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  1. Re:long diary on George Orwell Blogs From the Grave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you sure you would get anything out of reading any of the entries?

  2. Re:Freekin lotta good it will do on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    The installation costs are lower for commercial installations, as are the distribution costs (ship your next X days production to one spot...).

    Also, if you had to choose between a few customers that come to you and many customers that you need to go to (i.e., home installations are going to need additional layers of distributors and installers and so forth), which would you pick?

  3. Re:Obama's "Manhattan Project" On Alternative Ener on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Your analogy does not make sense. Java is to oil as COBOL is to coal, the newer, better, exact same thing.

    I do like the way that you dance around and pretend that it is just the 'oil industry' that produces carbon emissions, rather than the end users of petrochemicals.

  4. Re:Great big solar cells? on Bigger, Cheaper Solar Cells · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what you are saying is that you want solar panels that are powered by the dark?

  5. Re:James Bond with whips on Lucas Researching Concept For New Indiana Jones Film · · Score: 1

    It was well packaged and there was nothing staggeringly inconsistent. The heroes are awfully lucky, but that's the way movies are; mostly, it is easier to say that it wasn't bad, but it stumbles along at times.

  6. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1

    I thought it was pretty clear from your previous reply that you didn't lend me much credibility to begin with.

    Anyway, the people in China today have a lot more of the things you are talking about than they did in 1980, so you should be pretty happy, unless you are making the mistake of measuring things in terms of what you think is possible, rather than in terms of progress (because you can *always* imagine things being better than they are).

  7. Re:This is so misguided on Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database · · Score: 1

    Porn is pretty much not a huge fan of HD. The human body doesn't look all that good up-close and in high-res. Or at least, not as good as the fantasy that fills in over lower res.

  8. Re:In case of Armageddon on Tracking Near-Earth Meteors With a 1.1 Petabyte Database · · Score: 1

    Do animals have good security?

  9. Re:No, *THESE* are slaves on Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves · · Score: 1

    People aren't going to be driven to working for $50 a month. Especially if you want to talk about $50 in terms of American buying power instead of in terms of Chinese buying power. Wages for skilled workers in China are well above $50 a month:

    http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_13/b3977049.htm

    And it isn't as if there are a whole lot of people left when you move past the West, China and India (basically, the only cheap, unskilled labor forces left are the rest of the Middle East/Asia and Africa, and that's only a couple billion people).

    As it is, talking about nominal income is a lot less interesting than talking about standard of living, and the standard of living is skyrocketing in China, not declining. If you analyzed it, you would see that the gains in China are more than offsetting the losses 'caused' by the 'exploitation' of Chinese workers.

  10. Re:What happens when Windows users switch to Mac on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that the platform doesn't make the idiot?

  11. Re:Let's be honest on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    I'd rather make $5,000 on a useful $2 app that didn't leave thousands of people thinking I was a clever toolbox.

  12. Re:Well, you gotta hand it to the guy... on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The proper response was "I think the market should at least where a robe."

  13. Re:Reason why? on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 1

    Tell that to P-diddy (is that what it is now?), Jay-Z, 50 cent, there are more, but 1 was enough to counter 'any'.

    They may be stupid hicks from the ghetto, but they spent all their money building hundred million dollar recording companies.

  14. Re:IT is the goose that lays the golden eggs. on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: 1

    The BLS link contains the text "Computer systems design and related services added 7,000 jobs in July."

    It looks like information workers doesn't really include everyone that might get called IT.

  15. Re:ignorance on Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress · · Score: 1

    I think he was trying to say that he likes Go.

  16. Re:I enjoy the climate change deniers' double thin on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be double think, it could just be not caring.

  17. Re:And that, boys and girls... on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you look closer, you will see that people fucked around with Vikings nearly everywhere Vikings went. Sometimes just the Viking genes stayed, other times, the Vikings themselves stayed.

  18. Re:One time... on How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit · · Score: 1

    I've gotten phishing emails, notified the registrar (basically, if it makes it past gmail, I take it as being more 'lively') and watched the domain disappear within 48 hours. I don't have any illusions that it must have been my notification that made things work (I've also had registrars act like it isn't any of their business that their clients are pissing in the pool), but getting the domain pulled is the one thing that is going to prevent anything from happening.

  19. Re:How is this useful for law-abiding citizens? on How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So the only thing keeping poor Billy from stealing data is that he hasn't thought about it and a timely article on /. is going to push him over the edge?

    Probably not.

  20. Re:Lawsuit! on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    It's 2am and the spot you are standing in has long been called the land of his family.

  21. Re:Republicans know how to win. on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    McCain taking the oath in November *would be* shenanigans.

  22. Re:Yeah.. well worth it. on McCain Campaign Offers Rewards For Turn-Key Comments · · Score: 1

    The guy who is making a ton of money on the show (he's the winner right?) is British, so he can't be president.

  23. Re:I don't get it on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    After the first incident, you should have gotten a bucket. Then, you could come back to the clean screen after you had rinsed out your mouth.

  24. Re:Extended warranties are rip-offs - no exception on IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software · · Score: 1

    It could mean that they are doing it for customer relations reasons, but I would be dumbstruck if they were doing it for any reason other than profit (based largely on the assumption that it would be better to simply spend the make-up money on improving quality).

  25. Re:I'm a little leery... on DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web · · Score: 1

    Timothy or Dennis?