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  1. set its sites on $35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O · · Score: 5, Informative

    Arggh ... set its sights FFS

  2. Re:Embedded Systems on How Relevant is C in 2014? · · Score: 2

    And even more things, like your central heating programmer, and things of that ik won't nercessarily run Linux or even an rtos, but do their own co-operative multitasking, if required.

  3. Re:cable?? Bit extravagant, aren't we? on UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts · · Score: 1

    one word - bandwidth

  4. Re:trillions of bits, why one head per platter? on Consortium Roadmap Shows 100TB Hard Drives Possible By 2025 · · Score: 2

    Most disk have multiple platters, so already have multiple heads simultaneously reading multiple tracks. Replicating the actuator (motor+magnet + electronics) would be the expensive bit.

  5. Re:BT? Sky? on BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? · · Score: 1

    British Telecom and Sky media: two prominent UK suppliers of broadband (and lots of other stuff, POTS and sattelite TV, respectively)

  6. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHA!! on Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks · · Score: 1

    You would lose that bet

  7. Re:Wisdom follows, pay attention! on Android Botnet Evolves, Could Pose Threat To Corporate Networks · · Score: 2

    Shill

  8. Re:1996 called on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Why would you wee in your suitcase?

  9. Re:So does scratching your nose on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 1

    'intelligently ' = that's your problem right there.

  10. Re:latest update! on Studies Conclude Hands-Free-calling and Apple Siri Distract Drivers · · Score: 2

    In the UK advertising billboards are forbidden along motorways. Hence the proliferation of dead, high sided vehicles parked in fields with advertising on them.

  11. Re:the next logical step on Device Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk, Human Trials Scheduled Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Goodgod man! (or woman) What's wrong with you!!

  12. Re: Customers for Wi-Fi enabled thermostats on Popular Wi-Fi Thermostat Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    It made me smile. Maybe you have no sense of homour?

  13. In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... half way through the summary

  14. Re:For everyone outside the colonies on Google Testing Drone Delivery System: 'Project Wing' · · Score: 2

    Ummm, no 19 pounts is about 8.6 kg

  15. Re:I hope it's just me on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Whiney bitch!!

  16. Re:Can't beat the Micro$oft Machine on Digia Spinning Off Qt Division Into New Company · · Score: 1

    Don't feed the trolls

  17. Re:Derp on New Mayhem Malware Targets Linux and UNIX-Like Servers · · Score: 1

    Please don't feed the trolls - it gives them indigestion!

  18. Re:Car analogy? on NIF Compresses Diamonds With 50 Million Atmospheres of Pressure · · Score: 1

    So you needed a trailer to talke the air conditioning plant along - awesome!

  19. Re:Some people are jerks on Sexual Harassment Is Common In Scientific Fieldwork · · Score: 1

    Your country was non-white until you invaded it

  20. Re:Where are the Linux apps ? on KDE Releases Plasma 5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    From a embedded systems designer: FPGA development - Lattice Diamond runs on Linux - free to download, not open source KiCAD Schematic capture & PCB layout - free to download, open source VariCad Mech designer - licenced software MPLabX PIC microprocessor IDE - free to download Qt for cross platform apps Windows/Linux/Android/iOS With Libre office & other tools it's quite possible to run an engineering business from a Linux platform, which I do.

  21. Re:Freedom of Expression... on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    France is just a place you have to fly over to get to Italy :)

  22. Re: Facebook is dumb. on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 2

    If you need Facebook toi have a social life, you're the loser

  23. Re:Sheryl "Jew Mom" Sandberg should shut the fuck on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 0

    Maybe refering to the title of the post?

  24. Re:Sheryl on Facebook Fallout, Facts and Frenzy · · Score: 0

    Cry me a river

  25. Re:OK, Google on Automotive Grade Linux Released For Open Source Cars · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my missus