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  1. The next big thing for the Global Warming Crowd on Huge Hydrogen Cloud Will Hit Milky Way · · Score: -1, Troll

    Forty million years huh? So then the Global Warming Crowd will start yammering about Galaxy Warming and blame the heat on the increased use of interstellar SUVs...

  2. Pro Audio Kettle^WPower Cords on Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm, I have some $5000 power cords I can sell him, guaranteed to improve the sound of his records. It will provide a distinct improvement in the warmth of deep bass, combined with a crisp treble. Our phone lines are open right now for orders. Just call 911-5324 and get an instant discount...

  3. Re:what the hell... on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    Well, except in the US I guess. My experience of the US is that it is an incredibly racistic society and it is very difficult for blacks to find decent work commensurate with their training. The result is that there are many more poor black kids than poor white kids, despite them being a much smaller part of the population.

  4. Re:One fact folks around the globe do not know on OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students · · Score: 1

    The poor will always be with us.

  5. Re:I do this because I'm strange... on Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream · · Score: 1

    Uhmm, I just pop it into the microwave oven for 5 seconds.

  6. Re:Mmm, Delicious on Edible Antifreeze For Smoother Ice Cream · · Score: 1

    "When I was younger, we made it at home from real milk, sugar and a bit of flavoring agent in a hand-turned ice-cream maker and it was yuumm."

    Wow grampaw and I thought I was one of the old farts around here...

  7. Thought crimes on EFF Takes On RIAA "Making Available" Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, is it wrong to contemplate committing a crime and then not do it, or should the person be incarcerated same as if he actually did it?

  8. Re:Not very well researched article on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    Use Portable Firefox and push it out with Active Directory. I don't see the problem here. This is trivial stuff.

  9. Re:Authentication on Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    Others complain about pushing out updates. That is also trivial. You can easily push Portable Firefox out to users using Active Directory.

    The main problem is that corporate users are committed Windowsers and incapable of thinking and analyzing the problem. They want to be spoon fed with solutions from Microsoft only. If your problem is the damn registry, then don't use the damn registry. If you can't update parts of some program, then push the whole program out.

    Simple as that. You don't need to be an Apple Genius to figure that out.

  10. Transcoding on Digital Watermarks to Replace DRM · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'd love to see an inaudible/invisible water mark that can survive transcoding from MP3 to ogg, or from MPEG4 to MJPEG for example.

  11. Re:Do those particles travel over here? on Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered · · Score: 1

    The matter-antimatter annihilation matters not. The matter is too far away to matter.

  12. Re:Not completely unbiased.. on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    No-one won that one.

  13. Re:Nah... on Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring · · Score: 1

    My invisible red dragon can blow bigger smoke rings than your invisible red dragon...

  14. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation on Sun Plans to Have No In-House Data Centers by 2015 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So, they are going to spin off their data centres into a separate company - that's all.

  15. Re:QUICKBOOKS on Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? · · Score: 1

    Uhmmm, it is called CxOffice. Older versions of Qiockbooks run perfectly fine on it. I have been running Quickbooks on Wine on Linux since 2000.

  16. Big valves are still used today on Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes · · Score: 1

    Large medium wave radio transmitters still use thermionic valves in their output stages. Solid state electronics have trouble handling megawatt power levels.

  17. Re:I Thought Vista Was a Re-Write? on Boot Record Rootkit Threatens Vista, XP, NT · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uhmm, that is thanks to the extensive experience of the programmers and an advanced programming tool invoked with the secret codes ctrl-c and ctrl-v...

  18. Re:Seriously... on Microsoft Apologizes To Rival · · Score: 1

    Not many people use WP, but I use both and WP is still better than MS Word.

  19. Re:So, what changed hands between Microsoft/Corel? on Microsoft Apologizes To Rival · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Corel and Novel both have long histories of suing Microsoft successfully to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars (about 2 billion between the two of them). Clearly, MS was afraid of getting sued yet again.

  20. Unskippable crap... on Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are forgetting something: If you put a disc in a player, then you have to watch the advertisements, warnings and other crap that you cannot skip or fast forward through. If you download the movie, that crap is either already cut out, or you can skip it very easily on Linux.

  21. It ain't over till the fat lady sings... on Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet · · Score: 5, Funny

    So watch out when they release classical operas on HD DVD.

  22. Re:Just out of curiousity on Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets · · Score: 1

    It has been attempted. The most publishised case was an attack on an El Al aircraft in Kenia. Fortunately, that one had an anti-missile system installed and the two missiles were distracted.

  23. Blimps compete with trucks and trains - badly on The Age of the Airship Returns? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The trouble with blimps is that they don't compete with aircraft, since they are too slow. They compete with trains and trucks, but don't have the carrying capacity to do that, while they do have the maintenance cost of aircraft. So altogether they don't make economic sense and they likely never will.

  24. Re:Restriction on software during flight? on Boeing 787 May Be Vulnerable to Hacker Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, you'll have to switch to Flight Gear http://www.flightgear.org/

  25. Re:Am I the only person left? on Facebook Widget Installs Zango Spyware · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, there are at least two of us left.

    I don't do facebook, youtube or any RSS. I am too paranoid and just don't trust 'pushy' media.