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  1. So... on Cosmic Rays and Global Warming · · Score: 4, Funny

    infrared radiation from the sun causes global warming... Who'd have guessed

  2. Re:Solve global Warming and more on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1

    You know, I've always wanted to try Soylent green

  3. Obligatary feigned ignorance on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1

    Dam it, I thought it would be the solution to all of our problems

  4. Solution on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1

    You give me 25M and I spend 24M planting trees.

  5. Re:Problem on Engineering School Grads - Tradesmen or Thinkers? · · Score: 1

    hiring proven generalists such as those produced by engineering schools (someone trained for a career) is something from a time past.

    I think the effectiveness of generalists depends on the size of the company, for large companies a generalist becomes redundant because there is a wide variety of skills availible, but in a small company a generalist provides guidance and quick information to the other engineers.
  6. Yes please on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    built-in unit testing and design-by-contract This would be as nice as a programming language with inherant multi-processing and data protection.
  7. Re:EVERY Language Sucks on The D Programming Language, Version 1.0 · · Score: 1

    The problem with natural language programming is logic jumps, when you describe something in english 95% of the time you describe the end result and not how to produce it. Programming languages force you to describe what you want in a way that could be reproduced exactly.

  8. Re:Hardware and Security (-1 offtopic) on Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? · · Score: 1

    Randomising the memory addresses seems like a really dangerous way to secure a system, it wouldn't take long to scan though memory performing an operation to break an operating system.

    Instead memory protection exists where only the operating system can access such memory locations, gates and other techniques are used to give access to services and programs.

    I suspect the major hicks to having instant-on is device initalisation and simply reading the system files from the harddisk.

  9. Advertising on $100 PC Pledges Fail To Meet Minimum · · Score: 1

    How many places was this publicised? I doubt it even got advertised where it could reach the 10000 caritable people. Hey they could have always gone and asked the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

  10. Making up terms? on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Released · · Score: 0

    From the microsoft site:
    When did x86 get replaced with x64, I'm sure the 86 is to do with the number of transistors on the chip. Way to go microsoft.

  11. death on Ozone Layer Improving Faster Than Expected · · Score: 0, Troll

    This protocol is going to kill us all, with an oZone layer global cooling will occur We Must stop this atrocity against the world as soon as possible

  12. Transmission lines on Light so Fast it Travels Backward · · Score: 1

    This looks a lot like exploitation of transmission line effects, rather than anything particularly special to do with the properties of light

  13. Not huge, but American on Microsoft Spending $120M To Look Smaller · · Score: 1

    I feel that the title of this article is misleading, after reading it, I felt Microsoft rather than wanting to appear smaller (Impossible and ridiculous), but they infact want to be known more as a multinational company.

  14. Re:I don't see this happening on Costly Music Store Coming to Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I'd happily pay 1/2 the iTunes price

  15. lol, what? on Successful Supersonic Jet Launch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With peak oil looming, shouldn't they be researching alternative ways of powering air travel?

  16. The main flaw on First Look at GIMP 2.4 · · Score: 1

    But have they fixed the horrible multi-window interface?

  17. Another worry? on Controlling Hurricanes? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We are already 'customising the climate' with gloabal warming.

    What's to say that this sort of 'controlled' weather manipulation won't cause more long term damage than it'll save.

    Any manipulation to something not fully understood is probably going to cause more harm than good.
    Money would be better spent rebuilding city's infrastructure less vunrable in the first place

    This reminds me of a /. article I read earlier today: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/11/171 6205&tid=172&tid=218/ The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

  18. Re:Necessary Evil on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1

    > (it took more than 5 years for MS to catch up with Amiga) > Believe it or not, Microsoft will fail. The only way MS will fail is if someone brings out a better product... Wait, what?

  19. Re:Portage Consistency on Gentoo 2005.1, Experimental Live CD Released · · Score: 1

    Ahh, there was a bug with mod_php. I can't remember what it was specifically, but after reading the error messages it was easy to fix. After which I looked on the website, and the solution was there also. From memory you need to change an option in the ebuild, and it was related to using the latest 2.6 series kernel. Oh yea, imo gentoo is the best linux distro.

  20. I believe... on Quantum Information Can be Negative · · Score: 1

    I believe, as person who knows only from layman's text on quantum physics, is that it should be learnt like a different language...
    Some things may correlate to what you know, other things may only be described in blunt approximations of what they really are

    For this reason I believe that if anyone does understand quantum physics, it is probably impossible to communicate in such a way that truely demostrates such knowledge.

    Another thought is that if there is negative knowledge in the quantum world, maybe it can be brought forward into the macroscopic world in a method simalar to which Schrodinger demonstrated that indeterminate effects could be brought forward with his hypothetical cat.

  21. Solution: Needs more sensors. on Worms Could Dodge Net traps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Solution: Needs more sensors.

    If the number of sensors is brought to the point where it becomes impractical to map them, voila no more sensor evasion.

    This obviously would be harder to impliment than spoken. Maybe if a sensor implimentation came as an optional standard with server software.

    Heh, I can speculate.