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  1. Re:Like many inventions ... on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 1

    they burn a little too well, remember at a friend's apartment we suddenly had roaring flames coming out the top of the chimney with just a few pallet boards. we doused that in a hurry, "stack fire" in a 200 unit apartment building wouldn't be good.

  2. Re:Shorten the working week on What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? · · Score: 2

    in many countries, it has decreased. Only in the stupid ones workers are working harder and harder for less and less money and benefits.

  3. Re:We had this in USA on Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    We do have corporate fascism in the United States, 95% the candidates in federal elections are in the pockets of large corporation, and thus in most cases voting doesn't matter at the federal level to effect any change

  4. Re:P&M? on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 1

    I have mine on shelf three feet to my left. College Calculus with Analytic Geometry (C) 1964, Fourth Printing 1966. We might be old 8D

  5. We had this in USA on Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers · · Score: 1

    labor movement born

    what do commies do?

  6. Re:wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    yeah that miniskirt with tights look came and went in the late 90s

  7. Re:360K already double-sided on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    DEC was huge, their floppy drive not really "rare" though if someone's experience only in home/hobby systems of that day they might have missed it

  8. Re:So perhaps /. will finally fix its shit on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Over half the web doesn't need SSL, and the way it is implemented is an overpriced scam

  9. Re:Simple on What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? · · Score: 1

    wow, that's just like GNOME project

  10. Re:360K already double-sided on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1
  11. Re:360K already double-sided on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    wrong, there was also 80 cylinder, 96 TPI, single sided, double density, 360Kb disk

  12. Re:Not a cargo ship on New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am captain of the world largest ship, change course at once and give us right of way"
    "I am a lighthouse bulb changer, your call"

  13. Re:Makes me wonder on NASA Study Proposes Airships, Cloud Cities For Venus Exploration · · Score: 1

    there is no reason the probe has to send data back "indefinitely". Small disposable probes can be released periodically

  14. Re:Why do people kill instead of scale back? on Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End · · Score: 3, Insightful

    those don't pay steady salaries

  15. Re:another possibliity on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 1

    well, I almost said the same thing; just that they're ancient permafrost preserved alien farts, aged like fine wine

  16. Re:Easier method on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    I would expect to get my pasty white ass shot dead by Chicago cops trying that stunt

  17. another possibliity on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    there once was life on Mars, and it left methane hydrates in somewhat permafrost type situation that gets slightly warmed at times

  18. Re:Easier method on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 2

    Certain types of black people get treated very well in Chicago by the police, others like trash. That is not racism, there is another kind of social stratification going on.

    suggesting adoption for purpose of making social experiment is silly.

  19. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    Nemo was kind of like Khan, driven only by revenge for the killing of his wife and family and loss of his kingdom in the First Indian War, and his vendetta against imperialism.

  20. Re:wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 2

    I have shocking news for you from the 19th century, they inform me that the Great Eastern could only become a submarine vessel after sinking, what with it being a surface steam ship and all

  21. Re:wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    that was done in 1949, that Aerocar and other flying cars since then of course require a pilot's license. The market figured it's just better to just buy a damn plane and leave it parked at the airport.

  22. Re: AH, the good old days on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 2

    In older times companies were proud of their real leaders (NOT referring to management necessarily). That included engineers who had major accomplishments and who had earned respect for a lifetime of work. Those are the kind of people who could make such a joke and client's customers would know it was that person's joke, because they trusted that leader and had long success with their work.

    Now companies only brag about their C?O people, everyone else is nameless faceless disposable droid

  23. Re:That's not a joke! on The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax · · Score: 1

    That is in older machines; with the advent of virtualization and the possibility the machine might be virtualized, the device is now fully implemented in software with a FINO queueing algorithm (first in never out).

  24. Re: wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 2

    No one ever claimed he invented or conceived of the submarine. Put your straw man back in your poop chute.

  25. Re:wimpy talk on Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use · · Score: 1

    forget transitors, they're so 20th century. Quantum dots and such, that's a better use for graphene