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  1. What percentage of people... on Two New TLD's Near Approval · · Score: 4, Insightful

    in Asia use the word Asia?

    A TLD in English for people who by and large don't speak English (Yeah, go on and tell me about India, Hong Kong, and Singapore... then look at how many others don't) seems pretty friggin' silly. .eu, on the other hand, would be understood by most people in the EU.

    Except maybe the French, who might think it's short for Etats-Unis, of course.

  2. No way to get other content on? on XM Portable Satellite Radio Receiver with Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Man, I have to think that the most ridiculous thing is selling a hard-drive based music player without any way to put on mp3/AAC/etc.

  3. Re:Aren't we the aliens on titan? on Titan's Alien Thunder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you visit another country, do you call the people there foreigners?

  4. I don't think the writer understands... on Using RFID Tags to Make Teeth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Before delivering the prosthesis to the dentist, the lab retrieves the data contained in the die's RFID chip and copies to a smart card also fitted with a PicoPass chip. The dentist can then pass on to the patient. "The advantage of such a card is that if a patient requires another prosthesis for other teeth at another stage in his life, he can present it to the practitioner, who will retrieve all the data related to all the prostheses of the patient," says Cachia.
    Is it an RFID chip or a "smart chip"? Why would you "copy the data" from an RFID chip to a smart card? Isn't an RFID chip simply a form of serial number? If they're really just copying the data associated with that number, does that mean that RFID Journal writers aren't really familiar with what's going on?

  5. Aren't we the aliens on titan? on Titan's Alien Thunder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Calling it alien thunder is quite a geocentric perspective. The thunder there is native, Huygens is alien.

  6. Why ship it with WinCE? on AMD's Personal Internet Communicator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it's got a 10GB HD, why's it using WinCE? performance on a slow CPU? How have the WinCE apps done security-wise vs. Win32 apps for "regular" Windows?

  7. Consider YesLogic Prince on Pretty Printing From An XML File? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Prince is a batch formatter for converting XML into PDF and PostScript by applying Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Unlike other formatters, Prince prints any XML vocabulary without relying on proprietary markup

  8. Leaving porn in the VCR? on Scientists Define Murphy's Law · · Score: 1

    Hmm... does this cover the chances that you'll leave the porn in the VCR on the day the wife's gonna record a Lifetime movie?

  9. Re:Not sustainable? on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Mass adoption where?

    If some of the places with the worst air pollution are densely-packed cities, then they're also places where the requirements of the vehicles are quite different.

    For someone in Nebraska to go 60 miles per day might be normal, but someone who lives and works in New York City, Mexico City, Shanghai, or Mumbai, the assumptions can be quite different.

    Since these vehicles are also capable of running off purchased hydrogen gas, perhaps... well, in Europe, many large cities have what are called "ring roads" which are highways which encircle the cities. If one of the problems with hydrogen as a power source is distribution to the vehicles, self-generation while in the cities might be fine, whereas putting a ring of filling stations with hydrogen gas around the ring surrounding the city would help those traveling further.

  10. Do it 10 times? on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    In a night? Probably not without some Astroglide.

  11. Except... on Tracking The (English) Words We Use · · Score: 1

    Except 'fuck' is often found *before* 'Microsoft' on Slashdot.

  12. OH THE HUMANITY on Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac · · Score: 5, Funny

    This cloud thing is just asking to end up where you get just enough opacity on a layer to recognize a boob, but it fades into a Peugot before the nipple!

  13. Re:Almost right.... on Google's IPO Trading Defies Dutch Auction Logic? · · Score: 1

    It was my understanding that Google did not change the number of shares the company itself was selling, just said that its investors would be selling fewer shares in the IPO. This makes sense given the lower initial offering price -- the companies like Yahoo wanting to wait until the price goes up before selling their shares.

  14. Re:Satire Is Dead! on Real Networks Hacks iPod; .rm & Real Store for iPod · · Score: 1
    How dare you call anyone ignorent?

