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  1. Re:Let me know on Mars Site May Hold 'Buried Life' · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Life that can talk to us, mind you... We have enough two-bit overlords on Earth as it is...

  2. Hired staff on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 0

    are lucky to even get paid these days. If I were netting $150,000 a year and were unhappy about it, I'd save up and open up a business (luckily, there's plenty of stuff to be getting on with around the World - and people to PAY for the stuff, according to the article). I'm just saying - be your own boss...

    Back to work...

    Given up the sigs

  3. It's on High-Frequency Programmers Revolt Over Pay · · Score: 1, Insightful

    NEVER enough, for some people...

  4. Go East! on British ISPs Favour Well-Connected Customers · · Score: 1, Funny

    Maybe I should switch to one of the two Chinese ones... at 20% world customers they seem to have no problems signing up whomever. And nobody is complaining...

  5. Re: FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity on FBI May Get Easier Access To Internet Activity · · Score: 0

    Will that finally get people writing more letters and postcards again? If this won't then I don't know what will...

  6. Just a thought on Could Open Source Render Facebook the Next AOL? · · Score: 0

    Now that Facebook has amassed more than 500 million users

    Shouldn't we be getting some sort of a cut or dividends, since we're essentially selling our data for nothing? Do you think that would be fair?

  7. How do you make it interesting to students on The Physics of a Rolling Rubber Band · · Score: 0

    Rolling rubber band, Faster!, squashed, ball, acceleration... Finally, some sex in the realm of physics! If only my physics (and math!) books had this many innuendos on one page...

  8. Re:MSFT Fanboys HURRY! on ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand · · Score: 0

    he didn't hack the OS, only the applications running on top of the OS.

    Hacking the OS would be too easy and not worthy of a Black Hat ;-)

  9. What's with the conclusion? on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The bottom line seems to be that nuclear is simply not competitive

    Of course the same people would be arguing that oil and gas are the way to go.

  10. Re:IBM PCs compared extremely poorly with Amigas on The Amiga Turns 25 · · Score: 0

    Brother, I bought gold and all sorts of accessories for my amiga and the bitch still left. Carajo!

  11. Timeline on GPUs Helping To Lower CT Scan Radiation · · Score: 0

    As usual in applying advances in medical (IT?) research, it won't be for at least 5-10 years before this reaches consumers. Might see it on House before then, of course.

  12. Competition on India's $35 Tablet Computer · · Score: 0

    Is that some sort of competition with China on who can pay their workers the lowest salary?

  13. Controversial on India's $35 Tablet Computer · · Score: 0

    That's a highly novel approach to economics. I wonder if they're even breaking even cost of production. Regardless, someone (the workers) is getting paid well below the minimum wage (if at all :). The provision of subsidies and this particular approach to education by the government is debatable at best in a country where would be much better suited for fixing railways and eliminating poverty.

  14. Re:Obviously on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: -1, Troll

    -1 Redundant for showing my appreciation for a funny comment? That's scandalous! Is that considered taboo now around here? I find the modder's lack of faith disturbing, but I'll just assume it was a slip of the wrist. No words, seriously...

  15. Re:Obviously on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hahahaha

  16. Obviously on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: 2, Funny

    At the bank they did not know the power of the Dark Side...
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    "No! Alderaan is peaceful! We have no weapons, you can't possibly... "

  17. Re:Remote, But Not Remotest on Managing the Most Remote Data Center In the World · · Score: 0

    "Remotest" is only a matter of perspective.

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    Zen.

  18. Re:SETI can't find aliens on Buckyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 0

    How will you give them one if you can't find them? And if you find them to give them one, then you would have already found them...

  19. What bugs me about stories about space on Scientists Discover Biggest Star · · Score: 0

    is that discoveries like that require extensive use of one's imagination to visualise what the biggest star, the longest gravitational jet or the exoplanets that have been "imaged directly" actually look like... An "artist's impression" is to astrophysics as artificial flavouring is to food.

  20. 240, ouch! on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 0

    My brain hertz.

  21. Feedback on Windows Phone 7 Hits Technical Preview Milestone · · Score: 0

    Yeah, putting our thumbs, which took quite a few years to evolve, as opposed to using prehistoric tools to operate the touchscreen would certainly be nice. Who uses stylus these days anyway, Nokia?? And while you're at it, why not think about getting your kernel and hardware stacks from people like OpenMoko next time you need to "revamp" the whole OS - would certainly put those millions to much better use, generate interest from a substantial market previously unavailable to MS, and sparking that comeptitive zeal among the biggies again. Hell, HP are doing it and both them and Palm are happy. But yeah I digress... Please fix the touch screen.

  22. Re:Just one question... on Live a Month At the Museum of Science and Industry · · Score: 0

    Because a 30-day long trip to a museum is hardly a full-on intesive day of procrascinating in the office...

  23. Re:NMT on Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) · · Score: 0

    In France... (link)

  24. Why bother... on Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited) · · Score: 0

    if you can download the entire Wikipedia anyway? wait...

  25. Re:Go Costner! Boo on BP! on IEEE Looks At Kevin Costner's Oil Cleanup Machines · · Score: 0

    I heard it's a good lubricant, even if it's a little wet.