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  1. wording on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm getting tired of all these posts saying "some entity to do something" when the summary says "proposed".

    Assuming that "to" means "going to" to everybody else as it does me, I'd appreciate it if the editors could stop doing or allowing that.

  2. Re:More fixing of things that weren't broken on Fedora 16 Released · · Score: 1

    MS BOB on a server...that seriously makes me LOL.

    LOLBOB.

  3. sports channels on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 1

    pricey sports channels (which cable companies have to pay for) will become HBO-like premium services.

    If you don't want sports channels, this sound like a good thing.1/3 of a cable subscription goes to sports channels.

  4. state of the art on Wicked Lasers Introduces Handheld One-Watt Green Laser · · Score: 1

    Since the eye is far more sensitive to green than to blue, this is pretty much the state of the art in putting-dots-on-stuff technology.

    So anything green is state of the art?

  5. Re:Thousand Grains of Sand on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Secrets Leaked To China · · Score: 1

    How can people on Slashdot bitch about software patents, and then complain about Chinese theft of software?

    Copyrights and patents are different things you know...

  6. Re:Now where CentOS 6? on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten us! I don't understand what takes so long and neither does anybody else it seems. I always assumed that it was just yanking copyrighted stuff & recompiling, with no testing necessary.

  7. interesting on 'Giant' Neuron Regulates 50,000 Other Neurons · · Score: 1

    This sort of makes sense to me....a million flowers won't overload your nose and partially incapacitate you, but a giant spotlight on your eyes or a jumbo jet next to your ear will.

  8. Re:The tech wasn't the issue though on Tech That Failed To Fail · · Score: 1

    It was slimmer and lighter than the competition which meant it was easier to carry around with you.

    Perhaps for HD models... I bought one of the first MP3 players, and without a hard drive it was certainly smaller than the first iPod. The HD had vastly more capacity, of course.

  9. Re:Physicists on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that some fundamental particles (like the photon and electron) have no internal structure or volume - a point charge, and thus no 3D.

  10. Re:Physicists on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    Whoaaah buddy. None of that seemed right to me. You're going to need some citations.

  11. Re:As long as they stick with that UI on Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 10 · · Score: 1

    I said the same thing when Firefox came out, and I still do. Seamonkey FTW.

  12. Re:What's the "unique challenge"? on Robot Jet Fighter Takes First Flight · · Score: 1

    The sentence he quoted references the tailless design.

  13. Re:3 Suspects on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    I remember my set. Sometimes when I was bored, reading the encyclopedia was about as much fun as reading Wikipedia is today.

  14. Re:Please stop abusing the term "sharing." on Stallman Crashes Talk, Fights 'War On Sharing' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, sharing of information implies that it is duplicated, not split.

  15. Another article on AMD Details Upcoming Bulldozer Architecture · · Score: 1, Interesting

    There is also this on the AMD site. It has a slightly different take on the core/module semantics.

  16. Re:Kenmore Connect on The Future of Tech Support · · Score: 0

    Well, he did say "talk to", not "listen for beeps". I wasn't believing the former.

  17. Re:Communication on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 0

    Poor logic also causes people to dismiss you. Equating written communication with a job estimate for manual labor is, well, non-persuasive.

  18. Re:Reinventing the window? on Firefox Tab Candy Alpha · · Score: 0

    I absolutely agree, and I can't wait for Mozilla to switch to a multi-process model like Chrome.

  19. Re:Lies, damn lies, and CPU speed numbers on 4 Cores? 6 Cores? Do You Care? · · Score: 0

    Which chips can't run all cores at full speed? I believe that's considered a defect. And without the overheat throttling, you'd have a dead chip rather than a slow one.

    Or are you actually trying to call Turbo Boost a drawback? It can be turned off you know, but I don't see why you'd want to since it improves performance.

  20. Re:And the old saw applies here on New Batfish Species Found Under Gulf Oil Spill · · Score: 0

    As part of the blame, he said he was going to "focus on safety like a laser" from the very beginning.

  21. Re:One cable to rule them all on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 0

    Well, HDMI has DisplayPort as competition, but I don't mind since it's better.

  22. Re:Google Policy on Automatic Updates on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 0

    I use the development version and set the Google Update service to manual to stop the automatic updates. Evil ablated.

    Seriously Google, stop being evil about that.

  23. Re:they really don't get it. on IEEE Working Group Considers Kinder, Gentler DRM · · Score: 0

    Just try to tell me this album sucks and I'll beat you with a stick.

  24. Re:H1b visas and the job market on The Real Science Gap · · Score: 0

    Ha, that last line is good.

  25. Re:So... on Google Updates Chrome Frame, Makes IE Better · · Score: 0

    I definitely agree. I don't even like the Firefox interface, I use Seamonkey.