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  1. Interesting on Odd Impact Crater found in the North Sea · · Score: 2

    Finding another impact from a metorite 65million years ago could hint at the possibility of a large solestial catastrophe that caused the end of the dinosaur era.

    Large asteroid belt collision with comet / two very very large asteroids?

    Many possible situations could lead to this... just interesting to me I guess...

  2. you can block it you moron NYT... on NYT Discovers the Panopticon · · Score: 2

    robots.txt

    If you don't want your information on the web, either keep it off, or tell the engines not to index you with meta tags or robots.txt

    You have prosted information with no restrictions so that ANYONE in the world can view it..... what the hell did you expect?

  3. Re:XP = NT 5.1 on A Rock Moves In Space · · Score: 2

    Control Panel > Administrative Options > Component Services...

    http://www.deviantpc.com/forums/showthread.php?s =& threadid=1926

    that tells you pretty much what everything does...

  4. Re:XP = NT 5.1 on A Rock Moves In Space · · Score: 2

    Oh - and the constant communication probably slows down the internet connection as well...

    Component Services... you can shut all that down from there and give your computer a performance boost... and possibly a CPU cool down...

  5. Re:Has hacking ever killed anyone? on House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers · · Score: 1

    thanks

  6. Re:chicken.... egg..... chicken.... dah! on Mono and .NET - An Interview · · Score: 1

    ummm... something written in a language that already had a compiler?

  7. Re:Has hacking ever killed anyone? on House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers · · Score: 1

    what the fuck is IHMO?!?!

  8. chicken.... egg..... chicken.... dah! on Mono and .NET - An Interview · · Score: 2

    "While the C# compiler, itself written in C#..." ....umm.... wha.... uhh........ how the.......... ummmmmm.....

  9. old on Elements 116 and 118 are Bogus? · · Score: 2

    .......old news..... they've retracted their claim about 118 a long time ago.... id get the article for you, but im too lazy...

  10. he is ALWAYS at terminal velocity on Skydiving from 25 Miles Up · · Score: 2

    "Well, actually his max speed will be high up and near the earth the atmosphere will have slowed him down to terminal velocity."

    at that high altitude, mach 1.6 IS his terminal velocity.....

  11. Re:On explaining electronic dance genres on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 2

    trance[]control is what got me hooked on trance. One of their first tracks they every put up was "Atomic Dance Explosion". It's not the best track ever recorded... but it got me hooked.... A year later I was supprised to see their CD in a local music store. It's kinda cool that a group that started off givin away free music (and still does all the time) sells records globally and makes a lot of money... Take that RIAA...

    A CD that I wanted to mention was PsychoTrance 2000 by DJ Dfuse (i think). I bought that a month after starting to listen to electronic music, and it is still my favorite CD to this date. (The graphics on it kinda got me into 3D design with 3dstudio max, heh). It's great progressive trance. ::sigh:: just a glowsticker who wants to be a DJ... (...almost got a job as one... ah well)

  12. another page you all should visit... on Carp-Free Independent Music Labels · · Score: 5, Informative

    inetprogramming.com is a website for independent music artists... there is a very long and detailed page about the rate ruling, and links for you to send a fax to congress about making legislation to save the smaller stations as well...

    I tried putting this in an article, but got rejected, so I hope a lot of people read this and send in a fax... I don't want to loose my favorite internet radio station...

    http://inetprogramming.com/notice.html

  13. Re:On explaining electronic dance genres on Electronic Music 101? · · Score: 1

    Darude is more dance than trance.... Sandstorm is a little to hard and fast to be true trance. Even if you labled it "Progressive Hard Trance", it would be iffy still. The most trance like song Darude has is "Touch me Feel me"... kinda Goa even.

    Castles in the sky (Gigi D'Agustino FYI) is more trance like... specifically though, I would put it under progressive trance.

    Ya forgot about Progressive "prefix" as well. That is usually come about with strong builds in the beats of the music. Not in the BPM, but more of how many different "layers" of sounds you keep adding untill a certian point. Of course almost all music has builds in it, but progressive has prominent ones... (you'd know it if you heard it)

    House = chicago, not florida
    Techno = Adkins, Saunderson, and May

    -- For those who want to hear some samples:

    For good trance, go to http://mp3.com/tc (trance[]control free music... mostly Hard Trance).

    www.di.fm has a good collection of different genres for you to listen to for free...

    www.bassdrive.com is good jungle/drum n' bass (and a really sweet lookin site too)

    www.shoutcast.com ...lots of streaming radio with different genre's for your selection

  14. Re:uhh... duh. on What Would Happen If the Moon Crashed To Earth? · · Score: 1

    When the moon collides with the earth, part of the population will flee underground

    Oh that'll do them good...

  15. Re:Wrong numbers... on Winning the E.T. Lottery · · Score: 2

    Yes... the situation in contact is what I was looking for, but the main point was that it is HIGHLY unlikely that the same aliens have been visiting us for 4.6 billion years...

