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  1. Re:It's about time on World of Warcraft: Cataclysm To Launch Dec. 7th · · Score: 1

    That's, "Hell, it's about time."

  2. Re:Erroneous billing error? on Verizon Wireless To Issue $90 Million In Refunds · · Score: 1

    These were erroneous billing errors that were made, um, in error.

  3. Re:To NASA Employees that Read /. on 1,200 NASA Layoffs, Shuttle Fuel Tank Plant Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    And, of course, every NASA project laid out by Congress has gone to completion.

  4. Re:Should be reliable on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine turbine->electric->battery->motors is an efficient drive train.

    Internal combustion engines have their own efficiency deficit turning reciprocating motion into rotating motion; an enormous amount of energy is wasted in at the crankshaft. Wankel-type engines attempted to solve this problem but were never able to overcome the difficulties in machining the odd shapes to a high enough precision at a low enough cost.

  5. Re:Times have changed on Father of Java, James Gosling Unloads · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear nowadays you can google stuff on bing!

  6. Re:Replacing cable TV with Netflix on Xbox Head Proclaims Blu-ray Dead · · Score: 1

    Some people have reported success with replacing most TV watching with Netflix rentals and Netflix streaming. But this doesn't work so well for news or sports, which are worth much less if they are not live.

    Sports doesn't interest me much. And TV hasn't carried much of anything that could be described as "news" with a straight face for years now.

  7. Re:Developers take note on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    What feature in Gmail would require persistent cookies?

    The feature where it remembers your sign-on information. Grandma is used to just going to the site and there's her email--now it's asking for a username and a password, and Lord, she doesn't know what it wants!

  8. Well, the bandwidth... on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    ...could be really nice, but the latency is gonna be murder!

  9. Re:Good on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    Untrue; their extreme hardness makes them useful for many industrial applications, and their excellent thermal conductivity is valuable in many others. It *is* true that the current prices of gem-quality diamond is horribly inflated by the DeBeers cartel.

  10. Re:Atheist on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    Ah, that's the best kind proof that atheists are close-minded who believe in no god only because of blind faith: Because that's how I define them.

  11. Re:Creationist Wolfram Alpha? on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 1

    So God really likes mouth-breathers! Who'd've guessed?

  12. Re:thin client exam takers on Preventing Networked Gizmo Use During Exams? · · Score: 1

    The point of the class is to make YOU the "expert".

  13. Re:no surprise on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    So it's not propaganda because it has a purpose? Got news for you, *all* propaganda has a purpose...

  14. Re:Big Brother? Not Quite. on Big Brother In the School Cafeteria? · · Score: 1

    And you believe that will control what your kid eats? I can only conclude you were home-schooled and have never been in a school cafeteria. You'll be lucky if the kid eats *any* of what you pack for him--he'll trade it all for the cool stuff the other kid has.

  15. Re:Make or break names on How 6 Memorable Tech Companies Got Their Names · · Score: 1

    One might note that the character saying that, and the one she was telling it to, both wind up dead by the end of the play because in the end, they *weren't* able to escape their names.

  16. Re:OpenPGP on New German Government ID Hacked By CCC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh well, too complicated for the "general public" I guess, I mean keeping a spare of your (digital) key? That's far too complicated!

    Keeping a copy of your private key *securely*. Yes, it's been amply demonstrated that nothing left under the control of the average user can be counted on to stay secure. And once someone else gets access to your private key, you're royally screwed.

  17. Re:Speed times Quantity? on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    Sorry to ask but who does IBM see using this?

    People with legacy mainframe programs that they don't want to port (translation: that they don't dare touch).

  18. Re:Great news for Mac OS X users! on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    It's not a PowerPC chip anyways. It's zSystem architecture, which is actually the modern-day descendant of what was originally the System/360.

  19. Re:Sevens Sins on India Now Wants Access To Google and Skype · · Score: 1

    Ten deadly sins? Can't say I ever heard of them. Can't find them with Google, either; mostly I come up with pointers to a book about the Ten Deadly Sins of Kmart. The seven came right up, including a Wikipedia article on them. So what are these ten?

  20. Re:What song would you choose for yourself? on Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die · · Score: 1

    "Prop Me Up Inside the Jukebox When I Die"

  21. Re:In his defense on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 2, Funny

    kill -9mm would be more appropriate.

  22. Re:the work involved.. on Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Staff · · Score: 1

    The hack would have been in the source code for the compiler.

    Originally, yes. But you don't have that source code. You have sanitized source code--which when you compile it, your subverted compiler binary will insert the trojan back in. So recompiling your "clean" compiler source code still gets you another subverted compiler.

  23. Re:That's not the professional term on Justice Department Seeks Ebonics Experts · · Score: 1

    Demanding that a subculture learn SAE, is the same as demanding that every subculture of America be, or at least practice Christianity.

    That statement is so utterly unconnected to reality that I don't even know where to start. Are you seriously stating that it is okay for a disadvantaged subculture refuse to put effort into being understood by the mainstream with which they must work in order to lift themselves out of poverty?

  24. Re:Private technological gizmos on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. No, wait...

  25. Re:Wow i must be tired on Microsoft Reboots Two Classic PC Games · · Score: 1

    Hint 1: View documents two pages at a time, like opening a book. Generally this fits a widescreen aspect ratio like a glove.

    Hint 2: Buy a screen with a rotatable stand and run in portrait mode. Just about any modern video card will support this.