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  1. Security courses on Open Park Project Gives Free Wi-Fi to Capitol Hill · · Score: 5, Insightful
    With all the free WiFi access on the hill, I hope someone makes sure that all members of government, their staff and government employees are given a good course on security? (Hopefully given by nuns with rulers.)

    They've been pretty dangerous with LANs, I don't want to think about open/poorly encrypted WiFi.

  2. Re:Best. Excerpt. Ever. on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    He's a four hundred year-old vampire, he's never seen a DVD before and it boggled him. Eventually he'll understand those, then he can start on Linux, and then why six little lines are cool.

  3. Re:Too bad on Andromeda And Mutant X Cancelled · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Hey, a space station with a lot of politics, double-dealing and a solid arc plot, cool!

    "Welcome to Babylon 5. The last, best hope for a quick buck. Oh, this is demeaning! We're not some deep space franchise. This station is about something!"

  4. Re:Mutant X Plots on Andromeda And Mutant X Cancelled · · Score: 1
    5. The bad dude underling de la semaine gets cryo-frozen for failure.

    Later complications included out of control mutant zits.

  5. Re:88? on Andromeda And Mutant X Cancelled · · Score: 1

    That would explain why the Commonwealth's existance seemed to be controlled by a random function each week (or less).

  6. Re:Audio on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1

    Banding isn't quite the requirement for the Van Gough label. :p

  7. Re:It's funny to watch people react here.. on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1
    "A walk down the path of history is crunchy with the crispy corpses of those who pooh-poohed or ignored the clown car of ridicule when it pulled-up to the curb. Who would have thought such a tiny car could contain so many infectious and revolutionary guffaws? Satires, parodies, blue humor, pants to the ground ass-wavings, tea-dumping, Modest Proposal submiting, 7 dirty word spewing, flag burning, frankly impolite, just plain rude and improper expressions of ridicule have either ignited reform, fanned the flames or kicked the corpse to make sure it was dead."

    -- Stephen Jones

    You be careful dissing Bozo! :p
  8. Re:Where are the neutrons? on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And why they didn't occur. :) They seem to be getting a better handle on why different Palladium rods give different results.

  9. Re:This reminds me... on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 1
    But you mentioned a case that wasn't the same because it didn't depend on trademarks, and even if you knew the reason, you didn't say that. (If you are the same AC, that is.) I didn't give a damn that you didn't eviscerate CoS, I was just pointing out that Google was dealing with a different can of worms in that case.

    Anyway, bite me, and HAND.

  10. Re:Seems they may lose this one on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looks like Google dropped the ads in American Samoa.

  11. Re:Country oriented on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 1

    In playing with that here, google.com does get me google.ca automatically, but when I click on Goto Google.com, google.com stays google.com from then on. I have no idea if that affects anything other than the site name, logo, and french option.

  12. Re:This reminds me... on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 1
    If you search for scientology on google you will not get any AdWords that link to anti-scientology sites, btw. Just search results.

    No kidding. Because any critical sites to buy AdWords. (Regardless of claimed trademark violations.)

  13. Re:PREDICTED!! on Morphing Plane Wings for Efficient Flights · · Score: 1

    I doubt they had workers in the red-hot wings. Reread, umm, Horvath's description of the landing. (I could get up, find the book and type it in, but no way! :)

  14. Re:In my well paid opinion on OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... Scientology should switch. They obviously use a lot of Photoshop, but are having no luck with the results. (Why, they could cut off someone's head next! :^)

  15. Re:you mean BIG? on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While a few posts have explained what a 419 scam is, none have mentioned one thing: This kind of scam has been around for hundreds of years. One of the many names for this fraud is .. The Spanish Prisoner.

  16. Re:PREDICTED!! on Morphing Plane Wings for Efficient Flights · · Score: 1

    Yeah but they probably stole the technology from the Moties in The Mote in God's Eye. (The second-hand description of the landing on Mote Prime.)

  17. Re:Ulysses Ship... err Computer on People Feel Loyalty To Computers · · Score: 1

    My computer from 1980 still works, why would I replace anything? Some people just have to have the latest and greatest...

  18. Re:Ulysses Ship... err Computer on People Feel Loyalty To Computers · · Score: 1

    More like from the Fifth Elephant than LOTR.

  19. Re:Even better, the full quote: on The Venus Transit 2004 · · Score: 1

    Except for the transit of Venus and June flowers in common, aren't these two different quotes?

  20. Re:Not bad... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    Too bad Twitchell had no guarantee that the balance mass he sent forward wouldn't emerge inside something in a few hundred years.

  21. Re:Turns only to the right? on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    To turn left (or counter-clockwise), you'd need an anti-clockwork car, and that might be dangerous! Just race it in Australia where they go the other way around, no worries.

  22. Re:that's nothing... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    Oh sure, there'd always be *something* at the last minute, but like in Larry Niven's Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation, that something could get pretty drastic!

  23. Re:that's nothing... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it cause a paradox if The Professor was voted off the island?

  24. Re:Is it just me... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 1
    A powerful machine that could run into something and do serious damage?

    Yup, that sounds like a normal car. They should test it late on a Friday night and no one will notice it. Anyone for a clockwork booze cruise?

  25. An interesting quote from 1882 on The Venus Transit 2004 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "There will be no other [transit of Venus] till the twenty-first century of our era has dawned upon the earth, and the June flowers are blooming in 2004.

    What will be the state of science when the next transit season arrives God only knows."

    1882 - William Harkness, USNO

    (Dunno about God, but I used Google to find that quote.)