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  1. Re:Yep.. on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    I thought slashdot was the only social website...

  2. Re:it's about more than rare earths on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 2, Informative

    The attempted solution to that is documenting an ISO process for everything in manufacturing. From what I have seen, this only looks good on paper. Trying to start a new production line by the book without experience may take longer than learning from scratch.

  3. Re:About his prosecution on Pirate Electrician Supplied Power To 1,500 Homes · · Score: 1

    The RIAA would have been more Direct. Charged him with each "making available" a potential of 50 times the country's possible generation capacity.

  4. Re:Microsoft.. on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft isn't delivering a product, so they can't be sued.

  5. Re:Apple? on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    But the iPhone will have Dual iCore® technology. And have Steve Jobs' approval.

  6. Re:No need to add salt? on First Halophile Potatoes Harvested · · Score: 1

    The salt might help counteract the mercury and everything else we spill in the ocean.

  7. Re:For the rest of us... on Root DNS Zone Now DNSSEC Signed · · Score: 1

    What would you recommend if your ISP has a seriously slow DNS server?

  8. Re:Well duh ... on Android vs. iPhone 4 Signal Strength Bars Comparison · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe the correct engineering term for this reality distortion field is called the Bogon force field. The Bogon flux is measured by a Bogometer, in units of "bars." Apple has the most respected Bogonomists in the industry, but the Bogon is a strange quark that mysteriously vanishes when a detector is used.

  9. Re:report it to the fcc on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    WiFi is an unlicensed service. Unlicensed services do not receive any special protection.

    I've known a few people who had visits from the FCC for unlicensed transmitters...

  10. Re:Pirate Party Still Alive on The Pirate Bay's Founding Organization Shuts Down · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pirates never die. They simply board another ship. aaarrrggg!

  11. Re:and this is better than tethering...how? on Asus Planning Netbook With Slot-In Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    True, tethering sucks batteries quickly, but USB charging is right there from the laptop.

  12. Encryption? on Btrfs Could Be the Default File System In Ubuntu Meerkat · · Score: 1

    Will btrfs have it or not? Stolen laptops want to know.

  13. Re:so which is faster? on Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux · · Score: 1

    Editing makes mainstream media less credible. Or something.

  14. Re:Terrible idea, of course, which is why we don't on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 1

    Don't many satellites have isotope powered batteries?

  15. Re:Channel 14 on Has 2.4 GHz Reached Maximum Capacity? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Atheros wifi card in my Acer One can cover 2.1-2.8GHz, in 58 channels with a simple config. But I won't do it, because all kinds of things in the sky use slices of those frequencies.

  16. Re:Same thing happend to Audi a few years ago on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a 2009 Highlander Hybrid. It happened to me last week. No floormats to get in the way. Accelerator pedal returned to "home: position. The event went like this: full acceleration by me to merge into traffic and complete release of accelerator. The acceleration continued at 100% for another full second. Over 150KW of power. Now I wonder what kind of computer fault would have happened if I had pressed on the brake to compensate for the uncontrolled acceleration.....

  17. Mirror early, mirror often on Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:I wouldn't publish on Kindle if it was Open on Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you keep your work as the internet's best kept secret, that's great by me!

  19. Re:Are you willing to hack a little? on Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment? · · Score: 1

    Turning the mini fridge upside-down will solve the condensation drip problem. Make sure hard drives don't see freezing temperatures. They don't like to start back up when what lubrication in the tiny bearings wasn't warm enough to be fluid and got pushed out when in operation.

  20. Re:That pretty bad on CFLs Causing Utility Woes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I checked the power factor on my LCD big screen television as it uses fluorescent backlighting. I am very surprised that its 0.99. It looks like electronic power supplies can have perfect power factor. Would it cost much more to make a CFL with .99 pf too?

  21. ICANN has a business model. on New ICANN TLDs May Cause Internet Land Rush · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a business it is. And you never really can "own" a domain, you simply lease it. Miss a payment and a squatter owns your traffic.

  22. Publish or Perish on Questions Linger Over Google Book Rights Registry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The publisher who makes the effort to put material on the most widely read medium always prevails. Looks like google is doing what the dead tree publishers refuse to do.

  23. Microsoft's Response on Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution · · Score: 1

    "Microsoft's vision is that everyone around the world needs to have access to quality education, and we believe that we can use what we've learned and assets we've accrued with offerings like Encarta to develop future technology solutions."

    So Microsoft's vision is to be charitable, discontinue, or develop an even more exciting technology than electronic encyclopedias?

  24. Application #20090083107 on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wonder why they want to outsource That's a big number. In my day, patents were slowly incrementing in the 7 figure range. I can't wait until they hire monkeys to type up more applications. IBM made the best typewriters...

  25. Re:tinfoil time on Laser Sniffing Captures Typed Keystrokes From 50-100 Feet · · Score: 1

    admitted to having spy satellites that could photograph a vehicle's license plate from orbit.

    I still have yet to see a picture of a license plate (horizontal OR vertical) from space. If they can take a picture of a flat object mounted 90 degrees at any distance from the source, I would certainly be impressed.