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  1. Re:Interesting on Lockheed Martin to Build Nuclear Powered Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I was going to say that large panels could be a problem in the strong Jovian magnetic field, what with all the charged particles too. But then, isn't that what we need? :^)

  2. Re:Liquid water, and hence, life. on Lockheed Martin to Build Nuclear Powered Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Hey, so far 100% of the worlds with life, that we know about, need water. *sigh* It's a sad baseline, but it's the only one we've got.

  3. Europa? on Lockheed Martin to Build Nuclear Powered Spacecraft · · Score: 4, Funny
    three of the Galilean moons (Ganymede, Callisto, and most challenging from a radiation exposure standpoint, Europa.

    Oh oh, aren't we suppost to leave Europa alone after 2010? The Monolith is going to be pissed!

  4. Re:yeah but.... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Hey Jim, how tall are you?"
    "Gee I dunno Bob, how long are the King's feet?"

    Sure, and they'd measure Jim by having the king walk on him, which is pretty symbolic.

  5. Re:how do they account for Sun over taking IBM on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    Because IBM is selling an increasing amount of boxes with Linux these days? I seem to recall some company being upset at IBM over that recently. :^)

  6. Not over yet on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 0, Funny

    They won't be doomed until they start an insane court battle with someone. I don't think the Java wars really qualified for that.

  7. Re:Spam on Stronger Anti-Spam Law Proposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It should be about consent rather than content. Creating two classes of spam is a bad thing.

  8. Re:Eep! on The Enemy Within: Firewalls and Backdoors · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean some.insecure.host.org at 216.74.108.110? I hope that it's like example.com, and meant to be used like this. (Hmm, FTP server running there. :^)

  9. Re:obligatory rude pun on Slashback: Mars, Linksys, Torrent · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the developers are saying "stick a fork in it, it's not done."

  10. Re:PKWare is hosed. on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    Corel has six remaining users? Wow!

  11. Re:Let's see here... on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    Ow! I had a roommate and she did not take kindly to MST3000-like comments while watching that show. Hell, I did that from the first show onwards. I had to hide in my room when she watched it. *SPLORF*!

  12. Re:Let's see here... on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    Legal action on that front. ("Celebrity Justice", if you ever wanted a show that sucked more than Entertainment Tonight. If!)

  13. Load up the animals two by two on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    Get them into the .arc! Don't people remember what happened previously during this same sort of .arjument?

  14. Re:Great Series - NOT on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 2, Funny
    The difference was that "Star Trek" (the original, not any of the sequels) broke barriers (first televised inter-racial kiss, for example).

    And K&S fan-fiction broke every other barrier. (And what they didn't break, the furries took care of.) :^)

  15. Re:Software glitches of the future on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    Are you trying to generate a lot of FUD?

  16. Re:Did "V" rip-off "Childhood's End"? on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    And if on foot, there's fruitcarts! There's always a fruitcart!

  17. Re:The V-aliens drink spoiled milk on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of the "Newcomers" and Tweeky. Damn, so many alien invasions, can't they schedule it or something?

  18. Perspective on "V" Sequel Coming to NBC · · Score: 1
    It's good to know that no matter how bad it gets, it wasn't a whole ball of cherries back then either.

    Lord $GOD, that was a bad show! (Except Mr. Ironside.)

  19. Re:Hold the champagne... on Intel Shipped 1 Billionth Computer Chip · · Score: 1

    Don't forget: pissing off Microsoft. Follow the sig, until it changes.

  20. Re:8086 not the first processor... on Intel Shipped 1 Billionth Computer Chip · · Score: 1

    I imagine that some people did something with the 4004, but I'll go with the Mark-8. (7 layers of hardware stack, but cute.)

  21. Air current / spaceprobe on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1

    I see a problem here. Do not overclock your spaceprobe without proper cooling!

  22. Re:We landed on the moon with 512 bytes of RAM on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1
    It's more likely that you'd find a 8086 processor in the space shuttle

    I've got a spare V20 processor. (8088 only faster.) If they want it, it's theirs. Just don't try to run Word Perfect 5.1 on any space probes. Nice "string BCD math" operations. I was hoping to build a box with an LED front panel (because!), but hey, I don't really need to run 8080/8088 code much.

  23. Mod Parent Up! on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1
    This is a semi-first hand account of computer problems during the first Moon landing. Okay first hand account of a friend's reaction, and actions by someone that friend probably knew. Still, 4 degrees of seperation to Neil and Buzz. (And before you start, don't forget what Buzz does to kooks who deny Moon-landings!)

    Damn, 4, I probably have less degrees of seperation to terrorists than the Moon landings. (Or maybe not.)

  24. This isn't that old Urban Myth? on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC · · Score: 1

    Remember the old "modem tax" myth that was curculating on the BBSs for year? Ah, here we are. No? Ah well...

  25. Re:We landed on the moon with 512 bytes of RAM on Mars Failures: Bad luck or Bad Programs? · · Score: 1

    Wow, talk about brown-trousers time! I used the word "crashed" in my post (as did a few pages I read before the Wikipedia one), but that seems to be definitely overstated. It failed "safe" and still got the job done. As I recall there wasn't much decent stage fuel left when they touched down.