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  1. Would have been great if they had included probes on Worlds Largest Scale Model Solar System? · · Score: 1

    At a scale of 1:15,000,000 prove they didn't.

  2. Make Bill G. rich(er) on Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV · · Score: 1

    Surely I am not the only one to remember that Gates has a private company through which he started buying up the digital rights to the world's great art, years ago?

  3. Re:switching and 600kbit+ upstream broadband on Speakeasy Welcomes WiFi network sharing · · Score: 1

    Here is the comparison url. Click on selections to drop them on top of the array in the lower half. http://www.speakeasy.net/main.php?page=res_dslcomp are

  4. Re:It's ok... on Newton's "Principia" stolen · · Score: 1

    Well, he did say that if he had seen far, it was because he had stood on the shoulders of giants.

  5. Software doesn't ... on House To Hold Hearing On Napster · · Score: 1

    Software doesn't "pirate" files, people do. When file exchange software is outlawed, only outlaws will have file exchange software. (And isn't that mostly what the internet is? Like, banner ads.

  6. Good value? on Senior Navy Official Slams Microsoft · · Score: 0

    As a US Federal computer specialist person and a fellow taxpayer with most of the readers here, maybe I am getting good value from the money I am paying this guy!

  7. Two Words! on Net Access on an American Road Trip? · · Score: 1

    Public libraries.

  8. Weapon Shops of Isher and U.S. Second Amendment on A.E. Van Vogt, 1912-2000 · · Score: 1

    I am the only person I know to have noted the correspondence between purpose and, at best, effect of the weapon shops of Isher, serving as an ultimate limit on the power of the state over the aggregation of the individuals. This is exactly the intent of the Second Amendment to the U.S. constitution. I am saddened at the news of his death. I would be pleased to think some who read this will introduce his books to your favorite libertarians, sci-fi fans, and social theorists.

  9. Re:microfiche! on On Data Obsolescence and Media Decay · · Score: 1

    The microfiche was not a century old. I have advocated microfiche because it would be possible to have a solar only access if nothing else.

  10. Re:Celcius or Farenheit? on UPDATED: Transmeta's Crusoe Unveiled · · Score: 1

    To run at a temperature below amibient, it would need to be an ENDOTHERMIC chip and thus register as cold because it was absorbing heat from your hand, the environment, the calibrated sensing instrument, or whatever. If it could do that you could drink your glass of tea "iced" by a wireless, multi-cpu design!

  11. Sexual receptivity on Digital Nose · · Score: 1

    I can see one running around at a party or in a bar either set up as a "pointer" (as in dog) or with indicator lights reporting the chemically based inferred sexual receptivity of the individuals present. Perhaps future miniature versions in jewelry could track the subjects and report real-time changes as time, ingestion, and company had effects!

  12. Geek extraordinair on Top Ten Geeks of the Millennium? · · Score: 2

    He turned away from suicide as a complete failure in life, making the rest of his life a conscious experiment in clear, original thinking and contribution in many fields. Agree or disagree with me but I would have to want R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller on the list. Hey, Stewart Brand, if your on /., would you agree?