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  1. Re:Actually bad. on BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation · · Score: 1

    Only in case of their win

  2. Actually good. on BetaNet Sues Everyone For Remote SW Activation · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, free software doesn't need any "activations". So it'll hurt a bit some proprietary makers...

  3. Too late, but... on Mozilla Unblocks Microsoft's .NET Addon · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, plugin unblocks YOU!

  4. Earlier on Swarm — a New Approach To Distributed Computation · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .. was Mosix http://www.mosix.org/
    It allowed mosix-running linux computers to distribute their loads over a connected other mosix-running linux computers.
    Processes migrate to other nodes transparently. No programming changes were needed.

  5. What about red herring? on Dead Salmon's "Brain Activity" Cautions fMRI Researchers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wiring red herring's brain? Will it think too?

  6. Re:Well Shit... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, shoggoth,
    It's probably a shit.

  7. Re:A good translation for default to other languag on On the Humble Default · · Score: 1

    In Russian, this has been split into two meanings:
    - "po-umolchaniu" - this is about computer or equipment default settings
    - "defolt" - about financial situations.

  8. Bacteria that stops decertification? on Bacteria Could Help Stop Desertification · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would love to see that bacteria stop my CCNA from expiration.

  9. Re:sounds like a good argument for more immigratio on Smart Immigrants Going Home · · Score: 1

    No. It's actually extremely hard both for employer and for the H-1b to successfully apply and get GreenCard now. The process is much more harder than to get H-1b. Easier to leave the country, especially if you are almost sure that to find another good job will be tough.

  10. Whay about psychiatruic drugs? on Inside the New Science of Neuroengineering · · Score: 0

    Aren't they change personality too?
    Like Prozak, Paxil for example - the SSRI(Selective Serotonin Reuptake inhibitors).
    People using that drugs are "on" that drugs, they have a changed personality, with no depression, but they are chemically altered - their serotonin reuptake in the brain is inhibited.

  11. ESP? on Microsoft Phasing Out ESP Simulation Platform? · · Score: 1

    ... and leaved only AH in Windows Vista IPSEC?!
    Seriously, please make acronym decryption while posting.

  12. Re:Those patent numbers on Has Microsoft's Patent War Against Linux Begun? · · Score: 1

    what about --linux-.--- files from
    UMSDOS fs in Linux circa 1994?
    It did UNIX long filenames -> fat mapping
    can it be a prior art?

  13. Re:It's not so bad on Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Multiple Sclerosis certifications more valuable than a Doctor's ? Never!

  14. Stallman!!! on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nominate Richard Stallman as copyright czar! Let EFF win!

  15. I misread that on Good Books On Programming With Threads? · · Score: 1

    as Programming with Threats
    or was it
    Programming with Treats?

  16. Re:The dark side (tm) on Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, a lot of people not aware of concept of negotiation. I do not know about US schools but I have an information, that in Soviet Russia there were absolutely no lessons on contracts and how to negotiate. If such person (and there are a lot of immigrants from the former Soviet block) come into the described situation, he'll have some troubles.

  17. Re:Why Would You Expect Otherwise? on Terror Watchlist "Crippled By Technical Flaws" · · Score: 1

    Looks like it's not a terror DB, it's an error DB

  18. Re:Russian are not invading Gerogia on Russian Invasion of Georgia Might Jeopardize Space Station · · Score: 1

    Thousands? Explain yourself please?

  19. A pity on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see no towns and roads...

  20. Show him the Alice on How To Encourage a Young Teen To Learn Programming? · · Score: 1

    http://www.alice.org/
    Nice 3d programming tool, and useful too.
    he'll amaze friends!

  21. Hasher on Package Managers As Achilles Heel · · Score: 1

    A package for safe building is made in Russia,
    used in AltLinux/Sisyphus especially to prevent those security hacks. Named Hasher.
    Here is source code and FAQ of this project
    http://git.altlinux.org/people/ldv/packages/?p=hasher.git;a=blob;f=hasher/FAQ;hb=HEAD

  22. Re:Diseases on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    A surgeon's knife forgotten by a doctor in routine surgery? o_O

  23. Re:Diseases on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    He/she MAY have this knowledge. Why not?

  24. Diseases on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 1

    Cancer, etc?
    What happens if the operator of this machine detects some disease of a passenger? May be cancer in early stage? Or tuberculosis? Should he notify a passenger?

  25. Has it a stick? on Conference Robot Connects Offices in Different Countries · · Score: 1

    It'll be a POGO stick!