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  1. Re:It's all in the name on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not exactly grep, but Monica Goodling allegedly used this commend to screen resumes using Lexis/Nexis

    [first name of a candidate] and pre/2 [last name of a candidate] w/7 bush or gore or republican! or democrat! or charg! or accus! or criticiz! or blam! or defend! or iran contra or clinton or spotted owl or florida recount or sex! or controvers! or racis! or fraud! or investigat! or bankrupt! or layoff! or downsiz! or PNTR or NAFTA or outsourc! or indict! or enron or kerry or iraq or wmd! or arrest! or intox! or fired or sex! or racis! or intox! or slur! or arrest! or fired or controvers! or abortion! or gay! or homosexual! or gun! or firearm!

  2. Re:This Is a Comment Expressing New Found Skeptici on This Is a News Website Article About a Scientific Paper · · Score: 1

    Answers in Genesis gets old, quickly.

  3. Re:why would you think that? on Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're an idiot, the military doesn't stick any moron on a nuclear submarine, or in a command and control computer lab.

    And yet...

    Sub Trouble

    My fellow officers were surprised by my failure, and wondered aloud why I hadn't used the "study guide." When my second exam arrived, so did the so-called study guide, which happened to be the answer key for the nuclear qualification exam I was taking. I was furious. Defiantly, I handed back the answer key to the proctor and proceeded to take the exam on my own. I failed again. My boss, the ship's engineer officer, started to document my failures with formal counseling so that he could fire me.

    The most competent junior officer on our ship ran to my rescue, confiding that none of the other officers had passed the exam legitimately; the exam was just an administrative check-off. "Swallow your pride," he told me, and just get it done.

  4. Re:Wow! Amplitude Modulation! on Digital Radio Mondiale, a Better Standard Than US-Adopted IBOC? · · Score: 1

    Some public stations (e.g. WAMU) have quite a few "talk" programs. I don't like the format, so I can't attest to the degree of liberalism. NPR news isn't talk. It's news, although it's news for people with long attention spans.

  5. Re:The government gravy train on IBM Warns of China Closing the Supercomputer Gap · · Score: 1

    Yet I can't think of a single decent commercial product IBM makes.

    I take it you're not going to buy a Bluegene this year?

  6. Re:Unfortunately... on IBM Warns of China Closing the Supercomputer Gap · · Score: 1

    The second most powerful computer in the world is Chinese. It's not as if they're digging a hole in hopes that they'll somehow figure out how to build a supercomputer along the way.

  7. Re:Simple answer on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    The US bombed Cambodia, and it also bombed Laos.

  8. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 1

    You cook in a toaster oven, I cook in a real oven. And yes, it has a clock, and timers. I like to have my curry and my rice simultaneously.

    If you open an oven repeatedly, it loses heat. A clock is a convenient way of estimating how done a dish is likely to be, without checking compulsively.

  9. Re:Forward thinkers on When the Senate Tried To Ban Dial Telephones · · Score: 1

    The whole brand was invented by a marketing asshole.

    Some people like to fawn over marketing assholes

    But why France? Doesn’t vodka come from Russia, or perhaps, in a pinch, Scandinavia? “People are always looking for something new,” says [Sidney] Frank. It’s all about brand differentiation. If you’re going to charge twice as much for a vodka, you need to give people a reason.

  10. Re:Wrong question. on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Also, they have a gun to keep deers down (they are an actual problem here

    You should probably introduce wolves.

  11. Re:Barn Doors on Intel Threatens DMCA Using HDCP Crack · · Score: 1

    I think you're forgetting something-- patents and copyrights are legitimate monopolies.

  12. Re:If they want to be taken seriously on Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament · · Score: 1

    SPLITTERS!

  13. Re:If they want to be taken seriously on Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament · · Score: 1

    If a new party came along calling itself the "The Conservative Party" you'd probably come up with a few jokes. Their original name ("The Whigs") is even better.

    I'm afraid that you're incorrect. Conservatives are Tories (and are still called that, in certain circles). The Whigs (and the Radicals) became the Liberals, which merged into the Liberal Democrats along with the People's Front of Judea.

  14. Re:Can you hear that? on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    It's more like buying a pickup with an optional fifth wheel. Don't need to haul a trailer? Don't unlock the fifth wheel.

  15. Re:Genuine Intel Disadvantage on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    Marketing is bullshit. Branding is bullshit. Pay attention to the benchmarks, and pick the CPU that fits your budget and your performance requirements. If it's normal CPU, so be it. If it's a crippled CPU, so be it. If it requires a upgrade to meet your performance expectations, while still fitting your budget, so be it.

  16. Re:I hope this doesn't fly ... on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    If you want a car analogy: This is like a car that advertises for $85,000, but is electronically limited to 180 kph unless you drive it at an approved race course.

    Fixed it for you.

  17. Re:What are you supposed to shoot down there? on James Cameron Commissions Submarine To Visit Challenger Deep · · Score: 1

    PS: We've already got photos and video from Challenger Deep, the X-Prize is to send a MANNED mission there.

    Are you questioning the manhood of Captain Piccard?

  18. Re:I am color blind. Can I see the stereo 3-D movi on Hubble In Anaglyph Stereo 3D · · Score: 1

    In theory, it should make no difference. In practice, if the brain of a color blind individual perceives one image as being brighter than the other, it won't be able to combine the images.

  19. Re:Not the first time on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Informative

    Take a gander at wikipedia or youtube and search for newscasts about this kind of thing.

    All I see is

    The neutrality of this section is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (March 2009)

  20. Re:Interestingly... on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    Cane sugar has more fructose than high-fructose corn syrup.

    Only if you're using hfcs-42.

  21. Re:So.... on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    American Spirit claimed that their cigarettes were made from "100% Additive-Free Tobacco*"

    *no additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette.

  22. Re:What the hell? on High Fructose Corn Syrup To Get a Makeover · · Score: 1

    Small intestine, actually

    Of course, the thing with enzyme catalyzed reactions is that there's often a feedback loop.

  23. Re:800 AMD processor cores on Simulating Galaxies With Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they're angling for another grant.

    Dr Lydia Heck, the ICC's computer cluster manager, said the ICC had maxed out its supercomputing cluster's processors and memory by running a simulation of the effect of dark matter on how galaxies are formed.

    And the maxed-out cluster is not even using large scale models.

    Physicists have to simplify the cosmological models they use in order to get ones that produce data sets small enough to be accurately processed by the 64-bit chips in the supercomputing cluster, and which can fit into the cluster's available memory.

  24. Re:Tell me again... on PA's Dept. of Homeland Security Shared Oil-Shale Protester Info With Companies · · Score: 0

    I hear all the time about how government protects people from corporations

    Corporations are people too!

  25. Re:800 AMD processor cores on Simulating Galaxies With Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    The mystery is solved. Their cluster is old and slow,