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  1. Re:The $100+ Million Question on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 2, Informative

    About $50 per barrel - a little higher than oil from Albertan tar sands, which is about $40 per barrel. Considering that the price is $100 per barrel, there are tremendous profits here. The price of oil is so high, that even the South African oil from coal project at about $60 per barrel, is immensely profitable.

  2. Re:Uhhh, What? on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 1

    We can stop global warming with giant air conditioners of course.

  3. Ssh! Don't tell anybody! on Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x · · Score: 5, Funny

    We got to finish off the Arab oil first, to reduce their political influence in the world.

  4. Re:250 Accepted on Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam · · Score: 1

    KISS. Have you read the Postfix manual? Have you tried to make Postfix work with SpamAssassin and ClamAV? Now put that next to the one pager of tarmail.

  5. Re:250 Accepted on Google Mail Servers Enable Backscatter Spam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Neat. It is a pity I wasn't aware of your project earlier. It seems that it will make a straight and simple mail filter to place in front of an existing crappy insecure mail system like Exchange.

  6. Re:It's ok though... on Some Anti-Spam Vendors Blocking and Slowing Gmail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and you certainly haven't used Citadel, which trumps Exchange by a wide margin.

  7. Re:Activation? on Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying · · Score: 1

    Hmm, better get your cracked copy on The Pirate Bay now.

  8. Re:Misunderstanding MTBF on Disk Failure Rates More Myth Than Metric · · Score: 1

    Nope, MTBF is usually *calculated* and the number is just that - a number - it means fuck-all in real time. The numbers are used comparitively, to show the designers which potentially stressed components need to be looked at during the design phase. Eventually the numbers are mis-used by the marketing department to mislead the customers, but that is not the intent of the designers and is not the purpose of the MTBF calculations.

  9. Re:What MTBF is for. on Disk Failure Rates More Myth Than Metric · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is an urban legend. Colossus and Eniac were far more reliable than that. The old tube based computers seldom failed, because the tubes were run at very low power levels and tubes degrade slowly, they don't pop like a light bulb (which is run at a very high power level to make a little visible light). Colossus for example was built largely from Plessey telephone exchange registers and telex machines. These registers were in use in phone exchanges for decades after the war. I saw some tube based exchanges in the early 80s that were still going strong.

  10. Students are paying the Prof on Lecture Notes Considered Infringement · · Score: 1

    therefore the Prof is in the employ of the students, therefore the Prof's lecture notes belong to the students.

  11. Re:That's Positive? Positively clueless. on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    Free MS Software: Internet Explorer, Outlook, Mediaplayer...

    Now which thick skulled MBA do not use those?

  12. Embedded already at 100% on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    I think it is impossible for any enterprise to avoid using Embedded Linux. It is everywhere. There are billions of embedded Linux devices out there.

  13. Re:New victims? on FBI Reports All-Time High In Internet Fraud Losses · · Score: 1

    Well, a dozen functioning brain cells clearly puts you in the upper 95 percentile...

  14. Re:Too late for me on Microsoft Extends XP For Low-Cost Laptops · · Score: 1

    Mandriva 2008 Spring Edition fully supports the Eee PC. It will be available for download on the 10th of April.

  15. Re:It's really sad... on Microsoft Extends XP For Low-Cost Laptops · · Score: 1

    Compiz runs fine on my 650MHz Eee PC, with Mandriva 2008 Spring Edition.

  16. Norton on Hands-On With the Windows XP-Based Asus Eee PC · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should have added Norton security and then compared its speed against the Linux version...

  17. Cricket on Alternate Baseball Universes · · Score: 1

    Actually, baseball is very exciting compared to cricket.

  18. Chariots of the gods on Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus · · Score: 1

    Evidently the engine of the chariot of the god Saturn failed and now he cannot get to Enceladus to refuel.

  19. Edison was the MS of the 19th century on Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison · · Score: -1, Troll

    Beg, borrow buy or steal, then embrace, extend, extinguish... Anyhoo, Edison was the 'father of the phonograph' - not the 'father of sound recording'. There were many other players.

  20. Slum improvement on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    If their housing is improved from a slum to something solid then there is nothing to worry about.

  21. Re:Nope. on Long-Dead ORDB Begins Returning False Positives · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if you are feeling very lonely, then you could always sign up for some spam.

  22. Internet Explorer, Media Player... on South African Minister Locks Horns With Microsoft · · Score: 1

    MS is all gung ho about free software when it serves to crush the competition, but not when they get crushed by it. I wonder why?

  23. Bernoulli and the boiling point of data... on Bell Canada Throttles Wholesalers Without Notice · · Score: 1

    Well, in a series of tubes you get the Bernoulli effect and when a tube is throttled, the speed of the data increases and the pressure on the data flow decreases. The decrease in pressure can lead to the data boiling, causing cavitation. The cavitation and collapse of the data steam bubbles can cause severe damage to the tube walls...

  24. Re:A Canuck's view on this... on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 1

    "irrational thinking of Obama is completely unfounded. He is a Christian man." The problem is that religion is irrational by definition.

  25. Re:you gotta be crazy on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 1

    "USA seems to now stand for war,torture, xenophobia, racism, corruption and financial mismanagement" Well, that has been true as long as I can remember. Until Prez Bush Senior finally stopped the madness, the USA openly supported terrorism the world over.