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  1. Re:If you want Bill Gates to be Steve Jobs on Is Bill Gates the Cure For What Ails Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    That's a pretty big aside....

  2. Re:what's the difference? on ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash · · Score: 1

    I thought you were a little off until I read this comment.

    Cotton is a raw material, that went up 300%
    Gold is a raw material, that went up 650%.

    You say that gold will keep buying the same amount or more. Without any justification for that. Other than "gold is money".

    You have no clue that the price of gold, just like cotton and any other raw material, is determined on the open market. You might want to google for the historical price of gold - specifically looking at 1981-1983 timeframe where the price of gold dropped by 50%.

  3. Re:Photocopied? on ATM Repairman Accused of Taking (and Faking) Cash · · Score: 1

    And maybe his payola would go up.

  4. Re:just use /etc/hosts on DNS Heavyweights Raise Concern Over DNS Filtering · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Don't think so on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 1

    To be fair, that happened to my kids this winter. It was -4F with 30 mph winds when they would have been walking to school. Most parents don't have good enough clothes to bundle their kids up for that weather, at least those that live in the lower 48 states.

    But our internet was still on!

  6. Re:time to stop the black coffee. on Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down · · Score: 1

    mannitol - a sugar alchohol

    Is there anything better???

  7. Re:You should. on Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure a couple ounces of sugar per day isn't much for a 'typical' human.

    http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm

  8. Re:Let me be the first to say it... on Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Persistent Bacteria Go Down · · Score: 1

    And that's the real point. Most of these infections can't use topical application. Are they going to rub it on the insides of your urinary tract, your lungs, your throat?

    So what's the point? Yes, superficial infections might be better treated, but this really won't impact most serious infections.

  9. Re:Could backfire on the schools on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 1

    That could never happen.

    http://www.phoenix.edu/

    Whoops.

  10. Re:Don't think so on Internet Could Mean End of "Snow Days" · · Score: 5, Funny

    If it's a small town, the kids can walk to school. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

  11. Re:Would make a great way to reach the stars on 'Homeless' Planets May Be Common In Our Galaxy · · Score: 1

    The gravitational well?

    See gravitational slingshots.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

  12. Re:long term security comes to mind on US Preserves Smallpox For Defense · · Score: 1

    You might want to read up on how it came to be, then.

  13. Re:Defense. on US Preserves Smallpox For Defense · · Score: 1

    I hate patents!

  14. Re:Yes, We're Doing Great Work on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    Great work to indirectly fix the holes in IE.

    Instead of directly fixing the holes in IE.

    All Hail Backwards Compatibility!

  15. Re:Here is the list of top 5 malicious Downloads. on Microsoft: One In 14 Downloads Is Malicious · · Score: 1

    That, and the fact that the updater doesn't always remove the older java versions. Leaving the user with the security holes still intact.

  16. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    Recovery boot is to repair the MBR. Not because the OS gets fucked up every time a registry change occurs/update runs/install/uninstall/browse the web.

  17. Re:This is unacceptable. on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    And many non-users.

  18. Re:This is unacceptable. on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    Burn out time is too short.

  19. Re:Damn!!! on Coffee Wards Off Cancer · · Score: 1

    No, it just got up and went for a 17 mile run.

  20. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 3, Interesting

    System Restore is a tool that says Windows fucks up a lot and needs a lot of help.

  21. Re:In ten years. on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    You might want to check your numbers.

    40000 km circumference sphere is only about 6,000 km radius or 6 000 000 000 mm

    4/3*pi*r^3 ~= 9*10^29 sq mm

    2^128 ~= 3.4*10^38

    which means it's enough for (3.4e38/9e29 ~=) 376,000,000 earths worth of 1 sq mm grains of sand.

  22. Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Having lived in the Harrisburg, PA area for 15+ years, I saw that up close. Literally. I drove right by it - a few hundred yards from the containment buildings. And nothing happened to me.

    However, I'd be willing to bet that the cost of TMI did affect 10s of thousands of people who's bill went up over time, in total by about the cost of the accident.

  23. Re:300,000 years to get there on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Only if you have a nuclear reactor the size of a moon. continuous acceleration for 300,000+ years == huge amounts of power

    Solar sails would be the only practical way to get that speed.

  24. Re:300,000 years to get there on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Given the mass requirements for that much acceleration/deceleration, you can't afford accelerate much past escape velocity.

    But you could put out a solar sail while near stars.

  25. Re:Avatar 2 on Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    Only for nerds.