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  1. Re:No kidding? on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you save money if you have $10 in your pocket, unfortunately, most people only have 50c available.

  2. Re:Mature industry on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, where I work, we're doing more with nothing.

  3. Re:Other candidates on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 1
    ...and prepare for another 4 years of Bush if one decides to vote third party.

    You assume that those that vote for some third party would vote for Kerry otherwise. This is incorrect.

  4. Re:Religeon on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 1
    Geez, I find myself defending religion when I'm an athiest...

    http://www.makeitclear.org/edevotional1-1.htm is a web site that talks about the science of the Bible.

    Personally, I believe that the Bible was the Encyclopedia Brittanica of it's day, the science of the time.

  5. Re:Religeon on Bush vs. Kerry on Science · · Score: 1
    The Bible is not self-consistent. The Bible makes claims that contradict observable phenomenon. The Christian faith requires people to make assumptions against available evidence. The Bible is inherently anti-science.

    Can you give some specific examples? The Bible is interpreted in a large variety of ways by Christians. Some believe that the creation was in a literal, earth time, seven days. Others believe that the seven days are just figurative. In most any case where the Bible may seem to contradict science, it can be interpreted as being figurative, or poetic.

    Personally, I'm an atheist, but I don't see religion or Christianity as standing in opposition to science.

    Wasn't Einstein Jewish? Did't he believe in God?

  6. Re:We/they may be better off alone for now on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 1

    There are Earth-like planets out there Where?

  7. Re:Could this pose problems? on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 1
    Getting into space is relatively easy. Getting back in one piece as opposed to flaming chunks or worse, glowing vapor is much more difficult.

    How is "glowing vapor" worse than "flaming chunks"?

    Just wondering...

  8. Re:Backwards reasoning... on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1
    it's an inalienable right to pursue happiness. driving hurts no-one and doesnt infringe upon the rights of others. Therefore driving is a RIGHT.

    That argument could be made in the commission of most any crime.

    I don't know current statistics, but in the U.S., aren't about 20,000 people killed each year in automobile accidents?

    Driving is a privilege granted to you, not a right.

  9. Re:Only 8 hours? on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The self-destructing disks only start degrading...

    Gee, I usually watch the movie one day, and the "special" features on the DVD a day or two later.

    No problem, I'll just rip a copy -- of course I've never done that before, but this will motivate me to start.

  10. Re:Absolutely Stupid! on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    It would be interesting to see if they had a return policy and the DVD could be reused or recycled. Like a return on a coke bottle or something But the whole point of using this type of DVD is that it doesn't need to be returned. I suppose that you could return it at your leisure rather than by a set date and time though.

  11. Re:My issues with this... on FTC Porn Spam Regulation Now in Effect · · Score: 1


    Other than the imaginary sort, slashdoters don't have girl friends...

  12. Re:Need we say it? on FTC Porn Spam Regulation Now in Effect · · Score: 1


    Apparently penis enlargement advertisements aren't considered "porn spam". I was looking at my filtered spam messages.

  13. Re:Also on CNET... No NYT Registration on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 1

    I think what they are trying to do doesn't stop you from knowing what files are yours and what files belong to someone else. We already share files on servers, different people have different access rights to those files. Nobody gets mixed up over what files are theirs and what files are someone elses. What MS is trying to do is make the location of the file unimportant, make it so you don't care where it is.

    MS will probably make your file browser/explorer and web page browser/explorer the same tool. Then there will be a gazillion law suits saying MS is using unfair practices to stifle competition and are putting all the browser companies out of business.

    So does anyone use a tabbed file explorer? Gee, maybe somebody could start a company that sells those.

  14. Re:Good news... on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    Yes, the current Enterprise certainly doesn't show Roddenberry's influence. Kirk would always bend the Federation rules for good moral reasons, the same goes for Picard. It seems like the Archer character will do anything to accomplish his mission, morals be damned.

    Star Trek under Gene Roddenberry was always about the story. Under Paramount it's about T&A and appealing to the unwashed 16-24 male demographic.

    Hey, I'm 45 and I'm interested in T&A -- and I wash.

  15. Re:Friday night? What are they, crazy? on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1

    We just know how Star Trek fans are all out paintin' the town red on Friday nights.

    Are you kidding? Since we're too geeky to actually talk to a girl, we always go out to the local Internet café on Friday nights in hopes that some girl might say "Hi" to us.

  16. Re:why? on UPN Renews 'Star Trek: Enterprise' · · Score: 1


    Did DS9 have a babe in a skin tight suit? That was the redeeming quality of Voyager, and it makes Enterprise more interesting. I just wish the Marines would beat up more aliens. Of course TNG had Counselor Troi in her cute one-piece, but it wasn't quite revealing enough to increase the ratings...

  17. Re:I may be ignorant, on Cisco IOS Source Code Theft Story Continues · · Score: 1


    Averil Lavigne has a song called "Skater Boi". You spelled "fan boy" as "fanboi".

  18. Re:I hate beer snobs on Keeping Your Keg Cool Sans Ice · · Score: 1

    Different people taste different -- or have different tastes -- something like that.

    My favorite beers come from Victory Brewery, in Downingtown, PA. Their beers rank among the Best Beers in the World.

  19. Re:Isn't this just the double-slit experiment? on The Home Parallel Universe Test · · Score: 2, Informative


    I don't believe that it is possible to do this specific experiment with water waves, because not all the holes can be at the water's surface, where the waves are. You could probably do a wave simulation using a computer though.

    It also seems to me that they *are* using light for this experiment, it just happens to be red laser light. I believe that this is just a complex wave interfernce pattern... but a parallel universe is far more sexy.

  20. Re:Isn't this just the double-slit experiment? on The Home Parallel Universe Test · · Score: 1


    It isn't a parallell universe, the process is forming tiny worm holes and the missing light is emerging in another part of *this* universe.

  21. I'll believe it when I meet Father Clinton. on The Home Parallel Universe Test · · Score: 1


    Parallel universe... right.

    When as a child we did similar experiments, we explained the pattern that appears as wave interference. I didn't realize that it was evidence of a parallel universe.

    Spock says: "I'm too sexy for my ears, too sexy for my ears".

  22. Re:Religion too? on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1


    No, they just want to destroy the "Great Satan".

    Death to the infidels...

  23. Re:Pray that we get more Congressmen like Rep Bouc on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1


    Rick Santorum wasn't up for re-election in 2002, he was originally elected in 1994, and re-elected in 2000. I believe the democrat running against him was Klink.

  24. Re:This is their business model! on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1

    > it should be every parents decision how to
    > discipline a child.

    Well, I kind of agree with you. But there are those parents who feel the need to discipline their children by using a lit cigarette, or a hammer.

  25. Re:This is their business model! on Two Congressmen Push for DMCA Amendments · · Score: 1


    > Like I said...I don't have children yet...but,
    > as easy going as I usually am...as an authority
    > figure, I'll put the fear of God in them too
    > for not going places, or touching certain
    > things in the house...worked for me...should
    > work for them.

    Good luck.

    My kids have their own equipment. They still scratch DVDs and CDs.

    As it turns out, my wife can't figure out how to use the various hunks of technology without the kids help.