:Exactly !!! on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yet well made digital products are stolen too, so I don't think your argument holds water. I think it's "so rife" because it's easy, fast and anonymous.

  8. Re:Exactly !!! on Spore the Most Pirated Game of 2008 · · Score: 1

    I was amazed at how many people rushed in to call me scum, part of the entitlement generation who steals instead of pays, and that I should have supported that show by buying the DVD.

    RIAA's propaganda campaign seems to be working. They even have customers claiming I should buy ____ like Galactica 1980!!!

    And yet it's still stealing...

    You know there are other options. You can rent, ask a friend, watch it on tv, or read reviews online. Those are all legal options to get a sneak peak into whether you want a product. But stealing is stealing, no matter how rich the guy is your stealing from, or how many starving orphans you fed with your DVD.

  9. Re:I am a pacifist but i love military tech. on US Tests New Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    You may be a pacifist for now, but enough video games and we'll see you on the FBI's most wanted soon enough.

  10. Re:Iran? Uh huh ... yeah on US Tests New Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Good points, but the U.S. has strong ties to Israel. You cannot ignore what happened post WW2, there are more factors than you are considering.

  11. Re:that kind of thinking will kill us on US Tests New Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the TSA, thems are heroes.

  12. Re:Author makes some valid points, but... on Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh right, Al Gore internet rule number 1. Internet closes on weekends. Only hackers can visit sites, and only with malicious intent.

  13. Programming for Linux? on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your first problem is thinking a programming language is for linux development, and perhaps another is for windows development.

    What you should actually be asking yourself is, what is the problem I'm trying to solve, not what is the os I can use.

    Your question as stated has a million unquantifiable answers (heck, if you don't have a problem to solve, ASP.NET is just fine on linux). Ask the right question, what programming language should I use to solve problem x, and now you will get intelligent answers, and at least one remark about turing complete languages are all turing complete.

    /rant off

  14. Re:Author makes some valid points, but... on Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He complains that 10 minutes for a computer to scale is too slow, then states

    Auto-scaling cannot differentiate between valid traffic and non-sense. You can. If your environment is experiencing a sudden, unexpected spike in activity, the appropriate approach is to have minimal auto-scaling with governors in place, receive a notification from your cloud infrastructure management tools, then determinate what the best way to respond is going forward.

    It's 4pm on a Saturday, and your site is getting hit hard. Rally the troops, call a meeting, decide the proper action, call Fedex to ship you more infrastructure, deploy new hardware, profit from your new customers, all the while laughing at the fools who waited 10 minutes for their cloud to auto-scale.

  15. Re:Like cellphones on Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    Of course cloud companies want you to need to scale.

    Also, most successful companies want to scale too. Doesn't the customer and provider win in the scenario? As long as growth = profit for the customer, I mean.

  16. Re:Broken Algorithm BS on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 1

    I'll engineer it, once there is a new radial option in my IDE.

  17. Convince your boss. on Time to Get Good At Functional Programming? · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean oo isn't the only option?

  18. Re:Do we really need this? Well... on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    When I think of a list of truths we consider "self-evident" you're list doesn't come to mind. I do recall something about searches and seizures though.

  19. Re:Awful Goddamned Summary on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 1

    It's legal because there is an executive order permissing it.
    It's illegal because the constitution expressly forbids it.

    Thanks heavens for a president, and do-as-you're-told folk, otherwise we might still enjoy our constitutionally protected freedoms.

  20. Re:No. on Verizon Employees Fired For Snooping Obama's Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know what they say, "a good offense is the best offense."

  21. Re:Dedicated Database Storage on Intel Takes SATA Performance Crown With X25-E SSD · · Score: 1

    Did you even read the summary?

    We've already seen Intel's first X25-M solid-state drive blow the doors of the competition

    Oh, gimme more of that door knob!

  22. Re:Shame on New "Juno" Mission To Jupiter Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Based on what we do (don't) know, I'd say we can learn a lot more from Jupiter than Europa.

    Our understanding of Jupiter and other gas giants is really lacking. The only hope of discovery of any kind on Europa is life. But that is a really small chance, and therefore a very big gamble compared to the large set of questions we know will be answered by starting to explore Jupiter.

  23. That's no moon! on Nazi Grandmother · · Score: 1

    I thought at first, yum cookies! But after intense study of that picture, I'm left disgusted. I'm absolutely offended. An old lady, that should be gentle and sweet, is serving fish sticks.

  24. Re:Mobile phones on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and dead prisoners.

  25. Re:Mobile phones on South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the only way to fight this is to make sure prison guards have bigger cell phones.