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  1. zip files. on Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen · · Score: 4, Funny

    To make sure they never get lost (the digital ones at lest) they should make a zip file of them and put them up on kazza.

    But for real any one know where I can get all the pics in a zip and/or a tar file.

    But that earth rise is just a great sight, and also the pic of the earth from a distance is just .... ( I don't have the words to say what I felt looking at that picture, other then small)

  2. it means on Joe Trippi Interviewed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It means that "he fired up all the troops in the democrate party, before he was stabed in the back." (this is actualy a quote from Rush)

  3. open source is not officaly a buzz word on Joe Trippi Interviewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    when a policial canidate uses it.

  4. nice on Fifteen Years of Technology Reporting · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it is nice when a company can take a pop shot at its self. You have to respect the magazine for showing some of those comments.

  5. I bet on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    I bet I do not fit into most if not any of the groups with the music I listen to, and frankly I don't care. I like Billy Joel, Elton John. But while coding the best music IMHO is They Might be Giants and Tom Petty, John Melloncamp is also good.

    What no who they are good music too.

  6. bluejacking on Proof of Concept PocketPC Virus Created · · Score: 2, Informative

    The user to my understanding still has to accept the incomming file. so just make it a polocy (like email) don't open a file unless you are expecting it. Better yet turn of bluetooth discoverbility.

  7. well then on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 3, Funny

    We can really blame canada.

  8. hum on GPS on Mars? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    now that we have 2 planets with sats, could we use that to start a solare system position system, just put a gps system around venus and Mercury we now have 4 points to work with, so we can get our 3d postion in the solar system

  9. Re:The 9/11 terrorists also used cars on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 1

    I would say it depends on the person running. Like for prez (boy am I going to flamed here) I am going to vote for bush.

    you have to look where the diffent canadates stand on the issues. not what party they are.

  10. Re:The 9/11 terrorists also used cars on USA PATRIOT Act Survives Amendment Attempt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    May I suggest you try a 3rd party canadate. And if every one that ever said, "I would vote for a 3rd part canadate, but they have no chance of winning" did vote for the 3rd party canadate they would have a chance of winning, infact from all the people I hear complain about it I think they just might win. Infact I will be doing that this year for senator. I do not like Specter ( I really wish Toomey got the nomination, but), I am going to vote the constutional party this year for senator there.

    And for the Recored I am a registered Republican.

  11. I am going to get slapped for this one but on Halloween Solar Storm Nearing Heliopause · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
    A gigantic nuclear furnace
    Where hydrogen is built into helium
    At a temperature of millions of degrees

    Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
    A place where we could live
    But here on Earth there'd be no life
    Without the light it gives

    We need its light
    We need its heat
    We need its energy
    Without the sun, without a doubt
    There'd be no you and me

    The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
    A gigantic nuclear furnace
    Where hydrogen is built into helium
    At a temperature of millions of degrees

    The sun is hot

    It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

    The sun is large

    If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

    The sun is far away

    About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.

    And even when it's out of sight
    The sun shines night and day

    The sun gives heat
    The sun gives light
    The sunlight that we see
    The sunlight comes from our own sun's
    Atomic energy

    Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.

    The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
    A gigantic nuclear furnace
    Where hydrogen is built into helium
    At a temperature of millions of degrees


    Thanks "They might be giants" that was fun
  12. Re:Title on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    or I could just remember that it is 2159mm x 2794mm

  13. Re:Title on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am refuring to constancy, metric is based on 10.
    the imerical system is based on some long dead kings foot size.

    question
    how many in's in a ft
    ft in a mile
    in in a mile
    ft in a yard
    in in a yard
    yard in a mile

    in metric it is all based on 10 you just have to move the decimal point.

  14. Re:ouch on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    don't know, but google will

  15. Re:Title on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    a) sorry to disapoint you but NASA uses metric too, infact in all sciences metric is used is is only the general population of the US that uses the other system.

    And speaking as a US citizen when well we learn and drop our current system for the metric, a much better system.

  16. Re:ouch on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Read teh artical, it says it is commented to help people understand what is going on aka think of this

    (example given in MIPS since it is the only assembler I know)


    li $24 1025 # this line loads into the register 24
    ## the port to be explorted (in this case port 1025)

    well think about this the kiddy scripter does not need to know that li is load imedate but all he needs to know is 24 is the register, do not touch, and 1025 is the port, change to a new port to try.
  17. Re:Pretty please on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 1

    Hold one, so you want to ruin someones life for a mistake (yes a big one, but still) "send a resignation to boss@yourdomain.com" if you want to be evil and make a variant, make one that will patch the system and die.

  18. ouch on Bagle/Beagle Variant Includes Source Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    that could hurt, now every kiddy scripter can get a copy of the code. how many (in reason) letters can we put at the end of the virus name to declare a new variant? watch out for Beagle.zzzzzzzzzzzzzz comming this July to an inbox near you.

  19. Re:Always right....? on Best Buy Says Customers Not Always Right · · Score: 1

    Well if it breaks in the first 90 days, the law says they have to take it back. It is known as the lemon laws, well that is how it is here in PA

  20. sounds like on China Deploys IPv9 Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    sounds like china want to just have this so they can have better control over what they can filter out of the net to keep thier population from seeing.

  21. Re:Because communication IS a good thing... on Mobile Cell Phone Towers For Disaster Relief · · Score: 1

    I would say hams are teh best bang for the buck, they work for free, and they are not dependent on a infrostructure, they can go peer to peer, so they are up and running in less time it takes the trucks to get there.

  22. Re:Turnabout is fair play on In These Games, the Points Are All Political · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well, I think it is the fact that Karry is claming to be one of the working class. And to know the problems of the working class, I don't think he can if he is rich. So I think the problem is, is that he is a hipocrite.

  23. Mac on Napster and Best Buy Joining Forces · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What about mac's, I use my mac for all my music, so I can not use their service, and I dont think that they support iPod's (or the other way around) No thanks, just like the sony one, I will not use it, infact the other day I got a code for the sony one (bigmac) that I asked if any one wanted, no one wanted it so I just trashed it. ( Of cource I do not buy sony products since they don't us SD cards and only use the stupid memory stick BS)

  24. one I like to use on Turning Up The Heat On On-Line Registration · · Score: 1

    probably used alot but
    abuse@[domain].{com,org,net}

  25. SMS on AOL To Charge for AIM Videoconferences · · Score: 1

    if aol starts to charge for IM (it will not be long before msn and yahoo try it too, monkey see monkey do) maybe SMS will finaly take off in the US.