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  1. Re:TIE on Ion Engine Propels Probe to Moon · · Score: 1

    Not to be an over-obsessed reality geek, but even the Space Shuttle had life support in addition to the pressure suites they wear on take off and landing. The suits are in case of sudden decompression.

    In Soviet Russia, early cosmonauts didn't wear pressure suites to display the superiority of their space program. They needlessly lost people due to that practice, and have changed to using pressure suites as result.

    Also, remember the TIE figter pilots were clones, so they would wear a mask even if they weren't assined to be pilots, like any other storm trooper.

  2. Missing resolution on MacFixIt Details Mac OS X 10.2.8 Bugs · · Score: 1, Funny

    "After updating to Mac OS X 10.2.8, my Apple Cinema Display's resolution defaulted to 1600x1024 (it was previously 1600x1200), and the choice of 1600x1200 is no longer available at all within the Displays System Preference. The 1600x1200 option is just completely gone."

    Yup, I'm having this problem. In fact, my entire Apple Cinema Display is missing, i.e. completely gone! Oh wait, that's because I don't even own an Apple Cinema Display. Never-mind, my bad.

  3. Re:What about people going to jail? on Bionic Arm Reads Brain's Signals · · Score: 1

    In this particular case, it's not a problem; you just remove his prosthetic arms. His prosthetics are not actually attached to his body in any permanent way that would require surgery to remove. It's just strapped on like any other prosthetic.

  4. Re:Constitution on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    If your next-door neighbor was accused of having a meth-lab, but when the ATF raided the place found only a freezer full of human remains, would you be as judgmental?

  5. Re:Competition is always a welcoming news on Amazon to Take on Google? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Competition is always a welcoming news

    Unless your name starts with "M" and ends with "icrosoft."

  6. Re:Constitution on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    This is the price we must pay for the mess the Iraqi war caused budget-wise.

    But wasn't it worth it?

  7. Re:Is it me? on The Matrix: Revolutions Theatrical Trailer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since the movie comes from Hollywood, I would expect an Ingmar Bergman ending.
    If you need Hollywood Movies to make you think, then you should not be reading /.


    People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.

  8. Er... on Expanding Small NetBSD Systems · · Score: 1

    What ever happened to NetBSD by Wasabi?

  9. Re:w00t thumps up for the FreeBSD team and... on FreeBSD 4.9-BETA i386 ISO With Packages Available · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD rocks. Now, if we could do something about all the trolls.

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  10. Re:Badly researched? on Porting Games From Binary · · Score: 1

    Sounds an aweful lot like emulation to me. I mean, otherwise, ther's an aweful lot of opcode being releated over and over (hence the macros), that the result might be many many times bigger than the original.

    More Bad Research

  11. Re:Optimal office on The Bionic Office · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Sector 7G.

  12. Re:I'm sure he'll find a new job on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lock-in also plays a big role.

    People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.

  13. Re:Aaah! My Eyes!! on BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I think this is an advanced topic on BeOS. Be as obnoxious as possible.

  14. Re:This can't be right. on Workweek Causes Climate Changes · · Score: 1

    The matrix would suffer from low power and the human's would start to see glitches.

    There is no work week, Neo. Maybe you just need some Ultraprevention.

  15. No Way... on Debunking Full-Spectrum Lighting Claims · · Score: 1

    No way, man. Full-Spectrum Lighting is totally bunk!

  16. Re:Gravity waves != gravitational waves on Renewed Gravity Research Could Soon Yield Results · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting with baited breath to see what kind of imaging they can come up with using these methods. It's just like the invention of the radio telescope, but only more so.

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  17. Re:In other news... on Apple Releases Darwin 6.7, 6.8 · · Score: 1

    I just say, "Umkay?" Works every time. Umkay?

  18. Re:Prior art on Microsoft Wins Summary Judgement in Smart Tag Case · · Score: 1

    ...generic link designates a link with a selection as source...

    I wonder if the quote of the day at the bottom of every /. screen could be construed as a SmartTag. Prior art indeed.

  19. Re:But how do you get color? on Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed · · Score: 1

    If you think about it, though, the technology used to create that image would have been black magic in the olden days.

  20. Re:BBC News story... on Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed · · Score: 1

    They just need to figure out a way for each pixel to respond to a different modulation on a radio frequency, and allow the radio waves to power it. I agree, it's still damn impressive without those innovations, but if they came about, you'd have your new foldable information revolution.

  21. Indemnification is wonderful? on HP Clarifies Indemnification Offer For Linux Users · · Score: 4, Funny

    "But I lost my indemnification, you insensitive clod!" - Linus Torvalds

  22. Nothing Better To Do... on Prevayler Quietly Reaches 2.0 Alpha, Bye RDBMS? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm just going to assume their site uses Prevayler to store the page counter and revision information at the bottom of the linked page. Here's what I saw (times are Pacific):

    [16:47] : This page has 10151 hits and 60 revisions
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    [16:52]*: This page has 10170 hits and 60 revisions
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    * - The Mysterious Future

    Oh well. It did seemed to peek around 16:58, but I guess Slashdot users really didn't click on that link all that much. Too bad, that would have been fun ad-hoc to test.

  23. Re:DoFP - Denial of First Post! on G5 PowerBook "Challenge" · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I believe I own the patent on that, thank you.

  24. Meanwhile, on usenet... on Astronomers Upset About Asteroid Panic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.astro.seti,sci.answers,news.answers
    Subject: stinking reporters
    Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
    Followup-To: press
    Date: 17 Sep 2003 19:35:25 -0400
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    X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com

    Ok polpee. We need to reign it in a bit on the atroesid cemmtons, uamky? Form now on, I want all ceerrnnsdpcooe hnavig to do wtih eatrh killres slambrced like tihs, ukmay?

    No more talk aoubt how tsehe atsdoiers, umkay? If you're ccnettaod by the psers, jsut rinmed them taht tehy're more lleiky to get kellid by lgiitnnhg 10,000 tmies an hour than to have an ateosrid flal on them, then hang up...uamky?

  25. Sendmail, huh? on Buffer Overflow in Sendmail · · Score: 0, Troll

    Should say: from the what-else-is-new dept. Umkay?