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  1. Re:In other news, Apple is happy. on NASA Revamps Historic 4-Million-kg Mars Antenna · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That was a really stupid quote too:

    The ubiquitous antenna was all the buzz last week as Apple tried to squelch the latest glitch in its popular iPhone. But those antenna issues have nothing on the renovations NASA is taking on to reinvigorate its 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) "Mars antenna."

    X will get us better search rankings. But x has nothing to do with this story, which involves...

  2. Re:Amusing on Damn Vulnerable Linux — Most Vulnerable Linux Ever · · Score: 1

    A good rule of thumb is that you know you packed too much if your retinue for carrying your luggage needs more food per meal than one person can carry alone.

  3. Re:No faith on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 1

    Yeah that really paid off for all those network engineers who got high-level NetWare certifications.

    The field moves too quickly to waste your time investing heavily in one particular technology which will be irrelevant in 5 years.

  4. Re:Ignore the certificates on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's nothing wrong with that...

    It just HTTP-redirects you to the URL in the s variable of the query string. Are you worried that someone will change the value and -gasp- be redirected to a page of their choosing? They already have an address bar you know.

  5. Re:Previous work on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 1

    What kind of real-life stressful situation involves the person being stuck in a chair without a computer and without access to the internet?

    When something goes wrong with my system, if the Google search doesn't give me a thousand pages of exactly the answer I need like it usually does, I peruse the related logs, or have the network interfaces print their configuration state, etc, and scan through looking for something unusual. In effect, this turns the answer to your question into: "I look through the log and notice something out of the ordinary. I quickly find that that's the problem and fix it immediately."

  6. Re:'Bout time on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 4, Funny

    What issue? This iphone only drops 1% more calls than the last. That's practically progress.

  7. Re:The fact is, US is just as bad as China on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that would float anywhere else

    Little slipups like this that betray your middle school education make it impossible for anyone to support you in reply comments btw.

  8. Re:I must admit... on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Does the PCI bus really work that way? Are you sure that the device controls where the data goes into memory? I would have thought that the destination is safely set up in software to point somewhere harmless like a raw data buffer, and then the device dumps into that spot.

  9. Re:Want, but... on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    Just change a few physical constants to open up some more bandwidth.. emacs has a command for that right?

  10. Re:"Band"-aid on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 1

    It's unlicensed. If it were wider, wireless phones and stuff would just use the entire wider band. We've seen this before with 802.11n: "Why let different carriers broadcast simultaneously on different bands when we can just take the entire spectrum and make our network super fast?"

  11. Re:I must admit... on Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd better get used to your computer experience looking like thaaaaaaaaat if your display has to be sennnnnnnnt over a wireless linnnnnk.

  12. Re:Implications for separation of power... on Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency · · Score: 1

    And who do you think will pass that law?

  13. Re:Mature on Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency · · Score: 1

    Face... paw...

    *rage*

  14. Re:Do they really need a key? on More Gas Station Credit-Card Skimmers · · Score: 1

    I lold at this quote from TFA:

    "It's certainly a concern and an issue that's been around for a while," he says. "They're easy to get in to. One would think that each specific gas station would have a key," but that's the case.

  15. Re:There is an app for that. on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 1

    yeah but I didn't make an error

  16. Re:There is an app for that. on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 1

    As you post shows

    What's that supposed to mean? :|

  17. Re:Music 60 years from now... on Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy? · · Score: 0, Troll

    So she can play the piano with the technical skill of a child taking piano lessons, and hold a note without autotune. That's just performing, not making significant music that is good 60 years from now.

  18. Re:There is an app for that. on When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A computer would be more able to play back pi to a hundred digits than a human. But I'd like to see a computer try to solve:
    Press only the key corresponding to the nth letter of the word "[dynamically selected word here]" where n is the number of letters in "[other dynamically selected word here]". And the words would be homonymous like their/theyre/there, inside sentence context so a human can easily tell which meaning is intended.

  19. Re:Peter Wayner on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Yep, and web browsers are supposed to render web pages, not MathML and XPath and SVG, but try telling that to the Gecko devs.

  20. Re:We need an unfiltered alternative to Google on Google's New Scheme To Avoid Unlicensed Music · · Score: 1

    So who do you think is going to pay to stream video for free in iceland?

  21. Re:Knowing which screw to turn on Google's New Scheme To Avoid Unlicensed Music · · Score: 1

    Not all music is viable live. Electronica "concerts" are little more than them standing on stage while the recorded tracks play through the speakers. Epic half-hour post rock arrangements can take weeks to execute perfectly. Ambient doesn't even make sense to perform live.

  22. Re:Um...reinventing the wheel on Google's New Scheme To Avoid Unlicensed Music · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google has been doing this for years, it's a non-story. That's why you see "the soundtrack of this video has been silenced due to a copyright claim from x" all over the place.

  23. Re:huh? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 1

    That video is pretty annoying. There's nothing significant about "SOUND FAMILIAR?" moments here. Obviously they would use containment booms and chemical dispersants, because those are the tools you use when cleaning up oil spills. 1979 wasn't in the paleolithic age, it wasn't that long ago.

    And of course in 1979 the spill started when the blowout preventer failed. How could it conceivably blow out without the blowout preventer failing?

  24. Re:So? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 1

    Better make it a felony to deter potential perpetrators.

  25. Re:So? on Ban On Photographing Near Gulf Oil Booms · · Score: 1

    Their boats are probably longer than that, 65 feet is practically mooring up to the thing.