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  1. Re:This again? on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    Hmmm. Digg are on the ropes, on the market, and run by idiots. They have a large userbase though.

  2. Re:Doubt it on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    The only reason to buy a company is to harness the potential innovation and future success when integrated with your own.

    And to neutralize a competitor (see google and youtube), but facebook doesn't compete with apple.

  3. Re:Yep.. on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its arguably the most long lived social website.

  4. Re:Cost on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Thats true.

  5. Re:You need 30 liters a day? on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Well you could be right but I was trained to estimate high, deliver low.

  6. Re:Slideshow? on Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They always break my bones.

  7. Re:PDAs have done this for years on One Step Closer To Speedier, Bootless Computers · · Score: 1

    It took a couple of seconds with palmos, and multitasking OSs can boot pretty fast too.

  8. Re:Motives on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    I suspect he has too many ex girlfriends there to make it a happy place though.

    You do realize this guy is an über-nerd and for many years was a hard-core hacker?

    Recent press coverage suggests he knows how to pull a chick.

  9. Re:Cost on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Desalination plants are being installed in several parts of Australia including a controversial one in Victoria. The funny bit is that our drought broke just as construction got under way.

  10. Re:Damn you, science jornalism. on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Simple is good. Its easy to maintain and easy to teach local people to take over maintenance.

  11. Re:80 US gallons on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Thats 300 liters. Maybe enough for ten people if you are careful. Or a hundred people if you only need drinking water to keep them alive.

    Wait... are you drinking 8 gallons of water per day? Daily showers are a convenience, not a necessity.

    Washing may be vital after a disaster when disease starts to spread.

  12. Re:80 US gallons on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Many random creeks have contaminated water. Sometimes boiling makes them drinkable, often not.

  13. Re:80 US gallons on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    I am also thinking about cleaning clothing and cooking equipment, medical needs, hydration in hot climates. Supporting rescue workers doing hard physical work. That sort of stuff.

  14. 80 US gallons on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Thats 300 liters. Maybe enough for ten people if you are careful. Or a hundred people if you only need drinking water to keep them alive.

  15. Re:Motives on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    So far he has been safe in Australia where he has the advantage of citizenship.

    Australia is in a competition with Canada for "best lapdog of the USA", he's as safe there as a peaceful protester at a G20 summit.

    Wherever you go, Government is a club.

  16. Re:MS could have owned the cloud on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Notes degrades badly when used with infrastructure which is not up to the task.

  17. Re:I'm Ray Ozzie, on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its up to ten million and it hasn't found any more one digit UIDs, just the first ten.

    Have you checked to make sure that there aren't any in the vast space between two whole numbers? That sounds like it could be quite a complicated exercise.

    Hey you are right. I found more low numbers right after 4294967296.

  18. Re:THURSDAY, Oct 18, 2010? on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Thursday, October 18, 2010

    Apparently somebody fucked up the Date handling code and Ray has to take the fall.

  19. Re:I'm Ray Ozzie, on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yeah thats what my script found too. Its up to ten million and it hasn't found any more one digit UIDs, just the first ten.

  20. Re:End of Azure on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The GCC, LLVM, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux communities, for instance, do a fantastic job of keeping "software architecture" in check, while still developing amazingly complex, practical and very high-quality software.

    Yeah but at enormous cost (if you count the labour involved) because it is basically a test of strength on the mailing lists and forums with the last man standing getting to make the decision.

  21. Re:End of Azure on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I suppose it depends on how these things have worked for you. I would love to see a software architect in my company who would put a stop to just these problems.

  22. Re:End of Azure on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think its more like having a single technical lead in a powerful position is a bad thing for management because they keep asking hard questions. So lets split the role into smaller project based positions, leaving the strategy to management and marketing.

  23. Re:End of Azure on Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't think a software company needs a chief software architect?

  24. Re:Motives on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Assange can't live in Sweden, it forces him to flee to some other location within the US' grasp... perhaps even the US itself.

    That would be the worst place for him to go. So far he has been safe in Australia where he has the advantage of citizenship. I suspect he has too many ex girlfriends there to make it a happy place though.

  25. Re:Good thing on Why the Web Mustn't Become the New TV · · Score: 1

    Rupert Murdoch is 79. He can't live forever.

    Thats an interesting question.