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  1. nobody has successfully thawed a Peepscicle. on Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen · · Score: 1

    and gotten anything other than bad meat.

    and the portions are too small, yes, that was the punchline, thanks for asking.

  2. any website using those ads would be blacklisted on Apple Patents "Enforceable" Ad Viewing On Devices · · Score: 1

    I know for sure I'd never go there again.

    so, guys, how valuable is that patent, again?

  3. dead-tree substrate and burned-plant stylus on How To Enter Equations Quickly In Class? · · Score: 1

    NASA spent $10 million developing a pen that would write in space without gravity.

    Russia sent pencils up. cost, zip.

    fancy new technology is not always the answer.

  4. prior art exists. on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    AT&T Western Electric printed the cards for many items, including the computers for the Safeguard ABM system and their class-4 phone switch cards, in the 1970s. sprayed silver ink.

    no patent forrrrr YOU.

  5. oh, please, say terminated with extreme prejudice on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 1

    it's they least they could do to reward his fateful service.

  6. if you don't control your destiny, you will fail. on The Sidekick Failure and Cloud Culpability · · Score: 2, Interesting

    not just stuffy history book stuff or national security, IMPHO it fully applies to "the cloud."

    if Microsoft can't even build a robust cloud environment, that experiment is done.

    "danger," indeed.

  7. but officer, they just got in the way of my bullet on USB-IF Slaps Palm In iTunes Spat · · Score: 1

    who would have seen that coming? -- there is a unique field for manufacturer and one for type. the field is used to determine how to deal with the data. the field is used to limit how data is used. and palm figures the rules are for everybody else, do they? you know, they're probably two weeks receipts from financial ruin, and that's 12 years of screwups in the making. bring it on, they've got it coming.

  8. delusion. folks will go for krep that is free. on Micropayments For News — Holy Grail Or Delusion? · · Score: 1

    not a new idea, but if this is going to work, there will have to be a central news payback authority that issues accounts to netizens, who then drop credit in those accounts, and they debit when a news organization's premium corner is accessed.

    and it won't work well based on the slow, cranky response and stall-outs that have been increasing and dominating newspaper sites over the past year. it's going to be like a communications provider... invest in the site to make it work, then charge for it.

    fail, die.

    blowhards, liars, and phonies with no charge for shovelling the krep onto your desktop will otherwise get the hits, and society will continue to slide down the dumbness scale.

  9. finally, brains. on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 1

    there has been an awful lot of nonsense about how this outfit must be protected, and that outfit has to serve all its competitors, and the wireless joint doesn't have to talk to anybody. data is data, transmit corridors are transmit corridors, and the name on the company's door should not get into it. the same rules for all would be a wonderful thing all the way around. regulate all or deregulate all, but do it at the same time all the other rules for an open network are promulgated. it's overdue to end the confusion and protectionism.

  10. what a horseship contract on Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1) if you "buy" an outfit, you should get the code that made it.

    2) if you didn't, you should have modification rights.

    3) if you "sell" an outfit, you should spend your money and not try to steal the sumbitch back.

    conclusion: put them all in a room, with their laywers. on the titanic. hit an iceberg. it's a start.

  11. consider survivability on Best Backup Server Option For University TV Station? · · Score: 1

    I made a whole office of IT manager types blanch one day after carrying tapes to the admin building by asking,

    "say, you know those jets that fly over every 20 minutes? do you think that we'd have any backups left if one crashed here on the library and skidded forward?"

    not that they did anything about it, mind you, but I'll bet they all updated their resumes.

    and it's a good plan to prepare offsite video servers/storage. KREX TV burned out early this Spring in Colorado. while it's one way to update your plant quickly, it sucks for business continuity.

  12. and Smart Grid will let any 10-year-old crash all on DHS To Review Report On US Power Grid Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Interesting

    used to be, you had load dispatchers at switches in multiple areas. they had telephones and a small phone book of other dispatchers. under that system, the US became the world's dominant superpower and home of most wealth.

    worth trying. not everything has to run on flash and crackberries.

  13. that copper is going to rot out quickly on Using a House's Concrete Foundation To Cool a PC · · Score: 1

    copper + sitting on iron rebar + water in concrete slab + alkaline concrete == anode + cathode + electrolyte == battery.

    the copper is going to develop a hole bunch of rot-outs from electrolytic corrosion, and your cooling is going away without notice.

    if you haven't poured yet, either put in stainless steel piping, or pex.

  14. c:\users\work\other\cottage\bedroom\sock-drawer\ on Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    under the 401K statements, I assume

  15. one phone company almost had a unified number on Why AT&T Killed iPhone Google Voice · · Score: 1

    until they sold wireless, and then left partnership with Sprint, Qwest (fka US West) had a patent for One-Number Service. either your home or office number would ring through to the cell phone if that was on, and to the wireline service when it wasn't.

    I suspect the patent can be licensed at this point, since it's no longer in use.

  16. prior art exists on New York MTA Asserts Copyright Over Schedule · · Score: 2, Interesting

    london train schedules were copyrighted in the holmes days, too.

  17. if not, the tube would be ruined before launch on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 4, Informative

    curious thing about tubes, they don't become useful until they're sealed in vacuum, and boiled out in a high RF magnetic field to take impurities off the elements. and then you have to flash the last of the gases off by igniting a getter inside the envelope.

    that provides a higher vacuum on earth, inside the tube, than you can ever develop in space. and the electrons can do their work, instead of hitting stuff and just making a useless glow.

  18. the TWT is a 50-year-old technology on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but for high power, squirrelly conditions, and reliability under real world conditions, tubes are still the go-to player in a lot of situations. a solar storm will roach semiconductor outputs, but it takes a monster pulse straight down the gullet to take a tube out.

  19. FCC should sue back using RICO on Comcast Finally Files Suit Against FCC Over Traffic Shaping · · Score: 1

    Comcast was actively snooping traffic and munging it up. denying it. and conspiring with other companies to block net neutrality. that is racketeering and corruption and organization. RICO. like the mob.

  20. wha -- why -- that's my systems admin!! on Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI · · Score: 1

    why that lousy ae;9rq8r7iofnkla;9

    http: 400

    you do not belong here.

  21. put a server on a cellphone, too on Microsoft, Nokia Team To Add Mobile Office Apps To Phones · · Score: 1

    ridiculous. the only thing that's good for is to carry a document into a meeting with. last I heard, any laptop or tablet with a wi-fi card will do the job, and plug into the projector or printer, too.

  22. absurd. on Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals · · Score: 1

    this enslaves you to the slider, instead of just shifting your head or your eyes to use a progressive lens.

    must have an idiot cousin who has a factory to make little wedges that move lenses.

    oh, by the way, prior art exists. see any camera lens. no patent forrrr YOU.

  23. there is no referee, so all can be liars on Verizon Asks Court To Affirm 'Most Reliable' Claim · · Score: 1

    only at some point, somebody has to be lying less than

    click

    bzzzzzzzzzzzz

  24. didn't the Germans learn anything from Bushie? on German Health Insurance Card CA Loses Secret Key · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (1) outsourced government works even less well.

    (2) exceptions are covered under rule #1.

  25. mad dog biting itself for sympathy department on Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself · · Score: 1

    yada yada "serious issues of tort practice that need to be resolved in a timely manner" yada barfo hack hack spit.

    dismiss the suit, all the lawyers representing all the various offices of Wells Fargo against itself will have a conflict of interest. get the two pinhead managers in a room, lock the door, and sell the video on satellite for $19.95 to settle the debt.