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  1. First thought on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 0

    "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air, I never thought I could be so free. Flying away on a wing and a prayer, who could it be... believe it or not, it's just me..."

  2. For $99 (and you have to own a Mac) on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you could turn your iPhone into a developer device and never have to worry about them pulling this from the App Store. The question is, how to publish the source without attracting The Steve's attention?

  3. Cost on Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, at those prices you're not going to get the same engineering, manufacturing tolerances, and software testing as on a Juniper or Cisco enterprise router.

  4. Nooooooo on Verizon Wireless To Buy Alltel For $28B · · Score: 1

    Alltel should have merged with another multi-regional instead, so we could have had a third national carrier. (I would count Sprint Nextel if anyone I knew could reliably get a signal here in the 9th largest MSA.)

    [Damn lameness filter!]

  5. Yes. on Is 'Corporate Citizen' an Oxymoron? · · Score: 1

    Corporations have been bad citizens ever since the courts defined fiduciary duty as "show a higher profit every quarter."

  6. Connection Machine? on U.S. Plan For "Thinking Machines" Repository · · Score: 1

    I thought the article was going to be about Thinking Machines the company. I got to see a CM in all its blinkenlight glory when we toured Schlumberger's lab in high school.

  7. Tin whiskers? on Hairy Solar Cells Could Mean Higher Efficiency · · Score: 1
    FTFA:

    At UC San Diego, scientists were able to grow nanowires directly on an inexpensive indium tin oxide conductive surface.
    So now tin whiskers are good?
  8. Question on Sun Developing Open Media Stack · · Score: 1

    How again does Sun make money these days?

  9. Re:Coupons eh? on Scammers Exploit DTV Coupon Program · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've got mine, f— everyone else!

  10. Can Duke Nukem Forever be far behind? on Wireshark 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Wireshark has saved my bacon numerous times. We recently put in an LDAP integration between our vertical-market ERP and Active Directory, with atrocious documentation on both sides, and password management is involved so AD insists on using LDAPS. Load your private key using SSL options, and voila!

  11. Re:Same old story on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's why Blackle is a total waste of time (500,000 watt hours saved over all of its users? We're talking $50 in electricity at $0.10/kWH...).
    The real reason Blackle is a waste of time is that dark pixels on a flat panel don't save electricity. The backlight is still on, it's just that the LCD pixels are blocking the light emanating from it. (I'm rather sure you don't have your computer hooked up to a plasma display.)
  12. Yes, but is the beer free? on Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer · · Score: 1

    And we probably shouldn't talk about the difference between gratis beer and libre beer.

  13. Dell has to be fuming on Half-Petaflop Supercomputer Deployed In Austin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In their backyard, and Sun gets the job instead. (Maybe this is why Dell has started offering AMD?)

  14. Exchange rate on Microsoft Battles Vista Perception With Prizes · · Score: 1

    AUD 15000 = USD 13486.50

  15. Please! You sing! on Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    "Kazakhstan is the greatest country of the world..."

  16. Lemme fix that for you... on Microsoft Opens Its Security Research Cookbooks · · Score: 1

    "It looks like Microsoft is making an effort to appear more 'open' in the area of security research and communication."

  17. License required on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will Monsanto's attorneys survive the apocalypse to collect license fees for the patented GM technology in the seeds?

  18. Re:Cable Companies can match or exceed this in 200 on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had read that the real bottleneck in the DOCSIS system was the total bandwidth allocated to upstream traffic on each coax system. Apparently it has to be a separate band to keep from interfering with downstream television and data.

    If true, the cable operators will have to keep deploying more fiber nodes to break the coax network into smaller and smaller pieces to be able to compete. Eventually they might have to run fiber to each house...?

  19. Re:It all makes sense now. on Jack Thompson Includes Gay Porn With Court Filing · · Score: 1

    cf. Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, Pope Benedict XVI, et al.

  20. Re:I have noticed some trends here on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 1
    I'll pick on one thing of yours:

    Two Crohn's flares that landed me in the hospital, and one that didn't, all within the span of a year and rendering me partially disabled for that entire time.
    If you still live in Canada, what are your thoughts about medicare? Your illness could well have bankrupted you if you lived in a society that espoused your libertarian ideals, or worse, you could have been left to die.
  21. Re:Some people sell their "waste" heat on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Some people sell their "waste" heat
    To heat domestic water, space heating and even to power adsorption chillers which can reduce AC requirements.
    Try selling the US public on steam heat from a nuke. Yes, the coolant loop neither touches the core nor picks up radioactive ions, but see if you can get the unwashed masses to believe they'll be safe with it!
  22. Re:Farewell to count-on-it-in-emergencies on Verizon Copper Cutoff Traps Customers · · Score: 1

    A few months ago there was a power outage that started around 9 a.m. and lasted into the early afternoon.

    The spiffy VOIP phones went dead immediately.

    The old company phones kept working for about an hour.

    That's a chintzy VoIP implementation. If they had cared about reliability, your VoIP sets would be run on PoE switches attached to adequate UPS/generator capacity. Just like your old PBX.
  23. Re:80 is perfect on Are 80 Columns Enough? · · Score: 1

    I once worked on a project where a coder used a 155 character variable name. I never want to see anyone approach that size again.
    And depending on the language and/or implementation, the compiler probably only treated the first 16 or 32 characters as significant anyway.
  24. Re:Be Glad You Don't Program Mainframe Cobol on Are 80 Columns Enough? · · Score: 1
    OTOH, if you print it out on a 132-column line printer, you have a beautiful margin out to the side to scrawl notes on when you're stumped and trying to figure out something.

    <voice tone="sarcastic" age="old" timbre="scratchy">
    I used to do this back in 1997.
    </voice>

  25. Re:Socialised Healthcare is the future for the US on Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory · · Score: 1

    any body enforcing laws should absolutely never be in the position of weighing shareholders' financial desires versus the appropriate application of law.
    cf. Congress