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  1. Re:Valuable Java Patents on Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt On Gates, Jobs · · Score: 1

    Correction:

    You FORTH mean?

    That about sorry.

  2. Re:2012? on LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's: "They're waiting for you, Gordon. In the Test Chamber."

  3. Re:Valuable Java Patents on Ex-Sun Chief Dishes Dirt On Gates, Jobs · · Score: 1

    The stack based virtual machine?

    You mean FORTH?

  4. Not a jetpack on The World's First Commercially Available Jetpack · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How can you call it a jetpack when it doesn't have any jets? More of a ducted-fan pack.

  5. Re:Not just "similar" to a diesel on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that doesn't ignite the fuel outside the cylinder. It's preheated, but it's still the compression heat in the cylinder that causes combustion, making it a Diesel.

  6. Re:Not just "similar" to a diesel on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You've got it backwards. Diesel engines aren't "Diesel" because they use diesel fuel, diesel fuel is "diesel" because it is the fuel used in standard Diesel engines. An engine in which fuel self-ignites without a spark plug is, by definition, a Diesel, whether or not it uses diesel fuel.

  7. Re:Buy a new Mac every 3 years on Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers? · · Score: 1

    I know Macs have model numbers and I know they have CPU's which also have model numbers. I don't know any of those numbers.

    "Mine's 'Grape'!"

  8. Re:Great for 1st world situations too... on Disposable Toilet To Change the World · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can suck off another dude on Bourbon St. during Mardi Gras right in front of a cop, but as soon as you start to piss in an alley, you're going down.

    Sounds to me like you're going down in either case...

  9. Re:Computers Were Supposed To Fail Big Too on How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted · · Score: 1

    Actually, no, he didn't. But it makes a nice urban legend. As a footnote, he supposedly said it in 1943, which would mean his prediction was correct for about ten years, which is better than a lot of people have done forecasting technological progress.

  10. You need drills on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 1

    A book (or software program) that covers proper finger positioning and drills you in them is the only you'll learn to properly touch type. I learned from this book on a manual typewriter when I was a teenager and never regretted it. You may not want this specific book--it talks more about running an actual typewriter, a machine you'll likely never use, than you'll ever want to know--but something along those lines is what you want.

  11. Re:Underlined letters? on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    Not sure if you need a new glasses prescription or a new display/video driver, but the "t" in "technologies" and the "t" in "Steam" were both clearly underlined.

  12. Underlined letters on Valve Announces Portal 2 · · Score: 1

    drattmannh0nee? I must be tragically unhip; I don't get it.

  13. Re:Such a pity on Microsoft Sends Flowers To Internet Explorer 6 Funeral · · Score: 1

    Um, no. In fact, the child outliving the parent guarantees that it *won't* become a zombie, unless you've broken init.

  14. "Thanks for the good times IE6" on Microsoft Sends Flowers To Internet Explorer 6 Funeral · · Score: 1

    "I think there were three."

  15. Change from the original plan on Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were going to use dead puppies, until they found out they're not much fun.

  16. Re:A over worked sysadm is like a texting driver on New "Spear Phishing" Attacks Target IT Admins · · Score: 1

    While a good sysadmin won't fall for this on the best days, an overworked one will occasionally just do stuff that looks right.

    I am sorry, but if this "looks right" to you, even on your worst day after down two quarts of gin, then you really have no business being a sysadmin. Open your mailserver to large blocks of random IP addresses? Tell me, if you got something that looked like it was from your bank that told you to leave a large pile of cash sitting outside your front door, would you do it? Even if it the letter looked REALLY, REALLY convincing?

  17. Re:F1! on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 1

    "You make a grown man cry"

    So true :-)

  18. Having seen the average MS help file... on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...you're not losing all that much.

  19. "No duh!" moment on Federal Deadline Hobbling eHealth IT Rollout · · Score: 1

    'I think we have nontechnology people making decisions about technology,' said Gregg Veltri, CIO at Denver Health.

    Yes. Yes, we do. Frequently.

  20. Re:Why is it illegal? on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, Mr. "libertarian," just who you do you propose stops this scalping? The government?

    Your question presupposes that it is necessary, desirable or even possible to stop it. Attempts to stop tickets from selling at a price people are willing to pay for them is like trying to stop the tide from coming in. The only question is whether the price will be charged by the original ticket seller or a scalper.

  21. Re:Yes. Here's a bad example. on Design and Evaluation of Central Control Room Operations · · Score: 2, Funny

    Notice the suspended transparent bubble for top management. It looks like it retracts into the ceiling.

    Hey! The Cone of Silence was a required deliverable insisted on by management, okay?

  22. Re:Nixon. on US Government Begins Largest IT Consolidation in History · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nixon took us off the gold standard during the Civil War?

    Don't you know yourself no history? He did it during the Great Depression!

  23. Re:I call it wack-a-mole on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I don't know about you, but if MY printer was on fire, I'd want to know about it!

  24. Re:Since when? on An Exercise To Model a "Solar Radiation Katrina" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't be absurd. You can choose to live above sea level without significant hardship.

  25. Re:Never build a house on another man's land... on 8-Year Fan-Made Game Project Shut Down By Activision · · Score: 1

    They will? From the summary:

    "This stands against the fact that Vivendi granted a non-commercial license to the team, subject to Vivendi's approval of the game after submission."

    Sounds me like Activision is simply exercising their right under the license to not approve.