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  1. Gas giants on Are We Alone in the Universe? · · Score: 1

    Current technology only sees giant planets next to Stars in other solar systems. What's wrong with gas? Aren't O2 and CO2 gases? Last time I checked they weren't liquid nor solids. I don't see how other plantes or soooo different and we are soooo unique.
    Getting scientific information from CNN is like getting political news from The Enquirer.

  2. Re:Modules on Unix's Founding Fathers · · Score: 1

    We have come a full circle now that XML dominates the industry

    Oh yeah, SOAP is finally cleaning the confusion and dificulty associated with classes and their inter-dependencies. It's another proof that simple does it. I wish more people would start buying into web services and start publishing WSDLs.
    Is there any open source like UDDI registry available?

  3. Re:What a day to have problems! on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 1

    They can now reason why they need to raise more money.

  4. Re:Ah hah on Latest MyDoom Variant Gives Google Problems · · Score: 3, Funny

    I misspelled yahoo 3 times before I got it right.

  5. Re:The Dead on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    All the while giving away the vast majority of their music for free!

    Hmmmm, this mp3 page is not blocked in our firewall. I wonder why... :)

  6. Re:No on Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:the past is the future on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1
  8. Re:the past is the future on PHP 5 Released; PHP Compiler, Too · · Score: 1

    That isn't funny, it's more like informative:
    http://www.research.ibm.com/resource s/news/2002061 1_millipede.shtml

  9. Re:Four bucks a cup! on The Traveling Salesman Problem Meets Starbucks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Starbucks doesn't sell coffee. They sell you a short escape from your regular life. Coffee included.

  10. Re:As the saying goes... on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    I take that back.

    It's a fool with a tool is still a fool.

    And to the point of where you don't get the right tools because you don't pick them, if you can't get the tool you need, you aren't asking enough.

  11. Re:As the saying goes... on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    I like this better:

    An idiot with a tool is still an idiot.

  12. Re:Java Applets Fiasco on Blame Bad Security on Sloppy Programming · · Score: 1

    What is a real native application? Are you talking about client server or legacy applications?

  13. Re:Sub500.com on First Linux-only Retail Store? · · Score: 1

    With that though In Romania they should be sub15mil.com or sub15mil.ro.

  14. Re:Space vs. Weightlessness on SpaceShipOne 100 km Attempt Slated for June 21 · · Score: 1

    or anywhere close to far enough from Earth to ignore it's gravity

    It should be far enough but the challenge here seems to be that it isn't fast enough. You're in orbit when you are falling so fast that you keep missing the planet.

  15. Re:Let the heads roll on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    And people that go 20 over the speed limit and feel like they own the road and don't want to get inconvenienced with changing lanes. Is that person familiar to you?

  16. Capital punishment is stupid on The Economics of Executing Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    It's an easy way out for people like this.

  17. Re:Lava on Star Wars Episode III : Birth Of The Empire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Give me the old minatures any day.

    Forget the miniatures. I've seen a little about the making of Predator vs. Alien and they use technology for them, but that technology is to make them real. They are very cool big robots each controlled by a team of people.
    I don't know about you but to me CGI doesn't look real. The movements, textures, and impacts are always too perfect. Even if the try to make them imperfect, they are perfectly imperfect.

  18. My new patent on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    "Unless the budgeting increases, the review process for a patent could double to 5 years"

    I will patent the concept of increasing number of resources assigned to a job when you have more paying customers. They do charge for those panents don't they?
    It's the same with the INS(now USCIS). I lost my green card a few years ago and I had to pay over 200$ to get a replacement card and I had to wait in a 6 hour line and wait for it to be mailed for 6 months. That card is about as easy to make as a driver's license which gets made in 5 minutes and costs 4$.
    It's the same reason why those institutions can't protect you from terrorists which makes the government have to take drastic measures like the Patriot Act. They simply don't run as true capitalist organizations.

  19. After a day of playing with USAPhotoMaps on How to: Use a GPS watch, XML and Satellite photos · · Score: 1

    Easier way to do all that in USAPhotoMaps:

    1 - Go to GPS, Comm port, and select the com port your Forerunner is connected to,
    2 - Go to GPS, Protocol, and select Garmin
    3 - Go to GPS, Route, Receive

    And that's it. You can import your waypoints that way also.

    What's even cooler is that can even send locations that you can mark based on topgraphic maps that USAPhotoMaps can download for you if you switch to topographic mode by pressing T.

  20. Call me jesus on How to: Use a GPS watch, XML and Satellite photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to this I ran over my neighbours houses and over water. I'm good.

  21. Solar energy might give you a negative bill on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1

    I live in Arizona where there is a lot of sun and from what I hear some people that use solar energy to generate electricity get money for the extra electricity their installation produces.

  22. Re:I just hope this never gets to Joe User. on New Internet Speed Record · · Score: 1

    No Windows box that I'm aware of could handle such a speed. Even if it could, the specs of that box would be so high that it is very unlikey for a Joe User to have.
    And another thing to take in consideration is latency. I'm sure this transfer rate was based on multiple data streams and maybe even using connection-less protocols, or something proprietary.

  23. We're saved on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    Finally something to save us from dihydrogen monoxide.

  24. Re:Cryptonomicon, Quicksilver on Neal Stephenson's The Confusion Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cryptonomicon was awesome. I was able to read it completely and I didn't have many problems understanding it.
    Quicksilver is awful considering I'm a non-native English speaker. I had to look up almost every other word. It is no fun reading it that way. I wasn't even able to finish the first chapter.

  25. And I thought I had too many running gadgets on Running for Geeks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need that GPS to complete my arsenal.

    Seriously, I used to have my heart rate monitor on all the time I ran. After I broke my habbit of running regularly I was setting my goals way too high based on the heart monitor's readings and that in turn made me quit alltogether.

    I suggest you go running on a warm day in parks during peak hours. All the ass and tight tops with hooters popping out you'll see will make you forget about how fast you run. MP3 player is still usefull though. It's not like the hot chicks will want to stop in their track to talk to you but you'll have an excuse for why you didn't talk to them.