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  1. Re:No it doesn't but your worry DOES show the real on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1
    quoted from http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/550/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake

    the word "cake" did not refer to the familiar dessert item that the modern-day French call le gateau. The operative term was brioche, a flour-and-water paste that was "caked" onto the interiors of the ovens and baking pans of the professional boulangers of the era. (The modern equivalent is the oil-and-flour mixture applied to non-Teflon cake pans.) At the end of the day, the baker would scrape the leavings from his pans and ovens and set them outside the door for the benefit of beggars and scavengers. Thus, the lady in question was simply giving practical, if somewhat flippant, advice to her poor subjects: If one cannot afford the bourgeois bread, he can avail himself of the poor man's "cake."

  2. Re:how soon to working Tleilaxu Eyes? on Chip Allows Blind People To See · · Score: 1

    > Tleilaxu Eyes?
    Probably never when they find out the reality of axlotl tanks.

  3. Re:Bah. on 8pen Reinvents the Keyboard For Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    WARNING: Flashified site. Go to pricing page for still photo.
    WARNING: $200

  4. US IPv6 on NRO Warns They Are On Final IPv4 Address Blocks · · Score: 1

    ARIN has made small IPv6 address acquisition expensive and complicated.
    Two things really need to happen. Large providers need to be forced to offer IPv6 to the doorstep.
    In order to prevent the fiber rip-off perpetuated on the American people, any monetary reimbursement to be made only after the fact, but the claim and the validation (by trusted 3rd party or gubmint) of completion should be streamlined (under 90 days).
    The U.S. gubmint needs to claim, finance (or declare eminent domain on) the allocation of a sufficiently large IPv6 block to allow ANY existing or future public facing connection to claim a /64 for a modest ONE-TIME (under $50) fee, the fee would go into a pool used to assist in the reimbursement of the government and commercial resources used. Heck, use the US Postal Service to make the assignment of a /64 to every square meter orf our territories. River, mountain whatever, doesn't matter, grid it all up and make an assignment and you have almost eliminated BGP fragmentation concerns.
    If an entity needs something bigger, go beg ARIN for a independent allocation.

    The Department of Education is almost entirely IPvf6 internally.
    But no one in the DoE or any other gubmint department has taken the initiative to acquire a large enough IPv6 allocation to provide a /64 for every building in every school district.
    Start with the easy part and get the internal networks renumbered while the public infrastructure transitions.
    Connection s should have a default standard ACL for inbound and outbound ports in the upstream router. If you need "special" port access, you have to request it. Since you are already doing a transition, limit port 20 connections to the providers server and "teergrube" (rate limit) the number of connections to 1 per minute.

    Problem solved! ;)

  5. Re:And those who onlyTHINK they would be superhero on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    killing people for sport

    I would think the "pro"s of eliminating all the golfers would far outweigh the "con"s.

  6. Re:Maybe, but that's not what those studies say on Study Finds Most Would Become Supervillians If Given Powers · · Score: 1

    how much does one heroine go for anyway?

    So many questions.
    Being a heroine, does she draw the line by going for eroticism and just use a feather or can she take it all the way to kink using the whole chicken and still keep the sobriquet?
    Would cackling depressively rather than manically bring different results?
    What if it escalated to cackling maniacally, and of course that cackling thing brings us back to the whole poultry usage question again.
    Pun intended, do other languages make it so easy to layer double/triple meaning?

  7. Re:what a retarded fearmongering pile of crap on New Class of Malware Will Steal Behavior Patterns · · Score: 1

    ooooh. you spent 15 minutes yesterday on google looking for pet carriers. now i know who you will marry

    Well it might be advantageous to know the S.O. is a dog, literally or figuratively.

  8. They cant steal what aint there on New Class of Malware Will Steal Behavior Patterns · · Score: 1

    Sometimes even email gives far too much immediacy. By avoiding mindless social networking, I am left with more time to yell at the kids on my lawn to take their beer bottles and cigarette butts with them when they go.

