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  1. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Wikipedia To Host Human Gene Repository · · Score: 1

    >>Well -- when you get right down to it, the human genome itself is full of errors, sloppiness, and outright sabotage, so I can't really think of a better host for it.

    Intelligent Design. There can be no errors as God is perfect. Therefore your just not smart enough to understand it.

    Laugh as it is the best counter to ID ever.

  2. Re:What a mixed day... on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Laugh until you cry?

    the one good thing about the US government is that it moves slowly enough that everythng that is caught in outright lies eventually gets ground under. It just takes a very painful decade to do so.

  3. Re:Dangerous slide on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I used to work with several guys from an Air National guard base.

    One year they were way under budget, and the commander bought nearly 80 $50 leathermans for his ground crews. They didn't need them, each one was listed as a tool for the their tool boxes but in reality each tool was walked home and a gift to each of the guys.

    you never come in under budget in a government job. doing so means next years budget will be slashed to that amount minus 10%.

  4. Re:Browser-based OS on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 1

    wouldn't setting firefox as the window manager in X be easier?

  5. Re:Cool I guess on The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects · · Score: 2, Interesting

    more like the lantian interface from stargate.
    fighter pilots could focus on their targets to guide missiles in, select which targets to fire upon, etc.

  6. Re:The Olymp-whats? on 2008 Beijing Olympics as a Media Test-Bed · · Score: 1

    Far far simpler. the government controls the media. just make it all olympics all the time and they won't have a choice but to watch.

  7. Re:Browser-based OS on The Next Browser Scripting Language Is — C? · · Score: 1

    Oh come on now can't you see the money flow.

    MSFT can charge for Vista and Internet Explorer separately.

    Of course the question one has to ask if a browser that is free can run applications as well as the underlining OS can what purpose does the OS serve?

    The secret to network aware applications is to move them to the browser? guess that is one way to push standards.

  8. Re:hmm on Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 · · Score: 1

    I am not sure. it could be a laptop finally able to run vista by 2015, or it is some linux users boredom who are running kde 5.2 with a Vista icon set and backgrounds.

    The task bar that is 1/8 of the screen is the clue.

  9. Re:I like Vista on There's a Sucker Converted Every Minute · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think I hear coders working on that right now in flash just because.

  10. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1
    probably not I rarely visit yahoo anymore it simply isn't worth it.

    Oh and after I use a GUi editor to setup my website i go back and re hand code the HTMl to clean up the over abundance of tags that get put in for no good reason.

  11. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    It doesn't bother me, as i just feel pity for them having to wait 5 mintes for the front page to load of ford, chevy, chrysler, nissan, and every other car manufactors websites.

    you can't even use the web to get reviews of car models as all those sites use gob awful amounts of flash as well.

    I find it frustrating enough on my cable line, on dial up I wouldn't even try but then agian by not trying i am losing benefits of the internet.

  12. Re:$12 a month versus $50 a month on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    Basic digital cable in Upstate NY is $55 a month, Basic analog cable is $55.95 a month

    Internet from the same provider is another 45.95 a month.

    new Yorkers are always getting screwed.

  13. Re:Nooo! on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    have them visit www.ford.com, or any other automotive retailer's website.

    the flash alone will suck down megs of data on something that is barely viewable with broad band is becoming the normal.

    a lot of car sites have so much flash you would think the police would catch on and arrest the serial flashers.

  14. Re:This has been known for years on Wood Density May Explain Stradivarius Secret · · Score: 2, Informative

    It would have to be an indoor tree farm, as things like cool temperatures, sunlight, humidity would all have to be carefully controlled. If a little ice age can slow the growth of the trees down you would have to duplicate that, over a period of 30-50 years to grow the slow growth trees large enough for timber.

  15. Re:The year of open office -- sorry, no. on The Microsoft Office Rental Program · · Score: 1

    While I find that hard to believe, it could be possible.

    The real question was it missing functionality or was the functions in a different spot than your used to. I find Open office to have every feature i need and a ton of stuff that just isn't useful to me.

    I tried to get an Office 97 user to use Open Office. they couldn't be bothered to learn were things had moved to. Like wise office 2003 or 2007 will also piss them off as things move around in Office pretty good.

  16. Re:[Troll] Re:extinction of zinc? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Um I know boats. I know history and your a friggin Moron if you think a wooden hulled sail boat can carry the cargo of a modern steel hulled container ship.

    hell a single container has as much storage as an old wooden ship had.

    world wide shipping would collapse, not stop. If you don't know the difference then you shouldn't be calling people trolls.

  17. Re:But they only produce power-- on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 1

    if the current produce enough power to light up two rooms every day would it be worth it?

    Your right it isn't the best way. In fact until we can produce sugar from sunlight and burn that sugar through chemical processes solar cells are going to be pretty poor for efficiencies.

  18. Re:glassdoor.com on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 1

    apple doesn't let marketing near a product until after steve approves the product. it is how they can keep products under wraps until it is almost ready for launch.

    Marketers can't keep secrets, ever. Didn't you read the article about privacy policy's earlier?

  19. Re:But they only produce power-- on Solar Power From Home Curtains · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly.

    Combine this with either solar hot water heater on our roof, or even more photovoltaic cells, possibly a 2 kw wind turbine and suddenly 50% of you average home power is being used by green energy.

    The coming energy crisis isn't going to be solved by any one thing, but dozens of small sub systems that work together. they don't have to be massive farms or fields either. just 30-50% of your home electricity is enough to offset the demand.

  20. Re:glassdoor.com on Who is Winning the Web Talent War · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Marketing in charge of technical products gets you Vista, Windows ME, MS BOB, Clippy, and a host of other software written by lot's of different vendors.

    I wish i had Mod points for you.

  21. Re:ICQ? on ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients · · Score: 1

    MSN is big in Europe and Australia. I have to use MSN for it. forutnately all you need is an email address and my gmail one works quite nicely with MSN.

    So I can use the same address on gmail and MSN, leaving different one for AIM and yahoo. I haven't used ICQ in a while too much spam when ever I was logged in so I stopped logging in.

  22. Re:Swap on Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? · · Score: 2, Informative

    well In linux and OS X you can actually disable swap. Windows however relies on it heavily, and with Vista under 4 gigs of ram you need swap space to store the entire OS.

  23. Re:Not so good benchmark on Are SSDs Really More Power Efficient? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course if the SSD is running under load the entire time it may actually run more often than a regular HD.

    from real world benchmarks SSD's only gain is from random reads. writes, sequential reads, etc all prove that SSD's are only as good as a regular spinning disk if not far worse.

    It is a trade off. both have advantages and disadvantages. Maybe in 5 more years SSD's will ultimately win but for now it can go either way.

  24. Re:extinction of zinc? on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 5, Informative

    that depends how much do you rely on goods that travel by ship on salt water?

    Zinc anodes are used as an corrosion point for salt water. So Instead of eating the steel hulls in the ships Zinc anodes take the damage. On salt water boats they have to be replaced annually or more.

    without zinc world wide shipping will come to a halt a decade later.

  25. Re:To us... on The Scream Aliens Hear From the Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    funny i was thinking the opposite. Mother earth is warning the aliens to stay away.

    Call it an interstellar quarantine marker from the planet itself.