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  1. Re:Yes, nearby on Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's no moon...

  2. Re:Who needs facebook on Facebook Stock Going Public? · · Score: 1

    No, that would be Facefuck and Twatter.

  3. Re:Who needs facebook on Facebook Stock Going Public? · · Score: 1

    Facebook allows you to limit your trolls to YOUR trolls.

  4. Re:IIRC, this is the same sort of bug on Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed · · Score: 1

    Try Annuale!

  5. Re:Call me crazy, but on Less Than Free · · Score: 1

    Actually, Mercedes-Benz already leverages Google. You get the turn-by-turn then download it to your car's navcenter. My group was the one to implement this back in 2007.

  6. Re:More than free? on Less Than Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As in beer. The cost is less than free because you get paid to drink the beer.

  7. Re:Vulcans on Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and the leaders of 300 are King Leonidas!

  8. Re:New ending to that movie: on The Mass Production of Living Tissue · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's Moyelent Green.

  9. Re:Kongratulations! on KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor · · Score: 1

    That's Angele Merkel...

  10. Kongratulations! on KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor · · Score: 5, Funny

    My kompliments...

  11. Re:Fear of Tech? on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    Office Space...

  12. Re:Fear of Tech? on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    Or Karn Evil 9...

  13. Re:Oh great... on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 1

    867-5309?

  14. Re:hmm military using OSS on New DoD Memo On Open Source Software · · Score: 4, Funny

    Major Malfunction got promoted?

  15. Re:Great for Spinal Cord Injury but... on Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms · · Score: 1

    Not quite true. Without the nerve to release acetylcholine, the gates on the muscle fiber won't open. No NMJ no acetylcholine no workee.

  16. Re:Great for Spinal Cord Injury but... on Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms · · Score: 1

    Actually there is a growing body of evidence showing NMJ breakdown prior to axonal defect (which in turn leads to cell body impact). A few years ago a study at U.Wisc-Mad showed complete cell body rescue with intervention but without axonal projection and NMJ link.

    Regardless of causation, without NMJs there is no acetylcholine release to stimulate the muscle fiber. You can shock a steak all day long without it jumping.

    And I am pretty sure the article was talking about reanimating limbs with the external machines a preliminary step. Total agreement with your last paragraph. A device to control the diaphragm is already getting SCI patients off of tracheotomy ventilation. it is being trialed in PALS to extend the timeline for independent breathing (which I sadly missed by 6 months) and the results are encouraging.

  17. Great for Spinal Cord Injury but... on Neural Implant To Give Control of Paralyzed Arms · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...not useful for PALS (Person(s) with ALS) where there is no longer a neuromuscular junction (NMJ).

    Not a complaint; just an observation before someone gets excited for Professor Hawking.

  18. Re:Still some very important stuff to fix on Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" RC Hits the Streets With Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I remember the good old days of Wordperfect 5.x where the tree was navigable, the techs friendly and thorough, and the hold-music was periodically interrupted by live "traffic reports" of hold times for the various departments (I shit you not).

  19. Re:Hmm.. must be some difference on Student Loan Interest Rankles College Grads · · Score: 2, Informative

    And when you default on the student loans your wages and other income gets garnished. That renders your point moot.

  20. Re:Until they hit the jackpot on Sloppy Linux Admins Enable Slow Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Even a 100% increase would still be insignificant to the numbers of Windows bots.

  21. Re:From My Experience on IT Security Breaches Soar In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily malicious but in 99.999% of the time there is insufficient business case to allow it.

  22. From My Experience on IT Security Breaches Soar In 2009 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The best way is to remove the users' ability to do damage by enforcing tight GPOs, blocking access to certain types of websites, denying the ability to install software without your participation, blocking certain ports at the demarc (ingress and egress), enforcing automatic patching and virus data file updates, etc.

    It seems draconian but once they get used to not going to Facebook or eBay or playing Elf Bowling during work the whining settles down. Oddly enough most of the grumbling comes from the PhDs (who should fucking well know better) and not the administrative staff.

    User education helps but only to a narrow limit and degrades fast. You need to make internal security breaches an overt hostile act, which in normal commercial companies is extremely hard to prevent without also retarding the ability to get work done.

  23. Re:Well on New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars · · Score: 1

    I doubt Hugh Laurie would sign that contract...

  24. Re:iPhony on Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm's WebOS 1.2 · · Score: 1

    Total joke. I am quadriplegic and haven't held any phone for over two years. Nice write-up though; hope you grab some Informative points.

  25. iPhony on Recovery Tool Includes Leak of Palm's WebOS 1.2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Palm Pre: the iPhony