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  1. Ruby Tuesdays on IT's Most Outrageous Markups? · · Score: 1

    A glass of Coke costs them 2 cents.

    It costs you two bucks.

    But they lose money on their burgers.

    Gotta make a profit somehow.

  2. Re:Harbor for criminals... on Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Or walk into a cyber cafe, pay cash, and do it from there.

    Dweeb.

  3. Excellent, now I have even more time to... on Software Tweak Makes Linux Boot In Under 200 ms · · Score: 1

    ...sit around and wait for driver support.

  4. Mod this up.. on Anti-Spammers DDoSed Out Of Existence · · Score: 1

    ..It isn't a troll.

  5. Nothing was stolen on Tech Rich Get Richer · · Score: 1

    The employees of M$ and Oracle were paid for their efforts.

    The fact that they sold out for $80K (or $100K or whatever amount) a year - when they could have made billions - is their problem.

  6. Enough money will get you anything... on Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s · · Score: 1

    ...anywhere - not just in the U.S..

  7. Re:Biometric sagaLong string of failures on Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too · · Score: 1

    The recognition system doesn't have to be optical - it could create a contour mapping of one's face instead. Never mind the fact that a guy walking thru the airport holding up a poster in front of his face just MIGHT arouse suspicion.

    In high trust systems it would probably use atleast 2 biometric parameters + some type of password scheme.

    Your email and website URL's are childishly easy to parse.

  8. Re:Is it just me... on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    It's just you.

    To me it looks (a bit) like Aqua.

    But that cloud over there looks like my grandma - so who's to say?

    However in a year of so, there probably WILL be a resemblance to KDE... ;-)

  9. Oops, post not entirely accurate... on Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station · · Score: 1

    The CAESAR experiment piggy backs on UMD's 255 kW Triga reactor.

  10. All applicants at my company... on Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career? · · Score: 1

    ...take the same technical exam, regardless of education.

    It takes about two hours to complete, is comprised of some fairly heavy generic programming (C++ and Java), socket programming, and GUI (Swing, and Windows your choice of API or MFC).

    There are some basic essays like "explain the difference(s) between UDP and TCP" and "what is a bean" and "explain DCOM marshalling" and such. No one correct answers to those - they just want to see what's in your head.

    Do well on this exam, and you are hired - regardless of your letters.

  11. Re:A PhD is a business death sentence on Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career? · · Score: 1

    Most faculty at a major university will tell you that the reason they were having so many problems staffing their CS departments during the 90's is that industry sucked up all of the PhD's.

  12. If the offending code is Open Source... on Open Source Community Approaches SCO · · Score: 1

    ...people can already SEE it - so why won't they just tell us WHICH lines???

    But I guess this is the crux of the matter - and since they are full of it anyway I guess they never will tell.

  13. University of Maryland's reactor on Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station · · Score: 2, Interesting

    UMD runs a 250 kW reactor that runs on (what is today considered) nuclear waste.

    Very clean, IMPOSSIBLE to produce weapons grade material from it or its fuel, and provides a solution (actually a use) for today's nuclear waste.

    http://www.caesar.umd.edu/

  14. Re:I'd steal em on US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer · · Score: 1


    I must have been hallucinating during my 6 years in the United States Marine Corps.

    The US did not sign that treaty. Nor did China, or Russia.

    Your idiocy is only surpassed by your naivete. Goddamn you are stupid.

    http://www.icbl.org/ratification/
    http://www.ic bl.org/treaty/nonsign.php3

  15. Guiness Extra Cold on Five-second Pints · · Score: 1

    Wonderful.

    I had it in Dublin: doesn't seem to have made it's way to America (yet).

  16. Too much foam == less beer on Five-second Pints · · Score: 1

    Get it?

    That is why the Brit's (and many Yanks) complain.

    We like to drink - not have beer moustaches.

  17. Re:DSL Users beware... on RPC DCOM Worm On The Loose · · Score: 1

    Or you could have killed msblast.exe from taskmanager and then simply deleted it... ... wait a minute: what kind of Mickey Mouse admin IS this?

  18. Re:Was this One *That* Bad? on Blackout Week Continues · · Score: 1

    New York City, Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Albany, Long Island, Buffalo, Erie, Akron... and most places in between.

    All without power.

    Also, what you didn't hear: weird pockets around the country that also went down: University of Maryland lost its power. Parts of Illinois. Strange brownouts in Vermont and Boston.

    But this was a contained event: An area about 800 miles across and affecting about 50 million people, and two countries.

  19. In an attempt to increase my stock with my wife... on Palm Reveals New Name · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...I have decieded to rename myself GeoffreyOne.

  20. Re:Pronounciation? on Palm Reveals New Name · · Score: 1

    Well, I was thinking "pal-MOAN"...

  21. Were this before the days of NT4.... on Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008? · · Score: 1

    ...I might have thought Linux stood a chance on the desktop.

    But once NT4 came out, Windows became "good enough."

    Not "the best", not "great", but good enough.

    So on the desks it went, where it is firmly entrenched. That's all she wrote.

    Windows seems to be getting better and better. Still not great, still not the best (but neither is Lunix). Now if they could/would only fix those pesky security holes...

  22. Re:I'd steal em on US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer · · Score: 1

    Go ahead.

    If they were smart they would make an anti personnel mine that looked identical to a node.

  23. Re:The bottom line is on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It IS interesting: the concept that even numbers do not have free will.

  24. Don't you mean Bill Gates? on Robots for Air Force Protection · · Score: 1

    Hmm??

  25. Our kids... on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    ...will come up with something that makes our systems look like the TRS-80's that they are.

    They will laugh out loud at the mention of Linux. Some of the geekier ones will create Linux emulators and user groups.

    Windows will make them roll their eyes (it does that now tho).

    One thing is for sure - our kids will make us look like the doddering fools we are, just as we did to our parents.