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  1. cheaper solution on Space Junk 'Cleaning' Missions Urgently Needed · · Score: 1

    just shoot down any satellite the Chinese send up, they've lost the right to use the shared orbital space of this earth with their irresponsible creation of horrendous debris field

  2. Re:OK, it's time... on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    The editors rarely take good story submissions anymore, site is circling the drain

  3. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    I'm not referring to anything even remotely that recently invented

  4. Re:Rewritten for accuracy :) on vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month · · Score: 1

    so payback in a little more than 25 years, estimating inflation. what a great investment, *cough*

  5. Re:municipal fiber on vTel Deploying Gigabit Internet In Vermont At $35/Month · · Score: 1

    the free market would work great, if we had one.

    what you see is the failure of state capitalism

  6. sci-fi? on Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School · · Score: 1

    wrinkle and dune, very little sci in that fi. they're mostly philosophy expressed with fantasy

  7. hardly "much hotter" on Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought · · Score: 2, Informative

    this new model suggests 6000 +/- 500 degrees C, the old model was 6000 +/- 1000 degrees to some sources, but up to 9000 degrees by others

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262762,00.html

    the point is 6000 degrees C has long, long been in the possible range, and the earth's core may well be much hotter

  8. take good note of distros that treat it as stable" on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    Those distros such as SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, that claim it was production ready and have it in the install, should be shunned. Don't entrust your data to them

  9. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    XFS on linux doesn't have the "modern" features (which mature OS have had for decades), such as shared filesystem clustering

  10. Re:Aye :-) on Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage · · Score: 1

    eh? what major OS is NOT used to run OO languages?

  11. Re:Easy Solution on Ask Slashdot: How To Track a Skype Account Hijacker? · · Score: 1

    see?, interesting things are happening to you just imagining it

  12. Re:Hopefully... on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    you know we tried that but it puked Lucas and the worst of the others right back up

  13. Re:Do they know why? on NASA Lets Us Watch the Sun Spin For 3 Years In 4 Minute Video · · Score: 3, Informative

    The cause of the solar cycles is still under debate. One theory is tidal forces from Jupiter and to a lesser extent Saturn causes it, another is solar jet stream oscillations (which I think other replier below read about), another is the "solar inertial motion" of the Sun about the center of mass of the solar system.

  14. Re:More importantly, can anything be done about it on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    no, software companies that write medical software QA products in their QA Departments, I've worked at a few. the doctor does no such thing. you think they keep a regression test suite in the file cabinet next to the lens kits?

  15. Re:Maybe for range extension, but not day to day. on Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries? · · Score: 1

    nonsense, diesels are about 30 - 40%, look it up. don't believe random typos in wikipedia.

  16. Re:Proposal: on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cleanup May Take More Than 40 Years · · Score: 1

    that would be a very dirty "ground burst" with incredible amounts of fallout contributed by the plant....let's not

  17. Re:Well, duh on FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It · · Score: 1, Insightful

    no, it really is due to drama queen-ism by the obama administration, a 2% haircut to budget is nothing

  18. Re:Did it really work? on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    do you? for average PC applications (browsing the web, e-mail, office documents) 64 bit gives no advantage. for the above-average applications (multimedia creation/editing, CADD, running multiple VMs, ) it's very helpful.

  19. 64 bit x86 worked out, but not for AMD on 64-bit x86 Computing Reaches 10th Anniversary · · Score: 2

    AMD may have helped create the x86-64 market, but now it's getting killed by it. soon Intel will be the only major player. ARM market is AMD's only hope.

  20. Re:More importantly, can anything be done about it on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Dream on, eye doctors don't have time to manage and QA an open source project. they're not even qualified to do so. and to think they'd risk money on a multi-year project with uncertain outcome is ridiculous

  21. Re:Virtualize the environment on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 2

    no, that won't pass a HIPAA audit, a virtual machine running an obsolete OS is non-compliant, regardless of whether the hosting OS is compliant. this is also true in the realm of finance with PCI audits.

  22. Re:Instrument manufacturers on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    if they're not networked, what difference does it make? Plenty of CNC systems run MS-DOS

  23. Re:Rice and toilet paper on Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor · · Score: 1

    the filthy butt-paper is falling out of favor there, you should see the trendy ass-cleaning and drying computerized commodes the households are buying over there. so yes I can see the vilfication of anyone smearing their tush the U.S. way

  24. there is an ongoing effort to intimidate the populace into mental submission to government and its police. This is a necessary step in the transition to a police state. Just as one of many examples, four decades ago, the phrase "lock down" was used for one place, a prison during riot or violence incident. Now it is used for schools and major cities.

  25. Re:Hopefully... on Disney Announces "One Star Wars Movie Per Year" Plan · · Score: 1

    sure, could do it that way over couple minutes: jar jar and the sarrlac system initiation, jar jar at 100 years, jar jar at 200, .....but point is for those of us who suffered through TPM, we need the satisfaction and the closure.