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  1. Re:So what in heck is this P2P thing? on Clay Shirky Defends P2P · · Score: 1

    Jordy, as the level of interconnection increases isn't there a concurrant increase in the risk of pandemic viral infection?

  2. Re:What are these people thinking? on Freeze Recovery Drug - Step Toward Suspended Animation? · · Score: 1

    yea yea yea: it's H.P.Lovecraft's "Herbert West, Re-animator" and haven't is spelled with an "e" (grumble-grumble)

  3. What are these people thinking? on Freeze Recovery Drug - Step Toward Suspended Animation? · · Score: 1

    Havn't they ever watched Herbert West's Re-animator?

  4. It's funny, but, on Bouncing Robots Exploring Planets? · · Score: 1

    I submitted a story to /. on 28092000 regarding a New Scientist story about this same fellow developing this for landmine redistribution to cover cleared paths in minefields. I guess he didn't sell it to the military and is now trying to peddle it to NASA.

  5. Hey! on Berkeley Lab Fashions First Buckyball Transistor · · Score: 1

    Between this and plastic electronics I can finally have my PC installed in my body. Install locating chips in my fingertips and I can control/type. Heads-up style monitoring through contact lenses would be cool. If my body cannot generate enough power I could replace a nad with an inertial generator ("but, honey, I need recharging.") This could lead to odd behavior in public. ("Is he dancing?" "No, it's a DoS attack.")

  6. Of course I am. I am a real citizen, after all. on Watch Camera · · Score: 1

    However the electoral college will make sure that my actual vote is subsumed in a swamp of special interest, and further limit me to a choice of two flavors of the same policy.

  7. Now the s7rippers and h00kers will think, on Watch Camera · · Score: 2

    "gee, why is this guy forever checking what time it is?"

  8. A few links for ya: on BattleBots Going Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Mechadon is so hot she gives me a w00dy. These pictures are worth a look. And I think the Sick Puppy award should go to Son of Smashy

  9. I gotta ask, on Univ. of Washington Announces First Nanotech Ph.D. · · Score: 2

    if they build a nano humanoid robot will they equip it with buckyballs?

  10. BROW S3X ? on Slashback: Dyn-O-Mite!, Paper, Sploits · · Score: 1

    How k1nky. How 'bout a name that can get past a filter?

  11. Re:pictures of the tiny mirrors! on The 1st Commercial-Grade All-Optical Switch? · · Score: 1

    Some pictures! Available in "high resolution"....eight megabytes!! Good grief!

  12. Napoleon on Titanium As Cheap As Aluminum? · · Score: 1

    had a helmet made of solid aluminum, if I remember correctly. It was more valuable than gold or platinum at the time.

  13. Re:A professor's lectures are his tools of trade. on CA Legislature Passes Ban On Sale Of Lecture Notes · · Score: 1

    This is why I noted first that these lectures are "tools of trade". It may be legal or not to record these lectures and then resell them. But, it is not civil. We are gentlewomen and men, are we not? Let us not stoop to plagerism in order to eek-out a living. I cannot even spell Nicoli Evanovitch Lobochevski, but we all remember his name, do we not?

  14. Re:A professor's lectures are his tools of trade. on CA Legislature Passes Ban On Sale Of Lecture Notes · · Score: 1

    It was, indeed, wit (if I do say so, myself.) Thank-you for your recognition of that mild effort on my part. The book is, perhaps, Leviticus. I disremember, sorry.

  15. A professor's lectures are his tools of trade. on CA Legislature Passes Ban On Sale Of Lecture Notes · · Score: 3

    Intellectual property is a slippery subject, indeed. But my father was an English professor for forty years. His lectures were his constructions, built out of his own observations and the lectures of those before him. And, he always cited respectfully. If students would treat the material with respect and cite properly all this legal hoorah would not be necessary. "Settle your differences before you get to court. For, if you go to court, neither of you will get what you want." (From some old book I read once.)

  16. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong, but.... on Rebuilding Colossus · · Score: 1

    ENIAC weighed 30 tons, used 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1500 relays and required 200 kilowatts to operate. And, wasn't the first modern digital computer the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (the ABC, built between 1939 and 1942 on the Iwoa State University campus?

  17. Thinking about the mold on the Mir's walls on Mir Likely To Be Deorbited [Updated] · · Score: 1

    and the article from Scientific American stating NASA's position against sex in space caused me to have this very ugly vision of a possible starting media for that culture.

  18. "One kink in Sony's plans: A parts shortage.." on Sony plans to release new toy: Airboard · · Score: 1

    which will severly pump-up the price of the initial releases!

  19. Re:Why? on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 1

    It was an oblique reference:story in The Register

  20. Re:Slashdot is easy on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 1

    anyone could get into that port.

  21. Re:Why? on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 1

    If they were Microslob guys they would have sent us all e-mail about how nice they are.

  22. good article on this at The Regester on Would You Pay $1000 For Windows? · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Damned popular in the UK too on More Junkyard Wars · · Score: 1

    Of course, that was my point. Amazon.uk has the video but that would avail me naught. (Shhh. Any way someone could sneakernet it to me?)

  24. Re:Damned popular in the UK too on More Junkyard Wars · · Score: 1

    Now, how do we in the USA get that "Best of Scrapheap" vidio? At eleven Pounds (fifteen Dollars) I would buy it, but Amazon.com does not have it.

  25. Very cool contest. on More Junkyard Wars · · Score: 1

    Sounds rather like the Rambling Wreck parade at Georgia Tech, in which the mobile construction is graded by the originality of motive action and the soundness of construction (it finishes the parade route.)