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  1. Re:It's a shame... on Hubble finds Mass of White Dwarf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the way NASA works, ost of the money is spent on admninstration and other things only vaguely related to space and spaceresearch, thus they do not have money to maintain and build actual things.. but then.. NASA sees to be like most goverment agencies, mainly a jobs program and a way to divide contracts to the districts of congressmen. Too bad they lost their way somewhere....

  2. Now only if.. on Google, Jabber, and Jingle · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All these instant messagers and voice applications could somehow communicate so would not need to have so many on my computer. Even if the communication was on lowest common denominator, could use the ones I like and atleast communicate somehow with people using others.. oh well.. not likely to happen soon I guess.

  3. Re:I'm not interested... on Google, Jabber, and Jingle · · Score: 1

    One should allways be cynical atleast.. and examine the thing and reasons critically.. but if the thing is good accept with thanks.

  4. "Conceivably, the lab's services could help..." on Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Conceivably, the lab's services could help launch another revolutionary company...

    Most "revolutionary" companies have been launched by going against "common wisdom" and doing thigs different ways than everyone else. Thus getting "help" early on from big companies.. well.. you draw the conclusions..

  5. Forgot some experiments... on A Closer Look at Google Adwords · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like making a site with the $ .05/word.. and few others.. the total cost and time to do that should be quit low as said in the artickle. anyone using adwords to generate sales should definitely try to find the best results by doing those types of doubleblind tests.

  6. Re:*sigh* gravity generators on Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off · · Score: 1

    No it is not. It counters the effects of force of gravity with opposite force, as do many other effects like aerodynamic lift and so on.. but no.. they do not change gravity at all.

  7. *sigh* gravity generators on Reality TV "Astronauts" Lift Off · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Seems indeed that many people are stupid.. if we could manipulate gravity.. would not likely need rocket engines..

    not to mention the fact that a TV show would not be first one to have them for real.. :)

  8. Re:TV is Over on TiVo Causes Increase in Product Placement · · Score: 1

    No TV is not over.. it is over for many people.. like I have not even owned a TV in 8 years.. But large ammounts of people watch TV daily is going to be there for a long time atleast...

  9. Re:but on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    A raising number of all types of Networking gear is fully ipv6 ready without anything special. I was actually surprised a bit at buying a very low end home router/gateway and finding it to have full ipv6 configration options. Thus in few years the big cost will be the actual configuration of things, not the hardware or software.

  10. Re:Wrong angle on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    depends on: can they continue programming the electronic voting machines to give the results they want?

  11. Re:$25-$75 billion on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is mostly because those people planning the infrastucture there are not all bound by quarterly results and can at times spend a bit extra now to avoid spending a lot later.

  12. Re:It's too bad we don't see this in the mass medi on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 1

    No, but you see scores of people who actually know things question all those sources given above. Any ninformation source by it's nature is fallible, because humans are involved. Unfortunately there is a creed of people (called journalists) that thing that journalists can never be really wrong in fact unless something is against their political beliefs.

  13. Re:Moral Victory on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 1
    Indeed, some people seem confused and think that wikipedia is an encyclopedia: "reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.".

    That does clearly not fit wikipedia as it is now.

  14. Re:oh, shut up already on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Userfriendly had a good take on subject of reliability in their Friday comic... insulting wikipedia by claiming it is as unreliable as CNN.

  15. Re:Pot.. Kettle.. on The Register Takes Aim at Wikipedia Again · · Score: 1

    The Register has its own provocative style on debates. I do not think that they "need to grow up". Their opinnion articles are (allmost) allways thought provoking, but being opinnion pieces they are ofcourse consisting of opinnions. Are they allways right? ofcourse not.. but even then they usually make good points.

  16. Re:Fake News is on the rise on Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses · · Score: 1

    Sad truth of our times is the fact that real news often seem more stupid and fantastic than anything made up.

  17. Re:Big deal? on Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses · · Score: 1
    "All the time" is kind of over statement, but yes it does happen.. and will continue to happen every now and then, that is the way the thing works, anyone can add something.

    But the thing this time was a bit different as the page in question was not linked from anywhere else, thus it was not spotted and fixed by anyone else until the stink arose.

  18. Re:Notable quote on Wikipedia Hoax Author Confesses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Speech of many types has consequences.. everything from inciting to crime to slandering someone can have criminal or civil penalties however you do it.. be it on the street or the net.

  19. Re:Vomit comet meets competitive TV sports on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 0
    Basically space flight will allways be more dangerous than air travel because the total energies used are so much higher.

    That being said, air travel has become very safe during these 100 years of development, I expect spacetravel will also get more and more safe with time.

    Also it will be more safe in the begining than air travel was, as we value human lives and the safely more as society now than we did back when air travel was young.

  20. Re:Another exclusive club forming: on Zero-Gravity Sports League In Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    More like 100 mile high club.. but I think the mechanics might get difficult with not gravity to hold you together..

  21. Google cannot decide? on Gmail Gets RSS · · Score: 1

    Seems they have difficulty deciding how to do RSS..

  22. Re:Language Barrier on Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters · · Score: 1
    It is fairly easy.. whenever you find a world that does not mean anything to you, make a permamnet rule to delete that word. That way you wll build up the dictionary of words to ignore in marketspeak.

    Agfter you have gone through the document in that manner, remove any sentences that do not make sense after the word removal, this is the time consuming part and cannot really be automated excep for sentences like "or and ." or such.

    After that you are normally left with 0-5 sentences that actually had some content, the number does not seem to depend on the length of the orginal text.

  23. Re:Since TFA leaves out an important detail. . . on Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The same type of audience who like all the buzzwords he uses.

  24. Re:Why Hype 2.0 Doesn't Matter on Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters · · Score: 2, Informative

    Damm.. did not get a line on bullshit bingo (http://www.bullshitbingo.net/cards/bullshit/) got close but no cigarr.. he still needs to add few buzzwords...

  25. Re:Business intelligence on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    That is the "buzzword complience" thing one needs.. but any proper CIO knows that almost all BI products are total crap. Thus there is definitely a trend of "oh your product also does BI?, bye" raising. What is needed is actually GOOD products as the current wave is largely "hype-ware", though there are actually some fairly good(if very complex) products.