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  1. My mail is backed up in at least 5 centres on Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap · · Score: 4, Funny

    CIA, FBI, CSIS, KGB, MI5...

    It is the most secure backup system in the world.

  2. The poverty gene on Mars Phoenix Probe Successfully Launched · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Great. Just great. on Mars Phoenix Probe Successfully Launched · · Score: 1

    The poor will always be with us. If you feed them now, more of them will die worse later... In short no good has ever resulted from wasting resources on feeding the poor. Finding them jobs is a much better idea.

  4. It is not the launch that is the problem... on Mars Phoenix Probe Successfully Launched · · Score: 2, Informative

    With Mars, it seems that the arrival is a far more delicate maneuver, so we'll see what happens when it eventually gets there. Will this be another bull's eye? Splattttt!!! or a more dignified descent followed by the sounds of silence? or maybe, just maybe, it's going to work this time? More news in 9 months...

  5. Re:The bigger problem on The Science of Bridge Collapse Prevention · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, people were actually busy doing repairs when the bridge collapsed. It is possible that the hammering of the repair activities contributed to or hastened the collapse.

  6. Does anyone use mDNS? on Worm Threat Forces Apple To Disable Software? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This stupid mDNS thing is always enabled on every system I install and I always have to disable it. Does anyone actually use this Microsoft crap?

  7. Predators? on First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have had armed flying robots for some time already.

  8. Re:Thi sis really interesting and must have been.. on Monkeys and Humans Learn the Same Way · · Score: 1

    "I just haven't figured out what kind of creature doesn't understand the natural doing feedback loop in learning." Probably only really simple organisms like viruses, bacteria, coral, jelly fish and molusks.

  9. Re:Learning on Monkeys and Humans Learn the Same Way · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, that I think is proven already.

  10. The Law Lords on NASA Hacker Wins Right to Extradition Hearing · · Score: 5, Informative

    is not the same thing as the House of Lords. The Law Lords is the highest court in the British Commonwealth.

  11. AOL Floppy Disk Bubble on Web 2.0 Bubble May Be Worst Burst Yet · · Score: 1

    The AOL floppy disks were actually useful. I've made many backups on them. In contrast the AOL CDs were not even good as coasters, since they had holes in the middle...

  12. Politicians with no backbone on Building Artificial Bone · · Score: 2, Funny

    may benefit from this...

  13. Re:Trackball on Mouse or Trackball? · · Score: 1

    'no one wants to use it' is definitely an advantage. Same goes for my HP15C calculator - it never gets borrowed.

  14. Re:Slave to Family & Friends Crap Computers on A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista · · Score: 1

    It is possible to lock XP down so that people cannot fiddle with it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa milyID=d39d0028-7093-495c-80da-2b5b29a54bd8&Displa yLang=en but I guess simply installing Vista achieved the same thing.

  15. Vista isn't a business OS on A Majority of Businesses Will Not Move To Vista · · Score: 1

    Vista is a Home user multimedia and gaming OS.

  16. Re:History lesson on Canadian Court Sides With Dell Against Class Actions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, not to forget all the Whiskey Wars between the Hudson Bay Company and the US traders!

  17. MAMBA on A CIO's View of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Old British maps frequently marked the African interior with the abbreviation MAMBA - Miles And Miles of Bloody Africa...

    This dismissive attitude is still pervasive and really, looking at African news, I can't blame people who dismiss all of Africa as a collective basket case.

  18. Re:Well known? on A CIO's View of Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It's just like the world-famous Hollywood stars that no-one knows. Of the 10% of people that goes to a movie once a decade, maybe 1% may remember the name of a 'star'...

  19. Re:History lesson on Canadian Court Sides With Dell Against Class Actions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course, I'm poking fun at you, but Quebec also drove two US assaults back on its own. The US as a country also didn't quite exist back then...

  20. Re:And another thing .... on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    It's the office space required for all the MCSEs, Tape Trolls and their Foozball tables, plus the accompanying Hell Desk for all the support people with the requisite funny accents. Backing up, patching and rebooting 4000 MS servers is a huge job...

  21. Re:$250M?? on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting about the 4000 MCSE that they can now lay off.

  22. Re:2000 sq feet per small computer? on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    That must include the office space for the hundreds of MSFTs required to apply patches and restart the 4000 servers all the time.

  23. 4000 servers doing nothing on IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes · · Score: 1

    What bugs me is why IBM had 4000 servers that were evidently doing nothing?

    In my experience, consolidation using virtualization only works if the servers in question don't have anything to do and only runs a zoo of defunct web sites for example.

  24. History lesson on Canadian Court Sides With Dell Against Class Actions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uhh, the last time there was a war between Canada and the USA, Canada won and burned the White House down. That is why the White House is painted white - to hide the soot marks. This is pretty funny really, but I guess this little bit of history won't be part of US public school education...

  25. (Not quite) Supreme Court on Canadian Court Sides With Dell Against Class Actions · · Score: 1

    Note that the Supreme Court of Canada is not the highest court for all provinces and states. Some states only recognize the UK Law Lords as the highest authority.