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  1. Dear Complainers: on Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Feel free to get another broadband provider if you don't like the way Comcast handles this.

  2. Re:I hate the new bulbs. on Selling Incandescent Light Bulbs As Heating Devices · · Score: 1

    I bet if you invented a system that made incandescent bulbs 'ease on' so they don't blind you at night when you turn them on you would make a fortune. Some people are never happy.

  3. Re:Character selection screen on Michael Jackson Themed MMO In the Works · · Score: 1

    How about Dr. Feelgood?

  4. Re:Features on Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8 · · Score: 1

    Firefox has been rock solid and the memory leaks appear to be fixed for quite some time.

  5. Re:Better story at Wired on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    VW has been doing some interesting stuff with high-milers

    http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1035176_preview-170-mpg-volkswagen-l1-concept

  6. Re:As an American.... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The issue is about romanticizing about certain people or groups.
     

  7. Re:As an American.... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I suppose you wear a Che Guevara shirt too.

  8. Re:I hope that Firefox isn't playing Microsoft's g on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken · · Score: 1

    I have started using Google docs, so Javascript performance is important to me.

  9. Re:At 600k, it's time to move up on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    In this case he could have easily avoided the problem by transferring to a real bank account every time the paypal account hit 5,000$.

  10. Re:Bandwidth not Frequency on Lo-Fi Phones and the Future · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn it, 3.3Khz is more Khz than anyone will ever need!

  11. Re:Latency? on Lo-Fi Phones and the Future · · Score: 1

    My vonage service is indistinguishable from a copper connection.

  12. Even the meme is dead on Duke Nukem Forever Back In Development · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Haven't seen any Duke Nukem jokes on /. in a while.

  13. Re:Speed times Quantity? on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    IBM is not stupid- obviously there are customers that want to buy these systems and IBM is the only company in the world with ability to make them.

  14. Re:Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About on Old People Enjoy Reading Negative Stories About Young · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many people believe there are multi-generational economic/social trends- I think there is more to it than carmudgeony old people.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondratiev_wave

  15. who hasn't burned out? on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would like to hear from programmers that have been at it for 10 or more years that aren't 'burned out'

  16. Re:Star Wars v. Star Trek on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    We didn't have any problem with the force until they applied a suck Star Trek type of explanation to it such as 'mitochondrians' or whatever the heck they called it.

  17. Re:Um no... not really.... on Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime · · Score: 1

    Too true! There has been many time working on my bike that i have wished that I had an 'undo' button. Real world tasks require much more planning and sequencing than in the digital world.

  18. Re:Everyone agrees... on Should Developers Have Access To Production? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think developers want access either- if something goes wrong, do you want to be responsible? I never want access to anything I don't need access to.

  19. Re:Cheap microscope on Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV · · Score: 1

    Yet pretty dumb. I am no expert but it isn't hard to imagine micro imaging devices costing more than a million.

  20. California energy regulations on Canon Abandons SED TV Hopes · · Score: 0

    I would bet that California put the nail in the coffin.

  21. Re:Geologically inactive? on The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple · · Score: 1

    What they are saying here is that there is no instability due to a liquid core. My guess is that ice is subliming from under the surface.

  22. Re:my son almost was one on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that it is not only an age issue, it depends on the sex of the child. Studies have shown that boys develop verbal and reading schools later than girls, so they are wrongly diagnosed in greater proportion.

  23. Re:Well on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    I know that the 'floating casinos' on the Mississippi were created to skirt certain state laws... maybe that would apply to a data center at dock.

  24. Re:ICT as taught seems BoooOOOoooring on Steve Furber On Why Kids Are Turned Off To Computing Classes · · Score: 1

    You can apply this angst to just about any subject in school, not just programming.

  25. Re:HOLY AMAZING! on King Tut's Chariot a Marvel of Ancient Engineering · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's nice but the engineering behind the pyramids construction impresses me (and many others) more.