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  1. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong. on Dinosaurs Died Within Hours of Asteroid Impact, says New Study · · Score: 1

    If you really believe that then read a book called "Who Wrote The New Testament" by Burton L. Mack and find out what christians believed before Catholicism was invented.

  2. America named after an Englishman! on CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel · · Score: 1
    > Hell, even the name "America" comes from an Italian guy's name.

    No it doesn't: http://pages.prodigy.net/rodney.broome/terramain.h tm

  3. Re:Dan Bricklin Co-Creator's Side of the Story on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    oh dear, what crap. they didn't invent the spreadsheet with visicalc. the spreadsheet was a long established concept, even computerised spreadsheets were long established in mainframe environments. even the concept of labelling the columns A, B, C, .. etc, and the rows 1, 2, 3, ... etc. even formulae applied to cells that automatically recalculated new values. how do i know? because i started work in 1978 as a trainee programmer and had to work on these systems, which had been in place for years already.

  4. Re:just say no to cobol on Mainframe Operators Needed · · Score: 1

    green screens? my god, didn't everyone move to amber screens in the mid '80s?

  5. Re:You cannot transcend the laws of nature on More on Lenses with a Negative Index of Refraction · · Score: 1

    sorry, but that's not evolution. it captures one small aspect of evolution but is no way near a definition of it.

  6. Re:Amazing Brits... on Pancake Physics to Cut Batter Splatter · · Score: 0

    but the brits did invent baseball

  7. Re:So, what is this? on Aspect-Oriented Programming with AspectJ · · Score: 1

    Aspect Oriented Programming is just an implementation of the infamous 'COMEFROM line-nbr' extension once jokingly proposed for BASIC. Seems someone took it seriously.

  8. Re:My biggest problem with this type of network. on Wireless Mesh Networks · · Score: 1

    if you already have power lines everywhere why do you need to add separate data lines or even wireless? heck, make use of the power lines...

  9. Re:This is old news (just kidding ;-) on NEAT Comet Crossing: Internet Telescopes · · Score: 1

    what, in 370 years time when it returns?

  10. Re:Big Bang? on Coldest Place in the Universe · · Score: 1

    some day? it's already been done, and this time everything you thought you knew *really* is wrong.

    http://www.rstheory.com/

  11. Re:There we have it on Inside The Development of Windows NT · · Score: 1

    The shit-canned OS was called MICA, and large chunks of it went into NT, which is how NT was developed so fast, and why DEC sued MS.

  12. Re:Ozy enginuity on Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine · · Score: 1

    i think it's a reference to the sarich orbital engine.

  13. strindberg's novel "inferno" - 1897 on Call for Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie References · · Score: 1

    may be relevant. i haven't read it in 25 years so can't remember the details. but the protaganist is having paranoid delusions and believes someone is beaming 'electric rays' at his brain. he takes (as i so fuzzily remember) to wearing tinfoil on his head.

  14. Re:Guns on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 1

    me thinks your nation learned about violence more from the indian wars and the civil war than anything else, which says a lot to me about why yours is such a violent country.

  15. Re:DNA on Did Life Originate Underwater? · · Score: 1

    which is the EXACT point the post you replied to made.

  16. Re:Preventing future attacks on Distributed Security · · Score: 0

    mate, you've been pilgered. no hope for you...

  17. Re:Dude, totally.. on The Future of Real-Time Graphics · · Score: 1

    dude, you *still* won't get laid.

  18. Re:Lord. Protect me from academics. on Spafford On Infrastructure Risks · · Score: 1

    c'mon. it's not that far off... drug traffickers -> afghanistan, i mean afghanistan is the heroin exporting capital of the world.

  19. Re:The Open Source Meritocracy delivers on Traffic Shaping on DSL? · · Score: 1

    hey chuckie, WIN2000 and WINXP have the QoS Packet scheduler built-in.

  20. Re:BEEP: not appropriate for iCalendar on Will BEEP Simplify Network Programming? · · Score: 1

    just realized you probably confused (i)CAP with ACAP which is IMAP related. (i)CAP as the original poster mentioned is layered over BEEP.

  21. Re:Not so impressed on Will BEEP Simplify Network Programming? · · Score: 5, Informative

    sorry, but BEEP only specifies XML for use on the control channel, that is setting up and tearing down the initial connection and any new channels. an ad hoc parser is sufficient for this purpose. any application layered over BEEP is free to use whatever data format it wants.

  22. Re:BEEP: not appropriate for iCalendar on Will BEEP Simplify Network Programming? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, tezza, but you're spouting absolute crap. The ICAP draft specifies that it is layered over BEEP (see http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-calsch-cap ) and where you got that crap about IMAP i don't know.

  23. Re:From MSDN... on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1

    what's wrong with that? standard mode is 'as you enter' scientific mode uses operator precedence.

  24. Re:And Then There's Physics... on Digital Biology · · Score: 1

    I think you are implying that Unix is like an acorn, not an atom.

  25. Re:Warning on Digital Biology · · Score: 1

    I can't believe the numbers that bit on this. Very funny.