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  1. No overlord necessary. on Schneier Says We Don't Need a Cybersecurity Czar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, would be happy without an overlord.

  2. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 0

    Actually, she sued(not that I agree with it) because the lid was not on when the coffee was handed to her and it spilled. She went back inside to see if she could have another cup of coffee. She was denied, so then she sued. Penny wise, pound foolish I say.

  3. Re:Not good enough. on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, I was cleaning my apartment and found a cd-r with a $10 price tag on it....seems like so long ago..

  4. Re:A new city? on Florida To Build Solar-Powered City · · Score: 3, Funny

    Duh....because we all know that a centralized system is much better than a decentralized one...

  5. Tomorrow's News on 21 Million German Bank Accounts For Sale · · Score: 5, Funny

    This morning the entire banking system in Germany collapsed due to 3 in 4 Germans transferring money out of the country to banks in neighboring countries....

  6. Whatever... on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yea, well some of us don't believe most of the things we see on TV, so I have to ask, why is this news? I don't really think I can drive 60mph on a sheet of ice like I see in BMW commercials all the time, I don't think they should pull their commercials because they are not true.

  7. Hopefully this is only the beginning. on NASA Draws On Open Source For Shuttle Bug-Tracking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can only hope that more of this is to come; gotta save money someplace. Better to save my by actually saving money vs. saving money by taking it away from something else.

  8. Re:Court ruling on TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property · · Score: 1

    Yea, because life sentences have stopped all murders in the US.

  9. Choice is there, he just doesn't like it. on Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It sounds good, but in the end, this will go nowhere. It's cable, you don't have to have it, and therefore he is choosing to pay $15 a month. Besides if the cable card option is available, does it really matter if it is hidden on their site, he can already buy another box. He should have waited until Feb '09, then he can get all of the grandma's with 25 year old TVs onboard.

  10. Glad there are people like him doing this. on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    All kinds of music that I would have never heard, or even knew existed. Well worth it in my opinion. Oddly enough, listening to the Arabic music makes me want to find a hookah and like 4 belly dancers.

  11. Re:Need a standardized platform! on T-Mobile To Open App Store For All of Their Phones · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I suppose if you aren't interested in reaching many users, that developing for a single platform like the iPhone is a decent choice. However, if you want to remain viable both in terms of independence and also monetarily, you need to have a broad base of users, not just a small group of fanatics.

    You seem to have a different definition of "many" than I do. iPhone adoption has been huge so far, and not just "a small group of fanatics."

    It's funny you know, if you replace "the iPhone" with "Linux" I think the sentence makes a little more sense. I think we have a case of the pot calling the kettle black here...

  12. Duh.... on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 1

    Freedom, Fame, or Fortune. If working for a company doesn't give you atleast one of the above items, chances are you will get another job. I doubt they have the freedom, and we all know who has the fame there, so that only leaves fortune, and if they are making that much less than their counterparts, chances are they will leave. I guess security fits in there somewhere, but I think you all know what I mean.

  13. Re:Even better would be... on Google to Offer Real-Time Stock Quotes · · Score: 1

    Use Finance::Quote; ##I currently us yahoo ## Probably the closest you are going to find, it's easy to take that output and drop it into whatever database you want. Historical, current, company profiles. I don't really like google, but I would definitely like someway to get to that info easily at the end of the day. There are some companies that offer end of day data, and charge you by how soon after the market do you want the data, i.e. 8pm is cheaper than 6pm. But lets be realistic, if I'm at a point where intraday is necessary, my day job will have me sitting at a terminal that is directly connected. Anyone who thinks they need intraday through cnbc is kidding themselves.

  14. Damn co-ops/interns on World of Warcraft Gold Limit Reached, It's 2^31 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Programming error or intern. Maybe it's an internal flag that it's time to get the ball rolling on WOW II. But wait, with that much gold, and the current price of it, they could sell it, and actually move OUT of the mom's basement and get a place of their own. ...

  15. Re:RFID? on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 1

    Yes, the patient is charged(not cost,sorry about that) $135, I should have elaborated more. A high percentage of our traumas are gunshots, stabbings and such, and mostly those patients will end up falling under the indigent care umbrella, so no insurance or personal funds to pay their bills. My hospital does over $100M is indigent care per year. Also there is the cost of the sponges which I don't remember off hand, but it is less than $50 which is our charging threshold. All supplies under $50 dollars fall under the room charge(first $30 is about $2300, and about $70 per min after that for trauma cases). Sounds like a lot of money, but not when you look at the staff and equipment involved.

