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  1. Re:What do you mean? on Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus · · Score: 1

    For all you know, it might be dressing up as the Flying Spaghetti Monster for the holiday party. With all those tentacles, the octopus doesn't have to worry about getting the costume for pasta part. All it needs is something that'd form the meatball part of its costume - thus the coconut.

  2. Re:Unsure. on The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could be a group of 1.5 people as well.

  3. Re:Yes, but... on Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Way more.

    Now if you start assigning value to the kind of information based upon your preference, you may have a different opinion. But you can't change the fact that 12 hours of Stargate is packed with considerably more information than a Physics textbook file.

  4. Re:Monkey syntax errors aren't so bad on Monkeys With Syntax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Monkeys have an amazing ability to fling core dumps.

  5. Re:Woohoo! on US No Longer Leading the World In Spam · · Score: 3, Funny

    This could serve as an inspiration to some movie script writer-

    In a world where.....One man set out to generate enough spam to make his country proud. This is the story of courage, and determination...

    You get the gist?

  6. Re:Wow, you have an iPhone on The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card · · Score: 1

    You can't use your thumbs to type on your desktop keyboard - I mean you can, but that would be awfully silly.

    *Anyone who posts, "Some of us type using our thumbs, you insensitive clod", would be mercilessly ridiculed.

  7. Re:why a phone, why not an ipod touch? on The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card · · Score: 1

    If nothing, it can at least serve as a shiny paperweight.

  8. Re:Depends how many apps and songs are installed on The Ultimate Geek Christmas Card · · Score: 1

    iPhone doesn't have enough memory to hold more than £22,250 worth of movies, nor has enough shelf life to put on that amount in contract fees.

  9. Re:Oblig Simpson Quote on Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    To have a cheap, low power, home server perhaps? Also with a little bit of precaution, Linux netbooks can enable you to skip having an anti-virus running, thus speeding things up a bit, as netbooks run on tiny processors.

  10. Re:Btrfs: kill off ext# please! on Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released · · Score: 1

    Since EXT2/3 and recently EXT4 have some level of popularity among users, there are applications in Windows to mount them at startup if you are using a dual boot system. There wasn't anything wrong with ReiserFX or JFS or any other filesystems that I tried - but EXT# was the only one which could be easily used under Windows.

  11. Re:Let me know when... on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... it's All pr0n, all the time.

    You say like its a bad thing.

  12. Re:But my intel drivers don't work on my pc NOW! on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Most human brains I've known don't function well beyond 4-bit data. Intel will have to dumb down their processors/controllers to 4-bit to accommodate human brains.

  13. Re:That's cool! on Bomb-Proof Wallpaper Developed · · Score: 1

    You won't even need to remove the wallpaper. Just make a couple of slashes with a blade and it will tear up in a jiffy when impacted.

  14. Re:Excess Heat on Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93% · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In winter you'd get quite a few kilowatt hours worth of heating if you route the dissipated heat properly.

  15. Re:I mention this on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    At least you can keep the power generating units intact. They are after-all turbines coupled to generators. You can tear down and rebuilt the reactors with different fusion elements and port their energy to the turbines.

  16. Re:Just one phrase that fits. on SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real · · Score: 1

    And the person who publicised the security flaw did a great job by trying it out on Twitter (and mentioning it). Hopefully this will make people tweet a tad bit lesser.

    In the interim, its quite necessary to patch the SSL protocol to avoid these kind of attacks.

  17. Re:How does it compare to a vending machine? on Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The corollary to this mouse-hack is that you can use your mouse as a scanner and coupled with an OCR program, use it for getting scribbled notes uploaded to your computer.

  18. Re:Who counterfiets 2-Euro coins anyways? on Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can get you a mouse, but you will need to write the algorithm yourself.

  19. Re:In Soviet Russia on Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    If you want to buy cheap-used-hardware (like digital IO cards or TV tuner cards), finding Vista/Win7 drivers for them is impossible. The source code from a decade ago can still be compiled with Linux to get the hardware to work.

    You buy crap when you don't want to spend much for that piece of crap. And the crap that I buy can only work with Linux, because the manufacturers don't provide drivers for Vista or Win7. Now if you are into buying the latest piece of hardware and paying full price because you see the Vista compatible logo at the corner, you have a point.

  20. Re:In Soviet Russia on Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    We have a printer/scanner at our office from circa 2005 which came with WinXP drivers. Now that we have switched to many of the computers to Vista, those scanners are totally unusable from Vista machines because the manufacturer dropped support for that hardware past XP. The computers running Linux can still access the hardware via network.

  21. Re:How many problems can these systems really solv on 100 Million-Core Supercomputers Coming By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Yes. So by extending it to a million core machine, OpenOffice would take million x forever* to load if one instance is opened per core.

    *Forever = two seconds after a mouse click.

  22. Re:Correction on 10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes · · Score: 1

    There are very few countries in the world that have a surplus of nukes - by few I mean two. So imported nukes are usually from the Soviet Surplus store. You can then mix and match the imported and domestic to make a cool energy mix - and it would still be better than Gatorade.

  23. Re:Imagine the uses for aviation?!?! on MIT Grad To Make Digital "SixthSense" Open Source · · Score: 1

    True. On a smaller scale you can do something similar with IR LEDs and a Wii remote, and you don't need much of an expertise either.

  24. Re:Well just download the ISO. on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    Of course, I suppose that anyone who doesn't know how to burn a CD would probably have a hell of a time trying to figure out how to make the computer boot from USB ....

    Even people who were comfortable with buning .iso images had a hard time following the instructions to make a bootable USB of Ubuntu installation. Its not dumbed down to a few button presses, yet. But it won't be long installing through USB flash drives gains popularity and is made quite simple.

  25. Re:That's VERY impressive. on A High-Res 3D Video of the Embryonic Heartbeat · · Score: 1

    You can go for a 3D video with an ultrasound transducer. That way you have your deep tissue imaging (unfortunately in 2D) coupled with superficial 3D imaging. If you are creative enough you can play around with your ultrasound transducers to get surround sound.