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  1. Re:Vegetarians are bad for the planet too on Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse · · Score: 1

    I'm setting in the middle of range land. I've had cattle and cowboys in my front yard when they bring them in in the fall. Yes, they still free range cattle in the west.

  2. Re:Not That Tough on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    In 1976, I received a calculator newsletter from HP that reported on a HP-45? or 35 calculator lost by a forest service employee on a logging road during a snow storm. The worker found the calculator the next summer, fully operational after being buried in snow for 6 months.

  3. Re:Not That Tough on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    In the late 90's, the regional landfill in Roosevelt, Wa. received a load of smashed/compacted virtualboys in retail packaging.
    Since this load was from Seattle, one could suspect Nintendo of burying their mistakes, much like Atari and the medical profession.

  4. Re:Testing the system.. on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    EEtimes hasn't been any good since they went to slick paper.

  5. Re:OTDR on Fourth Undersea Cable Taken Offline In Less Than a Week · · Score: 1

    I thought you could bend the fiber slightly and cause a leak. It would show up as a loss, but could you see it with a OTDR?

  6. Re:We are living through history, folks on The Next 25 Years in Tech · · Score: 1

    Ya, Having a chew in class. Designated smoking areas for high school students, No zero tolerance.
    The nanny state has removed learning about real, independent life and conditioned the masses
    to accept the corporate line of subservience without reciprocation for dedication and hard work.
    You will probably be fired, multiple times in your life, for no reason.

  7. Re:PCs may disappear from your desk by 2033. on The Next 25 Years in Tech · · Score: 1

    Damn, I threw away 2 modpoints yesterday, and now I need a Funny.

  8. Re:Question Mark on LANCOR v. OLPC Case Continues In Nigerian Court · · Score: 1

    The AC is kicking ass tonight.

  9. Re:Why don't the Nigerians just on LANCOR v. OLPC Case Continues In Nigerian Court · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That AC guy FTW

  10. Re:Negligence. on Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks · · Score: 1

    No guarantee on the people they replaced us with though.

  11. Re:Negligence. on Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks · · Score: 1

    At select airports in the USA, Windows helps land your plane. It's just a second, independent solution for verification. We weren't stupid.

  12. Stupid solution to a simple problem on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    What's the problem with all the other solutions? Load cells, surface reflectivity, refraction with a modified optical fiber, acoustic ( ever tapped on a gas tank?), a current limiter on old school sensors? I'm glad I got out of aerospace in the 90's. It looks like idiots have taken over.

  13. Squeak on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1

    What I see here is "what about the children", food, clean water and shelter There are other agencies trying correct those problems. The real danger is that those kids will learn a real language "squeak" and take over the world.

  14. Re:hm. on Playing With Atomic Clocks At Home · · Score: 1

    until you get fired

  15. Re:education revolution on Weird Science Offered As University Class · · Score: 1

    I have some teachers that would love this - "OK kids, go to youtube, steal an idea and make it. I'll be in the chemistry cupboard smoking and having a shot.
    Fixed it for ya.

    At least when I was in high school.

  16. Re:slashfags on Weird Science Offered As University Class · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't "Yourselfs" have a apostrophe? I'm not clear on punctuation Nazism.

  17. Re:flexible consumption on Interconnecting Wind Farms To Smooth Power Production · · Score: 1

    Remote power systems (dams) in South America are sometimes supplied with a companion aluminum plant to convert the energy into a high value commodity. The raw material comes in by rail and the finished product and the stored energy leaves the same way. No 1500 mile power lines needed, good efficiency and nobody complains about the pollution.

  18. Re:Can we... on Interconnecting Wind Farms To Smooth Power Production · · Score: 1

    Rectifiers and voltage converters could convert the re-routed spam back to useful energy. If the spam isn't located close to a distribution center, it could be transmitted via tcp/ip as the op stated.

  19. Re:It may be more serious than obvious on California Sues E-Voting Vendor ES&S · · Score: 1

    If the state isn't doing the tests spelled out in the contract they are just as culpable. Since they caught this re-configuration of the hardware, they have obviously examined the hardware for modifications. I suggest looking at the law as written to understand their decision and the test procedures.

  20. Intel's Advanced Management Technology (AMT) on IT's Love-Hate Relationship With Laptops · · Score: 1

    Was suppose to fix these problems. Remote updates. Remote, unattended and unrequested security updates. Another pffffft.

  21. Fiber web to Yakima on Ex AT&T Tech Says NSA Monitors All Web Traffic · · Score: 1

    As a resident of the gorge, I have visual (in my paranoid opinion) evidence that something funny seems to be going on. Previously, I mentioned the mysterious fiber branching from the Fed BPA web in the gorge. It runs across wheat fields and mountains while not suppling anyone with the promised broadband. Google's The Dalles datacenter feeds from this BPA pipe. If you look at the NSA "COWBOY" site with google earth, The 1000+ piles of earth to the north west have been removed. Must have been a hell of an expansion. The NSA owns their own FAB.

  22. Re:The only way he's going to become a nuisance... on Bill Gates Denied Visa To Nigeria · · Score: 1

    The landfills are bulging in the USA. What a better place to both dump tons of useless polycarb and kill the 419 machine at the same time. Actually, My first copy of msvc was retrieved from a regional landfill by a friend working there in the early 90's. That now seems so fitting.

  23. The NSA has their own FAB on How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World · · Score: 1

    The NSA has a 200000Sq/ft FAB. No doubt equipped with gear that intel process geeks lust over. Except for glue, I doubt the NSA is going to run out of parts.

  24. Re:Hmm on Choice Overload In Parallel Programming · · Score: 1

    Didn't he manage the Siemens/Intel IXP432 mainframe on a chip project back in the 80's? This can only end well.

  25. Re:how good is it? on Forensic Computer Targets Digital Crime · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It appears possible to recover previously erased data on old drives, but haven't the drive mfrs used exactly the same technology that the forensic disk morticians used in past years to get at erased crud (if ever)? It seems with vertical recording and super mag heads, the slop, leftover sideband noise and measurable blips of 90's tech now store data. I'm not trying to be factious, drive builders are pushing a lot of boundaries and I doubt they would back off ( unlike the MPAA and DRM ) reducing capacity to retain info for the man. I am drunk.