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  1. SWISH-E on Microsoft COO Warns Google Away From Corp Search · · Score: 2

    Sorry Microsoft, you must have missed the memo. SWISH-E stole your business years ago.

  2. Re:Christians claim to be children of Abraham? on The Shallow Roots of the Human Family Tree · · Score: 1

    Very funny. I can appreciate a good joke. I hope that isn't how you really feel though. If so, you might read through Luke and, if you have some extra time, John. They give you a much better picture of what God is all about than the catholic church might have you think.

  3. Re:Grammar grammer gramma on Over 12,000 black Nintendo DS Lite Systems Stolen · · Score: 1

    I'm as confused as you. I'm usually forgiving if I can make sense of it, but that sentence is just terrible.

  4. Re:That's not all it does... on Study Says Coffee Protects Against Cirrhosis · · Score: 1

    I'd like to know too. I don't know WTF he's talking about. Hemroids? That only has one r. I suck at this game!

  5. Re:Might as well cut out the middle man on SanDisk Baits Apple And Woos Rockbox · · Score: 1
    by Jeremi (14640) on Friday June 02, @03:24PM (#15456867)
    14640 is not a low userid?
  6. Re:Make your own mascarpone! on The Molecular Secrets of Cream Cheese · · Score: 1

    It's called air. Or did you think that wine came about due to spontaneous generation?

  7. SBC's new 6mbit DSL on ISPs Offer Faster Speeds, Why Don't We Get Them? · · Score: 1

    I just upgraded to SBCs new offer of 6Mbit DSL. According to my DSL bridge, I'm sync'd at the 6mbit, yet I only am able to download at 2.4mbit. It seems like they're doing some rate limiting besides what the modem syncs at now.

  8. Re:Unarmed Combat on Wisdom From The Last Ninja · · Score: 1

    Fool! Everyone knows the Solar Stance is the invincible martial art!

  9. Re:Or is it a good way to become oil-independent? on Tiny Biodiesel Reactors · · Score: 1

    Silliness, Photovoltaics give a much higher efficiency than that. Fuel cells are a great way to store that energy. Biodiesel is a great way to use leftover french fry grease, but large scale production is dumb.

    While you might be inclined to confuse your efficiency ratings, photovoltaics efficiency is measured with respect to the energy input, not the production energy. Since we only care about how much energy it took to produce the thing, it's a lot better than it looks initially. We're talking about net returns of MULTIPLES of the input energy, versus .4 or .3

    I don't know about you, but I'd rather see solar panels everywhere before I'd like to see genetically altered "Power Corn." Especially since the returns are better.

  10. Re:The Whole Open Source Experience on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Since when did this become a holy jihad to gain market share? Everyone around here seems to be confused lately. Why should any of us care whether or not you use the same operating system? Your loss if you don't.

  11. Re:Biggest productivity-killer around on MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites · · Score: 1

    How about we sue the company for violating the employees reasonable expectation of privacy?

  12. Re:Locustworld are the real heroes here on New Orleans Tech Chief Vows WiFi Net Here to Stay · · Score: 1

    I'm still waiting for the MeshBox x2 to materialize.

  13. Re:Atoms are democratic too on Cockroaches Make Group Decisions? · · Score: 1

    Is this a trick question? Obviously you put the two dividers directly next to each other. Duh!

  14. Re:Meta-commentary: "Gorgeous" really relevant? on The Real Purpose of DRM · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, I have no problem with it. I'd rather see the april fools article. What I rather dislike is every whooping idiot on her calling the girl ugly. She might not be the smoothest thing about, but she's not ugly, and how would any of them like to have their image dissected on girldot.org? I'd be a fair bet that most of these guys whoopin' about don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger did when he was 20.

  15. Re:Virtualization is the next commodity technology on Microsoft Providing Virtual Server Free · · Score: 1
    It's only recently that processor power has reached the point that an x86 powered computer had the processor performance to overcome the inherent design limitation historically imposed by design decisions made by IBM and subsequently Microsoft and Intel that can make use of all the power available in the processors themselves. For a multitude of reasons (off topic) this power is irrelevant to most home users and business users of pcs. More importantly this power is irrelevant to the majority of server purposes.

    You mean like the force?

  16. Re:MD locks me out of my own music on Why Sony Should've Put Its Weight Behind Hi-MD · · Score: 1

    You completely missed the point. The point is that MDs suck, and this is why he doesn't use them. That's Sony's problem, and it's why MiniDiscs aren't used by practically anyone.

  17. Re:Not just $20's anymore? on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    The funniest thing is that the stores don't get outed any money for accepting counterfeit bills. They just go turn them in for real ones at the bank, and then the secret service takes off with the counterfeit ones.

  18. Re:Meta-commentary: "Gorgeous" really relevant? on The Real Purpose of DRM · · Score: 1

    Incase you didn't notice, the "editors" don't write the stuff in quotes. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a quote, by definition. Some dude named Roberto used that adjective.

  19. Re:Not just $20's anymore? on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    Most ATMs already support outputting any denomination of money. For example goto a Bank of America ATM, it'll ask you to punch in the amount you'd like rather than select it from a list. That's because the software and the machine both support other denominations. However, the bank chooses to only put $20 bills in the machine.

  20. Re:1.75 transaction fee on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    WHen you start talking about it in terms of interest, or much anything else. It's outrageous. Goto taco bell and get charged and entire food item to use your ATM? Since when to gas stations charge to use your credit card to buy gas? The whole thing is stupid, I refuse to use my ATM/Credit Card anywhere there is a charge. Which in turn means, most of the time I just don't go there.

  21. Re:The pronunciation of "LOL" on CUTEST WEB SITE EVER DISCOVERED!!! · · Score: 2, Informative

    If only I had mod points, I'd give you +5 Hilarious.

  22. Re:the analog hole isn't a myth... on DRM and the Myth of the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    They already do that watermark stuff with screeners. Those people remove the watermarks from the screens already too.

  23. Re:The Ugly Math on 42 *IS* The answer to Life, the Universe and Zeta · · Score: 1

    My basic understanding of it is this: The Riemann Zeta function can be re-written using the product function as a product of primes. Now, if the zeta function is zero, then you can't rewrite that number as a product of other primes can you? That means it's a prime number itself. See wikipedia for more information on the euler product formula connection. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function

  24. Re:Back in 1945 someone was saying the same thing. on Fleischmann to Work on Commercial Fusion Heater · · Score: 1

    Everyone, unfortunately the read out is a bit hard to interpret. It comes once a month in the form of a bill.

  25. Re:None of Those 5 Are My Reasons... on Top 5 Reasons People Dismiss PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    I think you'll find that MySQL seems easier because it is, in general simpler. I had a similar experience to yourself, but now years later working as a DBA and working with MIcrosoft SQL Server, I wish I had Postgres almost constantly :) Comparing MySQL to Postgres is like apples to oranges. If you don't need the extra features of triggers, stored procedures, replicated, clustering, etc. etc. then MySQL Is a nice little database server. When you actually want to start manipulating the data through SQL beyond just selecting exactly what you put in, Postgres takes the cake.