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  1. Re:Malwarebytes on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 1

    And once again the joke is on you twice over.

    1) the virus's in question don't really exist So no matter what you use you can remove them.

    2) Your running windows. The only OS that encourages virus writers by never fixing the underlying OS defects. Just adding a bit spackle to make it look good, and prevent that one virus from doing bad things. As genuine MSFT certified apps also require that function.

  2. Re:7 or 9 inch iPhones on Larger iPod Touch In Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    That refresh rate is typical of all current e-ink devices. It is a side effect of the yet to be perfected technology.

  3. Re:Global Warning on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    don't worry there is always the dust in the air.

    Though complaining while choking is kind of hard.

  4. Re:Malwarebytes on 400,000 PCs Infected With Fake "Antivirus 2009" · · Score: 3, Funny

    the wooshing noise you heard was the sound of thousands of linux boot disks flying over your head.

  5. Re:tips on Home Generators (or How DTE Energy Ruined My Holidays) · · Score: 1

    if your going the small generator route, shell out the extra $500 and have an electrican install a manual transfer switch and recpitcal outside the house. when the power goes down, start the generator plug in ONE cord and flip a couple of switches.

    It is safe enough that anyone can do it and the witches prevent back feeding the panel and the rest of the house. When power comes back on the rest of the house is restored and all you have to do is flip the switches back and unplug ONE cord.

  6. Re:In the 1960s on How Small Can Computers Get? Computing in a Molecule · · Score: 1

    You need to turn in your geek card.

    Computer small enough to process audio inserted inside the ear. Reprogramble Bluetooth headset that sits in between your skull and skin. Medical diagonstic equipment that you swallow or is inserted into the blood stream by injection.Light weight glasses with mp3 playback(yes they existnow but only In bulky frames)

    Of all of those a subdermal reprogramble(by light flashes like the old MSFT watch) would be awesome.

  7. Re:more importantly: on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And Dell is doing 2 billion annually and for a while was about to fall apart at the seams as it took them 15 billion to earn that 2.

    Also MSFT reorganizes every other year(at least for the past 6. Keeping track of exactly what is in each division and where that money comes from is a full time job unto itself. Does the business division include MSFT office for home users?

    It doesn't matter how much you earn, it is how much you are losing. looking at 3 months means nothing. Looking at a year is okay, Looking at everything is s start. MSFT doubled the price of Windows when Vista came out yet their income only partially increased. That mean less overall sales. Slower sales mans that they are losing leverage.

    From the math it sounds like you are going to the US government or Wall Street school of economics. it doesn't matter how much you lose as long as you are using big numbers.

  8. Re:It must be real on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    That doesn't explain what happens when you break it though. Density is part of the design. I would expect that only the actual damaged parts would release energy, as it is no longer being stored. So while breaking it in half would release some energy, the two halves should hold on to the bulk of it.

  9. Re:more importantly: on InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft · · Score: 1

    actually that is where you are wrong. For every million dollars ms spends on R&D they get something like $100 back. MS resarch while doing cool things seldom make it to the market. Nearly every other division of MSFT is losing money with the exception of windows and office. If you marginalize either one of those products MSFt goes bankrupt in less than 10years.

    IBM had many successful product lines to make money on. They also overhauled their entire operations and became a team player.
    Can Ballme ever be a team player or will it be MSFT's way only. Even today they would rather bully and buy(see ISO vote) rather than play fair.

  10. Re:Minerals on Chandrayaan M3 Instrument Confirms Iron-Bearing Minerals On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Only if it is oil or the magical element that enables cold fusion. Considering oil comes from dinosaurs so I don't think there is oil there

  11. Re:It must be real on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Where did you hear about the explode on impact part? I have been wondering what happens under such things but I haven't seen a good answer yet.

  12. Re:It is completely ignorant to think... on Security Flaws In Aussie Net Filter Exposed · · Score: 1

    Actually all three sank roughly the same way. A hole in the bow caused massive flooding,sinking the ship. The redesigns after titanic helped, but the base design was flawed. While the britanica took a torpedo and had a full complenment of life rafts. All three ships sank similarly.

  13. Re:How? on Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power · · Score: 1

    well first get fusion working here with the limited stock piles that are on earth and then go to the moon for large scale operations.

