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  1. any one else? on Rob Enderle Announces Death of Bluetooth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Any one else sick of this asshole? I'd tell him where to stick his Farrari laptop and BSD-like predictions...

  2. Re:Cart before the horse? on Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why do people forget that such large portions of the INTERNATIONAL space station were built by Russia?

  3. Re:I bet they do it, too... on Russia Working on Soyuz Replacement · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, the US has deep pockets and has been actively funding the Russian space program for years through subcontracting.

  4. Re:Assembly AND Military Experience Required on Navy Jet eBayed - Some Assembly Required? · · Score: 1

    Actually, the auctions says it has an N number, which is not experimental.

  5. Re:Legal? on Kazaa Offices Raided · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you are liable if you build an alley and people sell drugs in it. Recent [draconian] legislation called the Marijuana Anti-Proliferation Act makes it your problem if someone deals on your property.

    Also, think of if someone breaks their neck on your front door step. You are very likely to be held liable for their stupidity,

  6. Re:Hollywood Star on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    They should display icons of all the knights down the Thames

    Hey man, the Thames is already dirty enough!

  7. I certainly laugh.... on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    'we will laugh at personal computing as we know it.'

    I already laugh at windows as we know it...

  8. Re:Pipeline stalls on Intel to Increase Stages in Prescott · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, you wouldn't be talking about branch prediction, would you?

  9. Re:The reviewer is missing the point on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 1

    Um, download required libraries or packages, build/install. Compile GIMP, run GIMP. Sounds pretty familiar to the Linux experience to me. What crack was he on with "Linux binary compatibility...".

    It isn't a familiar linux experiance if the guy writing in was a scrub that thought RPMs were how linux software was really distributed.

  10. Re:More Details! on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Well, my doctor and I had a pretty long chit-chat about the wine thing, and he actually told me to drink a little more becuase of the flavaniods in Red Wine (and Grape juice), but also because the alcohol thins the blood which the heart apparently likes. I am not at risk for any sort of disease, we were just having general conversation, mind you.

  11. IPO statement on Yahoo to Dump Google · · Score: 1

    I believe the author of this post doens't realize that this was probably in response to Google's IPO. As a close partner, Google probably would have been obliged to mention this to Yahoo; certainly everyone speculated about it.

  12. Doesn't matter on Cringely's 2004 Predictions · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if SCO is found to be correct in this train wreck, it doesn't really matter. IBM would likely buy the company and properly release Linux from all commercial licenses. IBM has way to much invested into open source development and deployment to let anything else happen. End of story. They don't want another company with another monopoly over an OS.

  13. Re:RIAA Strikes Back... on Shatner to Record Another Album · · Score: 0, Redundant

    An album of medical-related cover versions (Something's Got A Hold Of My Heart, etc) from DeForest Kelly

    Sorry, but, uh, He's dead, Jim.

  14. Re:And Worse Yet on Nigerian Scammers Claim Another Victim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh, it is the creditors responsibility to only grant credit to those that can afford it. The fact that they gave a guy the ability to borrow 320,000 without the chance to repay it is what makes me think about who the true dumbass is in this story: the bank. The guy will file for bankruptcy next week, and they'll (the banks) will be the ones paying for thier greed.

  15. Re:Father and son, bedtime chat on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    You forgot that key step at the top, when the weapons inpectors were not allowed to do their job.

  16. Re:The Election's over... on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    He accomplished his goal,

    Then where the fuck is Osama Bin Laden?

  17. Re:Utah ? on New Wi-Fi Distance Record Set In Utah · · Score: 1

    To redefine, I don't give two-shits if they were LDS or not. Just that they are from Utah. If you look at the top parent, it doesn't say anything about LDS, just Yetah. The parent below that brought LDS excommunication into play.

  18. Re:Utah ? on New Wi-Fi Distance Record Set In Utah · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, but the guy isn't far off point.

    here is this news article

    It states between 50,000-80,000 people live in "multiple marriage" households. It also talks about a lawyer in SLC that has 30 wives and escapes legal hassle.

    here's another good one

  19. Dude, total ball drop on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 1

    "So You Think Physics is Funny"

    Every person that's ever taken ugrad physics has been nailed with the "Physics is Phun" bad joke!.

  20. Also important.... on Track People Using Their Mobile Phones · · Score: 1

    'It's important to know where your loved ones are for your own peace of mind'.

    Its also important to know where that girl you just met at the coffee shop is at all times....

  21. PROM? on Anti-static Polymer Stores Data, Too · · Score: 1

    an old fuse-link PROM

    Where do we get this so called fuse-link pr0n?

  22. Re:It was already written for a different audience on First Review Of Return Of The King · · Score: 1

    You clearly haven't seen the various Lord of the Rings and Burger King crossover promotions

  23. Re:To what effect? on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    Random Corperate Giant is making the decision, not the users

    One Random Corporate Giant making a decision is a lot more effective than random users making many different decisions. Linux on the Desktop has been hard to accomplish due to this. A consortium like this one will at least allow a uniform direction for it to grow in.

  24. Re:Reduce Power? on Intel To Produce 65-Nanometer Chips In 2005 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    While leakage is a big problem, its not as big as the power usage per switching transisitor, which if P = C * F * Vdd^2. This is the power consumption when the transistor goes from its high to low state and reducing the distance between gates reduces the capacitance in the wire. At really high frequency, you can make any wire seem like a capacitor, so its important to reduce the lenght of wire you're using.

  25. Damn pictures on The Amazing Shrinking Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    The three or four times /. has covered the Blue Gene, the articles haven't had any useful pictures in them. Its pretty frustrating to read "about the size of a 30-inch tv" and not being able to see what the hell it looks like. If you go to IBM's website, they've got this artists' rendition of a cluster of the things, but my TV-supercomputer is nowhere to be found.