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  1. Stop dumping! on Plan to Slow Global Warming By Dumping Iron Sulphate into Oceans · · Score: 1

    We dump stuff into the ocean to get read of stuff we have dumped into the atmosphere. What do we dump where to get rid of what we have dumped into the ocean? Shouldn't we rather stop dumping stuff? Or at least think a little more before we dump?

  2. main author a crackpot? on Nobel Prize Winner Says DNA Performs Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Half the references are to papers coauthored by E del Giudice, himself a coauthor of the paper. Here is one of his works: http://www.isi.it/progetti/workshop-complexity09/pres_DelGiudice.pdf, looks very much like the work of a crackpot. An he often is a coauthor of M Fleischmann of cold fusion fame. Also I do have some training in QED, but what those guys are writing looks like junk to me, and particular it looks much different to typical QED computations. Heaps of fancy words without meaning in between. How they got Montagnier to coauthor the paper escapes me.

  3. I'm a business user, but... on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 1

    Isn't that strange? I'm a business user (have my own company for about 15 years now), I have been using Mail for at least 23 years, longer than most oft PHBs have heard of the concept. Nevertheless, I have no use for all the concepts the article thinks are so incredibly important. Flags? Why not just answer emails and archive/delete them? Junk Filter? Doesn't your server do most of the work? Rules? To automatically archive messages you'll never read? Why not just unsubscribe from all those mailing lists? Some people forget that new tools often mean that old process are no longer meaningful, and that the tools needed to support those old processes are obsolete. So the troll who posted the article should try to get in sync with the present in order not to become obsolete himself.

  4. Call Customer Support on D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers · · Score: 1

    Everyone owning a D-Link product should call the vendor's support hotline (preferably a toll free number) to inquire whether the device you own is one of those NTP vandalising products. That would certainly make the vendor think twice about carrying D-Link products in the future. Or call D-Link directly to find out. That would show D-Link directly what cost they cause others by their incompetence.

  5. not a big loss on PalmSource Drops Mac Synchronization in Cobalt · · Score: 1

    Actually the problems with Palm Desktop made me switch to a Symbian device. Palm Desktop does not work if you want it on a shared NFS file system, so its a nuisance to get the data backed up. Palm Desktop does not sync if you have an USB hub. Palm Desktop seems to have issues with fast user switching (HP printers have the same problem). There is no use for Palm Desktop besides syncing on the Mac because it is not integrated at all with the rest of the desktop. Any solution that does not use Palm Desktop is actually an improvement.