    Let's see how many errors were in that post...
    • apples -> Apple's
    • it's owners -> its owners
    • cease and desit -> cease and desist
    • Ignorent little Bastards -> Ignorant little bastards
    • curtousy -> courtesy
    • persuit -> pursuit
    • surprized -> surprised
    • collaberation -> collaboration
    I won't even bother to try to fix your punctuation or lack thereof.

    Thank you for your "ignorence".

    -PM
  15. Re:Mars on Mars Had Surface Water for Eons · · Score: 2, Funny

    First, there's the estimated amount of water that would cause the global areological features

    Areological? Mars has areolae? I thought that was Venus.

    -PM

  16. What about the school? on Oxford Students Hack University Network · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the school face some kind of punishment for encouraging and/or requiring use of a network which is by design not secure?

    Europe has some very strong (quite paranoid, probably too paranoid) data protection laws, and while I don't support just hacking everything in sight and shouting about it from every rooftop, something needs to be done about the people who didn't do enough to protect the computers and networks.

    -PM

  17. Re:ZERO value? on Indemnification Roundup · · Score: 1

    HP's policy doesn't have a financial cap.

    http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/down lo ad/sco-indemnify-qa.pdf

    Nothing is full protection "like you never got sued", but indemnification isn't entirely worthless, either.

    Game over. Thanks for playing.

    -PM

  18. ZERO value? on Indemnification Roundup · · Score: 1

    if you read it very closely I am betting that there are clauses and loopholes that relieve them of their "protection" in many ways.
    ...
    but it has ZERO value in any courtroom or for any protection for a company.
    So you haven't read it, but you can state that it has ZERO value?

    anyone with even a slight legal background can see this.

    I am sure that any slight legal background that you have comes from being prosecuted. You have zero knowledge of contract law.

    Presumptuous of me to say?
    Yeah, I thought so.

    -PM

  19. Re:hmm.. on Indemnification Roundup · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but what the hell are you babbling about?

    Are you babbling about running SQL Server on Linux, and then making up numbers for costs?

    I don't know what you're referring to by seats... if you're talking about SQL Server, do you mean server OS installs? If you're talking about CALs, then you have to pay per "user" on the server side. If you're talking about OS licensing on the server, if you're going to run RHEL ES, then it'll cost you more than a grand.

    Forced upgrades? Do commercial Linux vendors not stop support for older products? *ahem* Can you say "Red Hat Linux"?

    If you're saying "licensing costs are evil, proprietary software is bad", then state it as the ideology that it is, and don't try to justify it with bad examples.

    -PM

  20. Re:Soooo on UPS - Your Computer Repair Depot? · · Score: 1

    Interesting how the tests and the students are both SOL. ;)

    -PM

  21. Re:Pseudocode for accomplishing this on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 1

    Much quicker than that would be to configure stuff to reply to a broadcast... like ARP.

    -PM

  22. Everything working together? on Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The only stuff I want to have interconnect is my stuff to my other stuff, not your stuff to my stuff. I'd rather see a simple-to-config protocol than a zero-config autodiscovery protocol.

    -PM

  23. Re:why can't a neutral party examine? on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't say that Google offered a specific neutral expert. I'm sure that either way the results might turn out, that Google wants it over quick. It's trivial to find a disinterested third party to look at code and decide if Google is in the wrong or not. If they are, they can settle, if not, then Affinity lays off.

    Why spend hundreds of thousands or millions on lawyers when evidence can be obvious to a CS prof agreeable to both parties or something like that?

    Unless it's an attempt to disrupt commerce, of course. While people can use your free service, I'm having difficulty selling mine. If I can make it difficult for you, I can take you out of the marketplace.

    -PM

  24. Re:Wait. on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    The promise is irrelevant if Google is essentially running an unlicensed copy of Affinity's proprietary code.

    -PM

  25. Re:why can't a neutral party examine? on Affinity Engines Says Google Stole Orkut Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    I want to know why Orkut is rejecting the netural expert.

    Orkut's the guy who moved from Affinity Engines to Google, and seems to be what Google's product is named after.

    Affinity Engines is who's rejecting the offer.

    Either way, isn't the Friendster social network bullshit thing over yet?

    -PM