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  1. Re:PROFILED on TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening · · Score: 1

    yes, I personally know first-hand witnesses to children being rigged with explosives in viet nam war. And I'm aware of it in those countries you mentioned plus six more.

    So what?

    Irrelevant. It is not happening here. Has not happened here. Total number of humans caught rigged to blow by TSA: Zero.

  2. Cranes walking since 1913 on Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE's Walking Truck · · Score: 1

    Dragline excavators have been available in walking models since engineer Oscar Martinson put a Monighan dragline crane on his invention, the Martinson Walker in 1913. Type "walking dragline" into youtube and watch those bad boys boogie in slow-mo!

  3. Re:PROFILED on TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terrorists use eight year old kids as vessel for their explosives

    Your basis for this is that airplanes are falling out of the sky like hail from children rigged to explode? or that the TSA catches all kinds of children wired to blow? Or, are you a coward living in fear, willing to give up your rights to not be molested and humiliated by TSA who have never, ever caught a terrorist?

  4. Re:No uranium on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    The thorium breeding cycle doesn't require complex enrichment processes, and the UK could do that itself after cycle initiated.

  5. Re:Should we worry? on Asteroid To Pass Near Earth On Monday · · Score: 1

    yes, but it only rates sending Bruce Willis alone, equipped with a pistol drill and a Party Popper(tm)

  6. Re:Amateur on Citi Hackers Got Away With $2.7 Million · · Score: 2

    the banking cartel does the defrauding, and why do you imagine your credit union is independent of it?

  7. Re:No uranium on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    A thorium breeder doesn't have to be a salt reactor, there are many other designs. While the supply of easily mined uranium might last for a century or so, there are thorium reserves sufficient for millennia. Since uranium and thorium are available from so very many places, the UK would not be tied to a single supplier, and a temporary interruption in fuel supply is not as critical as for fossil fuels because of the high energy density, an interruption of a year or two in imports is no difficulty because of the length of the refueling cycle.

  8. wrong kind of thinking on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 3, Insightful

    bugs will happen, all the time. The problem here is that there are processes missing, management has failed. Your ideas of software development need to change, it is not a one-man-band.

  9. Re:Regression testing on Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours · · Score: 1

    they should have used tools like IBM's Rational Unified Process, that lets every idiot in the building interfere with the development process, and also barfs out impressive diagrams every time that happens

  10. Re:The fastest rival isn't the show computers. on Japan's 8-petaflop K Computer Is Fastest On Earth · · Score: 1

    PRNewWires 13 Jun e2011

    Today a spokeswoman for MEXT has revealed that the bitcoin mining system for the K Computer was written using j2ee, "We have estimated that it will only take four and a half years to get the JVM up and running, but after that it will be 'faster than greased soba noodles' ".

  11. Re:U.S. Government Already Said NO BOUNTY FOR YOU on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    sometimes I shake the trees here to see what falls out. This anti-pakistan meme is something I've been seeing much of in the news lately.

  12. correction - from 19th century on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 2

    It comes from the Low German word "geck" meaning fool or crazy. Sideshow or freak show circus wild (as in crazy) men were called "geeks", and to demonstrate craziness did such stunts as biting chicken's heads off and swallowed and regurgitated live goldfish. In the 1930s, goldfish swallowing was a fad in colleges and was sometimes called being a geek.

  13. let's get back to basics on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 2

    Geeks are supposed to be crazed circus side show freaks that bite the heads off of chickens.

    http://youtu.be/JNM4atakanI

  14. Re:Not by any measure was it the first on IBM Did Not Invent the Personal Computer · · Score: 1

    Your ignorance is astounding. There were many complete assembled computer systems sold in the 70s, used in small business and in homes. Even the fully assembled Osburne was introduced five months before the IBM PC

  15. Re:Yes, they did on IBM Did Not Invent the Personal Computer · · Score: 2

    bullshit, you must be young. My friends and I had personal computers in the 70s, all of different brands.

  16. Re:If Itanium is an endangered species on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1
  17. Re:If Itanium is an endangered species on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    HP whined about future of 140,000 claimed integrity customers, the Sparc space is shrinking but is over ten times that.

  18. Re:Who can get fired that buys Intel? HP? Oracle? on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Most Oracle customers don't run on Itanium anyways, it's a freak side show. Solaris and Linux dominate Oracle server market.

  19. Re:What about Poulson? on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Executives do all manner of things to justify their horrible decisions, throwing good money after bad after worse. Even though Itanium sales a trickle compared to the forecast and promised tens of billions a year, Intel and HP won't admit their stupidity.

  20. Re:Can I Help Countersue? on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Why do you blame HP? Alpha is a DEC invention. They fucked up their business, then sold a portion including Alpha to Compaq, already planning to phase it out since they were intel customer. The reason Alpha is dead is because your limp dick numb nuts DEC twinks couldn't get it up. suck on it.

  21. Re:fuck off, HPaq on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    Don't blaim HP, it is the choads at DEC who failed you, Alpha aquired with the rest but already HP an Intel customer with their own plans.

    As for slow introduction of features, It's called a mature and stable operating system, quite foreign to the PC users realm I admit. It does the things enterprise customers want, including j2ee.

  22. Re:U.S. Government Already Said NO BOUNTY FOR YOU on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    Fascinating you are ignorant of the role many in the Pakistani government and military have in aided and harboring those who attacked us. We could in fact justify war if cooperation does not continue to be forthcoming.

  23. Re:U.S. Government Already Said NO BOUNTY FOR YOU on Treasure Hunter Wants To Find Bin Laden's Body With ROV · · Score: 1

    but they (pakistan) did make the deal with the devil, they mollify their populace with condemnations but still have accepted (and often aided) our acting in their territories for a decade. Slippery slope for them, now the sliding has accelerated and they are getting frightened. The alternative is to accuse them of outright harboring our enemies, making Congress to formally declare war on them, and then we can level the place while they try to get one of their tiny fission devices into our territory. This way (pay, play and take some grief) seems a bit better.

  24. Re:What about SPARC on HP Sues Oracle For Dropping Itanium Support · · Score: 1

    no, not on payroll and I despise Oracle and it's bloated 1980s technology DBMS, and also what Sun had degenerated into since the dot-com bubble when they became careless and just rode out the name. Doesn't change that UltraSparc is still heavily present in datacenter and still purchased even in recession. Gartner is the National Enquirer of the IT world, they don't know fact from marketing fiction. Stats on sales are a function of who's reporting and how they want to count things as bundled ( for example server plus storage plus software if you want to jack up numbers)

  25. Re:Where's my C# version? on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 1

    My diversity of experience lets me spot a lemon of an OS when I see one, one that wastes billions of dollars annually due to poor source code control, bloat, susceptibility to malware, poor QA. My experience goes back into the 70s on mainframes, midrange, supercomputer as well as desktop. You must be young, starting on person machines in the 1980s, my first home computer was in the early 1970s though already working on commercial systems before then. What's my current portfolio, the IBM mainframe OS, OpenVMS, Unix (AIX, HP/UX, IRIX, Solaris), the open source Unix-like system (GNU/LInux and *BSD), the fading MPE/IX, VMware, Mac OSX. Some of the old ones include CDC NOS, RT-11, CP/M, NeXTStep, and a few others I can't remember at the moment.