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  1. Scene from Jurassic Park on Digital Tech and the Re-Birth of Product Placement · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lex: "It's a Unix System, conforming to the Single Unix Specification of the Open Group! Unix is a registered trademark of the Open Group, and not to be used as a generic term! I know this!"

  2. Re:It'll be fine, brought to you by Carl's Jr. on Digital Tech and the Re-Birth of Product Placement · · Score: 1

    I'm reading your post, and I agree, comfortable at work because I'm wearing 100% cotton Haynes under my clothes, The Lady Prefers Haynes(TM) Just wait till we get our Haynes on You(TM)

  3. Re:Car insurance is expensive for some people on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    or crushed by the first manatee that tries to fuck it

  4. Re:Fuck Aaron Barr on Aaron Barr Talks About DEFCON, Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 1

    LOL

    for those who slept in U.S. history class:

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

  5. Re:Pistol Shrimp with Nuclear Fusion? on Mussels With Hydrogen Fuel Cells Found · · Score: 1

    sorry, fusion doesn't happen at several thousand degrees, so it doesn't happen in the Sun's photosphere either.

  6. Re:facebook yahoo data sync? on Yahoo, Facebook Test "Six Degrees of Separation" · · Score: 2

    they don't use the "personal information" fields (too many people same name, same age, same city), that's not how the game of internet marketing and tracking is played. 3rd party javascript on the websites you visit, 3rd party cookies, your browsers cached data compared between successive sites with common 3rd party content, pixel beacons in emails and web pages, friend lists, social networking profiles used as shortcut for registration.

  7. Big Iron vendors gave cred to Linux in Finance on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Not surprising to see GNU/Linux popping up in finance world. Not just trading, but banking, insurance, government finance. IBM: You can have IFL processors on your mainframe (Integrated Facility for Linux) with or without z/VM, and there is Linux on zSeries. You can run Linux on your System x or System p.

    Oracle/Sun: solaris or linux on your Oracle x86 box. Unbreakable Linux for Oracle.

    HP: Redhat and SuSE were supported on Integrity servers (not to be supported on the new 9300, but that's another story), on x86 you can have Redhat, SuSE, Debian, Oracle Linux

  8. Re:and Java on the software side? on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 1

    rather humorous, and of course utterly false, what with the HotSpot jvm being written in C++ and all. COBOL is even fast than java, since the major cobol compilers go directly to assembly.

  9. Re:Accuracy ? on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 1

    HP's NonStop, actually, which is neither HP/UX nor True 64. It only can run on certain redundant architecture machines.

  10. Re:no on Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Too Hot For Intel? · · Score: 1

    Pfft, that's just an intel foot-warmer. You want an Intel *smelter*, try an Itanium2 MX2....260 W

  11. Re:postscript on Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers · · Score: 1

    and later Postscript Extreme, which converts all print jobs to pdf first.

  12. Re:Movement won't be a reliable measure on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    the tax only punishes people for getting their daily duties done, mainly getting to work. They are not the ones "wearing out the roads", commerce is. This bullshit lie of confiscating wealth to "save the planet" or "for the public good" has to stop. Taxes bloat government into a bigger monster.

  13. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    prevent crime? no, the purpose is to have security theatre, a "database of dirt" on people, and to have footage for media to justify agendas. The camera system is working well.

  14. Re:How about 1000 miles per gram? on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1, Insightful

    hah, sorry but that is a hoax, a scam to get investor money. you can't induce fission, nor can you induce faster thorium decay, by heating with a laser. What you can do is make a thorium breeder reactor, which will NOT fit in a car.

  15. Re:popularized personal computing? on Review of IBM's Original Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    yes, but that was a later one, 1977. plenty of good stuff available before, like the Atlair 8800 fully assembled version.

  16. Re:How about 1000 miles per gram? on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1

    that's a joke? make that thorium in a central nuclear power plant, and it's a solution

  17. Re:Alternate Fuels = Wrong Problem on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1

    we have thousands of square miles on this earth with bright sunshine and almost never clouds nor storms. we can turn cellulose into butanol, and grow sufficient crops on scrub land for our vehicles. we have thorium supply sufficient for four thousand years of breeding, and moreover use our existing "spent nuclear fuel" to extract over five times the energy as the first burn, leaving short-lived wastes. See, just engineering issues, no fundamental problems. Also, the population will peak at less than 20% more than there is now by early 2070s, so runaway population not even an issue.

  18. Re:Alternate Fuels = Wrong Problem on US Pumps $175M Into Advanced Auto Fuel Research · · Score: 1

    who says cars have to be made of metal? and there is plenty of abundant energy on this earth, no shortage.

  19. Re:can't enjoy that on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    I would call that kind of "hope-I-check-everything" kneejerking around. you must like it

  20. Re:Low level? on Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client · · Score: 1

    yes, they are the high end of low level languages, one step above assembly langauge. They certainly are not high level languages like Python, or LISP

  21. Re:I think you missed the whole point. on Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening · · Score: 1

    the common word in all your scenarios is TSA. how hard to completely replace the TSA shift with terrorists? not too hard, just have to impersonate a bunch of.....let's just say the bar is low.

  22. can't enjoy that on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    ".....to report whether they still work or are having some issues with alpha and beta releases. Note: Recommended for alpha and beta users only! in other words, not for anyone who is interested in maintaining a production stable system.

    Firefox has jumped the shark, "upgrade or die". fuck you, Mozilla Corporation.

  23. Re:Enough with the version number inflation! on Firefox 6 Ships Next Week, 8 Blocks Sneaky Add-Ons · · Score: 1

    the websites apparently care, there are major ones refusing to work with "old" versions, old meaning 3.5 and before.

    you argument that version number is of no consequence has no merit, this is major fucking-over of the users by major open source project.

  24. Re:enh on Review of IBM's Original Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    cool! I found a february 1984 InfoWorld article on IBM's announcment: http://books.google.com/books?id=gC4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=introduced+PC/IX+ibm&source=bl&ots=2NTHrJUOVl&sig=QZsjE6hvXxCZvHL-WPDFxXrOrp0&hl=en&ei=rqBFTtHKJqeGsgK62J3kBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=introduced%20PC%2FIX%20ibm&f=false

    The IBM PC version of Coherent came out in 1983, but my version 3.0 which required 80286 was much later, about 1989. A real bargain at $90. First version was for PDP-11 in 1980.

  25. Re:Window? on Apple's Unlikely Security Mentor: Microsoft · · Score: 1

    The french took the latin leo for lion and made names Léon and Léo