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  1. Re:I will restrain from comment... by Hognoxious · · Score: 1 · on Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones

    One that knows the difference between Spartans and Romans would be a step up.

  2. Cock as in rooster, not penis by colinrichardday · · Score: 1 · on Clemson Staffer Outlines College Rankings Manipulation

    http://gamecocksonline.cstv.com/genrel/092205aaa.html

  3. Re:Won't work. by Tmack · · Score: 1 · on Let the Games Be Doped

    Olympic athletes have done just as much doping as professional ones.

    Doubtful, but who truly knows? "Just as much" is a very broad term, is that a percentage of clean athletes? Who do you count, everyone in the sport or just those that make the olympics that particular year? Most of the dopers get found out before they make it to the games, unlike baseball or le tour, where they are found and kicked out later.

    They don't get paid for their olympic performances

    Actually.... they do, sorta. Each athlete that goes to the games gets a TON of stuff from the sponsors of the games. Outfits, shoes, phones, game consoles... the list goes on. If you dig around, you will find plenty of articles about the athletes from the poorer nations actually going out of the village to sell the stuff to the public for cash that is much more useful to them once they get home.

    Most olympic committees or national sports bodies will also pay for the trip, and pay bonuses for breaking records and winning medals. True, the bulk of the money comes from endorsement deals, but winning a gold for the US in swimming right now nets you about $25k. The problem is, in most of the olympic sports, the athletes are still NCAA athletes, so if they take the $$ they can no longer compete in NCAA events (as Phelps did in 2000).

    tm

  4. bees at GT, eh? by PurpleButter · · Score: 2, Funny · on Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks
    And by "bees", they clearly mean "Yellow Jackets"

    http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/

  5. Re:Why fix what isn't broken? by drerwk · · Score: 1 · on Caltech Creates Electronic Nose

    As an alumnus I like to point out why the Cal Tech usage is in addition to being wrong, also confusing. Cal, when used to refer to institutions of higher learning in California, always(?) refers to either the University of California e.g. Cal Berkeley, Cal(R) Bears, http://calbears.cstv.com/ or to one of the California State University campuses http://www.calstate.edu/ with particular attention to Cal Poly. I sure wish I had a Cal Poly sweatshirt given the number of times people have confused Caltech and Cal Poly. In any case, Caltech is in neither the Cal State University System, nor the University of California System.

  6. Re:The guy... by Otter · · Score: 1 · on Are Relational Databases Obsolete?
    ...duping himself and thus Slashdot is duping the stories by extension.

    I read the blurb and thought "Haven't we had the same 'debate' over the same guy a bunch of times before?" The name stuck in my head as I always envision the former Notre Dame linebacker and his famously low GPA turning to a career in database architecture.

  7. Re:He asked for examples by blueskies · · Score: 1 · on Wikipedia Won't Bow to Chinese Censors

    The baseball player? http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec- rel/040906aae.html?pic=18

    What happened to him?