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  1. Re:Now what about on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because he was a former head of Nasdaq. He was one of the rule makers. You do not expect the head of the major exchange to be a Ponzi schemer. Just like a head of police is very unlikely to be a drug dealer.

  2. Cost of support? on The State of Munich's Ongoing Linux Migration · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    upgrade of the then-existing Windows NT4 operating system to Windows XP would have been as much as two million euros cheaper

    Installing Linux has been costly enough already. One can only imagine the effort to keep everything going, that could potentially be even heavier expense.

  3. Re:Java? on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    If you use any of those corporate controlled runtime languages you are asking for trouble.

  4. Re:"Automated" on Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux · · Score: 1

    has device drivers written in Python

    I have to clean the coffee off my monitor now!!

  5. Re:Explosions on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 2, Informative

    lithium metal material reacts rapidly and violently with water
    (From the TFA)

    The safety concern is the main problem here.

  6. Re:I trust the man on Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA · · Score: 1

    Trust Buzz? What about this, Google:

    XlkV1ybBnHI

  7. Steam ? on Australian Web Filter To Censor Downloaded Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this somehow extend to Steam games? Steam uses some different TCP/IP port to funnel its content, I believe, so the old trusty Aussie web filter censoring software might not be able to catch those. (haha)

  8. Re:Interesting! on 35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pity TFA lacks more detail about the tonality. It would be interesting to know what notes it could produce, and what intervals, possibly indicating whether they leaned to minor or major scale for example..

  9. Re:$370 million? on NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement · · Score: 1

    surprise, surprise, another government agency is milking the system.

  10. Crackpotery milestone on Steorn's "Free Energy" Jury Comes Back To Bite Them · · Score: 1

    the company had resolved the key technical problems related to the implementation of Orbo and is now focused on commercial launch towards the end of this year..

    Those are some hardcore ***ards. They have been told by scientists they have nothing, but they carry on. Respekt!

    /s

  11. Re:Bozeman MT on The Worst US Cities To Work In IT · · Score: 1

    if you have to surrender you Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts, how any more IT unfriendly it could possibly get?

  12. Indirect evidence on Could We Beam Broadband Internet Into Iran? · · Score: 1

    If they planned for this big firewall operation, I have no doubt they also rigged the election. Having the landslide victory why fear the recount ?

  13. Re:But why? on Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is that GCC is pretty much the only compiler on Linux used these days and while the code is very nice C++ compilers on Windows produce a bit better code still.

    But when I mention Watcom C++ or other aspiring open source compiler here, a compiler that could possibly interest Linux community and spawn some competition for GCC then I get modded down often by people citing GCC is good enough for everybody and everything.

  14. Re:Good luck with the FCC on Intel Demos Wireless "Resonant" Recharging · · Score: 1

    Exactly, they achieved to build very powerful emitter, something that FCC is looking for like hawks to weed out from any consumer electronics.

  15. Large UFO fleet of is going to visit us soon.. on US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors · · Score: 1

    This is obviously deliberate, those scientists might get alarmed by the strange data when Dalmatians enter orbit, especially motherships.

    /s

  16. Re:Single Best Story I have read on Slashdot on Tracking Thieves With 'Find my iPhone' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep, and kudos to Apple marketing team.

    I down want to tarnish your enthusiasm for the story, but it has all the signs of an intended viral, paid up by Apple marketing. Do not forget all the stunts they pulled. I would say, 10% this is a genuine story.

  17. Re:Move Microsoft to India on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    One advice on "alien" source code.

    Never ever try to fix it. Just start a completely new code of your own.

    That might be a tough decision, but often the time wasted to figure out and debug "alien" code is much more wasteful and it might take longer to debug then to rewrite the whole thing from scratch. The main problem is that you often can't be sure whether that damned thing would work 100%, because it is full of bugs. That of course could mean a hard, slow and lagging start, but you will thank me in the end.

  18. Re:Hmmmm on Mayo Clinic Reports Dramatic Outcomes In Prostate Cancer Treatment · · Score: 4, Insightful

    immune system will actually fight cancer

    You need to mark the cancer cells (in someway) so the immune system could recognize them as a threat. Many times big problems could have very simple solutions in biology.

  19. WoW gold farmers allowed? on Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering · · Score: 1

    They are probably responsible for a huge part of the Iranian exports.

    /s

  20. Re:Firefox 3.0 vs Firefox 3.5, night and day diff. on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1

    TFA uses 3.5

  21. Firefox 3.0 vs Firefox 3.5, night and day diff. on Memory Usage of Chrome, Firefox 3.5, et al. · · Score: 1, Informative

    To all who bash Firefox, make sure you are using newest 3.5 and not some previous version.

    It seams to me that lots of people haven't even recognized a small difference in number, but it is a big milestone for Firefox internally.

  22. Re:You don't care until your Skype is blocked.. on Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I still think it is a NN violation..

  23. Re:You don't care until your Skype is blocked.. on Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile in Germany for example, they are blocking Skype and laugh at NN.

  24. Re:You don't care until your Skype is blocked.. on Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    NN is meant for the Internet information network, there is a clear distinction between this kind of open network and narrow interest networks like XBox-Live or Skype with their own internal rules.

  25. Re:You don't care until your Skype is blocked.. on Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    We have a constitutions per state, but you are right, EU as a whole doesn't have one, because Irish and Czechs are still effectively blocking it.