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  1. It doesn't run OSX. on Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X · · Score: 2, Funny

    It barely even crawls OSX. (Cool hack, though.)

  2. Mmmm haggis! on US To Lift 21-Year Ban On Haggis · · Score: 1

    Here's the one's I like best.

  3. Re:what about on Obama Budget To Triple Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about the Chinese pebble bed reactors. Too small? Well, let's have half a dozen on the same site, run from the same control room, plugged together as modules.

  4. Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    You've got an httpd? Why not static link in the server code and the TCP/IP stack, then you can construct the page straight to the packet buffers...

  5. What about... on 7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators · · Score: 1

    octave???

  6. Re:Maybe the US should pay scientists decent wages on China Will Lead World Scientific Research By 2020 · · Score: 1

    I decided not to do a post-doc when I found out I could make more money as a streetlamp bulb changer. (They got better holidays, too.)

  7. Re:Too cheap of a hack on The DIY $10 Prepaid Cellphone Remote Car Starter · · Score: 1

    I've been playing with one of these. Nice bit of kit, and can limit what's done by incoming number. Mine's currently (kinda) wired to a cat feeder...

  8. Re:Are they serious? on Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing · · Score: 1

    And another old name that should not be forgot: here.

  9. Re:In the words of the great Ken Titus... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    In this weather - where's a bike helmet that is warm and waterproof? Chance of a head injury or guaranteed headcold+week off work...

  10. Re:great idea on France Considers 'Pirate Tax' For Online Ads · · Score: 1

    They should be careful - the banks won't like the competition.

  11. Re:Ob. Matrix quote on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    Bullshit

  12. Re:2010 on 2010 Bug Plagues Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Premature optimization is the root of (most) evil.

  13. Re:Perhaps... on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    You need a balance. Too much union and you get, well, most of Detroit. Too much company - congratulations, compulsory unpaid overtime at a wage your grandfather would have grouched at. Checks and balances. The unions' are a check on big business, trouble is, other than the death of the business, what's a check on the union?

  14. Re:Seriously? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 1

    Two years before the rubber glove treatment is compulsory. Say, four, until they do the kids.

  15. Re:You mean the illegal immigrant? on Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers · · Score: 5, Informative
    No, you're wrong, so get this and get this straight.

    He was in the country lawfully. He did not run, he stood from his seat when a plain clothes cop yelled 'He's here!' to 2 of his colleagues. The police did not identify themselves before shooting.. Oh, and the police lied about it aftewards.

  16. Re:Hacking off your nose to spite your face on IT Workers To Get Fewer Perks, No Free Coffee · · Score: 1

    The company before last I worked for, well, I knew it was in trouble when they started a drive to bring toilet paper to work: "only employees use it, so why should the company pay for it". And I really wish I was joking.

  17. Re:Let me see if I can straighten it out, then. on 2016 Bug Hits Text Messages, Payment Processing · · Score: 1

    MMXVI

  18. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1
  19. Re:command mode baby.. on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    Ah, a notepad user.

  20. Re:DX or SX? on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    Generally, what happened was 486DXs were made. If there was a flaw in the maths unit, that got disabled and it got badged 486SX. Flaw in the main CPU, but maths unit OK? Stand alone coprocessor. Same silicon.

  21. Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    The community is what made linux. Not the license. That's why it's linux *not* GNU/Linux. The community is what matters, not things like gcc, libc or the utils. Those are replaceable, the community isn't.

  22. Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    I've heard of zombie processes, but a zombie kernel???

  23. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Theres a difference between getting murdered and death in an accident. However, dead's still dead, so slightly lowering the chances of getting murdered is not rational if it *increases* your overall chances of ending up a stiff.

  24. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, cost per life saved: $544,482 Homeland security budget ~$40billion. That equates to ~73,000 lives. Have twenty four 9/11 scale disasters been prevented this year? And why does equating a death lost through motor accident with one lost through terror get me: "so why not just kill you now?" and "Why are we forbidden to kill people with a low moral compass like you?" C'mon, rational analysis of risk, not fearmongering.

  25. Re:Oh, look! on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Was there a point in your hatespew?