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  1. Re:Um.... on Federal Contractors Are $600 Screwdrivers · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) Ampco Non-Sparking Safety Hammer from Amazon: $56.99
    2) Bill $500 to the Feds
    3) Profit

  2. Re:duh on US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus · · Score: 2

    1. Bid for large military project
    2. Use Windows as the primary platform.
    3. Everyone Profits!

  3. Black holes contain entropy? on Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain why black holes contain the majority of the entropy in the universe? Singularities would not seem to contain so much randomness. thx.

  4. Re:More minerals? on StarCraft II Delayed Until 2010 · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome more overlords, you insensitive clod!

  5. Re:Community college? on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 1

    You would send your 11yrold away to college?

    The community college was was probably within driving distance which makes it about the same as going to high school. The child hasnt even started puberty yet.

  6. multiple captchas on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    How effective are spammer bots at deciphering captchas? If they are only 20% effective then why not have 5 pictures to solve. 0.2 * 0.2 * 0.2 * 0.2 * 0.2 = 0.032% which might be small enough to minimize the problem.

  7. Re:Good grief... on Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction · · Score: 1

    Thats not a simple question.. I believe it comes from the potential energy "stored" in the magnet. Magnets can become demagnetized because of this. Likewise when you pull the steel ball away, you put some of that potential energy back into the magnet.

  8. Re:Still low limit on Calc rows? on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    A 1 mhz adc will take how long to fill up your spreadsheet with data? How about something more modern, 100mhz, 1ghz? The problem is these narrow minded programmers think people only want to use a spreadsheet to reconcile their checkbooks.

    Who has a computer with less than 2gb these days? 64k rows.. what a joke.

  9. Is it still designed for 1990's hardware? on OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Or can I finally open a spreadsheet with more than 256 columns or more than 65535 rows?

    640k is enough for anyone right?

  10. Re:How are these elements formed? on First Superheavy Element Found In Nature · · Score: 1

    If the half-life is 100 million years, the earth is ~4.5 billion years old, and lets say this unbibium came from a supernova 6 billion years ago. Then the amount of unbibium remaining from the supernova is 1/2^60 and the amount remaining from the original earth deposit is 1/2^45. Pretty tiny, but still plenty around to be detected. If my math is any good, I think the exact number would be 17 billion atoms remaining per mole of unbibium deposited on the earth.

  11. Re:Hawking Radiation on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 1

    It is the magnetic field of the black hole that powers the jets or is it the magnetic field of the orbiting accretion disk? If it was the magnetic field of the black hole, it is curious how it is able to escape the infinitely curved space of the black hole in order to do tremendous work powering these jets. This would indicate that black holes must radiate tons of energy, which I dont think is true.

  12. Re:Same result on EU Plans to Require Biometrics for Visitors · · Score: 1

    Its not significantly different for Americans trying to re-enter the US. Though admittedly not as painful, we get to wait in endless lines and get harassed as well.

  13. Re:How do you Know and REMOVE them? on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    Why should it be visible to administrator on windows? Theyve replaced your copy of winxp with their copy.. You are NOT running Microsoft Windows XP anymore. You should probably reformat.

    I dont know how to diagnose windows boxes very well, but I would first look to see if you can get the real taskmanager running. Forget whats on that computer, and try to find taskmanager on your computer. Then copy it over to your wife's computer as a different name. See if you can get that to run. Im not sure at all if that will work, but I do know there are other third party taskmanagers out there that are supposed to be good. Try searching for taskmanager in Slashdot and you may find someone talking about a good replacement. This only works if youre lucky though, they may have hidden the process completely via some driver/kernel hack.

    Once you find the process, search the registry for it and delete everything associated with it. Be careful, as the virus's name may be the same as an essential system component, and youll end up hosing your computer. Regedit probably wont work here either, youll need to get a fresh copy. Dont name it regedit, since the virus is probably watching for that process to start.

    Worst of all, they have probably hidden the virus's directory from you. So youll need to replace explorer since its also corrupted. Maybe even the nt kernel is corrupted, and perhaps there are some phantom device drivers which are really part of the virus, so just forget it and reformat and reinstall.

  14. Re:... or on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    two different / directories? I dont think you know linux very well. Running two different distributions on the same hd is trivial. Use fdisk to create a second partition and install the second distribution on that. Then modify your lilo or grub or nt bootloader to select between the two kernels. In each distribution, add a line to its fstab to mount the others partition at /mnt/the_other_linux or whatever.

  15. Seriously, which engine? on 3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    Quake 3 for real? a bit dated there.. they should probably consider a re-write.

  16. Certainly dont want to make the same mistake on 3D Realms Won't Rush Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    as Daikatana, and release it too hastily. You cant cut corners on quality assurance standards.

  17. Nintendo's new English marketing campaign on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    In English, wii is most likely to be pronounced like wee. The definition of which is:
    1) small,
    2) the sound, associated with infants, made when having fun
    3) the need to use the toilet, also associated with infants.

    Therefore I suggest this new marketing slogan:

    Nintendo Wii: Small infants having fun urinating!!

  18. Re:Nothing new here. Move along. on IBM's High Performance File System · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was working on this 5 years ago, and Im sure its been around much longer than that.

  19. Re:And we're sure... on NASA Detects Nearby Mystery Explosion · · Score: 1

    That would be classified.

  20. No Russian missile could possibly defeat.. on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 1

    .. an American built missile defense shield that has already met or exceeded its mission goals of being a political tool and vast pork barrel for military contractors. Youre fooling yourself if you think it was ever meant to shoot anything down. Its simply a tool for leveraging against North Korea and for providing defense industry jobs back home.

  21. Re:Austin on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 1

    amen. it is pretty damn ugly. Although maybe we dont need any more construction downtown right now.. We've got enuf as it is. But Intel getting a break on their property taxes pisses me off when I look at what I have to pay to make up the difference.

  22. Re:SCO Stock is up! on IBM Files for Partial Summary Judgement vs SCO · · Score: 1

    Yes, no new shorting under $5. But current shorts, like me, are not affected. Ill wait till this stock is literally pennies.

  23. Re:So Many Things wrong with this Picture on SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    And I'd be out of a job too, so lets not go there.

  24. Re:What about triple DES on NIST Proposes Abandoning DES · · Score: 1

    Does AES really have 128 complexity? Without knowing, I would assume that it like DES and uses parity bits. 3DES has 128 bit keys, but uses 16 of them for parity.

  25. 2 key system on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    We use a two key system for our backdoors. If the user needs a support engineer to log in and undo the damage, they have to create the account themselves. Only then do we have access to the backdoor. Once we're done, the user can delete the account.