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  1. Bus bottleneck? on Hitachi-LG Debuts HyDrive, Optical Drive With SSD · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As there will only be a single SATA interface, it will be shared between the SSD and the optical drive.
    What if you need to burn data that's on the SSD?

  2. Re:Okay! on Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market · · Score: 1

    Good, you have to pay my royalties first. Then I'll ditch your application. :-)

  3. Okay! on Tetris Clones Pulled From Android Market · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let's patent the patent system. And see what happens.

  4. Re:Great Idea! on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    "the water dispersed" but the amount of contamination is still there, and will be for some thousands years ...
    Nothing can be dispersed in either the water, the atmosphere or the earth. Just moved along and scattered all over.
    But this is OK

  5. Re:Great Idea! on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    If it was a conventional bomb, well I know how explosives are used to, say, bring buildings down on their feet even in crowded cities.
    And even conventional (chemical) explosives release an amount of substances that could harm the undersea world and the water itself.
    What really scares me is the radioactive effect that undoubtedly will affect the area.
    It'd not just be the blast effect itself, you know.
    Even with hydrogen bombs you have a fission trigger with uranium or plutonium ... and thus radiations will matter.

  6. Re:Great Idea! on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    ... only if everything goes fine.
    What if something won't?

  7. Great Idea! on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    To stop an oil spill that's killing the whole Atlantic Ocean we can use an atomic bomb.
    Why not adding also something that will add some thousands tons of CO2 a minute and spread some cloud of prions all over the atmosphere?
    And then burning all the Amazon forrest?

  8. It's not for everyone on Black Market May Develop For IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    To really do blackmarket on IP addresses you cannot be anyone.
    You need to be an ISP, with at least a LIR to route those IPs almost everywhere or a hosting company so you don't move the IP but host the applications ... that article sounds a little bit non sense.

  9. Simple! on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because they are m0r0ns and will rely on someone else to develop the right plugin.

  10. Access speed? Throughput? on Scientist Uses Nanodots To Create 4Tb Storage Chip · · Score: 1

    I wonder how do they think all those data can be made accessible with fast access speed and good throughput.
    The article is failing to mention this slightly important topic. Also tapes can store a lot of data (well not really that lot) with ridiculous performances.

  11. Church attractin young people? on Church Turns To Facebook To Find Priests · · Score: 1

    Sounds scaring!

  12. Re:I'm done with Ubuntu on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 1

    I'm still looking for a distro that will install painlessly on my company laptops.
    At least one of them shows problems with a distribution, so I need to have different distros on each.
    Which is really annoying!

  13. Finally here? on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As of now (14:45 GMT) there's no official release of the Lucid Lynx!

  14. Fas is fat on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 1

    As long as you fit within mammals' metabolism (maybe also the Chordate's), the more fats you eat, the fatter you become.

  15. That woulnd't work in Italy on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    As a number of e-banking systems don't work with Firefox, Safari and even Opera.
    Problems range from stuff to be weirdly displayed to missing buttons and menus.
    You actually need IE, possibly version 6 or maybe 7.

  16. What'd be the final goals? on Iron Alloy Could Create Earthquake-Proof Buildings · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In my opinion, in order:
    1. save as many lives as possible and
    2. save as much stuff (money) as possible

    So, a building structure that is capable to remember its original shape is certainly aimed to meet requirement no.2.
    But will hardly meet no.1.
    Can you imagine a building that's "flexible" enough to make stairs and elevators useless to people trying to get out of it?
    And that'd be just the structure. What about the resulting wall rubble?
    Maybe making lower buildings with wider streets in cities could help.

  17. Carbon footprint? on A Sad Day For the New Zealand Internet · · Score: 1

    Oh, sorry. You said "China".

  18. Easy workaround on New Phone Allows Bosses To Snoop On Staff · · Score: 1

    Leave the phone on the desk: you don't need it in the toilet.

  19. So long on Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 · · Score: 1

    and thanks for all the bugs and backdoors!

  20. Re:USB console? Serial console? on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    In the real world networking is multipath and redundant, so "messing up" is an inlikely event.
    Can you imagine how secure is a terminal server attached to a modem?
    Nay, I still prefer networked out-of-band management designed for real world cases.

  21. USB console? Serial console? on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Why all this stone age stuff when you can have TCP/IP over ethernet with technologies like iLO, LOM and the likes running on separate integrated hardware?
    Stop thinking in terms of interfaces, please, and start worrying about services!

  22. Unrelated, but ... on Google Gets US Approval To Buy and Sell Energy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd like to know how long it took for the whole request to be processed in the USA. A similar thing in Italy would require not less than 90 days, very likely twice as long.

  23. Growing respect to Linus on Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate" · · Score: 1

    As Galaga and the solitaire are the only games woth playing, along with rougue-lke.

  24. Full browsing is not Internet on Space Station Astronauts Gain Internet Access · · Score: 1

    In my lingo "internet access" is the full (or a reasonable part) of the TCP/IP stack. Something like all TCP and UDP ports in both directions plus SCPT (transport), ICMP and IPSec (internet layer).
    What the astronatus have is an HTTP proxy server!

  25. MySQL future? on European Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Merger · · Score: 1

    Will MySQL survive this merger?