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  1. Re:Ants, Bees and Beatles on U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid · · Score: 1

    No, by "published material" I mean "vinyl and 8-track replication."

    And, whether or not the Beatles are more important than the Monkees I suppose is a matter of philosophical criteria.

  2. Re:Ants, Bees and Beatles on U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm sure the mass sum all of the Beatles' published material would be a lot. This hypohesis may also hold for the total biomass of beetles, too. :P

  3. Re:Three cheers! on Unpredictability in Future Microprocessors · · Score: 1

    Delta-C cheers for entropy!

  4. Re:That's genius... on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's quite an egregious security hole ...

  5. Re:Old news on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, dude. Would the average density of boaters in range justify the cost, of a tower that (unless high-powered directional) doesn't have really much range? That is, if you're not in near a metropolitan area where, chances are there already is a signal available.

  6. Re:Run by US Gov't? on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1
    Are other countries sure it's a good idea to be relying on that?

    As long as they're wearing tin-based cranial faraday protection units while operating GPS devices. Then they'll be fine.

  7. Re:Old news on How GPS Is Killing Lighthouses · · Score: 1

    Hmm ... or some other form of telemetry waypoint. Unfortunately, pretty much half of a cell tower's radius would be in mostly-unoccupied ocean.


    The pseudolites suggestion sounds intriguing ...

  8. Re:God on First Artificial Aurora May Lead to Night Sky Ads · · Score: 1

    That can actually be accomplished on a much lower budget! ;)

  9. Re:We should be ok.. on DARPA Contracts For AI Technology · · Score: 1
    ... after darkening the skies ... they turned to a new power source ... combined with a form of fusion, they found all the power they'd ever need ...

    :O

  10. Re:TV is disrupting its own business! on It's Not TV, It's MythTV · · Score: 1

    +5 Insightful? ... more like +5 Obvious ;)

  11. Re:You mean Trump.com? on Streaming a Database in Real Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    What?? You're fired!

  12. Re:Time to remove on Build Your Own BSD Beer Brewing Control System · · Score: 1

    Lou: Looks like there's something goin' on at the old Simpson place.
    Wiggum: [whines] Aw, it's two blocks away.
    Lou: Looks like there's beer coming out of the chimney.
    Wiggum: I am proceeding on foot! Put out an APB, a 402!

  13. Defense ramifications ... on Robot Makers Say World Cup Will Be Theirs By 2050 · · Score: 1

    If they're able to make a robot so agile that it can compete with humans, they can no doubt make one that's armored and can carry an M-16.

    And they're already rolling out some robotic remote-controlled gunners in Iraq.

    Bullet-proof casualty-proof soldiers may change the face of global conflict nearly as much as the atomic bomb, if they can manufacture large numbers of them.

  14. Re:Well that's too bad.... on How Craigslist Costs Newspapers Money · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seriously .... it's the newspaper's inability to adapt to free information model that's causing them to loose money. If craigslist didn't start doing it, it'd be someone else, though perhaps less iconoclasticly non-commercial.

    The partisan rhetoric of "Craigslist costs the newspapers money" is just silly. With every significant innovation, some economic model/methodolgy will get the shaft. It's not them, it's you.

  15. Re:Good advertisement. on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, Microsoft hires Ron Jeremy in new ad campaign ...

  16. Re:Windows isn't the problem on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Damn me and my fundamental security wantin' ways!

    *punches self*

    Wow, thanks, now I feel a bit better.

  17. Re:Uhm... on Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So AMD (and Intel?) are planning on supporting virtualizing in their lower end CPU's in 2006?

    AMD's Presidio project is suposed to be out next year, but how about intel's Vanderpool project?

    I couldn't find any similar articles for Intel announcing any timeline for Vanderpool ... perhaps the Xen folks are waiting for imminent support there before committing dev resources to this?

  18. Re:In other news... on Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code · · Score: 1

    In yet other news ... nerds remain anal. :P

  19. Re:Finally... on Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're not quite dead yet.

    SCO: I don't want to go on the cart!

    Oh, don't be such a baby. You're not fooling anyone, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
  20. Re:Bom para ambas as companias on Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    As for FreeDows it shouldn't be an issue... while making a play with sounds is enough for infrigements

    Yeah, watch em pick up another $20M from Frito-Lay with that one ;)

  21. Re:Today's word is narcissistic on Linux Users Are Spoiled · · Score: 1

    it's basically somebody giving themselves an ASCII blowjob.

    well, I applaud at their success at composing an article in this manner ... last time I tried that I got seriously chafed from the USB slot.
  22. Re:That was not funny at all on GPU Gems · · Score: 1

    You're saying this about a joke that doesn't involve "In Soviet Russia ..." or "I for one welcome our ... overlords?"

    Personally, I for one welcome our new non-recycled format joke overlords.

  23. Re:Amen. on Young Programmer, Stop Advocating Free Software! · · Score: 1

    Well, for your analogy to really be more complete, the farmer could then control what you can and can't do with his produce, e.g., that you could only cook certain dishes with it. And possibly, who or how many people you feed with it.

  24. Re:Talent, not clock cycles on Big Blue to take on Pixar? · · Score: 1

    But aren't most of the writers actually from Disney?

  25. Re:Programming.... bleh! on From System Administrator to Developer? · · Score: 1

    Does putting "burned out" in quotes mean we're not making a distinction between losing passion/interest and going insane from being hunched over putting out lines of literature for years?
    That's sort of what happened to Poe, right?