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  1. Re:The ice may be a lot thicker than we thought... on Melting Europa · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, research on impact craters indicates the icy crust of Europa may be 3 or 4 Km thick.

  2. Re:Japanese on Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming? · · Score: 1

    "You have no idea how frustrating it is to learn that one word can have MANY different meanings, all based on context, and there are no hard rules as to how its used."

    Sounds like English.

  3. Cold comfort on Feds Admit Error In McDanel Security Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Little consolation, after serving 16 months in prison, to be told that the prosecution was a mistake.

    But this is a country which has hundreds of people locked up, with currently no prospect of seeing their day in court, or even a lawyer.

  4. no suprise on PHBs Getting "Secret" IT Training · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "YOU'D BE SURPRISED by what they don't know" says the trainer.

    No one who has ever worked help desk would be.

  5. Re:I kind of like SiteFinder on McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation' · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sometimes I misspell URLs and I actually *like* having a service that attempts to find the site I'm looking for.

    So set your browser to do that. Most of the popular browsers will, and you can even chose your search engine.

    No need to force that behaivior on every user of every Internet service. The Internet is not (just) the web.

  6. Re:Babelfish to the rescue! on Today's SCO News · · Score: 4, Funny

    That of Bremen Linux specialist univention _ obtained regional court before that of Bremen against the SCO Group GmbH a provisional order

    Yes, I'm certainly glad that's been cleared up.

  7. Re:Can't wait for on Ogg Now An RFC · · Score: 1

    Avian carriers bearing OGGs?

  8. *Walt* Disney? on Companies Join Together to Maintain Open Internet · · Score: 1

    *Walt* Disney supports an open Internet? Did they defrost him? ;-)

    (OK. I know it's an urban legend.)

  9. Re:You can appeal an ACQUITTAL in Norway? on "DVD-Jon" Faces Retrial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, in Norway, as in some other European countries, prosecutors can appeal a finding of innocence.

    This would not be permitted where there is protection from double jeopardy, such as afforded by the Magna Carta or the Bill of Rights.

  10. Re:Political calls are exempt? on 160,000 Join Massachusetts Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 2

    Why would political calls be exempt? It might have something to do with the fact that those who made the law are politicians.

    My state, Minnesota, also exempts political calls on its has do-not-call list. Like the one for MA, it has been extremely popular. In just three months, nearly half of the state's residential numbers have been signed up.

  11. Hmm...what's that smell? on Tornado in a Can · · Score: 1

    So this guy blends hundreds of beached jelly fish, leftover chicken parts, eggshells, and other things into a liquid, using a wind machine.

    Aren't you glad you're not his downwind neighbor?

  12. Re:yummm on How An Andromeda Strain Might be Strained · · Score: 1

    So was it a peptide cake?

  13. Re:Hm on Pipeline Mass Transit? · · Score: 1

    The passenger compartments could have an emergency hatch in the ceiling. The top of the tube above that could be made of a piercible membrane.

  14. Re:$20 floor on lawsuits on Star Wars Producer Says Box Office is Doomed · · Score: 2

    The amendment to the U.S. Constitution you are apparently refering actually gives the right to a jury trial in most federal civil lawsuits. It does not apply to cases in state courts.

  15. Re:... a reporter on Bruce Perens Canned by HP · · Score: 2

    You don't even have to create the throwaway email address you give them to register. Just make part of it a long string of random characters to make it unique.

    And if they target advertisements to me, as a highly paid clergy working in agriculture in Antarctica, I haven't noticed.

  16. It had to be said on Beware of Fake Monkey Automatons · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just imagine a beowolf cluster of 19th-century hookah-smoking shrunken monkey heads!

    I'm at the karma cap--time to troll. ;-)

  17. Re:no thanks. on Microsoft to Hire Xbox Hackers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Then try raising a family. You don't have the luxury of morals when you have children crying themselves to sleep because they are hungry. I'd stick a knife in the next person if it meant the difference between feeding my family and upholding my morals, and I don't apologize for it."

    Especially when raising children, morals are not a luxury.

    I hate preaching, so let me be plain. If you mean the last sentence about sticking a knife if that's what it takes, please don't breed.

  18. Re:As requested on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 2

    CmdrTaco asks
    Posters to write Haiku
    Slashdot has gone mad.

  19. Re:It's A Whole New Paradigm on Haiku vs Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Haiku in headers
    Message goes through filter
    Otherwise blocked.

    To license haiku
    Sender must certify
    Email is not spam.

    For an ISP
    Or individual user
    The license is free.

    Businesses and
    Bulk email senders will pay
    Habeas a fee.

    Clever idea
    But it must be in wide use
    To ever do much good.

    Is there a patent
    Pending or applied for
    On this email tool?

  20. Re:factor large primes? on Delivering an Earth-Shattering Discovery? · · Score: 2
    If you've figured out how to factor large primes in seconds, publish quickly!

    Otherwise, someone might beat you to the Ig Nobel Prize in mathematics.

  21. Re: Question! on Ricardo Montalban Recalls Khan · · Score: 1
    The real explaination?

    Bigger budget for props and make-up.

    The look of Klingons in the real universe?

    Hab SoSlI' Quch!

  22. ICANN's response on Karl Auerbach Wins Right To Inspect ICANN Records · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ICANN has posted a statement responding to the decision. In part, the statement says:
    ... Judge Janavs ruled that California law does not permit California non-profit corporations to place any restrictions or conditions on director's inspection rights, but allows only courts to place restrictions, after a demand for inspection has been refused. In this respect, the court rejected ICANN's position. ICANN respectfully disagrees and will consider whether to appeal this decision upon review of the Court's written judgment, which will be issued next week.

    Of course, if an appeal allows them to delay revealing anything interesting until Auerbach is out of office, they will have won.

  23. Re:From DARPA page: on Spy Fly · · Score: 2

    "...that was a Mac he used to upload that virus to the alien mothership..."
    Which demonstrates that no matter how advanced the network, it takes only one Mac to throw a monkeywrench into it.
    ;-)

  24. It's not just Yahoo on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This strange neologism "midireview" has crept into many serious, even scholarly websites.

    "It was the great Barbara Tuchman who pointed out the capital difficulties of writing about the Middle Ages: that medireview chronology is very hard to pin down, that contradictory facts are perpetually turning up in the sources ..." (book review).

    "The medireview/Renaissance theme must be adhered to at all times to ensure the success of our event." (Renaissance fair rules

    "Lectures on the Crusades and medireview society." (college course sylabus

    It makes one long for the Dark Ages.

  25. Re:Libel is hard to prove... on Where Are You Publishing? · · Score: 1

    The parent post is from "Libel Law in the United States" by Steven Pressman. It is most of that article, hardly changed at all.

    Is the poster Steven Pressman? Or is this plagiarism?