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  1. Re:Quantum Leap on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ziggy says there's still a 93 percent chance Itanic won't make it.

  2. Re:Mmmmm, Pie... on Microsoft Sponsors Antiphishing Bakeoff · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Microsoft only does mincemeat pie.

  3. Re:more energy than it consumed on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    There's no "more or less" about it. Mass is conserved. Energy is conserved. The energy released through burning (oxidation reaction) is the energy that was stored in the chemical bonds making up the fuel.

  4. Re:America Syndrome on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 1

    Good one. :D

  5. Re:more energy than it consumed on China Claims Successful Fusion Power Test · · Score: 3, Informative

    But that is the law of physics. The extra energy comes from the mass which is converted to energy. Had it said "producing more mass/energy than it consumed", then that would be against the laws of physics.

  6. Re:Richard Branson is scum for using imminent doma on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    So soon?

  7. Re:Blue's Clues Spaceship Cruise? on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tell me this thing doesn't put you in mind of a big cartoon dog.

    I thought it looked more like a sleek, white running shoe, but that's pretty improbable.

  8. This is only an interim measure... on RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed · · Score: 1

    ...until they can implant the RFID chips in your head.

  9. Re:Nothing new on Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Try insulting a cop's mother...

    This was hardly that personal. Hawley is the director of the TSA, and these were grunts at an airport. This was akin to telling the average private in Iraq that "Donald Rumsfeld is an idiot".

  10. Re:Back on topic on Hubble Camera Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    In other words, stay tuned for next exciting installment of 'Hubble, the incredible cyclops.'

    OK, OK, our first attempt at a radio-controlled robotic orbital space telescope should have been MUCH more reliable.

    "The amazing thing about a dancing bear is not how well it dances, but that it dances at all."
    But yeah, it's a pain it doesn't send us more cool pictures ;)

  11. Re:Good on Intel's "Terascale" Vision · · Score: 1

    This is gonna be interesting. Can you imagine Intel touting Cell's no-out-of-order, no-cache architecture? They'd have to disavow the last twenty years marketing efforts. The mind reels...

  12. Re:Don't the sites want the demographic info? on Helping Surfers Sidestep Site Registration · · Score: 1

    The demographic info decides which ads you are shown as you navigate the site. The sites make their ad revenue based on views/clicks by the "right kind" of eyes.

  13. Re:Exhibit A, for the defense... on Is Microsoft Using RIAA Legal Tactics? · · Score: 1

    I remember a program for CP/M that disassembled the OS and emitted comments into the code as to what was going on...

  14. Feh on First Super Close-Up Pictures of Mars · · Score: -1, Troll

    You call those "super close ups"? Next time at least pull back the labia.

  15. Re:Apple and Microsoft and BSD better hurry and sc on Intel Pledges 80 Core Processor in 5 Years · · Score: 4, Informative
    From TFA:
    Intel's prototype uses 80 floating-point cores, each running at 3.16GHz, said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, in a speech following Otellini's address. In order to move data in between individual cores and into memory, the company plans to use an on-chip interconnect fabric and stacked SRAM (static RAM) chips attached directly to the bottom of the chip, he said.
    So think more like Cell with 80 SPEs. Great for lots of vector processing.
  16. Re:Yeah, I'm sure the numbers will be really accur on Online Budget Database Planned by White House · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This is not news, this is wool being pulled over your eyes.

    Citizen, repeat after me:

    "Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able."
  17. Re:Windows... on U.S. Lobbied EU Over Microsoft Fine · · Score: 1

    Didn't you get the memo?

  18. Duuuhhhhh on .mobi Websites Now Available to Register · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not just use "mobi.ibm.com", for example - why do we need a TLD for this? It's not like there's going to be millions of .mobi sites.

  19. Re:Bun-fight! on IBM Asks Court to Toss SCO's Entire Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Yeah? Well, take that! And you smell!". It's like chimps throwing poo...

    Never spent any time around lawyers, have you?

  20. Re:Does anyone else want to say... on LimeWire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not really. "the enemy of my enemy is my firend" aside, you have to remember that there aren't many cases being brought against RIAA; most people just fold up and pay up. Sure, we'd like to sue the bastards for being rapacious money grubbing assholes and using questionable legal tactics, but unfortunately, that's not an actionable offense - it describes most companies to one extent or another. The only way for the RIAA to lose is to actually get into a fight, so I'm all for anybody who wants to fight them.

  21. Re:Limewire's claim has a point on LimeWire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations · · Score: 1

    Check his sig. I think he's doing his part.

  22. Cool on Free PC With French Broadband Connection · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It's a computer, working under the OS, Linux. It's a router. It's a DSL modem. It's also a telephone. All in one.
    Where can I get my mom one of these? So she can call Bangalore instead of me? Seriously, if low-end machines like this were as ubiquitous as phones, it would save a lot of us a lot of spare time.
  23. Re:messing with the spacetime continum .. on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1


    Well done.

  24. Half way there on How to Encourage Use of OSS? · · Score: 0

    You didn't mention the mail client. I hope you're putting Thunderbird on also. Giving them a good browser and then leaving them at the mercy of Outhouse Express hardly seems fair.

    Secondly, each new user created is going to get the default file associations, so it's back to IE and friends. (Yeah, the odds of anybody actually using multiple logins on a Windows machine are nil.) Does anybody know how to change the default associations? I've never bothered to look.

  25. Re:Slashdot - where science makes no sense (TM) on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1
    The latest New Scientist... ...There is a working prototype...

    My first reaction was: "you must be new here..."