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  1. Re:Back in the days on Where Are the Original PC Programmers Now? · · Score: 1

    IBM already had all the programmers they would ever need, who would hire more?

    We all die sooner or later.

  2. Re:The solution is clear on Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant · · Score: 1

    She can always give that lung back, if she does not like it.

  3. Re:"Best with IE" or not? on Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365 · · Score: 1

    Nothing more complicated than a "hello world" page is browswer-agnostic.

    Even hello world is not agnostic. IMHO page margin defaults are different.

  4. Re:Do or die? on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Or buy Nokia or RIM out of couch-cushion change

    They already bought Danger Incorporated. If they buy RIM and repeat T-Mobile Sidekick disaster, PHBs should learn something about MS.

  5. Re:We are so quick to label it a 'beast' on Carnivorous Swamp Beast Discovered In Madagascar · · Score: 1

    Your point is?

    An animal with 20 digits is not new to science. Homo sapiens has 20 digits. Original poster only confused fingers with digits.

  6. Re:We are so quick to label it a 'beast' on Carnivorous Swamp Beast Discovered In Madagascar · · Score: 1

    Now, an animal with 20 fingers [wikipedia.org] would be new to science.

    In some languages toe uses same noun as finger. 10 fingers + 10 toes = 20.

  7. Helicopters vs airships on Large, Slow Airships Could Move Buildings · · Score: 1

    Mi-26 useful lifting capacity 20 tons, gross lift 50 tons
    Hindenburg class airship - useful lifting capacity 10 tons, 252 gross tons
    Goodyear blimps are four times smaller than Hinderburgs

    Lifting 150 tons with airship, VTOL or heli, when lifting record is about 40 tons? Could you pass me that stuff you are smoking? It looks really good.

  8. Re:WTF? on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 1

    Isn't it illegal to support terrorist countries financially?
    Where is OFAC?

    In some fantasy world called "planet of united states before 2006".
    1. Libya was removed from terrorist list in 2006.
    2. US legal system does not work outside of US. Although recent Aafia Siddiqui's trial shows that they can jail Pakistanis.

  9. Re:11% for Chrome seems absurdly high on Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% · · Score: 1

    What browser do Android phones use by default? It's listed as "Google Browser" at Wiki [wikipedia.org], but does it identify itself as Chrome?

    Mobile Safari
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; ld-us; sdk Build/ECLAIR) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17

  10. Re:Better idea on Google Patent Proposes $2 Fee To Skip Commercials · · Score: 1

    This seems like a strange direction for Google to take

    They get paid for displayed ads and want to be paid when ads are not displayed.

  11. Similar stats on Microsoft IE Browser Share Dips Below 50% · · Score: 1

    98% windows users, not IT related audience
    January 2010:
    IE - 64%
    Firefox - 21%
    Opera - 10%
    Safari - 4%

    September 2010:
    IE - 55%
    Firefox - 27%
    Opera - 8%
    Safari - 8%

    Jan 2008 - IE = 85%
    Jan 2009 - IE = 78%

    Statistics show steady decline of IE share.

  12. Re:How about the eighth Mersenne prime? on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 2, Informative

    unsigned 32bit integer limit

    Correction. "signed 32bit integer limit"

  13. Re:How about the eighth Mersenne prime? on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 2, Informative

    A simple binary to hex conversion yields 2147483647

    get better calculator. Yours has unsigned 32bit integer limit and confuses decimals with hexadecimals.

  14. Re:If you're playing an escapee.. on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 1

    ..can you choose to not escape? Maybe wander around the empty town, chatting with the air and living out your life in peace?

    You could also work as Stasi agent or informer. If your country is split into two. one of them is controlled by foreign authority and other is relatively free, unhappy and oppressed people might want to live on free side.

  15. Re:It's called circumstantial evidence on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 1

    viz the 2007 air raid on one of Syria's nuclear facilities

    Wikipedia article says that Israelis bombed empty desert area according to Syria. Sirians should know exactly what was bombed by Jews. :)

  16. This is only a project on Russian Firm Plans Commercial Space Station · · Score: 1

    Make a list of RKK Energia ventures and ask yourself which ones are implemented. Parom and Kliper are still on the drawing board. Wake me up when they do put commercial space station in space.

  17. Re:Stupidest censorship tag ever. on Seven Words You Can't Say On Google Instant · · Score: 1

    They just don't want people searching "assignment" to have their screen jammed full of porn before you finish typing.

    Then enable safe search for by default and require users to login in order to disable it.

  18. Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    It's weird that the United States of America's primary language is English, which comes from England, which is in Europe. Hmm...

    Europeans use lots of other languages. English is native language only for 10-15% of Europeans.

  19. Re:Is it REALLY that bad? on Fifty Meter Asteroid Might Hit Earth In 2098 · · Score: 1

    How badly did the Soviet test harm the Earth?

    Not as bad as Castle Bravo. Although piece of land in Arctics was obliterated.

  20. Re:Why do open source projects pick stupid names? on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    LibreOffice? Seriously? What a horrid name.

    And no comments about documentfoundation.org? Or maybe Slashdot's profanity filter kicked in?

  21. Re:Alright! on Motorcyclist Wins Taping Case Against State Police · · Score: 1

    Let's hear it for a sudden outbreak of common sense from the judiciary!

    Common sense would require to punish that cop for pulling a gun without identifying himself.

  22. Re:Wait a minute... on The Ancient Computers Powering the Space Race · · Score: 1

    Proprietary alert, space stuff doesn't run Linux!

    It does not run Windows either.

  23. Nixon in China and Obama in KGB on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 1

    Only anti-communist US president can make deals with communists and only democratic US president can suppress freedoms of US citizens.

  24. Re:I can see the historians now on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The point is that most white westerners have similarly barbaric atrocities of imperialism somewhere in their not-too-distant past. Go back far enough and everyone can find an ancestor that murdered a rival warlord's entire tribe; if you believe that what your grandparents' neighbours did should condemn you, we are all guilty!

    I suspect that people usually don't worship such ancestors in public, don't call them heroes and don't call military aggression "an incident".

  25. Re:Hmmm that'll do... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    Uranium is toxic

    strontium-90 and caesium-137 are more likely. Radioactive fallout usually comes not with Uranium. All transuranic elements have short half-lives and quickly degrade to something else.