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  1. Re:Google Maps on Tracking Sex Offenders via GPS for Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wardriving would never be the same.

  2. Re:too much star wars is not healthy on Lucas Confirms Star Wars spin-off TV series · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am afraid too much star wars and it might kill the interest of it completley. Nope. Just having the show air at 7:00 CST Friday night on UPN is all that you need.

  3. Re:A properly embedded link.. sigh. on Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts · · Score: 4, Funny


    A nose cone.
    A NASA silk screen
    A photographic spot meter
    An RX3 spacesuit component.
    Apollo 8 silk screens.
    An Apollo 11 silk screen.
    An Apollo13 bus bar battery cable that had been flown in space.
    A sextant crown assembly that had been flown in space.
    An in-flight crew shirt.
    An Air Force One control panel.
    A Noun 70 Code panel, loaned to the Cosmosphere by NASA that had been flow in space. It sold for $3,400. On April 4, 2001, Ary signed a report to NASA falsely stating the panel was still in the museum's collection.
    An Apollo 12 water shut-off valve that had been flown in space.
    A rotation controller.
    A purge valve for a spacesuit.
    A film canister.


    Makes me want to go buy an airplane/auto salvage yard and Ebay off parts as "possible relics of the Soviet space program" which "may possibly" have crash landed in Bumfluck, Nebraska.

    "No, No sir, that's not a hub cap from a 1971 Duster, thats the nose to Sputnik!"

  4. Re:Conversion? on Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Still $180,000.

  5. Re:Chinese Hardware & Indian Software on China PM Wants to Rule Global Tech With India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Considering most of the current hardware is already made in China (ever look at a Dell computer and all those white stickers with MADE IN CHINA clearly printed) and so many jobs are being shipped across sees, I am surprised you even say 18 months.

  6. Re:melrose place? on Home Theatre PC Guide · · Score: 1

    If you're a Linux geek and you refuse to use anything created by evil Microsoft, then the decision is an easy one.

    No, but after reading this I have different ideas of what I want to punch.

  7. Re:Changing careers right now! on Daylight Savings Change Proposed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You: Hi, I am a profession time changer!!! Show me the money.
    Company A: We run our servers off GMT and do not observe daylight saving time.
    You: *beep,beep,beep* (cell phone) Hi, Boss, can i have my job back?
    Boss: Whaa?

  8. Re:passport? on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 0

    Like I would be worried getting back into the USA. I think the entire state of North Dakota has something like 6 posts spanning 280 miles and no fence between the countries. I am sure there are a few section line roads between Canada and the USA and if not, I can make one through some poor farmers wheat field.

    Montana, that is even worse. Between the great lakes and the Idaho/Montana border, I could drive the moon through there and probably not even be spotted.

    So tell me again how passports are going to help?

  9. Re:Mexico, Eh? on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 1

    Dude .. man .. pay attention .. hop into the Pacific and swim around. Sheez.

    So what does all this do to the International Peace Gardens? Is this now considered a military only neutral zone?

  10. Re:Fatal Virus Spreads to /. editors on First PC Virus Spreads to Humans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only day of the year when "First Post" messages are more informative then the article.

  11. Re:So is it... on Tiger Woods Signs Deal To Be Apple Spokeperson · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but 2tiger != tiger^2, that's tiger * tiger

    tiger=2?

  12. Re:Questions on Objectively Comparing Competing Search Engines? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It will cost ya.

    Google Answers

  13. Why not find out .... on Objectively Comparing Competing Search Engines? · · Score: 5, Funny
  14. Re:High-power RF interference on Build Your Own Cell tower · · Score: 1

    You didn't need "another" cordless phone. You could use an FM radio and tune into other conversations.

  15. Re:Great! on Ask Jeeves Bought for $2 billion · · Score: 1

    Actually I look for this to be the death of it. I had thought that selling Excite to @home for 6 billion was the biggest rip-off to every hit the web, but this one might take the cake.

    Here is a fun one.

    What is the fastest Pentium Processor?

    And (drum roll please) the first Web result is .....

    How Fast Is The 400MHz Pentium* II Processor?

    I'll stick with asking G instead.

  16. Re:here come the consultants! on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 1

    Thats great and all, but what about all the tighly coupled places where time_t is stored as a 32-bit signed int? Database, network communications, etc. Of course we can just hope and pray that none of that exists in 33 years. Just like the Y2K bug was to affect 30 year old systems, the same will happen to UNIX. How many years have we been storing time_t as a 32-bit number?

  17. Re:Golly, I WONDER where they got that idea! on Pentium M Goes SFF · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well .. the base Mini Mac is $499 and still needs memory, hard drive, etc also if you want to run OSX with any amount of performance.

    But your right, its nothing more then a "narrow" shuttle .. and it does look like a toaster.

  18. Wow .. on LinuxPPC64 Contest · · Score: 3, Funny

    looks like mods woke up in the wrong week/year today. Guess they are a little caught up in there current poll.

  19. Re:Payment is the problem on The Fate of The Free Newspaper · · Score: 2, Funny

    It kills trees.
    It has been many years since any newspapers were made from "trees". It costs way to much to much produce.

    Newspapers of today are made from herbaceous plants.

  20. Re:So buy more expensive fans? on Building a Silent, Air-Cooled System · · Score: 2, Informative

    So true. To sum up the article "Some fans are quieter then others."

    There are so many things that it did not cover like slow moving 120mm fans move way more air then high rpm 80mm fans. How about using cases with minimal vents located only where air is needed to be took in or pushed out of the system. Cutting away with a pair of tin snips or a Dremel those "molded" fan guards and replacing them with super thin wire fan guards.

    Not a lot of content in this article.

  21. Re:Was Apple Right? on Is Blogging Journalism? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I as the blogger don't have any responsability to protect your NDA.

    You are correct, and Apple suit is not against these three places for damages. Rather Apple is seeking out the information of who leaked the new line up of iProducts.

  22. Re:Was Apple Right? on Is Blogging Journalism? · · Score: 1

    so having extra time to figure out how to copy Apple could result in a nice chunk of sales

    Lets see here. Take laptop, rip off monitor, tear out keyboard, remove the battery, cut it in half, and fold. Any questions?

    That took all of 10 seconds.

  23. Re:If Rutan had NASA's budget on Astronauts Face Bleak Odds For Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you beat me to it.

    FYI. NASA's proposed 2006 Budget Request is just $18 Billion and change.

    But in defense of NASA, only $10.3 Billion is to be spent on exploration and operations.

  24. Re:Bad news for Apple on Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case · · Score: 1

    I don't think SCO was suings its customers (trying to exploit non-SCO buying Linux users) and/or fans (I dont think SCO ever had fans)

    But I do understand what you were trying to state. Lawsuits like this only lead to bad PR.

  25. Re:Bad news for Apple on Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't think so. Apple has actually won a case.