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  1. Re:So what are we upset about? on China to Make $125 PCs · · Score: 1
    Should have written:

    Isn't China government itself being a monopoly and chinese companies State controlled?

    I find your point a little bit ironic.

  2. Re:So what are we upset about? on China to Make $125 PCs · · Score: 1
    Isn't China government itself being a monopoly and chinese company stated controlled?

    I find your point a little bit ironic.

  3. Re:uhhh. yeah. on Outré USB Gadgets · · Score: 1
    Where is the companion product: USB-controlled penis enlargement pump?

  4. Re:The problem is not the bomb itself on Iranian Heavy Water Nuke Plant Goes Online Today · · Score: 1
    No true, the problem IS the bomb. This is the only one reason inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN agency, were mandated to inspect Iranian sites to make sure nuclear technology is used only for civilian purposes.

    That's plain false to say the bomb is not the problem. No one in the international community wants to see such a destructive weapon in the hands of a totalitarian government which has proven it has nothing to do with peace.

  5. Re:So if I plug enough CAT5 cables into it... on Visualizing Ethernet Speed · · Score: 1
    I wonder what it will look like under a DOS attack.

  6. Re:But, what about the opposite. on Microsoft to Work with Xen on Virtualization · · Score: 1
    Sure, Microsoft is contributing the Blue Screen of Death. They will open the source code for it and Xen will be able to show it as it appears when running natively.

  7. Re:Terrible idea on Northrop to Sell Laser Shield Bubble for Airports · · Score: 1
    Sooner or later terrorists will attempt to shoot down a civilian airplane. And sooner than later, since if by any chance you have read international news in the past few decades this just has happen too often yet.

    There maybe a risk to try to protect airports against terrorists, but there is also a risk to not try to protect them. Which one is the lowest?

  8. Re:12 Billion Year Old Light & the Expanding U on Scientists Question Laws of Nature · · Score: 1
    I don't know for you, but for me, this one is looking too much like:

    If the world doesn't match your reality, arrange the world.

    If constants are no longer constants, this simply mean there is an underlying physical law which should be liable for this change. It appears to me too much convenient to claim this at this point. On such a basis, anyone can say about anything and arrange the constants to match the experimental results.

  9. Re:That's great on Physicists Create Great Balls of Fire · · Score: 1
    The microwave plasma thing is not a self-sustained plasma, it is induced by the energy from the microwaves. So, it is stable as long as the microwave oven is running. This is a little bit different from a plasma lasting while the enery source has been shutted down.

  10. Re:That's great on Physicists Create Great Balls of Fire · · Score: 2, Informative
    Maybe you should have read more carefully the article. The whole thing is about plasma, which is ionized gas at high temperature. And if you know a little bit about what is going on at ITER you should now understand any advance in plasma behavior knowledge maybe useful to the nuclear fusion experiments and hopefully future commercial reactors.

    This has nothing to do with the nuclear reaction itself, but rather than with the mean the nuclear reaction is triggered into a torus-shaped plasma. One of the great challenges is to produce a self-sustained plasma. Since, this Zeus-like experiment seems to prove there is a way to produce a self-sustained plasma for much more long times than it is possible right now in all other fusion experimental reactors, this single thing may lead to significant advances in the nuclear fusion industry if well understood and applicable to plasmas produced inside Tokamak-like devices.

    Hope this helped you to better understand the link between these apparently unrelated two things.

  11. Re:what would this be used for? on Thin Client PC Fits in Wall Socket · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Since it is a low power device, it is targetted at all those workers not reputable to be 100 Watts guys. Since, it requires only 5 Watts, seems the right fit for marketing employees.

    Jokes aside, multiply the power consumption for the average PC by the number of employees and many of them obviously don't need much powerful CPUs, and anyway, the CPU power is on the terminal server and available if needed. So, this is a green solution to reduce electricity bill in many shops. And it's not to say this is a low maintenance device, nothing to install on it and/or maintain, except the OS, oooops, it's Windows CE.

  12. Outsourcing to China on Network Management Outsourced to India · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Infosys, a Indian outsourcing company is itself outsourcing in China since they are having some problems to find enough skills in India at the right price to maintain lowest price deals.

    China Threatens Inda Eminence

  13. Isn't... on 12.8 Petabytes, You Say? · · Score: 0
    640KB supposed to be enough for everyone?

    What kind of world are we living in if the sacred words no longer deserved respect!

