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  1. Re:hrm on Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access · · Score: 2

    No, bandwidth requires infrastructure and maintenance, while "intellectual property" can be copied infinitely for a near-zero sum of money.

  2. Seagate... on Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted · · Score: 2

    ...is going to wish it had chosen a different name.

    (yes, I know that Seagate wasn't listed in TFS)

  3. Re:If I could afford it ... on Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction · · Score: 1

    To the neigh-sayer's: just stuff it. You clearly have no appreciation of how important this achievement was. And it was unbelievably important since, within a few decades of achieving heavier than air flight, we managed to reach another world!

    FTFY.

  4. Re:"Clocks" on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Not exactly... pressure would correspond to voltage in that scenario.
    But yes, it is pretty neat.

  5. There's now... on Telstra Fears LulzSec Attacks, Hesitates On Internet Filter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... a chilling effect on censorship

  6. Re:Hard to believe anyone... on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 2
  7. Re:Hard to believe anyone... on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 1

    Joke's on you, I'm 20 lbs underweight.

  8. Re:Hard to believe anyone... on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 2

    The average adult American is not obese.

  9. in silico on Human Genome Contaminated With Mycoplasma DNA · · Score: 1

    Haven't heard that one before...

  10. NSLU2 on The Ugly State of ARM Support On Linux · · Score: 0

    From my experience running Debian with Linux 2.4 on an NSLU2 overclocked to 266MHz (XScale processor), the problem with Linux on ARM is not really stability, but more about speed.

  11. Umm... on Brute-Force Password Cracking With GPUs · · Score: 1

    Didn't we hear about this a week or two ago?

  12. Only Microsoft on Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage · · Score: 0

    Could screw up that badly.

  13. Re:Imagine on Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    A Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters is not a Beowulf cluster, it's a multidimensional Beowulf cluster.
    Likewise, a BOINC of Beowulf clusters, or a "jagged Beowulf cluster", is not just a Beowulf cluster.

  14. Err... on TEPCO Confirms Partial Meltdown of No.2 and No.3 Reactors · · Score: 1

    Facts:
    1. A meltdown does not necessarily mean significant release of radiation.
    2. Significant release of radiation doesn't necessarily mean "ZOMG CANCER MUTANTS".
    3. Worrying will do nothing. Indeed, the real disaster here is the gigantic, house-lifting, island-eliminating tsunami, not the pitiful nuclear meltdown. If you want to help, donate to the Red Cross.
    4. If people do worry, the ONLY result is more people dead due to panic.

  15. Re:Seems commonsense in retrospect. on The Spin of a Star Reveals Its Age · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Seems commonsense in retrospect. on The Spin of a Star Reveals Its Age · · Score: 1

    AFAIK, there's no way to detect sunspots from that far away. Additionally, sunspot position is linked to magnetic field changes more than stellar rotation.

  17. Imagine on Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer · · Score: 2

    A Beowulf cluster of these!

  18. Haskell on Patent 5,893,120 Reduced To Pure Math · · Score: 1

    wins again!

  19. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    If police restrictions treated the use of a taser as equivalent to the use of a gun, I would absolutely applaud them for making people safer.

    You mean "laud". One lauds an effort (metaphorical). One applauds a performance (literally, clapping).

  20. Re:Actually they weren't arrest because they broke on Four Physicists Arrested After SSC Break-In · · Score: 1
  21. April First Post on TSA Mandates GA 'Self-Pat-Down' Program · · Score: 0

    fdksgg

  22. Re:Did they use... on $110,000 Fine Is First Under MA Data Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Anything that increases Linux market share is nice... besides, Outlook has no place in a business, one could use Gmail (or even a generic webmail) and mitigate the security risk.

  23. Re:Tail wagging the dog? on Browser Power Consumption Compared · · Score: 2

    Uncore is the cache, internal cpu circuitry (other than the actual core), and possibly the chipset.

  24. Re:Payroll on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1
  25. Did they use... on $110,000 Fine Is First Under MA Data Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Norton Antivirus 2003?