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  1. Bzzzt. Wrong Drug on Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    She should have said "dropping acid." This is Apple after all.

  2. Re:Does Anyone Do Hype Better? on iPhone Gets Better Battery, Scratch Resistant Glass · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Is there anybody who works the press as well as Steve Jobs?"

    Uhh. Paris Hilton?

  3. Bzzzt. Wrong! on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "scramjets are supersonic combustion engines that use oxygen from the atmosphere for fuel"

    Scamjets use oxygen from the atmosphere as an oxydizer unlike traditional rocket engines which need to carry their oxydizer. Scramjets still need to carry fuel.

    No. I am not a rocket scintist.

  4. Windows Vista Capable according to Dell on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From Dell's website A Windows Capable PC has 512 MB RAM and is "Great for... Booting the Operating System, without running applications or games.

  5. Re:For looks on Pros and Cons of Switching From Windows To Mac · · Score: 2, Funny

    The thing about a Mac is that you don't need to learn how to surf. You can surf anywhere without worry. Let me make an analogy.

    PC Dad to son: you can have sex, but only with people you're sure about. And always use a condom, just in case.

    Mac Dad to son: Go ahead and have sex with whomever you want, any way you like!

  6. Price of Entry on Why Microsoft's Zune Scares Apple to the Core · · Score: 1

    mySpace doesn't come with a $249 price tag to join the club.

  7. Re:Alternative to the promotion on World Firefox Day · · Score: 1

    Here's a serious alternative that avoids some of the problems brought up and is more fun. Post all the names online somewhere and have a secret easter-egg hidden in Firefox that will connect and display them.

  8. MySpace does have its uses on The Man Behind MySpace · · Score: 4, Funny
  9. torrent link on Colbert New Comic-in-Chief · · Score: 3, Informative
  10. Too many versions on Microsoft Confirms 6 Versions of Vista · · Score: 1

    Six too many, to be exact.

  11. Re:CAN-WHAT? on Circumventing CAN-SPAM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much spam can CAN-SPAM can
    If CAN-SPAM can can spam?

    Not very much, evidently.

  12. Interesting on Good and Bad Procrastination · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sounds like an interesting article. I think I'll read it tomorrow.

  13. Re:Not exactly unbiased on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously, has anyone ever read anything by Mossberg about Apple products that wasn't either glowing, stellar, or outright raving?

    Sure. He finds the "Mighty Mouse" inferior to the Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 5000. Check out this article.

  14. Safari's the worst of them all. on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 4, Informative

    From Apple's website:

    "Using Safari's new Private Browsing feature, no information about where you visit on the Web, personal information you enter or pages you visit are saved or cached. It's as if you were never there."

  15. Re:Why warn us? Super Slashdot Effect on Get To Know Mach, the Kernel of Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Despite the dinosaur picture, it's not a monster, only 950 KB.

  16. They just need better marketing on Sony Recants on Dead Pixels (Sort Of) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe: "Life is Random."

    Nope. Apple already has used that.

    What about: "Sony Introduces PIX, the Personal Identification indeX. In case your PSP is lost or stolen, it can be easily be identified by checking the pattern of unactivated pixels!"

    Yeah. That'll do.

  17. Re:2X2 Chess? on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 1

    That would be one of the absurd possibilities!

  18. 2X2 Chess? on Computer Cracks 5x5 Go · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Go scales downwards in a logical way, but 2X2 chess is either absurd or trivial depending on what pieces you decide to place there. The "equivalent" chess problem is probably more along the lines of 4x4 or 5x5.

  19. Re:How to do this on a Mac on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 2, Informative

    For Mac users KeyCam will do the job too.

  20. Re:Women can't fake orgasms perfectly on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 4, Funny

    >The vaginal contractions at 0.8s intervals would be very difficult to fake also.

    And if they're only at 0.9 s intervals, what then?

  21. Re:Higher resolution image? on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 1

    It took a while to load but eventually worked. I'm on Mac OS X 10.3.5

  22. One letter off on Sharp Mebius Subnotebook Review · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darn. If Sharp had only made a Mobius Subnotebook, it even taken up even less space since it would have had only one side.

  23. Like Ice-Nine on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The way in which a prion can influence a protein to mis-fold and become a prion is oddly reminiscent of the way an Ice-Nine molecule could make ordinary water molecules crystallize into a form which was solid at room temperature. To clarify: Ice-Nine was a fictional concept described in Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Cats Cradle." I wonder if it could have had any influence in real science, as opped to science fiction.

  24. Re:Isn't this what Asimov was writing about? on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 1

    No set of moral laws can ever be perfect, despite what fundamentalists think. The Ten commandments, the Golden Rule, the Three Laws of Robotics, etc. all have ambiguity. It's always possible to come up with a conflict in a rule that tries to achieve a balance between different entities, whether they are human, aliens - or robots.

  25. What OS does Kerry or Bush use? on The Software Politics Of 2004's Presidential Race · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That would be more revealing than what their websites run on. To the best of my recollection, Kerry didn't answer the question "Mac or PC?" at a debate among the democratic contenders (Al Sharpton was the only Mac user). I also recall reading that Bush used a Mac, and that he used to be an enthusiastic emailer until he was informed that records would be kept of all his email. I may be wrong about all this. Maybe someone could provide better info.