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  1. Re:I can see the marketing now... on Startup Building Floating Data Centers · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, but you have the advantage of actually using sysadmins as galley slaves.

  2. Re:Sorry to bitch but... on New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope · · Score: 1
    How about this beauty from TFA itself? Science reporting at its finest.

    This is because such quantum circuits "decohere", with even the slightest piece of electromagnetic or thermal noise.
  3. Re:technically on New Chip For Square Kilometer Radio Telescope · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe this advance will help us explain the Fuggettaboutit Extinction.

  4. Re:"Obscurity" tag is misleading on Cryptographically Hiding TCP Ports · · Score: 1

    It's not that different a concept from Frequency hopping.

  5. Re:Sweet on BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    The Creative Zen players have infrared remotes!

  6. Re:Sure on Microsoft 'Open Value Subscription' is None of the Above · · Score: 1

    Oh please. We all know Microsoft's marketing department has no shame.

  7. I'm surprised on Google's Prediction Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    That they use "Goobles" to wager with; I'd have expected Quatloos.

  8. Re:The entire sky in three days? on Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed. Cerro Pachon is at 30 degrees south, in central Chile, meaning that a fair portion of the northern sky won't be visible.

  9. Re:We're breeding them every day on Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs · · Score: 1

    WOOSH. How do you suppose things like penicillin-resistant bacteria come about?

  10. We're breeding them every day on Google Algorithm to Search Out Hospital Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Do I really need "anitbacterial" dishwashing liquid? The point about hospital superbugs is that the ones we don't kill become the ones we can't kill.

  11. Re:Varying router models and revisions on Researchers Say Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak Possible · · Score: 1

    Yup. Too many people don't even know that their router has an administrative interface.

  12. Re:Varying router models and revisions on Researchers Say Wi-Fi Virus Outbreak Possible · · Score: 1

    On another note, configuring the router for administrative access only via ethernet would completely stop the problem.
    Making any changes to the out-of-box condition would severely curtail the problem. Unfortunately, far too many are just that - out-of-box and plugged in.
  13. Re:RON PAUL 2008! on LG & Netflix Team Up to Offer Downloadable Movies on TV · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like a utterly batshit wackjob to me.

  14. Re:I'd imagine... on The Trouble with Virtualization - Cranky IT Staffs · · Score: 1

    Actually, they do. In 10mS chunks, for compute-bound tasks - YMMV.

  15. Re:I Didn't Know Anybody Still Shopped at Sears on Sears Installs Spyware · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you're buying screwdrivers and wrenches and pliers anywhere else, then you're going to the wrong place. You can take a 25 year-old pair of (Craftsman) pliers back to Sears and go "I broke it" and they'll give you a new one.

  16. Re:The article talks about something else! on RTF Vs. OOXML · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not exactly. TFA is saying that RTF was the de facto "format of file exchange" between word processors like Word and Word Perfect; and that if OOXML becomes the new medium of exchange that we have another generation of Microsoft-format-change-whim to look forward to.

  17. Strange... on Linux Firewalls · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most of my fireballs have involved Windows.

  18. Re:Bad headline on 8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it occurs after the fact, it's not a prediction.

  19. Re:Just what I always wanted on Introducing Magnet-Responsive Memory Foam · · Score: 1

    I think perhaps you meant Brave New World...

  20. Re:How about transport security implications... on Introducing Magnet-Responsive Memory Foam · · Score: 1

    For example, a pair of trousers and some dental floss could be transformed into a longbow (firing socks as arrows).
    You also need a Swiss Army knife and some duct tape...
  21. Woopteedoo on NASA Releases Cryptic Airline Safety Data · · Score: 1

    The columns in the PDF document are:
    Flight Hours, Flight Legs, Career Hours, Aircraft 1, % Hours Aircraft 1, Aircraft 2, % Hours Aircraft 2, Aircraft 3, % Hours Aircraft 3, Aircraft 4, % Hours Aircraft 4, Aircraft 5, % Hours Aircraft 5, Aircraft 6, % Hours Aircraft 6.

    How this is useful safety information is left as an excersize for the reader.

  22. I for one... on Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows · · Score: -1

    OW! OW! Stop it! OW! OW! OW! I mean it! OW! OW!

  23. Start small on Intelligent Software Agents - Are We Ready? · · Score: 1

    OK, here's my killer app - let me know when one of you writes it: An RSS feed filter that (intelligently, whatever that means) filters/scores stuff based on my interests and past performance. I just want a bot that's half as smart as one of my friends who says "dude, I just heard this joke that you're gonna love". Figure out what my tastes are, or at least what they AREN'T, and score new RSS articles accordingly. After you get that right, we can talk about filtering search results, or book/restaraunt/movie reviews and such.

  24. When the drink is ready go to... on Apple Patents 'Buy Stuff Wirelessly, Skip Lines' Tech · · Score: 1
  25. It always amuses me on Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP · · Score: 3, Informative

    Haven't they heard of NNTP?