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  1. Re:Raises interesting questions on Economic Analysis of the Nanotech Future · · Score: 1

    Because services will still be wanted, such as entertainment, cleaning toilets. And there will still be a cost for large sums of matter to build large objects with, and energy may be not be free, though it may. And land prices (on earth) will be through the freaken roof.

  2. Re:Selling unformatted on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    It specifically states the fee is for solid state memory, such as flash cards. And devices that use them (that know how to read FAT through an embedded OS). And at a one time fee of 250,000 for manufacture of solid state, and per unit type for devices.

  3. Re:I did... on What Has Number Portability Done For You? · · Score: 1

    "Last Year"
    Number portibility was not promised until just last week. So your situation should have no berring on current number portibility issues.

  4. Re:A new low on Another Worm Targets Anti-Spam Sites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thats not the only way to change the economics of spam. Simply put spammers exist because the rate of return on investment is very high. We have to change that economic principle some how, there really is no argument there. There are many suggestions on how to do this, taxing is just one of them. Heck everyone pretending to reply is another one, which forces to spammer to follow many false leads. There is many, but something must be done to make spamming more expensive.

  5. DNA on Nanotechnology: Are Molecular Assemblers Possible? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They say its impossible, but isn't DNA essentially just that, and I'm quite sure some lab recently built a transitor from DNA so I'd say its definatly possible.

  6. Re:How quaint. on FCC Forum Divided on Future VoIP Regulation · · Score: 1

    Long Distance calls, not local. And honestly as there is constant compitition for long distance I'd imagine the savings would be passed on to the customer. Heck discount long distance carriers have been doing this for a long time, my parents once switched to a carrier that obvisouly were being relayed over a HAM radio or something of that type.

  7. Re:Soon... on Dusty Disc May Mean Other Earths · · Score: 1

    Viruses tend to not cross species lines very often. I'm pretty sure any being from vega is genetically different enough to not be subseptible to any of our viruses. Now bacteria on the other hand, possibly.

  8. Re:Vote for Republicans. on Congress Expands FBI Powers · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are anti-abortion. (oh wait, btw that bill was directly modeled after the Nebraska law which was struck down, pandering assholes)

    Just wanted to note that it was directy modeled on it, and then directly addressed the problems that the supreme court said were problems.

  9. Re:Unexpected... on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    What I think has lead american to be impersonal is that we are taught not to talk to people we don't know. Who taught us that? Older people.

  10. Re:Some light humour :) on New Way of Observing Light May Boost Info Content · · Score: 1

    angular momentum = mass * (angular velocity)
    angular velocity is velocity divided by radius of rotation.

    I'm not possitive about orbital angular velocity, but it seems as though it refers to the fact that the center point of the rotation is moving. So basically a point with an orbital angular velocity is spiraling along.

  11. Re:question on Cisco Working to Block Viruses at the Router · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "will be able to block network access to any computer or device that doesn't have its own security measures in place."

    The submitter is interpretting this to mean router will block any computer that can't say "I'm secure," But I think in reality it means that router will block any computer that seems to be doing bad thing.

  12. Re:Who give more? on The Riches of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yea, he probably will give most of it away, but its the way that he earned it that bothers me. Its like saying its alright that the government wants to tax everything insanly high (and most importantly tax all the wrong things, totally screwing up the economy), because they going to give it all back. Gates has totally turned the tech economy topsy turby and what good he does with that money doesn't personally impress me.

  13. Re:Who give more? on The Riches of Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh come off it, its called PR, advertising, and tax-breaks. It apparently worked on you.

  14. Re:US Research on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    I think what your trying to say is name an advancement of chemistry that rely on a recent revision to the standard model. I may be wrong but I believe the standard model covers even the simplist molecular scale occurances. Remember the periodic table, balancing equasions and whatnot. All standard model I believe.

  15. Re:US Research on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    None? I'm pretty sure all chemisty and electronics rely on the Standard Model, you might want to go back and check your definitions a bit.

  16. Re:Hubble Slide Show on NASA Debates How And When To Kill Hubble Telescope · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great slide show, but can someone please slow it down, I'm about to hurl.

  17. Re:mandrake on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have a 9.1 release for PPC but no 9.2 sadly.

    http://public.ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake- is o/ppc/

  18. Re:to paraphrase on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Two contentions with your argument.
    One its been shown that some strands of bacteria can handle space radiation quite well, millions of years, I don't know. But still possible.
    Also simularity is not as nessesary in the world of bacteria as it is with viruses. A foreign virus would likly have absolutly no effect as the DNA would be too different. But many bateria can florish on almost any type of nurishment. It might not be able to infect the beings there but it could definitly compete for food.

  19. Re:to paraphrase on Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    If you read the article apparently it did, but said equipment has sense died. But they expect to be able to get much information simply from telemetry. (Why can't they get the same kinda info on comets and stuff?)

  20. Re:Oh no. on Touch-Screen Voting Snags Continue · · Score: 1

    The bubble-sheet voting in Leon County Florida where I live works flawlessly, I don't see why the rest can't its just a matter of good equipment.
    As I assume you are going to require me to define flawlessly I will.
    When I go to vote, the ballets simply have each canadates name with a bubble right after their name that you fill in, it is a large bubble and each name is well spaced from the next. Anyways once you are done you put the sheet into the scanning machine yourself, and if it is unsure how you voted, or you double voted, it will spit out the ballet so you can make corrections. Or get a new one and try again.

    Anyways in the hand recount in the 2000 election there was not one change from the manual hand count and the automatic machine count in our county.

  21. Re:Awesome on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    DeadBolt is a common term for something that locks securly to a dead stop (can't be pushed back) Also consider there is DieBolt batteries, and a very other DieBolts I believe the phase DieBold is supposed to cause a mential relationship to security.

  22. Re:Contest strategy on DARPA's Autonomous Vehicle Challenge Too Popular? · · Score: 1

    Actually they are looking for an autonomous vehicle for delivering supplies to kill people. So its gotta be able to take the bomb from point A to point B to prove its worth.

  23. Re:They should be on Red Hat Linux Support To End · · Score: 1

    The real question is are they calculating this loss as a factor of advertising dollars.

  24. Re:reasonably efficient? on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but we have substatially increased the weight and engine load of the vehicle adding such luxeries as a starter and battery, wide traction tires, automatic transmition, power steering, air conditioning, etc. The Model T. engine had a lot less it had to do.

  25. Re:Ignorance on Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design · · Score: 1

    http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colma in.html
    is the first link I found
    http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/9410/msg0 0035.ht ml
    here is another
    http://geology.cr.usgs.gov/energy/factsht s/163-97/ FS-163-97.html
    this looks to be probably the only one from a credible source.