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  1. includes servers? on Microsoft Sees Linux As Bigger Competitor Than Apple · · Score: 1

    this is probably just because he's including server numbers. seems reasonable that the number of linux installs on servers would outnumber the number of apple desktops.

  2. not called serenity on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1, Informative

    Joss Whedon, creator of the classic science fiction western series Serenity, declared, "it's so passionate, textured, complex, subversive and challenging that it dwarfs everything on TV."

    the series was called firefly. the movie was called serenity.

  3. Re:the message on Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki · · Score: 1

    yeah, i don't know why 1 and 2 didn't show for me.

  4. the message on Sending Secret Messages Via Google's SearchWiki · · Score: 5, Informative

    "3 - Will more information about this be available later?"
    "4 - Self vs. others is always a major philosophical question."
    "5 - Destruct and destroy is not the best of attitudes, my friends."
    "6 - In any case, this list looks very useful."
    "7 - Five more entries could be added to that list."
    "8 - Seconds or thirds or even more helpings could add a lot of calories."
    "9 - Good entry. Very fine."
    "10 - Luck has nothing to do with these issues."

  5. Re:Heartening... on NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    the problem w/ simulating the human brain is more of the software than the hardware. if you have any unique insight into how to program the thing, i think it would make a dissertation topic that would bring you almost instant fame and fortune. =P

  6. not for nokia n810 on Ubuntu Ports To ARM · · Score: 1

    the nokia n800 and n810 tablets have ARMv6 processors, not ARMv7. sadly, this won't help us in the least.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARM_cores

  7. Re:The interesting part (to me anyway) on Plasma Rocket Successful Full Power Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's not really the heat, but the velocity. you can have cold-as-ice propellant if you can throw it away from you fast enough.

    of course, with chemical rockets, there is usually a relationship between heat and velocity, but that's not necessarily true for plasma engines.

  8. Re:As someone who knows a BP agent... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 1

    except they don't only stop buses. a few weeks ago two friends of mine were stopped, driving back from corpus christi (to dallas). not anywhere near the mexican border. (certainly >100 miles) not hispanic either; just two plain-as-joe white folk, driving a normal newish sedan, inside the united states. why did they get stopped?

  9. Re:Not a Luddite, but not a believer either on Honda Makes Motorcycle Talk To Oncoming Cars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    unfortunately people don't see other cars either. i ride/drive *every* vehicle i own as if everyone else doesn't see me.

    of course it's human nature... i've made some boneheaded driving mistakes in my time too. i remember one road trip my gf fell asleep bear-hugging my right arm. drove an hour and a half home working the stick shift with my left hand. =P

  10. Re:Java != Javascript on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 0, Redundant

    good god, what language uses a "!==" operator?!? i want to filter it out from all future job searches. =P

  11. Re:Time for a Faraday cage? on Compromising Wired Keyboards · · Score: 1

    damn... and i was hoping for security on my desk AND a working cell phone in my pocket. =P

  12. Re:Lightbulb on the internet? on World's Smallest IPv6 Stack By Cisco, Atmel, SICS · · Score: 1

    you mean "isn't that exactly what RFID does?"

  13. Re:How about on Now Even Photo CAPTCHAs Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    that won't work at all. even semi-retarded question-answering systems will be able to pick up such relationships.

    read: http://www.google.com/search?q=trec+question+answering

  14. Re:I love /. on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 2, Funny

    and i love the smell of condescension and self-righteousness in the morning...

  15. Re:But... on Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yes, because we all know how trustworthy microsoft is when it comes to keeping their promises...

    heck, why bother with OSS licenses at all? just trust companies during the "embrace" stage, and i'm sure nothing else will come of it!

  16. Re:They will have to wait longer to get failures on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    google (and i assume most large datacenters) replaces their hardware on a 3 year cycle, failure or not. this is because buying a replacement, when factoring speed advances, is cheaper than continuing to run the existing server.

    which i suppose explains why they used 2 year old hardware for a ~1 year study. "sir, if it completely fscks the machines by the end, it doesn't really matter, since we are going to toss them anyhow!" :)

  17. Re:Yes on Can You Be Sued For Helping Clients Rip DVDs? · · Score: 5, Funny

    that is still illegal. skeet shooting is like bittorrent - distributing little chunks of files over a broad area, but never the whole file at once! =P

  18. it missed atmo? on Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans · · Score: 1

    > fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere

    it missed atmo? that's quite an accomplishment for a ground launch. =P

  19. Re:This violates my patent on The Death of Nearly All Software Patents? · · Score: 0

    1996? woot! only 2 years to go before we can once again beat dead horses royalty-free!!! =P

  20. Re:Original on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    so can you point me to a list of these obviously-right-when-we-see-them future predictions so we can test your theory? surly with all the doctoral degrees floating around in religious studies someone has compiled them into a more condensed form than "read XYZ bible" :)

  21. Re:Original on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 1

    It is still prophecy even if God didn't say, "He will be born in Bethlehem", but rather said, "He will be born in a city south of Jerusalem".

    so at what point does the generalization stop? is it still a prophecy if it's "he will be born in a place?"

  22. Re:Original on World's Oldest Bible Going Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most prophecy in the Bible is written so that it isn't obvious exactly when or how it will be fulfilled, until it has been fulfilled.

    if you don't know when or how until after it has happened, it's not a prophecy. (defined as knowledge of the future)

  23. Re:Does No One Understand English Any More? on What Would It Take To Have Open CA Authorities? · · Score: 1

    std oil owned only 60% of the US market at its peak, yet it was still a monopoly. the definition of monopoly doesn't mean only one company exists.

    that being said, there are reasonable alts...(like godaddy, which i use)

  24. Re:... except when you want it on FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules · · Score: 1

    so what are you "not convinced" about then? no one is suggesting banning user-defined (or contract-defined) QoS. the regulation the original post was referencing was to protect you from arbitrary, silent, secret, sneaky, non-optional ISP-defined QoS. (with the Q usually being *their* quality, not yours)

  25. Re:... except when you want it on FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so who gets to choose which bits are "good" bits and which bits are limited to the slow lanes? if i invent super-mega-new-tech-protocol that needs low-latency, reliable communications, do i need to register that with the telco-what-we-think-are-worth-while-apps-dept? what happens if they don't like it?

    because, you know, that's how cell phones work...