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  1. Unenforceable on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 1

    It is best kept secret, because that makes unenforceable (Ancient Roman and English law).

  2. Won't do on Plowing Carbon Into the Fields · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This won't do. I guess he is not telling the whole story.

  3. Re:We can't even compete for THIS!? on Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    Uhh, high tech??? WTF is high tech about a wind mill? We have been building wind mills for about 3 thousand years, so it is mature tech in extreme. However, you do realize that China is launching space vehicles - *that* is high tech.

  4. Laptop PCs have an I/O bottle neck on USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet · · Score: 1

    The speed of the USB connection will make NO difference in practice. Laptop machines have serious I/O bottle necks that typically don't allow the *sustained* I/O speed to exceed about 32 Megabytes per second. We started to call that the Galactic I/O Speed Barrier.

  5. PC Decrapifier on Who Installs the Most Crapware? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The best one is not mentioned in the crappy article: http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/

  6. Re:This is great... on New DoD Memo On Open Source Software · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhh, no support? Red Hat, Novell, Mandriva, HP, IBM, CSE, Dell, Perot...

  7. Mil uses lots of Linux and BSD on New DoD Memo On Open Source Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    Everywhere I go, there are Linux and BSD systems.

  8. Not a hack on Time Warner Cable Modems Expose Users · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not a hack. This is leaving the key *on top* of the doormat.

  9. Re:Active Directory? on IBM's Answer To Windows 7 Is Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 1

    Easy. Red Hat, Suse and Mandriva all have excellent authentication wizards. It only takes about 3 mouse clicks to make Linux join an Active Directory domain.

  10. Re:Why the need to 'discover' the elements? on Element 114 Verified · · Score: -1

    The heavy elements generally seem to be unstable, but they are not necessarily so. For example, Plutonium is more stable than Iron. Sure, Plutonium radiates a little and has a half life of 25,000 years, but Iron rusts much faster than that!

    So, it possible that we may yet discover a heavy element with very surprising properties.

  11. Re:energy density on Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges At Each Stop · · Score: 1

    OK, reality is calling: Combine the hydrogen with carbon to form long chain hydro carbons, then you can store it at STP and use it in the present crop of internal combustion engines without requiring any modifications...

  12. He was a kind and generous man.... on SCO Terminates Darl McBride · · Score: 3, Funny

    As Voltaire put it: "He was a kind and generous man. Provided of course that he is really dead." Uhm, not dead yet? Just laid off? What a pity...

  13. Re:Everyone ELSE is weird on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1

    You wear a suit? What has the world of programming come to...

  14. Re:cheaper space lift on Australian Student Balloon Rises 100,000 Feet, With a Digital Camera · · Score: 1

    Uhhh, if you drop something from a high altitude balloon, it falls straight down... For space lift, you need delta-v.

  15. Advanced Routing Howto on Affordably Aggregating ISP Connections? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Advanced Routing Howto on tldp.org - nuf sed.

  16. Re:An oft overlooked single point of failure? on Entire .SE TLD Drops Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    No, it was a single dot of failure.

  17. Bigger, better, faster, more... on High-Temp Superconductors To Connect Power Grids · · Score: 1

    A continent-wide black-out will bring huge economies of scale...

  18. The Odyssy of Odysseus on Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmmm, my analysis of The Odyssy (written in the 9th century BC), suggests that the climate in the Mediteranean was pretty much the same as today while sea levels have gone down dramatically in some areas and up in others.

  19. CRC16 or CRC32? on Aging Discovery Yields Nobel Prize · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmm, I wonder what algorithm is that Telumere and whether it is look-up tables based...

  20. Re:dimona anyone? on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    There is nothing secret about Dimona. Everybody knows that is where Israel builds and maintains its nuclear bombs. Where they actually store them, is another matter though.

  21. Many Canadians already had swine flu on Seasonal Flu Shots Double Risk of Getting Swine Flu, Says New Study · · Score: 1

    Lots of Canadians already had swine flu. It took me about 6 months to recover - from November 2008 till June 2009. I have seen co-workers undergoing the same ordeal - coughing for 6 months straight. So the statiscs may be skewed, but I'll take my common flu shot, since I don't want to get the next one.

  22. Only 331 days? on Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation · · Score: 1

    So what did this guy do the rest of the time?

  23. Re:Tomorrow's hot technology... on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Hey, some old HP calculators (HP25 and others) used magnetic bubble memory!

  24. Re:First post... on Mainstream Press "Cringes" At Win7 Launch Parties · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think someone with a webcam on an Ubuntu netbook made that 'advertisement' to spite M$...

  25. Re:So much for Open Source on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    It is too funny how Open Source Software always improves something, even when it isn't used! In this case, by lowering the price from a total rip-off level to a reasonable level.