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  1. Re:Smells Hammy on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To be honest I'm fine with pork. Pork gets spent locally. From an economic standpoint I think every dollar the military spends on pork is probably a dollar that isn't getting blown up in a foreign country or payed to some sort of foreign contractor.

  2. Re:Good Grief on Canadian ISP Hijacking DNS Lookup Errors · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To be honest I still think this thing is a bomb waiting to go off when it comes to anything outside the TLD's. In my mind if someone does this for say badmachine.slashdot.org they are pretty much guilty of criminal trespass, trademark violation, and/or fraud. Within the TLD space say www.badurltest.org where the typo isn't already someone else's claimed property they can pretty much do whatever they want, or whatever we let them.

  3. Re:Free... Really? on A DIYer's Quick Guide To Cheap Wireless Extension · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen an ambulance bill? Heck, I'm used to the police handing out tickets to snow-bound motorists for dangerous driving. No-ones that altruistic anymore.

  4. Re:Sorry, read it again! on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I doubt he cleanroom developed this thing. As such in order to develop the bot it was probably necessary to copy it into ram for a purpose other than playing the game. Several times in fact.

  5. Re:Toasty. on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No-one's successfully conveyed to them yet that the Kyoto Treaty means they have to either give up their Lear jets and Mercedes or get to like Nuclear power.

  6. Re:Toasty. on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 1

    As are the police.

  7. Re:Of course it's not dead ... on Ulysses Spacecraft Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    You stunned 'im!

  8. Re:Oh, Is It That Time Again? on Researchers Improve Solar Cell Performance · · Score: 1

    This one at least sounds easy to implement.

  9. Re:If this is'nt skynet.... on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 1

    Actually given that they took pains to make the system so it could use either an 8-bit or a 32-bit micro at random suggests that Freescale was footing the bill as a publicity stunt the whole time. I see no other reason for it.

  10. Re:It flew under the radar on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    If they're on dialup they do! I think I may have picked up my first Mandrake 6 set from Best Buy or at least CompUSA.

  11. Re:What the hell is Larrabee? on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 1

    That said, this is large by Wyoming standards. There are probably larger housing developments.

  12. Re:Seriously - the box on New Pictures of White Knight Two and SpaceshipTwo · · Score: 1

    Actually that would be kinda cool. How do I get an invite?

  13. Re:Apple on Apple Laptop Upgrades Costing 200% More Than Dells · · Score: 1

    Isn't it illegal to insist that an item cannot be serviced by unauthorized persons without voiding warranty.

  14. Re:Short answer: no on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 1

    Wise decisions can be short term mistakes.

  15. Re:Sorry, but on Fresh Air For Windows? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, we're claiming Windows ME was released after the merge. That's why it sucked so much is because it didn't use any of the NT codebase because MS decided 2k wasn't friendly enough.

  16. Re:AT&T/Bell Labs: the rest of the story on 40 Years After Carterphone Ended AT&T Equipment Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Without Unix bumping around like that in the early days I'm not sure there ever would have been a free software movement. or at least that's how the story seems to read when Stallman tells it.

  17. Re:Dupe! Was previously posted as WRT54GL! ;-p on Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because they are all based upon the same reference platform. What? You thought linksys actually had electrical engineers? Silly person.

  18. Re:Update the interface already! on What Happened To Palm? · · Score: 3, Informative

    It IS the same stuff they were selling in 2002-2003. Or at least it's near identical to the T5 from 2004. The T|X has been around close to 3 years at this point with no changes, and as far as I can tell it has had only minimal support sense. Palm hasn't so much as even patched in new bluetooth phone profiles!

  19. Re:What do you get with knighthood? on Stephen Hawking Turned Down Knighthood · · Score: 1

    As far as I know there are certain resources that can only be accessed by knighted individuals. If I remember correctly my grandfather needed to be knighted in order to research one of his history books. A few months ago I would have called him up to clarify but he passed away.

  20. Re:Screw water on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    And if we could do raw matter-to-energy conversions like that it would make fusion power look like an early steam engine.

  21. Re:WTF is Eris? on IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids" · · Score: 1

    "You forget Peter I was there for an kuiper-belt, unexplained massive planet migration." "Ray, the planet migrated about a foot and a half."

  22. Re:Finally.. on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    Chainsaws aren't very sharp in the traditional sense, they abrade as much as they cut.

  23. Re:BSA on Boy Scouts Ask Open Source Community For Help · · Score: 1

    To be honest if someone really wanted a religion-flavored form of scouting there's always the CRC's Calvinist Cadet Corps. Heck, even AWANAs just recently stopped looking scoutlike. I don't think religion is a necessity for the BSA and the kids I know who did go for it, weren't necessarily what I'd call strong Christians anyway.

  24. Re:Finally.. on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That said any fabric under tension is going to have a tendency to rapid failure as it is cut. A scratch on metal is a minor cosmetic flaw, a cut in stretched fabric is a gaping wound. And I don't think I've ever encountered ANY fabric that can't be cut with a sharp enough knife, if there was such a thing it would be unworkable.

  25. Not even new. on HP Introduces First-Ever 30-bit, 1 Billion Color Display · · Score: 1

    Others have been making 10-bit LCD's for years now. They've just been obscenely expensive and mostly sold to photographers.