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  1. Re:Do companies really use Big Iron anymore? on NASA Unplugs Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    has nothing based on performance either, the cost per db transaction is higher with HP blades.

  2. Re:Do companies really use Big Iron anymore? on NASA Unplugs Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    I work at a VAR that sell HP blades, HP Itanium2 and IBM.....guess what, the IBM mainframe is far cheaper in cost / transaction (despite HPs B.S. ad compaign that deliberately compared wrong models). The only downside is that you must be running powerpc binaries (the x86 blade extensions to mainframes exist but not cost effective)

  3. Re:Greenhouse gas emissions on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 1

    the billion others weren't making notable scientific accomplishments

  4. Re:Greenhouse gas emissions on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 1

    really? I liked the later story arc where he get liquored up and goes into the tat parlor and gets the map of the USA tatooed on his forehead. then bribes his mother to say it was "birthmark" . pure genius for the writers

  5. Re:Not Necessarily Dead on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 2

    I added up all the fuel weight, less than 400 tons. You could be quite close to that exploding, really, less than 500 m and survive. That's far different than the 2500 tons of fuel in say a Saturn V, or the 800 tons of all space shuttle engines

  6. Re:Very bad idea on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    those supporting documents can all be digitized, gramps

  7. Re:The day is soon coming on Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper · · Score: 2

    no one is picking out my produce for me

  8. Re:Greenhouse gas emissions on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 0

    totally negligible compared to fossil consumed each day, doesn't matter one bit

  9. Re:The day is soon coming on Scientists Print Cheap RFID Tags On Paper · · Score: 3, Informative

    why waste time sliding a card, already technology exists where you could just walk through

  10. Re:1.7% cut? on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 1

    not really easier, the energy requirement is *much* huger, not only delta-v wise but due to incredible mass of needed supplies. Sustaining a crew for over a year and a half is not as trivial as few days moon mission

  11. Re:1.7% cut? on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 1

    yes, they're mostly Libertarians and Green Party. The threat to the two-party system is obvious

  12. Re:Do you think it's worth it? on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    and make a cutt-off date for paperwork you will keep, say 8 years. In 4 years over half your pile will be gone, 8 years your pile will be shreds, problem solved.

  13. Bad Guys Also Use Closed Source Model! on Bad Guys Use Open Source, Too · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bad Guys Also Use Closed Source Model! Bad Guys Even Use Software and Hardware! Bad Guys Breath Oxygen and Some Piss in Urinals. Ban all these evil tools of the bad guys!

  14. Re:CFCs got hard to obtain on NASA Wants Green Rocket Fuel · · Score: 1

    Note it is largely the people ignorant of science and engineering who say space travel is impossible. It is not a question for such people to answer

  15. Re:a total bust, not energy efficient at all on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 3

    solar ones at municipal scale are being built now in australia, india, spain.

  16. a total bust, not energy efficient at all on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    requires electricity, unlike thermal desalination which can use free (as in beer) energy, and doesn't produce anything useable. was this summary written to attrack potential investors? it most likely will be a waste of time and money....

  17. 1.7% cut? on NASA To Drastically Cut Mars Mission Funding · · Score: 5, Insightful

    with 18 billion dollar budget you'd think there would be enough waste and nonsense to deal with that 300 million cut without cutting programs.

  18. Re:rubycodez on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 1

    hah, there are many things other than height that distinguish corn from say soybeans from industrial hemp.....most of my relatives are in "farm country"

  19. Re:rubycodez on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 1

    you mean the revenuers going after the corn mash still?

  20. rubycodez on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I've always been able to tell a corn field from a hemp one without a camera. Also, I can tell a hemp farm from a marijuana farm, as there there is more than a meter difference in plant height.

  21. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    it's an Islamic Slut OfficeLady. They're all quiet and demure and veiled in public, but total ho-bags in the bed. By all means mount and ride one if one is receptive to you.

  22. Re:Net economic loss? on Higgs Signal Gains Strength · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the Einstein equivalence principle *postulates* equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass, declares it by fiat. I am an engineering physicist, straddle both worlds. You can't say today what application would be made of a particle in the future. No one in the 1930s thought we'd have practical applications using antimatter including antiprotons or antineutrinos in 2012

  23. masked based on book? on Alan Moore on V For Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous · · Score: 0

    people who say the mask is based on that book or V for V movie are funny, the mask is this guy (pun intended):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes

  24. Re:Net economic loss? on Higgs Signal Gains Strength · · Score: 1

    No, there is more to physics than theoretical high energy physics. We have solid state physics (solar cell design falls in there), geophysics, fluid flow....plenty of emerging energy sources covered by ongoing developments in physics.

  25. Re:Material object? on Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America · · Score: 4, Funny

    A service right before Friday Night MP3 Bingo.