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  1. Re:Hmm... on Hackers Fail To Crack Brazilian Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Yeah look at Debian, many years was it between releases?

  2. Re:Sports and Crappy Slow Internet on Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV? · · Score: 1

    most of the bit torrent stuff you are refering to is labeled HDTV, meaning is was recorded from hdtv, not nessacarily that's it's hd quality. but none the less you are totally wrong, I can record free to air tv in hd and transmit it via a torrent if i wanted, it'd be hd quality.

  3. Re:silly on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1, Insightful

    so windows server 2003, sql serevr 2005 are crappy software? your education is lacking.

  4. Re:Blu-ray is dead. on Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos · · Score: 1, Insightful
    i've had lots of people give me this exact line, then i sit them down to watch a HD movie on my 1080p 70 inch tv, and they all want one.

    all you are doing is making excuses as to why your tv is "good enough". well sir not everyone is content with "good enough"

  5. Re:1,000 years? on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 0

    maybe it's the disc's your buying. try spending more then a $1 per disc and you'll find they last.

  6. Re:Safe Harbor on MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download · · Score: 1

    no numbnuts, they are saying the public office running the wifi didn't understand the law so they shut down access. point being it was the local government office that made the call to shut it off, not the MPAA as the summary attempts to mislead you into thinking.

  7. really?? on Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's always been common knowledge that great whites come in close to shore, after all their food source lives on the beach. The summary and TFA make it sound like some great revilation that sharks go where their prey goes.... hell here in australia there's a few attacks each year.

  8. Re:is google the next netscape? on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1
    i'd debate that google is that well run. they have one killer business - their ads business. all their other projects are just attempts at grabbing mind share, and make them nothing directly. the whole time google has been in business they haven't been a huge success outside of their adwords business.

    this could be deliberate, but it's hard to see how a publicly traded company wouldn't pursue other forms of revenue if they could.

    the major thing google has in their favour, is that MS has no legal way to block people out of using google, and google has the legal might to defend themselfs against any attack MS might think of launching. So MS is on the unfamilar territory of having to innovate their way out of a corner, just don't make the mistake of thinking MS can't do it...

  9. Re:Even a stopped clock is right twice a day on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 3, Funny

    erm, the term is "even a broken clock is right twice a day"

  10. is google the next netscape? on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 0

    i think it's a valid question. netscape went from total market domination to nothing in a few years. granted MS pulled from under handed moves to make it happen that would be a LOT harder to do this time around, the scene is set the same. google innovates and takes market by storm, MS puts out a few non starters, eventually refines it's product to take the lead.

  11. Re:Valuation on HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i don't get it either. what can 3com possibly provide that HP doesn't already have? if carly hadn't of destroyed hp's RnD labs they could have built anything 3com have for a lot less then 2.7 billion.

  12. Re:I wonder on Firefox Most Vulnerable Browser, Safari Close · · Score: 2, Insightful
    your tirade should be pointed at apple as well then. they are closed source AND had a shitload of vulnerabilities, as well as having a record of not rolling out patches quickly. whats your excuse for them?

    maybe you should take a good hard look at OSS supposed security prowess, if you really were so confident firefox is more secure then IE, you wouldn't get so defensive.

  13. solution looking for a problem? on The NoSQL Ecosystem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    SQL databases if designed properly DO handle enourmous datasets. the problem starts when you have wits designing the database and then managers attempting to use the DB for purposes it wasn't meant for.

  14. Re:Mirror on Microsoft Tries To Censor Bing Vulnerability · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    actually, Raadt could learn a lot from them. MS hire very smart people and make some great products. they however fuck up like everyone else as well.

  15. Re:Dear Brittish friends, why do you want Stasi? on In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "those dark skinned foreigners are just evil!"

    the problem, is that the islamic community needs to do more to out these factions. when these communities refuse to habor criminals who blow up buses, then we might actually get somewhere. take the london bombings, there's no way the people that made those bombs had their wives/family/friends/neighbours all fooled. someone close to them would have known something was going on, and could have pretended that attack.

    until you start seeing real rejection of this from islamic communities, you won't see any kind of understanding from the larger population.

  16. Re:This is just baffling! on Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches · · Score: 1
    he's just got it in his head that google should pay him some money, due to it's searches turning up text from his website. i kid you not, this is the level he plays on.

    personally i know how this play out, rupert will spend millions on lawyers and "experts" only to find the traffic on his site drops to nothing when he blocks google. then he will proclaim the internet killed real news.

  17. Re:Stupid Way of Thinking on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    fuck you can get paid for anti AGW?? where's my cut.

  18. Re:There are two sides in that coin... on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 1

    just because their debt isn't through the roof, it doesn't mean electricty isn't over priced.

  19. whats their plan when the wind stops? on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 1
    don't get me wrong i think making efficent use of wind energy is great. but to suggest this has solved the limitations of wind, is the kind of junk science that prevents alternatives to coal fired stations being be taken seriously.

    sure it won't be a common occurance that the wind slows down in multuple locations... but thats HOW disasters happen, all the unlikely scenarios line up and you get that perfect storm. and when your talking about the power grid it's an unacceptable risk.

  20. Re:Stupid technology on Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The thing you are missing is how tiny a fraction of the fossil fuel energy we are capable of removing...."

  21. Re:Blanket licensing is never legal on Colleges Secretly Test Music-Industry Project · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the cd tax is so flawed it's not funny. only artists who sell over a certain number of cd's ever see a cent, so if i'm a local band who produces an album, burns it to 3000 cd's to try get some kind of exposure, your album is actually taxed and some cocksucker affliated with *AA profits off it via the tax you paid....

  22. Re:How does it compare to Ubuntu? on Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out · · Score: 1

    unless it's got great support, i can't imagine paying for a linux distro either.

  23. classic business fail on The Story Behind a Failed HPC Startup · · Score: 2, Insightful

    These guys failed in a very typical geeky fashion. they understood the technology but not the business, and at the end of the day your customers need a business case to use your services. it's the tail attempting to wag the dog.

  24. Re:Release cycles? on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: -1, Troll

    not according to their own poll posted above. fail.

  25. Re:So.... on Microsoft Links Malware Rates To Pirated Windows · · Score: 0
    uhuh, go go failchopters?

    a car crash is nothing like a computer infected with a virus....

    and wouldn't most people just say it servs the idiot who stole the car right. while we are putting disjointed idea's together, how about houses made of coke bottles vs pepsi bottles?