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  1. Re:Great... on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, of course, your children may be born with super powers.

  2. Re:Algorithmic difficulty on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    Moderators on crack alert: the parent post was moderated 'overrated' but in fact hadn't received any prior moderation. Also, the post is factual and ontopic.

  3. Re:pretty big on Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    I have the 9300 with 17" widescreen 1920x1200 ... it's fantastic for programming. It's definitely heavier than i'd like, but in no way too big.

  4. Re:An integrator doing design..... on Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you think this won't sell. I love my 17" widescreen laptop. It's a bit heavier than i'd like, but otherwise it's fantastic. I'd love an even larger screen, and 19" would be no impediment to backpack/shoulderpack as long as the weight doesn't rise much.

  5. Re:Hooray! on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    You load it into memory and use any of a number of large number math libraries to multiply/divide/factor, whatever.

  6. Re:55 CPU years on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe those other teams will get lucky and find two other factors.

  7. Re:Algorithmic difficulty on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 0

    Even worse, there's no strong evidence that the difficulty is even exponential in any base.

  8. Re:I don't get it... on Factors Found in 200-Digit RSA Challenge · · Score: 1

    Stop messing with him, he doesn't even know we replaced his ti-85 with an etch-a-sketch!

  9. Re:Unfortunately at 204kg load capacity on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    In all fairness to McDonalds, they are cutting back on portion sizes, while BK is now heavily advertising their enormous breakfast sandwich with 1k calories, and more than your daily supply of fat, salt, and cholestorol by 8am.

  10. Re:Not too expensive... on Vacuum-Controlled Elevator Developed · · Score: 1

    And any reasonable person would use RTTH not RPH.
    http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-146/epid-1406/

  11. Re:now that's useful on Encrypted Fileserver with Bittorrent Web Interface · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no no, the point is that they sound so much worse to everyone else. The RIAA browsing your filesystem for example.

  12. Re:Well... on Morse Code Faster Than SMS · · Score: 1

    skype on a laptop?

  13. Re:Before it gets Slashdotted... on Microsoft Reverses Stand on Discrimination Bill · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here, I will if no one else will: I suspect evil. But then I often do when a politician / corporation / entity reverses its stated position in response to public pressure. That embodies a willingness to go with the mob, and while the mob might be right in this occassion, it is often wrong. But that willingness to go along is exactly what allows real evil to flourish, as witnessed in nazi germany. There, great, now you've invoked Godwin's law, thanks.

  14. Re:Killjoys on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked bullets were chemical rockets. There are a tiny number of exceptions to that, so that I'm fairly sure you're just mistaken about how bullets work, and not just used to the kind that aren't.

  15. Re:Killjoys on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    That's not even remotely true. That's like saying if I throw a rocket at you, which ignites in mid air and then impacts you at ten thousand miles per hour if it knocks you back it must knock me back the same amount. It's important to remember that nearly all bullets use a propellant.

  16. Re:Killjoys on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1

    But it's not the bullet impact that knocks you back, it's the violent muscle spasms you experience when you are shot. Obviously, a rack of meat doesn't have those. Go hunting some time, shoot a deer. Those suckers will fly back 30 or 40 feet if they aren't blocked by a tree.

  17. Re:Hollywood cares about accuracy? on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 5, Funny

    These are easy to explain.

    - Cars that explode in midair when they go over a cliff before hitting anything

    Easy: bombs in the gas tank. You should always check for angle activated bombs in your gas tank before driving over a cliff.

    - Ducati 916 motorcycles that can't outrun a Lincoln Town Car (Fled)

    You've gotta remember to use premium.

    - Tom Cruise shooting behind him over his shoulder using a motorcycle rearview mirror to aim

    Even I've done this on one occassion. A star with proper training should have no difficulty.

    - Tires squealing on dirt roads

    It's the people just under the dirt squealing, and believe me you would too.

    - Soundtrack to John Connor's dirt bike upshifts 20 times without downshifting

    That was a custom bike. He clearly did work on it in one scene earlier. He added a lot of gears.

  18. Re:Wow! on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 1

    As many others will no doubt point out, he did too say any such thing, and there are many sources to verify it. The word wasn't invented, it was created, which to most people are close enough in meaning to understand how the initial propogator of 'invented' could have easily made the mistake.

  19. Re:Google turns Evil on Google Web Accelerator · · Score: 1

    That's not a good strategy. That's like saying, lets let nations get as powerful as they want until they drop the first nuclear bomb.

  20. Re:What about the contractors? on Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath" · · Score: 1

    Taking a contract job supporting evil isn't innocent. It would be hard to argue that "I didn't know they intended to blow up planets with the giant planet blowing up weapon I was building for them."

  21. Re:Bzzzt on Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath" · · Score: 1

    The obvious way that having a PG-13 rating can increase sales is by increasing the 'cool' factor for a movie. It's easy for kids to sneak into movies in spite of ratings, and so increasing their desire to do so (what does a kid want more than something he can't have?) is a clever way to increase sales.

    Think teens and cigarettes. What part of cigarette smoking is intriguing before addiction sets in?

  22. Re:Successful Blockbuster on Revenge of the Sith a "Blood Bath" · · Score: 1

    I bought the jar jar tongue pop for my 30 something wife's birthday, but then again, I did it to freak her out.

  23. Re:Trademarks on Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs.Tiger Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Guidgen takes an OS lock and guarantees that it will take more than a clocktick to execute (it will execute a wait while holding the OS lock until the clock changes before issuing the result). So no more than one instance at a time can run on a single machine, and sequential instances cannot get the same clock result.

    Changing your mac address or adjusting your clock to deliberately circumvent guidgen violates the contract which guarantees uniqueness of your resulting uid. It's like saying "i'd like a unique number that no one else will ever get, and oh by the way i'd prefer if it was 1". Obviously, you can cheat any system which can be designed, but guidgen truly will give you a unique number if you use it properly.

  24. Re:This'll be good. on Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    Well, this will presume that theres nothing we don't know about that can reflect radar like water ice. So this won't really close the debate. Bottom line, we'll have to send every doubter to mars and give them a bottle of aquafina to really settle things.

  25. Re:Is it so important? on The Future of Windows Graphic Technology · · Score: 1

    Gamers upgrade to the latest drivers about once per week on average.