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  1. What I want to know is... on The Incredible Shrinking Motherboard · · Score: 0

    Why the hell are the images in zip files?

  2. X-34 on Homer Hickam Speaks Out For Fission Rockets · · Score: 1

    What we need is the X-34.
    At least for the local stuff,
    much more bang for your bang
    than the current system and
    much safer the fissile material.

  3. Re:EPA violation crap on Robotic Mini-sub to Inspect NYC Water System · · Score: 1

    >So a MAN made water source is a wetlands.
    There is no such thing. We don't mine the
    sun, fuse the helium and burn the hydrogen...

    But less literally, you're still wrong:
    [http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200111/m arsh.asp ]

  4. Amazing on Server Naming Conventions? · · Score: 1

    Half the people say run with it,
    have fun with silly names. The
    others must be managers, and
    have complex substr formulas.
    For the record, and those too lazy
    too read the RFC's they pretty much
    advocate the former.

    I find foreign cities and words to be good.

    Liege, Namur, Bruxelles...
    deus...

    My personal naming scheme
    (dirty-bastard and db) is
    unintenionally like my school's.
    Long ass hyphenated names with
    short acronyms e.g.
    cathedral-seven -> c7,
    magic-pi-ball -> mpb or pi.
    Btw the theme here is hacks
    [http://hacks.mit.edu/].

  5. Re:hmm.. on Mandrake Asks for Support · · Score: 1

    BANDWIDTH

  6. Re:Source code? on The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    That is exactly my point, that the film
    is the binary, which is clearly made public.
    And since it seems the script becomes
    public domain when the movie does this
    provides precedent for what the original
    poster tried to argue against, that source
    code would be exempt since binaries are made
    public.

  7. Re:Source code? on The Mouse That Ate the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Movie scripts are seldom made public,
    yet it would seem they lapse into the
    public doamin along with the movie.

  8. Re:all of the elements ? on Every Species on Earth · · Score: 1

    [http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=superheavy+eleme nt+stability]
    Was that so hard?

  9. Re:10 to 100 million what?? on Every Species on Earth · · Score: 1

    Well they could always do something like the
    Drake equation. Bunch of averaging, and there
    might be some pretty obvious gaps or groups
    that seem smaller than they ought to be.
    You could also try extrapolating based on how
    often you see species emerge in the fossil record.
    That doesn't mean these are accurate but they
    give you approximations. Think man, think!

  10. Re:Cable companies suck on Colorado Town May Sue AT&T For Broadband · · Score: 1

    [http://www.firstlight.net/index.cgi?page=fixedip]

    Now all you have to do is see what there policy
    about always on is.

  11. Re:Has no one here used flash on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 1

    Two words for you: SVG and MNG

  12. Re:Flywheels on Why Batteries Haven't Kept Up · · Score: 1

    It is very high, but that's not the norm as far as I can tell:

    [http://www.beaconpower.com/products/products.ht m]

  13. Color me cynic on 42 Worlds in 32 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, that's a great idea. And so if the deep
    is still virgin by the time that we've *really*
    screwed everything up, why shouldn't it join
    the rest of the planet? At least there's
    nothing to wipe out on the moon. Well, there'd be one thing if we ever got off our collective
    duffs and did something, ourselves.

    And here's a news flash, the few billion
    spent on NASA is *nothing*, it's barely
    worth mentioning. It compares not to the rest
    of the budget, you want to know why congressmen
    and everybody focuses on it? Because it's high
    profile (because it works). It's easy to say,
    NASA, bof what have they ever done for me?
    I didn't fly to the moon, they're useless.
    The returns on investments in space far
    outweigh what we've put into it.

    Just think about (and these are only the most obvious):

    Telecom, sneakers, jeeps, Tang, alloys and
    other materials, pretty pictures for your desktop,
    and on and on and on.

    Not to say that NASA couldn't some things better,
    but that's a horse of a different color. And
    I'm not saying we shouldn't explore the deep
    oceans either, but we should be extremely osking
    careful when we do. But to compare deep sea
    to space is blasphemy.

  14. Re:Can't have it both ways folks. on Rep. Bill Jones Thinks Spam is "Innovative" · · Score: 1

    That is why a candidate has a website.
    If you want to know about a candidate" go find out.

    To paraphrase Calvin & Hobbes:
    C>
    I don't want to learn, why should I have to learn.
    What about my rights?
    H>
    Is it a right to remain ignorant?
    C>
    I don't know and I don't want to!

  15. Re:One reason why he has problems... on Zarf in Mac OS X Land · · Score: 1

    >He fought the interface to do it "his way".
    What the hell is wrong with that?
    A computer is the an electronic Burger King.
    On the gripping hand you can't expect a kid's
    meal to taste like a BK Broiler.
    But it is not unreasonable to expect to have it your way, contrary to what the Borg and Fruit say.

  16. Re:Get some from the U.S. on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    :-D MIT has 18.*.*.*

  17. Re:Reminds me of the time...... on iWarez · · Score: 1

    I copied a few games (mostly demos) and misc.,
    nothing really worth it but I was a packrat,
    stuff in a similar manner. Walk into Radio
    Shack, "Is there anything I can help you with today sir?", assuming the clerk gives a rat's
    @$$ about seeming to care,
    "No, I'm just looking." Yoink!

  18. Re:/.-ing commencing.... on Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case · · Score: 1

    This was supposed to be a child of:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28653&cid=30 82

    Oh well

  19. Re:I now buy more books! on RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues · · Score: 1

    That's no more zoning than the British having
    their antennas 90 degress off or most of the
    world not running 60 cycle 110V AC power with
    a smiley face socket. That is it's not strict
    (enforced) and it's not intentional.

  20. Re:/.-ing commencing.... on Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes now, you are correct sir.
    We have also accepted Holland.

  21. Re:/.-ing commencing.... on Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case · · Score: 1

    That's not his ISP. Nedtstat is a free counter, been around for a long time I've had one for at least 4 years. It's in Dutch (Ned Stat = Nederlands (Dutch) Statistics, I'm guessing). They also have a US/English service available as well.

  22. Re:I now buy more books! on RIAA Almost Down To Pre-Napster Revenues · · Score: 1

    >I decided not get get a VCR because of the zoning thing.

    What? Current analog VCR's have no zoning.

  23. Re:The next golden egg on KT-Tech Sound Compression - Music at 32 Kbit/s · · Score: 1

    Re-encoding is a big fat no no,
    unless you like listening to
    chirps, static, and the band at
    the end of a tunnel.

  24. Re:Other video game music sites on Video Game Music Mixes · · Score: 1
  25. Re:PowerBook based on G4 Cases Holding Back Clustering Acceptance? · · Score: 1

    The form factor of the board is not the issue.
    My former employer makes (x86) 1U boxes and
    there are two issues.

    Height of CPU(namely the heatsink) and RAM.

    Heat, you only end up with 19*2 inches on either
    end exposed. And you have to pull air through
    that (around the contents) to cool everything.

    You are not going to get 4 boards in one box.
    Well okay, maybe 4 boards but nothing else to
    speak of.