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  1. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    Am on my 3rd battery for my iBook g4 bought on the day tiger was released. And that battery better not die on me.

  2. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1

    WTF? I thought batteries were just that. Like duracell but rechargeable. Wtf is apple doing chips in it? Man the Abacus was a simpler world. I hate progress. Oh, and am typing this on my iPad.

  3. Conspiracy on AP Investigation Concludes US Nuke Regulators Weakening Safety Rules · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who thinks this is a concerted effort against nuke plants? I mean if king coal wants to rule again, don't you think it is wise to take out these pesky newcomers like nuclear plants etc. What better way to make it happen if not by making inspections easier and easier so that once an accident happens, people will shun nuclear power and king coal rules.

  4. Re:Bait and switch? on Virgin Mobile To Start Throttling Broadband2Go · · Score: 1

    Send a legal notice back to Virgin Mobile stating that if you encounter a reduction in speed ant any time, you will a prorated price for the speed you get for the whole month.

  5. Re:I thought COBOL basically died after Y2K. on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Another Assange on Rising.

  6. Re:I thought COBOL basically died after Y2K. on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    ...and i would bet IBM would get a Federal Bailout to deal with the lawsuits.

  7. Re:Fortune on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    But he was light-years ahead of others in his field in his skills, ability, foresight and knowledge. Kinda makes Ballmer and Bill Gates look like script kiddies.

  8. Re:Along with vampires and zombies on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    According to nature laws, anything that can't be killed is a winner. Probably you should read more darwin and less Java.

  9. Re:Museum Fight! on Smithsonian Celebrates 50 Years of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Have you heard about DB2 on OS/390 or 360? Its also called a da-ta-base and its very useful. Oh, and it was available long before Oracle was born.

  10. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    According to the right-wing lunatics, that never happened. The Bush period was one of prosperity and 100% employment with low taxes and free medical care for all.

  11. Re:Bullshit on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Am i the only one who finds it ironical that a man who publicly confessed in his book about violating War Crimes laws is praised as a Patriot, while the man who exposed him is treated like a terrorist. If this were in Nuremberg, it would seem that Goering would have been free to go and would have published a book, while Simon Weisenthal would have been convicted.

  12. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, and Dubya came along and shattered that. Thanks to Dubya.

  13. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In a fiat money economy, the US does not need to default. It just needs to inflate itself out of debt.

  14. Re:Defaulting is worse! on The Luck of the Irish Runs Out · · Score: 1

    Bankruptcy. Simply close shop.

  15. Re:Australian bank now looking to hire on Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would say its a DB2 Admin, Informatica specialist, Z/OS development specialist and the batch file creator. Most batch jobs just run.

  16. Re:Here's what my bank says on Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash · · Score: 1

    If this had happened in US and customers demanded compensation, their homes would have been SWATted and TSA would have done a cavity search in their homes. The communists have won.

  17. Re:EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. on White House Edited Oil Drilling Safety Report · · Score: 1

    The King is dead. Long live the King ! ...and to think we all got hoodwinked by the "Change" mantra...

  18. Re:BBC vs Murdoch on Times Paywall In Questionable 'Success' · · Score: 1

    And fox does journalism?

  19. Re:Which attacks on freedom of speech? on UK Wants ISPs To Be Responsible For Third Party Content Online · · Score: 1

    Cool. Let's start with complaints about the minster's blog, website, parliment website, especially campaign advertisement pages and links. Pretty soon he will get the message. Nothing can change a law faster than allowing a politician to feel the full effects of it.

  20. Re:MS is doing that on Ray Ozzie's Departing Memo a Warning To Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Microsoft killed the Courier to protect its investment in Apple and thus ensuring success of iPad. I know its really a looong argument, but why else a company would shoot itself in the foot?

  21. Re:Physicists on Fermilab To Test Holographic Universe Theory · · Score: 1

    One day these physicists will find out too much and get our simulation shut down.

    I don't know whether to mod you Insightful or Funny.

  22. Re:Corporate draft on Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? · · Score: 1

    The keyword here is "in all fairness". Wherever did you get the notion that when the Government is owned by corporations, there will be fairness?

  23. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Tobacco and Beer have their Lobbyists.

  24. Re:Hmm on A Video Guide To Akihabara · · Score: 1

    Have you considered the effect an EMP has?

  25. Re:Beware? on Iris Scanning Set To Secure City In Mexico · · Score: 1

    Aren't you forgetting the adage; if the Govt. does it, then it must be Legal. The Golden Period was Plato's Republic and Greeks got it right for the first and last time in history of World. For a short time, the only time the Govt. was directly answerable to People and feared people was in Ancient Greece. The Romans tried to copy, but failed when their own inherent contradictions paved the way for Ceaser. The Founding Fathers had this in mind and tried to do the best, but not even they could have: 1) Predicted the rise of AT&T and illegal wire-tapping. 2) Rise of Corporations and owning of senators by unfranchised Corporations. 3) War-Mongering presidents like Truman, Reagan and Bush Sr. and Cheney who believed in an Unitary Executive.