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  1. Re:First Glance on E-Voting Company Reveals Their Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny


    There's only one subscriber?!?!

  2. Re:How can they do this? on Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service · · Score: 1


    In this way it's not different from the privacy concerns voiced when Intel was mentioning processor ID numbers in its Pentium 3.

  3. Concave wheels on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1

    should also work on such an inverted catenary surface. Seems just a matter of getting the wheel's cusped angles to match that at the trough in the catenary. Should work for n-gons, n > 2.

  4. Re:domain name registration/information on Attorney Mike Godwin Answers 'Cyberlaw' Questions · · Score: 1


    Well, for one your home telephone company gets away with charging you to have an unlisted number. People who do need to know your number in case of emergency (police, 911) just use caller ID to sniff your number anyway.

    The alternatives cover the whole range of costs. AFAIK cell phone carriers keep subscriber numbers unlisted (for now).

  5. Re:Gravity dragging? on NASA Gravity Probe Set for Launch · · Score: 1

    wow. cool. I'm not as far behind on physics as I had thought. Thanks.

  6. Re:Gravity dragging? on NASA Gravity Probe Set for Launch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Couldn't gravitational lensing be a possible means for testing frame dragging?

    Assume frame dragging exists. If you can find a body that does the gravitationaly lensing and if that body rotates, then the light rays you see coming from the multiple lensed images might produce an interference pattern.

  7. Re:Einstein was a (gravitational) drag... on NASA Gravity Probe Set for Launch · · Score: 1

    But the subatomic world does matter to us, as we are making ultra-mega-supercolliders to probe those length scales. We are in fact "loading the dice" by forcibly sampling the "hardly going to happen" region of the distribution curve of probable events.

    Who knows what that will bring? Would even God know?

  8. Not a drum sound on Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS · · Score: 1

    it's a space station that goes ping!

  9. Re:USA Ignores Canada Yet Again on US Expands Fingerprint and Mugshot Program for Visitors · · Score: 1

    But the US already fingerprints those non US citizen passengers entering the US through Canada.

  10. nice, but i'd like on PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay · · Score: 1

    a self-cleaning oven for the hamster besmirchment.

  11. Don't need the oven on PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay · · Score: 1

    I would cook right from the hard drive. Jiffy Pop popcorn anyone?

  12. Re:Oh dear fucking god on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    Um, this one looks real.

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F A0 D10FC3F5C0C728CDDAB0894DB404482

    BUSINESS/FINANCIAL DESK | February 1, 2003, Saturday
    Pentagon and Companies In Agreement on Spectrum

    By JENNIFER 8. LEE (NYT) 581 words
    Late Edition - Final , Section C , Page 2 , Column 5

    ABSTRACT - Technology companies and Pentagon reach agreement to unlock swath of spectrum for next generation of wireless devices; companies say this would lift popularity of high-speed wireless Internet service, a bright spot in otherwise moribund industry; for military, agreement wards off emerging threat to their radar systems by setting detailed technical mechanisms to deal with interference (M)

  13. Ob humor on British Chicken-Warmed Nuke · · Score: 1

    Looks like this is one story that really laid an egg.

    (Unless of course the radiation would make the chickens sterile.)

  14. nice, but i'd really like on New Zaurus Linux PDA Available In the U.S. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    to see 802.11g and USB 2.0 standard jack. Or do those suck too much power?

    I'm surprised that the Sharp web site doesn't list this product yet. But this page spells out a few more specs.

  15. Question on Chatterbox Challenge Contest Underway · · Score: 1

    Q16. How do you feel about 108 bot server web pages being slashdotted?

  16. Re:Everyone should have their own domain name on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    One problem is when your name collides with a service, product, or other name -- you can get sued for using your own name.

    Right, Mike Crawford?
    Or, you, Mike Crawford?

  17. Works in reverse, too on The Power of Persuasion · · Score: 1

    Back in the sheltered days of college, I attended one of those informational meetings for selling encyclopedias door-to-door during the summer. In order to get offered a position, you had to show high drive, excitement, and a little naivite. I considered my actually getting an offer to be the sign that they were just scamming the newbies.

  18. Genetic modding for nutrition? on Would You Like Drugs in Your Rice? · · Score: 1

    Several months back I was browsing at well-known national bookseller and came across a book that had a section on how genetic modification could be used to splice into the rice genome a gene that encoded for beta carotine (promotes good eyesight).

    Googling for more info just now turned up this web page saying that this gene mod hasn't been submitted for gov't approval yet (as of 19 Sep 2003 anyway).

  19. Re:FIRE!!!!!!! on Methane on Mars? · · Score: 1

    Humor aside, I doubt that there is enough gaseous oxygen for combustion. The three major components are CO2, 95%; N2, 4%; H2O, 0.02%. Oxygen is mainly locked up in oxidized minerals. Supposedly.

  20. Extentions are cool on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 2, Funny

    With all the time I spend exploring all these neat extentions, my boss suggested to me that I call my browser YoureFired.

  21. Re:no way on Energiya Pushes For A 6-Person Space Capsule · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, no. Everyone knows you should use stairs in case of fire. :-)

  22. Re:Uhhh... They're Picking on the UC Regents... on SCO Aims For The Feds · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that Livermore and Los Alamos are heavily funded by the Dept. of Energy. and Dept. of Defense.

    Politics aside, do you really want to go against the DOE and DOD, Mr. SCO?

  23. Re:Last Dr. Who? on New Dr Who Actor Named · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep, 12. Before that he was able to siphon off some of the energy(?) from the Eye of Harmony in the Panoptican on Gallifrey in order to stay alive a bit longer, even in his vegetative form.

    That's Councillor Tremas you are thinking of.

    Then there's that pneumesmiton(sp?) gas stuff in that cave during Peter Davison's character. Can't recall any more than that.

    OMG! I'm a huge nerd, too. There's a pair of us!

  24. Re:Hmm, this is a tough one on Six Months Old, Eight New Organs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Losing a child is no doubt difficult. I know some women who many years after the fact still have strong emotions over miscarriages. Yet, they managed to make other babies that turned out healthy from the start.

  25. Re:No one's mentioned on UFO Streaks Through Martian sky · · Score: 1

    Really!? Hmm...seems that there are two versions of Krypton's fate. In either case there is no civilization left for superman to find. Wonder what I was thinking....