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  1. Best Headline Ever on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really. Well done!

  2. Re:Go fast cheap on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    Uhh, no. AMA Superbike rules are pretty strict on what you can and can't do to the factory bike. Basically, you can put a bigger tank, a new pipe, and tune the injection.

    Bolth the Busa and the Gixxer will hit 180, and then some.

  3. Re:Go fast cheap on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    MotoGP qualifiers routinely break 200mph.

  4. Re:Go fast cheap on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    Here's a couple:

    http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/GSX1300RZK4 /

    http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/GSXR1000ZK4 /

    Perhaps your realm of possibility doens't extend to the Daytona 200, which is run every year. This year, Matt Mladn won it on a GSX-R1000, with top speeds of 190 miles an hour.

    Your car isn't fast. Motorcycles are fast.

  5. Re:Scientists crossing fingers, pacing on NASA Gravity Probe Launched · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's special relativity. General relativity relates to gravity.

  6. Re:a mere 32K of memory on The Disposable Computer · · Score: 1

    I've worked on machines the size of refridgerators with 32K. Versions of this were in use till the early 90s. I think they replaced them with Commodore 64s.

  7. Microcontrollers on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1

    PIC microcontrollers are a blast. They're used in dang near everything and are cheap cheap cheap. If you're into robotics or motor controlls, these are must have skills.

    http://asp.microchip.com/wwwParamChart/Tree.aspx ?m id=&treeid=1&wdid=132&gdir=1010

    Get some free samples!

  8. Save the Rockets, not the Platforms on Apollo 11 Launch Tower Rescue Effort · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Go see the things. NASA has a fully restored Saturn V rocket on display at Kennedy Space Center, set to Smithonian standards. It's an awsem thing to behold.

    The launch platforms themselves are boring, not realy historically relevant, and apparently a hazard to the environment. Scrap them, and use the space for something else.

  9. Moral? Never Happened on Jobs to India -- A Broad Look · · Score: 2, Informative
    Whatever happened to morals in the vision of Capitalism?

    It never existed, that's what happened to it.

    Today, shipping your job to India is immoral. A hundred years ago, paying women and children nothing for 16 hour days in the textile mills was immoral. 150 years ago it was the coal mines. 200 years ago it was cotton fields filled with slaves.

    Capitalism is inherently about competition, and in competition, sombody ultimately looses. The only way to fix that is to devise a system where everyone wins.

    Some guy won a Nobel based on work in that area. Made a movie about him, too.

  10. Re:Who's to say... on Cory Doctorow Releases 'Eastern Standard Tribe' · · Score: 1

    One might argue that the innate question to the experiment is "Does this increase the satisfaction of the experimenter?"

    This isn't about the publisher, but the author.

  11. Re:Who's to say... on Cory Doctorow Releases 'Eastern Standard Tribe' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think his concern is that his story be read, rather than his story be purchased. As the owner of the copyright to his works, he is free to do with them as he sees fit.

    As it should be.

  12. This is an Increasing Trend? on KISS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like business as usual to me.

    I guess I'll never cease to be amazed at the medias propensity to discover the obvious.

  13. Seed from the air on Genetically Modified Flower Detects Landmines · · Score: 1

    No sacrificial gardeners needed.

  14. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suppose the good news is that these things are clearly defined via RFC, so identifying prior art shouldn't be a problem.

  15. Re:Other People's Code Is Crap on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your astute observation. The average /. reader isn't bright enough to pick up on the subtlety.

    Most rewrites are caused by one thing. The desire to not have to maintain someone elses code.

    You may now mod this down as flame bait.

  16. Other People's Code Is Crap on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While mine is fine like wine.

  17. Re:According to your logic... on Woman Ticketed For Nude Pics On Internet · · Score: 1
    if I post a picture of me killing your parents, nothing should be done, after all, I wasn't caught at the time.

    Well, no. In addition to the pictures, they'd also have other evidence. Like, two dead bodies, and whatever instrument you used to do the deed. Had she claimed "faked", rather than confessing, there is no evidence that a crime was commited.

  18. Re:But the economy is recovering! on 235,000 Fewer Programmers by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Holliday spending facts: Walmart had a bonanza year. FAO Schwartz is in bankruptcy.

    Those that are spending, are spending on the cheap.

  19. Re:Blooper? on Interview with Peter Jackson on LoTR Bloopers · · Score: 1
    Titanic winning sweeps didn't do it for you?

    200 million dollars and they forgot to put in a plot.

  20. Absolutely on Would Ansel Adams Have Gone Digital? · · Score: 1

    Adams was a talented photographer, but his work in the dark room is what made him famous.

    While I'd love to be able to shoot like Adams, I'd kill to be able to print like him.

  21. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    If Alice illegally copies Bob's copyrighted music, Bob still has the copyright. So what has Alice stolen exactly?

    By doing so, she's stolen Bob's right to distribute the work as he sees fit.

    Alice = thief. Q.E.D.

  22. Re:Steve Jobs Gets It. on Steve Jobs and the State of Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem the thieves have is that they don't understand what they are stealing. It isn't the music they're stealing, it's the right of the owner of the music to dictate what gets done with it. Copyrights are real property, just like your car.

    Call it whatever you want. It doesn't change the fact that if you're downloading music without permission of the copyright holder, you're a thief.

  23. Re:Bad Sci-Fi on Dread Empire's Fall: The Praxis · · Score: 1

    Tad William's "OtherLand." Almost 4000 pages of the most boring, uninteresting pulp you'll ever set your eyes on.

    If you don't gouge them out, first.

  24. Re:kermit on Where Are The Founders Of The Dial-Up Revolution? · · Score: 1

    Who's down for developing a ppp-centered, kermit-over-IP protocol for places communicating by telephone only?

    Why not use smoke signals or carrier pidgens? Or, if you gotta have 'lectricity in the mix, one of those fancy telegraph machines.

    You do remember your Morse codes, right?

  25. Re:I Agree Totally, My Experience with the Linux on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well done!

    Subtle tones of expertiese color the overall message with a venier of authenticity. You went over the top with the "Consultant for F500 Companies" though. Nobody buys that.

    I'll give it a 9.5 for effort, but only a 7 for originality.

    Great troll!!!