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  1. Holy crap! on Docker 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    I can download a file from the internet and it will install and run on my computer!?

    Why haven't I heard about this before??

    Seriously, maybe explain why this is important for the old ones among us?

    (grabs bifocals and oatmeal)

  2. Re:Awesome on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 1

    No that's the "sitting naked on a synthetic leather computer chair" effect.

  3. Awesome on NSA's Novel Claim: Our Systems Are Too Complex To Obey the Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My biology is so complex it's not understood yet either!

    Woohoo! Behold the new lawless me!!!!!

  4. Re:South Africa is the new... on $470 RepRap Derived 3D Printer Going Into Production · · Score: 1

    Pretty much everything is made in China now.

  5. Re:Faster than the global average? on Rising Sea Levels Uncover Japanese War Dead In Marshall Islands · · Score: 0

    Well clearly, when observation contradicts personal theories, stick to the personal theories.

  6. Re:Faster than the global average? on Rising Sea Levels Uncover Japanese War Dead In Marshall Islands · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How can the wind be stronger in some parts of the Earth's atmosphere than in others? I would expect the air to move uniformly on the surface of a sphere (egg).

  7. Re:An Old Idea Resurrected - Again on Optical Levitation, Space Travel, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity · · Score: 2

    Don' forget Forward's Flight of the Dragonfly. Bonus: about half the novel is a technical addendum of the proposed starship design.

    Robert L Forward had the added bonus of being a bona fide physicist and engineer. He didn't goof around, he proposed a terawatt laser system to propel the ship ... with a return stage.

  8. Re:Only 40,000 a day? on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 2

    State.

  9. Re:25 year old technology on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    Hey hey easy there, my Sky King coaxial remote control helicopter is filled with these LEDs. It looked great for the 15 seconds it flew before it crashed.

  10. Re:great photowork there on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    there you go, some closeups of some other junk being bonded.

  11. Re:great photowork there on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 3, Informative

    My interpretation is as follows. The equipment shown is stuff that could have existed in the 1960s. In the West, that's pretty much how machines looked like in the 60s. The #1 company that made and still makes these machines is Kulicke & Soffa.

    http://www.kns.com/en-us/Pages...

    China basically scoured North America for all the old machines they could find. Ribbon machines that make incandescent lightbulbs. Pick and place machines. Board plating shops. Wire and ball bonders.

    All this stuff that used to the define the West's technological prowess. K&S is now based in Singapore.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Oh, and if you want to see something fast and automatic, look up chip shooter on youtube...

  12. Re:+1 MOD UP PARENT on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1

    It might make sense if the screens were shipped "naked", like the car sheet metal. But TVs come in corrugated cardboard boxes; all the curves are happening in the corrugation. You can ship eggs in the right kind of box.

  13. Re:Really? on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 1
  14. I'm a step ahead on Imparting Malware Resistance With a Randomizing Compiler · · Score: 1

    I swapped all the data bits around on my motherboard!

    Hahaha!

    Good luck!

    Oh wait...

  15. Re:With my luck on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    Pretty much ... :(

  16. With my luck on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 4, Funny

    the cartridge would run out when it prints my wienus.

  17. Re:A few is two. on Printed Circuits as Part of a 3-D Printed Object (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ever date a woman with a "few" extra pounds? You'll find the definition of a few is far more ... generous than you think!

  18. Re:Project MAC? on 50 Years Later, MIT Looks Back At AI and Networking Pioneer Project MAC · · Score: 2

    Youtube has many films from the era.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Mr Corbato himself.

  19. Been using it on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    since it was Commodore-s on GEOS.

  20. Re:"like the brain" is always a lie. It's that sim on Why Not Every New "Like the Brain" System Will Prove Important · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " It never crashes"

    Ever dealt with a schizophrenic or someone in the throes of a manic episode? Or just a drunk?

  21. Re:What could go wrong with the Vomit Comet? on Swiss Space Systems Announces Plan To Offer World's Cheapest Zero-G Flights · · Score: 0

    No, Canada is a wimpy place where criminals have more rights than a regular citizen.

  22. Re:What could go wrong with the Vomit Comet? on Swiss Space Systems Announces Plan To Offer World's Cheapest Zero-G Flights · · Score: 1

    If that was your only worry about opening a bar... Here in Montreal within a week you'll have your local thugs muscling in. No matter how upscale the neighborhood looks during the day. I used to work in Old Montreal when there was a broad daylight assassination on my street. The bar also had regular stabbings at night...

  23. Re:didn't know this had a name on How the Emerging Science of Proteotronics Will Change Electronics · · Score: 2

    I hear good things from Dr Rudy Wells over at OSI.

  24. Just like UHAUL? on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Low power to education ratio on The 69 Words GM Employees Can Never Say · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Which is why I would never encourage my kids to go into engineering. It's not the 1960s anymore, we've squeezed all we can out of engineering and we're coasting back to the historical mean of how humans behave.