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  1. Re:Joy on HP To Acquire 3com For $2.7 Billion · · Score: 1

    No, since they are a centrally controlled token of a large bureaucratic organization, the tokens will be inflated. This maintains the functionality of the token while allowing the value of the token to degrade to nothing. Last one on the ring which receives a valueless token falls off the network never to return.

    Unless you receive government tokens; but then that is a completely different communication protocol.

  2. Re:bad design on The NoSQL Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Impressive, SQL humor. Do I get to SELECT * FROM Humor?

  3. Re:Just off the top of my head on How Do You Evaluate a Data Center? · · Score: 1

    SCREENWASH!
    ROFLMAO!

    And an infinite budget...

  4. Re:can't they just make the sticker edible? on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    And the roadside fruit stand sellers know this. Bought some really delectable fruit at a fruit stand in season -- at 3 times the cost of the grocery store. But, the roadside stand seller knows this; and he was still making a huge profit that day.

  5. Re:Or... Don't label it on the fruit at all! on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    Most countries don't have hordes of Sarbanes-Oxley accountants who can only identify an object if it has been pre-labeled for them. Same goes for OO programmers. [go ahead, mod me into oblivion!!]

  6. Re:An answer in search for a problem? on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    citation and pictures required.

  7. Re:Already in use in Congress on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 1

    Damn, you're right! This is must be what happens to members of Congress. As soon as they are sworn in, each member of Congress is laser etched with an identifier. This allows for faster rot and corruption.

  8. Re:Lecture Fruit! on Low-Energy Laser Etching May Replace Fruit Labels · · Score: 4, Funny
    Thus creating a gray market for fruit.

    Hey buddy, wanna buy a hit of label free grapefruit? Highest quality buzz of Vitamin C anywhere!

  9. Re:Floor mat, really? on Toyotas Suddenly Accelerate; Owners Up In Arms · · Score: 1

    I tested this over and over...

    There is a sign of an engineer who really likes his work. Next time you have one of these interesting problems, let me know. I would love to help test.

    Odd thought...if you told the Prius to park at that speed, would it attempt to comply?

  10. Re:Fear of Science and Technology? on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    She had the right reaction; but for all the wrong reasons. It's the megolithic uncaring corporation at the other end of the machine which she should fear.

  11. Re:Not necessarily of US origin.. on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    But strippers are only scary when you turn on the lights and sober up.

  12. Re:umm.... on Zombies As American Zeitgeist Proxies · · Score: 1

    And you don't see shopping malls as a scary distorted implementation of technology? Hordes of mindless beings shambling from one location to another barely aware of their actions. And don't get me started on the employees in the food court; or the disturbed scientific experiments in nutrition.

    Shopping malls are NOT natural!

  13. Tinfoil hat inversion on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Now I can print a silver etched paper hat antenna which will magnify the signals into my brain. Oh, listen to all the sweet voices!

  14. Re:Wait for it on Xerox Claims Printable Electronics Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Yes, but when the only replacement part around that works is tatoo'd into your skin, you are going to miss your skin.

  15. Re:More articles like this please on Study Says US Needs Fewer Science Students · · Score: 1

    The restaurant around the corner is looking for help. Can you deliver my morning breakfast and coffee without dropping it, look good in a t-shirt and shorts, count change, and be nice to me when I am grumpy before breakfast?

  16. Re:Why CMS on White House Website Switches To Open Source · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Cicso's web site is in dire need of a CMS like Drupal. Just trying to use the website for solving technical problems is a good reason to seriously consider another network product.

  17. Re:Awesome on First Public White-Space Network Is Alive · · Score: 1

    Did you use the darkspace overlay? Without the darkspace contrast, all the white looks the same.

  18. Re:Holy War on NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics · · Score: 1

    Not heretics -- bipolar developers. That's the only way 90% of the driver code can be used on both Windows and *nix.

  19. Medical applications on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I know some digestive system specialist is thinking of ways this can be used in intestines for diagnosis and treatment. Those guys will use any equipment which gives patients a bad feeling both before and during the procedure. But, I could see how installing cameras at all vertices on the blob could be useful for taking a complete picture inside a cavity. And how this could move around blockages which currently require more aggressive methods of removal/retraction.

  20. Re:So be it on Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't see anything morally wrong with the citizens confiscating this infrastructure

    Confiscation leads to confrontation

    Confrontation leads to weapons wielded in anger

    Angry armed people means accidental gun fire

    And then we all have to stand around looking embarrased as we all look at each other waiting for the technician to finish splicing the fiber some moron shot.

  21. Re:not fixing the real problem on Cisco, Motorola, and Other Companies Take Aim At Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This whole discussion and the concept of network neutrality has a bipolar disorder syndrome. This or that, network neutrality or filtered access,monopoly ISPs or carrier choice. I say let's have it all: proprietary ISPs and municipal networks side by side, neutral networks and filtered networks, fiber and coax and copper and wireless. Any network, proprietary or municipal, can implement any network service level as long as a neutral network of equal or better bandwidth is available at an equal or lower price and equal service reliability. Then we would really see which business model survives, which needs financial support, and which is just ineffective. And remove this whole unhealthy bipolar debate.

  22. Re:Freedom on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 1
    No, they won't promote non-proprietary alternatives. The alternatives function on a business method too foreign for the BSA and their constituents to understand.....competence. Since the OSS product makes money mostly on providing effective support for the product, and effective support costs money which detracts from the CEOs' bonus, the CEOs will never support a Business foo Alliance which promotes software which costs money to support.

    The BSA will also never understand the mitosis effect of OSS software which builds a larger base for their customers. They only understand ONE version of software foo. OSS community knows if more forks of the project are supported, then income can be earned supporting a larger customer base. This concept directly contradicts centuries of "competitive marketplace and IP protection" theories and practices.

    The best way to be rid of the BSA is to shoot them and cost their clients money to keep replacing them.

  23. Re:Two of the three letters in their name... on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 2, Funny

    Speaking of two letter actions in TLAs:
    I'm curious....Was the BSA formed as a result of any actions by IBM?!

  24. Re:The idea is sound. The implimentation is f---ed on Why Cloud Storage Is Lousy For Enterprises (and Individuals) · · Score: 1

    Anything above the Economy package has WAY more than enough bandwidth.

    Storage networking assumes a symmetric bandwidth pipe. One half of that symmetric pipe uses the bandwidth listed as the maximum possible upload speed -- the number after the /. For cloud based storage to work for a large portion of the connected systems, the Ignorant Lame Egotistical Carriers have to provide significant symmetric bandwidth at an affordable price. I don't see anything symmetric or affordable in what you listed.

  25. Re:Government at its finest on Open Source Could Have Saved Ontario Hundreds of Millions · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And they wonder why citizens of the USA are fighting government run healthcare. If I have to pay excessive costs for healthcare, better to pay the drug companies than some worthless middle manager. Money spend on pharmaceuticals might actually be used to create something useful.