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  1. Re:Nothing new on Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Haha, that reminds me of the high end Tek scope that I noticed was a Win2k computer with some fast ADCs attached.
    Somehow I don't think it was ever upgraded.
    I think it did have Ethernet.

  2. Re:Silly AMD on AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code · · Score: 1

    But for the record, Intel has been amongst the most FOSS friendly as well

    That's because they own most of the IP. Where they don't... see PowerVR/GMA.

  3. Re:Silly AMD on AMD Releases UVD Engine Source Code · · Score: 1

    I switched from Nvidia to AMD and bought a 7850 a few months ago after seeing that their open source code is making progress.

  4. Re:30,000,000 miles on NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty · · Score: 1

    Where's the factor for football field length?

  5. Re:Bububu.. on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 1

    I think it represents the anti-science crowd rather well.

  6. Re:Bububu.. on Cold Spring Linked To Dramatic Sea Ice Loss · · Score: 2

    If you considered this a "flimsy strawman argument" then your sarcasmometer needs a tune-up.

  7. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Germany.

  8. Re:I hope they make the right decision.... on Spanish Open Source Group Files Complaint Over Microsoft Use of UEFI Secure Boot · · Score: 1

    Now if we get that on any platform including ARM I'll agree with you.

  9. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Ah so you say let them starve, they don't deserve any money?

  10. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    That is complete BS. Keynesianism is about the economy as a whole and unemployment, not helping big corporations.

  11. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    That banks and large corporations have too much political power has nothing to do with Keynesianism.
    If they had less power, less money would be allocated to support them. A couple more Elisabeth Warrens in Senate and Congress would do this easily. But of course you have to convince a few more people to vote for these evil commies.

  12. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    How does this contradict what I wrote?
    Keynesianism has worked every time from the US before WWII to Germany (Sweden, Finland) right now.
    Conversely, check Ireland, Greece or Spain for how well Austerity works.
    The only alternative to Keynesianism is default a la Iceland or Cyprus.

  13. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Agree, if you refer to the US. Other governments can do it.

  14. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the theory as long as it works? Macro economics is not based on good theory anyway.

  15. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    I think the central problem is that right now there's more money to be made by gambling and speculating than by investing in the real economy. As long as this imbalance isn't fixed nothing is going to change.

  16. Re:Yes, it's inflation driven on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 1

    The last one was Clinton.

    The problem is that Americans have a tendency to elect the candidate who promises the most, not who runs the best economic policies. If you elect a spendy government as soon as the previous one has fixed the economy and started to run a little surplus you'll never get sustained Keynesianism.

  17. Re:Bubble on Do Big-Money Acquisitions Mean We're In a Tech Bubble? · · Score: 2

    Keynesianism is proven to work and austerity is proven not to work, so what's the point here?

  18. You can also get a master's in homeland security on Go To Uni, Earn a Degree In Drones · · Score: 1

    That combination should be unbeatable in job security.

  19. Re:Waterworld on New Process For Nanoscale Filtration Holds Promise of Cheap, Clean Water · · Score: 1

    I thought you run it through a horse.

  20. Re:What? said Mr Pot To Mr Kettle on We Aren't the World: Why Americans Make Bad Study Subjects · · Score: 2

    I have a feeling you meant English.

  21. Re:Where's Waldo on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    There's also significant flooding so it's mostly the distribution of precipitation that's changed.
    Sea level rise is part ice melt and part thermal expansion of the warming water.

  22. Re:Bring in the Prophets and Sons of Gods on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what they do. Drill deeper and pump harder. Or even desalinate, oil-powered of course.
    Which will make the Middle East all that more interesting over the next 20 years. Saudi Arabia is projected to use all its remaining oil production to support its booming population some time during the 2020s, by 2030 the latest.

  23. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yup.

  24. Re:How about the US-Canadian/US-Mexico border? on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about anybody living within 100 miles of space? That's a border too.

  25. Even the far Northeast has way higher insolation than Germany. It's still completely idiotic.