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  1. Re:The AC plague on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Well it wouldn't make much sense to install one on a 5th floor apartment.

  2. 90 Days ? on Chinese Firms Claims It Can Build World's Tallest Tower in 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Misleading headline is misleading.

  3. Re:It will be every bit as luxurious as the origin on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    Titanic
    Tonnage: 46,328 GRT

    MS Ulysses (Irish Ferries)
    Tonnage: 50,938 GT

    List of cruise ships over 100k GRT (eg. over two titanics)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world's_largest_cruise_ships

  4. It will be every bit as luxurious as the original on Australian Billionaire Plans To Build Titanic II · · Score: 1

    He is saying "It will be every bit as luxurious as the original Titanic" and also "as similar as possible to the original Titanic in design and specifications".

    But the Titanic design wouldn't be anything near luxurious in 2012. For starts not cabins except for the best first class cabins had bathrooms. Adding them to cabins would require a major redesign of the layout.

    In 2012 no one would travel in the cabins from 2nd and 3rd classes.

    The ship also won't have anything near the facilitates that's expected these days. The Titanic may have been a very large ship in 1912 , but in 2012 it would considered very small.

  5. Boneitis on Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers · · Score: 1

    Fry: Boneitis? That's a funny name for a horrible disease.
    80s Guy: There was no cure at the time. A drug company came close, but I arranged a hostile takeover and sold off all the assets. Made a cool hundred mil.

  6. Re:this just in on Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website · · Score: 1

    You sure it's not Sara Jones ?

  7. Re:Raising false hopes on Facebook Bug Lets Hackers Delete Friends · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    12/21/2012 - The end of the world as we know it.

    ^ FYP

  8. Ink on Printing Replacement Body Parts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "which works by depositing stem cells and a 'sugar-based hydrogel' scaffolding material."

    I bet it's still cheaper to print with than HP No. 96 Black.

  9. Pocket PC on Bill Gates Responds To Apple iPad · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have an old Pocket PC that cost about $300 back in 2005 , and I really can think of much the IPad does that it won't.

  10. Dell Default Image on Tracking Browsers Without Cookies Or IP Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Unless you are one of the 100,000 using any particular Dell/HP/Apple default install on your pc.

    2 ^ 10.5 is lost of combinations , but is bet there are lots of spikes on some.

  11. Re:30x higher than whose estimate? on Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, you now have about 3 weeks.

    Please get your affairs in order , and top up your central heating tank.

  12. First Post on You Won't Recognize the Internet in 2020 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bet some idiot will still be trying to get the first post.

  13. Control on After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Must be very hard for Mr Berlusconi that there is media he doesn't control.

    For anyone not familiar with Italy he already owns all the major tv stations and newspapers.

  14. If you listen really carefully on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 1

    If you listen really carefully that noise you hear is a 1000 lawyers licking their lips.

  15. If there is another strike on Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there is another strike I for one welcome our new microalgae overlords.

  16. I don't text and drive on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    I don't text and drive any more, now that I have my Blackberry it's emailing and driving from now on.

  17. Re:Related to the current poll ? on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or 2599 kelvin

    Or the heat from burning 2 library's on congress.

    Anyone know what it is in elephants ?

  18. Meanwhile on COROT-7b on Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Meanwhile on COROT-7b scientists find a new planet so cold that water would actually create "oceans" on the surface , and even freeze at the poles.

    They laugh at the though ever existing on that planet.

  19. The case needs to be retried on $358 Million Patent Judgment Against Microsoft Overturned · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The case needs to be retried , so a great win for the lawyers on both sides.

  20. Oil Barrel on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 2, Funny

    Make sure you bury one barrel of oil with it.

    It won't help you with the message, but should pay for 4 years at a moderately priced college.

  21. MP4 Player on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 0

    Put everything in a cheap MP4 player.

    If you are lucky some form of USB will still exist , and you can save off the date. If not you can play it on the player.

    Make sure you include an AC charger , just in case.

  22. Oh well on Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your post advocates a

    ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (x) charitable

    approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)

    ( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
    (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
    (x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
    ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
    ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
    (x) Users of email will not put up with it
    ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
    ( ) The police will not put up with it
    (x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
    (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
    ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
    ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
    ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for

    ( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
    (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
    (x) Open relays in foreign countries
    ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
    ( ) Asshats
    ( ) Jurisdictional problems
    (x) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
    ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
    ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
    ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
    (x) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
    (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
    ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
    (x) Extreme profitability of spam
    ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
    ( ) Technically illiterate politicians
    ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
    (X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
    ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
    ( ) Outlook

    and the following philosophical objections may also apply:

    ( X ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
    been shown practical
    ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
    ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
    ( ) Blacklists suck
    ( ) Whitelists suck
    ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
    ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
    ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
    (x) Sending email should be free
    ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
    ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
    ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
    ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
    ( ) I don't want the government reading my email
    (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
    (X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
    (X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
    ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!

  23. Shotgun on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 1

    So your saying buy tinned foods and shotguns ?

  24. It would be 1984 on Jeff Bezos Offers Apology For Erasing 1984 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It would be 1984 they do this to. To quote Bart Simpson "The ironing is delicious".

  25. Gore on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, I tried to warn everyone about Gore's new world order , but no one would listen.

    It was all oil , bush , climate change and look how you all ended up.