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  1. Re:Windows 7 makes me excited on Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM) · · Score: 2, Insightful
    yes, but the user interaction with the various flavours of win7 is consistent and if it says it'll work on win7, it will, unlike linux distro's which will throw you into dependency hell.

    nice job missing the point though. bravo.

  2. laser pointer on Stealing Data Via Electrical Outlet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    very clever how hey grab info using a laser pointer and measuring the vibrations. i'm afraid you might notice the big red dot on your computer though. sienfield flash backs.

  3. Re:Still have to make it in front of constitutionn on French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form · · Score: 5, Insightful

    atleast the french are likely to riot and turn over a few police cars to show their displeasure. american's will form a few facebook groups and register to show their outrage...

  4. Re:Could be worse on French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it's much worse now - before they just kicked you off the internet - now some clueless judge will rubber stamp prison time.

  5. Re:why so many pages? on Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared · · Score: 1
    nothing has really changed with platters though - space has been going up, speed hasn't really improved leaps and bounds and prices are always dropping. this has been consistent for the last 10 years.

    and while SSD's have come down in price, cost per gig is still huge - it's a good few years before more then a handful of consumers are using them.

  6. why so many pages? on Five Years of PC Storage Performance Compared · · Score: 2, Informative
    3 benchmarks for the same thing? oh right this is techcrunch they need to fill every page with as many stupid ads as possible, and draw out their pointless review to the point you gag.

    summary - intel x25 is super fast, super expensive. not much has changed with spinning platters.

  7. Re:whats the crime in hate crime? on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    exactly on the money. people see race as the reason, but in trailer parks are just as bad and are full of white people.

  8. Re:Cobol vs. Data Entry on Retired Mainframe Pros Lured Back Into Workforce · · Score: 1

    it's no worse than C and many people use that every day. COBOL runs many many bank's accounting systems and has been doing it for decades, so it must have something going for it. i think the summary is right - people are crazy not to get into this field, mainframes are here to stay inspite of what many people think is a dead technology. in many cases ONLY a mainframe can do the work.

  9. Re:One sentence that summarized it all for me on Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development · · Score: 1

    mono is as much a windows piece of software as java is. that you don't grasp this concerns me.

  10. Re:Good on Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development · · Score: 1

    i think you need to pipe down - that's 2 comments you have made that have resulted in multiple people ripping you a new one.

  11. Re:everyone wave their arms in panic! on Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    wtf? you are using a compass man! as you said, technology can break!!! and god forbid your map gets wet...

  12. everyone wave their arms in panic! on Is Sat-Nav Destroying Local Knowledge? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    another annoying, pointless "skill" is being killed off by progress. boo hoo.

  13. Re:Thank goodness on Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise" · · Score: 0

    no, he will just come up with some bullshit about it not being as "free" (ironic how his ilk have been able to twist that word) as the GPL.

  14. quickly, bash them. on Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI Under "Community Promise" · · Score: 2, Funny

    they must be up to no good.

  15. Re:Good advert for Eve... on Massive Bank Fraud In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    bullshit. the fact is there is always going to shitty jobs that someone has to do. hell i have a pretty good job and it has shitty parts about it, it's called life.

  16. i sense a disturbence in the force on iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS · · Score: 3, Funny

    it was as if 1000 apple fanbois cried out and then were silent...

  17. Re:A time and place for everything on Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed · · Score: 1
    you know you can create your own custom data types and functions in an sql database, it pretty much invalids your point.

    i always lol at people trying to invent an SQL killer - lots of talk and whinging about SQL, nothing concrete

  18. mega fail. on Bike Projector Makes Lane For Rider · · Score: 2, Interesting

    some retard is going to get this and think there's a bike lane no matter where he goes. when a mac truck disagree's with him, he will claim it was in the bike lane.

  19. Re:Less toxic? on Indian Military To Use Hot Chili Pepper Grenades · · Score: 1
    interestingly you appear to stumble onto a point -Capsaicin appears to have a lower LD50 requirement than traditional tear gas agents, meaning it is in fact more toxic. this appears to be yet another example of the "it's natural so it must not be harmful" crowd getting it wrong

    i don't think being a big curry eater is going to save you one bit though, that's a little silly.

  20. do not want on Indian Military To Use Hot Chili Pepper Grenades · · Score: 1

    i have a mate who's a cop, he reckons as soon as a cop reaches for the pepper spray just give up, it's not worth being hit by.

  21. Re:Not a Bad Trade on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 1

    you need to visit a federal prison. safe and relaxing are not words to describe it. "pound me in the ass federal prison" isn't far off the mark.

  22. Re:Tricky -- NOT on Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    monitoring his finances to the level that you propose would probably cost as much as locking him up. i think in this case, life in prison is the only fitting outcome for this scumbag.

  23. Re:load of wank on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 0, Troll
    rofl, boy i have worked on more critical systems than you will ever dream of. in the real world (no not running your henati website from your home dsl) there is plenty of instances were dropping the current connections to a service is just as bad as a reboot - i've worked in processing labs where dropping database connectivity for even a second jams up 100's of insturments, or even worse on older equipment which isn't smart enough to buffer, you loose results to important tests which cost time and money to redo.

    hence why i'm saying something that would allow a service restart without dropping current activity would be a god send.

  24. Re:load of wank on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 1

    so if i'm running NFS with 1000 users connected to my mission critical system, and i apply a patch using ksplice, it will upgade my NFS service for all new connections (immediately without a restart of the service) and won't require dropping the existing connections? the only possible way i can see this working is some kind of virtual machine system because anything else would mean 2 services sharing a port (which won't work). and if it's a virtual machine it's going to mean a performance hit, which would be unacceptable for many applications.

  25. Re:aix? on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 1

    you sir, aren't fit to call your self a geek if you don't know enough about AIX to care. please leave before such ignorance infects the rest of the population.