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  1. Re:So what? on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Pakistan. Read up about the current friendly relations between India and Pakistan. Maybe the reason India is working on this is the same reason the US and Russia worked on this a few years ago. Hmmmm?

  2. Re:the equation on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Personally I think it shows the intelligence of the fellow and the causes he supports. He didn't even get the idea that the parent to his comment was sarcasm by someone who supports his same view.

  3. GE Cease and Desist on Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You have used our copyrighted slogan "We bring good things to life (T)" in your post without crediting GE Corporation (Patent Pending #12335134). This message is trademarked (C) by SCO and used through a patent (R) legally licensed through (T) copyright act (Sonny Bono always Sucked act of 1970). The rights to this (R) post will expire with the heat death (C) of the universe.

    SCO^H^H^HGeneral Electric(T)

  4. Re:Does anyone use this stuff? on Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll vouch for that.

    My father-in-law and brother-in-law both do construction and are constantly using it to get ahold of each other. My other brother-in-law runs a landscaping business and are the same way with his sons.

  5. Re:More info on Experts Recommend Keeping Hubble Operational · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know, but is landing the space shuttle with more weight a good idea?

    Sometimes the shuttle bay is filled with things when it comes down, but the hubble is quite a peice of metal. How does it compare to other things it has landed with.

    Ohyeah, IANARS (rocket scientist).

  6. Re:Dare I say it? on US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the "Atleast you were not modded insightful, yet..." at the end of the post. Next time I'll use the "</sarcasm>" so I am not misunderstood. :-)

    I also figured the remark about "most unsuccessful" military would have been would have been a hint at the sarcasm too.

    Oh-well.

  7. Re:Dare I say it? on US Military Develops P2P Wireless Network Sniffer · · Score: 1

    Nope, probably not. You know the average slashdotter is so much more intelligent than some of the best minds working for the US government. I bet they never think of any of these things that everyone here thinks up. That would explain why we have the most unsuccessful military in the world right now.

    Atleast you were not modded insightful, yet...

  8. Re:Ellison can't do it, neither can these folks on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 1

    Okey.. my bad. I just get sick of standard slashdot tune of war is bad, we should let our military people die kind of stuff...

    My point for fuel economy is that the military jets have to operate at a much higher speed and manuverability than a standard jet airliner. Hence fuel economy isn't considered as high of an issue.

  9. Re:Pretty periodic table site on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    In highschool chem myself and a couple others baked a Christmas cookie periodic table of elements. Wish I had pictures of that.

  10. Re:Welcome on Iron-eating Bug Found to Thrive in 121C Heat · · Score: 1

    Quick get Magneto (sp?) He'll put these little bugs in their place. Wouldn't that be cool to see.

  11. Re:Ellison can't do it, neither can these folks on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who cares if our pilots die, lets make sure we have the greenest planes possible. Its not like brurning a few extra gallons of gas is worth a life.

    I'm sure I'll hear how all those extra gallons of gas have lead to global warming, and how Bush is a war mongerer and al your other crap, but the point of a military aircraft is to be technologically and weapon-wise more powerful than any other aircraft.

    Just as a GPU is built to do vector floating point vector calculations fast, a military vehicle is built to outperform other folk's military vehicles. There's a reason a p4 is not sitting on your graphics card.

  12. Re:Ellison can't do it, neither can these folks on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 1

    The elves mentioned the one time you stopped by Taco Bell too. The mentioned bean burritos causes quite a noise.

  13. Re:Hold up a second... on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    While I agree with the other folks that have said that copyleft is not recognized by the law, as it is more a play on words than a true word itself.

    I do think that the intent of the GPL is plain and as such should be able to hold up in court.

  14. Re:First, on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but do you know how many cats its going to take before we have enoug random numbers?

  15. Re:Analog is the key on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, I think you would wind up using only a single bit at the least significant bit end of the value of the temp. You wouldn't use the whole value.

    This of it this way:

    Temp:
    00110101.10100111
    00110101.11000101
    001 10101.10100110
    00110101.10110101
    00110101.101010 10
    00110101.10100010
    00110101.10101101
    00110101 .10110101

    Each of the temp reading wouldn't be used, but your random values would be

    11010011

    You throw away all the extra data at the full value and only take the least significant bit as it would be the least stable of the values.

