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  1. Jobs plan all along on Forced iAds Coming To OS X? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Build up Apple until it becomes richer than god, force iAds on consumers while simultaneously he sells and shorts apple stock. Otherwise there would be no point.

  2. counter-counter measures on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    What if the missile is really shiny?

  3. Go satellite on Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) · · Score: 1

    Depending on where you plan to sail, you will need a couple of dish sets ( different LNBs maybe? ), and a couple of terminals so you can switch them up when you go from the americas to asia. You need self aiming dishes, probably with gyros, and accounts with providers like Hughs and Thaicom. The bad news is no one is going to put spot beams in the middle of nowhere, so you will most certainly be in fringe coverage when you get coverage at all.
    Maybe this is s stupid plan.

  4. You just need to be more interesting on Retrieving a Stolen Laptop By IP Address Alone? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You don't care about the laptop, its just Hugh Hefner is going to be pissed if you don't get his pictures back. Won't work, but at least you and the cops will have more fun as they ignore you.

  5. Re:How long since last time on Sun's Dark Companion 'Nemesis' Not So Likely · · Score: 1

    From FTA: There is a smidgeon of good news. The last extinction event in this chain happened 11 million years ago so, in theory at least, we have plenty of time to work out where the next catastrophe is coming from.

    Great. The suspense is going to kill us.

  6. Why do they have to announce these things? on Ballmer Says Microsoft Is 'Hardcore' About Tablets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean, why not just do them? Or is this more of a move relating to the stock market? Maybe its better phrased "This announcement will make our stock more competitive". I guess I just don't understand the motivation.

  7. One that I know of on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 1

    DMCA

  8. Facebook spreads political unrest on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    And here I thought it was completely useless.

  9. Re:Some quick math says... on Company Builds Fast Charging Station For Electric Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Capacitor storage is 50% efficient

    Maybe they could use twice as many capacitors at half the size to get 100% efficiency. Assuming they use the good half.

  10. Finally something for executives on Cisco To Challenge iPad With Cius 'Business Tablet' · · Score: 1

    You know when the Man pulls this out he is saying he has very important video conferencing to do.

  11. Its sad, but hopefully it will bring some new on Shuttle Atlantis Lands Safely After Final Official Mission · · Score: 1

    I believe that "thank you" is an understatement. I mean this for all space travelers past, present and near future. I am fairly certain most people just take the engineering required for granted and ignore the required bravery. For those of you who think its a wast of resources: fuck off bitch. I intend to have the seed of mankind spread across this galaxy. Whats your plan?

  12. Interpreted another way. on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    I read it as:

    Yadda yadda bunch of pseudo words yadda algorithm more yaddas.

    Seems to me they need a few good engineers to boil down the theoretics into something smooth and workable. This talk of switching models should be run in tandem algorithms to help tune up the main trusted one in use and to test every concept under the sun. At least thats how I would work it. If I were King. That gives me and idea...

    Gratuitous add: Vote for King elect Dilvish - he will ordinize your automated ruin, building more jobs. More Jobs! More jobs == better pay == more competitive market == cheaper prices for the things you want. So King Dilvish == cheaper prices && more pay at the same time. You wont find that concept taken too far anywhere else, right here.

    Apparently I like posting while a bit drunk a bit too much. But this is post analysis so its too late for you.

  13. Re:Growth on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not that I completely disagree, but I find detracting from actual good works a little distasteful, regardless of the possible motivations. I mean, I am convinced their work on finding a cure for AIDs is a ploy to get victims more expendable cash to bolster their Zune sales, but I don't go around saying it.

  14. Re:So close... on Apple Surpasses Microsoft In Market Capitalization · · Score: 1, Troll

    I would say its spot on, or near enough. MS dominance was not engineered through superior or even more appropriate software, but more by convincing executives of the perception that it was already dominant due to these. To bool it down just for you, none of it was true until they sold the perception that it was. And then it still wasn't, except for the dominance part.

    And you should be able to remember Oh! wait... were you in a coma from `90 - `97?

  15. Re:Seems to only work with .com not .co.uk on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Yes, this would immediately be much more useful if they included other server sets like www.google.co.th so those people being put into prison for what they are searching for may get a few more months of freedom.

  16. Re:Yum, numbers are tasty on Google PAC-MAN Cost 4.8M Person-Hours · · Score: 1

    also you would need to assume these people were really going to do something worthwhile had they not been playing google pac-man.
    Thats a big assumption, multiplied by 4.8 million.

  17. This has been researched for many years. on BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well · · Score: 1

    Top Kill is the final culmination of research on what was previously known as Mud Bomb and was simulated using sophisticated software code named "Scorched Earth".

  18. Re:Correct, but also incorrect on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 1

    You contradicted yourself in the title.

    The bemoaned quantum troll method?

  19. Re:uhh? weird on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Very unlike when they say "Look Dad -- Flash!" and its always broken.

  20. Re:"We" just did that. on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    I clicked on this scribd thing, and I copied some fancy text to a text editor, but I did not get the sounds. You know, the "woosh" sounds I normally get. Is my HTML5 broken? Can I get it replaced? I suppose thats better than what you have, no text and all. Maybe you could could replace your brain? Or your browser?

    Thanks for your help.

  21. Re:So What? on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its a poignant piece because of the ipad and Apples refusal to allow Flash. Its timely because it signals the death of Flash, and appropriate because HTML5 is really here, not vapor, and major sites are moving to HTML5.

    I am not an Adobe hater by any means, I wish them well. I have no love of Flash, its always been too buggy and too bloated to match its usefulness. I am fairly certain you do not have to like Apple or be a fanboy to recognize this. You just have to be realistic. Flash has always been crap.

    And since you love Flash everything you say will be crap too.

    --Dilvish

  22. Re:Wow on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is that even necessary? Good move getting off that Flash addiction.

    stage 1) We can quit any time we want too. You just don't understand. It makes us feel ways about things. We can't sleep without it. Its only for recreation. The chicks dig it. Everyone is doing it, and there is no proof.

    stage 2) We can't take our life anymore! You have taken everything away from us! You have no right!

    stage 3) So whats with this "alternative"? Does it do the same thing for us? Without the stigma?

    stage 4) See my yard? Ya I got that pool with my own money. They tell me I was talking about myself in the plural form and stuff. I was on Flash. Ya, they have me on HTML5 now, I am feeling better, no longer have the iphone fits I used to have and my job got better. I don't crash as often on my new meds.

    stage 5) Flash was retarded.

    I am not sure why I felt the need to act that whole thing out, but your better for having read it. Congratulations.

    --Dilvish

  23. I have a better idea on Oracle Wants Proof That Open Source Is Profitable · · Score: 1

    Oracle, go build your own business plan.

  24. Re:What's next? on Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking · · Score: 1

    dihydrogen monoxide + sodium chloride, used in batteries. Our oceans or polluted with the stuff and our kids are swimming it it.

  25. There is an easy cheat on How Do You Accurately Estimate Programming Time? · · Score: 1

    Take 1/3 of your component completion estimates and multiply them by infinity, its a quick way to improve overall accuracy.