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Comment Yet another human-produced pile of trash (Score 1) 242

by seniorcoder (#31264166) Attached to: Space Junk Getting Worse
There is a mass of debris floating in the pacific ocean which I read was roughly the size of Texas. Newly discovered is a huge amount of trash floating in the Atlantic.
Can anyone be surprised that there is a mountain of trash building up in orbit?

We seem to befoul everything we touch.
We need more Burning man philosophy: leave no trace.
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Hollywood Stock Exchange Set To Launch In April 100

Posted by samzenpus from the put-me-down-for-$10-on-portman dept.
You can buy and sell actor or movie "stock" for virtual cash on the website Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). Starting in April the company plans on letting you turn those movie performance predictions into real dollars. HSX filed with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval as an active trading site in November 2008 and has just entered the final phase of regulatory review. Richard Jaycobs, president of HSX's parent company, said, "The number of people who visit movie theaters each year and form opinions about a film's success is in the tens of millions. We believe that's the reason the public response to this product has been very positive."

Comment That's the trouble with them new-fangled doo-dads (Score 1) 427

by seniorcoder (#31021926) Attached to: USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes
Well gosh darn, I'm surprised they have started to use them fax machines. I reckon it's still OK for me to continue to send it my applications by using smoke signals ain't it? I'm wonderin' why the folks hereabouts didn't tell me they now use fax as I have just purchased one of them telex thingys.

Well I guess they use fax to promote the fact that they are the center of all innovation after all.

Perhaps I should submit a "rotator" device for a patent. You takes the piece of paper in one rotator on the end of your arm. Then, with the help of another rotator on the end of the other arm, you turns the piece of paper through 180 of them degrees. Hot dang I'm on a winner with this one! I hope I submit a patent first on this, but it's a chicken and egg thing. What if I submit it the wrong way round?

Comment Now it's remote, now it's local, repeat (Score 1, Flamebait) 285

by seniorcoder (#29368731) Attached to: Microsoft Aims To Cure Server-Hugging Engineers
They will have to get used to remote handling of BSOD. They will need to have humans local to the actual machines to press the reset button when a BSOD occurs. A new breakthrough will then be announced called "proximity computing" whereby they will move the computers near those using them to avoid the extra employees who were hired to press the reset button. Buy shares in companies that are used to move the computers backwards and forwards each time the management reverses their previous "breakthrough".
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Submission + - How do you prepare your taxes?

Submitted by seniorcoder
seniorcoder writes: How do you prepare your taxes:
  • Manually
  • TurboTax
  • TaxAct
  • H&R TaxCut
  • Accountant
  • Don't — like W.Snipes
  • Only receive undeclared cash
  • CowboyNeal — sends all income to IRS

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