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  1. Hey! An obelisk! Or monolith! on The Phoenix Has Landed · · Score: 1

    http://fawkes4.lpl.arizona.edu/images/gallery/md_440.jpg
    look to the right far side - there is something
    like a pyramid. Or can it be a white monolith?

  2. Re:why don't they just on Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent · · Score: 1

    At least two reasons, probably
      - It costs a lot to license that patent
      - Boeing just don't want to license this technology

  3. Re:As far as US is concerned on Open Source Patent Donations? · · Score: -1

    Moreover, also write the idea, go to post office and mail it (sealed) to yourself (and may be also another one to your trusted legal advisor) by registered mail.
    Do not open the package, when you receive it.
    In case of a prior art you'll have a sealed, registered and dated proof of invention, which can be produced to lawyers.

  4. Imagine that: on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1

    Kid's voice from your computer at 4am:
      Hello! I am your kind little fairy! I come to your computer to
    clean it and fix its broken parts! You will be feeling safer now!

  5. One word: no on Security Research and Blackmail · · Score: 1

    Why should they give the information for free? They spent time and effort to find the vulnerabilities, it's pretty enough just to know that they are exists. If CERT or Real really want to find those bugs - they can either
      Pay for the information - it's the cost of doing business with proprietary software,
    or
      Find the bugs by theirselves: just have a tip about the bugs is a valuable information,
    or
      Open source and get the help of community in code review.

  6. Re:We have options. on Python 3.0 To Be Backwards Incompatible · · Score: 0

    A pity in this scenario is that your language flavor, not version, becomes "obsolete", "not modern" and then "out of support". Personally, I really hate to type
    print("lll")
    instead of
    print "lll"
    and this change will eventually will force me to type so, or drop the language.

  7. The probability of landing of it on Speculation On the Doomed Satellite · · Score: 1

    In Russian book
    by P. Makovetski this problem has been throughly discussed:
    http://n-t.ru/ri/mk/sk030.htm
    (Automatic Google English translationhttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fn-t.ru%2Fri%2Fmk%2Fsk030.htm&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=ru&ie=UTF-8)
    The short result is that this satellite has a 5 times more likely to land in Antarctica than in Africa.

  8. Re:Misleading comparison on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting.
    "Stop a lawyer - save a tree!"

  9. My Transcend USB stick happens to be in my pocket on Unusual Data Disaster Horror Stories · · Score: 1

    ... when I put my shirt into washing machine. Actually, nothing interesting happens. No data loss and the stick works today (the washing happens about 1 year ago).

  10. What about personal things on Large Tech Companies Moving Beyond the Cubicle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    like books, personal items, photos, etc?

  11. I found some online games, interesting: on DS Games for Pre-readers? · · Score: 1

    http://www.nickjr.com/
    Dora the Explorer series.

  12. Re:Feeding to cattle on Methane-Eating Bacteria Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Dark side of use of that antibiotic is that it'll go through milk and meat to humans, thus aggravating a growing problem - antibiotic resistance.
    (There will be less antibiotic cures for people after antibiotic feeds to cows.)
    Global warming is overestimated, antibiotic resistance is underestimated. First one, AFAIK, is a fictional one.

  13. 6 Ghz? on The Fastest Processor You Can't Run · · Score: 1

    Where are 6 GHz ONE core processors when you need it?
    3.2Ghz looks too 2002-ish.

  14. Re:What a bunch of BS on Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic · · Score: 1

    "Young and healthy" usually become soldiers. Tired soldiers are in abundance after the world war, and in bad conditions.

  15. Re:What a bunch of BS on Running the Numbers on a US Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Moreover, the 1918 pandemic was immediately after I world war, and thus
    exactly this may be the reason why it was so painful - people were exhausted and hungry.

  16. Tornado destroyers? on Scientist Are Working to 'Steer' Hurricanes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being lived in Kansas, I always wondered, while tornadoes brought so much destroy to the cities, and were easily detectable on a meteo radars, why not fire high explosive rockets to them at least in attempt to destroy or diminish that tornado?

  17. Obviously they don't want to remove on Canadian Bureaucrats Don't "Think Different" · · Score: 1

    Because main reason in that meters is not to make revenue, but to convince automobilsts not to use cars in the city for ecological and traffic reasons.

  18. One word: on Numerically Approximating the Wave Equation? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  19. Re:Features on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 1

    But! The same John Q. Customer, I bet, will surely read all the fine print in contract when he is buying or even renting a house, or when paying taxes.
    Why he didn't reject the EULA and ignore it?
    How to make more awareness about EULA?

  20. An enormous, interesting, but rarely discussed on Linux HR Management Systems? · · Score: 1
  21. Where is Gordon Freeman on British Traffic Wardens Issued CCTV Head Cameras · · Score: 1

    when we really need him ?

  22. On a normal hardware you can on Open Source Highly Available Storage Solutions? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Use mirrored via DRBD SCSI or SATA disks on storage nodes which exports iSCSI devices.
    On usage nodes you can use ocfs2 or RedHat's gfs for accessing those iSCSI devices.
    You should also use meaningful fencing/locking methods. (read manuals for ocfs or gfs for details).

  23. I welcome on Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our high-flying wind-powered overlords!
    Seriously, it reminds me of a flying isle Laputa from the famous Jonathan Swift novel...

  24. Like Asimov's three laws of robotics on Bloggers Propose Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    This code of conduct is fictional too.
    Do you REALLY believe that robots are REALLY obeying Asimovs three laws of robotics? Especially battle robots?!

  25. I have an old Russian book, dated 1986 on EFF Patent Busting - Prior Art Needed for VOIP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Samoilenko S.I "Seti EVM" (Computer Networks), Moscow, Nauka, 1986

    which describes Adaptive Communication (connecting voice phones using packet switching).
    This book also referencing
    Bellamy J.C. Digital Telephony. John Wiley and Sons, 1982

    May be something can be found in that book too?