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  1. The real reason why flu is related to cold on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 0

    Immigrant birds carry the flu virus when they immigrate. The big flu virus reservoir for the northern hemisphere is the region between central china to siberia. Great flocks of birds fly from this region as far as south africa. December 2005 bird flu outbreak was triggered this way ..

  2. Obligatory quote on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 0

    In Klingon Federation sun like star orbits the planet !

  3. Waov ! on Star Wars, the Lost Interviews · · Score: 0

    Star Wars & The Lost interviews !! At the same time ... I wonder if the Lost crew are Star Wars fans ....

  4. No high enough ! on Record High Frequency Achieved · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will this 324 GhZ Pentium be enough to run VISTA ?

  5. Impossible ! on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1

    If the bees are wiped out in USA by mobile phone usage then in Europe even the cockroaches should become extinct. But I killed one this morning in the bathroom so this article is proved to be false !

  6. Obligatory Red Aler Quote on Harnessing High Altitude Wind Power · · Score: 1

    Kirov reporting ...

  7. Re:Avian Flu on Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples · · Score: 0

    Yes but the 1918 pandemic has a 2% death rate .. So this is still catastrophic

  8. I don't really care if it is tougher on Material Tougher Than Diamond Developed · · Score: 0

    Does it have blood on it ?

  9. There is no free launch on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is no free launch

  10. It can not replace the Tomahawk because on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    This is not a guided missile, that means the trajectory should be calculated beforehand and an exact launch is needed otherwise even a 1/1000 deviation at the start point will mean a 100 meter miss at a 100 km shoot.

  11. death of COBOL predicted on Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL · · Score: 1
    1893: Ada Lovelace discovers Charles Babbage

    1895: Ada Lovelace discovers the calculator is more fun than Charles Babbage

    1950: COBOL is born; world celebrates

    1953: FORTRAN is born; revenge on COBOL

    1957: Death of COBOL predicted

    1963: BASIC is born; a language for people who do counting on their fingers

    1965: Death of FORTRAN predicted

    1966: C is on the horizon

    1973: Death of COBOL predicted

    1974: Pascal is born; competition with C

    1977: C is born; revenge on FORTRAN

    1979: Ada is born; revenge on Charles Babbage

    1982: Death of FORTRAN predicted

    1985: Death of Charles Babbage predicted

    1986: Death of COBOL predicted

    1991: Charles Babbage legally pronounced dead

    1993: Death of BASIC predicted

    1997: merging of C and C++ into new language D

    2001: dark monolith discovered on Jupiter moon; determined to be an old COBOL card deck for an accounts receivable program

    2002: COBOL reborn as COBOL++

    2010: Death of Pascal predicted

  12. I am confused on 256GB Geometrically Encoded Paper Storage Device · · Score: 1

    So how many Libraries of Congress amount of information would the Library of Congress contain if each and every one of the pages of books in the library were like this ?

  13. Re:No encryption on Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines · · Score: 1

    In Europe the Credit and Debit cards have EMV compliant chips on them which encrypt data sent to the ATM and then to the bank's host, no one can decrpt this message easily

  14. Re:Not possible in the U.S. on Man Used MP3 Player To Hack Cash Machines · · Score: 1

    Most of the debit and credit cards have recieved an EMV compliant chip (which USA does not press on). The encryption scheme is practically unbreakable, whether you get all data stream or not

  15. Re:Fond memories of my VIC-20 / 64 on The Rise and Fall of Commodore · · Score: 1

    POke 53280,1

  16. Obligatory STG Quote on How To Manage a Security Breach? · · Score: 1

    "Shields Up! Red Alert!"

  17. Re:Why would IBM... on IBM to Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    To challenge Bill Gates, the Borg ... Hold on a second ... I see Gates the Borg every time I read an article about Microsoft on Slashdot !

  18. The real question is on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    But can it STILL run linux ?