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  1. And look who has the most on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 0

    And of course, the U.S. has the largest supply according to the chart. How convenient.

  2. Already did this study a long time ago on AptiQuant Browser/IQ Study Was Likely a Hoax · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back in 1997/1998 when I ran a fan website. For a period of time I had shamefully turned away IE users for a time because of a website incompatibility from the site and received angry e-mails. Then, about 6 months later, I turned away Netscape users with the same reasoning. What I found is that the e-mail from IE users tended to be much shorter and use simpler words with more mistakes in grammar. Its one of things that I did, but alas never published. I still have all the e-mails though. My thoughts about it at the time were that people who choose to use IE at the time don't really think about their choices much and just go with what is given to them.

  3. Re:Article Heading :-? on eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half · · Score: 1

    <AOL>Me to</AOL>

    Rackspace = company that sells VMs
    rack space or maybe even rackspace = space you have available in your racks.

  4. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 2

    I agree. Been using PostgreSQL since 2004 and only occasionally use MySQL. I could see the writing on the wall when the mysql.com site kept moving the link for their documentation around, making it harder to find. My gripe about PostgreSQL is the same, its harder to admin, especially in a shared hosting environment.

  5. Re:needs a hallmark card on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 2

    Maybe the sysadmins at Hallmark could help us out on this one.

  6. Put the internet on the screen on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1

    You'll probably start to see a trend of Hollywood adapting Youtube shorts directly to the big screen. I have to laugh everytime I see some news program turning to the internet to show what is going on there. They just can't compete with it.

  7. New favorite unit of measurement on Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US · · Score: 2

    Jobs per megawatt

  8. IRONY OVERLOAD on OK Go Goes HTML5 · · Score: 5, Funny
    • 1. OK Go - Probably brought initial wave of people to Youtube
    • 2. New video promotion trying to show support for HTML5, an open standard and helps bring an end to flash.
    • 3. Website message when visiting with Firefox 5: We're sorry, but this content was designed with the browser Google Chrome in mind.
    • 4. Google trying to not be evil, yet icons at the bottom saying "Made with some friends from Google"

    WTF? I think I'm going to throw up now.

  9. Re:Cue a gazillion posts... on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    I think you're using the wrong OS.

  10. I don't think so on Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is bullshit and I will never believe it.

  11. Re:What a novel idea on Why Waste Servers' Heat? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh really, then why when I search for datacenter in a barn, this comes up first: Microsoft puts data centre in a barn (Jan 2011)

    Yeah, I'm done alright.

  12. What a novel idea on Why Waste Servers' Heat? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nobody's ever thought of that before. I thought this "paper" was going to have some kind of design for a way to do it or something. Actually, recently I've been thinking about the way some barns are constructed. Where they have have windows at the apex of the roof. I guess that channels the heat up and lets it out right? Is it possible to put turbines up there that are driven by heat?

  13. Putting a 3 at the beginning on Linux Kernel 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    For a while its going to be like when the year changes and you keep writing checks with the previous year by mistake. Probably 99% of Linux users have only used a 2.0 series kernel. Heck, Slashdot didn't even exist before the 2.0 kernel.

  14. What are these words? on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you mean police wrongdoing? Can you use those two words in a sentence?

  15. I loathe the smell of marketing in the morning. on iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've heard of dropped calls, but this is ridiculous.

  16. Re:Nice work. on Facial Recognition Gone Wrong · · Score: 1

    Came up snake-eyes on that role, dincha?

    More like snake oil.

  17. And more importantly on Man With 10 Million Air Miles Gets Plane Named After Him · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He is still alive.

  18. Will be exploited by bars who need more people on Using Facial Recognition To Find the Best Bar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So there is an application, that will try to indicate which bar is the hip one to be at? Yeah, that will last about a month before bars with less customers figure out how to fake their stats.

  19. Re:Explained in D&D terms on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    I read "ruled by braun" as an intentional misspelling with your statement meaning we were ruled by well groomed men and that we are making the transition away from Steve Jobs and toward the intelligent and bearded like the Woz and RMS.

    Whoa man that's deep. Well, it was an unintentional pun or perhaps a double entendre. The real problem I often have is that the spell checker in Firefox trips me up. I usually don't have such spelling problems, but when it puts a river of blood under words like analyse, which I know is right, I start to doubt myself and then I'm not sure if I spelled brawn right or its just the fucking spelling checker being a douche (Hey, it knows douche, but doesn't know fucking entendre. Fuck you Firefox spelling checker you worthless piece of shit)

  20. Re:Explained in D&D terms on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spelling Nazis, please execute me swiftly with a vorpal long sword +5 for misspelling brawn. I didn't mean ruled by Adolf Hitler's mistress or and electric shaver.

  21. Explained in D&D terms on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok, being a bit more serious. here is what is going on.

    Throughout the age of d20 and now d21 (how would that work?) in the prime material plane at least we've been making the transition from "ruled by braun" to "ruled by brain". In this new age STR, DEX and CON aren't important as they once were and so in this new world that values INT above all else, those that have the CHR, but not the INT have to use some WIS and lie about their character class. Because in the public eye, CHR is always important. Most people don't want to associate with character with low CHR scores, so they take people with a good mix of both and make sure they get to fight the dragon.

  22. Re:Nope on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shut up geek.

  23. Re:Google The Facebook on Google Hits One Billion Unique Visits In a Month · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because this is a story about the Internet, which runs on Facebook.

  24. Re:Actually they didn't on IBM Did Not Invent the Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    Actually, there was a store in Bloomington, Indiana called The Data Domain which claimed to use the term Personal Computer in advertising first. The guy who owned the Data Domain apparently talked to Steve Jobs directly on the phone to sell the Apple I.

  25. Re:But on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 0

    Bitcoins are mostly safe. Windows is mostly not.