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  1. Re:Old news on RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink · · Score: 1

    Damn. That was the first thing I thought of when I RTFS. You, sir, have beaten me to it.

  2. Re:Solved? on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Receiver now monitors his entangled particle

    But at that point, you've messed with the sender's particle, again via quantum entanglement.

    As Professor Farnsworth noted, "No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"

  3. Re:It's quite clear what the reason is on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that Julian or Gregorian?

  4. Re:Communcations on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    In Logic of Empire, Heinlein gives an example of this sort of thing. All comms are done via FM; AM is an antiquated and forgotten technology. The rebels redevelop AM broadcast capability, and a receiver in the bush can hear the signal, while a stock FM receiver can't hear the AM.

  5. Re:Been there done that. on Could Fake Phishing Emails Help Fight Spam? · · Score: 1

    Shitty OS, shitty results.

  6. Re:Solved? on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And if they're communicating by some mechanism that we can't read? E.g. the equivalent of "subspace radio".
    Or maybe it's a point to point via laser (see Niven's Known Universe).

  7. And with that 1Gbps on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The old people will only use it for email.

  8. Re:Verizon is GPON on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. I'm in the San Fernando Valley, and still no word on when FIOS will show up here.

  9. Re:malware.... on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 3, Informative

    I did. I can't find "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant" anywhere.

  10. Re:Time to tighten our belts on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I drank 100 coffees in one day, I was able to save all my friends from a fire caused by a cigar.

  11. Re:The RIAA and their studios are cowards on Associated Press Wants RIAA Case Webcast · · Score: 1

    <STEWIE>
    Damn you, Tommy Tutone!
    </STEWIE>

  12. Re:Really? on Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script · · Score: 1

    Yes, I mean HP. I work with a bunch of ex-Tandem types, so they call them 'Tandems'. I picked up that nomenclature.

  13. Re:Really? on Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script · · Score: 1

    Fannie Mae uses Tandem Nonstops.

  14. ObUserFriendly on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 3, Funny
  15. Re:another day, another outrage on AT&T, Comcast To Join RIAA Team · · Score: 1

    Or, to paraphrase Niemoller...

    In the US, they came first for the war3z d00d5, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a war3z d00d;
    And then they came for the Evil Content Pirates(tm), And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Evil Content Pirate;
    And then they came for the legit BT users, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a BT user;
    And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

  16. Re:ROI is a red herring. on Remembering NASA Disasters With an Eye Toward the Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    My point was that the "robots with human dexterity, controlled by a human" won't work at distances past the Moon.

  17. Re:ROI is a red herring. on Remembering NASA Disasters With an Eye Toward the Future · · Score: 1

    Four Words.

    Speed of Light Latency.

  18. Re:Norton is going to be pissed... on Midnight Commander Development Revived · · Score: 1

    I thought he sold it all the Symantec anyway, including rights to use his name

    And I'm sure he's considering suing them for defamation of character.

  19. Re:Magazines are dying as a format. on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 1

    The early seasons also had Spy vs. Spy.

  20. Re:Magazines are dying as a format. on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whatever happened to Mad TV?

    It's still there on Saturday nights, but it sold out a long time ago.

  21. Re:mac w128K of RAM - so little power, but powerfu on Happy 25th, Macintosh! · · Score: 1

    Obviously, you didn't have a Mac Plus with a (25-pin) SCSI port.

  22. Re:I'm sympathetic on Bugs In Microsoft Technical Documentation Rising · · Score: 1

    They didn't produce SQL server, they bought Sybase.

  23. Re:I'm sympathetic on Bugs In Microsoft Technical Documentation Rising · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It may be awesome, but it's symptomatic of a poor development culture at MS, and ties back into the lack of protocol documentation.

  24. Re:I'm sympathetic on Bugs In Microsoft Technical Documentation Rising · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because it causes problems for THEM, regardless of the EU.

    This may be apocryphal, but ISTR reading somewhere that when they needed documentation (for internal purposes) on SMB, they had to use the Samba guys' stuff.

  25. Re:I'm sympathetic on Bugs In Microsoft Technical Documentation Rising · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And therein lies the problem. MS should have created a spec for their networking protocols BEFORE implementing them.