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  1. Re:microsoft innovates? yeah right. on Microsoft Innovates Tent Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Next thing they'll do is patent the concept of running electronics in a tent and then sue the DOD for infringement.

  2. Re:Engineering efficiency on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    Actually, it needs to go somewhat beyond geo-stationary level to impart significant orbital velocity in order for some stuff to escape from the earth, otherwise whatever goes up, will just come back down again.

  3. Re:Tiny CD's on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it must be Write Only Memory (WOM)...

  4. Re:Speaking as an old person... on EFF, Public Knowledge Sue Over Secret IP Pact · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, 2008 is the year that the USA became a Socialist state and nationalized a big chunk of its economy. Most other things are minor compared to this.

  5. Nationalize the voting machine corps? on Voting Machines Routinely Failing Nationwide · · Score: 1

    I guess the USA just has to follow its standard practice of problem solving and nationalize all the voting machine companies. Yes, that'll do it...

  6. Grism, Merchant of Venice, Money Bee, Ntropix... on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    I'm surprized that no-one mentioned Grism yet: http://www.grism.org/

    or Merchant of Venice: http://mov.sourceforge.net/

    or Money Bee: http://uk.moneybee.net/

    or Ntropix: http://www.johncon.com/ntropix/

    There doesn't seem to be a shortage of these things.

  7. Microsoft Bob on 3D Web Browser Draws Lukewarm Review · · Score: 1

    I think MS Bob promised to do that. It also failed miserably.

  8. Re:US Citizens only on Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search · · Score: 1

    The original US constitution and documents from that period used the word 'peer' to denote what Americans currently think of as citizens and used the word 'citizen' to refer to slaves.

  9. Re:Safety ? on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors · · Score: 1

    Hmm, insane gyroscopic effects from such a flywheel will give a car rather poor handling. That is probably the main reason this system isn't used in cars, though glass fibre flywheels have been used in a few buses.

  10. Re:don't do what? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 2, Informative
  11. Re:Base 2 on Intel Unveils 6-Core Xeon 7400 · · Score: 1

    Oh man, I wanted to try my slide rule, but I think its battery is flat.

  12. Cannot stop people from filing a suit on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anybody can file a suit over anything against anybody. This is an important freedom in a rechtstaat.

  13. Big Yellow on Hubble Finds Unidentified Object In Space · · Score: 1

    or maybe a great suffusion of yellow...

  14. Re:more economic woes on SQL Injection Turns BusinessWeek Into Viral Replicator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You made me snort my coffee... but it is so true. The other problem is that MBAs are very unlikely to know how to fix their machines once they are fscked up. In every place I worked, most viruses were spread by the top brass.

  15. Tasmanian Devils on Phoenix Lander Photographs Martian Whirlwinds · · Score: 1

    Hey, that looks like Taz...

  16. Vista ain't done... Dejavu on ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Vista ain't done, till iTunes won't run.

    Where did I hear that before?

  17. Re:Nice idea on Online Storage With a Twist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Massive Worm? Then you have lots of melange spice and your eyes turn blue.

  18. Re:The story keeps changing. on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    Hmm, idiocy has no bounds.

  19. Unrelated statements on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 1

    When some unrelated statements are true, it doesn't follow that other unrelated statements are necessarily true.

  20. Re:Fist on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmm, lemme see... You mean 'Knock on wood'?

  21. Secure UAC and still need 3rd party anti virus on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem I have with Vista is that we still need 3rd party band-aids to keep it mostly working.

    MS still doesn't know how to make a secure OS.

  22. Mercury free LEDs on 24 Hour Laptops From HP? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mercury free LED.

    This is a clear case of picking something poisonous and then claiming that you don't have it in your product.

    Arsenic Free Bread - Lead Free Water...

  23. Re:Diebold's confession on Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit · · Score: 1

    Hmm, you don't seem to know how it really works either. Congress runs the internal affairs. The president has nothing to do with local policies and the US economy. The president runs defence and foreign affairs only. It doesn't matter which party president is in power, the foreign affairs policy of the USA is always the same. Sooooo, whether it is Obama or McCain, doesn't matter. The USA will still buy oil from the Middle East, it will still boycott Cuba, it will still look for a small country to invade and intimidate everyone else. The only foreign policy change that happened in the last 30 years, is that the US stopped overt sponsoring of terrorists in other countries - that was Bush Snr - he stopped it. Reagan was the last big sponsor of terrorism.

  24. Manufacture on World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip · · Score: 1

    So, how do they manufacture these things? Obviously there must be a way to copy them.

  25. Re:Why? Exactly. on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    "they have the right to lie, deceive, or even kill the person with impunity" All religions believe that.