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  1. lack of good marketing on Google To Rebrand Blogger & Picasa For Google+ Integration · · Score: 2

    They should use something more evolutionary and more suitable for giant company, like: Google Plus Picasa Photo Service

  2. yet he did not encrypt? on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1

    courier could have been pasting just PGP armoured blobs. Or maybe he did encrypt buy his password was "infidel".

  3. Re:Slashdot summary non sensationalist on VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First · · Score: 1

    Stopping engineers from touching keyboards is important part of maintaining one's cloud infrastructure. From experience.

  4. Re:I'd do it! on Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    he meant "cost to the environment" to build, run and operate his Prius

  5. if you define "reaffirm" .. on Google Reaffirms Stance Against Software Patents · · Score: 1

    ..as "we give up and will participate in doing evil", then yes.

  6. why is he a "former" truck driver? on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    Was he fired for lack of creativity?

  7. Did they ask him.. on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .. to reverse a String during the interview? ;-) Seriously, Google needs to stop hiring ivory tower theoreticians and get some "normal" devs to clean up their act.

  8. so it is what space powers did for real .. on Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off · · Score: 1
  9. attach electric wire controlled by Junit to.. on How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? · · Score: 1

    .. your genitalia?

  10. Re:Totally misses the point on "Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup · · Score: 1

    8 women not 9. It is a stretch goal.

  11. Re:I wonder how fast... on Quake 3 For Android · · Score: 1

    you are right Java sucks. Oh, maybe for running of thousands of enterprise apps all over the world?

  12. Re:Widenius please move on... on Why Oracle Can't Easily Kill PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    I think his statement is sort of Freudian admission that Oracle already did the same to MySQL (acting via Sun as proxy)

  13. First rule about working in 3 hour bursts.. on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    .. is not to talk about working in 3 hour bursts. We all do. Often, only one of those per day.

  14. I am confused on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought the dark times of corporate rule were over and we are now under the enlightment reign of people champion Obama?

  15. just sign of his maturuty as professional on According to Linus, Linux Is "Bloated" · · Score: 1

    at some point, one starts taking more pleasure from hacking stuff off a project rather than from adding it in

  16. Re:the swarm is comming on Swarms of Solar-Powered Microbots On the Way · · Score: 1

    Prey was about how stupid middle management is ;-)

  17. Torrent link or.. on Windows 7 Hits RTM At Build 7600.16385 · · Score: 1

    .. it did not happen. ;-)

  18. Interesting thing - this is not only about music on Doctorow Says Google & Amazon Stifle Progress · · Score: 1

    .. and similar. This is also true about _any_ kind of creative work n the current situation. Consider creative works and "intellectual property" produced by coders. Same exact thing and same gatekeepers.

  19. Take off and nuke the site from orbit on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    that is only way to be sure

  20. Re:Understatement on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    That is nothing: /dev/mapper/volgroup-myth 2.1T 1.5T 506G 75% /mnt/myth /dev/mapper/volgroup-bigdata 2.8T 1.7T 1.1T 63% /mnt/bigdata xxxx@homeserver: $

  21. Re:Sure, move out. on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 3, Funny

    all five of them?

  22. Re:What this really means on Design Software Giants Target the Unemployed · · Score: 1

    Only if they won

  23. Re:Opportunity on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    Well, if we had vessels in place and time to pickup the pieces, that would mean we already know exactly how far advanced their missle program is :-)

  24. Re:The problem is scaling on "Slacker DBs" vs. Old-Guard DBs · · Score: 1

    If people followed your advice, 70% of programmers would not have a job.

  25. Re:Blackberry love on Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers · · Score: 1
    >> Android hasn't gotten its emotion chip yet.

    To quote Bender: " I have it, it just has not descended yet".