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  1. Re:Say "NO" to Bloatware on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 1

    You forgot Windows XP TabletPC edition

  2. Re:Cut to the chase - $3.4 million on How to Become A Real-World Superhero · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow you can pull off an alter ego as a billionaire by barely spending a million dollars? I guess Wayne manor is just cardboard, duct tape and a coat of paint.

  3. Enlargement? on Bigger Brains Make Smarter People Study Says · · Score: 2, Funny

    How long until we have H3B4L CR4N1UM 3NL4RG3M3NT spam?

    However, it would actually might be useful. If you buy it, you are dumb and when you stop buying it, your intelligence has obviously increased.

  4. Re:"Open" Power? on IBM Promoting POWER Systems · · Score: 1

    My bad, I assumed that the price ranges would be Desktop < Workstation < Server. There are no desktops that you can get Linux on, so I went with the Performance 2D Workstation, which it turns out costs *more* than the High-Advanced 3D Workstation and over twice as much as their cheapest server.

  5. Re:"Open" Power? on IBM Promoting POWER Systems · · Score: 1
    You can buy power from... IBM. And it's not cheap.


    Yeha it's not cheap in the same way that Adolph Hitler was not a nice guy. (Yeah I watched The Daily Show last night and I'm *still* going making a Hitler comparison).

    Their low end machine is on sale for a mere $8,881.55
  6. Re:Shark Repellent on How the Batsuit Works · · Score: 1
    This very moment shows that about anything can be found on Batmans belt, anything that will get him out of trouble after the commercial break or at the beginning of the second part of a two part episode.


    Then why exactly did he have to ask Robin to pass down the spray that was in the batcopter old chum?
  7. Re:How does this compare to... on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 1
    Well 50,000 hours comes to almost 60 years of continuos operation, the usual advertising on an energy saving bulb is "10 years of normal use" so I would say that we could say that these bulbs offer 6 times more life than an energy saving bulb and are comparable on light/energy stats.


    Check your math

    50,0000 hours / 24 hours per day
    2,083.33 days / 365 days in a year
    5.7078 years

    That's almost 6, not 60 years.
  8. Re:Is there a way to save a disk ? on Coating Promises Scratch-Proof CDs, DVDs, LCDs · · Score: 1

    Ummm Brasso contains Stoddard solvent, one of Stoddard solvent's other uses is as a paint thinner. It might not be the best thing to put on the label side.

  9. Re:What's the 411 on VOIP? on VoIP Price War Declared · · Score: 1
    Access to local 911?

    Nope. But a gun is faster way of handling most emergencies.


    Yep.

    "Quick, call 911 Grandma's having a heart attack"

    *BANG*

    "Not anymore"
  10. Re:speculation on applications? on A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated · · Score: 1

    If your temperature is betten 45 and 75 degrees celsius (113 and 167 degrees fahrenheit), you wont need a one time thermometer to confirm you have a fever.

  11. Re:Prior art disclosure obligations and Benny on Toyota Patents Winking, Laughing, Crying Car · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, Speed Buggy predates Benny by 15 years.

  12. Re:MOD UP!! on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    And which version would be free? I just tried the coupon code on all of them (as well as trying linspire as the coupon code) and it didn't work.

  13. Re:MOD UP!! on Gnome 2.6 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    You mean like this? http://info.linspire.com/lindowslive/p2p.html

  14. Re:Spam not a problem if forwarding also included on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    P.S. I use no spam filters with this configuration, it just isn't needed.

  15. Spam not a problem if forwarding also included on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I recently switched to using e-mail from my registar/hosting company, they included one free address and I paid for an additional 5 mailboxes.

    I set up an account for myself and my wife, and used the free account for a spam bucket. My account is set up as a catch-all. Whenever I sign up for something I use and address in the form slashdot.org@<mydomain>.com so if it does start getting spam I know who sold my e-mail address.

    If any spam comes in being caught by the catch-all I set up a forwarder to my spam account. For example dns@<mydomain>.com gets forwarded to spam@<mydomain>.com I then just set up my e-mail client to dump anything that comes in via the spam account directly into the trash.

    To date I have received spam on three addresses that didn't really exist (dns@, sales@ and info@), but overall it works very well.

