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  1. The Assayer on NIH Proposes to Open Tax-Funded Research · · Score: 1

    Off topic but I appreciate the work you do keeping The Assayer going. It is a very good source of free reference books to learn from. I hope you continue maintaining it for a long while.

  2. 1000MB may sound like a lot... on A GMail-based blog With 1000 MB of entries · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1000MB may sound like a lot but at current hard drive pricing that is only about a half dollar if you buy a 100GB drive. Why do people go to so much trouble to redirect GMail for other uses? If people do things that make their advertising less valuable then they will strike hard on everybody and that only hurts us normal users if they make it harder to login or use as an email service.

  3. "the pot is steadily growing" on Motorola Hacker Rewards Program · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So where exactly are they "growing" this POT?

    -- ATF Agent

  4. He was just geocaching... on Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS · · Score: 1

    Trying to figure out where his ex-girlfriend kept her car...

  5. They got it working already on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 3, Funny

    They get it working already. Only problem is when you are teleported you get a goatee and become evil.

  6. Imagine... on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Running On Sunflower Oil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Imagine if the $50 billion or whatever the US spent invading Iraq was spent of H2 research, production and infrastructure?

  7. You can have it both ways! on Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project · · Score: 1, Funny

    WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator = Windows Emulator

  8. Re:Take this with a grain of salt on Andre Lamothe Launches XGameStation · · Score: 1

    As I understand it he is the series editor for most of the books. His name headlines the books but the actual writer's name is in fine print.

    Secondly how many games has this guy actually published?

  9. Re:Umm on RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is essentially a computer algorithm that is time consuming to calculate but fast to verify. It can be used to mitigate denial of service attacks for example. When a connection is made, the server will make a challenge which the client must compute. The server can quickly verify the response and reject the client if it is wrong. The extra computation means the client cannot succeed in an attempt to connect without doing the challenge thus slowing them down.

  10. Re:First transaction on Federal Reserve To Use Internet For Money Transfer · · Score: 0

    First ACID transaction

  11. That was fun ... NOT on Dragon's Lair - A Forbidden Love Affair? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    [insert coin]
    L R R Die
    [insert coin]
    L R L U D Die
    [insert coin]
    L R L U D R L Die

    I can't think of any other game that wasted quarters so fast.

  12. Now how else will I back up my movies on Lawsuits Force 321 Studios Out Of Business · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now how else will I back up my DVD movies that I plan to eventually buy?

  13. Salespeople become obsolete? on The New Secret Sauce For E-Commerce · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How long before salespeople become obsolete for all but the most expensive items? You can have software agents look out for items that interest your, compare prices and features and make suggestions based on your previous purchases.

  14. Re:Isn't this illegal? on The File Sharing Database · · Score: 1

    Are there a lot of artists/musicians in Norway?

  15. Not gyros on Segway Revolutionizes Polo · · Score: 1

    They don't use gyros... they use solid state accelerometers. These are not as expensive as you think.

  16. Make Open Source Pay on Making Open Source Pay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dry clean the suits thus saving money.

  17. Professor Hubert Farsworth on Integrated Reflector Could Lead to Ubiquitous LEDs · · Score: 1

    Good news everybody. I just invented a new gadget. An integrated reflector that could lead to ubiquitious LEDs.

  18. Re:My advice on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 1

    No nothing that tasteless.

  19. My advice on How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding Error? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Any advice for the poor schmuck who's going to get the blame?"

    My advice: Prepare three envelopes

  20. Re:What happened to RISC? on SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs · · Score: 1

    RISC is still used in new processors these days. The key attributes of RISC processors are a fixed instruction size, few addressing modes and one clock execution. You will see this one most architectures now. Actually the advantages of RISC and CISC have mixed in an concept called superscalar. With superscalar there are many execution units and a instruction scheduler will dispatch instructions in an out-of-order manner if necessary to give better performance while handling dependencies and resource constraints. With the method, it is possible for the instruction scheduler to translate CISC style instructions into RISC style micro operations before processing.

  21. I'm too lazy for that on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    I type a@b.com

  22. Re:Uhh on The Stealth Desktop: Sight and Sound With Slackware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Any car that I have to fuel myself, I don't consider newbie-friendly!"

    And that would be true too if most of the cars around can add fuel by itself. Most operating systems (including many Linux distributions) can auto-detect sound cards themselves.

  23. Not just early blindness on Early Blindness Sharpens Sense of Sound · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I once saw a show on Discovery channel (I think it was National Geographic) where experiments were done of braille reading skills. A blind-folded person would asked to read some braille characters using their fingers while measuring activity in different parts of their brain. The part related to visual processing was "quiet" since they were blind-folded.

    Then after many days remaining blindfolded, they were asked again to do some braille reading. The accuracy would improve and amazingly enough the part of the brain related to visual processing would show activity showing it was taking on some new tasks. After this the blindfolds were taken off and after a few hours of rest, the braille reading accuracy dropped and brain activity went back to normal.

  24. Re:Does it mention... on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good thing it was not the C0FFEEA55 or DEADBEEF bug. The FOOF bug has a nicer ring to it.

  25. Repetitive stress syndrome reader? on What is Your Favorite RSS Reader? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Never heard of a repetitive stress syndrome reader. Is that something the prevents you from hurting your hard while surfing p0rn?