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  1. Question, Sir! I'm confused... on Detailed Panorama of Mars Released · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.google.com/mars/ the McMurdo Crater has these coordinates: 84.4S, 0.9E
    But the Spirit rover landed in 14.57S, 175.47E which is quite a distance in between... do I mix stuff up, is there an error on the google page or did that RC car really go all that way down there?

  2. Yet another top 5 ever list... on The Top 5 Games of All Time · · Score: 1

    This is my list (and the systems I played them on).

    1) Civilization - Amiga
    2) Gran Tourismo 3 - PS2
    3) Lemmings - Amiga
    4) Battlefield 1942 - PC
    5) Zack Mac Cracken - Amiga

    It also reflects my 'gamed the most' top 5 list. There are games like Zelda or Final Fantasy that might be on your list, but I never played them. Therefore I can't tell how they are. This is my list, no need to argue if it's wrong or right ;-). Oh, and about pacman... everyone knows pacman! It is probably the best known game out there in the non-gamers world, even the monks in Wachamacallistan know it... Bravo! Anyhow, it's not on my list because I din't play/like it much.

  3. Re:Debunking this claim on Debunking a Bogus Encryption Statement? · · Score: 1
    As an aside, I do remember reading about code systems where double encryption acutally made the result encryption less secure. I don't remember the details, but now my brain is itching and I will have to do some research. Thanks!
    This reminds me a bit of the reflector in the german WW2 enigma machine: With the exception of the early models A and B, the last rotor is followed by a reflector (German: Umkehrwalze), a patented feature distinctive of the Enigma family amongst the various rotor machines designed in the period. The reflector connects outputs of the last rotor up in pairs, redirecting current back through the rotors by a different route. The reflector ensures that Enigma is self-reciprocal: conveniently, encryption is the same as decryption. However, the reflector also gives Enigma the property that no letter can encrypt to itself. This was a severe conceptual flaw and a cryptological mistake subsequently exploited by codebreakers.
  4. Re:Demolition Man on Microsoft to Support ODF via Plug-In · · Score: 1

    ...and we will finally find out what the three sea shells were for!

  5. Re:Couldn't resist... on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    64hp should be enough for everyone...

  6. Re:So how exactly does it work? on Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "with low frequency ultrasound pulses" is pretty uninformative for me.

    ..and pretty much wrong ;-) The article said "low-intensity pulsed ultrasound"
    low frequency ultrasound is like saying: "Thank God, I'm atheist!"
    I think they call it "Contradictio in adjecto" (see also: oxymoron)

    ...and sorry for the nitpicking!

  7. Re:Wow on RoboGames 2006 Wrapup · · Score: 3, Insightful

    #define we; ?

  8. get MythTV on TiVo from AdZapper to Advertiser's New Best Friend · · Score: 1

    Most of us have a MythTV box anyways, or not?
    It's the same with all commercially available systems... they're not biting the hand that feeds them. Sooner or later you'll have the fancy commercal skipping/deleting only in nonprofit/opensource software.

  9. Re:National ID Cards on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    in fact switzerland has its own national identity cards! so, no more excuses ;-)

  10. Picture and more info on Missing Link Fossil Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    For anyone looking for more info plus a picture of Tiktaaaaaahtingy check:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik

    I'm always impressed how fast wiki is with its updates, whoot!

  11. Re:Push Back on How Many People Work in Your Internet Department? · · Score: 1

    it's almost ancient knowledge, but fits to your comment:

    on time, on budget, on scope/quality... pick any two

  12. mod parent funny! on How to Write Comments · · Score: 1

    Most of them script kiddies didn't get that one, i guess.

  13. Re:Shipping hydrogen on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    they don't ship the hydrogen in Zeppelins?

  14. so they... on Fighting Cancer with Math · · Score: 1

    ...bored that cancer to death with maths?

  15. Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen on Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Anyways... nice photoshopping, Mr. Hexus! This is a hoax, buddies! - To big to fit any case! - not shown on zalman website - propeller looks like the one on my desk... coolin me ;) (eg. wrong airodynamics)

  16. Re:If they had been Comp Sci students.... on Stanford Rejects Business School Hackers · · Score: 1

    the difference is, you don't need to log in using your id and password, therefore beeing tracked in the log files ;) i'd rather sneak into that office (wearing gloves, of course)

  17. Re:Pre-crime dangerousness on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1

    Well...I am a self-absorbed NON-American. I neither hate America nor Cuba. Also I don't like quite a lot of things Cuba or America are doing. And YES this is about USA, too. We're talking about trade embargos and MS Windows too, don't we? Just to make a point... I am swiss, but I really don't like a lot of things Switzerland did in WW2. There is no b/w... good/evil.

  18. Re:Pre-crime dangerousness on Cuba Switching to Linux · · Score: 1
    Summary: you can be arrested and detained for up to four years because the police think you appear dangerous and might commit a crime. Police are using this power to imprison people who are not criminals by any stretch of the imagination - it's a purely repressive tactic, used to intimidate and control.
    ...just like the US anti terrorist laws? Oh no, THAT is something completely different!
  19. Re:Whatever happened to ... on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Concrete roads? on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 2, Interesting
    One area where you can't use asphalt is on raised runways, like the elevated sections of freeways.
    Wrong!
    you use concrete for the bearing construction and put asphalt on the road... thats how they do over here in Switzerland
  21. Re:concrete submarine on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    Acc. to your link, the subs already use kevlar reenforced concrete... like it says in the article above, this is not really new technology... we can do this for years... (breaktrough could be, to make it as cheap as or even cheaper than normal concrete)

  22. On the new design on Saving Lives with Design · · Score: 1

    Some things I noted watching the new design...
    its nice looking and all, but if you send it by FAX it looses quite a lot of its fancyness...
    you can't write threat level 10 into the threat matrix box... the design doesn't handle multiple pages.

    BUt after all it's still a good aproach/idea!

    Web design, huh? and where are the anim gifs/flash anims? ;-)

  23. Re:Whats next on Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe · · Score: 1

    Hi, i'm swiss.
    I didn't get that last two sentences about us swiss. Maybe because I don't speak english that well. Could you please explain?
    Thank you!

  24. Re:It makes me wonder.... on Virus Writers Look Ahead: Target 64-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I don't think 64bit will bring up a new era of hyperintelligent virii. There is still the limitation of size. Small virii spread easier and hide better. Huge hyperintelligent virii would need like whole rootkits to hide themselfs

  25. Remote controlled reading light on Building Your Own Glowing Cyber-Balls? · · Score: 1

    Now isn't it great, come here you can subscribe to a glowing ball where we change its colors using radio signals... btw, if you pay more you even may change the colors yourself... oh and if you pay us $1000 a month we will maybe allow you to turn it of at night, maybe!