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  1. Sorry, that's backwards on Physicists Find Users Uninterested After 36 Hours · · Score: 1

    Power law: 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, 4^2, 5^2...

    Exponential: 5, 5^2, 5^3, 5^4, 5^5...

    Big difference in the growth after a short period.

  2. Re:Exponent? Power? on Physicists Find Users Uninterested After 36 Hours · · Score: 1

    Exponential: 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, 4^2, 5^2...

    Power law: 5, 5^2, 5^3, 5^4, 5^5...

  3. The keyboard. on Keylogging Used To Catch Bank Crackers · · Score: 1

    All the keyloggers I've ever heard of either (in hardware) sniff the PS/2 or USB port of your keyboard, as you type; or (in software) they read the key buffer.

  4. Upper Manhattan? on List of Polish Spies Leaked On The Internet · · Score: 1

    Harlem, you must know, is predominately African-American. Some of the residents must own their own apartments.

    Furthermore, what do you mean "impossible?"

  5. Re:Same coin, different sides on PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you are completely unaware of how our government works, but most (all?) bills are introduced into the Senate by members of both parties.

  6. Re:WRONG on MIT Professor Michael Hawley · · Score: 1
    Name 1 comunity of non-geek persons that are more than 10 and that get together every day to discuss their ideas. There are NONE.

    You're telling me that Slashdot is the only major discussion board around? You must be kidding. What about FlyerTalk, or to a lesser extent the Motley Fool?

  7. Re:Segway-style hype.... on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to think *nobody read the article. (Should I be surprised?)

    (1) the entire craft has positive bouyancy (i.e. blimp/balloons),

    The premise of the craft is that, by using helium to inflate some big balloons stuck on the side of the airplane, it will rise. Then the balloons deflate, causing the craft to become *heavier than air, and hence turn into a glider.

  8. Expense. on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1

    The answer is expense. Hunt claims that 80% of the operating cost of an airplane is its fuel cost. Lower operating costs = cheaper tickets on a fuelless airplane. Would you spend an extra, say, hour or two in the air on your flight from NYC to Chicago if the ticket cost half as much? I would.

  9. RTFA on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mr. Hunt describes it convincingly. Buoyancy is caused by the differing force with which gravity pulls on heavy and light things. Gravity pulls with more force on heavier things, (F=MA; mass is higher), and less on lighter things. Hence, the heavier thing sinks relative to the lighter thing. Buoyancy.

  10. Re:Aaaaarghhhhhhh! on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If your craft is dependant on creating a vacuum inside for easy lift, but your power supply is compressed air, don't the two kinda cancel eachother out?

    Not at all. The craft rises when its average density is lower than the air around it. When the compressed air is in its compressed form, it takes up little space. When it is used to blow up the balloon, the mass stays the same but the volume increases by a *lot. Hence, the average density is much lower.

  11. Re:Hmm... on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1

    The wheel isn't a process; it's a thing (technical term).

  12. Re:Realmedia on NPR's Car Talk Dumping RealMedia · · Score: 1

    He meant "desp,"--as in "despise."

  13. Re:I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous on Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM · · Score: 1

    Somebody's humor function is buggy. Or is English not your first language?

  14. the engineer's answer on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing I kept half my water in a redundant glass!

  15. Re:What, indeed..... on Zero Blaster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Please explain to me how I can "get" (?) Salma Hayek for 20 bucks. In fact, I'll dig up a whole stack of twenties for this purpose. Much obliged.

  16. I don't know who *your* cable company is, on Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data · · Score: 1

    but I pay $45/month for Comcast, and transfer probably about 30 gigs a month. $10/gig over 5 gigs for broadband? Smells like a terribly contrived example.

  17. The money on Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101? · · Score: 1

    Seeing as my high school just dropped a cool million dollars on a new fitness center, which is really for the (%#%^) football and lacrosse jocks, I don't think $8k for a DDR machine is really that bad. Especially because the game's a ton of fun... wish my school bought a couple of those ^^

  18. Re:ummm... on UCSD Students Tracking Their Friends' Locations · · Score: 1

    You don't need to let anyone track your device if you don't want them to, but now everyone has immediate access to a moblie, and plantable, tracking device.

    If you feel like donating your $550 Jordana or other expensive PDA, just for the sake of knowing where I am, feel free!

  19. Re:A system without passwords on Red Flag Linux: Real, and Reviewed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nope. Modus operandi is the correct singular form. (Modi operandorum would be the plural version) - it translates to mode of operation. The -i is the genetive/possessive/"of" form. Latin's not just taking pseudo-English words and tacking "-us" onto them.

  20. Re:Overseas on Can China Pull An India? · · Score: 1
    Or ripping off a windowing system designed by MS in the USA? Looks like the USA is the leader again!

    To what windowing system are you referring? X was first written long before little Billy's Windows 1.0 was released. And in any case, Apple had it first.

  21. Re:Cheat Codes Origin on Finding Cheat Codes For A Living · · Score: 1
    I don't know how much fun it is... but it's pretty damned easy. Just start the game with "+set sv_cheats 1", and type "/god" in the console.

    How about speaking of games you've played before :)

  22. Re:Just a thought... on Any Cases With Front-Facing Expansion Slots? · · Score: 1

    So use an external CD drive, no? Just put it on top of the case...

  23. They're not actually all quotes on 2nd Annual Poetry Spam · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are two categories in the contest - a Strictly Spam category, entirely of quotes from spam email; and a Freestyle category - poems about spam and spammers.

  24. ...links to a porn site on Some People @Home, Some Not @Home · · Score: 0
    At the bottom of the configuration page you link to, comes this:

    Web Browser:
    Home Page: http://www.XXX.com (You may, of course, choose any home page; for the latest information provided by us at AT&T Broadband Internet High Speed Service, we recommend the above.)

    Ooooopsies.

  25. I've tried that... on Uber Geeks Holiday Gift Guide · · Score: 0

    the don't-tell-what-you-want thing. And I got crap.

    D'oh!