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  1. Re:Huh? on With a Computer Science Degree, an Old Man At 35? · · Score: 1

    Once you remove all the useless electronics inside, those computer make excellent modular planters for my begonias.

  2. Re:-Enterprise on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1

    The network sales people. I hear they have a bloatload of "converged datacenter" equipment to sell. Network companies don't care if the other equipment is FOSS or not.

  3. Re:-Enterprise on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1

    Have a Scooby Snack and chill.

  4. Re:Old news to me on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, I had complex and increasingly long passwords set -- the last password was 22 characters long with mixed case and special characters. And, configuring the router from the WAN was disabled.

  5. Old news to me on Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I commented on this exact subject about 18 months ago. Amused to see the security industry finally catching up.

  6. Re:Make physical geography irrelevant on Places Where the World's Tech Pools, Despite the Internet · · Score: 1

    ...follow the building...

    I was more reminded of the Dr. Who episode where the hospital was taken to the moon.

  7. Re:...and probably as healthy... on Nanotube Muscles Are Strong As Steel, Light As Air · · Score: 1

    The artificial muscle was not designed for rapid continual surface abrasion. Not without a proper external protective sheath.

  8. Re:Next up: on Robot Fish To Hunt Down Pollution · · Score: 1

    I would expect robot squirrels which are sensitive to electrical currents or EMP would be more useful. Check cables which have been chewed upon by their organic equivalents or other mammalian relatives.

  9. Re:Have we already forgotten shoe-turtle? on Robot Fish To Hunt Down Pollution · · Score: 1

    Um, those bright colors are used to attract mates. I didn't see reproductive equipment installed in those robots.

  10. Re:Get the tartar sauce... on Robot Fish To Hunt Down Pollution · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new chemically sensitive robotic aquatic overlords.

  11. Re:one side chemical reactions... interesting on New Form of "Mobius" Carbon Predicted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The automotive unions would never allow such an item. More work would be required to install a twisted one-sided belt than a non-twisted two sided belt. The union would get less pay for a belt with fewer sides.

  12. Re:Bike Frames? on New Form of "Mobius" Carbon Predicted · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you have to turn the frame over and see the other side to really understand.

  13. Look at the business case on Morality of Throttling a Local ISP? · · Score: 1

    For the company, the ISP is only a small side business...

    This is not an ISP problem; but a business problem. How does maintaining a small ISP enhance the primary business? Can expanding the ISP business enhance the primary business? Will implementing rate limiting and traffic shaping bring unwanted negative attention to the primary business? Can you make a business case to the owners indicating costs and profits for not implementing traffic shaping?

    This is not a technical problem. If the you cannot answer the questions I have listed, can you find another person in the company who can answer these questios? If the other person is interested, team up to make a pitch to the owners.

  14. Re:20 vacuum cleaners for 10 seconds? on New Electrode Lets Batteries Charge In 10 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Especially trying to find the right algorithm to use to suck the maximum the area during 10 seconds for 20 instances. Would that be a blow-by-blow algorithm?

  15. Re:Golly on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    Not true. Most of intelligence work is gathering information on the secondary and tertiary data points surrounding the primary object of interest which infer the existence of said object. If no records existed which indicated the purchase, manufacture, storage, and maintenance of support elements for the intelligence target, then others would be the wiser. And that kind of data is hard to fake.

    James Bond is not real life. Intelligence agencies hardly ever get high resolution panorama snapshots of fully operational nuclear weapons [from a button camera on the agents cufflinks].

  16. Re:Give over. on US Forgets How To Make Trident Missiles · · Score: 1

    ...seems that America has no identity at all if it isn't fighting the perennial "last war"...

    Citation, please

    I think a great number of United States citizens would agree our identity is well defined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

  17. Re:If a virtual worlds ends... on Tabula Rasa Going Out With A Bang · · Score: 1

    If there is a woman nitpicking about the method in which we end it all, fuck yeah.

  18. Re:What a lack of imagination on NASA Contest To Name ISS Module · · Score: 1

    I see your lack of imagination and raise you some other suggestions:
    Necessity
    DAFIM [Damn All Flippin Important Module]
    Gaia
    Mother

    screw their naming scheme. I would want my life support module to have a name no one could possibly mistake for the Lido Deck on a cruise ship.

  19. Re:NASA Satellite lands in ocean on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: 3, Funny

    No...to measure ice melt properties in Antarctica, NASA scattered a non-homogeneous collection of light reflection and absorption particle on the shelf. Approval to scatter material all across Antarctica would have been delayed in committee for months using normal methods. This way, everyone feels sorry for NASA that they lost a scientific rocket when in fact they have succeeded.

  20. Re:Main XenServer site. on Citrix XenServer Virtualization Platform Now Free · · Score: 2, Informative

    The licensing key is only temporary. The full shipping version license will not be available till March 25. I have better things to do than try to implement partial-ware.

  21. Re:Flintstone on Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles · · Score: 1

    But it is significantly different. The mammoths in Siberia are just chillin'. The mammoth in LA is truly stoned. The LA mammoth was more committed to the results of his actions.

  22. Re:Absolutley Not on Do We Need a New Internet? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have seen deserts in high summer which were not nearly as dry as the sarcasm in your post. I think you have created a new form of desiccant.

  23. Re:Harden up on Do We Need a New Internet? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...as a result of the internet, our voice is louder than theirs, that the majority view point now creates itself and dominates the minority view point that dominated mass media...

    The old power base is attempting to leash and control the new power base to their own ends. The young, creative talent has moved to the Internet; and the previous powerbase is populated with a docile, unproductive herd. And not realizing any functional leash on the Internet populace will again capture only the docile followers.

  24. Re:DIADS on Reverse Engineering a Missile Launcher Toy's Interface · · Score: 1

    You are just an alarmist. Counting ticks on microcontrollers is a basic part of any modern CNC(computer numerical control) manufacturing system. Are you saying this software is a modified air defense software platform?

  25. Re:Broadband Census? on Open Source Study Included In US Stimulus Package · · Score: 1

    Depends on where the data is obtained. If obtained from monopoly telcos, the data will show the monopoly telcos need more government funding to "build out their networks". If the data is obtained from local county and city halls (who we hope will obtain the data direct from the citizens), we could get a more accurate picture.