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  1. Re:Made In China - outsourcing issues on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    News for you, complaining that manufacturers in a particular *country* are often found to produce shoddy work or violate contract specifications, does not constitute saying a bad thing about a particular *race*

  2. Re:Bullshit FUD - Not Chinese on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 1

    So you are saying Chengdu Aircraft Industrial (Group) Co. Ltd. does NOT make the Dreamliner rudder and some other control surfaces?

  3. Netscraft Confirms It on Will Quantum Computing Make It Out of the Lab? · · Score: 1

    Quantum computing was dying, or it wasn't. Then Netcraft confirmed it and collapsed the state to dead.

  4. Re:I've got a better deal on HP Spent Over $80M To Get Rid of Its CEOs · · Score: 1

    you're right, we'd try to do shit like doing real R&D to make enterprise NUMA x86-64 and port the HP/UX, NonSTOP, OpenVMS to it,s. Open source all HP wares and rewrite out the licensed 3rd party add-ons. Make sure Open/Net/DragonFly/FreeBSD and GNU/Linux drivers were available for everything. Make a new push for mobile devices with ARM. Full featured network directors and switches and SAN storage at one price without licensing of features. Make blade systems without the legacy "wintel server" components and with fiber bus so all non-processor/memory devices (bios/prom, various network adapters, video and other i/o) are external, consolidated and modular. I'll do it for $2.5M for ten year, 4 weeks vacation/year, no other benefits.

  5. Made In China - outsourcing issues on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wonder if the Chinese subcontractors cut some corners ro quality to make a little more money? or the other foreign subcontractors who make up 30% of the craft?

  6. Re:It will high tech and modern on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Borderline psychotic is blowing out stinky carcinogenic gasses and particulates for innocents to breath. Borderline psychotic is endangering other families in a townhouse or apartment building by going to sleep smoking. Borderline psychotic is throwing butts out a window by fields in a drought. And just look at how they act when they can't get their nicotine fix, many go over the borderline at that point. Why accommodate people like that in any way? They should be banned from having health insurance or receiving any public medical benefits.

  7. Re:Core memory on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    haha, I think with paper and filings you *might* be able to see adjacent cores were in different states, but you'd not be able to tell 1 from 0 unless you also included a little magnet with known poles.

  8. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    there is also a technique called post tensioning, metal "tendons" (cables in the rebar cage) are tightened with jacks after the concrete poured.

  9. Re:"Think again" on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 1

    You call this a tabloid? think again.

  10. Re:... walks into a bar. on Faster-Than-Light Particle Results To Be Re-Tested · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like tasteful jokes but that was a tachyon

  11. Re:Gentoo!!! on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    My method is faster than actually *compiling* Gentoo, at least all the matter in the universe gives residual warmth and hasn't disappeared due to proton decay and black hole evaporation

  12. Re:Bah! on A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day · · Score: 1

    what a task master, next you'll want us to wear pants in our cubicles

  13. Re:best hope is a raw read on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    not true, smarter software will read sectors with different interleave timing, and also move head in from one direction, then try the other. this is a mechanical device with slop and backlash, you can actually be reading from not quite the same areas on successive tries.

  14. Re:Brute Force? on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    You can generate any movie that way too, just spit out all possible combinations of 4.7 GB for the DVD version, or if you don't care that much about quality all possible combinations of 650MB for the VCD version. I can save you some processor times with these optimizations, you can skip the case where are bytes are 0, 1, or alternating 0 and 1.

  15. Re:Core memory on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    How are the state of the bits visible? there are ROM (without core) arrays where there are junctions for "1" and none for zero. The state of bit on normal core I've worked with is no more visible than info on mag tape or hard drive

  16. Re:not that difficult on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    yes there was, called "re-runs". that's when it became hug. That's when I first watched it (yes I was around for most of the 60s, but kids under ten often find star trek too scary)

  17. Re:Bill Shatner on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 1

    So what? He's 80 years old for pete's sake, and doing great. Working hard on his horse farm in Kentucky probably is good for health.

  18. Re:Not an issue. on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    of course, he'd then whip out his tricorder and tell you *how* Obi was levitating something, that The Force was merely a religious construct explainable totally by physics and in fact related to the mechanisms of the Vulcan Mind Meld. Soon Spock would be levitating things too.

  19. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    only 10% weaker, hah no problem. In buildings you don't even go to 25% of the elastic limit. In any case, things have dramatically improved since the days of your engine story with 20 year old tech.

  20. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    news for you, been done for a couple decades. I was manager of engineering group that designed and had fabricated working parts and tooling by various layer deposition techniques.

  21. Re:Lessor of two evils... on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    You are the idiot, the stupid Chernobyl design doesn't count as a valid argument against any running nuclear plant, just as Model T shortcomings have no relevance when discussing modern automotive safety. Every Chernobyl survivor is only the victim of a cascading chain of stupidity and nothing else. Impossible for that to happen elsewhere.

  22. Re:Happy "Talk Like a Faggot" day on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Johnny Depp interview where he relates how uncomfortable Disney executives were during filming with his portrayal of Captain Jack the pirate. They called him and asked "is he (the character) supposed to be gay??....are YOU gay??.......is he supposed to be drunk??..... Are YOU drunk??"

  23. No Problem - Helpful Information for Germans Here on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    This information will be *invaluable* for Germans as they enter their new era of energy:

    Oui, je vais pencher pour votre énergie nucléaire. Me pénétrer sans pitié. (Yes, I will bend over for your nuclear power. Penetrate me without mercy)

    Laissez-moi le plaisir de votre pénis grenouille. (Let me pleasure your frog penis.)

  24. Re:Lessor of two evils... on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    Look up the World Almanac statistics for automobile fatalities in Manhattan from 1908-1912, over 250 people killed by hand cranked automobiles. Consider the total of those caused by civilian nuclear power plant radiation accidents: five. Good thing we no longer have the hand cranked automobiles, more dangerous than a nuke plant by far, eh? Even this year a guy was run over by a Model T at a car show, those killer hand-cranked machines still slaughtering.

  25. Re:Lessor of two evils... on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 0

    That so-called "spent fuel" isn't spent at all, it's a gold mine of breeding fuel stock. It can be fully "burned" to release many times more energy than has currently been extracted, and then will produce waste that decays in decades. Russia, China, India, South Korea are moving foward with this technology, while the dumb-ass United States sits on the sidelines wringing their hands