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  1. Re:Rushed on What Happened To the Bay Bridge? · · Score: 1

    It takes a bit of chutzpah to use a tone that implies long experience with mega-scale public works projects.

  2. Re:Rushed on What Happened To the Bay Bridge? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Aren't you 15? Or are you 16 now?

  3. Re:Fixed point numbers? on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    Of course, you mean that 28 people were not saved by the system. They died as a direct result of an enemy missile exploding near them.

  4. Re:Poor QA on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 1

    Most clocks have a quartz crystal in them. Especially the ones that have battery backup (I can't find an alarm clock in my house that doesn't have a spot for a battery...).

  5. Re:Digital Stewardship : PDF vs PDF/A on Adobe Pushing For Flash and PDF In Open Government Initiative · · Score: 1

    Useless is the wrong word. It took 15 lines of python wrapping xpdf for me to get a working system for dumping the transactions out of the last 6 years of my credit card statements.

    It's ugly, but it works just fine.

  6. Re:PDF bad. Work on microformats please. on Adobe Pushing For Flash and PDF In Open Government Initiative · · Score: 1

    I usually look at the first 3 results of the first page of Google results. But that is related to the types of searches I usually run. I sort of expect that I am 'like most people' in that regard.

    Well structured data is nice, but it isn't a panacea (for example, it can still be false).

  7. Re:Diseases never prevented long distance travels on Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars · · Score: 1

    It isn't a particularly likely scenario. One of the key factors that helped the conquistadors diseases thrive in the Americas is that the human bodies they encountered were quite familiar; aliens might be bizarrely similar to humans, but if they aren't, the diseases aren't going to bother them much (even something like the flu virus, which is quite good at jumping between species isn't really all that successful at it, and for all we know, aliens wouldn't be anywhere near as similar to us as pigs are...).

  8. Re:Time Tested OS? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    Would it be worth feeding them electricity?

  9. Re:I'm safe! on After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's too bad there isn't a tiresome mod.

  10. Re:Backup your data on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    Punch em in the wallet!

  11. Re:Time Tested OS? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    You are going to positively shocked when you take a look at the hardware that is available for $1,000 today.

  12. Re:Of course on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    Besides, disks are cheap, just install to a brand new one. Or at least make a duplicate and install the upgrade onto that.

  13. Re:Say what? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    Windows 7 is Vista SP2, SP1 was released awhile ago.

  14. Re:How is that sustainable? on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    I would guess that government buildings largely show up under commercial (but that is just guessing on my part).

    And really, while I don't think wind power is any sort of whole answer, comparing the amount of land that would have to be set aside to build a single contiguous windfarm to the areas available inside arbitrary political boundaries is fun, but with 2.9 million square miles of land available in the (continental) United States, and the potential for mixed use (much of the area 'used' by a wind tower is the space required to make sure that they don't interfere with each other, if you only have a couple of towers up they don't take up much space), it isn't very useful.

  15. Re:Smart police officer on Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld · · Score: 1

    If gabereiser is an adult, it really doesn't matter. Thanks for the non sequitur though, they are always appreciated.

  16. Re:This is just stupid. on Hunt For Earth-Like Planets Delayed · · Score: 1

    Ah, but after defeating three increasingly powerful super-enemies, you still have to face the fact that a plodding remake of a bizarro 1970s remake of some show about a trip across the country is getting better ratings.

  17. Re:I hope this is a lesson to China. on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    3 Gorges is an irrigation project that happens to produce some power. It is not about industry, it is about food.

  18. Re:That's easier said than done. on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    Much of the problem with leaching is a legacy of poor past regulation (stemming from, as much as anything else, lack of understanding and consideration), not ongoing poor regulation (when the people who acted to create the messes are dead and gone, there isn't a whole lot we can expect them to do). States are experimenting with different regulatory models, often requiring companies that wish to operate a mine to post an enormous bond against any environmental damage they might wreak.

    A modern lifestyle pretty much requires things like copper, so we do need to find some way to balance those needs with protecting the environment (and the current solution of shipping the pollution elsewhere isn't particularly good).

  19. Re:Wrong "Method and Process" for stopping spammer on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you aren't willing to carry out the sentence yourself, with your parents watching, you don't really believe in it.

  20. Re:Facebook for Grand Nagus. Re:A Time Line on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 1

    I shall spray you with my purplish juices!

    Or did you meen something else?

  21. Re:A Time Line of Sanford Wallace on Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case · · Score: 1

    Zing!

    Technically, Bill Gates is middle class.

  22. Re:Smart police officer on Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld · · Score: 1

    That their lives are on the line is no excuse, they chose the job.

    (I have a lot of respect for people that choose to go into law enforcement, and I try to keep my interactions with them to a minimum, and calm when they are necessary, so I'm not saying this from some position where I think cops are a bunch of fascist assholes)

  23. Re:Cutting edge? on Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think perhaps he was talking about it being the cutting edge of the law. Maybe. But probably.

  24. Re:Smart police officer on Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld · · Score: 1

    You get a lollipop for getting the joke.

  25. Re:How big is 36,000 acres? on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    It won't compare it to Disney World for you, but you can also ask the monster such questions:

    http://www.google.com/search?q=36000+acres+-%3E+square+miles