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  1. Re:Not going anywhere on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 1

    Google Apps is a load-balancing server? What about Google App Engine? What about other Google APIs? And that's just one example.

    And Azure != OS. Azure == interface to Microsoft's load-balancing servers.

    Try again. No Microsoft stock options for you.

  2. Re:Microsoft can't make a decent API on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I have to admit, the .Net API is pretty clean. Although, I do have to say that it looks very much to me like they took the GNOME APIs as an example and practically ripped off the design.

  3. Re:Not going anywhere on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 5, Informative

    It'll take baby-steps and corrections along the way, but so far this is the first real attempt at it.

    Wrong. No Microsoft paycheck for you.

    Google, Sun, Alexa, Amazon, GoGrid, Skytap, 3tera, Apache Hadoop, 3Par -- these companies/projects have all been doing cloud computing -- some for as long as the last 5 years. Microsoft is the johnny-come-lately here.

  4. Re:Thanks for the place holder. Windows 7 plans. on Microsoft Announces Windows Azure, Cloud-Based OS · · Score: 0

    Oh, damn. I just spit my drank all over my keyboard. That has to be the funniest damn thing I've seen in at least a week.

  5. Re:Maybe it's the judge..... on Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation · · Score: 1

    However, the Lords tend not to include in their commentary their opinion of the underlying issue (i.e., were the Crookes plaintiffs defamed? Or was there an actual publication?) Then the litigators in subsequent cases get to decide if there even is a decisive result in the earlier case.

    In other words, all British court rulings are like SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the U.S.) rulings?

  6. Re:Plagiarism! on Canadian Court Rules "Hyperlink" Is Not Defamation · · Score: 1

    Liar

    No doubt. He posted in all the other stories, too! Or did he plagiarize HIMSELF?!

  7. Re:Duh on Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, see, Ted doesn't think that Americans, whose hard-earned tax dollars paid for those oil company incentives, were smart enough to catch him. No, rather than thinking of Americans as citizens, he understands them as a series of boobs.
     

  8. Re:Fraud was common when I was a kid on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 1

    I prefer free lance work for compensating for my low salary.

    Really? I've got a job for you, then. I'm, uh, not with the FBI or anything. What we...uhh...I need you to do involves breaking several federal laws. No, no, that's not a badge! I told you, I'm not with the Feds! No, I'm not wearing a wire!

  9. Re:Jobs for Kids on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not in Nevada,

  10. Re:This is new? on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 2, Funny

    But it doesn't help that great movies like Hackers make young kids think that they can get with Angelina Jolie if they are just good at hacking.

    Oh? You didn't get your turn with Angelina Jolie? I'll e-mail Bob and tell him to put you at the front of line.

  11. Re:Nothing to see here. on Why Your Clock Radio Is All Abuzz About iPhones · · Score: 1

    Oh, great. NOW you did it. Go and create a rift in the time/space continuum why don't you! You created a paradox! Now, we're all doomed! Doomed I say!

  12. Re:Using kids on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep. This is how a lot of the G's do drug smuggling and some other 'dirty' work of running a gang -- get the underage kids to do it. They get busted, they won't do time, and therefore it's a lot harder to get them to squeal. Ya gotta keep 'em separated!

    Of course these aren't your average run-of-the-mill parent-fearing suburban kids either. They're usually the problem-case kids.

  13. Re:Asking for hacks on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 1

    I already told you. The first one's free, after that if you want to play, you got to pay!

  14. Re:"Underage"? on Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers · · Score: 1

    That depends on who you're working for. ;)

  15. Re:What hardware? on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, if you don't want the new functionality, don't use it. You can customize Ubuntu and simply not install the features you aren't using.

    Duh. Good luck getting this work with Vista. ;)

  16. Re:Clam AV on Reliable, Free Anti-Virus Software? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, and besides being open source, ClamAV is rather unobtrusive, which is a feature I like. It doesn't get in the way. If I want it to scan something on-demand, it will through the shell extension it installs. I don't want something scanning every damn executable I click on.

  17. Re:More Obama Facts on Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies · · Score: 1

    Parent is being facetious here. He's trying to make a point. There really are people out there who believe these ludicrous and spurious claims. Most of them attend Sarah Palin rallies. It's extremely scary how absolutely, positively stupid some people are. I mean, anyone who did 10 minutes of research and 5 minutes of critical thinking could easily see that all of these claims are completely without merit.

    Oh, and even if the Obamas were trained in voodoo witchcraft? So what! Voudon is a constitutionally-protected religious practice in this country.

  18. Re:Hmmm on Couch Potato Gene Identified In Fruit Flies · · Score: 1

    But then what will happen to such great comedy TV shows such as 'Glen Beck' and 'The O'Reilly Factor'? Whereever will get my political humor?

  19. Re:Expansive syntax, and the work required.... on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, the real solution actually already exists, it's just so friggin' complicated that you need an army of consultants to install, configure and maintain it. It's called a 'product data manager'. ;) See these guys for lots of examples.

    The key is to take the best of features of a PDM (good search and relationship management capabilities), combined with the best features of a source code control system (simple storage methods, low overhead), and combine those with an easy-to-use-yet-powerful search system like Google Desktop Search. Oh, make all of this transparent to applications. And make it really really maintainable without database experts.

    And people wonder why Microsoft canned WinFS. ;)

  20. Re:Please, no need to offend people here on White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches · · Score: 1

    No. Freedomspace.

  21. Re:Imperial or metric? on White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pffft. Down with the metric system. We don't need no foreign rulers.

  22. Re:One side is clearly right on White Space Debate Intensifies As Vote Approaches · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris doesn't use the spacebar.

  23. Sweet! on Open Source Hardware, For Fun and For Profit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Open Source Kelly LeBrock Bot, here I come!

  24. Re:Elvis on Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards · · Score: 1

    Elvis would be a good choice when registering to vote in Chicago. For border crossings, I'd recommend using Cat Stevens.

    You mean Yusuf Islam? I'm guessing not such a good idea...call me crazy...

  25. Re:Breaking news: on Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards · · Score: 1

    Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger?