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  1. Re:Can You Say ... on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    > I could have not delivered a timekeeping and payroll system for 1/2 that!

    Not on Manhattan living expenses you couldn't.

  2. can it on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    can it tether?

  3. Re:fail2ban on Coping With 1 Million SSH Authentication Failures? · · Score: 1

    aye, and if you're truly paranoid, implement port knocking.

  4. Re:Anti scalpers scheme that works... on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    Cool, so now you need state papers to attend a Tom Waits concert. Tom Waits can take a hike.

  5. Re:Why is it illegal? on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    Guys like this are why we have fascism.

  6. Re:What a lot of work. on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    They did make the money legitimately. It's the law enforcement operation which is illegitimate.

  7. Participatory democracy has always been on Open Gov Tracker Reveals Best US Open Government Ideas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...a big disappointment to those who wish to control society for their personal ambitions, rather than respect the popular will. If you don't think legalizing marijuana is a critical issue, I guess the overwhelming force of public opinion isn't going to change your mind.

  8. Motorola Droid on It's 2010; What's the Best E-Reader? · · Score: 1

    The best ebook reader is not an ebook reader, but rather a phone: The Moto Droid is about 850x450 pixels in about 3.7 diag inches, and makes reading PDFs a delight. Best of all, it fits in your shirt pocket. Do that with a kindle, nook, or apple brick. Uh-uh.

  9. Re:Kind of a waste on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Indeed there's a huge amount of natural gas being wasted in Alaska because it's not economical to transport. If you could run a generating station on the north shore, and beam it with no effective losses to aircraft and shipping traffic worldwide, you could run the entire global transportation system with essentially no carbon emissions.

  10. Re:This DOES NOT COMPUTE on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    Given a space elevator, it makes perfect sense.

  11. Re:I don't see how this can be efficient ... on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    I love the way everyone says "Lunar regolith" instead of "moon rocks". It makes you sound so much smarter.

  12. Re:Deaf and Hard of Hearing still snubbed on Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming · · Score: 1

    We need more complaining, not less. By using silverlight netflix has screwed over their customers. Unless we complain, no lesson will be learned. If you don't want silverlight crammed down your throat, get out and complain!

  13. Re:Common sense required; hopeless... on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Your logic leaks like a sieve of Eratosthenes. The fact that two events have similar energies does not make them equivalent, any more that the fact that I weigh the same that you do means that I can sleep with your wife. 5kg of watermelon and 5kg of plutonium behave very differently when compressed. A few TeV in a cosmic ray isn't going to create a strangelet that crystallizes the earth into dark matter, but a few TeV in the LHC... nobody knows.

  14. Re:Going in circles on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    That's because black holes are not the problem. The problem is strangelets.

  15. Re:Ugh on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Strangelets could crystallize all the matter of the Earth into dark matter. No black holes involved.

  16. Re:Ugh on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    > a mathematical model, which is what actually makes testable hypotheses, that fits the data can only ever be incomplete.

    You misspelled wrong.

  17. Re:US LAW ? on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Two buck chuck?

  18. Re:STFU on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    That's just dumb. Cosmic rays are not the result of LHC collisions, and their structure and function has nothing to do with the products of LHC collisions. To infer from the safety of milk of magnesia that it is also safe to drink an equivalent decoction of arsenic salts is extreme folly.

  19. Re:STFU on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen Cyanide and Aluminum have the same molar mass. Dump 10 kilos of each into a room, and the impact on living beings is very different. The energies of the particles may be the same, but their structure and origins are very different.

  20. Re:My wireless landline phones all failed 1/1/2010 on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 1

    WinCE I am guessing.

  21. Re:Some kind of... on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 1

    > When you divide 1 by 10, you should get 0.1, not 0.10000000000000001

    Umm, no. You should get the IEEE-758 value closest to 0.1. Anything else is wrong. 0.1 is wrong.

  22. And unused plan minutes too! on DC Sues AT&T For Unclaimed Phone Minutes · · Score: 1

    Hey, I pay for 1400 minutes every month, but use about 200. D.C. should be claiming those 1200 unused minutes as well!

  23. here's why at&t can't keep it up on AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data · · Score: 2, Interesting
  24. Re:Cool... but mundane - It was a Rocket! on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 1

    I wonder how the rocket managed to become headed "straight for" at least 3 different cameras distributed over hundreds of miles of subarctic islands.

    BA is shoveling it high and deep.

  25. Re:Lee Childs? I don't think so on Novelists On the E-Book Experience · · Score: 1

    Or one might contemn his inefficiency.