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  1. Re:Pelican cases on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    My pelican case is great. The main reason I got it was becuase when I put the laptop in the car for a trip, I was always being paranoid about what else was on top of or near it. With the pelican case I don't even think about it. My 3 yr old daugther live to jump up and down on the case too, and I don't worry about the contents.

    It IS a little on the heavy side compared to other cases, and it will only hold so much. The non-hard-shell cases expand a lot more. But the pelican holds the laptop, the charger, a couple 20-CD cases, a bunch of folders and a few other small things (cell phone, GPS, PCMCIA cards) perfectly.

    M@

  2. Re:vibration? on Heads-Up Displays for Motorcyclists · · Score: 1

    Do you get the idea here?
    1. It won't vibrate - it's attached to the helmet. The rider of a motorcycle tends to be the part that vibrates the least. The bike is what vibrates.
    2. RPMs/Gear info : This is all from the bike. The point of this device is it uses GPS to get it's info and wouldn't need any wires or connection to the bike.

    M@

  3. Easy Fix on Computer Glitch Causes Havoc and Losses on Nasdaq · · Score: 1

    Just call a do over. People learn do overs when there like 5 years old. I think I've for the FIX message ID for a do over. We call monday tuesday and everyone learns a few lessons.

  4. Re:Stone Age Medicine on Treating Cancer with Beams of Anti-Matter · · Score: 2, Informative

    How do you feel about nanotechnology? I think it's closer to your biological treatments. The nano doods would go in and bash the bad cells still, and then stick around if it comes back.

    1^2 = (-1)^2, but when you take the root you get (+/-)1, so (+/-)1 = (+/-)1

    M@

  5. Yahoo pix are good on News at a Glance · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've been watching this site for a while:
    Yahoo most popular pictures

    It's a collection of the most emailed news pictures. Usually pretty interesting stuff. from cutsey animals, to the Victoria Secret model show.

    M@

  6. Fake Credit cards are easy too on Ready or Not, Biometrics Finally in Stores · · Score: 1

    I hope we all realize that it's pretty easy to create a fake credit card too... probably easier. No, wait - I hope we don't all realize that.

    M@

  7. Yahoo Story - with picture on Search for Miss Digital World · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a yahoo version of the story - with a picture of a virtual hotty

    M@

  8. Re:Short life on More on Talking Shopping Carts · · Score: 1

    Grocery stores are setup to keep you in there as long as possible, and expose you to as much product as possible. I.e. milk in the back on one side, and beer on the other side.

    Now these carts will be programmed to lead you to the other side of the store. If they could get away with it, they'd just have everything random - not grouped at all. They walk a fine line. I hear it's a pretty tough buisness to make money in too - wicked low margin and inventory management must be done extremly well to not loose your shirt.

  9. Take a look for yourself on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like someone just added IRAQ to all of the exsiting links. It's obviously some sort of search/replace/copy function. Go look for yourself, I found this one:

    Disallow: /firstlady/recipes/iraq

    Now, how many pages would this possibly block?

    M@

  10. We Need Better Plants on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe the PLANTS should work on their efficency of converting sunlight to gasoline. How much sunlight goes to waste?

    Won't someone think of the children?

    M@

  11. Re:What about widescreens...? on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    Thanks will, that makes a lot of sense. Never would have thought of that myself.

  12. Re:What about widescreens...? on Multiple Monitors Increase Productivity · · Score: 1

    How abotu square? Why don't they just go to square (1:1 ratio) and end the confusion?

  13. Re:Kasparov is a bad choice on Man Vs Machine In Chess - Who Is Winning? · · Score: 1

    You have to choose Kasparaov. He's the best (not getting into the rating politics), and anyone else will have the HUMAN side screaming.

    Go Computer! Go Computer! Go Sox too.

  14. Patent Violation on China Plans Manned Space Flight October 15 · · Score: 1

    Can't the US patent travelling to the moon or something, or claim copy right on the entire moon?

    Oops... the Russians had a probe there first.
    OOps... China doesn't care about the USPO.

    M@

  15. Re:Interview? on Data Recovery - Put to the Test · · Score: 1

    I wish we could get a light blue backround and the "Sponsered Link" thing like google has. I don't pay for slashdot, so I can't expect them to NOT put this type of advertising into place, but it would be "nice" to know it's advertisement. I put a great deal of trust into the story selection, and this makes me question that trust.

  16. Re:Evolution on Femtosecond Lasers for Nanosurgery · · Score: 0

    You don't need the ==true in your code-sig. Chances are the pre-processor is removing it anyway so it doesn't slow your executable down, but if a big constraint is the size of your source code, you might want to drop it.

  17. Psychohistory on Socionomics: the Science of History and Social Prediction · · Score: -1, Redundant

    This is most of the topic of the _Foundation Trilogy_ by Isaac Asimov. Great reading. he called it Psychohistory though. Here's a great wikipedia on the books.

  18. Please watch this thread on Using an Old Satellite Dish as a WLAN Antenna · · Score: 0

    I extend condolances to everyone who does not have an extra dish or the intillegence to find one.

    Please post your personal success or failure to make this thread worth a click.

    M@

  19. Fundamental Problem on Astronomers Upset About Asteroid Panic · · Score: 1

    Keeping an potential asteroid hit a secret may be better for everyone, but it's not better for me.

    M@

  20. Re:Computer for the poor? on State Of The Simputer · · Score: 1

    The POINT is that this computer will enable them to better provide for themselves. Learn about farming methods, medicine, alternitive housing ideas, &c.

    It's the whole "Give a man a fish/Teach a man to fish" idea.

    M@

  21. Re:bigger questions... on Robots: The New Cure for Baldness · · Score: 1

    Isn't almost everything at this point a "vainity option" ? With today's Tom Sawyer, it's a freaking crime to DIE, so survival is pretty much taken care of.

  22. Re:ISWC 2003 on Chic Gear to Suit Net Generation · · Score: 1

    What can you wear to such an event?

  23. Nest Tables on New Breed Of Web Accelerators Actually Work · · Score: 1

    Hi, my name's M@, and I use nested tables.

  24. Search on RIAA Sues 261 Major P2P Offenders · · Score: 1

    Your search for "KazzaLite" returned 260 records.

  25. Re:Interesting. on Mystery Tiles From Around the World · · Score: 4, Informative

    The http://www.toynbee.net/ website lists addresses of all known tiles. If you can't convert an address to a co-ord you probably aren't geocaching. I'm going to find one in Boston and setup a cache.