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  1. Platform name change? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    Is Solaris going to become Orifice now?

  2. More real estate -- Just what FL needs... on Florida To Build Solar-Powered City · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While overall this being a good idea, with so many vacancies in FL now, do they really need more real estate?

  3. Browncoats getting the shaft... again! on NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert · · Score: 1

    Why oh why? Why not Serenity? /// Can't Stop the Signal!

  4. Re:Why? on Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work · · Score: 1

    The lift of the ban is needed to at least stop the ridiculous practice of scientists having to use 2 sets of the same equipment: one for tests and observations of the "government-approved" stem cell lines and another for the privately-funded. Talk about waste elimination...

  5. And I am opening Teleportation Devices, Inc. on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look, we know that the future is in teleportation, and since I have this snappy name, I am the best shoot at it. Leave you name and my director of investment will contact you to take you money... err... I mean to offer you great investment opportunity.

  6. feeling better already on Stimulus Bill Contains Net Neutrality Provision · · Score: 5, Funny

    so, we are finally getting someone in government who does not just measure Net in truckloads.

  7. WRT54G + DD-WRT + Xmit power on How Best To Deal With WiFi Interference? · · Score: 1

    If you have Linksys WRT54G wireless router and have flushed it with DD-WRT Firmware, you might be able to increase Xmit power of your wireless transmission to effectively suppress any interference. Now, the idea is to not go overboard and piss the neighbors off by making it so strong that it suppresses reception of their own signal in THEIR own apartment.

  8. Re:Oh, the fun and prizes! on FBI Issues Code Cracking Challenge · · Score: 1

    at least you don't have to tip a DJ

  9. As it is always with SPAM: Wrong audience on Thai Premier Spams Nation, Prompts Consumer Outcry · · Score: 1

    Instead, he should have sent it to all the tourists that visit the country. Oh, wait... they do not do it any more because of the airport chaos.

  10. Alternative energy source on UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework · · Score: 1

    How about we put the net ON the asteroids and use their MC^2 to produce clean energy!

  11. Re:That's another thing they'd screw up... on UN Plans Asteroid Response Framework · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In result, USA solution will be using Russians, hired cheap off the Russian military, using old Soviet technology...

  12. Yes on Should We Clone a Neanderthal? · · Score: 1

    Doitdoitdoitdoit

  13. Can't make a sandwich on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    But we can sudo-make a sandwich, right?

  14. Re: Making a sandwich on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 1

    ... But we can still work around it via sudo, right?

  15. Makes sence, sinceVista SP1 is [Version 6.0.6001] on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Running ver on VistaSP1 returns: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001] So, yeah, it kinda makes sense calling the next major version 7.

  16. Re:Antarctica on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    The air is too dry in Antarctica: hard drives are failing much more often.

  17. Re:Bank Machines on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 1

    I experienced the same shock when I saw a couple of bank employees rebooting Diebolds ATM. I was outright shocked to see that it was loading windows XP Pro. Well, at least it was not a Home edition.

  18. Re:2015 on Meet the Laptop You Will (Won't?) Use In 2015 · · Score: 1

    But it will be! The only OS-specific reference on the page is "Apache/1.3.33 Server" and we all know what is Apache's native OS!

  19. How? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 1

    Gory, how quickly do you manage to boot all 500 cores to a 'weird' system image of your choice?

  20. Re:No recipe... on A Few Firefox 3 Followups · · Score: 1

    I would have some concerns eating that cake... it is probably full of bugs!

  21. One word on 'Extreme Programming' Controls Phoenix Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    Decaf?

  22. Re:DoS??? on US Government to Have Only 50 Gateways · · Score: 1

    not if they distribute them properly

  23. Re:The Gist on Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid · · Score: 1
    ... and why isn't ... London ever destroyed?

    Why? Were Werewolfs in London not enough for ya?

  24. obvious first appication on AR Facade Moves Beyond the Lab · · Score: 1

    PORN... of cause

  25. Re:nope. on Paying People to Argue With You · · Score: 1

    I think you are all wrong! All 7 of you!