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  1. Everyone wants to pull an Apple on Telecom Conference SUPERCOMM Shelved For 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Canon doing it for PMA... and so on and so on.

  2. The first thing that comes to my mind... on DARPA Aims for Synthetic Life With a Kill Switch · · Score: 2

    is...

    Nexus 6 Roy Batty... "I want more life f....er"

    Kill switch... sooner or later that life form will want to extend its life... the same as we humans do.

  3. Bach mp3? no-way on Bach Launches Updated MP3 Format · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn't Bach it was The German company Fraunhofer-Gesellshaft that did mp3 in the first place. Extremely shoddy article.

  4. Test first with real doll!!! on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 1

    He most likely will vibrate to death... they should test it first with a real doll.

  5. Re:Costs? on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Reading confidential corporate emails in plain text where it is not supposed to be is not incentive enough?

    and

    IMHO Anyone still using FTP for material that isn't completely open nor "in-"sensitive should get a corporate slap on their foreheads and rightfully be labeled idiots.

  6. Re:Absurd? on Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing · · Score: 1

    "couldn't care less.*" actually it should say "and should care less" to be more clear of what I wanted to say.

  7. Re:Absurd? on Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing · · Score: 1

    "...objects will aid us in *HIS* service..." emphasis mine... this is why there are different religions, it is all a matter of interpretation. :-D

  8. Re:Absurd? on Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not assistance they ask for, it is that the tool doesn't break/crash or become otherwise inoperable and IMHO that approach is less absurd and hints at the users humility.

    How much did a plow cost back in the day? If it broke? Without it you and the rest of the family would have a hard time to live.

    Now the absurd is that iPod's and the like should not be included. A persons main computer or server farm that pays the families bill... hell yes.

    But then again most modern people may be Atheists and could care less.

  9. Wow the "sales rep" was not seeing that comming on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    Epic fail... though I have to say the rep did do a good job showing humility. Good PR in the end.

  10. Ofcourse it matters... on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    not the domain/host name but the user name they have chosen.

    mofo@

    IamDeBezzt@

    fu2lngtime@

    I have countless others on file but not on top of my head. And yes I reject these faster than 1 CC.

  11. Re:No more AdBlock with JetPack on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1

    Yup it's fork time alright.

  12. I have talked with plenty of on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    so called statisticians too that have no idea what they are doing... They barely know how to define a proper sigma field so that they can use statistics on their sample set correctly.

    Very few people really grasp it... maybe as bad as one per major stats bureau.

    So it's not just programmers.

    Not saying here that I know all of it but it sure is simple to poke hole in a lot of stuff.

  13. If it can't fit in my pocket... on Why Everyone Has High Hopes For Apple Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ok here is my take on it...

    If it can't fit in my pocket then I won't be buying it. I would like a device that is like old scrolls and roll out. Folding it neatly into my shirt pocket when I don't use it. At most four times larger than a ball point pen.

    Anything else is stone-age.

  14. Snowcrash anyone? on 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus · · Score: 1

    How can this be news is a bit beyond me but then again I have had my coffeeeeeeee.

  15. Good morning Microsoft! on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Nice of you to finally join the rest of the class, did you drink too much last decade?

  16. Amiga Forever on The Amiga, Circa 2010 — Dead and Loving It · · Score: 1

    DVD set is a must (Ofcourse The various Kick's are needed but that is simple to get from the original disks or rom's.) Running all old code projects and to get at old content not available anymore because ooffice does not support Final writer and so on...

    http://www.last.fm/music/16+Bit/INAXYCVGTGB :-)

  17. Re:memory no... blood flow very much so on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 1

    Sampleset of the parent post was people 72->9x. Probability that the subjects already had other types of medication that does identical things like ginko-biloba is fairly high. That they most likely used aspirin is also quite high so the study IMHO just shows that it has no different nor additional effect to synthesized pills.

    You all must have glossed over my subject line but here it is again as convenience with emphasis:

    memory NO... blood flow YES

  18. On the UNIX(tm) side of things... on How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    at least 1000 servers per admin.

  19. memory no... blood flow very much so on Ginkgo Doesn't Improve Memory Or Cognitive Skills · · Score: 3, Informative

    Aspirin or Ginko?

    http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/ginkgo-biloba-000247.htm

    Better concentration (some subjects thinking that that is one of the memory functions) could be a side effect of them not having headaches due to hypertension. Sample set yadi yada and so on.... statistics and damned lies.

  20. Re:Factors of 10 on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    You really want to make it difficult in the world don't-ya ;-) Just imagine the byte ordering "woodoo" that would be needed. I don't even think an insane-mad-lunatic engineer would make something like that in the first place... talk about swimming against ALL odds.

  21. Re:PROOF! on Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool · · Score: 1

    I would say that the Solaris code is even cleaner and clearer than the Win-NT codebase. Linux is a bit all over the place depending on what level of cutting edge you want to be at.

    Many would prefer working code rather than beautiful/elegant looking code. From a maintenance POV it is often easier if the code adheres to the KISS principle and that can at many times make the code look fugly, unpolished and in great need of refactoring. Too much re-factoring "can" result in too congealed code where it becomes "impossible" to extend beyond certain inherent thought paradigms regarding the solution.

  22. what is that very faint... on Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool · · Score: 1

    what is that very faint oinking sound I am hearing. OMG I see pigs fly in the distance!

  23. Re:This number is meaningless on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    And I mean posting it as bmp's with full 32 RGBA glory!

    Oh did I crack someones monitor? Sorry!

  24. Re:This number is meaningless on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 1

    Or why not take a couple of 100MP shots of the screen at different light and angles and post those huge file... should be worth a couple of gigs right there :D

  25. It would have been better... on Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense · · Score: 1

    It would have been better maybe to make the internet R rated or at least PG rated. How many have acted older in their life when young? I would think about 99% of the entire human population. The problem on the net is that it is much simpler to "act" a certain age. Conversely I have seen many well aged persons act as if they were 9 year old punk-snots on the net.