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  1. Re:I don't really think so on A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? · · Score: 1

    hello? did no one read the signature? this is obviously +5 insightful...

  2. Re:No... not buying this at all on Hackers' Next Target — Your Brain? · · Score: 1

    If I read this correctly, you are suggesting we wait for a cron jon with sufficient security access, hit it with a buffer overrun, and then wipe the logs after we are done? 0day is going to be the most popular RSS feed on the web!

  3. Re:Eh on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    Unless WElls Fargo appeals the case.

  4. Re:No, even worse. on Researchers Enable Mice To Exhale Fat · · Score: 1

    skinny guy here, and I still read that as a steak several miles wide.

    mmmm... mile wide steak...

  5. Re:obPublic Service Announcement on Researchers Enable Mice To Exhale Fat · · Score: 1

    A really fat one?

  6. Re:obPublic Service Announcement on Researchers Enable Mice To Exhale Fat · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called self-control.

    And how do you define the "self" that is controlling? Bonus points points for defining what it is controlling.

    Someone please mod the OP as the troll he really is. Clearly forethought and critical thought are in a race to the bottom with this one.

  7. Nice Icon on Sperm Travels Faster Toward Attractive Females · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I cant believe ./ has that graphic, but not the Ubuntu graphic

  8. Re:Democracy can be a little scary... on US Seeks Volunteers To Review Broadband Grant Applications · · Score: 4, Informative

    At least the ratio of honest criticism to paid shill will be lower than the current system.

  9. Re:About 2 Kilos on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    Can you shrink that down to 160 charactters? Ive been looking for a new sig.

  10. Re:MicroSD on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    Also, if you remove the platters leaving behind only the magnetic resonance of the bits, it wouldn't weigh anything!

  11. Re:library of congress on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    Which brings us right around to my solution for storing a petabyte. It only weighs a few pounds... on each end... of a very long distance. It involves three lasers with insanely precise tracking mirrors orbiting the sun at 0 degrees, 120 degrees, and 240 degrees around a circular orbit. This ensures that each laser can see both of the other lasers.

    Modulate the beam with the data. If we naively assume one bit per Hz, and approximate it at 10^17 bits per petabyte, and if we modulate the beam at 10 THz, the total distance around the triangle has to be about 2 * 10^9 miles, or a little over 20 AU, putting their orbit a bit inside the orbit of Jupiter. The problems of how to actually track an object so precisely and how to modulate a laser at 10 THz are left as exercises for the reader. :-D

    This idea was invented by shampoo

  12. Obligatory: on PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000 · · Score: 4, Funny
  13. Re:TL;DR on Of Catty Rants and Copyrights · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great, now we're back to TL;DR!

  14. Re:A theoretically practical solar-powered car on Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. Wrath0fb0b is correct.

    You know, the internet has obliterated the idea of normalcy for me.

  15. Re:Ubuntu needs an icon on A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. · · Score: 2, Funny

    haha, ubuttu

  16. Re:tourism on Wind Could Provide 100% of World Energy Needs · · Score: 1
  17. Re:I wouldn't be so quick to that. on Ray Bradbury Loves Libraries, Hates the Internet · · Score: 1

    When you use the internet, and filter noise yourself, you aren't getting the same level of service.

    Ahh, an AOL advocate.

  18. Re:Donkey on The Origins of Video Game Names · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see what you did there.

    Out of his ass indeed.

  19. Re:What are we trying to achieve? on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1

    I may do just that. how well does it handle sound for the multi-user? (such as the ability to mute or terminate sound on locked TERMs).

  20. Re:What are we trying to achieve? on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1

    You can have a whole passel of processes writing to /dev/dsp simultaneously, because whenever a process attempts to open it, the OS spawns off a new copy

    Good god, I want that.

  21. Re:Dumb on Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either · · Score: 1

    In fact sprint does not "allow those phones to tether". Rather the phones happen to have that ability (usually through hacks or add-on software) and sprint overlooks it untill bandwidth pulls become a problem (on a plan by plan basis).

    To say that they allow it is disingenious.

  22. Re:NASA to blow up the moon on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    And the theme song

  23. Re:Apple's fascination with single button mice on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    Not for nothing, but this article is about failures of the past. I think the single button mouse qualifies, regardless of it's current status.

  24. Re:I don't think this is net neutrality. on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I fail to see your point. what do liscensing restrictions have to do with a greedy website?

  25. Re:I don't think this is net neutrality. on Disney Strikes Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No. Flat out no. It doesn't matter which side of the connection it starts at, once the rope starts tying things off we are screwed. Whether my ISP wants to make a deal with an end node to allow connections, or if my ISP wants to make a deal to block my connection to an end node it is flat out wrong, and against the terms of service I thought I was agreeing to.

    If ESPN360.com wants to give me an option to pay directly for access to their site that is fine, but here is where it gets mucky: When I go to WSJ.com They don't tell me I can't have access because comcast won't let me. When I hit a usenet group it doesn't say sorry, comcast won't let you. If it did, comcast would be put in quite a bind (purchase, or educate consumers), and by purchasing the content they are effectively and legally closing the door on net neutrality forever, which would only help their profits in the long run.