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  1. Re:Another limit? on New Superconductor Found "Immune To Magnetism" · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Only a partial solution on Google To Host Ajax Libraries · · Score: 1

    It's a good idea, but you're trading a little bandwidth for a lot of extra requests (and latency). And besides: a few hundred kilobytes isn't a big deal these days if users only have to download it once, which is what Google is doing. Custom per-site implementations defeat that.

  3. ...fluorescent chemicals? on Cell Metabolism Artificially Enhanced · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thank you, researchers. The world really needed a metabolism-enhancing enzyme that turns you green.

  4. Re:Voon on Beetle Naturally Builds Photonic Crystals · · Score: 3, Funny

    I gave a speech once. You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.

  5. Re:doubtful on Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible · · Score: 1

    Did they get a messiah from the catholic god and does that imply more than one "jesus"? That's already been proven, actually.
  6. Re:For which screen size? on Life-Size Photo of a Blue Whale · · Score: 2, Informative

    The size of your monitor isn't significant; it's the dot pitch that matters. Almost all current desktop LCDs are between 0.25mm and 0.275mm; if they scaled the image for the middle of that range, it should be accurate to ~5% on regular monitors.

    Consider also that not all whales are the same size. At birth a blue whale is around 7m long. A large adult can exceed 30m. "Life size" is not an exact number.

    I don't think they need to add a disclaimer just because some guy out there might decide to view the site on a large format (+very high dot pitch) display.

  7. Re:Here ya go... on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1
  8. Behold... on RallyPoint — The Computerized Combat Glove · · Score: 1
  9. convert qubits into qutrits...far more powerful on Qutrits Bring Quantum Computers Closer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Naturally, I read that as "qutits" the first time.

  10. Tell me, Mr. Slashdotter... on Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds · · Score: 5, Funny

    What good is 50Mbps... If you are unable to P2P?

  11. Can't say I mind... on VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's a very limited number of reasonable .com and .net domains out there. If they aren't worth USD $10 a year to you, maybe you should let someone else have a chance?

    I think registration should be something like $100 one-time + $25/yr. Yeah, I'd spend a lot more, but it would be worth it to kill squatters.

  12. Re:Photoshop is currently 1,5 Gb, 22000 files... on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 1

    If you strip out the garbage (and most of the filters), you can have a functioning copy of CS2 in ~25MB. Google "photoshop portable".

  13. And we will call it... on The Next Leap In Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Project "Borg".

  14. Re:Microsoft going against the Apple trend? on Why Microsoft Won't Have Blu-ray on the Xbox · · Score: 1

    No, they're marketing it as the successor to CD-i

  15. Re:finally on US "Fusion Centers" For Intelligence Sharing · · Score: 1

    No. It is the bad kind of fusion.

  16. Re:Hooray! An honest nation! on India Votes Against OOXML · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is an American company and as such is subject to influence of the U.S. government.

    That's funny; I always thought it was the other way round.
  17. Re:Perfect! on Microchip Powered by Body Heat · · Score: 1

    Nah, that would ruin the temperature gradient.

  18. Re:Its a bomb on Scientists Create Room Temperature Superconductor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silane explodes with considerable violence on exposure to air
    Cool, I get to mark two things off my Star Trek checklist in a single day:

    * Room-temperature superconductors
    * Computers that explode violently
  19. Re:innumeracy on Enhancement To P2P Cuts Network Costs · · Score: 4, Funny

    On average, Pasko said that regular P2P traffic makes 5.5 hops to get its destination. Using the P4P protocol, those same files took an average of 0.89 hops.

    Less than one hop on average? Wow, they must use patented "You downloaded that three months ago, you wanker! Look on your damn file server!" technology.
  20. That explains it. on Gnome 2.22 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gnome 2.22 Released
    I was wondering where it came from.
  21. Re:And I suppose next on Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We already have. Single men and women can have sexual encounters with any other single consenting adults without fear of legal repercussion.

    The problem is that he was married, which means that he put himself into a contract stating that he would restrict his sexual activities. Now he's in violation of that contract, and in the process has put the other party at risk of developing incurable diseases.

    Don't blame the laws; he chose to marry his wife, and he chose to violate that contract even though are valid methods of terminating a marriage.

  22. Re:No free acclerated drivers yet but don't give u on Why Aren't More Linux Users Gamers? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    such as Halo II being able to be run only on Vista
    Really?
  23. Re:Video on Linux on NVIDIA Performance On Linux, Solaris, & Vista · · Score: 1

    Video is 30 fps. No faster, no slower.
    Really?
  24. Don't forget... on HD-DVD and the Early Adopter Premium · · Score: 4, Funny
  25. Re:Ah well... on Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth · · Score: 1

    But Humans are SUPERIOR!