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  1. Coca Cola invented Santa Claus on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 1

    Hmm, well, I guess Disney has about as much right to Snowwhite as Coca Cola has to Santa Claus...

  2. Disney wrote Snowwhite? on The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, most Disney characters are based on stories that have been in the public domain for centuries and the ones they did invent, should have been in the public domain decades ago.

  3. Re:How about storage on Quantum Dot Recipe May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Alternatively, you could build a world-wide grid. The sun is always shining somewhere.

  4. Armed and dangerous... on Quantum Dot Recipe May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    Imagine being attacked by an army of quantum dots.

  5. Psychos... on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It sounds to me as if half the school board members and police need psychological councelling. The kid is fine, but he will probably do better in a different school with normal people.

  6. coulda shoulda woulda on Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup · · Score: 1

    used ext3cow versioning file system?

  7. Support forums and mass spam on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Well, the 09,F9,11,02,9D,74,E3,5B,D8,41,56,C5,63,56,88,C0 gets posted to every gawddam computer support forum - Dell, HP, Microsoft, whatever. How long till someone adds it to a mass spam?

  8. The most common number in the universe on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 4, Funny

    must be 09,F9,11,02,9D,74,E3,5B,D8,41,56,C5,63,56,88,C0

    Future data archaeologists will be dumbfounded by this number and will no doubt ascribe great religious significance to it.

  9. Re:Honestly curious... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    "...punishable by scrotal piercing."
    I think you the found one thing that even the Catholic Inquisitors didn't think of...

  10. There doesn't seem to be a on Treating the Dead · · Score: -1, Redundant

    09F 911 029 D74 E35 BD8 415 6C5 635 688 C0
    post yet...

  11. Error check? on Music Decoded From 600-Year-Old Carvings · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How will anyone ever know whether the decoding is correct? Pretty much any medieval sounding 7 notes per octave, vaguely musical tune will work...

  12. Famous Blues Brothers quote on Microsoft Common Language Runtime To Be Cross-Platform · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We have both kinds of music here: Country *and* Western."

  13. Dell sells lots of Linux servers on Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded · · Score: 1

    I have bought a couple thousand. They come with RHEL.

  14. Re:Why don't they block outgoing smtp traffic? on Exposing Bots In Big Companies · · Score: 1

    FTP sends user names and passwords in plain text, so this is not recommended. You should look at ssh and sftp instead. On Windoze, about your only option is to use https, since Windoze doesn't have any other security software, unless you install Cygwin and OpenSSH.

  15. Spur to innovation on U.S. Puts 12 Nations On Watch For Piracy · · Score: 1

    Excellent. That will spur those countries on to innovate and work around the US protectionism. Eventually, we should see a slew of great new products.

  16. Big numbers on Supreme Court Weakens Patents · · Score: 1

    In the limit, consider that any software program is just one enormous number, then any other program is simply that number plus or minus another number. Therefore all software programs are trivial enhancements of pre-existing programs and should not be patentable.

  17. Re:How about LEDs then on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, there are bacteria that can eat anything. Plastics in a landfill are eventually consumed, just like anything else.

  18. Re:That's funny...pfft... on New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US · · Score: 1

    Hmm, at a point somewhere in the middle of the cable run: "...two new submarine cables that will link ???island directly with South East Asia and the USA for unprecedented connectivity to our tropical people's paradise..."

  19. Re:a couple questions on New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US · · Score: 1

    You can find a breakage by sending a pulse down a cable and looking for the reflections. A cable restorer ship is then despatcehd to trawl and hook the cable ends and splice it.

  20. More spam, more spam... on New Submarine Cable Planned Between SE Asia and US · · Score: 1

    Yeah, then we can get our spam so much faster...

  21. Boston on RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio · · Score: 1

    cut out the middle men 30 odd years ago already. Even King Elvis bypassed the middlemen initially and that was before most sloshdatters were born.

  22. Re:Solar thermal beats solar cells on Canada to Build 40MW Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    The cost can come down a lot if you make a dual use solar cell. For example, solar cell roof tiles, solar cell window panes or solar cell office building glass siding.

  23. Re:Is it possible to use only renewable sources? on Canada to Build 40MW Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Technically, coal and oil are renewable resources and yes, we can get by using only those - cough, cough, hack!

  24. Re:42 cents/kwh!!! on Canada to Build 40MW Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Hmm at that rate a dynamo on a bicycle may also be profitable. Ontario call centres should incorporate pedal power technology at the work stations and profit...

  25. Cartago Delenda Est... on Vitamin D Deficiency Behind Many Western Cancers? · · Score: 1

    The Spanish, Turks and Greeks are all dark and they are all in Western Europe. Then of course, you also have the Arabs in North Africa.