    I am not against manned intersolar travel. I am against wasting money when all it does is allow a geologist to write a paper. Now if robotic probes find huge quantities of valuable minerals(including water), then yes a trip to the moon would be useful, but remember it has taken dozens and dozens of launches to build the ISS. Building something equally sized on the moon would take hundreds, and you have a three day trip to get there.

    Potentially less if the new plasma drives work well enough.

  14. star trek isn't dead yet on Scientists Hack Cellphone To Detect Diseases · · Score: 5, Funny

    And thus the building blocks of the medical tricorder are laid.

    tack on a portal ultrasound, xray , and micro MRI and maybe doctors bills will start to come down.

  15. Re:How? on Obama Transition Team Examining Space Solar Power · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama doesn't want to kill NASA, Obama wanted to streamline a few of NASA's pipe dreams Like returning to the moon or manned mars missions. Things that have little practical value in the next 5 years. a return trip to the moon would only be for historical reasons and maybe to bring back a few more moon rocks.

  16. Re:flicker crashes on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 1

    possibly. LED's can pass inspection and fail two or three months into use. however those that don't fail will work just fine for 10-20 years. It is manufacturing defects that can't be detected until after they have been used for a while.

  17. Re:I don't know about you... on "See-Through" Touchscreen Solves Fat Finger Problem · · Score: 1

    It is an AC. do you really want hat citation?

  18. Re: Dropping Anchor on Mediterranean Undersea Cables Cut, Again · · Score: 1

    It is a method of laundering public money into non disclosed black op projects.

  19. Re:BSOD on British Royal Navy Submarines Now Run Windows · · Score: 1

    actually I subscribe to the theory that the firs two you mentioned were incompetence. How ever the second two were more likely malice.

    Intelligence services in the early 1900's weren't fast enough with information to say that the lucetania had weapons on it and get that information out to sub commanders to sink her. I think it was more like a stupid choice, to sail out into hostile waters. Like the cruise ships filled with well off people that still go through the gulf of aden right now without escorts.

  20. Re:you would only be dissapointed on Start Saving To Buy Your Space Shuttle Now · · Score: 1

    at several hundred million a launch you won't take it out very often.

  21. Re:Slippery slope on In Japan, a Billboard That Watches You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't that slippery slopes tend to be right it is that you have to plan on the people abusing your system.

    Building a device and put a stick of dynamite into it. see what happens, build a web site, even a personal one, and watch how often it gets attacked. If your going to plan for the future you need to think ahead. People abuse the things they are given and don't have responsibility of. So if you give some one unlimited powers with no oversight it will be abused no matter the intentions.

  22. Re:The mouse... on The Age of Touch Computing · · Score: 1

    So wait are you for or against terrible posture and positions for monitors?

    The simple fact is anyone who works on their desk hand writing letter after letter, leans forward and looks down at their desk all day long. It was a standard procedure for over a 100 years of engineering, because CAD drawings didn't come out until the 80's and 90's.

    There are a lot of jobs where not only touch screens but screens in different positions would be very useful. Drawing with a mouse is a pain, hence why tablets are so popular, but drawing with a tablet is a pain as you have to look away from your hand in order to actually draw what you want.

    My personal favorite desk would be two monitors. one traditional display vertically off to the side, and one horizontal display to show my "desktop" work surface, where I could draw, plot, map, and work with images.

    a simple fact is 90% of computer users aren't programmers, and programmers need to realise that. A mouse is a terrible interface tool for a lot of things. All programmers do is enter text so keyboards are mandatory. For the some of us, entering and manipulating text is secondary.

  23. Re:News flash... on Why Climbers Die On Mount Everest · · Score: 1

    That was exactly my thought as well. Death's on Everest is due to oxygen deprivation. next up death's while walking the Marinara Trench.

  24. Re:So ? on Mars Phoenix Lander's Ovens Were Destined To Fail · · Score: 1

    hey i can see the tech support bill for that one.

    think call center's in India are annoying?The martian centers refuse to speak any earth language.

  25. Re:Linux blasphemy on iPhone App Pricing Limits Developers · · Score: 1

    well I would say your 50% right. Linux machines on a closed hardware spec does just as well as os x. Especially with agui customized for said device(eeepc)

    Windows would require msft to test things a bit more.