  16. Re:Compatibility Woes? on WinXP SP2 Sacrifices Compatibility for Security · · Score: 1
    if it didn't start any services by default
    Try launching Linux with NOTHING RUNNING and see how productive you are. No cron, no logs, no fucking getty or login. Some services are necessary. Some of Microsoft's need to be fixed. Very few truly need to be disabled.
    Lets qualify the OP's statement a little further to make (what I believe) was his intent a little more clear. if it didn't start any listener's by default, other than those connected to only by localhost
  17. Re:What about laptops? on Fiber To The Dorm Room · · Score: 1
    RTFP (yeah the post you don't even have to read the article)
    All students have access to over 16,000 fiber ports throughout the university plus 802.11g campus-wide
    Why would you want to tie yourself down with wires if you have free access to 802.11g everywhere?
  18. Re:*YOU* don't know?!?!? on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 1

    so then what do you call what we call deep frying (submerging food in hot oil) really deep frying?

  19. Re:Mozilla meets Gnome. on Mozilla Foundation Meets The GNOME Foundation · · Score: 1

    No, Redmond. (Hopefully)

  20. Re:Oh, I dunno... on Clear Channel Plans To Roll Out Digital Billboards · · Score: 1

    All the time if they have head phones, any time they're at a friends house, when they're at school, need I go on? If you can't do do indecent acts in public, why should you be able to broadcast indecency to the public?

  21. Re:Dare I ask on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1
    The brown note is the note that causes bowels to release.
    You obviously didn't bother to check out the reference I was using for it.
    Cartman: [with recorder] Okay, how about this one, Kenny? [plays an A note]

    Kenny: (Uh-uh.)

    Cartman: No? How about this? [plays a G note]

    Kenny: (Nope.)

    Cartman: Hm, interesting. Let's see: how about this? [plays a Gb note. Kyle and Stan turn around on their seat]

    Kyle: Cartman, what the hell are you doing?

    Cartman: We're trying to find the brown noise--it's this one pitch, this certain frequency that makes people lose bowel control.

    Stan: What's "lose bowel control?"

    Cartman: That's a scientific term for crapping your pants.

    Kyle: Oh, brother, here we go again. Cartman, there is not a sound frequency that makes people crap their pants!

    Cartman: Yes there is! The French experimented with it in World War II!

    Kyle: Nuh-uh!

    Cartman: How about this one, Kenny? [plays an F note]

    Kenny: (Nuh-uh.)

    Kyle: There is no brown noise, fat boy!

    Cartman: That's nice. When I find it I'll just make you crap yourself so you look like Karen Carpenter.
    The entire thing regardless of if you call it the brown note or the brown noise is an urban legend. Not turn in your geek button for not picking up on a South Park reference correctly.
  22. Re:Ricky Skaggs through a subwoofer? on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm using the wrong term. I'm referring to the fact that the highest frequency you would pass to a subwoofer is lower than the lowest frequency a mandolin can produce.

    If your subwoofer is set to reproduce sounds in the frequency range of 30-120Hz and the lowest note of the mandolin is 196Hz, the sound of the mandolin will never go through the sub. Although technically there are some subs that will go to 200Hz available from www.crutchfield.com, even those would only be used for one note playable on the mandolin (G3, the next note is G#3 at 207.65Hz)

  23. Ricky Skaggs through a subwoofer? on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 0

    Anyone else find their choice of demo material that's on the screen a bit odd? The only instrument visible is a mandolin, the lowest note of which is 196Hz, cut-off for sub-woofers is generally in the 120-150HZ range.

  24. Re:Dare I ask on Giant Sub-Woofer · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the first thing do you do with a subwolfer that size? Why play the brown noise (that certain frequency that causes someone to lose bowel control and crap their pants) of course.

  25. Re:The answer is - A circle! on Bicycle Riding on Square Wheels · · Score: 1
    The question at the bottom that states they don't have a wheel the same shape as the surface, I tend to disagree, wouldn't a common circular wheel, while going over a steep hill both be circular shapes? What about tank tracks? They are both flat? A flat wheel and a flat surface = the same!
    Actually the tank track is the surface the wheels of the tank travel upon. The track is flat (at the point where the wheel is moving the tank over them) and the wheels are round.