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  1. Re:Public Paranoia on Los Alamos Lab: We're OK, You're OK · · Score: 1

    Perhaps this is a dumb question. I've always wondered why we can extract urainum, etc. from the ground where they are found in safe dosages and then after being uesd as fule the stuff is danderous waste. Couldn't that waste just be diluted down to the radiation levels it had orignally or am I missing something?

  2. Re:It looks alright... on Preview Helix Code's "Evolution" · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good. I'm sure the people at gnome-list would be happy to hear your revolutionary user interface design for Evolution. If you don't personally have a better idea then please, for the love of Linus, what email client should Evolution be imitating?

  3. Re:Berlin on A New Rendering Model For X · · Score: 1
    Wow! I've checked out Berlin's site in the past but they finally have some working test apps. Anyone who's interested and hasn't should really take a look at their screenshots page. (Finaly truly transparent terminals ;-)

    --Ben

  4. Re:What it needs on 101 Keys Soaking Wet: The Flexboard · · Score: 1
    Two things:

    First, owning a thinkpad (preceded by a Satelite) I've grown to love the accesability of a pointing device without moving my hands. from the keybord. I've seen bank tellers with such IBM keybords for desktops. Anyone know where to buy one?

    Second, does anyone remember the SNL fake commercial for the Adobe car? (the car made out of clay).

  5. Re:Yes but, on First Ever Radar Images Of Main-Belt Asteroid · · Score: 1
    Metallica's lawyers haven't reviewed this yet but they think you violated their copyright in some way...

    It is a metallic asteroid...

    It may be in the direction of Orion...

  6. Re:A brain puzzle for you.. on Hubble Spots Long-Sought Intergalactic Gas · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you did have such a pole and you tried to spin it just a tad, it'd take at very least a day for the far tip of the pole to feel your tortional force so even if you could get the tip moving at such a high speed you'd need to do it with a bunch of propultion units along the pole. (I guess this wasn't the point of the problem though :-)

  7. Re:A brain puzzle for you.. on Hubble Spots Long-Sought Intergalactic Gas · · Score: 1
    Well, asuming you could spin the rod that fast, I think you'd see a rod that went streight out, then spiraled around you then continued streight out. This spiral portion would radiate out over time untill you saw the full streight rod. Excluding the fact that it'd be impossable to spin the thing that fast, not to mention stop it, another viewer should see an equivilent thing (ie he'd see the rod at points in space proportional to where they were, when they were there and his/her distance to that point)

    --Ben

  8. Re:How bigoted on Metallica Wants To Ban 335,435 Napster Users · · Score: 1
    This would be unlikely but could Metallica be interviewed on Slashdot? Slashdot has a great interview format and a fair number of Metallica fans, I suspect.

    --Ben

  9. RTF? on The Playstation Documentation Project · · Score: 2

    So there's an RTF Manual? Is that what people mean when they tell me RTFM?

  10. Re:multitasking... on What Is Important In A User Interface? · · Score: 1
    This is apparently one of the ``big things'' in OS-X, that the dialogs are attached to their parrents and that they only block input to that app.

    IMHO dialogs shouldn't block any input (within reason). They should probably stay on top so that they don't go unseen but there have been numerious times with Outlook Express that I've been configuring my mail server and had found that alothough ``apply'' applies the chnages it does no good because you have to click OK and then close another dialog before you can see if what you did was right.

    --Ben

  11. Re:Hubble the Paperweight? on Hubble Turns 10 · · Score: 2

    That's a very simplified explanation. My understanding is that the boosters were manufactured in pieces from different states for political reasons and that dispite the engineres saying unanimously that it was too cold to launch, the higher ups went through with it with spectacular results.

  12. Visors? on Apple Possibly Pursuing Another iMac-look Clone · · Score: 1

    They clearly should be going after HandSpring. It has a blue translucent plastic case too.

  13. Let Them Know! on Library Of Congress Will Not Digitize Books · · Score: 1
    E-Mail them at lcweb@loc.gov Perhaps they are not aware just how usefull it would be for the LOC to make books available online.

    --Ben

  14. Back Is Fast! on Mozilla Milestone 15 · · Score: 1

    Maby it's just me but with M15 clicking the back button brings me to the previous page much faster than it has ever in Mozilla before. Not as fast as IE yet but much much better.

  15. Re:site downed on Area 51 Satellite Images · · Score: 2

    Just think, if the page is /.ed, then perhaps the nation's supply of black helicopters is also... Only so many people to spy on... (I think I hear one now.)

  16. Re:Completely Outrageous on Star Wars EP1 On DVD Confirmed By Lucas · · Score: 3

    ``God willing, we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money.''

  17. Re:I fear it.... on PS2 a Weapons Development Platform? · · Score: 1

    Havn't you seen Toys?

  18. Re:cell tech on Solar Cells For Laptops? · · Score: 1
    BUT, something like the IBM Z50 workpad, modded to run Linux, would run pretty much INDEFINATELY on that solar cell.

    Indefinately untill night, I suppose.

  19. Let Metallica Know on Napster, Gnutella, Bans, Lawsuits And More · · Score: 1
    I'm sure plenty of people here are Metallica fans to some extent. I know I would have never baught any of their albums earlier than the Black Album had it not been for MP3s. Let them know that. The best e-mail address I could find is this: metclub@aol.com
    (yuck, AOL)

    --Ben

  20. Open Source? on How Socially Responsible Are Computer Companies? · · Score: 3

    Clearly Open Source software is awfull for the workers. Think about it now, most work for what? NOTHING! Most of these poor people work at awfull hours, sacrificing their nights, weekends and their sleep, and social lives. Open Source Software is clearly a socially unacceptable industry that must be stoped at all costs. Help the poor programers. They may say that they do it for fun but don't be fooled!

  21. Re:How nauseating. on Microsoft Hires Ralph Reed As Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    As a bumper sticker says, the Christian Right is neither.

  22. Re:Maybe satanic to us... on Microsoft Hires Ralph Reed As Lobbyist · · Score: 1

    I guess people with an English accent must really be smarter. They always sounds smarter but clearly they really are.

  23. Re:Clothes? on Report From The Mozilla Developer Meeting · · Score: 1

    It's interesting you should say that about the Netscape 6 beta preview. I found it very stable compaired to mozilla builds and much faster both in Linux and Windows. Go figure.
    --Ben

  24. Old Icons on Netscape 6 Preview Release · · Score: 2
    Netscape/Mozilla's icons are pretty sad. They are the same palleted 16 color icons they had years ago.


    If you have anything more than a 256 color display, I redid a bunch of icons and you can get 'em here Untar it above your package directory and it will overwrite the ugly icons.

    --Ben

  25. Backfire on Your CPU Will Explode · · Score: 2

    My sysadmin sent me just such a mail bomb (not sure why) but I opened the attachment with pine, telneted in so *my* computer wasn't effected...