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  1. The ALL Platform. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Where ALL software runs on ALL platforms.
    Developed in the 17th century by Aloha LikeLike, a Hawaiian Chief Information Officer. It was later stolen by Captain James Cook on his first voyage, so they ate him on his return.
    OK, I added that bit about Cook. This and other random crap fantasies, like Java. JMHO.

  2. Tomorrow on 16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office · · Score: 1

    England will be covered in Cray skies. No Sun.

  3. Re:Really? on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 3, Funny

    Red 5 standing by... Red Matter standing by.

  4. Old Programming Languages never die ... on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    they just stop getting executed.

  5. Bye Design on Microsoft Adds 'Do Not Track' Option For IE9 · · Score: 1

    Designing in the design phase. How novel.

  6. Just goes to show on Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website · · Score: 1

    If you write enough dirt, some key is bound to stick.

  7. Success! on SETI Is 50 Years Old; No Sign of ET · · Score: 0

    I, for one, welcome our undetectable, non-communicative, overlords.

  8. Re:pardon my ignorance on Newborns' Blood Used To Build Secret DNA Database · · Score: 1

    Can't you see, "Cold Case" is being used as a euphemism for Vampire!! They keep them under the hospitals.

  9. Re:Please keep in mind on Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope · · Score: 1

    For a second there I thought you'd written "PayPal security".

  10. Re:IE6 comes with XP, IE8 with Win7 on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Now now, don't go skipping generations!! As a State Govt, you must endure the throes of Vista also. Only then can proper anti-MS policy bias be formed. You should make that 4 years.

  11. Re:All I have is an anecdote on On the Efficacy of Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    The H1N1 virus does not represent "the grave" for me.

    Spoken like a true Darwin Award contender. H1N1 has presented a strain that is very virulent and that has been fatal for young healthy individuals. Of course, you can argue the finer points, weigh up the overall risks for yourself by understanding the disease better (recommended) and come to a decision, but should you chose not to vaccinate yourself against it, you should keep in mind the possibility that you may carry the disease on to people you care about whom may or may not be adversely impacted.

  12. Re:All I have is an anecdote on On the Efficacy of Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    There is, after all, a type of natural selection in effect here. If you change the virus's environment (by vaccinating the hosts) to select against a few strains, then those strains will decline and other strains will become dominant.

    The problem I see with this is that it implies that the flu strains are competing with one another when in fact they are not. I don't see why it's not possible for a person to come down with two or more flu's at the one time, thereby all being successful, and one not disqualifying the other(s). The victim would be in a pretty bad state I expect and greatly benefit from having been vaccinated against any one. The (un-natural) selection pressure is real in terms of diminished host environments for one of these flus, and while it may appear that the other flus have been selected "for", eliminating one does not make the others more or less successful.

    In line with this thinking then, if a flu weakened immune system is enough to make another less prevalent virus, more successful, then not vaccinating and getting a bad flu may assist a less virulent flu at becoming more successful.

  13. Re:What is wrong with the Linux GUIs? on Living Free With Linux, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Spot on R.Kitten. Spot on.

  14. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    That sure makes some rivetting reading. Having read a dozen or so of the bio's I started to get the feeling that some of these guys haven't put that much thought into it. Not that reading such a small and relativly random sample of the 650 is entirely representative, but after a whole series of bad links to a skeptics website, plus reading of an aging Norweigian that reckons he could do with a little warming (Norway is apparently cold), and a mathematician who admits to not understanding why the incoming solar radiation isn't absorbed by the atmosphere but the reflected radiation is; it started to detract from the credibility of the document. Anyone else taken a look at it?

  15. Worth it? on NASA and Google To Back New "Singularity University" · · Score: 1

    If you come away having learnt just 1 thing, then Singularity U was worth it. All they need to know is how much a "worth it" is worth.

  16. Screen Saver on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 1

    but also for research into astronomy, energy, the human genome, and climate change.

    So they'll be running BOINC as a screen saver then?

  17. Yup, the review nails it. on Anathem · · Score: 1
    Just like the reviewer, I struggled getting through Cryptonomicon, but made it satisfied at just having made it. I totally lost it in the Baroque Cycle, thankfully early on it would seem. Now another singular novel, time to give it another shot, and once again comes the drudgery...
    Oh well. It seems to me that in writing In The Beginning was the Command Line Stephenson has suckered us all in to hoping that some lighter intellectual entertainment is to be had elsewhere in his writing... eventually. With Snow Crash he sealed the deal. Now we're in for the long haul, despite everthing else. I feel a little ripped off. I must stop buying the damn books, get a library card, or something.
    1. Make a book about the command line to get lots of Nerds on board.
    2. Write and sell as much crap as you like.
    3. Profit.

    It may not be his intention but it's how I feel.

  18. Send in the Marines on Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station · · Score: 1

    We have ourselves a bug-hunt.

  19. CNN still waiting on The Pocket-Sized Projector Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    CNN are still waiting for the Pocket Holographic Projector edition to come out.
    Until then, they're happy to fake it.

  20. Re:Better opener on Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" · · Score: 1
    Yet another simple (no moving parts) cheap (US$4:50) device for slicing open clamshell and other thin film crap: The iSlice

    The ergonomically shaped iSlice Cutter is a paper and packaging cutter that incorporates a recessed high-tech zirconium-oxide ceramic blade that resists wear and never dulls or rusts. It's great for cutting: recipes, newspaper clippings, shrunk-wrapped CDs ... and those impossible-to-open blister packs (ironically used to package the iSlice itself).

    Funnily enough they do mention this fact in their blurb! I use one, and no, I don't work for the company.

  21. Re:Version 7 on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    At least they'll save on the stationary + packaging as 7 is nice and constant unlike Win2009/10/11 no wait, we meant 2012. I can also see why they avoided Vista n.0 where n>1. Not that I care a squat.

  22. Clearly on Google, Circa 2001 · · Score: 1

    Google wasn't "Feeling Lucky" at the time.

  23. Re:Funny stuff. on China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch · · Score: 1

    Yes, but to be on the safe side NASA best hurry up and fake a Mars landing.

  24. Re:Recycling on A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 · · Score: 1

    I knew I'd tasted this carbon before.

  25. base-10 on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Class Action to Creative: All your base-10 are belong to us.