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  1. Re:but......why? on AOL Adopting Jabber (XMPP) · · Score: 1

    I guess one could say that is what the XMPP SRV records are for.

  2. Re:Meow on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    Thats why I always use "echo *" instead.

  3. Re:Answer on Will Dell Be Bad For Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    "sudo -i" is shorter, but needs a valid shell for root.

  4. Re:This is disingenuous Media spin on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    I think you are absolutely right.

  5. Re: The Future on Physicist Trying To Send a Signal Back In Time · · Score: 1

    We could only receive messages from the future using this technology as long as we are trying to detect them, since no one has done this experiment before (according to the article), no one has so far received messages from the future.

  6. Re:Google on Google or Wikipedia - Which is Your First Stop? · · Score: 1

    Are you saying your still not using tabs? (ctrl-t)

  7. This email announcement explains why... on Edgy Eft Knot 2 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Re:Smart is one thing... on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In that sense, we are not much smarter than goldfish with our ~15-45s of short-term memory.

  9. Btw, this week is... on The Question of Robot Safety · · Score: 1

    ...RoboCup2006 in Bremen, Germany

  10. Re:Hey, the right to speek freely... on UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors · · Score: 1

    "The Big Bang" is a scientific theory, not equal to science as a concept. A scientific theory is as vulnerable to faulty logic as any other theory. You could argue that "The Big Bang" theory is incomplete in describing the origin of the universe because it hits an infinite regreess but it does not make it true that all scientific theories must hit infinite regresses.

  11. Re:Eduflation? on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    Robert Graves was probably not an average student of his time.

  12. Re:Try making change... on College Students Lack Literacy · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it disappeared when everything began costing 1.99 or 2.48 instead of 2 or 2.50.

  13. Re:Oxygen is needed... on New Way to Stimulate Brain to Release Antioxidants · · Score: 1

    Actually, a radical does not have to be an ion.

    From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_(chemistry):

    "In chemistry, radicals (often refered to as free radicals) are atomic or molecular species with unpaired electrons or an otherwise open shell configuration. These unpaired electrons are usually highly reactive, so radicals are likely to take part in chemical reactions."

    Molecular oxygen is of course required for your brain to function, but oxygen radicals are not.

  14. Re:SAAB Griffen on NASA Prototype Plane Scheduled To Attempt Mach 5+ · · Score: 1

    Its actually Gripen in swedish.. and there is not a "new" and an "old" one... theres a similar looking older plane called Viggen wich is significally bigger... from what i hear viggens top speed has not been documented but is reported to be somewhere around 2.7M at high altitude... some years ago there was an incident or something involving a blackbird crossing swedish airspace, a viggen managing to keep up and a blackbird crew who were mighty impressed but unfortunatly i remember nothing about this ;)

  15. Re:Takedown on Hollywood and Hackers · · Score: 1

    Actually the movie is quite different from the book... you should see it you might be plesantly surprised.. Also even though the movie might not be true to what actually happened with mitnick or whatever it is still a movie about hackers... and definiatly the best one of the ones in the story...

  16. Takedown on Hollywood and Hackers · · Score: 2

    How come they didnt list takedown? I thought it was pretty good and one of the most realistic hacker movies ever made, atleast compared to say hackers... although hackers is one of my favorite movies :)