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  1. if it is prime, on Delivering an Earth-Shattering Discovery? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    it is a product of one and itself. What you mean is factor composites into primes. Either that or you know something I don't ;).

  2. Re:No magnets? What about costs? on Atomic Scale Memory · · Score: 1

    The atom is one cohesive unit of an element. It consists of a neucleas (made of neutrons and protons) and electrons orbiting around. A molecule is MADE of atoms that are bonded together.

  3. Could that be... on Linux Sales Down, But... · · Score: 1, Redundant

    because you can download literally hundreds of kinds of Linux, FOR FREE? No no, that couldn't be it.

  4. Re:Cryptography on Turns out, Primes are in P · · Score: 1

    obviously, any attempts to factor a composite into primes should have a good list of primes...this would help in generating that...but then again...it would make creating really big (tm) keys easier too...

  5. Microsoft is... on Gates Tries to Explain .Net · · Score: 1

    like so 1990s! Like duh!

  6. Re:We never really know anything on Physicists War Over a Unified Theory · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, the previous theories were not wrong, just limited in accuracy. Newtonian physics are a kind of approximation of GR, which will probably be a approximation of UF forms. They hold true to thousands of decimel places at everyday conditions, but when things get extreme, values change.

  7. This is good. on Linux Support Services Shoot-out and Analysis · · Score: 2, Informative

    The most common comment I hear when I sugguest a linux solution is that there is no support, therefore once it is broken, it is broken. While this is simply wrong, bug business thinks that tech support people are magicians, who are the only ones that can fix computers (and not only that: THEY FIX IT THROUGH THE PHONE, WHOA). This is a excellent way to show business that they can still get a great operating system real cheap, AND there will be a group that has their backs if something goes wrong.

  8. Re:I wish I was british. on Roasting Sacred Cows · · Score: 1

    I'm not a brit, I just speak the language. The subjunctive mood indicates that something is not necessarily true. Which is important, because in the above case, the sentence wouldn't make much sense in simple past tense, eh?

  9. Re:I wish I was british. on Roasting Sacred Cows · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, if you were british, you would know that it should be, "I wish I were british." It's subjunctive. As in abutebaris modo subjunctivo.

  10. Re:NASA on Motel 6... Hundred Miles Up · · Score: 1

    THREE STATES GETTING 6%!! I'm so offended! Oh wait, no I'm not, because 6 divided by three is 2, and two percent, oddly enough, is 1/50th of 100 percent.

  11. Re:Why NASA is pissed. on Motel 6... Hundred Miles Up · · Score: 1

    that is because the AP figure included the budget of all of the facilities associated with the shuttle. Well, duh, if you include the operating budget of every facility that uses even a fraction of its time in shuttle related tasks, you are going to get a very bloated number.

  12. uh oh on Mystery Force Affecting Probes · · Score: 1

    A slashdot story with "probe" in the title. That's just asking for trouble.

  13. Re:Prediction on X-43 Scramjet Rollout · · Score: 1

    plowing into a Chinese observation plane and obliterating it

    or even a Chinese fighter plane.

  14. Re:what's the problem on MPAA Goes After Gnutella · · Score: 1

    If that's OT, then I must be reading the wrong article. Moderators, at least stop smoking crack while you are moderating.

  15. Re:When solution is "arrest the world", law is fuc on Apache As An MP3 Server · · Score: 1

    It is you who are communist. You have forced redistribution of wealth via intellectual property law. We beleive in free market copying. Who is communist again?
    Who forced you to buy CDs? And, by the way, a marketplace is a place for selling things, not giving them away.

  16. Re:QT3 should deviate from windows. on Trolltech Spills Beans On Qt 3.0 · · Score: 1

    self promoted

    with what?

  17. Re:Open Standards, hmm? on Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds · · Score: 1

    Capitilization doesn't usually matter in HTML. More likely he simply had the HTML formatting turned off on his post.

  18. Excellent quote: on LZIP Advanced File Compression Utility · · Score: 1

    "Known issues with lzip 1.0:
    Attempting to compress the lzip or lunzip programs themselves will trap your system in an infinite loop, and may cause the platter from your hard disks to shoot out of their drive bays at close to the speed of sound. Attempting to uncompress either of the exectuables will suck your computer into a minature black hole, which we believe from our benchmarks (speculatively) exits in an anitmatter universe parallel to our own. If you are interested in exploring this possibilty, please write to us once you get there. "

  19. Haiku time! on Mario's Revenge? · · Score: 1

    Mario hops shrooms,
    jumping over the barrels,
    to save the princess

  20. Re:oh come on. on XBox Screenshot Flim-Flammery? · · Score: 2

    Specifically, I remember Sony doing this for the PS2 (not to be confused with PS/2...duh). They produced screenshots of games not yet in development by taking screenshots from existing playstation titles and making them look better.

  21. My default shell on To Z Or Not To Z · · Score: 1

    ...is perl of course!! Who needs silly features like "command history" and "home directories"? I'd rather `ls -la` than ls -la. Doesn't everyone?

  22. Not all that suprising on The RIAA Doesn't Like Paying Lyricists · · Score: 3

    I've said from the begining that the RIAA wouldn't go through the trouble of fighting napster if it was just a matter of CD sales. They know just as well as we do that the people who download a song off napster wouldn't necessarily buy the CD if napster were not availible. The whole thing is that they want to compete with napster. They think that since they are the RIAA they can sue their competition into the ground, then get off clean and clear, because the artists side with them.

  23. My favorite passtime on Is Crypto Solely for Criminals? · · Score: 1

    My favorite passtime is now getting throw away email accounts in the names of most wanted criminals and terrorists, encrypting slashdot stories with strong keys, and having these accounts send each other their messages, in hopes that the NSA will waste computing power on it.

  24. Can someone fill me in? on Sharp Officially Producing Linux PDA · · Score: 1

    "FreeBSD did not support large file sizes, Macintosh and newer Novell file systems..." Is this true? It's sounds kind of hokey, especially considering they just picked M$ which until relatively recently couldn't handle partitions over two gigabytes. Are they refering to the ability to mount these files types, or the ability to connect with shared ones? I'd appreciate a respond from someone who knows more than me about FreeBSD.

  25. Re:Hrm... on New Star Trek Series Rumblings · · Score: 1

    It's more like "Star Trek: The First Post"(tm).