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  1. Re:On the Subject of Pancakes on Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark · · Score: 1

    I loved that, the authors don't stop at mere data acquisition and mathematical analysis, they go above and beyond to provide a concise qualitative summary of Kansas as "damn flat"

  2. Re:$200 for 80gb? on Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark · · Score: 1

    that's all wasted space and power drain for half of laptop users. many of us don't store multimedia crap on our laptop. We just want OS and apps and a few gig for data. I'm glad the price is finally getting within reach

  3. Re:For the rest of the world on Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material · · Score: 0

    no, in some places it's "about 13 long tons"

  4. Re:Obligatory Dr Evil on Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material · · Score: 1

    but that'll get you 200,000 lbs. of sea bass

  5. Re:Editors, please edit on The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes · · Score: 1

    You think either of those numbers is close to the actual value? It's just someone's crude estimate, one could say 400 or 310 or 240 EB and be just as correct.

  6. Re:Works well, but significantly higher requiremen on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    oh! now I see, no rs-232c port on that one, and if no usb-serial in kernel can't do that either

  7. Re:Some CPU microarchitectures dropped from Debian on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    the last PA-RISC (aka HP/PA) was built in 2008.

    Ah well, people running those can just switch to one of the BSD

  8. Re:Works well, but significantly higher requiremen on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    maybe sshd not installed? that's been the default of debian

    try a

    sudo apt-get install openssh-server

  9. simpsons parody of the fishsticks gag on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    Homer: Look Bart! A Fresh Release of Unprocessed Ubuntu!

    (I love Debian for servers, but for desktop Ubuntu is smoother)

  10. Re:NetBsd kernel...what's the advantage? on Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors · · Score: 1

    to answer that, we have to be like the audience on The Tonight Show, and yell "Which Software Is It!!??"

    so, what do you run?

  11. Re:Should have said on Ballmer Says 90% of Chinese Users Pirate Software · · Score: 2

    so you've paid your royalties to the Chinese for the paper money and checks they invented, mirrors, glasses including sun glasses, any printing devices you might have, compass....yes?

    oh, you only mean they have to pay for inventions mentioned by documents important to you that were invented recently?

    silly you, they don't have to pay your country's companies a dime, but your country must buy from them or it would collapse.

  12. Re:Wouldn't mining the moon be a bad idea? on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    go ahead and laugh, but I saw The Time Machine and Cowboy Bebop . we cracked that sucker wide open! 8o

  13. Re:elements on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mr. T was quoted as saying "I pity the fool who broke my bling!". Tossing the remains of the crushed probe aside, he flexed his forearm and made a fist. "I'm going to introduce the fool to my arm-y friend, Major Pain!".

  14. Re:like anyone here knows what they're talking abo on Claimed US Military Wikileaks Source Arrested · · Score: 1

    For the last fifty years the only "wars" we've been involved with were to line the pockets of oligarchs and/or push the agendas of lawmakers in their pockets. who gives a shit what the grunts bleeding and dying to do their bidding think?

  15. Re:New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    yeah, for some the trip the spermatozoa made up the vagina was the last pussy they'll ever be inside.

  16. Re:Reminds me of the Dunkin' Donuts phenomenon on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    but at the end of the day, the French are still cheese eating surrender monkeys who should bathe more often.

  17. Re:MA-thee-MA-ics on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    thanks for explaining why they spell so well but staffnig the outsourced support desk no one can tell what the hell they're saying.......

  18. Re:New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    sterile mules can be born too......

    yup, they have mothers, and their birth was the last pussy they'll ever touch.....

  19. Re:not bad in spirit - but the implementation suck on FTC Staff Discuss a Tax on Electronics To Support the News Business · · Score: 1

    why have an agency and taxes, those local papers smart enough to get online (which has very low barrier to entry and very low cost) can survive while the dodos should go extinct. Adapt or die.

  20. Re:New species! on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    not worth cataloging, they don't reproduce though they continually try to inseminate their hand

  21. Re:always include a WTF is ? on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    hah! no, Symfony and Zend would be one and two. and #3 is NOT Joomla!

  22. always include a WTF is ? on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 3, Informative

    Should have including a phrase stating Joomla! is a combined content management system (CMS) and web application framework in PHP using MySQL back end.

    Seriously, I've used several such systems over the past 12 years but never heard of Joomla!, so I know I can't be the only one who would have appreciated a phrase defining the thing

  23. Re:Economic History Lessons of the Future on Sudden Demand For Logicians On Wall Street · · Score: 1

    such systems have existed in China, Arabia, India, Europe, middle east, north africa for thousands of years.

    you think it is some recent invention of four centuries ago, that's laughable. Back to school, boy.

    What IS about four hundred years old is the current form of the international banking cartel, which did use loans for corporations supported by slavery, major map-changing wars, and some other things which shaped the political and economic structure of today.

  24. Re:80's technology on GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C · · Score: 1

    it would be slower than fuck, but would certainly provide mental masturbation for the ivory tower types. The ivory tower types don't have engineering pragmatism but they sure make pretty code sculptures

  25. Re:welcome to 1985! on GCC Moving To Use C++ Instead of C · · Score: 1

    same to you about your sig