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  1. Re:Terrestrial limitation on Telescope Will Have Images 10X Sharper Than Hubble · · Score: 2, Informative

    The number one thing that comes to my mind that hubble can do that the others can't is to focus on one object for more than a few hours. With the fine control that they have with the gyros, hubble can point at the same object for weeks at a time, which allows it to pick up much fainter objects, even if it doesn't have the resolution.

  2. Where's the Public Service Commercial? on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    You know the one... "Terrorists are bad..., If you've bought a diamond, you're funding them."

    Oh wait, they only have those to discourage businesses that don't make the gov't money...

  3. Re:I *should* have gotten First Post! on Kathleen Fent Read This Story · · Score: 1

    So is it KathleenTaco now?

    No, it should be SarcasTaco.

  4. Re:Why, It's free already? on AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yeah, but they don't have the ability to influence the direction that the company is heading.

  5. Re:They Have a Point on Microsoft Blames the Messengers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Standard courtesy and many mailing lists recommend just this approach, but many companies have a really bad track record about fixing bugs that noone knows about. therefore, after a period of time, the exploit is published to "force" the company to deal with it.

  6. Re:legal liabilities on Wireless Freenets · · Score: 2

    How do they know you're NATing anything, btw?

    Detecting NAT is fairly easy I would think. Proving that it is NAT is probably much harder. See, the way nat works is thus (simple explanation, probably not 100% accurate) The client computer makes a request to the Gateway box for a page at slashdot.org port 80. So the gateway sends out a request originating at a random port in a given range (my box defaults to 40000-60000) for our example we will use 42000. So when /. replies to our request, it sends its reply to port 42000. So if you see a box that has a large number of connections all going to crazy high numbered ports on the same box, it is likely that this box is doing NAT. It would likely be much harder to prove definitively that this is NAT rather than just a lot of random network connections, but it might be possible.

  7. What the People Want on Search Engine Payola · · Score: 2

    Microsoft spokesman Matt Pilla said MSN is delivering "compelling search results that people want."

    Too bad the people they reference are advertisinge execs.

  8. Thought it was a good movie but expected less. on Review: Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that is why I liked it. I went into the film with expectations properly primed on the wealth of other high quality movies-from-video-games as a base to judge from. After such gems as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Tombraider, I suppose it might be impossible for the movie to suck so bad that it lived down to my expectations.

    As for Katz, I don't hold much stock in using the same judgements for every genre. It's the first of its kind. The acting in the first traditional films sucked too.

  9. Re:The next phase of the war should start soon. on 99% Blockage Isn't Good Enough, Says Napster Judge · · Score: 1

    I too listien to this type of music, and I have and will continue to buy the CD's. None of the record labels who put out the music that I want to hear aren't members of the RIAA, and most of the people behind them that I have talked to think Napster was a great thing to spread popularity.

  10. Re:stop on Napster Bans Non-Native Clients · · Score: 1

    I stopped using Napster when the most popular song online(and the only one was) was by some band called "No", with their hit single "Matching Files Found!"

    See, there is where you are wrong. "No" is not popular, they are just the first in the new napster strategy of selling high search results. This is clearly shown by their strong showing regardless of what your search criteria are.

  11. Re:Security on The Read-Once, Write-Never Web · · Score: 1

    ... at the bottom of the mariana trench

  12. Re:Knuth! on Software Problem Linked to Osprey Crash · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen the series of dilbert strips where the PHB offers the engineers money for every bug they find in the code that they wrote? Basically the first thought that came to their minds was "Yess!! I AM RICH!!"

  13. Re:Pair Computing on "Extreme" Programming · · Score: 1

    This is similar to the way that I beat Diablo 2 on the more difficult level. You see, I had the mouse, and was in charge of whacking him, and my friend manned the health potions and quaffed one for me everytime i got close...

  14. Re:$10 Coin? on DataPlay - Flash Killer or Copy-Control Nightmare? · · Score: 2

    on my 17" monitor it was about 6 inches across. That's bigger than the a CD is now. Coupled with the reduced storage capacity, I really don't know how they are supposed to make any money on this

  15. Re:slashdot security problem on Red Hat CTO Responds To Allchin's Comments · · Score: 1

    It only seems to work with IE and javascript enabled

  16. Re:Nu shto, ja dumaju... on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1

    2001-04-07 10:51:00 thats my b-day

  17. Bold Statement on Company Uses Grain Elevators for Internet Access · · Score: 1

    I found the following very interesting: "Without high-speed Internet access, we can't expect many of those communities to survive." That is an extreme statement right there, are rural towns really that cut off?