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  1. Re:Controlled by IT managers on Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop · · Score: 1

    Touche! Mind you, you can get poachers coats to fit people of all sizes ;)

  2. Re:Controlled by IT managers on Cisco's Tablet Act Like a Desktop · · Score: 1

    Wierd. I have an inside jacket pocket my iPad slides into. Makes it easy to carry it everywherre without a thought...

  3. Re:old news... The Lensmen on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    Yeah. I'm pretty sure this was covered years ago in the Lensmen series of books. They dealt with the problem through developing/copying teardrop shapes interstellar craft. In that case though, they termed it as a problem with the friction generated by all the interstellar particles.

  4. Re:It's not the speed, it's the storage on Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition · · Score: 1

    It's already out there. EMC Symmetrix DMX Arrays.

  5. Re:So much for the seeds of .... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    Milton Keynes in the UK. Designed around a grid system, where every intersection uses a roundabout rather than traffic lights.

    Or, that was the bright idea when they started. There has been a tendency for traffic lights to creep in. Rush hour in MK lasts, oh, about 30 minutes.

  6. Re:Not Hackers? on Students Learn To Write Viruses · · Score: 1

    The word hacker was in use even before your described meanings of the word came about. It also used to refer to someone who was an expert in their field, which I think still fits nicely with the more sensical uses of the word today.

  7. Re:Bloody Brilliant Idea on Police Shame Pranksters On YouTube · · Score: 1

    though I don't think they were quite worthy of actual death

    wtf? wut?

    sorry if you took the time to read it, but i had to say it

  8. Re:Assuming that Google could reach consciousness on Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us? · · Score: 1

    True, now, take a glass of water and go have a lie down.

  9. Re:Printer Friendly Version on Bone-Headed IT Mistakes · · Score: 1

    what I object to is them autpomatically thinking they can use my money to display their ads I dont want on my machine.

    My money. I pay for my limited use internet, and eating up my transfer amount with your ad pictures is theft! maybe.

    It was worse when we used modems. I paid for the time I was online by the minute, and waiting for ads to download cost me cash then too.

  10. Re:But were they smart, or stupid? on Sneaky Blackmailing Virus That Encrypts Data · · Score: 1

    Thats why you should use incremental backups with versioning, in this case you would backup the encrypted file just once no matter how many backups you ran. You would then be able to restore a previous version to recover the data. ok, it might be overkill for the casual home user but Tivoli Storage Manager would do just that.

  11. If it is repelled by gravity on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    which is what this 'flying up' seems to imply - instead of attraction there is repulsion,

    Then wouldnt all the antimatter be out at the edges of the universe?

  12. Re:Electric universe on Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded · · Score: 1

    owing to the gravitational effects we observe in the universe there must be a lot of matter we can't measure.

    this is a bad statement
    How about
    owing to the gravitational effects we observe in the universe, we must conclude we don't undertand gravity properly yet.

  13. Not a bandwidth problem on P2P Traffic Shaping For Home Use? · · Score: 1

    This is an people problem.

    fix teh people!

  14. Re:This thing is doomed to fail, if it ever ships. on InPhase Technologies Promises Holographic Drive in May · · Score: 1

    I'll pick this one;

    G) "Random Access" - What a joke. If your target market is long-term archival, why on earth would you need that?

    I adminsiter a system right now using TSM, ACS and CommonStore that fits exaclty this profile.

    Long term 7+year retention of data that generates a consistently high rate of retrieval operations through the day. They would love being able to random access the data. They do already in fact, on an optical WORM drives. For this particular company and this particular scenario, this holographic media seems perfect. Ok, it needs to be a lot cheaper... but that will change and their requirements will be the same.

  15. Re:Well... on Windows 7 Likely Going Modular, Subscription-based · · Score: 1

    They still do. Capacity on Demand. You can buy pSeries machines with more CPU/Memory than you are licensed to use. Want more, pay for the license, put in the key, voila. $(profit)

  16. Re:Big Bow Tie on Hyper-Entangled Photons — 'Superdense' Coding Gets Denser · · Score: 1

    Suspenders?

    I think we need some internationalization here. I'm guessing these aren't the kind of suspenders that hold up Stockings?

  17. Re:A way to check... on White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed · · Score: 1

    The fact the harddrive swere destroyed is most likely due to policy.

    Hoever, the fact end users were keeping data on local harddrives probably isnt policy. So I would expect the majority of the email data to sit on email servers.

    Which brings us to the questio of backups. And the offsite copies of those backups. They really should still be around, right? unless they were deleted, or expired by retention policy.

    How old are these emails?

  18. Re:Verilog on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    well, a computer is a universal machine. Software that runs on the computer is the logical equivalent of building a specific hardware machine.

    So, in theory, a hardware description language should be perfectly capable of defining a 'software' machine.

  19. Re:Immunity is fiction. on Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop · · Score: 1

    Planets come and go, but killer edible arts graduates are forever. Commander Jameson never said that... Right On!

  20. Re:But is it flown by Commander Jameson? on Spacecraft to Fly Through Geyser Plumes On Saturn Moon · · Score: 1

    Na, that was Leesti. Enceladus was famed for its fish quisine and thrumpberry juice flavourings...

  21. Re:What's next? on FTP Hacking on the Rise · · Score: 1

    I'd rather try and get into Veronica

  22. Re:Big Mistake on The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Yeah and Mr Lucas has since tried to come up wit h a couple of different explanations. .. mmore like he didnt know what he was writing about in the first place..

    In later book versions it says 'Kessel run in less than 12 standard time units'

    One explanation is that Solo used black holes near the Kessel run to actually shorten the distance it took, hence validating 'less than 12 parsecs'...

  23. And in the meantime the poor on Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? · · Score: 1

    This is all fine and dandy, but wont someone please consider the poor people, who can't afford internet access and computers (IE: the vast majority). If the libraries dissappear, how are the economically challenged going to be able to complete their hard work and study to get themselves out of the poverty trap. Oh, right. The point is they can't be arsed in the first place, thats why they're poor... yeah, who really needs libraries anyway

  24. Re:Was that a blog, or an ad for Sony? on Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom" · · Score: 1

    I wondered what the standard for deciding how good a format was. As simple as '# of return of the kings per disk' ! well I never.

  25. Thermal Radiation ? on More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies · · Score: 1

    How about, although I'm not sure how it fits with the symmetric/asymettric orbit thing, more velocity = extra energy from somewhere. Sun heats it up on one side = extra energy. That energy radiates away from that side. Is at at all possible that could speed something up?? I have no real clue..