  16. Re:RFID? on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I work at a Level 1 trauma center and we do indeed use RFID sponges. Currently we are only using them on a trial basis for trauma surgeries, but I would guess that once the cost drops some, we will infact use them for all surgeries. The RFID wands cost about $50.($135 patient cost). Sponges are bad, but the body will encapsulate them after awhile....retractors on the other hand....I don't know how the hell you leave something 1 foot long and 1.5 inches wide in someone...that boggles the mind. As someone said earlier though, when you have multiple surgeons, multiple residents, multiple scrub techs and circulators, things will get missed. Ofcourse the worst thing is what people call it when something is left in a patient or something goes wrong, a "surgical misadventure" that is just wrong.

  17. Re:Surface Tension? on Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was going to just what you wrote was a complete piece of crap, but I did search before I rashly typed that:

    http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae158.cfm

    *Snipet*
    The value evaluates to be approximately:

    11100 m/s
    40200 km/h
    25000 mi/h

    So, an object which has this velocity at the surface of the earth, will totally escape the earth's gravitational field (ignoring the losses due to the atmosphere.) It is all there is to it.
    */Snipet*(Bold is mine)

    So while I guess you are theoretically correct, I'm guessing it's only really an issue if you are trying to launch a barn or other non aerodynamic object into space.

  18. Personal ads just got way more complicated on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 0

    M/F looking for Men, Women, Robots(M||F), Couples(M/F), Couples(W/W), Couples(M/M), Couples(M/R(M||F)), Couples(F/R(M||F))

    Who wants to write a regexp to define their dating preferences? I think that most of the /. crowd just got really excited, but one wrong * or ? and you end up with 4 SmoothTalkin' Dude(c) models with Well Hung Technology(TM), complimentary ball gag and bottle of GHB :(

    and I don't even want to think about the ad supported models.....This can only go bad!!!!

  19. Geeks don't drive the market, consumers do... on The Rise of the Linux-Based Cellphone · · Score: 0

    I can read all of the above posts as a geek and be pleased. While I like the idea of Neo1973, I will never own one, I personally don't have the time to write my own apps for a phone; but I do appreciate a device that is open enough to allow it. When I read all of the above posts as a consumer, I ask myself, "wtf do these geeks think? I just want to turn it on, go through my contacts and use the phone" The Neo has/will changed how 1M geeks view the cell phone, the iPhone has changed how tens of millions of people view the cell phone(obviously I'm guessing at the number of affected phone users). In 5 years, which will still be around and actually produced on a regular basis? The one that makes money, and it won't be the Neo. From the openmoko site "We will sell this device through multiple channels.Direct from openmoko.com, the price will be $450 for the Neo Base and $600 for Neo Advanced." This is in reference to the 2nd gen. A lot of people here tote openness like a badge, most don't write software, most will never recompile a kernel, most won't take the time to load linux on ipod, but most will take the time to try to tell us AAC is Apple's proprietary format(jeez, even wikipedia can get this one right), that DRM will someday cause the downfall of the modern world, and that trying to make money of something you created is way to the devil. I've got a novel idea, one of you with some connections get Mark Shuttlesworth to invest heavily in the openmoko/neo1973 projects. Convince him that he should take a massive loss and sell the phone for 50 USD. Then you would actually be doing something...soemthing that might actaully change things, until then, curl up with your blankie at night, think about little Suzie, that Tri-Delt that you eyeball in econ 101, and realize that no actually cares if they can program for their phone except you.

  20. Oblig... on MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    No one will ever need more than 64 cores.

  21. Invisibility, levitation,...? on British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect · · Score: 0

    I think I'm with the people who are thinking zpe. There should be a way to roll up multiple layers of this and form some sort of continuous quantum oscillator. Sad thing is, non of use will probably live long enough to really see the true impact of this type of technology.

  22. Re:Excellent! on Security Flaw Found That Allows Control of iPhone · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow the apple haters are up early this morning! +3 insightful for that? Funny maybe, but insightful. The line starts at the left for all Nomad and Neo1973 comparisons and jokes...

  23. Won't be popular at all. on T-Mobile Announces WiFi Meshing Cellphone · · Score: 1

    If this crowd isn't sold on it, do you really think the general public will be? I work with people who refuse to pay their bills online because they think that hackers are going to intercept it and steal them blind. The general public will not trust these phones or the $10 free wifi plan.

  24. Re: looks to me like it WAS removed! on Site Claims to Reveal 'Tattle-tales' · · Score: 1

    Here is the text I get from my proxy

    "You cannot access the following Web address:
    http://www.whosarat.com/

    The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Criminal Skills

    You can:
            Submit a site review request to your network administrator.

            Temporarily override filtering on this computer if you have an override name and password. (Note that your administrator may be notified that you've bypassed filtering.)

            Use your browser's Back button or enter a different Web address to continue."

    It seems that someone has made the decision for me that this is not a good thing...

  25. Does anyone know if they sell their computer cases on SGI Arises From the Ashes · · Score: 1

    I know it's kinda lame, but I loved their cases. They could make a killing with those things now.