  14. Re:What about while wearing glasses? on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1
    Since I am wearing hearing aids (the kind with back-ear amplifier) and glasses (not only sun glasses). I can say it is a matter of habit. It will take about 2 weeks or even more to eventually wear both without further noticing it. Since, I am wearing both all the day long for about 12 hours a day and even more, it was a little bit faster to be acustomed to it.

    However, the glasses need not to have too thick branches and it must be well polished to avoid hurting your ears.

    The only time I found very cumbersome to wear both things, is during a hot humid summer day. This makes me crazy! Not only everything slips on you ear, but water drops tend to form inside your ears too.

  15. That's right dress code matter much on Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption · · Score: 1
    Look at all these Enron, Nortel, Tyco, MCI and others CEOs. All these fine men/women are well dressed and they got so much trust from the investors they were able to steal many billion dollars.

    No doubt, the dress code matter much.

    It's easier to "judge" a product by the dress code of the users than by its real technical value.

    Laziness rules the world!

  16. Not a troll on First Digital Simulation of an Entire Life Form · · Score: 1
    Parent is not a troll, it's just plain truth. And its title is humor. Anyone here knows about self-derision?

  17. The Cloud Harp and the Music of the Spheres on Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There is already a music instrument which produce sounds based on the clouds structure. It's the Cloud Harp which first model was build in 1997. The idea is however much more older, since you can go back to Johannes Kepler with his Music of the Spheres laid down the idea to produce music from natural phenomenons.

  18. Re:Tech details on IBM's High Performance File System · · Score: 1
    I'm pretty much sure this filesystem capacity can be consume easily by pushing an order of magnitude or two some nifty simulations. So, that's not just ego boosting.

    Just to give an idea, when LHC will turn into operation at CERN, it will produce data at a rate equivalent to the whole EU telephony/data network capacity. And, this only part of the story. Since you have to analyze data, compute, compare, etc. You need to be able to move it fast between processors.

    Imagine nuclear weapons simulations, hurricanes simulations, global warming model simulations, etc.

  19. Re:Now wait just a minute... on Cubicles a Giant Mistake · · Score: 1
    Propst designed a system he thought would increase productivity

    He partly succeeded. Our paper-plane fights are getting a very high participation rate.

  20. Re:Hmm on Cancer Survival for Software Developers · · Score: 1
    Absolutely right and it's not to say your children will still continue to go to school and your wife working. It's not really sane to stop everyone daily activities to wait for the fatality to happen. Life is not ended yet and most of the world around you will continue to live.

    Spend some time with them, but it is not likely you could spend the whole day, all week days with them. You also need to distract yourself and avoid becoming bitter about life. Still continue to be creative.

  21. Re:how about bartering for access to the tower on Man Builds 60-foot Tower to Get Highspeed Access · · Score: 1
    To summarize, in big cities, neighbors are sucking.

  22. Re:A problem now, but not in the future..... on OSS Not Ready for Prime Time in Education? · · Score: 1
    I wonder how you managed to relate underpaid to lack of skills. Just skimming around, I can find a lot of people lacking skills and highly paid. Like former Enron, WorldCom CEOs, just to randomly pick some in the lot.

    If teachers are no longer interested in learning, this explain why they are no longer able to teach.

    Also, how much more difficult is OSS compare to Windoze stuff? I just don't see the point. And are the teachers doing all the IT infrastructure stuff in their schools? Of course not. So, again, what's the point here? You expect teachers to need to know more about the OS on a OSS platform than on a Windoze platform?

  23. Re:Unfair on Canada's CD Tax Out of Hand? · · Score: 1
    Why not boycott the Canadian Recording industry stopping to buy any music for a year or so. Keep the money and attend shows instead. After all, the whole Recording Industry is just becoming a huge parasit or virus.

  24. Re:Brilliant! on Cell Phone Tracking In the UK · · Score: 1
    So, basically, password protect your cell-phone and never let someone else you don't trust use it.

    BTW, could it be cancelled easily as it can be setup?

    It should and it circumvent completely this kind of problem, since you can always cancel your authorization, anytime and in less than 5 minutes.

  25. Re:Brilliant! on Cell Phone Tracking In the UK · · Score: 1
    What kind of abuse since both parties need to become into an agreement to setup the system?

    Beside that, I am pretty much sure tracking of any citizen can be done by authorities if needed. And this technology is there for a while and had not been made publicly available before. So, if you fear BB, it's just too late!