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  1. Re:stupid hippies avoiding danger on Huygens Probe Lands on Titan · · Score: 1, Troll

    When they are the same people screaming we need a better environment, but as the same time have stopped all new nuclear power plants from being built, which could put an end to coal power plants. Yes, yes they are dirty stupid ignorant hippies! :)

  2. Re:less is more on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 0

    Well cloudy days tend to be hot for the exact same reason. Less sun, but it gets trapped. Kinda like putting a piece of plastic over your head.

  3. Re:Great... on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Ok, now I'm having a hard time beliving a war torn country like Iraq is having a lower death rate than the US. Could it be that death rate reporting is improving over time?

  4. Re:Great... on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Sorry don't know why I thought he said 150,000. Either way if you have that many extra deaths in a year in a country that small. You are going to have massive burial problems. Wonder if they got any statistics from morges and whatnot finding out if they had large increase in deaths. Its hard to believe that country wide you can have such a significant increase in the death population and not notice....Apparently they are all basing this on death rate before and after war. So one has to assume that pre-war death rate was accurate.

  5. Re:Great... on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Obvious. I was expecting a better comeback than that. Either way I still don't believe the 150,000 figure. Was that paper ever peer reviewed?

  6. Re:Great... on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh and destroying the entire bug planet was right?

  7. Re:Great... on U.S. Officially Gives Up On WMD Search In Iraq · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure you've never been wrong either?

    The senate security committee has the exact same intelligence information that Bush had. All of them which included many Democrats, agreed that Saddam was a threat and gave Bush permission to go ahead with the war. Now all of them were wrong, but I have a hard time believing that given the same information one can say that Bush was purposfully misleading us, and that others were simply duped. How bought the obvious conclusion is that they were all wrong, but not intentially so because Saddam was trying to make it look like he had the weapons. Such weapons generally exist as deterants and Saddam thought they would deter us attacking him. He obviously miscalculated, as we obviously miscalculated him. These things happend. Take off the tin-foil hat please.

  8. Re:Tetris on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I know but I would think about it, then memorize the combinations so I didn't have to think about it in the future.

  9. Re:Tetris on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not nearly as sad as my mindsweeper days when I would sit around trying to memorize and mathematically figure out common patterns you see in the game. Obvious example is if you see 121 along a straight wall there is a bomb behind the 1's

  10. Re:GTA on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Trust me they will. Almost got into an accident with a cop once. He was pissed. I woulda probably been thrown to the ground, had he not turned around and realized his headlights were off (thus the reason I didn't see him in the middle of the night).

  11. Re:BitTorrent's usefulness? on The Centralization of BitTorrent Networks · · Score: 1

    I've found that whenever I'm behind a NAT firewall, even if its configured properly I get the same results. Obviously a defect in the bittorrent protocol, I'm sure the author is working on it, maybe it will improve someday..

  12. Re:80/20 Rule? on The Centralization of BitTorrent Networks · · Score: 1

    The rule is that 5 percent of people hold 90 percent of the stuff. It doesn't need to add up, its different numbers. But if you wanted to complete the equasion then 95 percent of the people hold 10 percent of the stuff. And thus you are done.

  13. Re:Joy on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 1

    Seriously this thing couldn't possibly use more than 1 watt.

  14. Re:REAL Nerds... on Adding Pizazz to Your RAM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Guess it depends upon how serious you want to take the art. The guys who develop unique moddifications have some serious skills. Same as the guys who develop serious case mods. Case in point the HyperCube
    and its Building log
    Thats serious artwork.

  15. Re:Disadvantages of owning the network on Comcast Begins Rollout of VoIP · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if you could choose between a service that gave you a phone at home, and the ability to use your home phone at work, VS. just a home phone. The choice is obvious.

  16. Re:Please... on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    Na, not really. I just know that a lot of the high-end non x86 dual core technologies do this. Don't really know if its worth it, but I guess if your application doesn't thread to 2 CPUs well, this is a great way to take advantage of a second core.

  17. Re:Please... on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    More about cache sharing that RAM sharing, but yes.
    Still wondering if these cores will support something that many supercomputing chips have for a long time. That is the ability for both cores to run the exact same instructions, thus eliminating overhead in error checks as the error check is the comparison between the two cores.

  18. Re:Finally a voice of reason on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 1

    Not complete BS. Its been stated before. But luckily the HD formats will provide resolution adjustment. So that certain shots can be high def while other parts of the movie can be lower def. Of course you could airbrush the whole thing or film it a little burry. But that defeats the whole purpose. A real plus to the industry with these new formats is really the disk space. This allows them to fit more extras. Imagine an 50GB drive filled with regular dvd resolution (4GB per hour approximatly) Simply amazing the amount of multiple angles and special "inside" exclusives you can add.

  19. Re:Ah vice on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No it was to collapse the Soviet Union remember. To get access to those hot Russian chicks.

  20. Re:Well Moore's Law is not a law... on Where's My 10 Ghz PC? · · Score: 1

    In side note in the article writer actually meantions that a dual-core chip could give you performance boost, simply because one core could be processing your spyware while the other core handling your applications. I think he is joking, but its kinda sad really.

  21. Re:But will it translate into a worthwhile product on eGenesis to Develop New MMO with Orson Scott Card · · Score: 1

    You obviously havn't read their bible. Either way they don't see themselves so much as a minority, as God's few choosen people.

  22. Re:Wi-Fi.org: early g products didn't meet standar on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 1

    Yes, but existing systems can not do g and b together and stay at 54 speed. So the question is not weither it can do these and stay in the n-band but can it do g at 54 while serving b as well.

  23. Re:Do you know what this boils down to? on SMS Text Messaging & Youth Debt One · · Score: 1

    You seriously don't believe this do you. If congress was to start helping people from companies trying to screw them over, they would start with the credit card companies. I don't see them doing that any time soon do you?? :)

  24. Re:Wi-Fi.org: early g products didn't meet standar on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 1

    Also if it could now, do g and b together without the slowdown of existing g systems, it would be worth it today.

  25. Re:A unique and amazing ecoregion - WRONG. on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 1

    Why didn't you actually try it?

    Actually I didn't try it either as I've done it before in science class. But one can assume the results to be the same.