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  1. Re:Think of the Backbone on Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections · · Score: 1

    You would do better to compare the population densities in various major cities, but than again, that would be utterly devastating to your case.

  2. Re:So let them. on Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook · · Score: 1

    You forgot something important. In this reality, those proles vote.

  3. Re:Chicken What about Kentucky on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Attempting to determine the recipe via spectroscopic analysis would be difficult. Most spices are fairly complex chemically, so you'd get a massive amalgamation of various component chemicals, which you would have to determine what combination are what spices and those chemicals would likely vary significantly depending on where the spices were grown.

  4. Re:Landing gear? on Man Attempts To Cross English Channel With Jet Wing · · Score: 1

    No landing gear. He lands via parachute.

  5. Re:This will be a day long remembered. on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    I've got $5 to whoever can find the story about the C* of AIG being found in the back of their prison cells with blood streaming from their rectums.

    FTFY.

  6. Re:What's next? on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    Declaration of him as a vexatious litigant would be nice, but AFAIK, that only exists in California.

  7. Re:Hallelujah! on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    AFAICT, he can still sue, as there doesn't seem to be any sort of vexatious litigant declaration in this. He can still sue and represent himself or get another lawyer to represent him (provided there is any lawyer who would take him as a client), same as any other person. He just can't act as or call himself a lawyer anymore.

  8. Re:On three. 1.... 2.... 3.... on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 1

    Essentially, each are a broken clock set to a different time.

  9. Re:They forgot... on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    On the old VAX/alpha VMS systems they had where i worked over the summer, if you didn't enter a valid command, it would throw "A verb. That clearly requires a verb".

  10. Re:and the fourteenth error should be... on The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the new systems we have at my college lab do something somewhat similar. on every boot, they exclaim "NOT FOUND ANY DRIVE!", then they retry, figure out there's a SATA drive there, and boot normally.

  11. Re:Look. on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    1. You presume they will sell you a business connection in a residential area.

    2. I've heard unverified claims they're pushing this on those business class users in residential areas.

  12. Re:830 days? China? on China To Run Out of IPv4 Addresses In 830 Days · · Score: 1

    At the rate IP's are being used (practically exponential growth), even gathering all those back is not going to help for long. it might delay the problem for a year or so. and NAT is an ugly kludge, IMO, and is little more than a band-aid "solution".

  13. Re:Partial Patent Solution - Hang All The Lawyers! on EU Patent Staff Go On Strike · · Score: 1

    It was Picard that said that (to Q) in Encounter at Farpoint.

    I recognize this "court" system as the one that agreed with that line from Shakespeare, "kill all the lawyers".

  14. Re:Quick Question on IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha · · Score: 2, Informative

    They appear to be ditching those in favour of their bladecentre stuff, as they're stopping sales of them at the start of next year.

  15. Re:Quick Question on IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha · · Score: 3, Informative

    That was only their desktop hardware division, which they sold to Lenovo, presumably as the margins are not very good. Their server and mainframe hardware divisions are alive and well.

  16. Re:sensors... on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You assume that the immature technology in question is even based on a workable premise and isn't just a massive pit for money, time, effort, and pain with no hope of producing anything useful.

    They told all the people specifically to "act suspiciously", and the damn thing still failed at detecting them 22% of the time!

  17. Re:This is actually quite educational on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    For starters, there is no such thing as criminal libel in Pennsylvania.

    Secondly, I personally doubt this passes the "reasonable person" test for libel, as the fact that is a parody is only slightly less obvious than it is for fakestevejobs, and no reasonable person would consider the page as stating facts.

  18. Re:This is actually quite educational on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    Said event did not occur on school grounds.

  19. Re:And on Comcast's Throttling Plan Has 'Disconnect User' Option · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's presuming they'll sell you a business account in a residential area, which they won't always do.

  20. Re:Spineless? on Nielsen Sends Wikipedia DMCA Takedown For Station Descriptions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, that was in Lenz v. Universal.

  21. Re:Not GPL, maybe not Free Software on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    I agree, as the FSF lists it as GPL compatible and appears to endorse it for programs that are used over a network, which an exchange replacement certainly would be.

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#AGPLv3.0

  22. Re:What about PTSD in Second Life? on Military Uses Virtual Iraq To Treat PTSD · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Slashdotted... on Saving Geek Lore and Other Wikipedia Castoffs · · Score: 2, Informative

    The place went down while the story was still in the firehose.

  24. Re:My bet.... on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 1

    Being as we (as a people, ignoring nationalities) went from shooting a small radio transmitter into orbit to wandering about on the moon inside of 12 years (11 years, 9 months, and 17 days), having to develop the tech to do so from scratch, I would not discount his wager so quickly.

  25. Re:No, No, No! on China To Snap 4 Space Ships Into a Station · · Score: 1