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  1. Re:Not Really as Bad as the Naysayers Think on Working Around Vista Apps' Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    'Games', so why are running the business version? I agree that MS Windoze is a superior gaming platform, but it seriously sucks for business use, in all its versions.

  2. Re:Here's an idea... on Working Around Vista Apps' Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I only moved to Windoze XP in 2005. Ok, the fact that most things I do are done with Linux, helps a lot.

  3. Don't worry about tomorrow on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1

    It is already tomorrow in Australia.

  4. Must be the No Fly lists on Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, since bees are flying, call Homeland Security and the FAA to ban something and get all bees to remove their shoes at the entrance to the hives. That'll fix it..

  5. Re:I switjved tb Dborgx on Is DVORAK Gaining Traction Among Coders? · · Score: 1

    Dvorak will certainly swell the numbers of the ASD (American Dyslexic Society).

  6. Re:How having an human killed by a robot is worse on New Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots · · Score: 1

    A human being killed by a robot is an industrial accident.

  7. Re:Evolution??? on Mozilla and Google — Exchange Killers At Last? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hmm, I have found that Evolution works better with Exchange than Outlook...

  8. Re:26,800 hp on New Law Lets Data Centers Hide Power Usage · · Score: 1

    Exactly - considering that a small power station generates 500MW and a big one 2000MW, the 15MW is drop in the ocean.

  9. Re:Cheap not so green electricity ? on New Law Lets Data Centers Hide Power Usage · · Score: 1

    ...and Plutonium isn't particularly poisonous either. You can swallow a little piece with no ill effect - a big piece will present a physical problem, same as swallowing a big piece of iron. Plutonium is probably more inert than iron.

  10. Bent pipes... on Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is little hacking involved. Most older satellites are simple 'bent pipes' which transponds everything it receives on one frequency onto another frequency. So if you are in the antenna footprint of the ground station, you can use that satellite and there is nothing the owners can do to stop you.

  11. Behold the power of Perl. on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    Betcha there is at least one highly paid sysadmin in the Whitehouse that is a Perl expert and knows how to use regular expressions to make email get lost selectively...

  12. Re:Conversely on The Fine Art of 'Boss Science' · · Score: 1

    No fortunately it is not that bad everywhere. There are companies where an engineer can advance without following the management track and can even earn a lot more than his line manager. If you wish to land that kind of job, get into aerospace and defence, but you better start early - because experience counts in those corporations.

  13. Re:I'd donate some servers to SCO on AMD Donates Servers to Groklaw · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could load Caldera Linux on an old E-machine and ship it to SCO, but I think that would be too cruel, even for SCO.

  14. 1 e/fn on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 1

    Hmm, a nano-ampere is about one electron per fortnight. You ain't gonna do much with that.

  15. Re:Microsoft co-opts technology on Georgia Tech Unveils Prototype Nanogenerator · · Score: 1

    A power chair for Steve?

  16. Re:That doesn't debunk global warming on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    Well, one thing is clear, those cavemen must have stoked huge fires in their caves to bring about the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago.

  17. Re:That doesn't debunk global warming on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Uhh, you are all correct. Volcanoes tend to either cool or warm the earth. For example Mount Pinatuba cooled the earth by 3 degrees over a multi year period.

    See this: http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/cli mate_effects.html
    "The amount of sulfur-rich gases appears to be more important. Sulfur combines with water vapor in the stratosphere to form dense clouds of tiny sulfuric acid droplets. These droplets take several years to settle out and they are capable to decreasing the troposphere temperatures because they absorb solar radiation and scatter it back to space."

  18. Re:What do you know - spotty... on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Sun God is in puberty and eat too many chocolate bunnies and eggs at Easter?

  19. Must be due to global warming... on Sunspots Reach 1000-Year Peak · · Score: 1

    It's those bad ass SUVs of the gods that does it.

  20. Re:As easy as 1 ENTER 1 + on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 5, Informative

    BTW, that should be "1 Enter Enter +".

  21. Re:As easy as 1 ENTER 1 + on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I never have problems with people borrowing my calculator. Even supposed computer scientists can't figure it out.

  22. Slooooow mail server... on Judge Gives Intel More Time To Find Missing E-mail · · Score: 1

    Man, and I thought my mail server needs an upgrade to cope with all the spam. Intel's must really suck.

  23. Planet Earth is Blue on U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station · · Score: 1

    and there is nothing I can do...

    Hmm, has the ISS screens turned blue yet?

  24. Re:pFirst! on U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that should be: "rEal pRoGrammers dOn't dO hUnGarian. eVer."

    There, fixed that for you... ;)

  25. Small UAV on Combined Hovercraft and Helicopter · · Score: 1

    This is a small UAV, not a full blown helicopter people!

    It could be nice for exploring the inside of buildings, since it can bump into the walls and ceiling without being damaged.