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  1. Re:Submission standards slipping on Popular Mechanics Awards Technological Innovation · · Score: 1

    How the hell does a /. submission get accepted about a popular mechanics article that has a link to businessweek.com instead of a link to the article at the popular mechanics website?

    Hey, at least the BW link didn't "let the smoke out" when we browsed to it; ColdFusion at PM can't handle the load...

  2. Re:This just in... on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    You children have obviously not had the pleasure of experiencing latch-up in a CMOS circuit. Fairchild's early versions of their 74AC/ACT logic family was especially prone to this; all it took was to bounce a scope probe off the wrong thing to include a power glitch and set them off!! Smoke, fire, and the laughs of unsympathetic colleagues!!

  3. Re:Strange privacy protection on New Web Browser Leaves No Footprints · · Score: 1

    So, I guess the MacOS and Linux versions will require VMWare?!! ;)

  4. Preferential Attachment on Microsoft's 'Naughty or Nice' Patent Application · · Score: 1

    This looks like an attempt to patent a direct (and seemingly fairly obvious) application of the principle of preferential attachment, as presented by Barabási in Linked: The New Science of Networks and demonstrated everywhere. Prior art? Try, uh, nature...