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  1. Re:Dozens? on Windows Vista SP1 Meeting Sour Reception In Places · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My intuition tells me that people who didn't have have any problems and/or were happy with the installation are much (and I mean ) less likely to go a blog about it and make a comment than people who had a problem. YMMV.

  2. Re:Call me a cook if you want ... on Discussion of Internet Addiction as Mental Illness Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    ISTM, that would be equivalent to giving an alcoholic a big, filled liquor cabinet, in their paradigm.

  3. Re:Pronunciation on Intel Details Nehalem CPU and Larrabee GPU · · Score: 1

    I think it's actually named after the river, just like Willamette (river in Oregon), Banias (river in Israel), and Shit Creek (river in old cliche).
    Ok, not that last one.

  4. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1
    In situations where you are trying to identify a mechanical problem with machinery, you need all your senses available - and a flashing light doesn't cut it.

    doesn't all of this discussion miss the point?...with a flash drive there can be no mechanical failure.

  5. Re:don't know what you're talking about on Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs · · Score: 1
    If humans are inherently bad, then no amount of "law" will save us.

    This is true. It hasn't. That is no reason to do away with all law, however.

  6. Re:Wow, those stars are moving fast on Winking Star Decoded as Root of Planetary System · · Score: 1
    The mods must be crazy.

    Anyway, it may not be "shredding" it, but the disc certainly is changing fairly quickly, based on the data in this chart.

  7. Re:Wow, those stars are moving fast on Winking Star Decoded as Root of Planetary System · · Score: 1

    How the heck is this insightful? You think GP doesn't understand the meaning of 48.36 days?

  8. Re:It sounds so easy but on FAA Mandates Major Aircraft "Black Box" Upgrade · · Score: 1

    You didn't really read it, did you?
    The article talks about flight data recorder in the first, fourth, and fifth paragraphs. Even if you just read the /. summary, they're mentioned in the first sentence. You must not be new here.

  9. Re:slashvertisement on MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security · · Score: 1
    it has electronics and a battery (= power source), hence it could just as well be something to jam the avionics and bring the plane down.


    By that reasoning, *every* laptop should be subjected to the same scrutiny. Please, no.

  10. I'm sure FF 3 Beta 4 is great but on Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4 · · Score: 1

    when are they gonna go to FF 3 Gamma?

  11. Re:The Ars Performance Judgement on Intel Ramps Up 45nm Chip Production, Announces 'Atom' Line · · Score: 1

    AFAIK Intel sold off their x-scale processor biz last year.

  12. Re:M$CROSOFT SUCKS on Pentagon Hid Magnitude of Data Loss From Recent Breach · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 4,480 for "linux hacked". (0.32 seconds)

    Results 1 - 10 of about 17,900 for "windows hacked". (0.14 seconds)

    is probably a *more* meaningful, but still not all that meaningful, comparison.

  13. Re:But what is fractionated? on DARPA Fractionated Spacecraft Program Starts · · Score: 1

    "Fractionated" does have a legitimate use: when you separate compounds by fractional distillation it is common to call the product "fractionated". Using it to describe satellites seems novel though.

  14. Re:Lawyers will love this on Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but DVDs of Mentos and Diet Coke and skateboarding dogs, not DVDs of Lord of the Rings or The Sopranos.

  15. Made in the USA on New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color · · Score: 1
    The instrument is a new type of scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), built by the NION Company of Kirkland, Wash....

    I lived there when I was in elementary school. More important, a certain warehouse store has its headquarters there. So I wanna know when I'll be able to pick up one of these STEMs at Costco!

  16. Re:Schrodinger's Fridge on New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color · · Score: 1

    Milk is the least of that cat's worries. The guy keeps the poor thing in a sealed box with a cyanide capsule for gosh sakes!

  17. Re:Hilbert? on AJAX Version of Mathematica Coming · · Score: 1

    I call my copy of Excel Ramanujan.

  18. Re:Yes, censorship on CNN Fires Producer Over Personal Blog · · Score: 1

    I don't know but I'd hazard a guess that (by far) the majority of workers in the US do not, repeat do not, work for huge corporations. And I don't have in mind a definition of corporation that limits it to the top five or something like that.

  19. Obligatory Holy Grail quote on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: 1

    Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead! [Hits gong]
    Large Man: Here's one.
    Dead Collector: Ninepence.
    Old Man: I'm not dead!
    Dead Collector: What?
    Large Man: Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
    Old Man: I'm not dead!
    Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
    Large Man: Yes he is.
    Large Man: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
    Old Man: I'm getting better!
    Large Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
    Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
    Old Man: I don't want to go on the cart!
    Large Man: Oh, don't be such a baby.
    Dead Collector: I can't take him.
    Old Man: I feel fine!
    ***
    Large Man: Can't you check 'im with the Deathalyzer?
    Old Man: Get that thing away from me!
    Dead Collector: Aye, he'll be dead before Thursday. I'll be 'round again on Thursday.

  20. Re:Sound like a form of hi-tech infra-red scan. on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: 1

    Tedlar body bags?
    Seems like overkill. (no pun intended)

  21. Re:So.... on 1.8 Million US Court Rulings Now Online · · Score: 1

    FYI, it looks like the database goes back to 1880, not back to 1787. But that means one every other day.
    I'd guess that the number of cases per day plotted on a graph over time, since 1787, looks a lot like the infamous hockey stick graph, or at least like a scimitar.

  22. Re:Default crypto behavior on Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case · · Score: 1

    Nah, he's just a face on today's NSA, the NSA which started promoting key escrow, in the Clipper chip, et al. back in the 1990s, to give the government a backdoor into everyone's secrets. I guess ADM Bobby Ray Inman, the NSA director at that time would make more sense, but it was just a joke after all.

  23. Re:Default crypto behavior on Cracking a Crypto Hard Drive Case · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Crazy tag on Pictorial Tour of World's Longest Linear Accelerator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not unique - there's always the dupes!

  25. All we need now on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 3, Interesting

    are some vast hydrocarbon-propelled rockets to bring a big load of it back here in 10 years or so.