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  1. Let the giants fight this one on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 1

    So....this is MS against Clear Channel then?

  2. NASA maintenance on Space Shuttles Survive Hurricane Frances · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From what I've heard the maintenance budget probably won't even cover replacing the torn off panels.

  3. My insurance company on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 4, Funny

    After a bad breakup with my car insurance company recently, they're doing the same

  4. Re:Nice, but still shortsighted on RGB to become RGBCMY · · Score: 1

    That'll be awesome to watch, especially when I get my $10,000 platinum mains cable.

    UV and IR is really silly.

  5. Re:Squeee! on Broken Angels · · Score: 1

    Interesting point now that you bring it up. I suppose it's just a reflection of how the bulk of our entertainment is "made."

    One could say that the book was being made if it referred to the printing and binding process...

  6. addicted to wire? on Broken Angels · · Score: 1

    What is "wire"? The review speaks of it at the end, but...aside from the literal meaning of it, WTF.

  7. Re:bit torrent? on The Mathematics of Futurama · · Score: 1

    Watching it on television...with commercials.

  8. How about technology in colleges on Technology In Primary Education, Boon Or Bane? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    All the professors do is prepare PowerPoint presentations, then put the students to sleep with them.

    Then they post them to the class website - why go to class at all?!?

    I want a school that bans PowerPoint, I gotta take notes with a pen, profs should have to do the same amount of writing on the blackboard.

  9. Re:I think it's also kind of a gateway drug... on iPod's Two-Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Make sure that if your battery on that PowerBook is even a little dodgy that you get it replaced before 6 months into your *ONE* year warranty. Apple refuses to replace bad batteries after that.

    Mine crapped out at 9 months and according to Apple it's a "consumable" and they want me to shell out $130 for a replacement. Fortunately there's an Apple store in my state and therefore a registered agent, time for small claims court!

  10. Hurray for fair use on MIT's New Music Sharing Network · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least with this sort of system it stands a chance against courts and the RIAA. They can prove that they have all the music legally purchased, and potentially argue that the streaming they're doing is nothing more than playing music at a party.

    If I've got a party with 150 people at it, I'm not required to pay royalties.

  11. I'm currently fighting w/ ISP to offer secured POP on Study: Wi-Fi users Still Don't Encrypt · · Score: 1

    grr...

  12. Steel is back! on Sports Technology? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've ridden aluminum, carbon fiber, titanium and steel bikes from the 70s, 80s and 90s. I most recently bought a frame built from Reynolds steel - it's light and lively. All the prior bikes were good in some respects and aluminum will remain a favorite of mine, but the latest steel is an AMAZING material when done well.

    Now is this improvement in frame design, metallurgy??

  13. I write in engineer, like my dad on Why Johnny Can't Handwrite · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I cross my 7's, my Z's. I put a slash through it if it's a zero. It's generally very neat, consistently universal. It is not however perfectly suited to graph paper like his. Mine is adapted well to legal pads, which I became a fiend of in business school. He was a mechanical engineer.

    I learned cursive but abandoned it in favor of block print. Our cursie was "Daneelean??" and very suited to being a 3rd grader, but I didn't feel it was...professional.

  14. Re:Actually, it was considered before Poe was born on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This was also suggested by French physicist Pierre Laplace at the same time. (Mitchell was a philosopher). The idea was that light being a particle would go up, and then do a sort of softball like arc back down. So while it was close in that light couldn't escape it was off in the behaviour of light.

  15. Get rid of the monitors on How Looks Your Geekroom? · · Score: 1

    I seem to be the only geek to had gotten rid of monitors via VNC. Only got one monitor for 5 computers, much less heat and I can hide the computers in the closet.

  16. Re:Tom's Hardware Did This 2 Weeks Ago on Intel "Northwood" vs. Athlon XP 2000+ · · Score: 2, Informative

    That comparison isn't at all the same. Tom's uses an Asus P4T-E, a RAMBUS board.

  17. Tell them about it! on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 1

    They have a feedback page, why don't we all just drop them a friendly note?

    http://www.msn.com/feedback.ashx