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  1. Debug port on Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) · · Score: 1

    I did that circa 1985 when a project did not have a suitable debug port, but had a single LED on the panel.

  2. Re:Overpopulation on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 2

    Only true if you use brine for irrigation. In Arabia, most water is produced by reverse osmosis or distillation and the ground water table is actually rising due to the run-off from farms and cities. Fresh water will not polute the soil and is sustainable if you have cheap energy.

  3. Always one year away on Complex Systems Theorists Predict We're About One Year From Global Food Riots · · Score: 1

    If all farmers get a bad crop this year, then there will be food riots next year. It doesn't take a wizard to predict that. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria said: "A peasant should be able to put a chicken in his pot, once a week on a Sunday." It is still true today.

  4. Re:10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    De problim is de Amerikin publiek skool sistem. Yoo r assuming that their r enouf poeple that kin read end kount.

  5. Re:10x the population on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 1

    I think, the main problem is that the US population on average is very dense indeed and half of them are even more dense than that.

  6. Re:official CDC/National Park Service/WHO links on Yosemite Expands Scope of Hantavirus Warning: More than 20,000 At Risk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, CNN reported 10,000 and MSN reported 10,000, so that makes 20,000.

  7. They need not have bothered on It's Easy To Steal Identities (Of Corporations) · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is that they need not have bothered with the ID theft. They could have touted the stock and profited anyway without getting control over the company, quite legally.

  8. Re:Yeah, right! on Microsoft Ready To Address EU Antitrust Concerns · · Score: 2

    Yup, that is what the talks are all about. MS is in danger of being fined for some multipes of the Greek national debt for that.

  9. Don't fix it if it ain't broke on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why mess with a good thing? Most users do not need or want to upgrade. If the phone works, then an upgrade presents real danger of making it worse, not better.

  10. Re:"Nearly"? on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wonder how many people here are old enough to get your joke?

  11. Re:Contrast on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 1

    In most cases, white on white comments are best.

  12. Bitrot on Comments On Code Comments? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Comments suffer from incurable bitrot. So when I need to understand code, I never bother reading the comments, since it is usually more confusing than the code.

  13. Greased palms on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, that kind of money should reduce the poverty of one or two government officials...

  14. Re:WHAT!? on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 2

    Yup, been doing that for about 10 years. The only viable way to run Windows is as a VM.

  15. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    Yup, running Windows on bare metal is a total pain in the arse. Windows is only viable and supportable as a VM.

  16. Re:I wish Google would have warned us... on Google Pulls Access To Unsupported But Popular Weather API · · Score: 2

    Use the government services. They are free and are where the pay services get their data from, e.g. NOAA or MET - every country has one and you as a tax payer, already pay for it.

  17. Re:Why I switched to XFCE on Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10 Arrives For Testing · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you'll have to translate that into C# before the Gnome developers will understand it.

  18. One click for $235 on Calculating the Cost of Full Disk Encryption · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am expensive, but not that expensive. I don't charge a customer $235 to click a full disk encryption check box while installing Fedora Linux. Maybe I should...

  19. Re:US Patents lead to technological backwater on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The land of the free" has been a joke to everyone outside of the US for decades. -- Hundreds of years actually. The underground railroad has always run from the USA to Canada, and not the other way around.

  20. Re:Misattributed quote. on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 1

    Well, Picasso probaly said it in Spanish and it could be translated various ways...

  21. HHGG on Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Arrested In Cambodia · · Score: 1

    It sounds like his mother got his name from the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

  22. Re:If I recall.. on DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    They repaired and upgraded the Hubble telescope multiple times and also many other military semi failed launches stuck in LEO.

  23. Re:Capture is easy. Reuse is hard. on DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would guess that many of those 1300 satellites only need some propellant to be able to stabilize themselves and then they will be good to go again. So the first thing to try would be capture and refueling.

  24. Re:Finally! on DARPA's 'Phoenix' Program To Bring Satellites Back From the Dead · · Score: 1

    ...it is because the Aliens are still using modems. They are far from their home planets, have been unable to update their technology for hundreds of years and we here on earth have now surpassed them in some tech areas, but they can still [NO CARRIER]

  25. Bash... on Frankenstein Code Stitches Code Bodies Together To Hide Malware · · Score: 2

    "...gadgets, that do simple standard tasks..." Well, I don't want to bash the authors, but what they describe is exactly what a script would do on a Linux system. I suppose they come from a pure Windows environment, where a script is an unheard of, super guru thing...