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  1. Re:Illiac had infinite loop detection on Escaping Infinite Loops · · Score: 1

    Fourth computer? Plenty of electronic computers were built in the 1940s before Illiac I, more than ten . Also, what happens if a program is doing algorithm where ALU is the same until some unique condition met? That's hardly a foolproof method of infinite loop detection

  2. Re:Switching to a free Linux is not cheap on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    How could it be crappy admins if the problem causing malware is "unknown" to prevention and detection methods, patches? Seems to me to be a case of poor code quality on the part of Microsoft; I don;t see other operating systems with this particular kind of problem.

  3. Re:Get your facts straight! on Mysterious Object Found In Seabed · · Score: 1

    I thought it was an alien fighter that hit the water accidentally because the pilot was too busy trying to keep up with Will Smith and shooting "green shit" at him

  4. Re:Tailfins on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    I was not talking about the menu bar, but of many other things

    that's ok, superior alternatives are just about completed, and I can soon drop the firefox in the shitcan where it belongs

  5. Re:The poor economy justifies a lot, but .... on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    She didn't have a friend she could rely on to help with her Linux issues? I help out my friends who switch to linux, because they soon don't need anymore help. Unlike my relatives who refuse and stay on windows, they constantly call my younger brother for help for various disasters or puzzling windows behavior.

  6. Re:The Year of the Vista Desktop? on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    but is over 30% of mobile devices, and projected to be two-thirds of mobile devices in three years. maybe Linux skips the whole desktop fad and takes over the world anyway

  7. Re:Switching to a free Linux is not cheap on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    No place I worked at ever had Windows training. Techs might occasionally come by and show the user how to do something. It takes much longer to install windows than Linux in a corporate environment, by a factor of four in places I've worked (yes, those were automated install-reboot-installMore-reboot-etc). The downtime from the malware is huge with windows, and downtime by Exchange server fuckups and limitations. Windows could be more expensive by the time wasted.

  8. Re:Switching to a free Linux is not cheap on Are Bad Economic Times Good for Free Software? · · Score: 1

    At most of my employer's clients, usually its the Windows that fails, the mission critical app can't run on windows server but can run on four or more other OS. The client could be anything. I'm talking about DBMS, MRP, ERP, Insurance payment and adjudication, trading, banking. No windows required.

  9. Re:Is this even possible? on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    more fun facts, the SNAP-10 weighed half a ton. http://www.etec.energy.gov/History/Major-Operations/SNAP-Overview.html

  10. Re:Is this even possible? on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Of course tiny reactors are possible, critical configurations of certain elements would need only grams of mass in some cases (extracting any such quantity from the scant artificial sources left as exercise for governments with hundreds of millions of dollars U.S. or more to spend). For example, 20 grams of Am-242m1 can make a reactor with kilowatts of power output: . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium#Fission

  11. Re:How was this going to work? on Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Am-241 can fission from neutron absorption and initiate a chain reaction. A spherical critical configuration needs well over 50 kg of mass, however. There is no possibility from assembling such a large mass from the microgram quantities found in smoke detectors.

  12. Re:Much ado... on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    how about cramming our knickers into the mouths of needless-change-over-functionality developers to stifle the screams, then stabbing them? would that be ok?

  13. Re:Tailfins on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    no, I have to wade through too many menu levels to get back basic functionality that the fucknuts dropped. To get back to the 1950s car analogy, they simply by taking away two tailfins and putting just one, over the steering wheel.

  14. Re:Why not just use ethernet? on 800Mbps Wireless Network Made With LED Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    there are plenty of fast and cheap solutions to hanging wires on walls or entire raceway for large bundle.

  15. Re:Three years before end of support on Windows XP Market Share Finally Falls Below 50% · · Score: 1

    sound like you use the wares of one of the CADD vendors that dumped real OS in favour of windows only.....maybe you should switch to something that doesn't run on billy bloatware

  16. Re:isn't it great? on NRC Study Lowers Hazard Estimate For Nuke Plants · · Score: 1

    Was being sarcastic because I'm pissed at carelessness, stupidity and greed that caused all the major accidents to date. But to be serious, we're talking about stats from something called the Rasmussen Study, which gave that number, and then said nine out of ten of those events would NOT have radiation emissions of consequence. But that major meltdown with release would be 1 in 100,000 per reactor-year of operation. That's actually kind of scary, we'd better put these gen II turds out of commission.

  17. isn't it great? on NRC Study Lowers Hazard Estimate For Nuke Plants · · Score: 1

    we now know so much more about these 1 in 10,000 years types of meltdowns, because we've been so fortunate to get over 40,000 years worth in less than 50 years. Like winning the mega-millions lottery again and again and again.

  18. Re:No doubt. on NASA's Plan To Clean Up Space Program Launch Site Contamination · · Score: 1

    was that the Delta II explosion of January 17, 1997? The first stage has both a liquid fuel engine of kerosene and oxygen, and also solid rocket boosters with rubber, aluminum and ammonium perchlorate. yum yum, probably smelled better than a diesel truck with a tire melting and burning on the exhaust pipe.

  19. Re:Thinking it would evaporate? on NASA's Plan To Clean Up Space Program Launch Site Contamination · · Score: 2

    interestingly it also attacks the ozone layer. win-win-win, pollutes ground, water and air! http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts70.pdf

  20. not broken at all on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Broken" would mean the state was losing money. Your definition of "broken" needs fixed, you are jealous savvy people with enough money to invest can win at certain times

  21. Re:Oh I see on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that is false, plenty of people understand the math perfectly but play anyway. You don't understand the nature of three-quarters the people you meet (that's about the fraction of people who gamble at every place I've ever worked, and we're talking college educated people of median income of $85K currently)

  22. Re:You all laughed when .... on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    I'll sell you next year's winning numbers for 90% off. minimum purchase $500,000. Cash in your retirement account and hop on my gravy train!

  23. Re:IANARS, but... on Radio Energy Harvested With Inkjet-Printed Antenna · · Score: 1

    why not just have required open carry?

    maybe we could keep night sights charged with this technology

  24. Re:Stupid Computer on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    come to think of it, that wild hair between his teen might have belonged to a certain bartender

  25. Re:Stupid Computer on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    maybe picard often got a wild hair and would drink thai ice tea or american licorice and orange rind colonial tea