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  1. Re:Can it be avoided? on Anti-Piracy Windows 7 Update Phones Home Quarterly · · Score: 1

    Back with XP and WGA you weren't allowed to access to any further updates, including critical flaw patches, until you installed WGA. I'm guessing something with WAT would be similar except it would also be a downgraded Windows 7.

  2. Scentific community uses of Linux on Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? · · Score: 1

    It might be considering how widely used Linux in the sciences. As a meteorology student I have seen how the software that both the government and academia uses are Linux-based. A prime example is the NAWIPS software package. Who knows how many other scientific advances are being done on Linux.

  3. Re:The name: VORTEX2... on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 1

    The article got it wrong; it's the "Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiement 2".

  4. Can't Wait on Largest High-Tech Tornado Chase Set To Begin · · Score: 1

    It's going to be interesting when one of my classes is canceled because my teacher has to go storm chasing for VORTEX2. So will people in my class. I'll hopefully be taking in the storm reports.

  5. Weather is good on Interesting Computer Science Jobs? · · Score: 3, Informative

    As a student meteorologist, I have come to learn that meteorology involves a LOT of computer programs, more than I had assumed. There's computer modeling of all kinds, there's the maintaining of public servers, there's the supercomputers, etc. I have 3 CS graduate friends that work for the National Weather Service's radar office in Norman. They do many things with the data, including new algorithms for better analysis and filtering. If that's the government, then realize there is also a big field in the academic and private sectors relating to weather also.

  6. Re:Einstein: Really Smart on Einstein's Theory Passes Strict New Test · · Score: 1

    Actually, I believe one of the ones he thought he got wrong is actually right (though not in the way it was originally presented): the cosmological constant. It's become a big factor in astronomy today as the universe is accelerating.

  7. The original controversy? on Wikimedia Censors Wikinews · · Score: 1

    Question, am I wrong in the fact that the whole "child pornography" problem on Wikipedia is the "Virign Killer" cover album, or was that the first thing that led to other discoveries?

  8. Only A Short Time on Digital Watermarks to Replace DRM · · Score: 1

    ...before ways around this "digital watermark" are found. It always happens. Anyone remember how long it took for HD-DVD to be cracked? Also, I have already seen a couple of good examples of possible ways already in this discussion.

  9. Re:That's great an all... on Sperm Could Power Nanobots · · Score: 1

    Actually here's an anime where sperm destroys the nanobots in Mai-Otome. Yet to see the anime but this plot point forces the Otome to remain virgins if they want to keep their powers.