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  1. what space is there for the Fire?" on Reviews of Kindle Fire Are a Mixed Bag · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If an E Ink Kindle or Nook is better for reading books, and a smartphone or iPad is better for watching movies or listening to music, what space is there for the Fire?

    A $200 device that will do both.

  2. Don't lament them too much on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    I remember thinking the same thing in the 80's, when Motorola sold off their television business. They have a history of finding the next big thing.

  3. See display of all of the old Air Force One planes on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For anyone in the Dayton Ohio area, the Air Force One display at the Air Force Museum near Wright Patterson is recommended. They have all of the old planes their, complete with FDR's Sacred Cow, with custom wheelchair elevator, and Kennedy's plane.

  4. Re:Not the first member in his family... on Richard Dawkins to Appear on Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    It's a much more plausible that Dawkins is an extraterrestrial named Oolon Colluphid

    It seems awfully ... implausible

  5. Problem solved on Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists · · Score: 1

    It rains. Water freezes into large floating sheets. Sheets are blown around. Rocks move.

  6. Content-free article on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since the audio on vinyl can't be compressed to such extremes...

    This guy doesn't know what he is talking about.

  7. Surprising on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    I would have bet a bunch that they would only support Suse. Part of an embrace and extinguish campaign. This is good news.

  8. Re:Danger... on The Air Car Nears Completion · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it was "Jaws".

  9. Re:Screenshots, who cares? on First Look at RHEL 5 - From the New, More Open Red Hat · · Score: 4, Funny

    perl -i -p -e s/id\:6\:in/id\:3\:in/ /etc/inittab

    You really should install vim. It doesn't take that much room.

  10. Wecome back Morris on Worm Exploiting Solaris Telnetd Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Given the age of the vulnerability, it's probably just the Morris worm still kicking about.

  11. Another name for Minimal Perl... on Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People · · Score: 1

    ... is Perl 4. Object Oriented structures did not go easily into the language.

  12. Obvious on The Partnership That Could Have Changed Everything · · Score: 1

    It would-ve been lame.

  13. Re:So, what's the problem? on Is Google Too Smart For Its Own Good? · · Score: 1

    Mighty Joe Google?

  14. Re:CSI: Mac on Apples Are For Grannies? · · Score: 1

    Wilford Brimley is typecast as the Unix guy

  15. Visual budget overview on Online Budget Database Planned by White House · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For an accessible view of the budget, check out at the poster "Death and Taxes".

    http://www.thebudgetgraph.com/

  16. livvin in on County-Wide Wireless To Be Deployed in Michigan · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...this is the county where Rob, myself and a number of the others live in.

    ... and work as professional editors.

  17. Re:wrong question on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    I suspect (some) politicians are well aware of the "flaws" found in the system.

    Obviously it's those guys in that other party.

  18. Talk about beating a dead horse on Microkernel: The Comeback? · · Score: 1

    The Torvalds/Tanenbaum discussion has been done to death. Google for all that can be said on the subject.

  19. I think I have a new sig on Microsoft's Big Bet on Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    Blanket generalizations are almost always wrong

  20. Re:SSE Licensing information enigma on MS Reveals Info On New RSS Extensions · · Score: 1

    Didn't Microsoft previously use RAND licensing as a way to exclude all GPL code?

  21. What happened to "send a message" on The Fracturing of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Did I see the story include a line about sending a message about Iraq? What happened to it?

  22. This isn't hardware on Google WiFi+VPN Confirmed · · Score: 5, Informative

    To those commenting on how hard this is...

    The announcement is not about rolling out hotspots. They are just providing an easy-to-set-up VPN connection using downloadable client software. Extending it to the rest of the country would just require distributed VPN host nodes.

  23. Re:What do you mean "Return to the moon"? on NASA Plan to Return to the Moon · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows the moon landing were faked.

    By O.J. Simpson.

  24. Makes sense on Too Many People in Nature's Way · · Score: 1

    Don't build in these bad areas. Only fools or risk takers build in those places.

    So how do we go about emptying San Francisco?

  25. Kurzweil has an interesting take on this on Gordon Moore: Moore's Law is Dead · · Score: 1
    Ray Kurzweil says that Moores law, or its equivalent, has held for far more than 40 years, and will continue far into the future. The key is that the technology has changed. He calls integrated circuits the 'fifth paradigm'.

    "There are more than enough new computing technologies now being researched, including three-dimensional silicon chips, optical computing, crystalline computing, DNA computing, and quantum computing, to keep the law of accelerating returns as applied to computation going for a long time."