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  1. Re:Pyramid? on Robotic Nanotech Swarms on Mars... in 2034 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check your facts. A pyramid can have any polygon for a base. The Egyptian pyramids (among others) happen to have square bases.

  2. Wallpaper on Inkjet Printer Prints out Human Skin · · Score: 1

    Sweet! Now I know how they got that kick-ass wallpaper in Doom...

  3. Privacy? on Senate May Rush Copyright Legislation · · Score: 1

    Could being forced not to skip objectionable commercial content be viewed as a violation of privacy or decency (the right not to be exposed to that which we do not want to endure)?

  4. Seriously? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    A computer company which has admitted to using litigation as a last-ditch attempt to avoid bankruptcy, taking on the AUTO INDUSTRY? About the only thing worse would be taking on the oil industry itself. Does anyone else think that SCO is going to be slaughtered, not because their claim is invalid, but also because they're failing company taking on a huge juggernaut?

  5. Re:Question.... on Yarkovsky Effect On Asteroid Detected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My guess would be no, because the Earth's atmosphere would absorb the thrust. The particles would push directly on the mass of the asteroids, however, since very few have any atmosphere to speak of.

  6. But consider the checks & balances on Gerrymandering by Computer · · Score: 1

    Redistricting, especially that to give one party an advantage, is always subject to judicial review. This kind of stuff is old hat. Safe seats are a reality in most States anyway, and every once in a while a party gets frisky and tries to redistrict to their distinct advantage. The courts get involved, regulate the redistricting, and things seem to work out.

  7. Re:Anyone got a space laser cheap? on SpaceDev Auctioning Microsatellite Mission On Ebay · · Score: 1

    Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to witness the awesome lethality of the Alan Parsons Project.

  8. Re:New problem? Old problem? on Penguins Stuck In Infinite Loop · · Score: 1

    Who would wanna migrate TO Ohio?

  9. Close shave on Chicken Run · · Score: 1

    Anyone else thinking of the combination sheep vacuum/shearer from Wallace & Gromit? In goes a chicken, out comes a chicken wandering around with its appendages sticking out of a down pillow...

  10. Re:slashdotting monkeys on Six Monkeys And An Old Saw · · Score: 1

    Some "smelling" or some "spelling"?

  11. Re:Why bother? on RC5-72 Clients Available on distributed.net · · Score: 1

    WTF is a golomb ruler?

  12. Sounds like a ground loop on Reducing Intereference in Your Speakers? · · Score: 1

    I've worked with sound reinforcement for a while, and a few times we just pick up radio on things. It's usually a grounding problem with a guitar or keyboard. Solution? Defeat the ground. For us, we flip a switch on a little blue box. For you, it'll probably look like a ground cheater (those little thingies that have three holes in but only two prongs out). If you only have a two-pronged cord, then you might consider getting the "inverse" ground cheater (two holes in, three prongs out, and a little tab on the two-hole side) and ground the case of the stereo (or since it's probably a plastic case, run a wire from under a screw on the back to the little tab).

  13. Re:Rest of The EM spectrum on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    We already get electricity from the radio region of the spectrum. Radio waves fly by and move electrons in an antenna and attached wire. The wire leads into an amplifier and a few nifty transistors, and voila, you have Car Talk with Click & Clack (NPR) telling you how to fix that busted alternator.

  14. Some details for the curious on Swap Performance in Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1) I can't seem to get on the CCL list. I couldn't find automated instructions and when I sent an e-mail to chemistry-request, nothing
    happened.

    2) We're already nice-ing things up the yin yang and using the 2.4.18 kernel with pre-empt patch with no noticeable results.

    3) The machines must stay useable as they are also analysis and server machines in addition to computational boxes.

    4) Machines are dual P3 1400s. Unfortunately, disks are EIDE and RAM is 256MB in the process of being upped to a gig. However, this doesn't change the fact that we'll be running some calculations that will use all of that.

    4) We're not so anxious to buy 4GB of RAM for each machine until we're sure what kind of Beowulf cluster we're constructing and hence how much of our money goes to it.

  15. Re:can you "nice" the applications? on Swap Performance in Linux · · Score: 1

    Done already. Running the apps at +5 or even +10 doesn't seem to do much. I even risked my cajones and nice'd kswapd and bdflush, which did nothing.

  16. Re:OT: Winelib on Wine Works Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1

    winelib is produced by compiling the WINE source code. You get the winelib and the WINE emulator, which is (simplistically) a loader linked against winelib. You can either use Windows native binaries run by the loader, or Windows native source linked against winelib (activated by "#include " in source and -lwine on the cc comand line) to get a Windows app working. The former doesn't require source; the latter yields a native *nix executable.

  17. Address Space Separation on Wine Works Towards 1.0 · · Score: 1
    Did anyone else notice this? Apparently this author for Wine Weekly News has a wry and cleverly opportunistic sense of humor:
    "This weekend, Alexandre revealed that we are finally ready to make this a reality, and he is planning to commit the changes that will activate the A.S.S. The Wine 20000526 snapshot will be the last without it, and you are advised to keep it around just in case."
  18. Irony... on DOJ Allegedly Reaches Consenus on Breaking up MS UPDATED · · Score: 1

    Forgive me for not reading every article on the list, but did anyone else notice that the report on the DOJ response to the rumors was linked to a MSNBC article?