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  1. 5 Years! on Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008 · · Score: 1
    Apparently, it's five years!

    The Q&A Page for The National Do Not Call Registry says this:

    15. How long does my phone number stay registered?

    Your phone number will remain on the registry for five years from the date you register (unless you choose to take it off the registry or your phone number is disconnected). If you register online, you may want to print the Web page for your records when your registration is accepted.

    16. How can I find out when my registration expires?

    You can click on the Verify a Registration button any time to check your expiration date. Your registration will expire five years from your registration date. You may want to print the Web page with your registration date for your records.
  2. Re:Note taking on How Students Are 'Evolving' With Technology · · Score: 1

    I found that if I doodled while the professor was speaking, I remembered the lecture much better. I could later look at my doodles and remember what was being talked about as I looked at each part of the doodling (usually lines and squares and stuff). For the more important things I'd write textual notes, but I'm not sure I remembered those things as well. However, it was easier to read the notes later if they were textual (I didn't need to examine the "notes" as closely).

  3. Re:Hmmmm on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "most commonly used" and "most popular" aren't always the same thing.

  4. Re:Can't Start My Car After Mouthwash on BioShock Review · · Score: 1

    These anti-piracy measures only cripple ligament users. Are you saying that these measures don't also cripple tendon users!?

    Some of us are users of both ligaments and tendons. Do they cripple us too? *grin*
  5. Re:Added features on Would You Pay Pennies For Game Features? · · Score: 1

    What will happen when they have purchased content you haven't and vice versa? Well, of course you will both have to purchase the missing content to play everything together!
    Why not have party members who haven't purchased content to be given a lesser amount of said content, with full access given if they pay for it?
  6. Re:Semantics vs. Syntax on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 0

    I was supporting you, not correcting you... :-)

  7. Semantics vs. Syntax on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 0

    Semantics
    In linguistics, the study of meanings. In computer science, the term is frequently used to differentiate the meaning of an instruction from its format. The format, which covers the spelling of language components and the rules controlling how components are combined, is called the language's syntax. For example, if you misspell a command, it is a syntax error. If, on the other hand, you enter a legal command that does not make any sense in the current context, it is a semantic error.
  8. Re:Lets not forget Pioneer 10 on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 0

    I noticed that you had said the value was "estimated" and surmised you had done something like that. :-)

  9. Re:unanswerable question on Why Are So Many Nerds Libertarians? · · Score: 0

    I appreciate your comment; I had initially read the question as "Why Are So Many Nerds Librarians?" and your discussion of the article you had read which incorporated librarians and libertarians entertained me. :-)

  10. Re: that aliens can play such outmoded technology on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 0

    Sure they can play it... A stylus is included with the record and also included are instructions for using the stylus to play the record.

    ...as long as it is discovered by someone who is educated enough to examine the details on the record's case and interpret the information before destroying the craft or something...

  11. Re:Lets not forget Pioneer 10 on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 0

    Currently: Pioneer 10 is 93.931 AU from the Sun. (Precise definition of AU)

    Disclaimer: that distance is valid now, when I'm posting this. It'll probably be larger when you look at the linked page.

  12. Maps & data re: Voyagers on Heavens Above on Antique Voyager Technology · · Score: 0

    Heavens Above's Spacecraft Escaping the Solar System page is an excellent resource when looking for specific information and visual representations of the spacecraft escaping the Solar System (Pioneer 10 & 11, Voyager 1 & 2).

  13. Re:Been there, done that, it didn't work on Nimoy May Be the Star of the Next Trek Film? · · Score: 0

    That was the parallel "Mirror Universe."

    Please see this Wikipedia entry for details.

  14. Re:Overkill. on Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell · · Score: 0

    Overkill is probably better than underkill. (No puns intended, btw.)

  15. Flexible color displays on Stretching Crystals Promise Bendy, Full-Color Displays · · Score: 0

    Mooom! Johnny twisted my display again!

  16. Re:but..... on Drug Testing Entire Cities at Once · · Score: 0

    striper ?= candy striper

  17. Re:Try reading the article. on Nanotechnology Boosts Solar Cell Performance · · Score: 0

    Hmmm... How many other blogs and sites featured at Slashdot also have ads? Nearly ALL of them? It depends on how good your browser's ad-blocker is.
  18. Re:Wash your hands after you use the bathroom on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1, Funny

    [...]and then shovel their food down their gluttonous mouths with THOSE DIRTY HANDS!!
    I always use a utensil such as a fork or spoon.

    Do you use just your hands? In that case, I say that washing your hands frequently is even more important!
  19. Re:new subject line.. on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 0

    deoderent
    As you know, a de-odor-ant removes odor.

    Deoderent probably removes 'oder' better than a deodorant would, though.
  20. Re:But on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 0

    Whenever I use "normal" soaps for more than a few days sequentially in the shower to wash my body, I get much more acne/etc. than when I use antibacterial soaps. The antibacterial soaps give me smooth, acne-free skin.

  21. Re:The reasoning of NASA engineers? on Images of Endeavour's Damaged Tiles · · Score: 0

    missing tile != small gouge in tile

    I think the depth of the gouge is more significant than the size of a missing tile or tiles.

    Just food for thought...

  22. re: the article on Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space · · Score: 0

    Well, that throws a wrench in the works!

  23. Re:Wikipedia is dead and doesn't yet know it. on See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia · · Score: 0

    Perhaps hotly-contested articles should have two pages about each: a pro-[subject] and an anti-[subject].

  24. Re:This sounds familiar on Crowther's Original Adventure Source Code Found · · Score: 0

    These days, everything is made almost too obvious, because too many potential customers don't like a challenge (note that many games can be beaten straight out of the box in under 24 hours of playing). Back in those days, a game could take weeks of playing to figure out what to do, beating your head against a problem for several days before a solution would present itself wasn't uncommon.
    These days, games are made for the general populace, not those who would play Infocom's text adventures 25 years ago. The computers back then were used primarily by more educated people who--generally--enjoyed thought puzzles and stuff. These were the people who had access to terminals at work and/or considered spending a relatively large amount of money on a home computer to be a worthwhile investment.

    Nowadays, though, games are directed largely at the "lowest common denominator"...

  25. Re:Who would buy this? on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 0

    Someone might have stolen it to perform their "paranormal experiments" with. That way, they wouldn't even be looking to sell it.