  16. Re:Bizarre sequences of random numbers on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    69

  17. Re:Standard Microsoft strategy on ATI Wins Bid For Next Xbox · · Score: 1

    I don't know about too many other folks, but ATI's linux support is not quite up to par. I run a fairly well supported linux box as far as sound and network goes, but when I try to play rtcw-enemy-territory in linux I have far too many crashes. And nwn? I have never even been able to load the game with my radeon 9000.

    I don't plan on dropping cash for an nvidia card anytime soon, but I eagerly wait for updates to the ati drivers. For kicks I load up ATI's driver page every monring, check out the driver listing for the linux card, then goto nvidia.com/linux. Hopefully it will show in their logs that someone takes linux drivers seriuosly. I've also put in comments on their drivers comments page too.

    Hopefully linux support gets better at ATI.

  18. Re:And as always.. on Robots for Air Force Protection · · Score: 1

    Same thing that happens anytime our military loses an item. If it does not get destoryed, the bad guys reverse engineer it. But the good new is that we probably have the next generation of weapon beyond that under the wings.

    The parent is about as insightful as, what happens when a bad guy gets a gun that is left over after a combat.

  19. Re:Here, let me help on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 1

    I love how there's always a moving target to chase.

    First, 20+ years ago, the world was going to end because of an impending ice age.

    Then, global warming was going to kill us all.

    Then, global warming isn't really global warming, its climate change.

    Another thing, why is it whenever a set of folks, like say the midwest of the US, uses anectdotal evidence like we had the coldest winter in 20 years last winter, it gets hushed, you need to look at overall prevailing patterns. But when there's a particularly hot summer in EU it obvious that its global warming.

    I also would love to know how these folks would explain on one day "geological time frames" and we know how things work because we've had all of "100" years to keep track of things...

    Anyways... big picture my rump.

  20. Re:Stem cell research on Playing God with Monsters · · Score: 1

    Hmmm lets look at this in a better table form, filling out the missing information:

    Americans:
    right = 79%
    wrong = 18%
    not sure = 2%

    Germans:
    right = 74%
    wrong = 16%
    not sure = 10%

    Brits:
    right = 67%
    wrong = 19%
    not sure = 14%

    Not I think a better heading than "One in every five Americans holds the Ptolemaic view" would have been:

    1. Brits are most willing to admits they don't know
    2. Germans and Brit education systems are both worse than American
    3. I'm a idiot who doesn't read my own evidence.

    Getting the answer wrong and not being sure are the same thing. A lack of knowledge.

  21. Re:Stem cell research on Playing God with Monsters · · Score: 1

    Don't the EUians hate "frankenfood", or is that just political?

  22. Re:Winning on Supercomputers To Move To Specialization? · · Score: 1

    People see themselves as "winning", often when they trample on others. This is because of a mis-identification. People identify with THEIR OWN community, nationality, religion and other personal bias. Instead, if you identify with yourself being a human- or spiritual being, you will see that there are only other human beings around you. Not muslims, not christians, not japanese, not even lawyers.

    He says first...

    It's all because of misidentification and ignorance. Especially in America, where people believe "USA is the world". Humility can be a hard lesson, one that is due for a long time "Over There".

    You're an anti-american bigot. Deal with it. The americans are not "other human beings" to you, they are the "spoiled brats" of the world to you.

    -1, You are a hypocrit.

  23. Re:See! on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm content one 640 thousand machines... its a hell of a beowulf cluster.

  24. Re:Slimey adverts? on Nutch: An Open Source Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, to tell you the truth, I don't think advertisements are slimey all the time.

    For instance, yesterday I was interested in finding how much it might take to buy some apple tree and sugar maples. So, the advertisements were valid answers to the questions I popped into google.

    I think google's method of highlighting advertisements in are perfectly valid (and non intrusive). Its atleast much nicer than seeing banner ads on every page.

    I personally don't see what folk's here on slashdot have to complain about advertising. Unless you are going to pay to have pages indexed for searching, where do you think the tangible costs such as bandwidth, machines, and electricity to run those machines come from? There is no such thing as a free lunch, just sometimes you are lucky enough to have someone else foot the bill.

  25. Re:Free Karma? on RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund · · Score: 1

    Gosh, that is almost as easy karma as being an ingrate on slashdot who doesn't realize the benefit of corporate support behind linux by defending the core abilities from unscrupulous companies such as SCO.

    You know, just because a company benefits does not mean that they are taking your peice of the pie in life. Sometimes there is a synergy between a companies interests and your own.