    Having civilizations grow up and be technologically off by a couple thousand years isn't that far fetched. Take nebulas (the "great pillar" nebula that is starting to fade because planets/stars are forming). The solar systems within there are forming within the same time frame... there have to be star systems that are about the same age as eachother and are pretty close by...

    Even getting to the "micro" evolution of the planets... we (or a different organism on this planet) could have had technology to launch ourselves into space millions of years ago (which would throw off the "millions of years" timeframe from Contact to a couple thousand...) if the dino's didn't go extinct (assuming that evolution would continue and form a sentient being)...

    Of course it is possible that other civilizations have looked at earth billions of years ago, but how likely is it that the same civilization is still around, doing the same old thing? The author assumed in his "numbers" that it was the same... but new ones could be popping up every thousand years or so...

  16. It's not improv on Improv Animation as an Art Form? · · Score: 1

    Even if its rendered through a GPU, it doesn't have to be improv.... they can control exactly what happenes...

  17. Wrong numbers... on Winning the E.T. Lottery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to the most popular view of this matter, extraterrestrial craft have been flitting across our skies since 1947.

    I thought the most popular view was that they have been visiting for thousands of years... depicted in writing and art all throughout history...

    That's 55 years in a planetary history of 4,600,000,000 years.

    What about their planet's history? It's possible that they havent been able to travel to other planets for that entire time... more like a couple thousand years? Then the ratio is more realistic. (I just love misleading journalists...)

    it implies that there have been millions of expeditions to Earth! We may send the occasional anthropological research team to Borneo, but we don't send millions.

    Think ratio and intrest... first, it doesn't emply millions (how long have they been able to get here? ...not for billions of years)... maybe thousands, but not millions. The ratio part: A few dozen to us may be .000000002% of our population, but a couple thousand of them might be the same percentage... Who cares about boreno? Earth probably holds a great intrest to them... more than borneo to us.

    And it's a lot easier to get to Borneo than to traverse hundreds or thousands of light-years.

    Before our technology developed, we couldn't even get across the damn ocean... so boreno would be a pretty hard place to get to for us thousands of years ago (...from the US). It's probably pretty easy for them to traverse "hundreds of thousands of light-years".... if they even have to go that far. I doubt they come from the other side of the galaxy...

    Let's set aside the question of whether advanced galactic societies would have the slightest interest in our wars, our pollution problems, or our reproductive systems.

    Why do you think humans research organisims on our own planet? We even hold a great interest in organisims at the bottom of the sea where we thought that life couldn't exist... We're different from them, and they have a hunger for knowledge...

    The real question is, how would they know about us at all?

    ...telescopes? Passing by one day? Sub-atomic microtransponder galactic scanners that they have and we havent even imagined up yet? There are plenty of ways to find us...

    I'd comment on the microwave signals we've sent out and your opinion on that... but there are other ways of them knowing we're here... (that takes care of about 3 paragraphs)

    One sided journalism gets to me... so now I had to go and balance it out...

  18. Re:If this actually goes through... on Analyzing Palladium · · Score: 1

    ...emphasis... get it?

  19. If this actually goes through... on Analyzing Palladium · · Score: 1

    ...I'm switching to MAC...

  20. Re:CSS In Netscape 4.0 on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1

    This is why I never design a site to work in netscape... If i can make a simple fix, then I can, but if it takes me a lot of time, I just say "screw netscape" and move on...

    ...6.x has gotten better... but 4.x is my worst enemy...

  21. It IS 83.84 on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That is not a bug.... but the truth. Dispite what your elementary teachers taught you about rounding, the rules are different...

    Basically... if the number (infront of the 5) is even, it stays even... if it's odd, then it goes even. The reason for this is to get rid (as much as possible) of rounding errors. So odd numbers round down, and even numbers round up... it evens out at the end...

    Rule of thumb: when rounding, try to get an even number...

  22. that should NEVER pass.... on Legalizing Attacks on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    ...there should be no way that can pass because you do not know weather or not the people trading the files have rights to the music.... what if i bought a CD, but it got so scratched that i couldn't listen to it anymore, and i downloaded the song because I paid for it? are they going to DoS me for that?

    there is NO way to tell who is going against the copyright or not.... this idea is totally insane...

  23. so... on Legalizing Attacks on P2P Networks · · Score: 1

    can i DoS the RIAA site because I believe that they are secretly going against copyright legislation???

    what kind of fucking hypocracy is this? lets fuck with their bandwidth because we don't like what they're doing??? Eat shit RIAA....

  24. too bad.... on Test Flight Of Space-Hopper Reusable Launch Vehicle · · Score: 1

    too bad they scrubbed the building of the x-32 (or 33?) VentureStar.... would have been better

  25. or maybe.... on Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales · · Score: 1

    the album just sucks.... that's why it's not selling....