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  1. Uh, yea... on MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guy calls a 25pin serial port "parallel" and is impressing us with is mad skillz using lego to "convert" it to 9 pin. The need for null-modem probably took him weeks to figure out.

    I think this kid should get off of my lawn.

  2. Feature? on New Messenger Has Same Old, Gaping Privacy Holes · · Score: 0

    To some, this will sound like a feature...

  3. Finally, and explanation... on ESA's GOCE Satellite Provides Gravity Map of Earth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  4. All that and the Sinc... on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1
  5. Im confus on X-Ray Noise From Comets Leads To Space Weather Signal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When we have weather forecasting, we can see a storm 5 days away from the area it will potentially hit. When we see an uptick in x-rays in the magnetosphere, we see it fractions of a second before it will get to us. Sounds like earthquake prediction. Hopefully, there aren't any Italian researchers on this project.

  6. Re:It's bad enough if... on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Why is /. reporting on something that should happen, not has happened?

  7. Big CCD on Deformable Liquid Mirrors For Adaptive Optics · · Score: 1

    So why are we still using mirrors? Why not a big CCD?

  8. That's a big tiwnkie... on New Declassification Process To Open 400 Million Pages of Records · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The amount of documentation that the NDC considers of high public interest but difficult to declassify is 151,793 cubic feet of paper.

    That is a cube 1/10 of a mile on each side. Accoring to a random estimate on the internet, a cubic foot of paper is approximately 9.24 reams of paper (500 sheets). So, 151,793 cubic feet of paper is about 700 million sheets.

    That's a big twinkie.

  9. Google wants "changes to how OSI does licenses'" on Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, here is what Google was concerned about:

    1) We will want a label explicitly deterring the use of the license.
    2) We will want the bod list archives open for any discussions of webm. We
    are not comfortable with OSI being closed.
    3) We need to know OSI's current corporate status. I heard that osi was a
    california corporation again, but I would like to know, from the group, that
    this is true for 2010 and that there aren't any issues there.

    So, they want the OSI to be more open, and they want to discourage the use of the WebM license by others to prevent license sprawl, and they want to verify OSI's corporate status.

    Anyone else have a problem with these changes? They seem help everyone.

  10. ENRON on Google Explains Why It Became an Energy Trader · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know who else was an energy trading company? /I keed.

  11. Bobby Tables strikes again! on 3rd Grader Accused of Hacking Schools' Computer System · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem plausible he hacked it, probably someone walked away from a machine while still logged in. Or this: http://xkcd.com/327/

  12. Comcast missing a crucial point on Net Neutrality Suffers Major Setback · · Score: 1

    Comcast Cable pays networks for the privilege of carrying their content. If I were Google, and Comcast came knocking, I'd say, "YOU pay ME $1/subscriber, or I will filter your users from my site."

  13. Re:So will he accept? on Millennium Prize Awarded For Perelman's Poincaré Proof · · Score: 2, Informative

    He is not a native speaker of English. He might have mistranslated his thoughts.

  14. Re:Close captioned? on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Transcripts are searchable...

    http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/search-results.php?keywords=series+of+tubes

    ...however it is not working for me at the moment.

  15. Amazing Achievement on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Consider the amount of processing power it took to compress 160,000 hours of video fully indexed and ready for viewing.

    Incredible for a non-profit.

  16. Re:They should have kept the price high on 25 Years of the .com gTLD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't remember it being $100. When I registered hae.com, it was $30 one time to my ISP (InterNIC didn't charge) to setup the domain, DNS, and sendmail. Other ISPs charged per month to maintain the domain, so it was a good deal. This was back in the mid 90s when it was fashionable to get a "vanity plate" domain.

  17. Typo in Article on Exploring Advanced Format Hard Drive Technology · · Score: 1

    It says 4096K, they mean 4096 bytes (4K). Error is in the original.

  18. FCC Chairman on Wireside Chat With Lawrence Lessig · · Score: 2, Funny

    I still wish Lessig was appointed to head the FCC.

  19. AI first on When Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The most likely scenario is, AI which develops fusion and holographic storage.

  20. Windows? on A "Never Reboot" Service For Linux · · Score: 1

    Anyone else notice they do not support windows, but the Windows Update dialog is the most prominent in the background image?

  21. Candy is Dandy, but Liquor is Quicker on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker -- Ogden Nash

  22. This is important! on Google Proposes DNS Extension · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is extraordinarily important for efficient operation of the internet. If people want to block you, they can, DNS or no DNS. However, for global load balancing, this is vital. You want to connect to a server near you, not near your DNS server.

    This will not stop the proper function of proxies.

  23. Re:lame on MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli · · Score: 1

    So, you tried it and it didn't work?

  24. Ready for prime time! on Hackers Find Home In Amazon EC2 Cloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know, if bot net operators are trusting the EC2 cloud for their mission critical operations, it has to be ready for prime time.

    This is a stunning endorsement. Amazon should send out a press release.

  25. Re:hey on SQL Injection Attack Claims 132,000+ · · Score: 1

    The dude clearly doesn't run linux...

    This is a system problem...

    Delete c:\windows\system32