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  1. Re:Fusion Power...here we come on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    you'll note it was the Navy that funded Bussard's polywell (most ions at proper energy), which is the only realistic approach to fusion rather than the B.S. Tokamak approach which is just a sinkhole for billions of USD

  2. Re:Fusion Power...here we come on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    we had the first fusion bomb on November 1, 1952 and thousands made since then

  3. Re:Cool on Rat-eating Plant Discovered in Australia · · Score: 1

    from the pictures others have posted it looks like you would have to grind the ex into hotdog sized sausages.

  4. Re:Java on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 1

    if Sun can actually figure out how to make Java pay it won't matter whether mysql does or not

  5. Re:Another 27% on MPAA Botched Study On College Downloading · · Score: 2, Funny

    in point of fact 2% of the 27% was left on the hookers' asses.

  6. Re:Video Summary: 2 files not compatible with GPL on HP Launches FOSSology Open Source Tracking Tool · · Score: 0

    no, BSD software can be relicensed under the more restrictive GPL, just not the other way around. By the way, I downloaded the source for Abiword-2.4.6.tar.gz and found the hash.cpp with the full license inside but no tword.cpp file

  7. Re:And as quick as it is reported on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 2, Funny

    if gentoo ever stops compiling, I gotta try that install thing next

  8. Re:Peak Oil will fix this on IBM Patents Pricing Motorists Off Highways · · Score: 1

    there's more to burn than sweet crude, plenty of ways to change shorter or longer hydrocarbons to gasoline or diesel. Cost isn't even twice that of sweet crude. Say hello to king coal and his flatulent friend natural gas, of which new huge reserves are being discovered monthly.

  9. Re:IBM vs. Sun? on IBM Won't Open-Source OS/2 · · Score: 1

    we just got rid of our OS/2 Warp based phone system, ok in it's day (early 90s) but any Linux/BSD/Unix can do anything it can do, don't know what you mean by "feel" that's just a window manager function and there's nothing but choice in unixland, from ultra-lightweight to heavy KDE or GNOME. IBM killed OS/2, made porting guide for getting code to Linux, and there's even libraries of OS/2 functions for GNU/Linux. Under Windows there's nothing but choice if someone wants decent command line and scripting alternatives to DOS environment, which used to be one sale point for OS/2. Can run decent scripting for windows in cron-like and at-batch or as windows services too, either for free or with proprietary goods. there's just nothing left for OS/2 to do, even being routed from cash registers and ATMs. The parrot is dead folks, and better than buggy-whip has arrived.

  10. Re:Uh? on Cell Phone Sommeliers on the Way? · · Score: 1

    at least my voicemail has e-mail notification with audio file as attachment, that's all you really need instead of cell phone if you're online most of the time

  11. Re:Cloning in nature on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    ah, the commonwealth usage: "strip steak" in USA.

  12. Re:Y2K38? on Y2K38 Watch Starts Saturday · · Score: 1

    Y2K38 doesn't mean 2038, it means the problem 32 bit Unix time will have in 2038. This saves many electron storage bins. I'm more worried about the U.S. Y2K8 problem, changing oligarchs doesn't fix oligarchy

  13. Re:Cloning in nature on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 1

    um, a porterhouse is a fillet mignon on one side of the bone and "new york strip" on the other

  14. Re:It's futile and everybody loses on Is Copy Protection Needed or Futile? · · Score: 1

    but with a sufficiently sophisticated p2p system no one knows what the payload was, what the route of delivery was, or who the sender, middlemen, and receiver were. p2p can be embedded in seeming innocuous data.

  15. Re:This is arguably the stupidest thing ... on Parents To Block Kids From Joining MySpace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the first thing that came to my mind was, how to create a high-quality list of edresses for the nation's pedophiles to seek.

  16. Re:Photos are FAKE on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 3, Insightful

    stare for a tenth of a second at the Sun through 8x binoculars. then you will have some idea why a camera that can image mercury's sunlit surface can't detect stars.

  17. Re:Zoom? on Messenger Flies by Mercury · · Score: 1

    124 miles away at thousands of miles an hour, it'll get damn close on this fly-by.

  18. Re:The sun? on Helium Crisis Approaching · · Score: 1

    the heat is no problem either, we'll just do it at night

  19. Re:Drill it, sink it, forget it. on How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    not the cheapness it's the profit margins.

  20. Re:About the Authors on Professors Slam Java As "Damaging" To Students · · Score: 1

    ada - pascal meets cobol

  21. Re:It's your reality, not mine. on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    possessing an id means "knowing who they are"? haha, all the information on the IDs of every passenger can be absolutely accurate, and one of them could ram a nonmetallic object through your vitals on a whim. IDs don't prevent crime, don't prevent hijackings, don't stop terrorists and don't make the world safe. they might show who passed an drivers exam, except when they don't (former governor of my state doing some hard time right now......)

  22. Re:Redhat versus ubuntu - Red Hat wins. on Interview with Red Hat's New CEO · · Score: 1

    ten years? Ubuntu is taking a chunk out of Redhat in the here and now. when Redhat shafted me and all those who made redhat #1 by making their "free as in beer" distro totally different from what they sell, I left. As for CentOS, leaving free access to a third party who forever must lag behind (and can't duplicate all of) RedHat doesn't make for a unified community.

  23. Re:FoldingAtHome on 500-fold Increase in Data Flow from SETI Telescope · · Score: 1

    pfft, what kind of geek are you if you have just one machine to do cooperative projects. you don't have an uber machine that can do the medicinal effort, and a modest one that can do seti? or a multi-core monster that can do both? Get your puny geek single-box genitalia beefed up, fer pete's sake 8D

  24. s/bring/break on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 1

    things break in return

  25. Re:OSX...blue screens alot on Where Linux Gained Ground in 2007 · · Score: 1

    my daughter has OSX, sure it's cool and I can do Unix admin tricks to manage it remotely from my GNU/Linux box, but the truth about Mac OSX is that it's slightly too bleeding edge and unstable. Fork out $120 for the latest version of Mac OSX and things bring in return. And MacOSX has issues with my favorite coding language.....