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  1. Re:Am I dead? on Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Generates a 'Mini-Big Bang' · · Score: 1

    yes, you are dead, now be grateful

  2. PPFFFT Coffee powered on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    Aside from his obvious misuse of amperage as an energy unit. Does any of this really make sense, why save power...crank that baby up.

  3. Home Banking at its best on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe he just don't trust banks to be to big to fail anymore.

  4. Re:Impossible to do on If Oracle Bought Every Open Source Company · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whoa there, if I were a major contributor, and one of those dropped a few million in my pocket...or heck even enough to just pay off everything I owe, I might decide to stop developing it. As you probably know, if the major contributors of a project abandon it quietly, sometimes just the time lapse with no progress will kill off the project. My point is everything has a price...you just gotta know where to inject the funds.

  5. They only made it easier to do on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have always been able to go here to delete your facebook account which was easy to find in google http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account They have only made it simpler for those who take things at face value (pun intended).

  6. Re:Yes, and... on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    I got that impression also, by TI description of the chip, it appears to be an flippable bits in an eeprom.

  7. Re:Yes, and... on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 1

    No its not. It is simply programmable logic and the "damage" can be reversed via a JTAG interface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFUSE

  8. As do other products... on Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod · · Score: 2, Insightful

    eFuse is an IBM brain child, and they have it in several of their RISC products. The XBox 360 has one in its xenon (ibm power pc) processor. The Texas Instruments OMAP processors that motorola chose for their droid x are using the eFuse technology. The statement that it is not reversible via software is bull, once you figure it out, you can set up a JTag interface (as any serious modder will do anyway) and then you can reverse the eFuse bits and try your mod again.

  9. So you want me to Dump XP? on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    I still ran windows 2000 until Feb of this year on my workstation...I upgraded it to XP, and I still have a few systems that still run 2000 that I will upgrade when they die or I run into something I have to use that does not support it. By the way, auto update is still doing security fixes for windows 2000 and most applications still like it fine. Now as for windows 7, I have two workstations that are windows 7, well one is up for testing only so far...the other is still in the box...had them for 3 weeks and still cannot use them (still working out networking issues, roaming compatibility issues and the like).

  10. Re:whats old is new again on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Hey here is a nice pic of WinBIOS I found...copyright was 1994, so you got the street date about right :).

    http://www.funkygoods.com/schwarzschild/2008_11/ami_titan_05_s.jpg

  11. Re:whats old is new again on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    I agree, I suffered through WinBIOS, and it sucked ass when you did not have a mouse installed. Looks like UEFI is gonna be better for keyboard use, but it is still pointless to move the bios to the graphical realm...after all, what if you run headless and use linux/bsd at the console, or even windows server as a console only install.

  12. Re:Will we still have to REBOOT? on Adobe May Change To Monthly Patch Cycle · · Score: 4, Informative

    You don't, just tell it not to reboot, and the new version will work fine until you decide to do the reboot

  13. Re:Canonical on Microsoft Warns of Windows 7 Graphics Flaw · · Score: 1

    Yes, my comment definitely went over his head :)

  14. Re:Roland MT32 on The Secret of Monkey Island Shows Evolution of PC Audio · · Score: 1

    Well maybe you remembered kinda correctly, if you had one of those Cx486DRx2 cyrix chips that had the clock doubler, those ran at 66mhz internally and were often used in systems with 386 mainboards as was the non-doubled Cx486DLC.

  15. Re:Canonical on Microsoft Warns of Windows 7 Graphics Flaw · · Score: 1

    And your point is?

  16. Re:Seagate reliability on Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I have had a several WD drives fail as of late. I have had one Seagate fail...but the box it came in looked like UPS drop kicked it a few times, so I was not all that surprised.

  17. Re:Nice icon on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 1

    Someone is being a dick. Pun Intended. I would think a nice picture of a x-ray machine or something would have been preferable.

  18. Re:good idea there, buddy on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 1

    And why even have someone else travel with the kid, they would just brainwash the kid into blowing themselves up...just look at all the children used in warfare.

  19. Re:good idea there, buddy on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 1

    Sounds like hes got a lot of balls to me, and now his supervisor knows that is the case. I want the name of the supervisor plastered everywhere too, where everyone will know the man when the little balls made him wet his pants.

  20. Re:Pressure sensor.. on Robot With Knives Used In Robotics Injury Study · · Score: 1

    Why does the robotic arm have to be big in order to collide with itself, can't a tiny one do the same? Would it not depend on its range of motion and the like?

  21. Re:18,000 lbs = 4500 gallons every 12.5 days... on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 1

    Obviously you missed this part of the article, seems she has 100K lbs more ready to ship to her besides what she has in her storage, so she has about a months worth. If she could find a weaver, this could potentially work well...seems BP could open up one of those out of business textile mills and get some weaving done. "In June, Mrs. Gautier told the hair salons in her network to hang on to their hair for a while. There's at least 100,000 pounds waiting to be shipped, she says."

  22. Re:18,000 lbs = 4500 gallons every 12.5 days... on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 1

    No she has plenty to get started. She says she has 18K lbs of hair, and another 100K waiting at the stylists shops ready to be shipped since she is out of room. "In June, Mrs. Gautier told the hair salons in her network to hang on to their hair for a while. There's at least 100,000 pounds waiting to be shipped, she says."

  23. Re:Is it me? on One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint · · Score: 1

    Oops, actually I see that now, it was a -3.79 billion net...but where do you get 7 billion as the loss...you are not including the -3.74 billion operating losses and adding it to the net losses are you, the net includes the operating losses. Makes me wonder if you are you a government accountant, or perhaps a politician :)?

  24. Re:Is it me? on One Year Later, USPS Looks Into Gamefly Complaint · · Score: 1

    They ended Saturday delivery out where I live years ago for the most part, and Monday-Friday delivery also...well, to the correct address anyway.

  25. Re:Whatever it taks! on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    He better not use any, the patent for pixie dust is owned by IBM