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  1. Re:De-facto benchmark on 12 Small Windmills Put To the Test In Holland · · Score: 1

    Ah, the solution is therefore obvious. You need to be annexed by the US. Thus, lowering your countries average energy consumption.

  2. Which mirrors my complaint about file sharing. on Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing · · Score: 4, Funny

    It removes one of the penalties for liking terrible music. You should be forced to pay a fine ( the cost the label asks for) as well as the punishment of actually having to listen to top 40 crap. How else are teenagers supposed to evolve beyond thier terrible pop music phase? If I ever write a file sharing technology, I'll be sure to put in a good taste filter.

  3. Re:Huh? on A Secure OS For the Dalai Lama? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are you trusting Massachusetts,or the US Government? I'm not sure I understand why. Especially, Massachusetts seems weird. Do they have some elite code review department I am unaware of?

  4. Re:Google will have to pay on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    Its not a matter of what they are doing, its a matter of what they are willing to do. Google works with law enforcement. Pirate Bay was set up to avoid law enforcement. But yes, the pirate bay would make a more attractive legal target than Google because of their overall revenue disparity, but also because they had less of a defense.

  5. Re:Google will have to pay on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 1

    It may determine if the officer gives you a warning or an actual ticket. Maybe, its more like becoming an informant will lesson your jail time, or even allow you to walk free.

  6. Re:Google will have to pay on What the Pirate Bay Verdict Could Mean For Google · · Score: 4, Informative

    The difference is that google would have cooperated with authorities and media companies. Take a look at what they've done with youtube and Video ID. They will actively try to prevent copyright infringement. Pirate bay didn't and wasn't willing to do that.

  7. Re:Why is it shown on the ground? on Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're right. The grass threw me off. So ... they spent some money to make it just look like it was on the ground, instead of just putting it on the ground. Classy.

  8. Why is it shown on the ground? on Kyocera's OLED Phone Concept Charges As You Flex It · · Score: 1

    Why is it important to have it near grass? It just seems odd. Is it supposed to be a wide screen tv for ants?

  9. Re:coal and CO2 on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1

    Those are good reasons to cut back on coal, I didn't know about those earlier. Thanks for posting those.

  10. Re:Penicillin and relativity come to mind? on Visualizing Data Inside the 30-ft Allosphere · · Score: 2, Funny

    Simple, the ones who invested the millions of dollars required for this data visualization, failed to do the thought experiments necessary to see what a collasal waste of money it is was going to be.

  11. Re:Global warming on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1

    No man, I'm not saying global warming doesn't exist, or C02 from coal isn't a major factor. Just that they are using the wrong dang blasted words! I just want honesty from people, regardless of their positions on issues.

  12. Re:Global warming on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 1

    I guess my point is if you look at coal you immediately see its dirty, and can understand why burning it could make the air dirty. So to make it clean, one would think, you'd have to prevent all of the dirty suit from getting in the air with filters. I'm not saying that global warming is not real or not man made, just that I don't think you can have a proper argument without agreeing to the terms. Of course, that doesn't stop politicians.

  13. Re:Global warming on Energy Secretary Chu Endorses "Clean Coal" · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, if you go to the anti clean coal websites, that seems to be their only legitimate complaint. They seem to think because burning coal produces C02, that it can never be "clean". When I think of something being "clean", I do not immediatly think of a substance being free of C02. With that definition, showers don't "clean" your skin and nothing can really ever clean your mouth.

  14. Re:Blah on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    As long as your FOSS solution was just properly configured well known applications, then I fail to see what the problem is. If they are writing their own solution in Erlang, then you have a point.

  15. Re:And all the admins ask... on First Look at Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta · · Score: 1

    So I guess the moral of the story is : Don't use SQL Server for email like workloads. Unfortunately, I think this is where most of the growth in the db industry is right now smallish, high concurrent reads/writes.

  16. Re:That's great... on Vista Post-SP2 Is the Safest OS On the Planet · · Score: 1

    Exactly! The OS cannot possibly be smart enough to guess what crazy thing I am going to do next to bring it to its knees! So, I'd rather it not try to guess at all. It might be good enough for people that are more predictable or ordinary in their usage, but not me.

  17. Re:Anybody really surprised? on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 1

    What are the Microsoft profit centers?

    Other than:

    Windows
    Office
    Exchange
    MSSQL Server
    Input Peripherals

    I would bet they have even more losers.

  18. Re:Greedy Capitalists! on Google Losing Up To $1.65M a Day On YouTube · · Score: 1

    No, I think it ads a touch of spice. Its like writing a math test in ink, or typing, before correction tape. You better think about what you're going to say before you do, cause you can't change it.

  19. Re:I just call them Web Designers on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    But people who don't fix the body, do call themselves doctors because they've more than earned the title. There are other types of doctors other than medical ones. In fact, I'm pretty sure they are in the minority. Doctors of philosophy have to be much, much more common. So why should engineering be any different?

  20. Re:Why Not Just Metered Service? on ISP Capping Is Becoming the New DRM · · Score: 1

    Complete hogwash. Its almost as if you have no business training at all. The obvious answer is to allow those that are happy with the current service levels at the current prices to continue to use the service ( the majority of their customer base), while increasing the capacity and prices for those who want more. That's how you maximize revenue.

  21. Re:This is clearly different... on Iraq Game Sparks Outrage, Soldiers Have Mixed Reactions · · Score: 1

    yes there are many different reactions to realistic war games. When you separate out the game from the war, in this case you really just cheapen the war and those that fought in it and those that died. That's what the veterans families are afraid of.

  22. Re:This is clearly different... on Iraq Game Sparks Outrage, Soldiers Have Mixed Reactions · · Score: 1

    No, thats not what I meant. What I mean is, if the world was perfectly at peace, you really wouldn't want to have a dictator rise up and start the mass slaughter of 7 million people, just to have something to do. War is hell. There may be sometimes where you don't have a choice, but that should never be glorified.

  23. Re:This is clearly different... on Iraq Game Sparks Outrage, Soldiers Have Mixed Reactions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, but the same ones that will play this game were the same ones that played the Vietnam War && WWII games. If those don't convince them that war is a bad idea, this one won't either. Worse, it will desensitize them to the real loss that occurred.

  24. Re:COBOL, not so bad on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    Yeah, its the coders, not the language. Java is one of the easiest languages to screw up the implementation while still having it "work". Java is flexible enough for bad coders to make a noose and hang themselves.

  25. Re:Perl, it's the new COBOL on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 1

    I agree on you assessment of COBOL, but lay of perl. Its cool like Jazz. It doesn't go out of style. COBOL is more like the US Mail service. Yeah, it works and is dependable and can't be replaced for everything, but generally time has passed it by. There are better ways to send information than mail. So maybe you don't get rich and famous by playing Jazz or coding perl, but there is a certain timelessness poetry to it.