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  1. Re:just like vista on Firefox To Get a Nag Screen For Upgrades · · Score: 1

    but Firefox 3 is unstable and explodes sometimes. this is just like vista where customers are being forced into unstable betaware so they can be guinea pigs.

  2. Re:Oh goody... on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    oh, what evidence do you have to back up this assertion? maybe the earth's climate radically changes by itself for reasons not understood by man. Consider the model which is the subject of this article, saying a 60 or 70 year cycle that is not understood will counteract global warming for a decade. If we can't understand or account for that cycle we have no business at all attempting to model climate. And the varied and contradictory results of those models over the last ten years proves the effort is a futile waste of money.

  3. Re:Perl in bioinformatics on Why Corporates Hate Perl · · Score: 1

    I hate the stagnation caused by the Perl 6 "development process", Larry trying to put everything and anything from all other languages. we're thus stuck with Perl 5.x as the only real perl and that is indeed old legacy code. Perl 6 is just an over-complicat rube goldberg contraption.

  4. Re:Why it doesn't matter on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    most people will need a client's address. let them eat NAT

  5. Re:Water = civilization on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 1

    a ship can use a gallon of fuel to move a ton of cargo more than a thousand miles, you won't beat that on land. Historically cities cities and civilizations grow along waterways for transport reasons besides food and potable source.

  6. Re:We at Gnome Rotary Disks have a better solution on Western Digital Working On a 20,000 RPM Drive · · Score: 1

    and we at Underwear Gnomery Disks have an even far superior solution to that, putting read/write heads at each bit position on the platter. that way, the disk doesn't even have to spin. And then the disk could even be square or shaped like b00b135. Naysayers pointed out we had reinvented 1950s magnetic core storage, but we won't be waylaid on our trek to profit!!

  7. Re:Saw this last week... on Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising · · Score: 1

    real geeks get their filibusters automatically generated from c++ compiler error output

  8. Re:Water = civilization on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the oceans and waterways provide transport

  9. Re:when you fill your SUV on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    a person who fills up their 50 MPG fuel miser automobile is also spending money on those bad things. If you own plastic items you've spent money on those things. Oh, you're not giving the bad people quite as much money as the SUV owner, so you're much better?

  10. Re:science and perspective, and what a pity on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 1

    the war on A.Q. in Afghanistan was mostly put on hold for the Iraq war, it's been a half-assed effort until recently

    you assume I am pro-Obama? maybe the way you assume the truth is being told to you in our "war on terror"?

  11. Re:science and perspective, and what a pity on First Images From 50-km Enceladus Flyby · · Score: 1

    depends, if it was where Bin Laden actually was hiding the Bush admin would have to cover it up and ignore it to continue having a bogeyman for their agenda

  12. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 1

    Minix 3

  13. this just in on Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes · · Score: 1, Funny

    further research showed, those 30% with the gene inhibiting learning from their mistake, could still be taught to not repeat the mistake if they were smacked upside the head while their mistake was pointed out.

  14. Re:Facts Tell a Different Story on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    I would say they've done the disgrace thing, some of those girls have their baby teeth. they are children, not teenagers.

  15. Re:"web of trust" on The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy · · Score: 1

    wait two to ten years for an anime to be sold over here (if ever)?

  16. lolcat on a plane says on Air Traffic Controller Lands Stricken Plane By SMS · · Score: 0

    im in yr avyonikz, nom nom on teh wirez

  17. Re:Coords on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    all of them

  18. Re:What COBOL really needs on Why COBOL Could Come Back · · Score: 1

    there are object oriented extensions to COBOL, the ISO COBOL 2002 standard has them and even before that major COBOL compiler vendors had their own, such as Microfocus Object COBOL.

    There are even groups working on aspect-oriented COBOL.

  19. Re:When will people learn?!?!?! on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 1

    you're talking out of your ass, the transition to the Little Ice Age a few centuries ago went within a year

  20. Re:too late on Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems · · Score: 1

    no problem, they'll just change the name to Google Strangelet-Star

  21. Re:Great on IBM Open Sources Supercomputer Code · · Score: 1

    in the 70s and 80s COBOL compilers were available from Cray and CDC to run on their supercomputers.

  22. Re:Print Link (and commentary) on IBM Pushing Microsoft-Free Desktops · · Score: 1

    my DOS command line/batch skillz still are useful

  23. Re:When will people learn?!?!?! on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 1

    humans have gone through them for the last 200,000 years. the question why you are worried that we come out of the other side of the next one without mp3 players and zoning permits has me chuckling.

  24. Re:When will people learn?!?!?! on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    catastrophic climate changes have occurred in very short time periods, less than the 12,000 years you posit. It is inevitable that there will be more from entirely natural causes and people and ecosystems will die.

  25. Re:When will people learn?!?!?! on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what a bullshit notion, that nature or the earth is in balance. The earth has been far, far hotter and far far colder and far, far wetter and far, far drier in the past. Even the Sahara dessert was heavily vegetated not even 12,000 years ago. The oceans have been rising since the last ice age.