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  1. Everything old is new again on Microwave Comms Betwen Population Centers Could Be Key To Easing Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 3, Funny

    So....they're bringing back MCI?

  2. I'm taking bets. on Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser · · Score: 2

    I'm taking bets that the first exploit of the Edge browser will be call "Bleeding Edge"

  3. Re:because, as we all know on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Why not discuss the current experiment setup and results in an online forum? If the experiments pans out, then publish in a journal.

  4. Re:Other uses. on Moon Swirls May Inspire Revolution In the Science of Deflector Shields · · Score: 1

    What are you? Romulan?

  5. Re:Runtime... on 23-Year-Old Chess Grandmaster Whips Bill Gates In 71 Seconds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, come on. That is such an old cliche. I mean, it's taken them 30 years, but Windows, now, doesn't crash for at LEAST 2 minutes...the time it takes to boot.

  6. Re:IDEs... on KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 · · Score: 2

    Obviously, these KDE people want to blow stuff up.

  7. Re:Roly-Poly! on Rigging Up Baby · · Score: 1

    How do you suppose your vegital desires will show up in the data?

  8. Re:Miranda on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    You can also look at Martha Stewart. She wasn't under oath; lied to an officer about something that wasn't a crime and was sent to prison.

  9. Re:Were blaming the wrong things. on Has Supercomputing Hit a Brick Wall? · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure if you're in the wrong thread or not...

    Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew

  10. Re:Great on Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers · · Score: 5, Funny

    smash the patriarchy

    You have to pay extra for that kind of thing.

  11. Re:Really? on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Or write a check...

  12. Re:While you are at it on Facebook Joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM Effort · · Score: 1

    Ah...I still have fond memories of my C=128

  13. Re:Microwaves are fun. on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure I like Jimmy.

  14. Re:Editors on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 5, Funny

    What in the name of everything you hold holy were you thinking when posting this?

    I think you meant to say:

    What in 'http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-name-of-everything-you-hold-holy-were-you-thinking/the name of everything you hold holy' were you thinking when posting this?

  15. Re:Outsourced on Post Mortem of GunnAllen IT Meltdown · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Eventually the people in charge are going to realize that any kind of financial institution is basically a database on the internet that holds and exchanges account information. And then they're going to turn ghostly white as they realize all these strangers are touching the equipment that, in a very real sense, IS the bank, er, financial whatever...or worse, those strangers OWN the equipment that IS the financial gobstopper.

    And then, at least in finance, outsourcing IT will be seen as a form of insanity.

  16. Re:What if... on The Greatest Machine Never Built · · Score: 1

    See also Philip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle".

  17. Re:"Telecommuting" still taboo on One Third of Telcom Staff More Productive Working From Home · · Score: 1

    How do you fire your boss?

  18. Re:Go figure on LSD Can Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    The racist parts are based on racism.

  19. I did the math. on GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage · · Score: 1

    "Stuck also pointed out that InPhase's technology writes data at 20MB/sec compared with Blu-rays data transfer speed of 4.8MB/sec.

    "If they [GE] really do have a 500GB disk, I come up with 100,000 seconds to fill a disc. There's 86,400 seconds in a day. You do the math,"

    Hmm... 500,000MB / 20MB/sec = 25,000 sec. =~7 hours

  20. quantum electron crumbs...? on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 2

    Dude. That's what housekeeping is for...

  21. Direct Carbon Fuel Cells? on New Process Allows Fuel Cells To Run On Coal · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. Re:The laser on Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon · · Score: 1

    Hey! And the Navy is working on those, too.

  23. Re:People have never thought on their own on Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense? · · Score: 2

    I'd like to combine your post with an interesting quote from the parent, thusly:

    Yes, I've traveled to Asia and even had sex with shemales there..

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  24. Re:Obvious Scifi nerd question on California Library's Plan: Get Rid of Books · · Score: 1

    see: book of eli

    Dude, that's funny right there.

  25. Re:starting no doubt with 'rainbows end'... on California Library's Plan: Get Rid of Books · · Score: 1

    I thought Cali's problem wasn't the current budget, but the huge debt they've accumulated, and have no way of paying.

    (op-ed from about a year ago) http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/06/opinion/la-oe-crane6-2010apr06