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  1. Re:This is so frustrating on The Truth Behind the Death of Linux On the Netbook · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't be silly, it is quite well understood what Microsoft has and does not have. They have marketing power, but not technical excellence nor stable robust business grade software. They make unnecessary changes to major application's UI which serve no real purpose but confuse trained users. They force expensive upgrade and purposely break backwards compatibility to this end.

  2. Re:Ready...Aim...Fire on SLI On Life Support For the AMD Platform · · Score: 1

    if you're so quick on the draw as to blow off your foot, obviously the thing to do is to rotate your belt so your holster is on the other side with the good foot

  3. Re:100 years now on EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete · · Score: 1

    it's a fallacy to think that pissing away money on a problem will solve it. We don't have the materials to make an energy positive Tokamak, nor the knowledge if confinement over such a long time period is possible in a toroid bottle. We don't need a solution for 100 years out, we need one now and the fusion reactor in the sky puts out more energy than a thousand earth civilizations could use.

  4. Re:The results match pre-election poll on Statistical Suspicions In Iran's Election · · Score: 1

    and Israel is not committed to wiping out Iran? Israel has never attacked Iran before? Israel has never threatened Iran?

  5. Re:OS choice on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    even funnier DOS was written in 1979, in 1980 Microsoft was licensed to sell XENIX too. We could have had the foundations of a real operating system on our PC, instead we got a program loader.

  6. Re:#1 failure... on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    more expensive if it had been the chosen standard? seems price would have gone way down. From 1990 onward certainly my 680x0 based systems back in the day were comparable to x80x86 in price (mac and NeXTstation vs. my 80486

  7. Re:Low-tech solution on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    that quacks me up

  8. Re:What's the best alternative Distro? on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    the mainstream distros that use GNOME will have mono. you could always use one of many other desktop managers. I don't want anything to do with C# or Microsoft's diseased crap either

  9. Re:Some words from the packager. on Mono Squeezed Into Debian Default Installation · · Score: 1

    I care where mono came from, Microsoft is big enough and rich enough to come up with a way to make trouble. And I don't want nor need .NET or C# crapware on my machine. Plenty of languages can be used instead. So fuck mono.

  10. Re:Reuse? on Data Center Overload · · Score: 1

    yeah, for electrical power generation, how can there be a temperature difference big enough to plug into thermodynamic efficiency equation and not come up with an absurdly low number? hard limit there

  11. Re:Primates on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    Most people in the world don't have occasion to use either one, I'd have guessed they are for wanking

  12. Re:It's wet grip on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 1

    did you take advantage of your temporary affliction and commit crimes without gloves?

  13. Re:Why not on First Floating Wind Turbine Buoyed Off Norway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we have plants going for their 2nd round of 30 years. cost of campaigns is negligible. waste doesn't need to be guarded for a million year, it merely needs to be reprocessed because it contains 1% plutonium and breedable u-238, it's golden source of energy. Defense cost is negligible compared to huge outlay we make for petrodollar empire protection. Cost of nuclear accidents has been very small for sane reactor designs and procedures, nothing really major has happened compared to fossil fuel toll on life.

  14. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    but "nerd" also had a different meaning when it was first used in the early 50s, not of being bookish or into intellectual pursuits, but merely of being a boring, uninteresting, by-the-book person, a "square". As far as anyone can tell, Dr. Seuss invented the term in his 1950 book "if I ran the zoo", a Nerd being some kind of creature narrator would keep at the zoo.

  15. Re:Reuse? on Data Center Overload · · Score: 1

    er, the water gets recirculated with the heat removed; waste heat is dumped to the outside world. they run the water in circles.

  16. Re:Some people's small world on Data Center Overload · · Score: 1

    most people don't work in IT and do not know about the organization of a "data center". For that matter, I work in IT and often in data centers, but I don't play games on either my P.C. or with other people, I have no idea of the numbers of players of these popular online games which are only names to me.

  17. Re:Author of article is a fucking cunt on New Exploit Uses JavaScript To Compromise Intranets, VPNs · · Score: 2, Informative

    in the real world, where NAT boxes spit out dhcp on a default subnet with a default gateway address, what the author presents is indeed the case. but you may insert your head back into your rectum if you think the air smells better in there.

  18. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    chubettes, however, are women

  19. Re:The word 'Geek' is gender neutral on Linux To Be First OS To Support USB 3.0 · · Score: 1

    forty years ago, "geek" would have meant she wanted to join the circus and bite the heads of off chickens or bats.

  20. Re:Squids on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    I would argue periodic multiplicative functions of complex numbers are the most fundamental aspect of how we perceive reality, but maybe a hive mind of blind jellyfish would have other ideas, and couldn't see your patterns.

  21. Re:LA area Analog Termination Event on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    are they really switching at midnight in LA? many major metro areas are doing the switch at 8am on June 12th, because the wording of the law says the switch will be "on" 6/12

  22. Re:Bad use of tax dollars in support of commerce on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    obviously, you haven't seen the photograph of Michelle Obama serving soup in the soup line, where one of her poor needy people in line is taking a picture of her on his Blackberry. Wearing nice athletic shoes too, I might add.

  23. Re:Curious side-effect of the DTV switchover on US Switch To DTV Countdown Begins · · Score: 1

    when I hear things like that, it reinforces the notion of the whole rationale for a sudden unphased transition being a total load of maggot infested bullshit

  24. Re:Did they invent C too? on Unix Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    You'll be happy to know there is also E, F, two G but no H. There is J, K and L, and Q, R, S and T, and Y and Z.

  25. Re:In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    you call that a crysknife, mate? THIS is a crysknife.