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  1. Hmmm on Sacrificing Accuracy For Speed and Efficiency In Processors · · Score: 1

    What happens when you add up millions of these inaccurate accounts and end up gaining or losing millions of dollars?

  2. Fixed if for ya on IBM Building 20 Petaflop Computer For the US Gov't · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...allowing forecasters to create local weather "events" less than one kilometer across, compared with 10 kilometers today and at speeds up to 40 times faster than current systems."

  3. Re:Data on library computers on FBI Seizes Library Computers Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    A terrorist may have needed to use the terminal anonymously to contact some buddies.

  4. History of Dark Energy on Huge Lenses To Observe Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    +++ America Nonline Chatroom +++ SciPhyGuy1933: Hey, my calculations don't make any sense... it seems like there should be more mass at the center of this galaxy I'm observing. Iwonbensteinsmoney: Do you realize what this all means?!?! Everything we used to know about science and all of our formulas are flawed! Egad! Cutiebaby2x0x0: Oh you boys.. just do what I do when I don't know the answer to something. Just make something up.. SciPhyGuy1933: That's the most prepost.. er.. wait... she might be on to something dude.. Iwonbensteinsmoney: Will you marry me?

  5. Re:Well on Does Linux "Fail To Think Across Layers?" · · Score: 1

    New linux slogan: "Think Oreo"

  6. Re:Scratched? on Netflix Now Offers Instant Online Movie Streaming · · Score: 1

    The MPAA is working on it I'm sure.

  7. Re:Study cryptography! on U. Washington Crypto Course Now Online for Free · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, just the password to root written on a post-it near their monitor.

  8. Serve Beer? on Humanoid Robot Serves Beer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who cares? Wake me up when it starts to drink it.

  9. Hardly Pico on 13 Pico-Satellites to Launch June 28th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    10cm across, these aren't even micro.

  10. Re:Government Uses on Plan For Cloaking Device Unveiled · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget the government, I know a lot of this I could do with this. And most of them violate the constition, and morality, and decency, and privacy, and...

  11. BAM! on Web 2.0 Recipes With PHP + DHTML · · Score: 4, Funny

    "including: Ad boxes, Pop-ups, Spinners, and Tabs. Easy ways to show and hide content on the page." Then you just mix it in the bowl and BAM! You have upset customers and lost respect!

  12. Re:That's unfortunate... on SF Wifi More Than Flipping a Switch · · Score: 1

    Ok.. question though. Why would you want one of these city covering WAPs? Are you trying to invite intruders and government spies into your network? Also imagine how much interference this would produce having lets say 1000 of these in one city. Nope, not gonna happen.

  13. VW Thunder on VW Beetle Fitted with a Jet Engine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah.. finally, uselessness done right!

  14. This Just In From Microsoft on Programmers Learn to Check Code Earlier for Holes · · Score: 4, Funny

    After taking this training routine, Microsoft says that Vista will be delayed another 2 years.

  15. Better Way on Secure VoIP, an Achievable Goal · · Score: 1

    A better way to secure it would be to use software like skype which allows users on the same network to talk to each other through their computers instead of through a company which asks for money. Although I don't like skype's business due to their treatment of AMD, they have the biggest name, and biggest chance to penetrate the voip market.

  16. Re:I'm reminded of a song on Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Dear [name]: It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my copyrighted work entitled [name of work] (the "Work") in the preparation of a work derived therefrom. I have reserved all rights in the Work, first published in [date], [and have registered copyright therein]. Your work entitled [name of infringing work] is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis. [Give a few examples that illustrate direct copying.] As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for [name of infringing work] nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein. I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by [date give them about 2 weeks] indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall take further action against you. Very truly yours, (you can fill in the rest)

  17. Using Patents on RIM Rejects More Patent Infringement Allegations · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Our case against RIM is based on similar technology, law and patents as the case we have just won," Visto said in a statement. So instead of using the patents they have to make money, they wait for other companies to use them and file suit. When will the patent system be amended to finally make sense?

  18. Re:Scantily-clad Pixels on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You · · Score: 1

    You should try the thrustmaster, it has a moveable head.

  19. Just What We Need on DOA Coming to the Theater Near You · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Another hollywood movie with absolutely no substance, and being based off a video game will probably condemn it to begin with. Does the MPAA actually blame pirating for declining sales?

  20. Re:Comparison of Filesystems. on Apple Looking at ZFS For Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Also note that ZFS doesn't have a file change log. That could come in handy if/when apple viruses start coming around.

  21. Google vs. Amazon on Amazon Dumping Google for Microsoft? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Froogle is quickly becoming a popular selling portal, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon believes that Google might overtake it eventually. I for one love the increased competition.

  22. Sweet Sixteen on Hubble Space Telescope's Sixteenth Anniversary · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder why Hubble didn't go on MTV?

  23. Perfect Name on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This name embodies exactly what Nintendo was aiming for with this console. It's not a futuristic power name like Xbox360 or Playstation3, it's simple and thought provoking Wii. Nintendo's next system isn't aiming to kill you with eye candy, it's aiming to entertain you in new ways. It may seem weird at first, but that is what happens when you change something people have become used to. The name Wii represents the console better than some big powerful name. It's not about the name, it's about the experience.

  24. Respect on Apple Dumps Most of Aperture Dev. Team · · Score: 1

    I have to say I respect Apple for their actions in this Aperture case. Clearly the dev team didn't do the job well, and apple was fair to the consumers and current owners of the Aperture product. They fired the team and are going to make sure the next version lives up to the hype.

  25. New? on Nokia's New All-In-One Phone · · Score: 1

    My Moto MPX220 has pda functionality, camera/camcorder, 1gb mp3/movie storage and a dual core process in a flip phone design. What's so great about the nokia?