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  1. much smoother == much slower on Microsoft Brings 36 New Features To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    In the good old MS tradition, they will now slow it down to the point of unusability with crud demanded by the marketing department.

  2. PHPSupport on Best FOSS Help Desk Software For Small Firms? · · Score: 1
  3. Clean the damn thing! on New Medical Disorder Linked To Gaming · · Score: 1

    It may also help to wash your hands and clean the joy stick...

  4. "You have the right to remain silent" on US District Ct. Says Defendant Must Provide Decrypted Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is lawyer speak for: "Shut the fuck up!"

  5. Red Tape on US Antitrust Judge Examining Windows 7 Documents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Essentially, Microsoft has been burdened with red tape to make them less competitive and slowly reduce their market lead. Preventing them from forcing unfair business practices onto their vendors also helped a lot. Dell and others can now sell Linux machines without fear of reprisal by Microsoft.

  6. Re:Has SSL ever actually worked properly ? on SSLStrip Now In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Geez, $29.99? Where do you buy your certs? You are getting ripped off. Last one I bought was $9.99.

  7. Nobody cares about *you* on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    That is a simple fact - people are interested in themselves, not you. However, to get a job, contract, finance... you need to know lots of people. The more people you are linked to, the more successful you will be in business.

  8. Martian dog on Strange Globs Could Signal Water On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    It proves that a Martian dog found a leg to pee on.

  9. A Javascript bug!? on Adobe Flaw Heightens Risk of Malicious PDFs · · Score: 1

    Why is there Javascript in a document reader? Adobe holds the distinction as the only company that can write worse Windows software than Microsoft.

  10. Re:Will it run on Linux? on New Conficker Variant Increases Its Flexibility · · Score: 1

    Hmm, actually there are a lot more Linux machines in the world than Windows - about 2.2 billion Linux vs 600 million Windows. Granted, most Linux machines are cell phones and routers, but when last have you herd of a virus infecting a router? Never? Thought so. The day when Cisco starts to build firewalls running Windows and Linux machines have to be hooked up behind dinky little Netgear or Linksys firewall devices running Windows, simply won't happen...

  11. Re:I LOVE stories like this on Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh, the recession isn't nearly as bad as the one in the 1980s. Things will grow in the spring - farmers will buy fertilizer, trains and trucks will run with produce, factories will hum... An interesting thing about launch costs: If there was a band of solid gold circling the earth, at a height where the space shuttle can go and get 50 tons of it at a time and bring it back down, it won't be worth it.

  12. It takes two to tango on Human Eye Could Detect Spooky Action At a Distance · · Score: 4, Funny

    It may be a first, but lets hope they keep it boy-girl. Same sex entanglement can't be much fun.

  13. Sale of Goods Act on Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them · · Score: 1

    The correct answer is that the enforceability of a EULA depends on the Sale of Goods Act (or its equivalent) of your state/country.

    In Germany and Alberta (dunno about other places), a EULA is not worth the paper it isn't printed on. You bought it, so it is yours.

  14. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo too on Half the Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Effectively, any search engine and the whole internet itself assists in 'making available'.

  15. Not any different from Vista behaviour on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Maybe 7 works a little more smoothly, but the DRM and firewall behaviour is not any different from what Vista does. The moral of the story is that if you want to edit multi-media, then you have to use a Mac (or Linux) and it has never been any different really.

  16. Reverse Import on Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor · · Score: 1

    Cool, so now we can import cheap drugs from 3rd world countries.

  17. Clean bacteria are more susceptable to penicillin on Sea Sponge Extract Conquers Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So, after the bacteria got a sponge bath, penicillin can kill them. Poor things. Taking a shower can be dangerous.

  18. Ping Pong Balls on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ping Pong Balls are made of celluloid. Plastic made from wood. What is old will be new again...

  19. Re:Didn't we have this over a century ago? on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yup, we also had plastic made from milk, called casein, a long time before the first Bakelite was made.

  20. Re:Lignin used to be the same way on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Coal wasn't made from trees. Coal was made from the seed pods of ferns - unimaginable quantities of ferns and seed pods, over millions of years. The really interesting thing though is taht coal occurs in multiple seams with millions of years of intervening time. So the tropical rain forest climate that was needed for the ferns to grow, happened multiple times and therefore can happen again.

  21. Re:Next step on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We already have transparent aluminium. It is commonly known as saphire and your wrist watch 'glass' is made from it.

  22. Re:More than one type of plastic on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 1

    Firstly, oil won't run out any time soon and secondly, there are vast quantities of coal.

  23. Re:Good day on Web Scam Bilks State of Utah Out of $2.5M · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, nobody will fall for that letter. In order to succeed, it has to be in all capital letters.

  24. Canada Gov use lots of Linux machines already on Canadian Federal Government Mulling Open Source? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Canada is primarily a Windows shop, but there are many Solaris, BSD and Linux server machines all over the place. Desktop use is very limited, but there are some. The primary problem with desktop use is Active Directory and Exchange. Lately, MS Outlook works fine on Crossover and Active Directory is handled well by Samba Winbind, so the barriers are falling.

  25. Skin Cancer on Samsung Releases Solar-Powered Phone · · Score: 1

    Oh no, this phone will cause users to get skin cancer, since they will have to be outside all the time.