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  1. Re:Even if... how BIG it should be? on Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean · · Score: 1
    Zoom out and look to the east, there are similar lines, just not as many or as dense.

    It just looks like a ship was using side-scanning sonar in this area, trying to find something.

  2. Re:Don't click the link! on ICANN Responds To gTLD Plan Comments · · Score: 1

    There are many other programs that read PDFs that are not made by Adobe...

  3. Re:Sounds fine to me on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Bizarre, but quite common.

    I don't think that word means what you think it means: From Webster:

    bizarre : "strikingly out of the ordinary"

    common: . "implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence"

  4. eBook vs Textbooks price? on Bookworm ePub Reader Gets Boost From O'Reilly · · Score: 1

    It depends on how the price the eBooks. For example, I remember a single semester that the textbooks were well over $400. So if the pricing of the eBooks reflects the reduction in production costs, it might be far cheaper to get a reader + eBooks instead of new (or used) deadwood books every 6 months x 4 years (if you're lucky).

  5. Re:Makes you wonder on US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next · · Score: 1
    Thanks, we try.

    The point is, we have made progress. The current output doesn't have to stop, and as you pointed out, we have plenty of room to improve.

  6. Re:Well, I'm currently using Fwiffo. on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    An Excel spreadsheet with name and function would serve you well.

    And a functional naming system would serve you even better, without deadwood.

  7. Re:So true....Not "all Korea" on All Korea To Have 1Gbps Broadband By 2012? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just keep going west...you'll get to it at some point. :)

  8. Re:That only applies if money is fixed on Charter Launches 60 Mbps Service · · Score: 1

    Sure, you get the occasional civilian benefit.

    I'm glad you're able to use the "occasional" benefit to type your messages on the Internet. If putting money towards civilian efforts is faster, why didn't some other country beat the USA to the Internet?

    The issue is not military spending. It is a decision to allow private companies to control the expansion of broadband to civilian homes rather than the government. Undo that one decision and everything changes.

  9. Re:What I want to see on Four X25-E Extreme SSDs Combined In Hardware RAID · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not run RAID-5 (or 50 or 15) if it is seek-heavy? I thought RAID-1 was only used if you had to deal with a lot of writes. Those are slower on 5 than 1, but 5 is much faster for reads.

  10. Re:CSI NY on Daemon · · Score: 1

    Are you saying someone from the Geek Squad wouldn't install a 20 year old Bay Networks 10mb hub he had lying around for a short meeting while taking the new 1gb linksys box home with him?

  11. Re:Should be interesting... on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh again...you missed my /sarcasm tag at below my message. I got what you were doing. It was funny. I was trying to be funny too. I fail.

  12. Re:Should be interesting... on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's heart, not hart, and ass, not a$$... :) /sarcasm

  13. Re:In other words... on Germany Legislates For Mandatory Web Filters · · Score: 2

    Please show me your math where Bush has killed between 681,692 and 2 million people in Iraq. That is the range in number of people killed in the Great Purge.

    Or, is the Great Purge one of those USA lies?

  14. Re:Not very good on Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit · · Score: 1

    Who are these "project managers" you speak of? :)

    I hear what you're saying, and have done this in larger environments. However, smaller environments will find replacement staff before they allow IT staff to dictate their own schedules or spend the money on management tools.

    You hit the nail on the head about "The hardest thing is getting upper management behind you and supporting you and sadly no tool out there can fix poor management."

    The harder part is knowing if the place you are going to work for has good management. Sadly, at least in my part of the world, that is a very rare thing. I could keep job hopping and hope to find that place again, but have only seen examples of it in about 1 out of 10 companies, and THOSE IT people won't leave until they die!

  15. Re:IPv6 Adopters Rejoice on Networked Fridges 'Negotiate' Electricity Use · · Score: 1

    So, either you think UPNP actually works, or you trust everyone to setup PAT on their home router manually, went most can't change the SSID from "Linksys".

    The devices need to talk to other devices in other homes, and doing this in IPv4 is a hack.

  16. Re:Not very good on Abused IT Workers Ready To Quit · · Score: 1

    If you are a sysadmin and working more then 40 hours a week you're doing it wrong.

    That, or you work at a place with new projects while supporting everything from email servers to installing new PCs. The place you work must just not have any change, be properly staffed, or both.
    Or, are you saying you can do all of that on a 1,000 node network taking care of everything that plugs into a network jack? That's what some people are asked to do, and it can't be done in 40 hours per week.

  17. Re:Can I be the first to ask on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    Yes, youtube IS a stupid way to use flash. Flash != video player.

  18. Re:The "community" will kill Wikipedia on Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target · · Score: 1

    You mean that MOST people will accept citing Wikipedia as a source as much as they would a deadwood encyclopedia?
    To me, the point is that I liked having entries in the article about Alcohol that pointed out the greatest drink in the universe. Things like that are being removed by the cabal, because they don't feel it is "Encyclopidific" enough.
    You can keep all of the dry information and still have "fun" facts in there, but the ruling class does not agree.

  19. Re:Leap Day... on Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide · · Score: 1

    If they're locked up now, I don't think that they'll be aware that the time has changed to tomorrow.
    I would think the only Zunes that would be fine tomorrow are the ones that had no power all day today.

  20. The "community" will kill Wikipedia on Wikipedia Almost Reaches $6 Million Target · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your point is dead-on. I liked Wikipedia before the "community" took over. I remember when Wikipedia was compared to the "Hitchhikers Guide" and it was great.
    Now, they try to be a "real" encyclopedia. The problem is, it will never be a real encyclopedia. Quoting Wikipedia will not be considered a valid source.
    Quit worrying about content that isn't encyclopedia quality, and then maybe normal people will contribute again.

  21. Re:Too late, gated communities exist, and always h on Vint Cerf Says It's Every Machine For Itself · · Score: 1

    So YOU'RE the guy I keep spawn-killing. Thanks for the headshots, mate!

  22. Re:It's not just NN on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    It is still in the PDF at the bottom, at this post said earlier.

  23. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    But, since the sun is powered by a nuclear reaction, wouldn't that mean that all power is nuclear?

  24. Re:Targus lobbyist on TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What you say is completely true. However, the TSA can prevent you from boarding a plane, and that is all the authority they need.
    Few people are willing to go home with their rights intact and just cancel their trip. Oh, and don't expect the TSA to pay for the ticket you just wasted.

  25. Re:I'd tend to agree with Hemingway on New Olympics Scoring: No More Perfect 10.0 · · Score: 1

    So NASCAR isn't objective...

    No. Take note of who is leading or about to be lapped when caution flags (and the silly "lucky dog" is handed out) are thrown for things like a paper bag on the track (and they're ALWAYS on the track). Then take notes of the same positions when flags are NOT thrown when a car has lost an axel and is rolling around on the track.