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  1. Public baffled... on Algorithm Names Powell 'Ideal' Vice President Candidate · · Score: 1

    as fools vie for office.
    Watch our election night coverage as we sort it out for you...

  2. It also takes time... on Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases · · Score: 1

    "It takes time to figure out how best to use metal."
    to figure out how long you can stretch out your research funding so you can keep your plush job. Usually this is accomplished by publishing just enough of your findings every few years so that it impresses the prols and convinces the patrons to keep funding you because a 'breakthrough' is RSN.

  3. For you? on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would be to run a VR simulation of you interacting with female simulacra in social situations while simultaneously running a parallel statistical model of the chances of you getting laid based on your interactions with the simulacra.

  4. The one thing that gets me... on Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    about this release is the huge bug with the network home folders not working. I mean, come on guys, is it really that hard to test something like this in a Lin/Mac/Win environment that exists in virtually all of the corporate/academic world to see if this works. Granted the javascript performance is two to three times faster than v2, but if you release it in a state where I can't deploy it because you missed a bug in some library, it's a really hard sell to the PHB if the new whiz-bang version is fuxored.

  5. Re:Let me fix that... on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    chmod 660 /usr/bin/osascript All better now. Apple fanbois can now exhale.
    Sorry. Fat-fingered that one.
    chmod 550 /usr/bin/osascript
    Now it's really all better.

  6. Let me fix that... on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    chmod 660 /usr/bin/osascript
    All better now.
    Apple fanbois can now exhale.

  7. Re:I got a bad feeling about this . . . on Pimp My Datacenter · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, CNN is to busy shoving Obama down everyone's throat to be bothered with 'nerd caves'.

  8. That's no datacenter... on Pimp My Datacenter · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a real datacenter.

  9. Re:Animals. on Porn Found On L.A. Obscenity Case Judge's Website · · Score: 1

    "I've never, ever, ever had anything like that sent to any of the 9 e-mail addresses I use for home, work, or family communication. Ever."
    You don't have enough e-mail addresses.

  10. Re:Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Screenshot on Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook · · Score: 1

    When nine hundred years old you are, speak this well you will not.

  11. What's the point on An Early Review of Roku's Netflix-Streaming Appliance · · Score: 1

    With broadband service providers like Comcast and Time-Warner preparing to impose usurious tiered pricing on users, 'All-you-can-eat' services like Netflix look like a bargain compared to something like this.

  12. We know their positions... on How Tech-Savvy Will the Next President Be? · · Score: 1

    No you don't. You know what their 'spokespeople' have paraded in front of an increasingly ignorant electorate. The money that supports these people's bids for office has no interest in changing anything. 'Buzzwords', 'soundbites', and slogans are designed to excite emotion, not to provoke thoughtful discourse to provide real world, workable solutions. Cheering crowds and crappy songs performed by some fat-assed bimbo, aren't going to change anything. Just remember all the promises that are made to reform things like the healthcare system will cost money. Who's money? Yours and mine. So if there isn't enough of it to go around, we'll all suffer with less than we have now. You will have only your own stupidity to thank for that when it comes about. Just keep that in mind when you're casting your ballot in November, if you even bother to vote.

  13. Perspective is the last thing... on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    That parents with kids in school right now may have with regards to testing.
    Most parents don't know what's going on in classrooms today, despite the best
    efforts of schools to keep them informed.

  14. Now... on goosh, the Unofficial Google Shell · · Score: 1

    All they have to do is to combine it with:

    emacs == gooemacs

    sed == goosed
    or

    vi == goovi

  15. Re:how? on Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch · · Score: 2

    The damage can occur from the exhaust gas pressure from the rocket motors
    as well as the the acoustic pressure. Also, there is a system in place that is used
    to dampen the sound levels from the launch that would otherwise damage the
    flamepit, as we see in those photos, that dumps huge quantities of water
    into the flamepit moments before the engines ignite. That quantity of water
    could, in and of itself, be partially responsible for the damage that is seen
    in the photos. Once those bricks are loosened or dislodged, they would be carried
    out of the flamepit by the force of the rocket motor exhaust gases.
    There was a study done back in 1989 that measured the SPL of the solid rocket motors
    at an amazing 196db 1000 feet from the launch pad. At some point on the db scale for SPLs
    the SPL becomes measurable in actual PSI over-pressures. That means the soundwaves themselves
    are exerting significant physical pressure on the launchpad and surrounding structures, which
    could under the right conditions, be damaged by those forces.

  16. Let's be realistic on Avalanche Effect Demonstrated In Solar Cells · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Whether they're hairy, nanotube, or amorphous, cheap, efficient solar cells are always going to be thirty years away as long as there is 'cheap' oil around.

  17. And... on Super-Sensitive Spray-On Explosive Detector · · Score: 4, Funny

    It has a fresh pine scent!

  18. Here's hoping... on How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web · · Score: 3, Interesting
  19. Re:Ether on Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter · · Score: 1

    In order for it to be considered in the astronomical sense, it's spelled æther.

  20. Re:One more reason not to fly. on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    I quit flying a couple years ago after being repeatedly hassled by TSA troglodytes.
    So you willingly gave in to the Bush administration's terror tactics?

  21. Here's how this works on Youngest Galactic Supernova Found, But No Aliens · · Score: 1

    A star 26,000 LY from Earth goes supernova and it's light could have been seen on Earth 140 years ago.
    No one on Earth 'saw' it then because it was too far away and buried in the center of the Milky Way, so there is no record of the supernova.
    Most supernovae display common characteristics in their light curve and the type of nebula they leave behind.
    Astronomers using the CXO were able to image the object, determine it's size and distance, the relative velocity of the nebula's expansion,
    and make a determination as to the 'date' the explosion occurred. Just from the remains of the explosion, the nebula.
    As a comparison, the the supernova that was responsible for the Crab Nebula was observed in 1054 AD by the Chinese.
    The Crab Nebula itself was not seen until 1731.

  22. Re:42.5% of statistics on 85% of Chinese Citizens Like Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    One in four /. readers already know this.

  23. Legality? on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard.

    Doing any of this is in violation of the EULA. Do they really believe someone who does this is going to 'buy' a copy of the OS?
    How naive.
  24. Re:Anything to do with OpenOffice? on VBA Will Return To Mac Office · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes it does. MS feels that in three or four years the Mac native version of OpenOffice may be in it's third or fourth beta and nearing first release candidate status for limited testing, so they'd like to get a jump on it.

  25. Yeah, swell... on Comparing 3G Networks · · Score: 1

    What happens if your not on this list?
    You're boned.