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  1. Wow! Imagine a Beowulf Cluster on Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    of Intel 4004s!

  2. they purposefully wrote this law on Russia Recalls Modern Warfare 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought the Allied Powers wrote the law in 1945?

  3. It's not bribery! on Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google · · Score: 1

    It's bidness. You don't wanna interfere in bidness do ya? You some kinda socialist or somethin'?

  4. M.O.N.E.Y. on Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested · · Score: 1

    That's the usual reason.

  5. Re:I've been using it since on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was running Linux from 1995 on. No IE on Linux.

  6. I've been using it since on Happy 5th Birthday To Firefox · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Netscape 1.0

  7. Microsoft Exchange email account you ...$15 on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. Not any Exchange account, only the one that is provided by Verizon. Connecting to your corporate account doesn't cost anything extra. Other than getting the data plan.

  8. Stop the Laurasian Separatist Front! on Volcanic Activity May Split Africa In Two · · Score: 1

    Keep Pangea United!

  9. Elmer said "What happens if I push the wed one?" on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 1

    And Daffy (who was selling an early home automation system) replied "Don't EVER push the wed one!"

    Later, after Elmer pushed it and discovered it was an automatic house elevator to get out of the way of tsunamis, Daffy came by and offered to install a little blue button to get Elmer down.

  10. IQ doesn't measure common sense. on Why a High IQ Doesn't Mean You're Smart · · Score: 0

    In the Army it was a cliche (but mostly true) that the higher IQ (or score on the ASVAB) the soldier, the likelier he was to do remarkably stupid things.

    This is because, in my experience, the more intelligent are more likely to wonder "What happens if I do this and then do it. This being some variant of (as Daffy Duck said) "Don't EVER push the wed one!"

  11. Throttle Body Icing on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    There was this "issue" with an old VW Bug I had once. The carb would ice up on the outside, causing the throttle to stick in the open position. Lots of fun/ Had to throw it in neutral and kill the engine before it over-revved.

  12. Approved by the Senate in the US on Anti-Counterfeiting Deal Aims For Global DMCA · · Score: 1

    So it does go through the legislature.

  13. This Friday! On SyFy! A rift opens in Sheffield! on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 1

    Swallowing up thousands of hectares of the English countryside! With no warning! On the Most Dangerous Cheesiest Night on Television!

  14. Not Just E-Mail. Anything in the "cloud" on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As James Fallows asks in The Atlantic Are we naked in the cloud?

    But the reader's point is less about the ins and outs of this ruling than about the broader legal/privacy implications of storing information "in the cloud." When you're working in Google Docs, as opposed to using a spreadsheet or document that lives on your computer, have you essentially surrendered custody and control of that information? What if you rely on online "cloud" systems -- Carbonite, SugarSync -- to back up or sync your files? Have you given up custody of those files too?

    The answer he supplies is "yes" you have given up custody.

  15. ReNo, it just means that the other 91% on 1,600 Names Suggested Daily For FBI's Watch List · · Score: 1

    Aren't considered a possible threat to aviation.

  16. Not the first time on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1
  17. I'm still waiting for on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Zoonotic Zebra

  18. a "government takeover" of the Internet. on FCC Begins Crafting Net Neutrality Regulations · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Next thing you know the feds will be trying to take over medicare.

  19. Left vs right handed? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    The steering wheel is in the middle, will the joystick likewisde be in the middle, or off to one side?

  20. It's the LHC... on Element 114 Verified · · Score: 1

    While the hole they made wasn't black, it was very very dark. And heavy.

  21. I manage them with an Iron Fist Of Death on How Do You Manage Dev/Test/Production Environments? · · Score: 1

    Or I would if I were in management. For some reason they won't promote me here.

  22. The Law of Unintended Consequences on Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    is passed in every legislative session.

  23. As Rob Pegoraro of The WaPo points out on MS Says All Sidekick Data Recovered, But Damage Done · · Score: 5, Informative

    here the damage to T-Mobile is compounded by their tone deafness on customer support.

    Uh, T-Mobile, can I offer a hint here? This is not the time to nickel-and-dime cranky customers. Let them go now, and maybe they won't spend the next nine months telling everybody they know to avoid your service -- instead, if you're lucky, they'll find a new hobby after only two months.

  24. Waitaminute. Didn't we just bomb on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 5, Funny

    the moon? How is that peaceful? The Raelians are going to be pissed!

    Oh well, on the bright side, I can now say that my President is a Man of Peace like Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, and Teddy Roosevelt.

  25. about:robots on How Dangerous Could a Hacked Robot Possibly Be? · · Score: 1

            * Robots may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

            * Robots have seen things you people wouldn't believe.

            * Robots are Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With.

            * Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.

    And they have a plan.