  9. Re:Reality check on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    The real concern is not the acceleration, do the math (E=MC**2) for a intersecting with 1 gram speck of interstellar detritus at 92% of the speed of light. Once again, Arthur C, Clarke probably had the most workable solution, an ice shield facing the direction of travel. This is going to HUGELY increase the mass of your vehicle, exacerbating the energy requirements needed to achieve any substantial fraction of C.

  10. "It's big for a reason."

  11. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 1

    my overall Cholesterol was at 160

    I am pretty sure my overalls have far less Cholesterol, must be the natural cotton fibers.

  12. Re:Dependent on the conditions of the race on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    country-modem, city-modem

    I'm just guessing, because nothing is modulated or demodulated, it's digital end to end?.

  13. Re:The DVDs on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    747 ... Shannon noisy channel coding

    What is "stegasaurus encryption of Little Runway", Alex?
    /deliberate misapprehension/spelling/etc

  14. Re:The DVDs on Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband · · Score: 1

    If your kids are in NY, where are you?
    Seems shamefully neglectful, or brilliant depending on how well brought up they might be.

  15. Re:Anyone read TFA? on Morphing Metals · · Score: 1

    anti-scalding valves in hot water systems, surgical tools

    Hmmm, I am guessing that those valves might be why surgical tools are so expensive.

  16. Re:short sighted summary author on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    no money = NO CREATIVE WORK

    You are obviously not a creative person.
    Money is rarely THE motivating factor. People were creating and performing long before the MAFIAA became the middleman in the process and began searching for their holy grail of control via DRM. Artists of all disciplines will continue to do so long after they are rotting in their graves.

  17. Re:The holy grail of camera tech.... on HDR Video a Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    All images must be pre-approved by Apple before storage.

  18. the feint of heart on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    So, it is a feint and I don't have to parry, you had me worried for a moment.

  19. Do not want on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 0

    Dell Streak

    Michael Dell running naked across the screen revealing his dongle /shudder

  20. Re:Star Wars v. Star Trek on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    idea of alien species from completely different planets being able to not only copulate (bestiality) but actually producing offspring. This is simply not possible

    I think miscegenation is probably a more accurate term (still not very politically correct) than bestiality, since both participants are presumed sentient.
    In one of the Trek books ("Spock's World" or perhaps "Sarek"?) Spock is described as a test tube baby, a laboratory induced fertilization. Since we really don't know the details of Vulcan reproduction, it entirely possible that Sarek and Amanda never had copulatory physical relations. The heaviest petting we ever saw of their relationship was his extension of two fingers to her and she responding in kind. They were both very cerebral individuals and celibacy in a marriage due to physical inadequacies is not all that unbelievable. I sure hope this qualifies towards my geek card renewal points.

  21. Re:If you're looking for fun, you're doing it wron on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    GO SPARTIANS!

    No! I am SPARTANICUS!

  22. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 3, Funny

    a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity

    They are covertly inserted into the Obama administration by Steve Jobs with a mission to replace all the XP machines with iPads. Captured by Steve Ballmer, they have an "exit interview" in a room filled with thousands of "smart chairs" which have only 640K of memory and are constantly "squirting".

  23. Re:Lexmark still sells printers? on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    > Brother HL2170W
    Seconded. Have one in the office and recommended to a customer. Problem free for more than a year at each site.

  24. Re:Formulas? on Lexmark Sues 24 Companies Over Toner-Cartridge Patents · · Score: 1

    It is amusing to note that the "BigMac" is itself, a rip-off of the burger sold by the "Big Boy" restaurant franchise, we use to ditch school about '73 to get two patties with thousand island dressing. Mickeys use of the "Big" was a nice slap in their face, sort of a "nah-nah cant touch me" corporate attitude.

  25. Re:Hooray Patent Minefield! on Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents · · Score: 1

    Just imagine if we shared global climate data with everyone... oh wait.

    You realize the raw data has not been shared, only the mysteriously "adjusted" data.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/15/phil-jones-lost-weather-data
    http://article.nationalreview.com/407512/the-dog-ate-global-warming/patrick-j-michaels