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  1. Re:Think, don't react. on Another Plane Down in New York · · Score: 1

    My old college roomate was a victim of the WTC and i just attended a memorial service in his memory two weeks ago. To tell you the truth, when i heard this morning the words "plane crash" and "Queens", where my parents live, my heart plunged.

    Frankly i was glad for all the news reports that came flooding through every single channel - and contrary to popular opinion about the media frenzy, the sense i got from all the news reports was not to panic - rather it may have been an accident as opposed to a terrorist attack. Yes the media may live on ratings, but i did get the sense they have been attempting even-handed news feeds than the complete sensationalizing everyone claims.

  2. One thing i did differently on Shhh! Constructing A Truly Quiet Gaming PC · · Score: 1

    though i was thinking along the same lines, but really wanted a burner AND a DVD...

    so i ended up getting the Toshiba SD-R1002 4X4X24X CD-RW / 4X DVD-ROM IDE drive... all in one bay!

  3. Can you imagine on Talking Palm · · Score: 1

    how this will affect one's surfing for porn?

    will it announce out loud how little she's wearing? :)

  4. Re:Is Windows security full of holes? on Windows in 2020 · · Score: 1

    "Besides, I guess most of the Debian Security Alerts are about vulnerabilities. They might be used for breaking in, but have not necessarely been used."

    i'm sure if Debian had the widespread distribution that MS has, it would have been exploited as well..

  5. we're not silicon! on Multitasking Harmful To Productivity · · Score: 1

    all this research is made under the umbrella that we process things serially, much like a really really fast serial processor... ( ok not-so-fast for some of us ) but really the human brain is a parallel processor.
    that's why we can recognize faces from all sorts of angles. that's why walk and chew gum altogether without stumbling.
    this certainly carries over to higher cognitive processes - when we multitask, we dont 'swap out' previous task info - we really do start thinking of two things at once.

    that's not to say that if we start doing fourteen things at once that we wont BSOD :)

    just a thought.

  6. innocent bystander? on CAIDA Released Code-Red Worm Post Mortem · · Score: 1

    so he was watching as all these servers were being infected.....

    and all he did was doddle some graphs? :)

  7. how is this applied to real life problems? on The Three Hat Problem · · Score: 1


    perhaps i'm being dense but can someone detail how this affects / solves real life problems?

  8. Re:Flag me as flamebait, I don't give a fuck. on The Largest Unpiloted Legged Robot Yet · · Score: 1

    I agree with your point of view, for the most part, however *this* particular site is hosted by discovery.com

    okay, so it IS a cable channel, but they should *still* be able to handle a bit of a heavy load eh?

  9. Re:IMHO... on Yamauchi Puts the Game Industry In Its Place · · Score: 1

    damnit not **every** problem under the sun can be solved with GPL...!

  10. Re:OnTheFly Source on How Much Do Computer Virus Attacks Really Cost? · · Score: 1

    it seems that if the script is run on jan 26th, the script loads up the www.dynabyte.nl site...

  11. What happens to products like... on Copy Protection Galore · · Score: 1

    oh say tivo?

    will they be put outta business??

    will they have to pay crazy royalties to .. what the network stations? cable companies??

  12. Re:The Science Wasn't *That* Bad (spoilers) on "Red Planet": Stay Here · · Score: 1

    I don't believe 'P' is one of the bases used in DNA (CGAT), but it may be used in RNA.

    actually i think the P refers to the phosphate backbone..

  13. My wish list! on Your Holiday Present Wish List · · Score: 1

    This is one I've been eyeing for a while - a little outside the $300-$1000 range, but still in the ballpark ($1199).

    100 hours of MP3 in your dash! Empeg

  14. this is how my tax dollars are spent? on AOL May Be Forced To Open AIM · · Score: 1

    ... having the goverment dictate the success of one's product?

    What next? are they going to demand that the condom dominance by Trojan come to a halt?

  15. no way! on ReBoot Comes To DVD (3rd Season) · · Score: 1

    i LOVED that cartoon series... only show that could make me get up so early sat mornings :)

  16. Re:In-dash MP3 player? (OT) on MP3/CD Players Reviewed · · Score: 1

    OK I got tired of waiting, so i just called them and asked.
    The guy tells me the first shipment of ~1300 units arrives late August. Since there's a backorder of ~1400-1500 as of today (7/11/00) the SECOND batch arrives a month after.. so I'm looking at placing an order mid - late september.

  17. Re:Wow...20 million on China's Internet Boom · · Score: 1


    As we all know though, its quantity, not quality!