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  1. Re:Reliability? on Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if it doesn't work, just use a bigger HAMR...

  2. Re:HARM = Anti Radar on Seagate Plans 37.5TB HDD Within Matter of Years · · Score: 1

    High Speed Anti-Radar Missile - Run for the hills!

  3. Re:Gopher on Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? · · Score: 1

    Wow, Gopher, Archie, Jughead and Veronica... I wonder whether anybody else knows what you are talking about!

  4. Depends on the nature of the bug on Hackers Disagree On How, When To Disclose Bugs · · Score: 1

    If the fix is as easy as closing ports 135, 137, 138, 139 and 445 in the firewall, then you can disclose it immediately...

  5. Indepence works both ways on SFLC Argues On Same Side As Microsoft · · Score: 1

    During the Boston Tea Party, the USA asserted its independence from Britain. It seems that some law makers have forgotten that independence works both ways.

  6. Re:Many robots in our homes already on Bill Gates on Robots · · Score: 1

    Depending on the standard used to define a robot, traffic lights, elevators and escalators can also be deemed to be robots, ditto with ATMs and vending machines.

  7. Re:Brilliant! on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Two seconds - man, that is really gonna screw up my daily schedule... ;)

  8. Re:Simple Economics Alright on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Soooo - buy Wal-Mart stock! Buy, buy, buy!!! ;)

  9. Re:Not about cost on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Better looking - secondary bulb enclosed ones - are available nowadays. I use those in chandeliers. Replacing bulbs in a chandelier is a PITA. These new bulbs are great since they last for a long time. Dimmables seem to be only available from electrical wholesalers and online stores.

  10. Re:Because I Got Screwed, That's Why on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Uhh, they are lot better now. I have replaced lots of bulbs around the house, much less hassle, since they last a long time. You even get ones that fit in chandeliers now. You should buy a 2 pack and give it another whirl...

  11. Re:CFLs... I just don't get it. on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Dimmables are available, you can get them in different colour temperatures and Wal-Mart is getting the price down, so all your gripes are already addressed.

  12. Dimmable CFLs on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Dimmable CFLs are available: http://www.google.ca/search?q=cfL+dimmable

  13. Re:Brilliant! on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Found the same thing in Canada - replaced a bunch of bulbs with CFs and now the furnace is running more - however, it is cheaper to heat with gas than with electricity.

  14. Re:Tell me where it's useful... on An Overview of Virtualization · · Score: 1

    So you are imaging VMWare, instead of imaging disk drives - same thing as far as I can figure.

  15. Honda or Ford? on Creating Prion-Free Cows · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, I can't figure out whether a Prion is a Honda or a Ford. I think my grandma had one...

  16. Russia is still independent on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    last time I checked and considering that they cornered 45% of the space launch business and is the world's largest exporter of oil and gas, the USA needs Russia more than Russia needs the USA, so good luck to the RIAA and their money wasting tactics.

  17. Re:As bad as XP is I'm sticking with it. on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    "They have the right to do anything, that we are unable to prevent them from doing - That is Catch 22." Yosarian, the bomber in Catch 22, by Joseph Heller.

  18. Re:As bad as XP is I'm sticking with it. on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    "...XP to support Games, AV software..."

    Snort!!! HAAAhaha!!!, Uhm... Uhh... Pardon...

  19. Cogs and bugs on Source Code Access Denied in Disputed Race · · Score: 1

    Even the old mechanical tabulators could be rigged - who is going to count the teeth on a cog, to verify that it counts right?

    Bear in mind that the term 'bug' refers to cockroaches living in mechanical computers, causing computational errors.

  20. Re:Hybrid receivers? on Russia Tops With 45% of Spacecraft Launches in 2006 · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the problem was that GLONASS vanished. It has been resurrected recently. When the USSR broke up it caused various problems, including one astronaut that was left in space for almost 2 years, the first GLONASS was never completed and what was up there died eventually.

  21. Shortwave Station Leaders - nothing sinister on The Numbers Stations Analyzed, Discussed · · Score: 2, Informative

    I listened to some of those recordings and they were clearly the leaders transmitted by commercial stations, to indicate where the real transmission is. Over the course of the day, shortwave stations move to different frequencies, that are better propagated by the ionosphere.

    When a station moves to a new frequency, they continue to play a unique identifier tune and read out the frequencies where the station may be received better. For example, 39715 would be 39MHz715.

    Others may simply be a station transmitting automated junk, in order to 'occupy' the channel, so that someone cannot apply to the IETF to use the unused channel. Since they all have these number voice systems to announce their frequencies, it is logical to use that system to occupy the channel with random junk.

  22. Better... on The Numbers Stations Analyzed, Discussed · · Score: 1

    This one is better than the silly numbers stations http://www.spamradio.com/

  23. Johnson and Johnson on NASA Needs Fake Moon Dust · · Score: 1

    could supply tons of baby powder quite easily...

  24. Must have been beans... on What's Hidden Under Greenland's Ice? · · Score: 1

    We all know that the previous hot periods were caused by Dinosaur farts (http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNe ws/20061030/klein_quotes_061030/20061031/). The Greek philosopher Pythagoras advised against eating beans, so the the Medieval hot period must have been due to the Viking's inability to read Greek.

  25. VW Beetles on Giant Ice Shelf Snaps · · Score: 1

    A Volkswagen Beetle weighs about 810kg. So a 20sq km ice block, 20m thick, would be about 100,000,000,000 VW Beetles...