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  1. Re: And? on AOL Spends $1M On Solid State Memory SAN · · Score: 1

    I did - I glazed right over the large B. Woops! So now I have to think of some quick witted scat to cover my tracks....

    Nah :P

  2. And? on AOL Spends $1M On Solid State Memory SAN · · Score: 1

    6Gbs huh? Ok, so i'm assuming you have some special cable connecting to the SAN... I know offhand that dell sells the MD3200 - a DAS unit that transfers 6Gb/s... Although I estimated it was about 10GB in 30 seconds.

    I've got to be missing something here. The seek times are probably out of this world with this "specialized" SAN, but then we have equallogic SANs that can have 48 SSDs and have 10Gb/s...

    Hey AOL - you are in the arctic right? Can I interest you in some of this amazing ice?

  3. Re:Causation does not equal ... the perfect cover! on Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist · · Score: 1

    Funny... never have read it! :)

  4. Causation does not equal ... the perfect cover! on Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist · · Score: 1

    42? I think that's right. Let me double check my math.... yup!

    Lets see - a person surrounded by intolerant people who's main focus in life is money... So "saying" you were doing all these "weird" experiments (to produce gold from a worthless substance) would be the perfect cover for carrying out studies that might be looked at as heresy. Just as someone who knows nothing about programming sees you code and, maybe, lets say a vision of a malicious hacker comes into their mind - you are demonized. This, of course, is parallel to Mark Twain's adage - "Better to say nothing and have people assume you are a fool than open your mouth and confirm it."

  5. How about pulp fiction? on Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD · · Score: 1

    Try to graph that one for me batman.

  6. Re:ISS on Tapping Solar Wind's Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    All I want to know is, would there be a shark involved?

  7. Whats better than re-watching a horrible film? on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    re-watching it *and* it being up in your face!!

    Seriously - this has got to stop. Making a movie 3D doesn't make it good... *cough*Avata*cough*

  8. You can't do *this* with a CD!!! on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 2, Interesting
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy_bgoZD7bY

    Someone plays some rap record with a dixie cup and a thumbtack.

  9. I was wondering why on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    my downloads for pr0.... the internets were so fast today.

  10. Kinda scary... on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1
    If its not us...

    Reuters is a pretty reliable site - so right now i'm kinda wishing it were April 1st!

    Its kinda (really) scary because that means whatever is in those disks is probably Russians, Koreans, the Japanese, or India - or aliens. Maybe aside from one or two other countries, those are the ones listed with the tech to have surpassed us.

    Or, we could have developed something that just happens to look like things that have been reported to be flying around since the 50's.

  11. RGB values of auto-generated... on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 1

    RGB values of auto-generated, force-cached PNGs using HTML5 Canvas tag to read pixels (cookies) back out.

    I call the patent on this!!!

  12. Re:I'm no math wiz... on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    Nelson - "Say global warming is a myth"

    Milhouse - "Its a myth! Its a myth! Further study is needed!"

    **Punch**

    Nelson - "That's for selling out your beliefs!"

    I just had to! :)

  13. I'm no math wiz... on Scientists Cut Greenland Ice Loss Estimate By Half · · Score: 1

    but isn't half of "a lot" still "a lot"? :S

  14. Hey, lets burn some books!!! on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fahrenheit 451 anyone?

    I'm usually against listening to any far winged nut job, but this is freedom of expression which falls under the first amendment. While it might seem caveman-ish to me, and I in no way agree with it, we gotta let dem foos be foos.

  15. Re:You're kidding me... on Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook · · Score: 1

    The sky looks pretty today. :)

  16. You're kidding me... on Narcissists, Insecure People Flock To Facebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean these people who used to (I deactivated my facebook account long ago) annoy the arse out of me with their childrens every bowel movement and that their workout was great are narcissists? And just want attention? I sense a book on facebook addiction and overcoming it coming out soon.

  17. I wasn't impressed with it at the theatre on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 0

    In fact, when I walked out with my friend, I asked one of the girls working there (probably no older than 20) if I was the only one who thought the movie wasn't that good - her eyes got as wide as saucers and said "Thats the first time anyone hasn't liked it!!!"

    That makes me a sad, sad panda.

    However, the MOVIE (note I didn't say film because it wasn't) was watchable only because of the 3D effects. If it weren't for that, I would have become very easily bored by the linear and predictable storyline. And of course this makes me wonder if we will ever have some great film directors pop out of the woodwork like the types of tarantino, kubrick (yah, I know not everyone likes him), scorsasee (sp), and so forth. To me, the storyline could have been done in 30 minutes - not 2.5 hours. That being said - i'm sure this version will be +3 hours and do nothing but ruin the movie further - or is this a ploy to start getting people over to the expensive 3d world of home entertainment? The movie was pretty brainless, so I could see the "sheep" out in the world with a lot of money thinking this is right next to sliced bread.

    Umm... End rant? No - did we really expect to see anything added to the movie with a directors cut? Well.. they made the movie ridiculously long, so I can't imagine what else they could put in there to make it worse than it was.

  18. obligitory... on Skeletal Identification · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thats no bone!!!

  19. Misleading headline on Halo Reach Leaked To Filesharing Sites · · Score: 1

    I went scouring the torrent sites just to realize there was no PC port yet...

    Thats what I get for trying on my eyepatch before the coffee.

  20. So now we just have to worry about... on Researchers Zero In On Protein That Destroys HIV · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the anti-bacterial resistant gonorrhea

    HPV

    herpes

    Hepatitis C

    The last being the worst of them - but if a cure for AIDS is found, i'm sure HVC is right behind it - IIRC, they already use interferon and have a 50/50 success rate to put patients in remission (although the treatment is basically chemotherapy... so makes you feel like poop)

  21. My case of being "diagnosed" at a young age on A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I was a kid.... wild. That's how it goes sometimes. My parents were very strict, and expected the best from me. When I didn't adjust to middle school, they took me to a quack (note this is almost 20 years ago) and he gave me a test to complete.

    I went to work, and every now and then he would snap his fingers. I would look up and give him a "what?" look?

    He replied "Oh nothing, go ahead and continue on your test."

    I did so, and he repeated his snapping of his fingers, much to my annoyance 2 more times. After that, I was put on Ritalin, then Dexedrine throughout 7th and 8th grade and refused to take anymore when I entered high school.

    During middle school, I never ate - great for a growing body i'm sure - and I ended up at around 6 foot weighing in at 130 lbs. It took a toll on my body and I can only imagine my mind.

  22. *does not affect deactivated accounts on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I deactivated my account log ago, and just checked - it doesn't say a word about who I am. Not sure if anyone else has tried this to actually see if it works.

  23. Either you do, or you don't... on Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex · · Score: 1

    know how to talk to a woman in the right way to get some. Obviously you aren't going to land a supermodel if you are a geek, but there are plenty of girls who enjoy a good shag from your average joe that views it in the same way that they do.

  24. Re: on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    No doubt!!! The whole wolrd (and especially the middle east) knows we (the USA) are capitalistic pigs, so wouldn't it make sense to pay someone else to do our work for us - like we do with pretty much everything else? (blatant exaggeration with 1/1000 of truth)

  25. Clarification needed on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    The Obama Administration wants to go after wikileaks.

    This is not the work of one man... This is the work of pentagon officials and the like.

    If Obama were responsible for everything his administration does, I think we could classify he, and any other president ever, from the planet Kypton.