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  1. Re:$150 million? to WHO? on Judge Denies Dismissal of No-Poach Conspiracy Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if current employees don't see a dime of the damages, the ruling should affect all current and future employees who should now be better assured that they will get a competitive salary. If employers fail to compensate their employees fairly, there is now the ability to switch employers freely, like the law requires.

  2. Simon Singh - Fermat's Enigma on Mathematics Reading List For High School Students? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sing also wrote a great book on Fermat's Last Theorem that was a very interesting read.

    It (obviously) told the story of Fermat and his theorem as well as the mathematicians and their strategies that have tried to prove it through history.

  3. Re:I was there on AMD Phenom II Overclocked To 6.5GHz · · Score: 1

    This is true; Absolute Zero is -237.15 C.

  4. Ren & Stimpy - History Eraser Button on The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices · · Score: 4, Funny

    The History Eraser Button from Ren and Stimpy, Hands Down.

    Don't Touch It!!
    You Fool.

  5. Promising on Nanowires Boost Laptop Battery Life to 20 Hours · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article makes this sound very promising.

    It may very well be the leap that keeps battery technology ahead of ultra-capacitors for the foreseeable future.

  6. Text Twist on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    I'm partial to Text Twist.

  7. Re:Chicago? on Microsoft Plans $500 Million Chicago Data Center · · Score: 3, Informative

    For those youngsters on here, Windows 95 was codenamed Chicago before its release.

  8. SA? on Google Setting Up a Presence In Kenya · · Score: 1

    I had to read the whole summary and all the way to the second paragraph of the linked article to find out that SA = South Africa (not San Antonio or Santa Ana) or any other SA location.

    Even there, it was very ambiguous. It says "They have advertised for South African personnel so the chances ..."

  9. tl;dr on How Private Are Sites' Membership Lists? · · Score: 1

    Holy teal deer!

    Could that article have been any longer?

  10. Where? on Why Web Pirates Can't Be Touched · · Score: 4, Funny

    the land of vikings, reindeer, Aurora Borealis and cute blond girls.'
    North Korea?

  11. Re:"Energy Consumption" - WTF? on A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that 14 TeV has to be the energy of the particles, not the entire consumption of the machine.

    BTW, the energy consumption of the machine would never be measured in Watts (the SI unit of POWER). It may be listed in kw-hr though.

    My TI-85 tells me that 14 Tev is about .623 pico kw-hr (6.23 x 10^-13).

  12. Cue MST3K theme: on U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'll send him cheesy movies.
    The worst we can find.
    (la la la)

    He'll have to sit and watch them all
    Then We'll monitor his mind.
    (la la la)

    Now keep in mind Charles can't control
    Where the movies begin or end
    (la la la)

    Because he used those special parts
    To make his Clippy friends.

  13. Re:Great. And the 80GB iPod will cost HOW much? on All Flash iPod Line-up on the Horizon? · · Score: 1

    A 4GB flash jumpdrive currently goes for about $80.00
    http://cgi.ebay.com/TRANSCEND-JETFLASH-V30-4-GB-US B-FLASH-MEMORY-PENDRIVE_W0QQitemZ320066574635QQcmd ZViewItem

    Ignoring the mark-up and extra cost of the casing, usb chip and hardware, etc. that works out to $1600 for 80GB.

    That's pretty far from "the better part of $5k or so"

  14. Re:Paranoid or Bunch of Jokers on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who are we to criticize.

    It's not like we're the ones paying for it....

  15. Now for the Tough part. on Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the kind of thing that is necessary for a verifiable and secure system, the toughest part will be winning-over the public though.

  16. Flawed logic on Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ok, a number of you have pointed out that this list is not representative of Myspace users because it came from a phishing site.

    You make the assumption that there is another class of myspace user that is smart (at least smart enough to recoginze it as a phishing site or to avoid being phished at all).

    From the massive amounts of stupid crap I've seen so far on myspace, I would say that you're making a pretty big assumption.

  17. Re:Poor pilots on Airbus Plans to Expand Cockpit Automation · · Score: 1

    Just how fast is 300KM/t?

  18. So... on Two-Stage-to-Orbit Spaceplane Program Shelved · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, now the program that "Doesn't exist" doesn't exist any more.

  19. Re:Now... on Wasp Larvae Feed on Zombie Roaches · · Score: 1

    You say this like they aren't there already.

  20. Re:A History of Pi on A Programmer's Bookshelf · · Score: 1

    I took a "History of Math" class in college (Michigan Tech) as well.

    Mine was one of the best classes that I had in all of college. It opened my eyes to a variety of new concepts and ways of thinking.

    I just finnished reading "The Music of the Primes" (definatly a geek themed book) by Marcus du Sautoy. It definatly reminded me of that class and the interesting themes we followed.

  21. Re:Ticketprizes? on SpaceShipThree to be Orbital Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Wow, some people will NEVER warm up to the ./, jokes.

  22. Nanopants? on Nanotech Protests Begin · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to see the nanopeople that wear EB's nanopants.

  23. Re:Passwords on IBM Gives SCO the Works · · Score: 1

    System Userd ID's and passwords

    ID password description
    root sc0root1 system admin ID
    scoid sc0cmvc1 cmvc ID

    I like how they spelled SCO sc0

  24. Re:Interesting... on How Motherboards Are Made · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that they only work one shift?
    5 day work weeks, Ha!

  25. April fools on RFC On New Internet Routing Protocol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The april fools stories are just getting worse and worse.